Director Ridley Scott has signed to adapt the popular board game Monolopy for the big screen. Pamela Pettler, the author of such scripts as ‘The Corpse Bride,’ and ‘Monster House.’ Here’s what Scott said about the movie to the LA Times last year: ‘So it’s really finding the universe for that game. Because clearly it …
Red, Liz and Abe are back. In Guillermo del Toro’s first movie since the award-winning ‘Pan’s Labyrinth,’ the big red guy with the Right Hand of Doom again does battle with the evil folks trying to rule the world.
Novelist, screenwriter and director Michael Crichton, best known for his sci-fi stories based in fact, has died of cancer at 66. Crichton wrote big books, ones that the film rights were sold long before publication. Books like, ‘The Andromeda Strain,’ ‘Discolsure,’ and, of course, ‘Jurassic Park.’ Crichton co-wrote the script for ‘Twister,’ and co-created TV’s …
After years of talking about it, Peter and Bobby Farrelly will finally be making their long awaited Three Stooges movie. MGM announced that the film is going ahead with a November 20, 2009 release date, so, they’d better get cracking. There is no word on casting, though Benecio del Toro’s name was thrown about a …
With the success of ‘Black Sunday,’ and ‘Black Sabbath,’ Mario Bava was given full creative control over his next film, 1964’s ‘Blood and Black Lace.’ The producers of ‘Blood’ expected a basic murder mystery film, but Bava, in being true to himself, delivered something else.
In a previous entry, I mentioned how the James Bond films have been adept at marketing and making sure that every person on the planet knew that a new movie was coming. (As an aside, I read once that statistics show that around half the world’s population has seen a James Bond film. Half. …
Buoyed by the success of ‘Baron Blood,’ producer Alfred Leone offered Mario Bava carte blanche for his next project. Bava decided to collaborate with Leone on re-writing a story that he had wanted to do for some time. It was called ‘Lisa and the Devil.’ As the movie opens, Lisa Reiner (played by Elke Summer) …
‘The Mask of Satan’ (also sometimes known as ‘Black Sunday,’) was Mario Bava’s first directorial effort and even to this day, it is still highly regarded as one of the pinnacles of horror filmmaking. Shot on a modest budget, the movie shows Bava’s ingenuity as well as his unique eye for framing and camera angles. …
1972’s ‘Baron Blood,’ found Mario Bava doing something that he usually didn’t do- shoot on location. Shot in Vienna, Austria, Bava does an excellent job evoking the mood and the spirit of the location. As the movie opens, American Peter Kleist is arriving in Austria, to gather information on his great-grandfather, the notorious Baron Otto …
The sub-title for this long-winded movie could have been, ‘well, we all gotta eat.’ In 1966, saddled with a contract that he wanted out of, Mario Bava agreed to take on ‘Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs,’ for producer Fulvio Lucisano. The film is a follow-up to the US hit, ‘Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini …