Movie Gossip and News

[Octopus]

Oscars will skip Performances by Best Song Nominees
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/20 ... inees.html

http://m.deadline.com/2012/02/exclusive ... ted-songs/

[andrews]

Alfred Hitchcock‘s filmography reads like an all-time best of list: Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Notorious, The Birds, it goes on and on. But out of all of Hitchcock’s movies, only one received the Academy Award for Best Picture: 1940′s Rebecca. Hitchcock’s first American project, Rebecca featured Laurence Olivier as a widower whose new wife (Joan Fontaine) is overwhelmed by the spirit of his late wife, the title character. It was based on a 1938 book of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.

Now, DreamWorks and Working Title are planning to go back to the source material and remake the story with Steven Knight, who wrote Eastern Promises for David Cronenberg, hired to write the screenplay.

NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

[weirdfilms33]

Alfred Hitchcock‘s filmography reads like an all-time best of list: Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Notorious, The Birds, it goes on and on. But out of all of Hitchcock’s movies, only one received the Academy Award for Best Picture: 1940′s Rebecca. Hitchcock’s first American project, Rebecca featured Laurence Olivier as a widower whose new wife (Joan Fontaine) is overwhelmed by the spirit of his late wife, the title character. It was based on a 1938 book of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.

Now, DreamWorks and Working Title are planning to go back to the source material and remake the story with Steven Knight, who wrote Eastern Promises for David Cronenberg, hired to write the screenplay.

NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOO! They can't do that. Look at the Psycho remake, you just can't remake a Hitchcock film...

[SocialFlutterBy]

Alfred Hitchcock‘s filmography reads like an all-time best of list: Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Notorious, The Birds, it goes on and on. But out of all of Hitchcock’s movies, only one received the Academy Award for Best Picture: 1940′s Rebecca. Hitchcock’s first American project, Rebecca featured Laurence Olivier as a widower whose new wife (Joan Fontaine) is overwhelmed by the spirit of his late wife, the title character. It was based on a 1938 book of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.

Now, DreamWorks and Working Title are planning to go back to the source material and remake the story with Steven Knight, who wrote Eastern Promises for David Cronenberg, hired to write the screenplay.

NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOO! They can't do that. Look at the Psycho remake, you just can't remake a Hitchcock film...

Some things are just best left alone!!

[rawsalsa]

Alfred Hitchcock‘s filmography reads like an all-time best of list: Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Notorious, The Birds, it goes on and on. But out of all of Hitchcock’s movies, only one received the Academy Award for Best Picture: 1940′s Rebecca. Hitchcock’s first American project, Rebecca featured Laurence Olivier as a widower whose new wife (Joan Fontaine) is overwhelmed by the spirit of his late wife, the title character. It was based on a 1938 book of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.

Now, DreamWorks and Working Title are planning to go back to the source material and remake the story with Steven Knight, who wrote Eastern Promises for David Cronenberg, hired to write the screenplay.

NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOO! They can't do that. Look at the Psycho remake, you just can't remake a Hitchcock film...

Some things are just best left alone!!

I couldn't agree more!

[kevinknapman]

I don't really get the fuss over another adaptation of Rebecca. I can understand people being precious about films like Psycho, North by Northwest or Vertigo but Rebecca? People saying they shouldn't remake a Hitchcock film and that some things are best left alone doesn't even make sense. It's a book that has been adapted many times since that version. There have been plenty of TV adaptations, the last being in 1997 with Emilia Fox and Charles Dance. There was even a BBC TV version with Michael Hordern just 7 years after the Hitchcock one and both James Mason and Jeremy Brett have played Maxim de Winter. There are also two Bollywood versions as well. One more adaptation is hardly going to make a difference.

[TheyCallMeMrGlass]

I don't really get the fuss over another adaptation of Rebecca. I can understand people being precious about films like Psycho, North by Northwest or Vertigo but Rebecca? People saying they shouldn't remake a Hitchcock film and that some things are best left alone doesn't even make sense. It's a book that has been adapted many times since that version. There have been plenty of TV adaptations, the last being in 1997 with Emilia Fox and Charles Dance. There was even a BBC TV version with Michael Hordern just 7 years after the Hitchcock one and both James Mason and Jeremy Brett have played Maxim de Winter. There are also two Bollywood versions as well. One more adaptation is hardly going to make a difference.

Absolutely agree but I think it applies with every classic film being remade. Generally I have nothing against remakes. Its not as if original sources will be wiped off the face of the Earth. If anything, remakes allow new generations to seek the original sources films, which they would otherwise never bother with or even know about. In that sense, remakes can be a useful advertising tool for the originals.

Personally, most remakes are dreadful or unimaginative but there have been very good ones amongst them too such as Ben Hur, Thomas Crown Affair, The Thing, Heaven can wait and many more. Some are even better than the original. A re-imagining of classics can potentially be refreshing. In fact a new adaptation of Rebecca would be interesting depending on who directs.

[TheBoySeggy]

Michael Bay confirmed as Transformers 4 director... I'm off to sit in a dark room for 2 years to prepare for the headache this film will bring on

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni22731708

[evilzadi]

Michael Bay confirmed as Transformers 4 director... I'm off to sit in a dark room for 2 years to prepare for the headache this film will bring on

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni22731708

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/transformers ... eboot.html

[elski]

Closure Message: Cineworld Crawley will be closed Monday 20th Feb until 1pm Wednesday 22nd Feb

(for Imax construction work)





Closure Message: Cineworld Harlow will close 27th Feb - 8th March. 3 screens reopen on the 8th with all 6 screens reopen on 15th May