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Mike Fleming at Deadline.com reports that Paramount Pictures is planning to remake 1987’s THE MONSTER SQUAD, with Rob Cohen (one of the producers on the original) hoping to direct this time out. Cohen will partner with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes (a virtual remake factory these days) to produce the film, which has yet to be [...]

Read more about Clash of the Titans (2010) by clicking the links below:

Titanic Clash of P3-13 Violence
Clash of the Titans theatrical release
Clash of the Titans trailer #1

Read more about Clash of the Titans (2010) by clicking the links below:

Titanic Clash of P3-13 Violence
Clash of the Titans theatrical release
Clash of the Titans trailer #2

Producer Robert Rodriguez introduces clips and behind the scenes footage from PREDATORS, the upcoming sequel to PREDATOR, direction by Nimrod Antal.

[ April 2, 2010; ] Warner Brothers releases this elaborate remake of the 1981 original. The new version replaces Ray Harryhausen’s old stop-motion monsters with modern computer-generated imagery, and best of all – it’s in 3D!

BIG MAN JAPAN is built around a funny concept, vaguely akin to HANCOCK: its title character is a superhero who is a bit of a loser. Of course, being a Japanese superhero, he periodically grows to enormous size (courtesy of electricity applied to his nipples) and confronts monsters attacking urban areas around the country, often with [...]

One of the most important works in the history of cinefantastique is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. Although not as widely read as it deserves to be, the novel has had a huge impact that lives on to this day, thanks to the many science fiction film and television adaptations, beginning with the 1925 [...]

Universal Studios Hollywood officially premiered the newest attraction on its famous theme park tour, a live stage musical titled THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON: A RAGING, ROCKIN SHOW. This twenty-five minute show condenses the plot from the 1954 classic, starring Richard Carlson and Julie Adams, adding a bunch of songs and dialogue heavy with [...]

[ July 31, 2009 to August 2, 2009. ] Teenagers protect their vacation home from invading aliens who have taken over the top floor of the dwelling. Director: John Schultz. Stars: Ashley Tisdale, Robert Hoffman, Carter Jenkins. Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Our sister website, Hollywood Gothique, which covers fantasy films, mystery movies, Halloween horror and science fiction cinema events in Los Angeles, is giving away tickets to a quartet of classic black-and-white movies from the Golden Age of Horror. To celebrate the Return of Famous Monsters of Filmland – the original monster movie magazine -American Cinematheque [...]

The Stench vs. The Pudge: A Stink Monster (Takayuki Haranishi, left) makes acquaintance with ambivalent hero Dai Nipponjin (Hitoshi Matsumoto, right) in BIG MAN JAPAN
Welcome back to kaiju world: big, honkin’ monster attacks Japan, big, honkin’ hero comes around to kick butt. Only in this case, the hero, Dai Nipponjin (literally “Great Japanese”), is a [...]

Yesterday, in a review of THE RAVEN (1935), I mentioned that, although the number of my DVD purchases is rapidly declining, thanks to the availability of movies through services like Netflix Instant Viewing and Amazon.com’s Video on Demand, I still appreciate the opportunity to own a boxful of favorite titles at a discount price, even [...]

[ May 15, 2009; ] On May 15, this 2007 mockumentary spoof of Japanese giant monster movies launches its U.S. release with one-week runs at the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angles and at The Cinema Vilalge in New York City. Subsequent engagements will take place in Berkeley, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, and Chicago. The trailer looks pretty funny, and Variety [...]