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Motel Hell
Release Date: December
7, 2007
Studio: MGM
Director: Not Available
Screenwriter:
Not Available
Starring: Not Available
Genre:
Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary:
A remake of the 1980 horror spoof about a farmer who kidnaps unsuspecting travelers and buries them in his garden... alive!
Venetian Affair
Release Date: December
28, 2007
Studio: MGM
Director: Not Available
Screenwriter:
Not Available
Starring: Not Available
Genre:
Action, Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary:
Presumably a remake of the 1967 action-thriller, which starred Robert Vaughn as a journalist and former CIA man who travels
to Venice to investigate a suicide bombing at a peace conference.
The Eye
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Screenwriter: Sebastian
Gutierrez, Ryne Douglas Pearson
Starring: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey, Francois Chau, Tamlyn Tomita
Genre: Drama,
Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Sydney
Wells (Jessica Alba) is an accomplished, independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been
so since a childhood tragedy. As our story opens, Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, a surgery
she has waited her whole life to have, and her sight is restored. After the surgery, neural ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner
(Alessandro Nivola) helps Sydney with the difficult adjustment, and with the support of her
older sister Helen (Parker Posey), Sydney learns to see again.
But Sydney's happiness is short-lived as unexplainable
shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly
real? As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying
world only she can now see.
"The Eye" is a bone-chilling supernatural thriller that tests the boundaries of perception
and reality. Directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, the team who directed the suspenseful international hit "Them," "The
Eye" stars Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola and Parker Posey. Produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner with Mike Elliott, Don
Granger and Michelle Manning serving as executive producers.
Prom Night
Release Date: February
1, 2008
Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)
Director: Not available
Screenwriter: Stephen Susco
Starring: Not available
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official
Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A remake of the 1980 horror film that starred Jamie Lee Curtis as one
of a group of teen girls stalked by a masked killer.
Death Race
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Studio:
Universal Pictures
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Screenwriter: J.F. Lawton,
Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Joan Allen, Ian McShane
Genre: Action,
Adventure, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot
Summary: A no-holds-barred, ultraviolent car race, set in 2020. An update of producer Roger Corman's classic 1975
"Death Race 2000" that featured Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine.
The Wolfman
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Studio:
Universal Pictures
Director: Mark Romanek
Screenwriter: Andrew Kevin Walker
Starring:
Benicio Del Toro
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website:
Not Available
Plot Summary: Like the 1941 original that starred Lon Chaney Jr., the new film
will be set in Victorian England. Del Toro will play a man who returns from America to his ancestral homeland, gets
bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy moonlight existence.
FX maestro Rick Baker is on lycanthrope duties bringing
"The Wolfman" to life.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director:
Scott Derrickson
Screenwriter: David Scarpa
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates
Genre:
Sci-Fi, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary:
A remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic about a humanoid alien named Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) who arrives on Earth accompanied by
an indestructible, heavily armed robot and a warning to world leaders that their continued aggression will lead to annihilation
by species watching from afar.
A Tale of Two Sisters
Release Date: TBA 2008
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
Director: Thomas Guard, Charles Guard
Screenwriter:
Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official
Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Based on the Kim Jee-Woon's 2003 Korean horror film of the same name,
the story revolves around two sisters who return home to their father after spending time in a mental institution. Their recovery
is hindered by their cruel stepmother's (Banks) obsessiveness and an interfering ghost.
Escape From New York
Release Date: TBA
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director:
Len Wiseman
Screenwriter: Ken Nolan
Starring: Gerard Butler
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
MPAA
Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Butler is portraying Snake Plissken,
the convict and war hero who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan which has been turned into a giant maximum security prison
to rescue the president of the U.S. after his plane is knocked down by terrorists.
The original 1981 film starred Kurt
Russell was written and directed by John Carpenter.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Release Date: TBA
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director:
Scott Derrickson
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Keanu Reeves
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
MPAA
Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic
about a humanoid alien named Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) who arrives on Earth accompanied by an indestructible, heavily armed robot
and a warning to world leaders that their continued aggression will lead to annihilation by species watching from afar.
Witch Mountain
Release Date: TBA
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director:
Andy Fickman
Screenwriter: Matt Lopez
Starring: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Genre: Action, Adventure,
Fantasy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Modern re-imagining
of its classic 1975 adventure movie "Escape to Witch Mountain," about a pair of siblings, endowed with paranormal powers,
who go on the run from a diabolical group of men who wish to exploit their abilities.
Johnson, will play a Las Vegas cab driver who picks up a pair of siblings with magical powers.
Plot advances the storyline from the original “Escape to Witch
Mountain,” which Disney released in 1975.
Fantastic Voyage
Release Date: TBA
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director:
Roland Emmerich
Screenwriter: Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley
Starring: Not Available
Genre:
Action, Adventure, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary:
"Fantastic Voyage" is about a scientist who is dying of a blood clot. His only chance for survival is for five scientist colleagues
to be miniaturized in a ship, and injected into his bloodstream.
The original film, directed by Richard Fleischer,
starred Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence.
36
Release Date: TBA
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Martin Campbell
Screenwriter: Dean Georgaris
Starring: Not Available
Genre:
Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A
remake of the French film "36 Quai des Orfevres." Two detectives look to solve a series of armored car robberies; the one
hitch being the one who catches the crooks will receive a promotion.
The Big Chill
Release Date: TBA
Studio: Screen Gems
Director: Not Available
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Regina King
Genre:
Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: Remake of
Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 pic "The Big Chill," will stick closely to the original storyline, in which seven college friends reunite
over a weekend at a South Carolina house for the funeral of a pal. As they get reacquainted, they become introspective about
how their lives turned out. The film's setting will be contemporized and the cast will be African American.
The Taking of Pelham 123
Release Date: TBA
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director:
Tony Scott
Screenwriter: David Koepp
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Travolta
Genre: Drama
MPAA
Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: John Travolta will play the leader
of a quartet that hijacks a New York subway train and threatens to kill the passengers unless a ransom is paid. The
role was originated in the 1974 film by Robert Shaw. Denzel Washington plays the chief detective of security for the subway,
a role originated by Walter Matthau in the Joseph Sargent-directed drama.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Release Date: TBA
Studio: 20th Century
Fox
Director: Not Available
Screenwriter:
Jay Kogen
Starring: Mike Myers
Genre:
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary:
A remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye film, finds Walter Mitty, a daydreaming comic book writer with an overprotective mother, likes
to imagine himself as a hero experiencing great adventures. His dream becomes true when he accidently meets a mysterious woman
who hands him a little black book. According to her it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World
War II. Soon Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy and has to admit that being a hero in real life isn't
that easy.
Revenge of the Nerds
Release Date: Unknown
Director: Kyle Newman
Screenwriter:
Jeff Judah, Gabe Sachs
Starring: Not Available
Plot
Summary: A raucous re-imagining of the comedy classic. Adams College
is turned upside down by a group of freshmen misfits who redefine the term "nerd." As they try to form their own frat, the
nerds incur the wrath of the ultimate alpha males, the infamous Alpha Beta fraternity. The nerds refuse to go down without
a fight, waging an all-out battle against the notorious jocks during Greek Week. Kyle Newman ("Fanboys") is set to direct
with McG and Stephanie Savage producing.
Howard Stern Presents: Porky's
Release Date: Unknown
Cast: None announced yet.
Based Upon: (3/5/03)
This is a remake of the 1981 surprise blockbuster comedy hit, Porky's (making $105 million on a budget of just $4 million), which pushed the limits and definitions of racy teen sex comedies
(nearly creating the genre, actually), and spawned dozens of similar movies which followed it throughout the 1980s, which
included Porky's II: The Next Day in 1983 and Porky's Revenge in 1985. Heck, there was even a "Porky's" game for the Atari 2600. If
this remake is a success, it's very likely that the sequels will be remade with the new cast and the "Howard Stern Presents"
logo as well.
Premise: These are the collective sexual misadventures of a group of five horny teenagers growing
up in rural Florida (note: the setting may be changed for this remake) who will do anything to catch a glimpse, a grope, a
feel, a... "whatever" of one of their female peers and their most forbidden areas. The boys are not without enemies however,
as the mean gym teacher Beulah Balbricker is constantly on the watch, and when the boys try to sneak into a local bar called
Porky's, they also meet up with the obese bar owner's gang of thugs (who bounce them out for being underage). Will our boys
get their revenge on those who get in the way of their goal of going all the way?
The Devil
and Daniel Webster
Release Date: Unknown
Cast: Sir Anthony Hopkins
(Daniel Webster), Alec Baldwin (Jabez Stone), Jennifer Love Hewitt (The Devil), Dan Aykroyd (Julius Jenson), Kim Cattrall
(Constance Hurry), Darrell Hammond, Jonathon Gentry (Marlon), Terrence Mann, Barry Miller (Mike Weiss), Kevin Olson (Tommy
Anderson), Amy Poehler
Based Upon: This is a
remake of the 1941 film of the same title starring Walter Huston and Edward Arnold, which was itself based upon the novel
by Stephen Vincent Benet (which also became a famous play).
Remake Note: Besides making the Devil a woman in this
remake (which also makes it the second film in recent memory, along with Bedazzled, with a sexy female Devil), the occupation
of the central character, Jabez Stone, has been changed from a farmer to a writer. Like many remakes, there may be other changes.
Premise:
Jabez Stone is a writer (Baldwin) who sells his soul to the Devil (Hewitt) in exchange for seven years of success and fame.
However, when the Devil comes to claim her end of the bargain, Stone does what any modern person would do: sue. Representing
him in court is Daniel Webster (Hopkins)...
10 Again
Release Date: Unknown
Cast: None announced yet.
Based Upon: This is a remake of the Oscar-nominated 1979 comedy hit, 10, also written and directed by Blake Edwards, which starred the late Dudley
Moore and a very young Bo Derek, and popularized both Ravel's "Bolero" as a makeout tune (indeed, the song became such a phenomenon
that Bo starred in a racy movie called Bolero five years later)
and the idea of ranking beautiful women from 1 to the ideal, 10.
Premise: A middle-aged British songwriter sees
a beautiful young girl on the beach while on vacation and becomes fascinated with her to the point of obsession. When he finally
manages to enter her life, however, he discovers that she has problems of her own...
Here's how MDP Worldwide puts it:
"At
34, George Webber seems to have it all: he's rich, famous, talented, and has a loving girlfriend -- the beautiful dancer Sam
(29). But George has just one problem that is only getting worse: he's 34, and not getting any younger. George catches sight
of a girl -- the most beautiful girl in the world it seems, a real '10' -- and becomes completely smitten and obsessed with
her. George follows the perfect '10' to her honeymoon - finally succeeds in seducing her - only to realize his heart belongs
to someone else."
The Bellboy
Release Date: Unknown; that will depend upon when (if) filming actually
does get started
Cast: None announced yet.
Based
Upon: This is a remake of the 1960 comedy of the same title starring Jerry Lewis.
Premise: When a young man
traveling to London for a job interview ends up in Las Vegas instead, losing all of his money in the process, he ends up taking
a job as a bellboy at the MGM Grand...
Topper
Release Date: Unknown; that will depend upon when filming eventually gets
started
Cast: Steve Martin; other cast not announced yet.
Based Upon: This is a remake of the 1937
film, Topper starring Cary Grant, which was itself based upon
the novel, "Topper", by Thorne Smith. That film was followed by two sequels (which Cary Grant did not star in): Topper Takes a Trip (1939) and Topper Returns (1941). The concept has also been developed for television twice, as a 1953-1956 series and a 1979 made-for-TV-movie.
Premise:
When free-wheeling couple George and Marion Kerby die in a car accident, they find themselves in limbo because during their
lives they did neither a disproportinate number of "good" or "evil" deeds. Deciding to try for a good deed to get themselves
into heaven, the Kirby's return to Earth as ghosts to try to help a tightly-wound bank president, Cosmo Topper, change his
life for the better. Can the easily irritated Topper handle having two wild-and-crazy ghosts interfering with his carefully-planned
life?
It Started with Eve
Release Date: Unknown; that will depend upon when (if) filming actually
does get started.
Cast: Hugh Grant (in talks);
other cast not announced yet.
Based Upon: This is a remake of the 1941 romantic comedy,
It Started with Eve, starring Charles Laughton, Deanna Durbin, and Robert Cummings.
Premise: A man (Grant; in talks)
asks a woman to pose as his fiancee for a day to please his dying father. His rouse backfires, however, when his father's
health recovers, and he finds he can't tell the truth, especially considering how much he loves his future daughter-in-law...
The
Incredible Mr. Limpet
Release Date:
Unknown; when Mike Judge was brought aboard, a tentative target of Summer, 2002 was mentioned, but with no word of any production
since then, it appears this is still in development; a 2002 release is still possible, but not guaranteed
Animation Note:
This movie will feature a combination of CGI animation and live-action.
Cast: None
announced yet.
Based Upon:
This is a remake of the 1964 family film of the same title starring Don Knotts.
Premise: A man who loves fish becomes
one. Eventually, he helps the Navy find enemy submarines.... (That's at least more or less what the first film was about;
it's very possible the remake will be modernized. The Navy/submarine subplot could be replaced by something else)
Sparkle
Release Date: Unknown; that will depend
upon when/if filming eventually does get started.
Cast: Raven Symone (Sparkle); other cast not announced yet.
Based Upon: This is a remake of the 1976
film, Sparkle, starring Irene Cara, about a 1960's pop trio (similar to the Supremes). This new version will update the story,
setting it in the world of today's pop music business.
Premise: This is the story of the rise and fall of the pop
group (called Sister and the Sisters in the original film) of three sisters. As they become famous, one of them struggles
with drugs, while another (Raven) emerges from the shadow of her sisters to become a star in her own right...
Untitled See No Evil Remake
Release Date: Unknown
Cast: None announced yet.
Based
Upon: The 1971 thriller, See No Evil, starring Mia Farrow.
Premise: A young woman moves in with her aunt and
uncle after she was recently blinded. A killer murders the whole family, and targets her as the next victim, but she's unaware
that anything has happened...
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