Though this version is set 25 years
later than the original film, the changes are mostly cosmetic: the visual style is hand - held and more frantic, and the script replaces numerous references to the Cold War with a few glancing nods to present - day politics.
Not exact matches
Our studio had its first ever $ 1 billion worldwide grossing
film in Michael Bay's hit «Transformers: Dark of the Moon;» we successfully re-launched our «Mission Impossible» franchise with Tom Cruise, JJ Abrams and Brad Bird; our
latest installment in the «Paranormal Activity» franchise had another $ 100 million dollar success; our first
original animated
film «Rango,» from director Gore Verbinski, earned rave reviews and more
than $ 100 million at the domestic box office; and we released global phenomenon «Super 8,» directed by JJ Abrams, who will now direct the newest «Star Trek» for 2013.
Even now, more
than 40 years
later, the
original film retains a taboo quality, with scenes of an innocent girl suffering hellish torments — many of them disturbingly sexual in nature — that still hold the power to shock.
In addition to the success of the
original film, looming over the Merc with a Mouth's second big screen adventure was Marvel Studios» Avengers: Infinity War, which has dominated the box office since its
late April, having grossed just more
than $ 1.8 billion in global ticket sales to date.
Charlie Hunnam kicks off day one of TIFF with «Papillon», telling ET Canada he loves spending time in Toronto with the city's cinemagoers who he hopes will see his
latest film as more
than just a remake of the
original 1973 movie with Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen.
Remaking hit Japanese horror movies (a la «The Ring») is Hollywood's
latest plan to rake in big bucks without actually having to be creative or
original — and while «The Grudge» is nothing more
than a cultural twist on the standard - issue haunted house movie, I will give credit to director Takashi Shimizu (remaking his own
film «Ju - On») for giving me goosebumps.
It's a lot closer to the spirit of the
original film than her appearances in Halloween: 20 Years
Later and Halloween: Resurrection, so I'm all for it.
Do people like Netflix's
original programming more
than Hollywood's
latest films?
The cast of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise were trained by none other
than the
late and great Bob Anderson, an iconic Hollywood fight choreographer who was the sword master on dozens of
films like the
original Star Wars
films, The Princess Bride, Highlander, The Lord of the Rings, and more.