'Final Destination' Reboot Coming From 'Saw' Franchise Writers
New Line Cinema is resurrecting another horror franchise. A Final Destination reboot is on the way from a duo of writers who previously wrote the Saw films.
Read MoreNew Line Cinema is resurrecting another horror franchise. A Final Destination reboot is on the way from a duo of writers who previously wrote the Saw films.
Read MoreWhile much of the story behind the movie is still a mystery, director Marcus Dunstan has given some Halloween Returns plot background and other info.
Read MoreA new Halloween film is in development, with a rumored title of Halloween Returns. We've got a plot report here.
Read MoreBecause evil never dies, there's a new Halloween movie on the way, and a pair of Saw writers have been hired to script.
Read MoreIf you grew up in the '80s or '90s, you probably spent at least a little bit of your childhood being scared silly by Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Now a whole new generation of kids will get the opportunity to be spooked by those stories, thanks to CBS Films. The studio…
Read MoreThe twisted minds behind Saws IV, V, VI, and 3D are ready to bring some fun to the whole family. And no, that isn't a sick way of describing the next Saw plotline. Writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan have signed on for Disney's The Stuff of Legend, a fantasy-action film about heroic toys involved…
Read MoreI should have skipped out of The Collection five, maybe ten minutes after it began. It took just that much time to realize that the movie really is only a basic exploration of a simple premise, and ultimately (for different reasons) not for me. The sequel to 2009's The Collector is once again written by…
Read MoreThe so-called "torture porn" genre is mostly dead, but has given way to a sort of action-adventure horror that fuses elements of that particular vision of horror with other ideas. That seems to be the slot in which to place The Collection, which comes from Saw IV-VI writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. The latter also…
Read MoreTo no surprise, the books that Greta Gerwig loves and credits as being influential in her life are feminist readings through and through.
Read MorePatrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan have long since been the runaway success story of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's highly underrated HBO show Project Greenlight. The pair were on the third season and wrote Feast, which lead them to write Saw IV through VII, a couple other movies and most recently, a draft of Guillermo…
Read MoreIn the pantheon of Project Greenlight winners, Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan have more than distinguished themselves. After winning the third (and unfortunately final) season of the series for their script called Feast, the pair went on to write two sequels to that film, the last four Saw movies, the upcoming Piranha 3DD, and The…
Read MoreWhat is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 40 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
Read MorePiranha 3D made a big enough splash at the box office to ensure the film will recoup the film's estimated $24 million budget. The film ended it's run with over $65 million worldwide, and will likely make a bunch more on DVD/Blu-ray/tv deals. After the opening weekend, Dimension Films issued a press release announcing that…
Read MoreMGM isn't down and out just yet, or at least that is how they would have you believe it. The studio has announced yet another project, a big screen adaptation of the 1960's black and white sci-fi television series The Outer Limits. The anthology series, like the Twilight Zone, was known to have a plot…
Read MoreCould Saw VII be the final installment of the popular horror movie franchise? Screenwriter Patrick Melton, who co-wrote the last three Saw films and the upcoming seventh movie, claims the the series will probably end with the seventh installment, and they have even planned to wrap up the lingering questions. The following quote comes from…
Read MoreOn television, the horror anthology will never die. Now, according to the RiskyBiz Blog, Clive Barker is teaming up with Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, the writers of the latter half of the Saw franchise and the recent horror pic The Collector, which Dunstan also directed, to create a new show called Clive Barker's Hotel.…
Read MoreLionsgate has revealed new details about the future of the SAW franchise. The fifth installment, follows Hoffman (Costas Mandylor), who has been carrying Jigsaw's (Tobin Bell) legacy, goes on a man hunt after the secret is threatened. "People escape one trap, just to get caught in another; it's closer in feel to the original SAW…
Read MoreIt's pretty much a given: "If it's Halloween, It's SAW." We've previously told you that SAW 5 is ready to go. Production designer-turned-director David Hackl is working closely with Saw IV scribes Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton on the next chapter, with a first draft due by the end of the month. Talk about fast…
Read MoreDarren Lynn Bousman has signed on to return for SAW 4. Bousman directed the two previous popular SAW sequels. Late last year Lionsgate announced that a fourth film would be released on October 26th 2007. Bousman's return seems like a last ditch move. Especially considering the fact that Bousman publicly announced his departure from the…
Read MoreThe rental/dvd sales of Dimension Films' Feast are so good that talks have begun to create not one but two sequels. Feast screenwriters Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunston are the ones doing all the talking, claiming that TWC wants to turn the film into a trilogy. The logic of studio executives baffles me. They actually…
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