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Petition Started to “Reshoot” ‘Halloween Ends’

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2 years ago

October 18, 2022

Some fans got the surprise of their lives when Halloween Ends premiered last week. The film which rounded out the David Gordon Green trilogy was hit by a barrage of criticisms voiced by angry fans. Their dislike of the final movie was deafening and the fandom nearly imploded as the credits rolled.

Hoping for a re-do, a petition has been started at Change.org for filmmakers to do a re-shoot. Written by Dj Jones, the plea reads:

“Halloween Ends was NOT a film that the Fans wanted! This was an Origins Story! The Corey Story! We deserve a movie worthy of Michael Myers & the Halloween Franchise! We love this Franchise whole heartily and this version of a Halloween Movie left us sad, mad, disappointed, and Infuriated. Please give us a movie that shows us what Halloween is really about. Our Apex Predator…. the King of Slasher Movies Michael Myers! This movie gave us a weak pathetic Michael who needed his mask to survive! This isn’t OUR MICHAEL MYERS! Our Killer is Strong , relentless, & unstoppable! Please right this wrong! We beg of you !!!”

With over half of their initial goal of 1,000 signatures in place, the petition is slowly gaining momentum. Halloween Ends may have dominated the box office this weekend with $40M, but it fell about $5M below its projected ticket sales. Its predecessor garnered $49M when it was released exactly one year ago.

It appears that the bone of contention between some fans toward the filmmakers is — spoiler alert —something they wanted more of, and didn’t get. In this case, Michael Myers. In this final film, a new character, Corey Cunningham, takes center stage and Michael is reduced to a supporting character.

Said one petition supporter:

“Because you didn’t see Micheal in the show much. It was stupid to base it off a guy that lost his mind because he was bullied.”

Another accused the film of catering too much to social injustice:

“This movie was a complete failure! And true fans have invested time and money into this franchise we deserve better then (sic) this woke, weak ending!”

Although it’s probably not likely that the people behind Halloween Ends will re-make it just because of an online petition (assuming they would have to write a whole new screenplay too). The appeal seems like more of a sounding board for angry fans who feel the need to take “action.” Realistically when a movie is ill-received, execs take the criticism (and the receipts) with a grain of salt and move on to their next projects.

In this case, it is a remake of the 1973 shocker The Exorcist — Green’s next big-ticket project. The original has been deemed “The scariest movie ever made.” The director has a lot to live up to.

In a recent interview for Variety, Green explained:

“[I’m] honored to step into something that’s so valuable within cinema history,” he said. “And knowing that there is a fanbase that is curious, aware, alert, potentially concerned to see what we’re up to. What I like is, people say, ‘Is it stressful?’ No, it’s exciting because I spent so much of my life making movies, and you’re just begging an audience to tune in, or see what’s going on, or buy tickets to the movie. With these, I’ve got stories to tell, I’ve got an imagination to express, and the way I can do that within these movies is an incredible opportunity.”

As for Halloween Ends, Green says his intention behind it was to bring the franchise, and Laurie Strode, some closure.

“That’s what [‘Halloween Ends’] is attempting to do, is to take the 44 years of that storytelling — of those characters — and bring it to a satisfying conclusion.”

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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2 days ago

April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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Fede Alvarez Teases ‘Alien: Romulus’ With RC Facehugger

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2 days ago

April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Happy Alien Day! To celebrate director Fede Alvarez who is helming the latest sequel in the Alien franchise Alien: Romulus, got out his toy Facehugger in the SFX workshop. He posted his antics on Instagram with the following message:

“Playing with my favorite toy on set of #AlienRomulus last summer. RC Facehugger created by the amazing team from @wetaworkshop Happy #AlienDay everybody!”

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To commemorate the 45th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s original Alien movie, April 26 2024 has been designated as Alien Day, with a re-release of the film hitting theaters for a limited time.

Alien: Romulus is the seventh film in the franchise and is currently in post-production with a scheduled theatrical release date of August 16, 2024.

In other news from the Alien universe, James Cameron has been pitching fans the boxed set of Aliens: Expanded a new documentary film, and a collection of merch associated with the movie with pre-sales ending on May 5.

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.