One of the more interesting movie panels at the 2011 San Diego Comic Con International was the one-hour Visionaries discussion between filmmakers Guillermo Del Toro and Jon Favreau. We have gotten the entire conversation transcribed so you at home can read it for yourself. I highly recommend it. Hit the jump to listen to Favreau…
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A whole boatload of posters has arrived on internet shores in the past few days, so lets start with today's big one: the uncensored, definitely not safe for work version of the one-sheet for David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. This one is pretty much internet link-bait and not much more, because it…
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UPDATE: Yahoo now has a very slightly different US version of the trailer, and you can see it below, too. One of my most anticipated films for 2011 is Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, the movie co-written and produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Troy Nixey in his feature debut. The movie…
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There have been a great many new posters in the past few days. Just this afternoon we've seen new one-sheets for the doc Page One: Inside the New York Times, the horror remake Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Miranda July's odd-sounding new drama The Future, and Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. Plus earlier this week…
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The orphaned Miramax films are finding new homes. Last week we heard that The Debt, John Madden's film that is (partially) about a group of Mossad agents tracking a Nazi war criminal locked distribution via Focus Features. Now Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, the remake of a '70s TV chiller co-written and produced by…
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/Film reader Dustin E caught a screening of the Guillermo del Toro-written/produced Troy Nixey-directed horror thriller Don't Be Afraid of the Dark at a special screening presented during the Virginia Film Festival. Dustin says the film is "a great little throwback horror flick that will definitely please fans of the genre." Hit the jump to…
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Briefly: Miramax essentially has new owners, but the process of handing the reins of the studio over from Disney to Ron Tutor and Colony Capital isn't a speedy one. Given that Miramax hasn't got many films, there won't be deep repercussions if the deal takes some time. But Deadline says that the process has pushed…
Read MoreAt Comic-Con, Miramax Films premiered the movie trailer for the Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, a horror film remake co-written and produced by Guillermo del Toro. The trailer (and additional footage) went over big in San Diego, and now MySpace has the trailer online for everyone to check out. Watch it now embedded after…
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I could say a lot of things about the footage shown today at the Miramax panel for Troy Nixey's debut film Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. But I'll let co-writer and producer Guillermo del Toro have his say: "the movie is serious as a fucking attack of gonorrhea!" Don't Be Afraid of the Dark…
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Two new horror movie posters landed today, just in time for the Comic-Con's preview night in San Diego. First up, we have the Comic-Con giveaway poster for newcomer Troy Nixey's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, which is being produced by Guillermo Del Toro. The poster is an original work of art by Nixey, who…
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Briefly: When Disney shuttered Miramax last year, one of the handful of films left in limbo was Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, a remake of the 1973 TV movie of the same name. The remake was written and produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by newcomer Troy Nixey. It's a good sign that…
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Guy Pearce has joined the Miramax remake of the classic 1973 television movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, scripted by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Troy Nixey. Bailee Madison has also signed on to play his daughter. They'll be joining Katie Holmes, who was cast a couple of months ago. In the original…
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If directing a prequel adaptation to one of the biggest movie franchises in the history of film wasn't enough, Guillermo del Toro has found yet another project to add to his already overfull plate. The Pan's Labyrinth filmmaker will produce a remake of ABC's 1973 television movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark for Dimension…
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