Some purist genre fans might be starting to feel like they're in a Scream-like movie where the terror of the plot is that all the movies they like are being given hybrid sequel/remakes. Recently the horror classics have been on the block, with all sorts of news about an Evil Dead remake, and now some…
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David Ayers wrote and will direct End of Watch, which already has Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena cast as two LAPD officers who "confront marriage, love, fatherhood and the harsh realities of the Los Angeles streets." Now Anna Kendrick and Natalie Martinez (Detroit 1-8-7) are in talks to play the respective love interests in the…
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Is the director of Friday the 13th and Conan the Barbarian making a movie about kids who unleash Satan through a metal record? It sounds that way. Marcus Nispel is set to direct a movie called Backmask that "involves paranoia, possession and the paranormal." The term 'backmasking' is wildly out of date, because it refers…
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F. Gary Gray last directed Law Abiding Citizen, a film that ambitiously tried to push how far an audience could get behind a violent, justifiably angry anti-hero. As with several of Gray's films, the idea was better than the execution, which ended up being silly more often than it was satisfying. Gray has also been…
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