Kevin Williamson To Scream Again

The "interwebs" have been flooded with a steady stream of rumors surrounding the Scream franchise since the 3rd installment sliced through the box office in 2000. "MrDisgusting" at www.bloody-disgusting.com threw some more logs on the fire today with the following:

While SCREAM 4 is still very much in the early stages of development, we have a few exclusive facts to kick start the hype.

Fact #1: Kevin Williamson (writer of two of the SCREAM films (character credit on third)) is going to start writing a draft, although it may or may not become the shooting script (which is typical).

Fact #2: Wes Craven may or may not direct, but there is a very good possibility that he will return.

Fact #3: They are making financial offers to David Arquette, Courtney Cox Arquette and Neve Campbell to play cameos.

Fact #4: This will be a younger version of the SCREAM movies.

I am a huge fan of the Scream Trilogy and really am looking forward to a new installment. If done the right way I think it can put horror back on the map the way it should be. I am so tired of the new direction horror has taken. Do we really need anymore torture style horror flicks? Let us get back to basics. Scream revived the horror industry in the 90's let's hope it can revive it for me going into the next decade.

I think Kevin Williamson once again laying out the foundation for "Ghost Face" is exactly the right move. He might not end up writing the final draft in the end, but I feel confident with him constructing the backbone of the story.

Hopefully we'll all get to scream again real soon.

Chronicling The Voyage Of The Narnia Franchise

~On Christmas Eve Narnia fans were all snug in their beds~
~While visions of the "Dawn Treader" danced in their heads~

When Narnia fans woke up on Christmas Day and read The Hollywood Reporter article that Disney was "jumping ship" on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, it was like receiving a giant lump of coal in their stockings.

What seemed like a calculated move by Disney to drop the bomb towards Christmas, which hindered Walden's search for another studio, hasn't seemed to deter Walden from aggresively looking for a place to dock "Dawn Treader".

A logical fit for Walden would be Warner Bros. who have gobbled up quite a few fantasy novels over the last couple years including: Terry Brooks' Shannara series, Angie Sage's Septimus Heap, as well as the announcement that they will be utilizating Baum's fifteen book Oz series.

Although they are acquiring quite a bit of fantasy properties, WB would love to get another fantasy series out immediatley with Potter winding down. WB was banking on The Golden Compass to replace their spectacled cash cow but the poor 70-million domestic take dashed their hopes.

Walden teaming up with Warner Bros could also mean that Thomas Tull's Legendary Pictures could flip some of the bill. Tull has made it quite clear that he is willing to get behind the right projects and Legendary's penchant for backing fantasy based features might bode well for Narnia landing at WB.

Something Strange In A Neighborhood

IESB has brought some attention to yet another interesting story, how does Rob find time for all of this? Rob received a mysterious email claiming to contain some spy footage from Ghostbusters 3, he did some digging which led him to a blog titled "Ghost Spy" which contained two Youtube videos and this cryptic message:

Yes, they are shooting it already. And yes, I am part of the crew. And no, I won’t tell any details. Because if I do and they find out, they will kill me. That’s why my little friend here will do the talking. Stay tuned for more …

After watching the videos I am still not sure whether the site and said videos are linked to Ghostbusters 3 but I am very sure this is an intentional leak. In the video where a large metal object crushes a NYC taxi cab just as a man exits the driver's side door, a man seems to have "discovered" the hidden camera that all of this wonderful footage is being taped with. To me it seems to be a the start of many so called "leaks" given to IESB or many other sites. I am assuming the ending of this will include them "finding out" and "killing" the blogger. Seems like a bit of "Cloverfield" style marketing if you ask me, but Ghostbusters 3 or not I sure dig it.

Head over to http://ghostspy.wordpress.com/ and you be the judge.

WB Keeps DC Heroes In The Waiting Room

The news continues to contradict itself when it comes WB's superhero film franchises. Writer/Director David Goyer is the latest to comment on their ever-changing status in an exclusive interview with Rob Sanchez at IESB.

When asked about several projects he's been involved with - i.e. Supermax, The Flash - Goyer said in a recent interview with IESB, "A lot of the DC movies at Warner Brothers are all on hold while the figure out, they're going to come up with some new plan, methodology, things like that so everything has just been pressed pause on at the moment. It was the double header of both Iron Man and The Dark Knight coming out, so more than ever I think they've realized, I think DC was responsible for 15% of Warner Brother's revenue this year, something crazy like that, so they realized that comic books, it's become a new genre, one of the most successful genres.

This statement from Goyer doesn't seem to jive with the latest info from Latino Review in which El Mayimbe informs us that "WB is actively hearing takes from writers for a new SUPERMAN movie."

It is possible that Goyer was referring to Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Supermax but not to more high profile DC characters such as Green Lantern. If DC was responsible for 15% of WB's revenue, you would think they would be trying to churn these projects out instead of putting them on hold.

Another possibility is that Goyer is indirectly referring to the Batman franchise, which although never officially announced, a Dark Knight sequel is slated in all our minds for 2011. It might be a stretch, but might we see a Batman sequel in 2012 making room for Superman in 2011 and Green Lantern in 2010?

To me it seems like WB is gearing their DC characters up for live action films, but who am I to argue with David Goyer?