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Brand New HD master from the original Negatives with over 25plus hours of scene to scene color correction

Feature Length Commentary with Directors Joe Dante & Allan Arkush and Producer Jon Davison

Brand New on camera interviews with:
Joe Dante
Roger Corman
Allan Arkush and Jon Davison
Mary Woronov
Jeffrey Kramer
Miller Drake

Trailers from Hell with Jon Davison

Original Trailer

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I probably have less information to give you than anybody because I am not involved with it, I don't control the material, it's reverted back to Chris Columbus who wrote the script for the first movie. They have plans to do something but what Chris wants to do may not be what Warner wants to do and it's not just Warner it's also a lot of other people like Amblin and Steven Spielberg - everyone has to agree on what they want to do and at this point nobody is going to figure that out. I think the reuniting of the cast is highly unlikely. Perhaps a Gremlins prequel might be something they will do but I don't know as I was not asked to be involved.

Trailers From Hell is pleased to announce our new official podcast, The Movies That Made Me! Every week you can join Oscar-nominated screenwriter Josh Olson and his, ummm, “co-host” Joe Dante in conversation with filmmakers, comedians, and all-around interesting people about the movies that made them who they are.

In our very first episode, Josh and Joe sit down with filmmaker Miguel Arteta (Beatriz at Dinner, Duck Butter, Chuck and Buck) to discuss the long, boisterous, well-rounded career of the great Russ Meyer.

in their latest newsletter they wrote:[From Tim Lucas] "Some years ago, Joe [Dante] asked [co-writer] Charlie [Largent] and me if we could think of any creative ways to attract new attention to our project.

With their approval, I volunteered to write a novelization of the script—but it became something more than that. To me, it’s the novel our script might have been based upon. The script had to be written to a set budget, whereas the novel was free to envision the story without practical limits. I was able to recreate the Sunset Strip of 1967 during its curfew riots; I was able to use any expensive Sixties music I wanted; I was also able to reinstate a timeline of events, which somehow never quite worked in the script. Most importantly, in the novel I was able to get inside the heads of my principal characters: Corman, his longtime assistant Frances Doel, actor Peter Fonda, screenwriter Chuck Griffith, filmmaking hopeful Peter Bogdanovich, and of course, Jack Nicholson. If and when the film gets made, I’m sure it will be a wonderful surprise in its own right because Joe’s movies are always wonderful, but in the meantime—and, hopefully, to that end—there is now THE MAN WITH KALEIDOSCOPE EYES, the novel.

It might be something new to English literature—a novel involving real (and living!) people, meticulously researched yet also imaginative, sometimes reassembling facts into fantasy and vice versa. It functions simultaneously as fiction and non-fiction, comedy and drama, film history and criticism, even poetry and philosophy. It’s not just a book about Roger Corman and an outstanding cast of supporting characters; it’s a novel about Hollywood when it stood poised between the collapse of the studio system and the rise of the independent film movement, a monumental change for which Corman was partly responsible; it’s about the risks and challenges artists must sometimes face if they want to advance to the next plateau; it’s also a romantic story about finding the courage to change your world."

[...] In the meantime, the manuscript is with Roger Corman and his wife Julie, who gave us their blessing: “I think your book is a marvel,” said Julie Corman.

domino harvey wrote: Thu Dec 22, 2022 7:31 am The dog episode IS the best one, especially its darkly comic ending.

hearthesilence wrote: Thu Dec 22, 2022 4:40 am I watched the Twilight Zone movie again, and I tried watching the original episodes that formed the basis for Joe Dante and George Miller's segments - Dante's segment feels even more inspired as a result and seems by far the best one of the four IMHO. Miller's direction is wonderful, but there isn't a whole lot that had to be changed from the original's script - it's a triumph of style and execution. Dante completely re-invents the episode he's adapting and makes it highly personal. I was thoroughly impressed - possibly one of the best things he's ever done.