maybe i'm not sophisticated, but it looks entertaining as hell to me.

This makes absolutely no sense.

So in 2013, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson will be starring major roles in five different films. Wowza.

Going to go out on a limb here to add to the pile of nonsense: Perhaps Warner Bros. pulled some strings in an effort to maximize The Dark Knight Rises ticket sales?

The name I've seen at the top of the list most frequently is Frank Welker.

There's an exorcism movie every year or so, they come and go and nothing memorable comes out ever.

1st one was absolutely amazing, perfect as it is. I recommand you guys watch it in mongol AND doubled in russian (as russian do), and get subtitles in english. All I'm afraid is that they try to make some bluckbuster of the second movie for financial reasons, and make some hollywood style dog shit from what is presently a masterpiece (true art can't be appreciated by billions of people just as hollywood movies can). That movie definately rocks. Bodrov's a genius, he's probably waiting for the good financement, the one that lets him do what he wants. He made other movies among the purest stuff, like 'Prisonner of the moutains' (english title for Kavkavzskii plennik, Prisoner of the Caucasus). I don't think he'd sell his art, if he can't do it the proper way he probably won't shoot it.

CG blood ALWAYS looks bad. I agree with Dario above, this is totally Uwe Boll material and it looks to be just a tad better than his films. I'm surprised after the awful Dark Shadows, they're still proudly proclaiming, Produced by Tim Burton.

Needs more CGI smoke me thinks.
And is it just me or does it reek of Uwe Boll : ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER?

I usually despise remakes, especially ones that involve some my favorite movies, and Maniac is a masterpiece of B movie, 80's horror. The one remake I did like form this era is The Hills Have Eyes by Aja, and Elijah Wood as Frank Zito is really unique casting. Count me in.

Hehe, the original featured "Bob Morton," played by Miguel Ferrer, as the "creator" of RoboCop, or at least as the nasty corporate exec who pushed the program through after the ED-209 disaster. So a conscience-stricken Oldman should at least bring a slightly different flavor to the remake, though after watching the original again recently, my eyebrows are still raised in skepticism.

I'm not offended. We knew it was coming eventually. The hiring of Durkin and decision to make a mini-series instills some confidence. However, if they decide to ape the imagery or tone of the film then it's a remake, mini-series or not. I hope that's not the case because I don't need a 10 part version of a movie I've already enjoyed over the years. If they're going to do it, do something different. All to often a remake of a movie (I'm looking at you Let Me In) is sold as a "new adaptation" of the original source but that winds up being bull. I hope that's not the case.

Dark, surreal.....but I thought some scenes was very funny in dark way.

A very good point, though with Dark Knight Rises coming up, it's probably a wash

I agree actually, in that the mini-series format will yield new and hopefully interesting results. I am worried that that same format will turn it into a soap.

I am super duper curious to know how they will handle the Iraqi dig sequences and all the Middle East stuff if they up-date the story to modern times, which seems almost impossible NOT to do. You can't "exorcise" the Middle East stuff from the plot, nor can you ignore the facts of what is going on today in the news.

The iconic Dick Smith make-up too man. HOW do you get past that now?

I'll say this on the record too, thank fricking "God" it isn't some horror director or genre specialist being brought in. The hiring of a director like Sean Durkin gives me minimal hope. Either way I am interested and will be watching and hoping for a good piece of work.

I imagine Sam will re-assert himself there off the back of The Avengers but according to THR it's Oldman right now.

I've always seen Sam Jackson on top of that list

I'm with Ard. I don't see how a ten episode series can be at all a remake of a two hour movie. This is going to be something new that's going to have to succeed or fail on its own merits.

Never liked The Exorcist (1973)....I think Friedkin done better films then that.

But this remake hysteria is boring...been going on for too long....but you ask valid question:"Where is Sean Durkin's The Exorcist going to land?"

Yeah...where indeed?

And can he really brings something new to this story?

I do not consider the film to be a remake of the book. Nor would I consider a comic-book to be a remake of the film. And I do not consider a ten-part version of the story especially made for television to be a remake of the film either.
And because I do not see this series as a remake I do not see this as sacrilegious at all.

Television is not the same as cinema. As a 10-episode series the story will have to be split in parts which each will have to be interesting (well, up to a point at least) and consist of a beginning-middle-end. It will be its own thing and not detract from the excellent original film.
Unlike the cgi-enhanced version from a few years back, I should add...

Another enjoyable film from Gauger, well worth checking out.

About freaking time! Tazza was one of my favorite films at AFFD way back in 2007.

Same reason I refer to the guy from BACK TO THE FUTURE as J. Fox, or Vic Morrow's daughter as Jason Leigh, I guess.

Looks, sounds and smells terrible.

Why do you keep referring to Jones as "Lee Jones" ? His given name is "Tommy Lee" and is family name is "Jones", not "Lee Jones"...

Thank you for the review. I'm going to check it out soon.

So he's using the same character from his segment in Tokyo!? His was by far the weakest segment and doesn't leave me with high hopes for this.

WTF, Troma?!?! This movie was fantastic, and I was really looking forward to how the film was made. When Lloyd was introducing 'Father's Day' here in Massachusetts a few months back, he was saying that it was shot for around $17,000. I wanted to see how that was done because 'Father's Day' had some pretty solid production, and as an indie filmmaker it's always fantastic to see what people can do with such a little budget. Such a shame.

his director should have made him look different ..or played him in villain role..ofcourse he got very good talent...he looks like Jaa ... but does have good skills.its bad that Jaa got lucky with quick bubbles.Kook should have cared about all those looks and fight choreography that made him look exactly Jaa ...people are already fan of Jaa so he would get fierce criticism for sure.

Klip,

No, I haven't seen the extended version, and also would love to hear from anyone who has seen it!

I liked the movie. And I'm usually just as critical as the reviewer here. But in this case, I wouldn't be that harsh. The movie is definitely flawed, but there were things I really liked. I'm a Civil War fan, so that kind of helped. I liked the setting, I thought the zombies were well done. And the story wasn't that bad.

Things I didn't like were that characterization was barely there for many of the characters. And the pace was way too slow. I felt like I was sitting there for twenty hours watching this thing. And there really was no conclusion. And it wasn't even set up for a sequel, although someone could easily do one.

Anyway, it could be better, it could be worse. As it stands, it's better than most of the low budget junk.

I think he does. He also had a few things to say over the weekend at a showing of "Robocop": http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/05/20/peter-weller-modern-movies-cant-replicate-morality-of-robocop/#/3

It was Michael Ironside. Funny story about this turn of events: originally, Paul Verhoeven wanted Ironside to be Robocop, but he was too big to fit in what the suit was planned to be (he got his shot at teaming up with Verhoeven later, though). Although it wasn't built yet, the idea was that the Robosuit needed a slender actor to be in it because they'd be bulked up. Think of it as Edward Norton becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger (the latter REALLY wanted to be Robocop, but he would've ended up looking like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man [he got his shot at teaming up with Verhoeven later, though]). Ironside wasn't buff, but he was still too large to make Robocop not look goofy. Verhoeven eventually found Peter Weller and the rest... yeah. What I was getting at was that this makes twice that Weller slid into something meant for Ironside. Oh well... Ironside can say that he was in a Cronenberg film. But so can Weller. Hurm.

def. move back downtown. NYAFF needs that downtown craziness again.

After watching new footage, I'm getting more convinced that the film will probably break new grounds in the sub-genre (car chasing/street racing films). Always a pleasure seeing Johnnie To explore new stuff and evolving.

Didn't Kevin Conroy voice Batman for the DKR homage episode (Legends of the Dark Knight) in the original animated series? Why not just keep him on again? - he's still the best for a project like this.

Always good to see actors that aren't the latest 20-something hunk/hottie get work.

Does Mr. Weller still teach college students?

Nick Cage's career is clearly in a death spiral...

Though I can't say that even it is enough to make bother with the movie, that's some poster they've got there.

Even without understand a word that was said, looks powerful.

Looks pretty good....mob mentality, false/real accusations...I want to see this.

Lindgren is popular nowadays....don´t know if you heard this Mr Mack, but Tomas Alfredson will do a new adaptation of The Brothers Lionheart.

I always liked redheads.....maybe because of Pippi Longstocking...?

But Daniel Fridell.....very flawed filmmaker....mainly interesting because he did gangster flicks before Espinosa....but not very good ones.

Also the music in the original films.....made by swedish jazz legend Jan Johansson, he did some great music.

Perhaps this will be a new wave of remakes, adaptations...based on swedish childrens books?

I've been a Tarr fan for several years, once I actually discovered his work (no easy task). "The Man From London" was unfortunately most people's introduction to his work, and while it was quite interesting it was easily the most inorganic and consciously effort-filled of his mature films. "The Turin Horse", by contrast, is almost certainly the best film he's ever made. I've only seen it once, but was immediately bowled over. It's the first of his films where I truly felt that every apparent excess was necessary. The most surprising element to me was the apocalyptic overtones, that start out visceral and progressively become more distressing, despite never quite shattering the "reality" of the flick. And of course, longtime Tarr fans will love seeing Erika Bok, famous for playing the young girl in Satantango, turning in a powerhouse lead performance.

Yeah...but as I said wouldn´t Warner Bros be a good influence?

Think about Batman: Under the Red Hood ( 2010), Green Lantern: First Flight ( 2009) etc....that type of animation and using some old mythology story like this one, Arjun...?

Would´nt that be a game changer...?

There are hundreds of animated features based on Hindu mythology, but they are all of quite awful quality. I've watched a few children's "devotionals" and the animation is just not up to par. Very few of these make it to the big screen, the last one before this was Ramayana: The Epic, which also disappeared quickly. I think that India needs more stuff like Arjun. The vast majority of successful children's features in box office terms are American imports.

Poetic realism..?¨

hahahhahahhahh....but this sounds very interesting....Lynne Ramsay is very visually gifted director, a western in her hands would be magic....she started out as still photographer, I think.

And a blacklist script.....sign me up...thanks for update Mr Brown.

"Does this trailer represent everything you've been hoping to see from Luhrmann's take on Fitzgerald?"

Well....I always wanted Scorsese to do it....but he did The Aviator (2004) so I guess that´s his version sort of.....but Luhrmann has his own style...perhaps not the style I want for The Great Gatsby but hey....such is life.

"success is the fact that India lacks a domestic market for children's films. "

Ok...didn´t know that.

Trailer looks good but I hoped for an 2D animated film only.

I wonder if not Warner Bros animation should get into this market....who knows....maybe animated versions of indian mythology would be perfect fit for their company?

Yeah, you can argue the 'realist' point there but all of her stuff so far has been pretty heavily driven by social issues. I guess maybe we need to coin a new phrase for her?

hi Todd

you really consider her movies "social-realist dramas"?

to me all three are HIGHY stylized, poetic and create a world that's not much interested in reality (and that's a good thing)

this would be her first 'genre' picture though....exciting to see what she'll do with that.

probably not per se colouring inside the lines of the genre

This leaves a bad taste in my mouth.