Posts Tagged ‘Friday the 13th’
Posted by dominie in Films, News on December 1st, 2008
Shock Til You Drop unveiled the artwork today for Paramount Home Video’s Friday the 13th Deluxe Edition. The artwork also confirms that Friday the 13th Part 2 and Friday the 13th Part 3 is in 3D. Only the first of the installments will be getting the blu-ray treatment as of now; all three titles arrive February 3, 2009.
Special features for Friday the 13th DVD and Blu-Ray are as follows:
• Commentary: Commentary by director Sean Cunningham (on the WB international version - trying to access)
• Fresh Cuts: New Tales from “Friday the 13th”
• Man Behind the Legacy: Sean S. Cunningham
• Friday the 13th - Special Reunion
• Lost Tales from Camp Blood - Part 1
• Trailers: Theatrical Trailer - Used on 2004 release
The Friday the 13th Part 2 Deluxe Edition will include…
• Inside Crystal Lake Memories
• Horror Convention
• Lost Tales from Camp Blood - Part 2
• Slasher Films: Going for the Jugular
• Jason Trivia Track (text)
• Jason Forever (Used on 2004 release/Best Buy bonus disc)
• Theatrical Trailer - Used on 2004 release
Friday the 13th Part 3’s special features are limited to a trailer.
Also announced, on February 10th, Paramount will release the second season of Friday the 13th: The Series. The artwork and details can be found here.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on October 26th, 2008
From New Line Cinema, a galore of Friday the 13th Treats:
Bloody Disgusting unveiled an updated teaser one-sheet.
Friday the 13th official website launched.
Trailer can be viewed here.
Directed by Marcus Nispel, the film is a “retelling of the original Friday the 13th about teenaged summer camp counselors that are systematically slaughtered by a mysterious killer. Jason Voorhees will wear the mask and kill, keeping the famous setting of Crystal Lake.”
Friday the 13th comes to theaters February 13, 2009.
Posted by dominie in News on September 15th, 2008
Friday the 13th fans can rejoice in news that Paramount has confirmed they are working on a brand new, revamped Friday the 13th box set. According to Dread Central, a reporter from Friday the 13th Films caught the news from a Paramount rep during a panel at The Scare Fest in Lexington, Kentucky.
The Paramount rep unveiled a few details you may be interested in. The new DVD box set is currently in development that will include a fully restored uncut format and be laden with infamous missing and extended scenes. Sources say a lot of planning is going into this development to offer fans a proper tribute to one of the most iconic killers ever put on film.
The goal is for the new set to hit stands in time for the remake’s release on February 13, 2009.
Click here for other related Friday the 13th news.
Posted by dominie in Events, Films, News on September 2nd, 2008
Last week we announced that MGM confirmed the greenlight on the remake of Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg’s Poltergiest. The new film, written by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, will be helmed by Vadim Perelman who “delved into similar dynamics in his debut, 2003’s House of Sand and Fog and last year’s The Life Before Her Eyes,” reveals The Hollywood Reporter.
Variety announced that Steven Shell’s Mum & Dad, a British contemporary horror made under Film London’s Microwave scheme, has just been picked up by Revolver Entertainment for UK, Ireland, and US distribution. The synopsis: “Mum and Dad, and their ‘adopted’ children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport’s soulless hub. When Lena, a young Polish office cleaner, is befriended by Birdie, she gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity. Imprisoned in a suburban House of Horrors and designated a ‘Mummy’s Girl’, Lena’s only options appear to be to become part of the family - and join them in their insanity - or die.”
The new poster for His Name Was Jason, a documentary film by Dan Ferrands (Crystal Lake Memories) celebrating the legacy of Friday the 13th has just been revealed. More pictures and details can be found on their MySpace page. Again, the documentary will premiere on Starz! in February 2009 and Anchor Bay will release the DVD soon thereafter.
Exclusive from Bloody-Disgusting, J.T. Petty’s The Burrowers trailer is now available here. The western horror thriller tells the tale of a band of brave men who embark on a crusade to find the killers responsible for a local family massacre—only to discover an evil that lurks below is waiting to feed on them. Doug Hutchison, Clancy Brown, William Mapother, and Sean Patrick Thomas star in the film. The film will premiere during Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.
Posted by bob in News on August 21st, 2008
His Name was Jason is a new documentary celebrating the Friday the 13th legacy. Starz has announced it will be broadcast in February a mere week prior to the big screen debut of the remake from Platinum Dunes.
Dan Ferrands, who wrote Crystal Lake Memories, is directing the documentary which Anchor Bay will release on DVD soon after airing.
Posted by bob in Events, News on August 12th, 2008
WildStorm will release the second volume of comics based on Friday the 13th. Debuting, of course, in time for Halloween, the series collects Pamela’s Tale #1-2, Abuser and the Abused #1, Summer Vacation #1-2 and Bad Land #1-2. The 160-page collection features writers Marc Andreyko (Manhunter), Jason Aaron (Wolverine), Ron Marz (Green Lantern), and Joshua Hale Fialkov. Artists include Adam Archer, Andy B, Shawn Moll and Mike Huddleston. Mike McKone (Fantastic Four) provides the cover art.
Posted by bob in Films, News on August 8th, 2008
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray October 7. The package includes deleted scenes, a gag reel, a making-of documentary, and more. The film will be available in two DVD configurations – a single widescreen version and high-definition format on Blu-ray Disc with Digital Copy. Fox’s new Digital Copy allows viewers to quickly and easily transfer a digital version of the film to a Mac or Windows-based PC computer and then to select portable video devices including an iPod and/or iPhone.
Dread Central broke the news that Paramount Home Video is at work on the ultimate Friday the 13th DVD box set, capitalizing on the 2009 remake from Platinum Dunes. No details yet.
Anchor Bay has released the DVD details of the October 7 arrival of Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer:
• Audio commentary with director Jon Knautz, producer Patrick White, producer/actor Trevor Matthews and composer Ryan Shore
• Behind the Scenes featurette
• Creating The Monsters featurette
• Creating The Music featurette
• World Premiere: Sitges, Spain featurette
• Deleted scenes
• Storyboard comparisons
• Conceptual art gallery
• On-set still gallery
• Theatrical trailer
Posted by bob in Films, News on August 3rd, 2008
Ain’t it Cool News’ Mr. Beaks spoke extensively with Platinum Dunes’ Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, talking Friday the 13th, naturally.
The reinivisioned Jason Voorhees has been seen in sneak peek clips as a faster, less lumbering figure and Fuller commented, “What made the movie interesting for us to make is that Jason Voorhees is one of the most iconic killers to ever be put on film. And what made him interesting is that he’s methodical and unstoppable. Having said that, anything that goes away from that and makes it feel unrealistic… we wanted to move as far away from that as possible. For us, this is a guy who lives in the forest and eats what he kills. He’s in shape because he lives in the forest; he’s not lumbering around because he has to trap. That, to us, made him a more effective killer. So in our movie, as you saw from the piece we showed today… Jason is fast. He runs fast. He’s athletic. He can move.” (more…)
Posted by bob in Films, News on July 31st, 2008
Platinum Dunes has opened the official website to their remake of Friday the 13th. It’s got little new to offer but bookmark it and see what develops.
The award winning Swedish film Let the Right One In has been scheduled by Magnolia Pictures/Magnet Releasing for a limited run in October before a DVD release. The same outfit will then release Timecrimes in the same manner this December. Both are part of a series Magnet is calling Six Shooter Film Series that also encompasses Eden Log, Special, Big Man Japan and Donkey Punch. (more…)
Posted by bob in Films, News on July 28th, 2008
Audiences at Comic-Con International were treated to a first look at the remake to Friday the 13th courtesy of Platinum Dunes. The footage was gruesome as expected, but stylishly handled.
Platinum Dunes’ Brad Fuller took the stage along with Andrew Form, Amanda Righetti, Jared Padalecki and Derek Mears. A teaser poster was also shown for the first time. After that it was largely questions and answers from the room.
Fuller addressed remakes and sequels, saying that while this version of Friday appears finite, he subsequently said he’d like to make a sequel. As for remakes, he says after The Birds that’ll be pretty much it. He admitted to wanting to remake A Nightmare on Elm Street but has yet o sign a deal nor has he spoken with original director Wes Craven, a fact Craven confirmed minutes earlier. (more…)
