nm1838070 autoJonathan Sadowski[/link] (pictured inside; Live Free or Die Hard) joins the previously announced nm0655585 autoJared Padalecki[/link], nm0575216 autoDerek Mears[/link], nm1119462 autoAmanda Righetti[/link], nm1263939 autoDanielle Panabaker[/link], nm1683094 autoAaron Yoo[/link], nm1670886 autoTravis Van Winkle[/link], nm0969651 autoWilla Ford[/link] and nm1197383 autoNick Mennell[/link] in New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures and MTV Films' Friday the 13th, which nm1197971 autoMarcus Nispel[/link] is directing for Platinum Dunes. Panabaker is playing the adventurous, athletic girlfriend of van Winkle, who plays a rich alpha male type that gathers everyone together. Yoo's character, named Chumbler, is a guy who's a little quirky and has a tendency to wear his attraction to pretty girls on his sleeve. Sadowski plays a techie who knows the horrific history of Camp Crystal Lake. Jason Voorhees (Mears) returns to theaters February 13, 2009.
- 4/16/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Danielle Panabaker has been cast as the female lead in the new Friday the 13th film, which Marcus Nispel is directing for Platinum Dunes. The horror flick is a negative pickup for New Line.
Also joining the cast like lambs to the slaughter are Jonathan Sadowski, Travis Van Winkle and Aaron Yoo.
The project, an update of the popular horror series featuring the goalie mask-wielding killer Jason, already features Jared Padalecki in the cast.
Panabaker is playing the adventurous, athletic girlfriend of van Winkle, who plays a rich alpha male type that gathers everyone together.
Yoo's character, named Chumbler, is a guy who's a little quirky and has a tendency to wear his attraction to pretty girls on his sleeve. Sadowski plays a techie who knows the horrific history of Camp Crystal Lake.
Van Winkle, repped by Gersh and Freeze Frame, most recently appeared in Meet the Spartans. Yoo, repped by Gersh and Blue Ridge, appeared in Disturbia, and Sadowski next appears in Spring Breakdown. He is repped by WMA and Essential.
Also joining the cast like lambs to the slaughter are Jonathan Sadowski, Travis Van Winkle and Aaron Yoo.
The project, an update of the popular horror series featuring the goalie mask-wielding killer Jason, already features Jared Padalecki in the cast.
Panabaker is playing the adventurous, athletic girlfriend of van Winkle, who plays a rich alpha male type that gathers everyone together.
Yoo's character, named Chumbler, is a guy who's a little quirky and has a tendency to wear his attraction to pretty girls on his sleeve. Sadowski plays a techie who knows the horrific history of Camp Crystal Lake.
Van Winkle, repped by Gersh and Freeze Frame, most recently appeared in Meet the Spartans. Yoo, repped by Gersh and Blue Ridge, appeared in Disturbia, and Sadowski next appears in Spring Breakdown. He is repped by WMA and Essential.
- 4/15/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jared Padalecki is in final negotiations to star in the remake of Friday the 13th that Platinum Dunes is producing for New Line and Paramount.
Marcus Nispel is directing from a script by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are producing.
Paramount released the original Friday in 1980, introducing horror icon Jason with a brief appearance. The remake will focus on the serial killer, who will wear his now-iconic hockey mask. Padalecki will play the lead, who investigates what happened up at Crystal Lake.
Cale Boyter and Guy Stodel are overseeing for New Line. A release is planned for -- what else? -- Friday, Feb. 13, 2009.
Padalecki stars as Sam Winchester on the CW's Supernatural, and his film credits include House of Wax and Cry Wolf. He next appears as Thomas Kinkade alongside Peter O'Toole and Marcia Gay Harden in Lionsgate's Home for the Holidays, slated for a December release and based on the life of the artist and his painting The Christmas Cottage.
Padalecki is represented by Artistry Management, CAA and attorney Michael Fuller.
Marcus Nispel is directing from a script by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are producing.
Paramount released the original Friday in 1980, introducing horror icon Jason with a brief appearance. The remake will focus on the serial killer, who will wear his now-iconic hockey mask. Padalecki will play the lead, who investigates what happened up at Crystal Lake.
Cale Boyter and Guy Stodel are overseeing for New Line. A release is planned for -- what else? -- Friday, Feb. 13, 2009.
Padalecki stars as Sam Winchester on the CW's Supernatural, and his film credits include House of Wax and Cry Wolf. He next appears as Thomas Kinkade alongside Peter O'Toole and Marcia Gay Harden in Lionsgate's Home for the Holidays, slated for a December release and based on the life of the artist and his painting The Christmas Cottage.
Padalecki is represented by Artistry Management, CAA and attorney Michael Fuller.
- 3/21/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marcus Nispel is in final negotiations to direct the revamp of Friday the 13th for New Line and Paramount/MTV. Platinum Dunes is producing.
Damian Shannon and Mark Swift wrote the script for the redo, which aims to bring back horror icon Jason, the unstoppable hockey mask-wearing killer.
While Jason made only a brief appearance in the final frames of the first movie in 1980 and didn't even don his famous mask until the third movie, the new movie will focus on Jason -- who will wear the mask and kill -- and keep the famous setting of Crystal Lake.
Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller of Platinum Dunes are producing.
A winter start date is being planned.
Friday reunites Nispel with Platinum Dunes, for whom he directed 2003's remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The director, who began his career in music videos, also helmed Pathfinder and USA's telefilm Frankenstein.
He is repped by CAA and attorney David Weber.
Damian Shannon and Mark Swift wrote the script for the redo, which aims to bring back horror icon Jason, the unstoppable hockey mask-wearing killer.
While Jason made only a brief appearance in the final frames of the first movie in 1980 and didn't even don his famous mask until the third movie, the new movie will focus on Jason -- who will wear the mask and kill -- and keep the famous setting of Crystal Lake.
Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller of Platinum Dunes are producing.
A winter start date is being planned.
Friday reunites Nispel with Platinum Dunes, for whom he directed 2003's remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The director, who began his career in music videos, also helmed Pathfinder and USA's telefilm Frankenstein.
He is repped by CAA and attorney David Weber.
- 11/14/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Damian Shannon and Mark Swift have been tapped to write Friday the 13th, the remake of the horror classic being produced by Platinum Dunes for New Line.
Paramount released the original Friday in 1980, making Jason -- the unstoppable hockey mask-wearing killer -- a horror icon, though the serial killer made only a brief appearance in the final frames of the first movie and never killed anyone. Jason didn't even don the famous mask until the third movie.
The remake, however, will focus on Jason -- who will wear the mask and kill -- and keep the famous setting of Crystal Lake.
Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing.
Paramount and MTV Films also are involved with the project.
The duo's boarding pumps a blood transfusion into the remake, setting it up as a possible prestrike project. The writers are no strangers to Jason, having penned 2003's Freddy vs. Jason, the killer's last big-screen appearance. That film grossed more than $82 million domestically.
Paramount released the original Friday in 1980, making Jason -- the unstoppable hockey mask-wearing killer -- a horror icon, though the serial killer made only a brief appearance in the final frames of the first movie and never killed anyone. Jason didn't even don the famous mask until the third movie.
The remake, however, will focus on Jason -- who will wear the mask and kill -- and keep the famous setting of Crystal Lake.
Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing.
Paramount and MTV Films also are involved with the project.
The duo's boarding pumps a blood transfusion into the remake, setting it up as a possible prestrike project. The writers are no strangers to Jason, having penned 2003's Freddy vs. Jason, the killer's last big-screen appearance. That film grossed more than $82 million domestically.
- 10/2/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Opens
Friday, Aug. 15
Between them, "A Nightmare on Elm Street"'s Freddy Krueger and "Friday the 13th"'s Jason Voorhees have figured into something like 17 features and a couple of TV series, so you know anything promising a showdown between the two slasher movie icons couldn't stint on the body count.
But while there's no shortage of bloodletting in "Freddy vs. Jason", the scourge of Elm Street and the terror of Camp Crystal Lake don't end up scaring anyone. In truth, there's more genuine suspense and seat-shifting uneasiness in the average "WWE SmackDown!" than can be found in this witless, excessive and ultimately boring gore-a-thon.
While the producers were on the right track by bringing in talented Hong Kong filmmaker Ronny Yu (whose credits run the gamut from "The Bride With White Hair" to "Bride of Chucky"), even some interesting visuals can't distract from clunky scripting and the bigger problem that these are two rickety vehicles that have long ago run out of any creative steam.
Nostalgic young males looking for a hit of '80s pop culture should help scare up some decent opening-weekend numbers, but, with recent imports like "The Ring" and "The Eye" raising the fright-night bar, down the road it's more likely that the old-school "Freddy vs. Jason" will settle the score on DVD.
Of the two sturdy franchises, "A Nightmare on Elm Street", with its dream-residing bogeyman, had the more inventive hook, at least in the hands of original director Wes Craven.
He returned to the series with 1994's "Wes Craven's New Nightmare", a reconceptualization of sorts that was more ambitious than it was successful.
Meanwhile, the last time we saw Voorhees was in the more recent "Jason X", which had him wreaking havoc in outer space, having apparently run out of victims back on Earth.
For the filmed-in-Vancouver matchup, writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift start off with a promising premise that has the long-dormant Freddy Krueger (portrayed, as always, by Robert Englund) fading from memory.
Virtually all traces of his legacy have been systematically wiped out, while potential new victims are being drugged in order to prevent them from entering into a vulnerable dream state.
Determined to get back in the killing game, Freddy resurrects a waking-life surrogate in the form of Jason (played this time around by stuntman Ken Kirzinger), who has apparently come back from the future more or less intact and once again in possession of a nasty-looking machete.
At Freddy's behest, the teen bodies begin piling up anew, and Krueger regains his old strength.
But when wordless Jason refuses to step aside, the two face off in a protracted battle to the death, which can be tricky considering their previous mortality record.
By this point, pretty much all of the established "Nightmare" rules seem to have been trampled on during the big Jason-Freddy fracas, which, with all the CGI overload, is played more for grotesque laughs rather than earned shivers.
With the exception of Destiny's Child songstress Kelly Rowland making her feature acting debut as one of Freddy/Jason's potential victims, the other performances don't really register -- mainly because the writers didn't want to waste their time creating interesting characters that were going to get their heads lopped off pretty soon anyway.
As for the ultimate winner, while New Line's requests to keep that information under wraps will be honored, surely after more than 20 years of this stuff anyone who's expecting a decisive victory here ... must be dreaming.
Freddy vs. Jason
New Line Cinema
Credits: Director: Ronny Yu
Screenwriters: Damian Shannon, Mark Swift
Producer: Sean S. Cunningham
Executive producers: Douglas Curtis, Robert Shaye, Stokely Chaffin, Renee Witt
Director of photography: Fred Murphy
Production designer: John Willett
Editor: Mark Stevens
Costume designer: Gregory B. Mah
Visual effects supervisor: Ariel Velasco Shaw
Music: Graeme Revell
Cast: Freddy Krueger: Robert Englund
Jason Voorhees: Ken Kirzinger
Lori: Monica Keena
Will: Jason Ritter
Kia: Kelly Rowland
Gibb: Katharine Isabelle
Mark: Brendan Fletcher
Linderman: Christopher George Marquette
Deputy Stubbs: Lochlyn Munro
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Friday, Aug. 15
Between them, "A Nightmare on Elm Street"'s Freddy Krueger and "Friday the 13th"'s Jason Voorhees have figured into something like 17 features and a couple of TV series, so you know anything promising a showdown between the two slasher movie icons couldn't stint on the body count.
But while there's no shortage of bloodletting in "Freddy vs. Jason", the scourge of Elm Street and the terror of Camp Crystal Lake don't end up scaring anyone. In truth, there's more genuine suspense and seat-shifting uneasiness in the average "WWE SmackDown!" than can be found in this witless, excessive and ultimately boring gore-a-thon.
While the producers were on the right track by bringing in talented Hong Kong filmmaker Ronny Yu (whose credits run the gamut from "The Bride With White Hair" to "Bride of Chucky"), even some interesting visuals can't distract from clunky scripting and the bigger problem that these are two rickety vehicles that have long ago run out of any creative steam.
Nostalgic young males looking for a hit of '80s pop culture should help scare up some decent opening-weekend numbers, but, with recent imports like "The Ring" and "The Eye" raising the fright-night bar, down the road it's more likely that the old-school "Freddy vs. Jason" will settle the score on DVD.
Of the two sturdy franchises, "A Nightmare on Elm Street", with its dream-residing bogeyman, had the more inventive hook, at least in the hands of original director Wes Craven.
He returned to the series with 1994's "Wes Craven's New Nightmare", a reconceptualization of sorts that was more ambitious than it was successful.
Meanwhile, the last time we saw Voorhees was in the more recent "Jason X", which had him wreaking havoc in outer space, having apparently run out of victims back on Earth.
For the filmed-in-Vancouver matchup, writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift start off with a promising premise that has the long-dormant Freddy Krueger (portrayed, as always, by Robert Englund) fading from memory.
Virtually all traces of his legacy have been systematically wiped out, while potential new victims are being drugged in order to prevent them from entering into a vulnerable dream state.
Determined to get back in the killing game, Freddy resurrects a waking-life surrogate in the form of Jason (played this time around by stuntman Ken Kirzinger), who has apparently come back from the future more or less intact and once again in possession of a nasty-looking machete.
At Freddy's behest, the teen bodies begin piling up anew, and Krueger regains his old strength.
But when wordless Jason refuses to step aside, the two face off in a protracted battle to the death, which can be tricky considering their previous mortality record.
By this point, pretty much all of the established "Nightmare" rules seem to have been trampled on during the big Jason-Freddy fracas, which, with all the CGI overload, is played more for grotesque laughs rather than earned shivers.
With the exception of Destiny's Child songstress Kelly Rowland making her feature acting debut as one of Freddy/Jason's potential victims, the other performances don't really register -- mainly because the writers didn't want to waste their time creating interesting characters that were going to get their heads lopped off pretty soon anyway.
As for the ultimate winner, while New Line's requests to keep that information under wraps will be honored, surely after more than 20 years of this stuff anyone who's expecting a decisive victory here ... must be dreaming.
Freddy vs. Jason
New Line Cinema
Credits: Director: Ronny Yu
Screenwriters: Damian Shannon, Mark Swift
Producer: Sean S. Cunningham
Executive producers: Douglas Curtis, Robert Shaye, Stokely Chaffin, Renee Witt
Director of photography: Fred Murphy
Production designer: John Willett
Editor: Mark Stevens
Costume designer: Gregory B. Mah
Visual effects supervisor: Ariel Velasco Shaw
Music: Graeme Revell
Cast: Freddy Krueger: Robert Englund
Jason Voorhees: Ken Kirzinger
Lori: Monica Keena
Will: Jason Ritter
Kia: Kelly Rowland
Gibb: Katharine Isabelle
Mark: Brendan Fletcher
Linderman: Christopher George Marquette
Deputy Stubbs: Lochlyn Munro
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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