Halloween (2007)

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Halloween (2007)

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Groan....

I think there should be a 50 year limit on films before they can be remade. Not just because the people who may want to remake them will be dead by then but so will a lot of us so we don't have suffer watching them.

Honestly are there NO original ideas in Hollywood anymore?

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Sure there's the upcoming Footloose remake, The long Good Friday Remake, Escape from New york Remake... Oh wait...!

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Footloose remake? Kill me now!

Lava · A List Star

Ive seen some of the footage from the new Halloween film and I think it looks OKish. Better then the Devils Rejects

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Well it seems that the film has done OK in the US...

Halloween film tops US box office

US actor Tyler Mane takes the Michael Myers role
A new version of the cult horror film Halloween has topped the US box office, with ticket sales expected to reach $30m (£15m) over the four-day weekend.
The film, directed by Rob Zombie, has already broken the record for a film released across US Labor Day weekend, according to studio estimates.

Based on the cult 1978 original by John Carpenter, the re-make has taken $26.5m (£13m) since its release on Friday.

The previous Labor Day record saw Transporter 2 take $16.5m in 2005.

The original Halloween, about masked killer Michael Myers, launched the career of actress Jamie Lee Curtis. It made over $60m (£30m) worldwide - a record for independent film at that time.

Teen comedy Superbad slipped to second place, taking $12.2m (£6m) over the three-day period.

Two other films debuted in the US top 10. Martial arts comedy Balls of Fury came in at number three, while Kevin Bacon's vigilante thriller, Death Sentence, claimed eighth place.

Bourne Ultimatum and Rush Hour 3 rounded out the top five.

The film also stars British actor Malcolm McDowell

Zombie's Halloween, the eighth film in the series, focuses on the grim childhood of psychopath Myers.

However producer Bob Weinstein doubts there will be a follow-up film: "I never say never never... but it would have to be something very, very different," he told Reuters.

Rock star

Zombie, who rose to fame as the frontman of heavy metal band White Zombie, previously made House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects.

Last year he told The Hollywood Reporter that Carpenter had backed the latest version of his cult classic.

"He was very supportive, which I thought was very important," said Zombie.

"Halloween started off as a very terrifying concept, a terrifying movie. But over the years, Michael Myers has become a friendly Halloween mask," Zombie continued.

"But I think the story and the situation is scary. All it needed was someone to come in and to take a totally different approach to make it scary again."

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Is it me or have they released this about 8 weeks too early?

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

I know I thought that it was scheduled originally for October, but they moved it back, dunno why, maybe they don't want to take on SAW 4 at the box office..? Its out here end of september, guess whose off to meet Rob Zombie in the near future?