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Taking Woodstock and cinema's love of trippy scenes | Anne Billson

12 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

There are plenty of trippy movie scenes – but watching them sober makes you feel like the designated driver in a roomful of drunks

Thirty-six years ago, I dropped a tab of Lsd. It was Ok, but I never felt the urge to do it again, and never thought much about it – until the other day, when I was watching Taking Woodstock. To the sound of Love's The Red Telephone, Ang Lee serves up an acid trip so uncannily spot-on, I swear it gave me my first ever flashback.

It's not as though there's ever been a shortage of trippy scenes in films. It's just they always seemed to chime more with the experiences of the film-makers than with my own. Indeed, watching them sober, you often feel like the designated driver in a roomful of babbling drunks. In the aptly-named The Trip, Peter Fonda has a psychedelic experience in which, »

- Anne Billson

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James Woods Wants Kristen Stewart For An American Girl

5 October 2009 5:49 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

You know James Woods as the guy who pops up as baddies in movies as varied as Videodrome and, uh, The Rudy Giuliani Story, so try not to be concerned when I tell you that he has big plans for Kristen Stewart. Coming Soon caught up with him on the set for the upcoming Straw Dogs remake, and he talked about his plans for his feature directorial debut, a drama called An American Girl. And yes, he's planning for Stewart to star. There's no confirmation from Stewart's camp about that, of course, but Woods seems certain it's happening. And it's quite a role for her-- drugs, sex, the Marines and tragedy, all in two hours. Check out the plot, as Woods tells it: "It's about a young woman who is really destructive. It's that magical time right after you're out of high school. She was the top swimmer and dive »

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Rarities from Shore’s vaults on new CD

5 October 2009 3:52 AM, PDT | MovieScore Magazine | See recent MovieScore Magazine news »

Howard Shore, the composer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, is of course best known for his big, epic and orchestral scores for the aforementioned fantasy blockbuster saga, but he started out as a composer with a knack for experimentalism and unusual musical ventures. It has been exemplified in several of his earlier film scores, including Videodrome, Scanners and After Hours. Now, from the composer’s own record label (Howe ... »

- moviescore

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David Cronenberg to Direct His Own Remake of The Fly

24 September 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

David Cronenberg's The Fly has been on the remake block for at least a couple of years now, along with several other Cronenberg flicks including Videodrome [1] and Scanners [2] (much to the dismay of horror fans everywhere). This week, however, THR's Risky Biz Blog [3] brings us word that Fox may have finally found a director for the remake that fans can actually get behind: David Cronenberg himself! That's right, despite the fact that Cronenberg had previously stated that he had no desire to take part in a remake (he wasn't involved in The Fly II either), he has apparently had a change of heart. Did his recent work on a Paris opera adaptation of The Fly rekindle some interest? A lot of people are grouping this in as part of a new trend where directors have been remaking their own work; for example, Michael Haneke's Funny Games, and Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge. »

- Sean

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David Cronenberg in Talks to Remake The Fly

24 September 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

The Hollywood Reporter is writing that acclaimed director David Cronenberg is in talks with Fox to remake his own version of The Fly.

The 1986 sci-fi/horror movie, starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, was a reimagining of the 1958 movie of the same name starring Vincent Price. The story involved a scientist named Seth Brundle (Goldblum) who falls in love with Veronica Quaife (Davis), a reporter studying his work. Brundle's DNA is fused with that of a fly when a teleportation experiment goes wrong.

As his body undergoes rapid changes, the movie turns surprisingly poignant: His relationship with Veronica deepens, and she must watch as the man she loves gradually loses his touch with humanity. The melodramatic nature of the script prompted Cronenberg and composer Howard Shore (who scored the movie) to create an opera, which premiered in Paris in July 2008.

Presumably, this remake would allow Cronenberg to make use of improved special-effects technology, »

- Rich Z Zwelling

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David Cronenberg Visits His Past, Remaking 'The Fly'

24 September 2009 4:05 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

David Cronenberg is rebooting The Fly. The news comes less than six months after the director's Videodrome was also approved for a remake at Universal, though he's not involved in that one.

For years and years, while most moviegoers were ignoring some of his most bizarre work, Cronenberg steadfastly rejected the notion of taking another look at the world of Seth Brundle, but I think in general he has warmed up to the notion of being a more commercially available filmmaker than at any point since, well, The Fly.

He's working with big movie stars and no longer makes his movies without people paying attention to what he's doing. That's evidenced by his upcoming The Matarese Circle with Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington, which will cash in on Robert Ludlumania. »

- Colin Boyd

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David Cronenberg Ready To Remake His Own The Fly

24 September 2009 3:46 AM, PDT | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »

Canadian director David Cronenberg, director of crazy Sci-Fi classics such as Scanners and Videodrome, will remake “The Fly” according to Risky Business, a movie that he himself remade starring Jeff Goldblum as a scientist dude with no quality control. The Official Synopsis: A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong That’s the scoop basically. Cronenberg apparently would rather do the reboot himself before some hack gets his mitts on it. David joins Ridley Scott in the directing your own rebooted work. Ridley will re-energize Alien sometime in the near future. Thanks /Film. »

- endymi0n

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David Cronenberg Remaking His Classic 1986 Film The Fly For 20th Century Fox

23 September 2009 9:32 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Every day I read the latest film news and every couple of days there is always that one story which confuses me and makes me say “what.” out loud.  I look forward to these news items just because I find them more fun than the average news item.  Having said all that, I never thought that I would come home one of these days to see news pop out saying that David Cronenberg would be remaking his 1986 version of “The Fly” starring Jeff Goldblum.  This all just confuses me so much because how could you make something that is already perfect better?  If you are just as confused/fascinated as I am about this one, just hit the jump for more details.

THR’s Risky Buisness Blog tells us that the Canadian master of all things weird and fucked up will be developing a reboot of his film with Fox. »

- Ramses Flores

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'Jennifer's Body' Director Karyn Kusama Offers More Details on her Rachel Weisz Project

21 September 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Last week "Jennifer's Body" director Karyn Kusama dropped a few hints to super sci-fi site io9.com about her pet project starring Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, which has yet to find funding. She said, "there's a screenplay I wrote a while ago with a partner that has a sort of element of horror, although I would call it a psychological horror in the David Cronenberg tradition, that I'm trying to get made."

In a recent interview with MTV, Kusama cited David Cronenberg, the director whose specific type of creepy-crawliness is often referred to as body horror, as "a really important influence, or just an important role model as a creative force." Although Cronenberg's more recent works like "A History of Violence" and "Eastern Promises" veered more towards the mainstream, there's no doubt his earlier work like "Videodrome," "Dead Ringers" (Kusama's favorite), and of course the remake of "The Fly" tapped »

- Jenni Miller

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Rachel Weisz is the Subject of Karyn Kusama's 'Body Horror'

15 September 2009 11:53 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Karyn Kusama, director of the upcoming Megan Fox horror vehicle Jennifer's Body, chatted some with io9 about what's lined up next in her directorial pipeline. And, apparently, she'll be holding fast to the horror genre - but this as yet unnamed script is a "psychological horror in the David Cronenberg tradition." Okay, Kusama. I'll bite. "[The script] definitely does fall into sort of a body horror movie that deals very, very specifically with our concept of gender. I can't really talk to you specifically about it other than to say that Rachel Weisz is attached to the film." Now you've got our attention! But what exactly is it about? Oh, Rachel Weisz. Sweet, sweet, beautiful, talented, disarming Rachel Weisz - in a gory, gender-bending, body-altering horror film akin to Cronenberg's Videodrome or The Fly?! Oh my yes. To what degree will Weisz's gender be subverted? What's this film even about? Why ... »

- Brandon Lee Tenney

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'Jennifer's Body' Director Karyn Kusama Eyes Rachel Weisz, Body Horror For Her Next Project

15 September 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

I'll admit, I feel a little bit bad for Karyn Kusama. Between star Megan Fox and Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody, the "Jennifer's Body" director has kind of been overshadowed by the super-team she's assembled. Still, the comedy/horror flick which hits theaters this Friday is looking very entertaining, and Kusama has a lot to do with that.

I'm excited then to hear talk of her potential next project, a "[David] Cronenberg-inspired body horror" tale focusing on gender issues. Rachel Weisz is attached, but that's all Kusama would say. The project isn't even necessarily a go just yet; as Kusama tells io9, "let's hope that some day it finally gets some money."

While most horror filmmakers nowadays employ scenes of excessive gore for the sake of it, Cronenberg comes from a different school of thought. His work -- "Videodrome," "The Fly," "Eastern Promises," to name a few -- tends toward the gory, »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Karyn Kusama Wants to Explore Rachel Weisz’s Body

14 September 2009 1:29 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

The first time I ever saw Rachel Weisz in a movie, I hated her. That's because the first movie I saw with her starring was The Shape of Things, and she is amazingly brutal in it. She was so good at her role, that I could actually feel myself hating her, struggling to separate her from the person on the screen. I don't think I'm alone in saying that she's one of the best actors around today, and so I'm pretty psyched whenever I see that she's working on something new. Especially when the words "horror" and "Cronenberg" get thrown out. Before I get you too confused, io9 was fortunate enough to sit down with Jennifer's Body director Karyn Kusama who is busy developing a new project that she claims is in the vein (or at least inspired by) Cronenberg's cinematic toying with the human body. The money quote from her here: There's a screenplay I wrote »

- Dr. Cole Abaius

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The Sandbox: Virtual Hypocrisy

11 September 2009 1:58 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Chalk it up to fluke timing or the shifting pop culture landscape, but there's a trio of Hollywood films this fall that deal directly with gaming by way of virtual reality storylines. Headlined by last weekend's "Gamer" and soon to be followed by the Bruce Willis action flick "Surrogates" and December's insanely hyped James Cameron epic "Avatar," this trend suggests just how dominant gaming is becoming in the entertainment arena -- dominant enough to tsked at by movies that are also arguably trying to mimic its qualities.

With stories centered on humans steering avatars through real-world settings, these three films deal with gaming's fundamental mechanics and serve as commentaries on the medium that encroaching on cinema's pop-cult supremacy. They're spectacle-heavy genre flicks that are also critiques of their main competition for consumers' time and money, reflecting the ever more frequent desire movies have shown to simultaneously emulate and malign the »

- Nick Schager

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Woods, Purcell Join "Straw Dogs" Remake

18 August 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news »

James Woods ("Videodrome", TV's "Shark") and Dominic Purcell (TV's "Prison Break", "Primeval") have joined the cast of the remake of Sam Peckinpah's controversial classic "Straw Dogs" according to Coming Soon. In the film, James Marsden plays a Hollywood screenwriter who relocates with his wife (Kate Bosworth) to her hometown in Mississippi. Not long after his wife is assaulted and he turns vigilante to protect them. Alexander Skarsgard and Walton Goggins also star. Director Rod Lurie ("The Contender", "Nothing But The Truth") and the cast are currently in rehearsals for the film before filming begins. The movie opens in cinemas February 25th 2011.... »

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James Woods and Dominic Purcell are Straw Dogs

17 August 2009 6:14 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

As you may or may not know, director Rod Lurie is remaking the controversial and uncomfortable Sam Peckinpah joint Straw Dogs. The original film, which centered around rape, harassment and the inferiority complex of Dustin Hoffman’s character David Sumner, is a violent and off-kilter piece of work.

While it’s unlikely the remake will capture the gusto of the original, it has gained some names in the past week: James Woods of Videodrome fame along with Prison Break’s Dominic Purcell and Willa Holland have joined the cast in unspecified roles. It’s likely that the first two names are antagonists, possibly with James Woods as the main foe, as he seems to carry the gravitas necessary.

The film already has a strike against it besides the fact that it’s an unnecessary remake: James Marsden, dethroned by Hugh Jackman in the X-Men series and quickly disposed of in The Last Stand, »

- John Cooper

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The Best Screams of the Maple Leaf

3 August 2009 12:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Do you have a favorite Canadian horror movie?

Okay, this might sound like a strange question -- until you realize how many horror films were made north of the 42nd parallel. Now Canada is, by no means, a horror mecca, but Horror-Movies.ca's list of Top 30 Canadian Horror Movies (ranked by fan voting) reminds us that there are more than we might think.

More recent contributions include Bruce McDonald's Pontypool, the horror flick that Salon called an awesome "claustrophobic, locked-in-the-barn zombie movie." (That I'm actually planning to slip into the DVD player tonight!) Not to mention Prom Night, Ginger Snaps, Screamers, Cube, Silent Hill... And then, well, almost anything that's come from the hands of David Cronenberg pops up on the list -- Shivers, Scanners, Videodrome, and the film that helped make Christopher Walken a paragon of irresistible creepiness, The Dead Zone. Without that director, any horror list wouldn't be quite the same, »

- Monika Bartyzel

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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 8/04/2009

2 August 2009 9:55 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.

Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, August 4, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last-minute additions and deletions.

Note: Clickable links lead to Amazon.com

Alien Uprising

A suspected prisoner uprising brings Marines to the prison planet of Rove 12, but nothing is what it seems. The few surviving prisoners are hiding from a ruthless, blood thirsty creature. Now the prisoners and the marines must fight together to get off the planet Alive!

Art Of The Devil 3

Panor, a seductive rural teacher, longs to live a normal, peaceful life like everyone else in her village. But her beauty becomes her biggest curse as she becomes the object »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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'Dead Space' And Digital Copy Opining Today Around The Blogosphere

27 July 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

It’s been a video game-y week Around the Blogosphere. Sam Raimi being attached to a “Warcraft” adaptation was the talk of last week of course -- the non-Comic-Con talk, that is -- but there’s also been news about “Castlevania” and “Asteroids” movies. Today brought word of a “Dead Space” adaptation, which publisher Electronic Arts will soon auction off to the highest bidding studio. As you might expect, the news inspired some opinion-rattling across the thinking person’s Internet.

There’s also some chatter about the value of DVD/Blu-ray releases that include Digital Copy, ruminations on a similar pair of “crazy kid” movies, some David Cronenberg commentary/speculation and light spoilerage on the "Smurfs" movie front, thanks to some casting call announcements. Plus-- I read today on Cinematical that the excellent(ly twisted) Bobcat Goldthwait-directed movie "World's Greatest Dad" is now available to watch On Demand. Order »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Multiple Personality Disorder Report

21 July 2009 3:07 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

[Editor's Note: Multiple Personality Disorder Reports are short news blasts meant to let you know about the stuff that didn't make it to the news page but still had us talking behind the scenes]

#1: Online Comic "Wide Awake" in development

Eric Trautmann and Brandon Jerway's online graphic novel "Wide Awake" is in development at Do-Over Productions [via: Styd]

#2: World War Z gets new writer

Word War Z is no closer to being realized now that new writer Matthew Michael Carnahan, of State Of Play and The Kingdom fame is taking over. Hopefully it's just minor re-writes 'cause J. Michael Straczynski's screenplay is just fine. [via: fangoria]

#3: Hack/Slash gets a director

Rogue's adaptation of the cult horror comic book, Hack/Slash has found a director in Fredrik Bond [via: THR]

#4: Jackboots and Whitehall starts filming

Word is that alternative history WWII flick Jackboots and Whitehall has begun filming. [via: Filmstalker]

#5: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters coming

Form the dude who wrote Pride and Predjudice and Zombies comes the sequel (of sorts) "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters." [via: Styd]

#6: Seth Gordon to direct King of Dork

Seth Gordon, »

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Assorted Code Red DVDetails...

25 June 2009 11:17 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Code Red DVD just sent Fango the specs for a trio of upcoming releases set to hit retailers later this summer.

On August 18th, Code Red DVD will unleash The Strangeness. It is 1980 and the price of gold is soaring. Old timers warn would be prospectors to stay away from the Gold Spike Mine. It has stood as a ghastly reminder of the horrors of a century before when the earth violently shook and over twenty miners were killed, their bodies stripped of flesh. The residents of Basin City talked of the grisly murders only in whispers from which legends of The Strangeness grew. A small group of explorers innocently make their way to the Gold Spike. Only one knows the incredible secret of the mine, and here the nightmare begins.....!

Nightmare USA's Stephen Thrower described the film as having, "Ominous atmosphere, flashes of humour, and a truly startling monster! »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (FANGORIA.com)

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