-With the release of the Nightmare on Elm Street documentary, Never Sleep Again on May 4th (my 30th birthday), do you think that we will ever see the long-awaited Psycho Legacy documentary? In for one, have been waiting for it to be released forever.
-With the remake of Toxic Avenger announced, I hope that Troma will see fit to release the Toxic Avenger movies on blu-ray.
-Where are the rest of the Friday the 13th movies on blu-ray? They tease us with the first three and keep us dangling. I hope that Warners doesn't follow suit with the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
-I have to say I am really impressed by the Nightmare on Elm Street blu-ray. Not only did they port over all the special features from the excellent 2-disc set released a few years ago, but the picture and the sound are top notch. Way to go Warner Bros/New Line.
-Now that MGM has entered the burn on demand business, maybe they can release all of those movies from their Midnight Movies series. I'm lookin' at you Town That Dreaded Sundown.
-I am going to be changing things up a little in the next couple of weeks. The Five Favorites and Worst Five are going to be by-weekly, with one week being a Five Favorites week and the next being a Worst Five week. They will still come on Weds and Fri, but just not in the same week.
-I will, however be able adding features to the site. Dvd of the Week, Guilty Pleasures, Worst Movie Ever will be coming shortly as well as new installments of Missing in Action and Thoughts About. So stay tuned for those changes in the next few weeks.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Toxic Avenger Going the Way of Many Remakes
According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, The Toxic Avenger is being remade as a family friendly movie. Here is the original story:
Get ready for a movie makeover for The Toxic Avenger, the anti-hero who became the beachhead mutant in a Troma Films schlock heyday that included such 1980s classics as Surf Nazis Must Die, Rabid Grannies and Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator. Toxie, as the mop-wielding character is affectionately called, is at the center of a remake deal for a film that will be produced by Akiva Goldsman, Richard Saperstein and Charlie Corwin. Corwin's Original Media, a partnership with Dutch reality TV giant Endemol, has financed the acquisition of rights to a franchise that includes four sequels, an animated TV series and comic books. Original Media will finance the development of a script, with writers to be hired shortly.
The group intends to turn Toxie into a green superhero for these environmentally conscious times.
The original film was directed by Troma founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz and has become something of a campy classic. It revolved around Tromaville Health Club mop boy Melvin, a gentle wimp whose trusting ways made him easy prey for gym thugs and eventually got him immersed in a vat of toxic waste. The radioactive swill transformed Melvin into Toxie, a misshapen superhero who wreaks havoc on polluters in New Jersey and whose improved muscle tone improved his standing with the chicks. The remake will be mounted as a family friendly PG-13 action comedy akin to The Mask, which Saperstein worked on when he was a New Line exec. It's his second Troma remake property, as Saperstein is teamed with Brett Ratner on a Mother's Day redo that was directed by Darren Bousman
Now, a lot of people are mad by this and they have every right to. But the way I look at it is: This will give Troma more exposure. So what if the remake is PG-13? That doesn't mean that the movie won't be good. It probably won't be, but the movie might be a big hit and then people will want to see the original. Then people will start looking at Troma and we as the fans might benefit from this. I see a lot of bad things coming from this, but I also see a lot of good things too. We'll see what happens.
Get ready for a movie makeover for The Toxic Avenger, the anti-hero who became the beachhead mutant in a Troma Films schlock heyday that included such 1980s classics as Surf Nazis Must Die, Rabid Grannies and Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator. Toxie, as the mop-wielding character is affectionately called, is at the center of a remake deal for a film that will be produced by Akiva Goldsman, Richard Saperstein and Charlie Corwin. Corwin's Original Media, a partnership with Dutch reality TV giant Endemol, has financed the acquisition of rights to a franchise that includes four sequels, an animated TV series and comic books. Original Media will finance the development of a script, with writers to be hired shortly.
The group intends to turn Toxie into a green superhero for these environmentally conscious times.
The original film was directed by Troma founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz and has become something of a campy classic. It revolved around Tromaville Health Club mop boy Melvin, a gentle wimp whose trusting ways made him easy prey for gym thugs and eventually got him immersed in a vat of toxic waste. The radioactive swill transformed Melvin into Toxie, a misshapen superhero who wreaks havoc on polluters in New Jersey and whose improved muscle tone improved his standing with the chicks. The remake will be mounted as a family friendly PG-13 action comedy akin to The Mask, which Saperstein worked on when he was a New Line exec. It's his second Troma remake property, as Saperstein is teamed with Brett Ratner on a Mother's Day redo that was directed by Darren Bousman
Now, a lot of people are mad by this and they have every right to. But the way I look at it is: This will give Troma more exposure. So what if the remake is PG-13? That doesn't mean that the movie won't be good. It probably won't be, but the movie might be a big hit and then people will want to see the original. Then people will start looking at Troma and we as the fans might benefit from this. I see a lot of bad things coming from this, but I also see a lot of good things too. We'll see what happens.
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