Paranormal Activity

When Paranormal Activity shocked everyone by beating Saw VI at the box office this past October, there was a little excitement in the air – not only because Paranormal Activity was a cool, original scary flick, but also because it proved that Saw's reign on the Halloween box office had come to an end. So what does Paramount do next? Well, they load up their weapons for another go-round against the next Saw sequel, hoping to land a knock-out punch to that franchise with the next installment in what I imagine they hope will become a Paranormal Activity franchise. To add insult to injury, Paramount even hired Saw VI director Kevin Greutert to helm Paranormal Activity 2, which will hit theaters on that much-coveted pre-Halloween weekend of October 22 right alongside Saw VII. Oren...
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I originally wrote this in September of 2007, but considering the string of remakes and reboots that have come since and are planned for the future, I thought I’d bring it to your attention once again…
This article was prompted by news that Sony is looking for writers to do a new version of the campy 1985 horror flick Fright Night, an idea that readers of Screen Rant might be surprised to hear I’m not against.
For the most part, I despise Hollywood’s habit of remaking past films. Sure sometimes it works (The Departed, Ocean’s 11, The Thomas Crown Affair, Scarface), but for the vast majority it doesn’t (Planet of the Apes, The Poseiden Adventure, The Pink Panther, Point of No Return, Sabrina, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc., etc., etc.), and is just a blatant and often creatively bankrupt attempt at cashing in on the name of some past, »
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Ben Stiller could be teaming up with Mark Romanek for pitch black comedy The Voices, which the director has been developing for his next gig.Written by Michael R Perry, who we reported yesterday got the job of crafting the Paranormal Activity sequel), Voices landed on the Black List as one of 2009's best unproduced scripts.The strange premise sees a man named Jerry Hickfang accidentally killing a co-worker and then hearing advice from an unlikely source - his cat and dog - on how to avoid the trouble that comes with murder. Romanek has been letting the script simmer while he finishes up work on his latest directing job, an adaptation of Kazuko Ishiguro's alternate history tale Never Let Me Go, and is looking to turn to The Voices when he's ready to kick off a new film.According to Slash Film, Stiller could be the man for the »

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