Looks like they are still going a head with this escapade!
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I know this is tacky, but whatever... I dedicate this news post to all of
those who claimed we were "making up" all of the Poltergeist remake
news over the past two years - this one is for you. After MGM confirmed
the news we broke over two years ago - that they were planning a
remake of Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper's POLTERGEIST - it was
revealed that Juliet Snowden and Stiles White (Boogeyman, The Birds)
would be penning the remake. Then last week we exclusively revealed
that Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog) was in heavy talks to
helm the film, which was confirmed this evening, giving us bragging
rights for infinity. More on this soon, until then talk among yourselves
and tell us what you think they should do.
Maybe the content over xbox is getting better? lol
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Yep, original content on your Xbox 360, free of charge, and presented to you by James Gunn and five other horror directors. Oh, and the shorts are all comedies. Gunn's own short will be called Humanzee, and to hear the man talk about the project, you'd think he just birthed twins who somehow split a billion-dollar lottery only 15 seconds after arrival. (In other words: He's geeked out big-time for the project as a whole, and frankly it's pretty refreshing to see a filmmaker display some hardcore enthusiasm for a short film series.)
I just logged onto the site to find that the forum.dead-donkey.com ip seems to be pointing at completely the wrong hardware. I've escalated this to our host. The other subforums seem fine so I'm assuming its a simple matter of them reallocating it back.
No idea how such a mistake can be made if I'm honest though.
The 20th anniversary celebration of late Stan Winston’s directorial debut stars Lance Henriksen (Aliens, “Millennium”) as Ed Harley, a storekeeper raising his young son in rural Nevada. When a group of inner-city bikers arrive in the small town on vacation, a tragic accident occurs leaving Harley’s child dead. Driven by a childhood demonic vision, he seeks the aid of a reclusive witch who conjures that same demon, Pumpkinhead, to kill those responsible for his son’s death. One by one Harley watches as the creature kills the wrongdoers and he quickly discovers that a horrific price must be paid. The Pumpkinhead Collector’s Edition DVD is loaded with all-new special features including commentary by co-screenwriter Gary Gerani and FX creators Tom Woodruff and Alec Gillis (Aliens vs. Predator-Requiem) and moderated by filmmaker Scott Spiegel (From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money), seven making-of featurettes, behind-the-scenes footage, a still gallery and more.
o Commentary by co-screenwriter Gary Gerani and creature and FX creators Tom Woodruff, Jr. and Alec Gillis; moderated by filmmaker Scott Spiegel
o All-new featurettes
o Pumpkinhead Unearthed
o Evolution of a Demon
o The Cursed and the Damned
o The Tortured Soul of Ed Harley
o Constructing Vengeance
o Razorback Holler
o Demonic Toys
o Behind-The-Scenes Footage
o Still Gallery
The FCC has released its 67 page order, which spells out in profound detail just how unacceptable it found Comcast’s discriminatory policy against the BitTorrent protocol. In fact, the order is so berating to Comcast that one would think it was written by the very BitTorrent uploaders the ISP sought to throttle. Today’s official order supplements the August 1, 2008, announcement by Chairman Kevin Martin, who agreed with public complaints that Comcast was in violation of net neutrality standards.
Hello, I'm posting a note on the current status of fileheaven.org. Currently the box hosting the site is offline (you will get network timeouts), this was due to a hard drive failure after a server upgrade. The box is currently being rebuilt.
Errors about some sata could not connect, raid deprecated etc.
As you can see (or maybe not) those errors aren't the ones I'm comfortable with, so I decided to remove the server from the rack and take it home with me.
This always happens when you shutdown the server after an uptime of more than a year. Discs don't know how to startup again.
This does mean I have to completely reinstall the server from scratch (software). This takes a couple of hours.
I've all the data still intact (so it seems) from the second harddrive, so there shouldn't be anything missing. Worst case scenario, I've a db dump from the day before. But since I have the db files from the hds, I shouldn't be needing those.
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If I don't step into more problems I think it should be up and running this weekend again. Not sure if it will be later today already.
Doing my best to have this fixed asap.
TOMIE remake: Phil Wen, along with the MERCY writing duo, Vince Di Meglio and Tim Rasmussen, have all put their writing skills to work on Dimension Films', TOMIE, the planned remake of the popular Japanese horror film from 1999 that spawned numerous sequels. No word on if the film has progressed since, but Dimension hasn't been giving the "go" to much lately. In the film, following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
CHILDREN OF THE CORN remake: Iowa’s Quad-City Times reports that a remake of 1984’s CHILDREN OF THE CORN will be rolling on locations in the state next month. Written, produced and directed by Donald P. Borchers, one of the producers on the original movie, this CHILDREN will air Stateside on the Sci Fi Channel in 2009 and will play theatrically in Europe. Borchers tells the site that this adaptation of the Stephen King story will eschew the alterations that displeased both the author and his fans. “They put a lot of sugar, if you will, into the coffee,” he says. “Stephen King doesn’t take his coffee with sugar it’s no longer requisite to have a happy ending. We wanted to stay faithful to the decisions in his original story.
“We are still scouting throughout the Quad-Cities and the countryside beyond, obviously, since it’s CHILDREN OF THE CORN,” Borchers says of his decision to lens in Iowa, where the ’84 film also shot. “My needs are quite simple. I need corn, and I understand you have that throughout the state.” Casting has not been finalized, though Borchers says, “I have a lot of interest of people wanting to be in it.” (thanks to Fangoria.com)
There appears to have been several days worth of data loss on the forums due to a botched migration by our service provider. This is unfortunate, but is not repairable as the posts were split between two databases. I will attempt to salvage what I can, but this will be a time consuming process.
Please repost any releases made in the past few days, posts were not removed by any of the moderating staff.
A refund request has been launched and I am going to downgrade from "managed" vps to a vps we manage ourselves because we are clearly not getting any benefit from that service. They've single handled caused more damage than any hacker, malicious user or nasty agency ever has.
I have now shutdown apache on the old vps to avoid further botches, Please inform any users reporting errors on other sites to please remove any hosts file entries they have as previously requested.
As a direct result of the downtime we experienced across the board a week back, our host has decided to migrate its datacenter.
This will result in a breif outage. Please MAKE SURE ALL HOSTS FILE MODIFICATIONS have been removed, this will directly prevent you from using the site if you keep them. They are no longer needed.
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Also, we are now housing all of our EU nodes within the same datacenter/rack as our current Quad Core EU2 node, this was decided after multiple extensive testing on the network, and we found it to be an amazingly fast and stable network, so we are now growing our EU base from this 1 location.
As with all migrations, there will be a short downtime and you will have fresh IP addresses assigned to your VPS, which means that you will need to modify any nameservers or domains you have configured on the old IP addresses.
Again, please do not think of the worst, we are planning this migration very carefull to ensure the least downtime as possible, we will also be crediting all EU1 customers with an extra 128mb memory and an extra 10gb space at no extra cost once the migration has been completed.
The migrations will be taking place between the 5th and 8th of August (this week), all VPS will stay online until it is their turn to be migrated.
There should be minimal downtime as DNS will stay active on the old server until the 25th, so you have until then to transfer your DNS to the new server, meaning that there should be no downtime due to DNS, as you have more than enough time to get your DNS transferred to the new server/ip addresses.
Shame, but it looks like the Ghostbuster's game has stalled in its tracks...
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Activision Blizzard has submitted its latest release schedule with no mention of forthcoming title from Terminal Reality, Ghostbusters, 50: Cent: Blood on the Sand from Swordfish or Double Fine's Brutal Legend.
Additionally the company plans to "realign" staff at High Moon Studios and Radical Entertainment, while Massive Entertainment and Swordfish Studios are both under consideration for sale or closure.
The future is similarly bleak for Vivendi Games Mobile and Sierra Online, both of which have been designated as "non-strategic business units", with Activision publishing CEO Mike Griffith extolling an efficiency drive.
"We are focused on improving efficiency across the combined organisation and are concentrating on businesses where we have leadership positions that are aligned with Activision Publishing's long-term corporate objectives," he said in a statement.
"We have conducted a thorough review of Vivendi Games' brand portfolio and are retaining those franchises and titles that are a strong fit with our long-term product strategy. We are reviewing our options regarding those titles that we will not be publishing."
Currently Prototype, Crash Bandicoot and Ice Age have solid release dates following earlier rumoured cuts involved in the merger between Activision and Vivendi Games. The company will also retain The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and one other unnamed title.
"We are very excited to add such recognisable and successful brands as Crash Bandicoot, Ice Age and Spyro, which reinforce our leadership position in movie-based and family entertainment video games," added Griffith.
More chatter about a fourth movie in the Evil Dead franchise... Raimi has recently returned to horror after the career shattering Spider-Man 3, with Drag Me To Hell due out next year:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127180/
Raimi confirmed that he is spending sometime on concept for the fourth movie now.
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THE EVIL DEAD 4: As mentioned two days ago, director Sam Raimi confirmed at a panel at Comic Con on the weekend that he wants to get to work on a fourth EVIL DEAD and is talking with his brother Ivan about it. When asked about it by the CHUD web site a little later though, things don't seem as far forward as fans hope - "Well, he's coming to town and we're going to talk about that, if he's got time to work on the script. Don't really have a next project lined up right now, and we'll end up writing about two or three pages of it, as we always do, and then work on something else." (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
You might think that werewolves as a cinematic monster have been thoroughly exhausted, especially with Universal returning to the subgenre’s roots to remake THE WOLF MAN. But Brian Scott O’Malley’s AUDIE & THE WOLF proves that there is always a new twist to be applied to every old tale. “It’s a bit of a satire on the legend, by flipping it in reverse: What if a wolf turned into a man?”
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“AUDIE is definitely a comedy,” O’Malley notes, “but with ax murders, ripped-out throats, guns, knives, chainsaws and even stunguns. The horror elements are really there to serve the humor, and the romance the wolf-turned-man has with the sassy punk-rock grocery girl, Audie. And with the vintage rock-and-roll soundtrack by Karl Preusser [not songs, but score—think FLASH GORDON], the movie really takes on that ‘80s cult vibe, and owns it proudly.”
Maybe with more of a plot and none of the style? Another film on the hollywood chopping block.
I'm suprised there isn't a Blue Peter appeal asking for any and all horror plots be written on a postcard and mailed to BBC headquarters to help out the dire rut Hollywood is digging itself into.
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VERSUS remake: While attending the Fantasia Film Festival, director Ryuhei Kitamura announced that he's working on an American version of VERSUS. He just finished a draft of the script and will do one more to poloish it up. It's going to be a few years before it's made, as he's doing an action film first but he stated; "The US Versus will be insane!" (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
Alexandre Aja's MIRRORS: Here's a cool new pix from the upcoming remake starring Keifer Sutherland and Amy Smart which will be out in theaters August 15th. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET remake: Scribe Wesley Strick (CAPE FEAR remake, WOLF, THE SAINT) will write the script for New Line's remake of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET says The Hollywood Reporter. The original 1984 film was penned and directed by Wes Craven. The new version is said to be delving deeper in the psychology of nightmares and Freddy Krueger himself. The studio is planning for a release next year to co-incide with the 25th anniversary of the original. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
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