Hell has frozen over.

I can't believe it, but they're finally doing a "remake" that I'm 100% behind.  Even excited for. Stephen King's IT.  Probably has something to do with the fact that it's not really a remake.  IT only ever went to miniseries fame and never got to the big screen.  So woo hoo!  Though it will be VERY hard to top Tim Curry as Pennywise.  I'd say just cast him again, dammit!  I can even get behind the idea that it's going to be two movies because this is my favorite King book, and I would be extremely pleased if nothing at all was cut out. Of course I have the normal amount of trepidation when it comes to books I love being put into Hollywood hands.  But most of all I'm just very happy.  I could even stand seeing the weird, let-down King ending on the big screen!  Bring on the world turtle and the giant spider!

Rob Zombie to remake THE BLOB (say it ain't so)

I haven't seen the new HALLOWEEN sequel yet, but this is not the news I was hoping to hear from Zombie's camp. I know he's a big monster movie fan, but considering what he did with, er, TO John Carpenter's classic and considering we already had a perfectly respectable BLOB remake in 1988 courtesy of Chuck Russell...

Rob, you were supposed to be the horror genre's dark knight in shining armor. but thus far, you've done an "homage" to the 70s grindhouse flicks, a sequel to that homage, a violently divisive remake of one of the most influential horror films of all time and now a sequel to that remake. Another remake? Really? Really?

Read more at http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/08/zombie-remakes-the-blob-.html

Jackie Earl Haley as Freddy Krueger

Well, I must say, as the inevitable parade of remakes continues, this one peaked my interest, and not simply because principle filming begins next month here in Chicago.



Jackie Earl Haley as Freddy Krueger?


OK, I am officially interested.