Miramax’s Head of Global TV Marc Helwig will be overseeing the franchise creatively in close collaboration with producer and CEO of Trancas Malek Akkad, who has worked on Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers,Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, Halloween: Resurrection, Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009).
According to Deadline, “The new Halloween series is envisioned to potentially launch a cinematic universe spanning film and television. Miramax’s Head of Global TV Marc Helwig will be overseeing the franchise creatively in close collaboration with Akkad”as well as reminding that “Jointly controlling both the film and TV rights would allow Miramax and Trancas to map out an integrated film-TV universe.”
It will hit theaters on Sunday, October 1 at 4pm and 7pm local time, and Wednesday, October 4 at 7pm local time.
The limited engagement puts the spotlight on William Friedkin’sExtended Director’s Cut, sourced from the Original 1973 Cut Camera Negative with newly restored and remastered picture and sound in stunning 4k—removing dirt, scratches, and other defects, while maintaining the film’s original creative integrity…
The rumors of a 3 hour FNAF movie are not true.. more like an hour and 50 minutes of fun.
Despite people’s objections the concept was perfect for a film adaptation and we hope it’s as fun as the original game was years ago when it was released..
There has been a lot of pre-release hostility for this movie, even before people see it. Will it be OSCAR worthy or even CHAINSAW AWARD worthy? No! But it does not have to be. If it provides jump scares, tacky humor, a few creepy parts, and something that could be teenage friendly, that is all we need.
The game was a phenom.. the movie won’t be.. But if it captures the right audience, a lot of 12-14 year old kids who played the game as a child will flock to theaters. Of course they need to go with an adult as it is rated R..
A friend of mine reminded me tonight about this great movie from the 1980s.. he said he was catching a viewing of it this Friday night. FRIGHT NIGHT was a special kind of horror–and his message reminded me of the spectacular VHS cover that always caught my eye in my local video store back in the day..
Were these times simpler as we all think they were? Or were we just blinded..
Those who read this post and say “the old man is talking about VHS movies again” just will not comprehend the time.. the idea of not scrolling through on a screen but checking to see if the little yellow card was still rubber banded to the back of the movie in the store…
Sure, modern times are great. Easy.. Any movie you want at your fingertips.
But that quest.. that hunt.. that time when a movie was not there.. when you had to wait until it was returned.. they were kind of.. simpler?
BLOODY DISGUSTING first reported this news today followed by the Hollywood Reporter..
Spyglass “has tapped Christopher Landon, a scary movie stalwart whose credits include the Happy Death Day movies as well as body-switching horror-comedy Freaky, to direct the seventh installment of the long-running franchise.” Scream and Scream VI directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Radio Silence) will remain on board as executive producers, as will Chad Villella.
At this point it is assumed but there is no official word yet on who will be writing Scream 7, but THR reports that Melissa Barrera and Mason Gooding are expected to return.
Of course this is all this contingent on Hollywood actually coming back soon from a writers strike..
Epically bad numbers for the horror flick LAST VOYAGE OF DEMETER but Barbenheimer continues it’s odd summer rampage on the box office.
While did the movie do so bad? Some have opinions.. we think people are bored with vampires, the marketing was bad, and this is not the magic week of summer for horror. Closer to September always works better..
But from Deadline, they say this:
Unfortunately, the tanking of Amblin/Universal’s $45M-costing The Last Voyage of the Demeter stands out like a wart, since we haven’t had many misfires this summer. Granted, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One‘s profitability might be in question next to their exorbitant Covid costs. But these pics have put up tentpole grosses in the nine digits, and have been mass draws (just not as massive as they were hoped to be). Note the filmmakers aimed to keep this period horror pic as cheap as they could: Exteriors were shot in Malta, while interior were shot in Germany, both those countries respectively having tax credits of 50% and 30%.
— Read on deadline.com/2023/08/box-office-barbie-last-voyage-of-the-demeter-1235460243/
Deadline and others have been reporting the news.. Leslie Odom Jr has been hit with a health issue that is promoting production to delay until 2023, everyone is getting an early Christmas break..
Deadline reported, “Sources cited an unspecified health issue involving Leslie Odom Jr., who stars alongside Ellen Burstyn, reprising her role as Chris MacNeil from the original 1973 movie.”
The site describes the shut down as “an early and not cost insignificant” situation. The report adds, “They hope to have [Odom Jr.] back along with the rest of the cast in January..
You may not have asked for it, but they’re giving it to you anyway. Scream six, it’s coming in March 2023. And now you can see an official trailer showcasing the oddities of New York City subway travel mixed with a cycle serial killer.
https://youtu.be/77M4rUs58jY
This generation may not have experienced Friday the 13th. Part 8 Jason takes Manhattan in theaters. But, now you might be able to again anyway with this movie. Sure the plot will be different, but the kill sequences will be presumably bloody as promised. The aura around the film seems to have a good comparison to when Jason took that boat ride from camp Crystal Lake to the Big Apple in the late 80s.
And quite frankly, after watching this trailer, the appearance of Jenna Ortega reminded us more not of Scream movies, but of her amazing performance in the Addams family Netflix series. Perhaps we will go back and watch that again, and just leave our anticipation about this movie for another time.
Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Midnight Mass) has made it official: he and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures are developing a TV show based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series..
But will it appear on Netflix or Amazon?
Platform besides, it promises to be another amazing horror story from Flanagan coming..
Nothing but good entertainment from Flanagan on a constant basis. The man is a genius ..
A few evenings ago, I stopped at a Spirit Halloween .. But the Spirit was abundant regardless of closed down stores that neighbored it.
It is hard to believe we are traveling quickly into the season of the witch!
Goblins and ghosts are beginning to showcase themselves in windows across our area–the spirit of the season is lit with an orange hue..
As the weather begins to chill and the darkness creeps in once again, the movie HALLOWEEN ENDS is just about ready to get released into theaters along with our hearts and minds.
We have heard some really awful stuff about the film–test screenings that are able to be Google-searched will tell you that audiences were not keen on the movie, so much so that some of it had to change ..
Some loved HALLOWEEN KILLS.. we just kind of got grossed out by it. With the exception of the first few minutes that included a 1970s homage and Dr. Loomis lookalike screaming like he did in the good old days of the 20th century, we didn’t like it much either.
Just imagine an ENTIRE film based on the same night of the first film, well that could have been magic!
But that mask.. the mask.
No matter the year or generation, just about every kid knows who Michael Myers is..
It is crazy to consider a few things. First off the white pale face of Michael Myers could have been a clown! The Babysitter Killer movie, eventually HALLOWEEN in 1978, actually considered the use of a clown face instead of what we have now.
Legend and lure tells us that some last minute shifts gave us the haunting face we have today. And the haunting face, for the few who still don’t know, is William Shatner.
A 1970s STAR TREK mask was sprayed white, hair torn a bit, and eyes cut larger. It created the most visceral image of HALLOWEEN the movie–and Halloween itself.
The newest Halloween film coming out in mid-October is going to use a mask that is supposed to be the same mask of 40+ years back, along with burn marks from Halloween in 2018. Fans will realize immediately you need to eliminate Halloweens 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 from all of this in order for Halloween, KILLS, and ENDS to make sense.
Take a breather.. you got this.
But it got us to thinking.. with the popularity of the mask itself, whatever happened to the actual real life mask from 1978. The Halloween Hollywood mask that John Carpenter and Debra Hill created?
It’s an interesting and somewhat tragic story when you consider the way history has eroded the fright of the SHAPE’s face..
So let’s go through some quick Halloween history..
We know, and just reminded everyone, that Michael Myers is really William Shatner. Not just Shatner, but William Shatner’s face that was used in another horror film – The Devil’s Rainfrom 1975..
Yea, that was scary in itself:
So the real mask looked like this after it was painted and dolled up pretty:
The emotionless pale face. As Loomis said, “the darkest eyes. The devil’s eyes.”
In the movie, Nick Castle did a fine job playing the Shape. The movie made certain that the original Halloween kept Castle’s eyes darkened in each scene to illustrate a monster, not a man, wielding the knife killing the teenage babysitters.
Incidentally, Nick Castle is back in the newest 2018-2020- and ENDS trilogy ..
Dick Warlock eventually replaced Nick Castle for John Carpenter’s Halloween 2 (remember, the newest movie ignore Warlock’s incarnation.)
Movie goers at the time noticed something a little off about the mask. It looked yellow. It looked more crunched..
It was for a few reasons.
It was actually the same exact mask–honest, this is what all movie experts tell us. But there were two big differences. Warlock’s face was rounder while Castle’s was longer. That gives you the rationale as to why the shape of the Shape was differing in each film .. but the color?
Halloween 2’s mask looked like it had a deeper hue of yellow. Like it.. was deteriorated somehow?
It was!
From Debra Hill’s cigarette filled bedroom!!
Here is the story on how the mask went from bright white to a mellow yellow: Debra Hill took the mask home after the first movie wrapped and kept it in a shoe box under her bed for three years where it was exposed to a lot of cigarette smoke which caused the mask to discolor and have more of the yellowish look that we see in part 2..
Stalwart Halloween fans will debate this claim, with some citing references made at movie and horror conventions over the previous ten years to establish a basis for their argument that this Debra Hill smoke did or did not happen. You can do your own research and find your own sources. But it pretty clear: The mask was yellow. Somehow.. and smoke sure made sense. Debra Hill died at a too-young-of-age 54 in 2005–of cancer.
From this point, the masks change. Halloween 3 took us to a different path.. and while Halloween 4 and 5 used the original mask for the posters and VHS sleeves, the mask in the individual movies could not have been more different and even .. ridiculous. The mask became more ridiculous in Halloween 6.. Halloween H20 had a few masks, including a weird CGI mask that just was … stupid?
The original movie, and even the Warlock worn mask in the second, are the best of all of the series. While the newest films are using a prototype of the same original mask, it just isn’t the same, right?
So … here is the big question .. the million dollar one: Where is the original mask, today? Like right now?
We can find information that dates back to 2017 on this (a few years back so who knows what it looks like at the moment?)
In a few year ago, it was not pretty.
Materials that were used to create the mask way back then have deteriorated over the years, the mask is showing its age.
Mark Roberts is the man who has been in possession of that original, screen-used hero mask since 2003.. in 2017, Benjamin Hall interviewed him for Michael-Myers.net .. a few quotes at the time:
“I have been building and running haunts for the last 26 years. About 20 years ago I got in contact with an agent who represented Dick Warlock and asked about booking Dick for an appearance at my haunt,” Roberts recalled. “So I set up to have Dick at the haunt and his agent said he had the mask and costume from the movie and would wear it at the appearance. When Dick came to the haunt, he was mad at his agent because he said he does not wear the costume for appearances. He did tell me that he still had the costume, boots, mask, butcher knife and scalpel and that he would sell it; he just didn’t bring them out for appearances.”
He added:
“Dick was great with the haunted house customers and hanging out with Dick and Cathy for the weekend was a lot of fun and it went so well we set it up for him to come back the next year. I’m not sure if it was after the 1st or second year but I called Dick up and we made a deal for me to purchase the mask, costume, boots, scalpel and knife. My wife and I went to Dick’s house and picked up the mask and costume. It really is amazing that Dick thought to keep that stuff and take care of it; when I went to pick it up, he had kept the mask stored in a Elvis Presley tin container.”
And this is what the damages look like:
The mask is showing its age.. We have been unable to find relevant sources giving us a real time view of how the Shape is aging..
But it is fair to say, with each passing day, we are aging with it, aren’t we?
Time beats on.. One Halloween at a time..
We would love to know what the mask looks like now, like today.. calling Mark Robert.. contact us bryan@horrorreport.com or through our Facebook page if you ever see this post!
