'It's Alive' Remake Trailer

Here is the Cannes Promo Trailer for It's Alive, the remake of the classic horror film.

A baby born to a human couple turns out to be a mutant monster with an appetite to kill when scared.

- The Monster

Prom Night Carves Out $22.7M Debut

Audiences made a date with "Prom Night," the remake of the 1980 slasher flick that took in $22.7 million to debut as the weekend's No. 1 movie, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The movie, released by Sony's Screen Gems banner, stars Brittany Snow as a teen terrorized by a psycho killer on prom night. It overcame the critical drubbing handed to most fright films, which have a built-in audience that often turns out in big numbers on opening weekend regardless of reviews.

"Audiences today, they're so savvy in regards to what they want to see or don't want to see. Particularly a younger audience, they pretty much make up their own mind," said Rory Bruer, Sony head of distribution.

With prom season also at hand, that "brings an element of fun," Bruer said.

Day of the Dead Clip & Trailer

B-D has a clip from the remake of "Day of The Dead". Click on over to check it out. Below is the official trailer to the Direct to DVD release. You can pick it up in stores on April 8, 2008.

When the world is overrun by the flesh hungry dead a small group of survivors head to an underground military bunker in a last ditch effort to stay alive.

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First Look: Benicio Del Toro as the Wolfman

It's been 67 years since the Wolfman first attacked the box office, but he'll be making a comeback next year in a remake by Joe Johnston (Hidalgo, Jurassic Park III). Fortunately for all you lycanthrope fans out there who just can't wait that long, EW caught up with the horror flick's makeup artist, six-time Oscar winner Rick Baker, for an exclusive First Look at how he's transformed star Benicio Del Toro into the famed beastly creature. The Universal remake will be hitting theaters February 13, 2009.

Head on over to EW to read more!

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Piranha 3-D Gets 2009 Release Date!

Alexandre Aja's next horror film, a remake of Joe Dante's Piranha, is going to be presented in 3-D! Dimension Films has set a release date of July 24, 2009 - which positions it smack-dab in the middle of the summer movie season. It will be directed by Aja and co-penned by Josh Stolberg.

A tremor causes Arizona's Lake Havasu floor to open, setting free scores of prehistoric piranhas.

- The Monster

Hellraiser Remake Date Anounced

From Bloody-Disgusting:

After deciding to rewrite the screenplay, Dimension Films has announced a new date for their remake of Hellraiser, which will be helmed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury. Pinhead will once again grace the big screens on January 9, 2009.

An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover, who's being chased by demons after he escaped from their sado-masochistic Hell.

- The Monster

Joe Johnston to Direct The Wolf Man Remake

From AICN:
I get a call from a source inside Universal Studios that laid on me... The director is long THE WOLF MAN is long time genre film lover - JOE JOHNSTON. Art director on Empire Strikes Back, Raider of the lost Ark and Return of the Jedi. And the director of Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, Jumanji, Jurassic Park III and Hidalgo.

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My Bloody Valentine Rremake News

The guys over at BD said that Lionsgate announced that they plan on getting the My Bloody Valentine Remake in theaters February 13, 2009, just in time for Valentine's Day.

For more on the original 1981 My Bloody Valentine head on over to the main Monsters A Go-Go site and check it out.

- The Monster

Friday the 13th Remake News

C.H.U.D. has come up with some spoilers for the Friday the 13th remake!

"Remaking Friday the 13th is actually more complicated than you might think. After all, there's no Jason Voorhees in the first film - his mom is the killer. And there's no hockey mask until Part III. It took until Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter for the classic Jason look and mythology to be really finalized. So what do you do when attempting to make a 21st century version? Do you really remake the first, with Mrs. Voorhees as the killer? How do you deal with the now cliched aspects of the slasher genre? Do you even need to bring back any elements from the original films, or do you just do a reboot?" Click on over to C.H.U.D. to read the rest!

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Jennifer Connelly Joins The Day the Earth Stood Still Remake

From Variety:
Jennifer Connelly has signed on and Kathy Bates is negotiating to star in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" for 20th Century Fox. Keanu Reeves has already boarded the sci-fi remake.

Scott Derrickson will direct the pic as his follow-up to "The Exorcism of Emily Rose." Ryne Douglas Pearson wrote the screenplay; David Scarpa penned a recent draft.

Story kicks off as aliens land on Earth carrying a message for all humans: Live in peace or be destroyed. Connelly is set to portray Helen Benson, the role Patricia Neal played in the 1951 original.

Fox has set a December start date in Vancouver.

Erwin Stoff is producing alongside Derrickson's partner Paul Boardman, who also produced "Emily Rose."

Connelly is shooting the ensemble comedy "He's Just Not That Into You" for New Line. She will then segue to "Day the Earth Stood Still."

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Child's Play Remake in the Works

ShockTillYouDrop.com had a chance to interview producer David Kirschner for his upcoming movie where he surprised them by announcing that they were working on another "Chucky" movie, which would be a remake of the original Child's Play.

"We're discussing it with Don Mancini, who has written all of them with us from the beginning," Kirschner told us. "The next one we're going to do is we're going back and remaking the first one and even pushing it further and making a very terrifying version of the first one, which is pretty scary as it is."

Head on over to the site to read more.

- The Monster

Keanu Reeves to Play Klaatu in 'Earth Stood Still' Remake

From Variety:

Twentieth Century Fox has set Keanu Reeves to star in "The Day the Earth Stood Still," its re-imagining of the 1951 Robert Wise-directed sci-fi classic.

Reeves committed over the weekend to play Klaatu, a humanoid alien 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.

Erwin Stoff is producing, with Scott Derrickson ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose") directing from a script by David Scarpa. Reeves' commitment puts the picture on track for a late fall or early 2008 production start. Studio sees it as a tentpole.

The Klaatu role was originated by Michael Rennie. The 1951 film's premise, a response to the rise of the Cold War after WWII, is being updated, and the film will use advances in visual effects.

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April Fool's Day Remake News

Today Bloody-Disgusting received word that The Butcher Brothers will make their studio feature debut with a remake of April Fool's Day. The Butcher Bros. will also be penning the remake with either Columbia Tristar or Paramount Pictures distributing.

In the film a group of eight college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret from their past which is revealed, and soon after, they turn up dead. Yet, are they really dead? Or is it just part of some very real and cruel April Fool's jokes? The hostess, Muffy, is the only one who apparently knows what's going on. But then again, is it really her doing the killing?

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Escape From New York Remake

The Hollywood Reporter revealed that New Line has won the bidding war for the remake of John Carpenter's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK that first hit the news earlier this week. In a package put together by the CAA agency, Gerard (300) Butler will take over the Snake Plissken role made famous by Kurt Russell, with Ken (BLACK HAWK DOWN) Nolan scripting the new take and Neal Moritz (currently in preproduction on Screen Gems' PROM NIGHT redux) producing. This ESCAPE, for which a director has yet to be signed, will combine the plot of the original film with an examination of Snake's origins; Carpenter is also on board as an executive producer, and tells the trade, "Snake is one of my fondest creations. Kurt Russell did an incredible job, and it would be fun to see someone else try."

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