Having weathered MGM's financial woes and some last-minute digital revamping to avoid pissing off the Chinese, the Red Dawn remake is finally ready to hit theaters next month. A first trailer hit a couple of months ago, and now the first TV spot has arrived to remind us of the absurdity we can expect. Watch…
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Whether or not you like the original Red Dawn, a product of Walter Sobchak inspiration and notable Hollywood conservative John Milius, it at least has a specific ideology beyond the basic concept of "blow s*** up real good." (Part of that ideology is a strong anti-gun control sentiment, as invading forces use firearm purchase records…
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Sometimes we put all the depressing remake news in one place, but this installment is relatively uplifting. It has news about one big hurdle any new Gremlins film faces, an innocuous new poster, and a silly but entertaining trailer. After the break, A Gremlins remake can't happen without Steven Spielberg's blessing, See the poster for…
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Four years ago, MGM started getting the pieces together for a remake of the 1984 war pic Red Dawn. The expectation was that the movie would come out sometime around 2010, but it then suffered massive setbacks including the studio's financial woes and the realization that demonizing the Chinese isn't cool anymore, now that Asia accounts…
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As we head into Thanksgiving weekend and gear up to watch what feels like a dozen new releases this weekend, FilmDistrict and Sony have quietly announced new release dates for a few of their projects. That long-delayed Red Dawn remake that FilmDistrict picked up earlier this fall is now scheduled to drop next fall, while…
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FilmDistrict is turning into the distributor of odd orphans. It grabbed the former Miramax project Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, and is now reportedly about to pick up the Red Dawn remake directed by Bourne second-unit shooter Dan Bradley. MGM financed and shot the film in 2009 before undergoing bankruptcy and reorganization. The movie…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam discuss the death of a cinema icon, the amount of dancing present in Black Swan, and the dangerous intersections of art and commerce. Special guest Stephen Tobolowsky joins us. Check out Stephen's new short story in ebook form! You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave…
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Things were so simple when the original Red Dawn was released in 1984. The world seemed like a smaller place. Our enemies were defined clear and simple. (Well, sometimes.) If a studio wanted to make a movie about how much it would suck if one of those enemies managed to invade the States, it would…
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We've known in the past 24 hours that Sony and MGM were working on a deal that would allow Sony to again distribute James Bond, and that would also carry forward as a real partnership between the studios. Now we have more details, and some of them are quite good. The deal will allow Sony…
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As MGM has come out of bankruptcy and inched closer to being a real working studio once more, we've heard a lot about the potential for The Hobbit and a new James Bond film. We haven't heard much at all, however, about the completed remake of Red Dawn, which has been sitting on the shelf…
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Now's the time to start laying odds on how long it will be before we hear about the twenty-third James Bond film going forward. MGM has announced that it is out of bankruptcy, and that the company has been successfully restructured. Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum of Spyglass Entertainment are the new co-chairmen and CEOs,…
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Subtonix decided to create a map of the United States by pinpointing the movies which best represent each of the 50 states. For example, New Jersey is Clerks and Kansas is The Wizard of Oz. There will likely be some debate over some of these choices (is Fast Times at Ridgemont High the ultimate representation…
Read MoreParamount Pictures International has released the full length movie trailer for Stuart Beattie's directorial debut Tomorrow When The War Began. You might recognize Beattie's name as he is a big Hollywood screenwriter behind such films as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Collateral, Derailed, 30 Days of Night, Australia, and G.I.…
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MGM's dire financial situation -- the studio is now controlled by creditors rather than execs -- is having a growing effect on a wide variety of films. The twenty-third Bond movie was shelved indefinitely, basically until MGM's situation is sorted out and EON Productions can get the movie made elsewhere. Guillermo Del Toro walked away…
Read More[No photo] We've got a batch of new photos, mostly snapped surreptitiously from set. First up is the debut look at the new cast of The A-Team as they shoot in Vancouver. And after the break, you can get a look at better shots of The Green Hornet, a new magazine cover for Sam Worthington…
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan is one of those actors who always seems on the cusp of really breaking out. His roles on Supernatural and Grey's Anatomy led to a turn as The Comedian in Watchmen, in which he was one of the highlights. He's currently shooting the Sylvain White-directed The Losers alongside Chris Evans, Zoe Saldana,…
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Entertainment Weekly has revealed four new members of the cast of the 2010 Dan Bradley's remake of Red Dawn. MGM is producing the redo of the 1984 John Milius action war drama about a bunch of Colorado high school students who must run for cover then Soviet and Cuban troops invade their school. The students…
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Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passamore penned the original draft of the remake of Red Dawn, originally written and directed by John Milius. But Latino Review reports that Tony Gilroy, Bourne writer and writer/director of Michael Clayton and Duplicity, has been brought on to rewrite the script. That report says his draft has already been turned…
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Entertainment Weekly has learned that Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki have joined Chris Hemsworth in Dan Bradley's remake of Red Dawn. MGM is producing the redo of the 1984 John Milius action war drama about a bunch of Colorado high school students who must run for cover then Soviet and Cuban troops invade their school.…
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You've seen Red Dawn, but you haven't seen anything until you've seen Naked Dawn, Jake Szymanski's new Funny or Die's parody which stars Rob Schneider, Mena Suvari and Vinnie Jones. Can you imagine an 80's action movie at a nudist's camp? What if the Russians attacked the U.S.? What if Rob Schneider was our last…
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Look at C. Thomas Howell in the yearbook photo above. Today's teens need to aim higher. Emptying today's "post-9/11" quota is screenwriter Carl Ellsworth (Disturbia, Y: The Last Man adaptation) who will pen the remake of 1984's Red Dawn, the beloved Russian invasion teen patriot movie that inspired Toy Soldiers and many a neighborhood ground…
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