As a child of the ’80s (born in 1976), I take for granted that my tastes were formed during an extended low point — if not the outright nadir — in American culture.
Nowhere is that clear more than the movies.
The ’70s are generally considered the last truly great epoch in American filmmaking. As the bloated […]
Paramount is getting “Clueless,” hanging with the “Mean Girls” and looking “Pretty in Pink” for its first slate of videogames.
The studio is co-publishing casual games based on those three pics from its library for release later this year. It’s splitting production costs with partner Legacy Interactive.
Paramount first disclosed plans to start financing its own videogames […]
After Charlie’s Angels, The Dukes of Hazzard, and The Brady Bunch (and Starsky & Hutch, and S.W.A.T., and Bewitched, and Mission Impossible), the tide pool of ’70s television shows to remake is finally drying up. There are still a few floating somewhere in development, but Hollywood is ready for the next fad, and it looks […]
Just as MTV was gaining a foothold in the world of cable TV in the early 1980s, movie musicals went into hiding. What was to blame? The glitzy New Wave/disco of Olivia Newton-John’s XANADU? The crash-and-burn of the Village People’s first (and only) big-screen vehicle CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC? The less-than-gargantuan grosses of GREASE 2? […]
(PRNewswire) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures is putting into development a musical remake of MGM’s classic 1983 comedy VALLEY GIRL as a feature film based on an idea by Idealogy, Inc.’s Sean Bailey and Matt Smith. The announcement was made today by Mary Parent, Chairman, Worldwide Motion Picture Group.
Utilizing the classic Romeo and Juliet story of the original […]
Yes, really. The 1983 sex comedy that a whole generation of guys have “seen” more than a dozen times is getting a remake treatment from filmmaker Mark Altman. To those who don’t remember the flick — and those who only watched certain parts — My Tutor is about … hell, it’s all right there in […]
Who says there can be only one?
Summit Entertainment is bringing back to the big screen the 1986 sci-fi cult hit “Highlander,” with “Iron Man” co-writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway on board to write the script.
The original “Highlander” starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown as immortal beings battling humans, hunting down one another […]
CANNES: MGM could be bringing back the Cold War.
“Red Dawn,” John Milius’ 1984 tale of a group of American rebels fighting Soviet forces, is a candidate for a remake, studio toppers Harry Sloan and Mary Parent revealed Saturday at the American Pavilion in Cannes.
They also confirmed that 1987’s “Robocop” could resurface in a new version.
New ‘Indiana Jones’ film recalls simpler, and safer, days
People have long been nostalgic when it comes to popular culture.
The “good old days,” some theoretical time and place when life was simpler, easier, somehow better, have been pined for ever since, well, the good old days.
But with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, […]
While so much fascination centers on the rise and fall of child stars, the true Hollywood horror story is that of an ’80s group full of teenage angst. The ’80s were years unique in their culture and atmosphere, but even with such a specific background, the movies of “The Brat Pack” remain timeless.
A group of […]
