Archive for August 29th, 2009

Rob Zombie

Director/musician Rob Zombie has struck a deal with Dimension studios to direct a remake of the 1958 classic sci-fi film The Blob. His intentions will be to try and make a distinctly original film that will attempt to be scary, exciting, and different. The reported budget for the film will be around $30 million, the average production cost of Dimension’s horror remakes.

Source: Variety

The Blob (1958)

Quick Opinion: Another remake? The previous 1988 remake of The Blob, which starred Saw starlet Shawnee Smith, did not do well when first released but has since earned a small but loyal cult following. The news of Zombie’s project will only garner more groans from horror fans like these who claim for there to be too many recent remakes of older films (many of them “classics”). With 2007’s Halloween, this year’s Halloween II, and now The Blob, Zombie looks to be heading down a career path paved with creative banality.

Hans Zimmer

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Academy Award winning film composer Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Gladiator, The Lion King) has agreed to score the next installment of the ‘Call of Duty’ videogame series titled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. This will be the first time Zimmer has worked exclusively on a videogame project.

Such news brings up a nagging question for Hollywood: what is the future relationship between its films and the medium of videogames? When television was first made popular in the 1950s Hollywood greeted the new technology with animosity, which continues to a fair degree to this day. Videogames have emerged as the newest competitor over Hollywood’s biggest target audience, which are roughly those between the ages of 18 and 35.

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