'Five Nights At Freddy's' Picks Up 'Poltergeist' Director Gil Kenan
Read about the Five Nights at Freddys Gil Kenan news. The Poltergeist and Monster House director is tackling the movie adaptation of the hit mobile game.
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'Poltergeist' Trailer #2: Sam Raimi And Gil Kenan Remake A Classic
Check out the new Poltergeist trailer. Gil Kenan directs the Sam Raimi-produced remake of the 1982 horror classic. Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt star.
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'Poltergeist' Trailer: Get Sucked In By A Remake Of A Classic Horror Story
The Poltergeist trailer is heeeeeere. Turn off your TVs and cut off your tree branches before July 24 when this remake hits theaters. Watch footage here.
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'Poltergeist' First Look Images Pay Homage To The Original; Trailer Out Thursday
Get your Poltergeist first look. The images clearly reference the original 1984 film. Gil Kenan directed and Sam Raimi produced the remake.
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Sam Rockwell Calls The 'Poltergeist' Remake "More Of A Kids Movie"
Fans are surely curious about what the Poltergeist Remake is going to hold and star Sam Rockwell has a clue. He teases it's a bit more kiddie. Read here.
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'Poltergeist' Remake Dated For Valentine's Day 2015; New 'Planet Of The Apes' Out 2016
Briefly: The Sam Raimi-produced, Gil Kenan-directed remake of Poltergeist has just been given a release date. It'll hit theaters in just over a year, on February 13, 2015. And what's better for a romantic date on Valentine's Day weekend than a scary movie? The film stars Rosemarie DeWitt and Sam Rockwell in the two lead roles,…
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Jared Harris Will Clean House In 'Poltergeist' Remake; Nicholas Braun Also Cast
Mad Men and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows star Jared Harris has just been cast in Gil Kenan's upcoming remake of Poltergeist. That piece of information has two deeper layers of meaning. First, it's a good week to be Jared Harris. The actor was also just cast in Guy Ritchie's The Man of U.N.C.L.E.…
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Sam Rockwell In Early Talks For 'Poltergeist'
Briefly: You can complain about the idea of a remake of Poltergeist, but there's not much bad to say about the cast for the movie so far. Rosemarie DeWitt was the first cast, and now Sam Rockwell is in talks for a role in the remake, says The Wrap. Rockwell is choosing between this and other films,…
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Rosemarie DeWitt Moves In To New Version Of 'Poltergeist'
Briefly: The new version of Poltergeist, to be directed by Gil Kenan (Monster House) has found its first victim, er, resident. Rosemarie DeWitt (Mad Men, United States of Tara) will take the lead female role. David Lindsay-Abaire scripted, and we've heard the film might be a semi-remake/semi-sequel, vaguely in the vein of the recent Evil Dead re-do.…
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'Poltergeist' Remake Moving Ahead At MGM And Fox
The long-in-development remake of Poltergeist is officially moving forward. MGM and Fox 2000 will co-finance and distribute film, billed as a "revisionist take on the classic horror film." Gil Kenan (Monster House) is directing from a script by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Lindsay-Abaire (Oz The Great and Powerful). Sam Raimi is among the producers and production starts this Fall. …
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New Plot Details Indicate 'Poltergeist' Remake Is Actually A Sequel
The distinctions between "reboot," "remake," and "sequel" aren't always clear. It's possible for a film to serve as one of those things while technically being categorized as another, or even to fit all three descriptions at the same time. The new Poltergeist coming from MGM seems like it might be one of those projects that…
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'Poltergeist' Remake Will Be Directed By 'Monster House' Helmer Gil Kenan
There has been speculation about MGM's remake of Poltergeist for a long time now. It reached a height when Sam Raimi was announced as a producer, and once we thought there was a chance he would direct. But now MGM has announced the studio's choice for director: Gil Kenan, who directed the animated film Monster…
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Casting Bits: Shia LaBeouf In Indie Romcom, Melissa McCarthy In 'Tammy', Nicolas Cage In 'The Black Butterfly'
Shia LaBeouf may be out of the Transformers franchise, but the young actor is hardly wanting for work. He's wrapped John Hillcoat's The Wettest County in the World, is currently shooting Robert Redford's The Company You Keep, and is now attached to star in an offbeat romcom going by the working title A Giant. Gil Kenan (Monster…
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City Of Ember Director To Adapt Airman With Producer Robert Zemeckis
ImageMovers, the Robert Zemeckis motion-capture animation studio behind Beowulf and A Christmas Carol, has a new project. Ann Peacock, who wrote the adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, is penning an adaptation of the Eoin Colfer novel Airman, which sounds a bit like a combination of The Rocketeer and the mid-period movies…
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