• 'Gremlins' Reboot May Be Dead

    Gremlins is a property that has been on the "maybe/maybe-not" list for a reboot or remake over the last few years. As a great example of animatronic effects, the idea of seeing all-CG (or mostly-CG) gremlins isn't very appealing, and the relatively safe tone of big-budget filmmaking now isn't the sort that lends itself to…

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  • Warner Bros. Fast-Tracks 'Lego Batman' Spinoff From 'The Lego Movie'

    "Darkness! No parents! The opposite of light!" People liked the Lego version of Batman so much in The Lego Movie that Warner Bros. has fast-tracked development on a Lego Batman spinoff movie. In fact, while WB still plans to make The Lego Movie 2 eventually, this Batman spinoff is basically taking its place. Chris McKay, who acted…

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  • 'Gremlins' Remake Now Produced By 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' Creator

    Briefly: The talk of a Gremlins sequel has turned to talk of a remake, and now we've got one person who is reportedly shepherding the film through the Warner Bros. machine. Seth Grahame-Smith, creator of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and the screenwriter of Dark Shadows, has been given the…

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  • Sequel Bits: 'Kick-Ass 2', 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation', 'Star Trek Into Darkness', 'Beetlejuice 2', 'Roger Rabbit 2', 'Grown Ups 2', 'Willow 2', 'Anchorman: The Legend Continues', 'The Expendables 3'

    Today's Sequel Bits is stuffed to the brim with images, quotes, tweets, and more. After the jump: Would Bryan Singer ever direct a Star Trek movie? Damon Lindelof explains all the secrecy about the villain Seth Grahame-Smith gets cracking on Beetlejuice 2 Steven Seagal's out, Jackie Chan's in for Expendables 3 Willow and Roger Rabbit sequels offer…

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  • 'Pride And Prejudice And Zombies' Rises From The Grave

    Between 2009 and 2011, LionsGate was trying to assemble a film based on Seth Grahame-Smith's breakout novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The text took Jane Austin's original novel -- which is in the public domain -- and added zombies, just as the title suggests. Three directors (David O. Russell then Mike White and then…

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  • Seth Grahame-Smith Did A Polish On Josh Trank's 'Fantastic Four'

    Seth Grahame-Smith, the writer behind Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, has been hired by 20th Century Fox to do a polish on Josh Trank's reboot of Fantastic Four. Matthew Vaughn recently came on as a producer and the studio has set a release date of March 6, 2015. Jeremy Slater wrote the original…

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