Camp Crystal Lake Returns

Staff Writer: Samuntha MacKenzie

For Friday the 13th, Jason is returning to the franchise, but we will not see a repeat performance from past plot elements. With the recent reboot and wonderful box office, we will be seeing Jason soon.

And over and over again.

Wonder what these guys have up their sleeves?

Source: THR

Fox in the Narnia House

Staff Writer: Grave Digger

A week before Christmas 2008, Disney backed out of their deal with Walden Media to produce the third installment of the Narnia franchise.

The Chronicles of Narnia: the Voyage of the Dawn Treader was saved by Fox. The company has worked with Walden Media in the past and now into the future.

The cast and director were kept intact by this move: Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes as well as the director Michael Apted. Our favorites return when filming begins sometime in summer of 2009 in Australia.

The expected date of release is Christmas of 2010 which is a far better date then earlier in the year: May of 2010. The film will now not be competing against Iron Man 2 and other major Hollywood releases for which curtailed the earnings of Prince Caspian (which was an excellent movie, btw).

Source: TheMovingPicture.com

Franchise Flirtation

Staff Writer: DL Mullan

Ghostbusters might be back. That’s right kids: who you gonna call? Bill Murray? Dan Ackroyd? Ernie Hudson? Or even, Harold Ramis?

Since Tarzan and Poltergeist are on the chopping block of Frankensteinian Hollywood reinvention, Ghostbusters appears to be on that surgical table too.

After two successful films, do we dare try for a trilogy? The one person I have not heard coming back for a Ghostbusters III is Sigorney Weaver. Where is our heroine?

Anyway, the movie will hand over the reigns to: Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, James Franco and Michael Cera.

But the biggest question is: Is Hollywood tired out? Remake after remake, book into television series and movies, is Hollywood in the middle of writer’s block? Identity crisis? Better yet: Middle Life Crisis?

Creative ideas are abundant, unfortunately Hollywood doesn’t know what do with them. Or rather, doesn’t know how to sell them. Back to the drawing board, boys, and bring that unknown book, comic, and dartboard with you!