Halloween 9 offical

from halloweenmovies.com

DIMENSION FILMS TO MAKE NEW “HALLOWEEN” FILM;
AUTEUR FILMMAKER ROB ZOMBIE TO WRITE AND DIRECT

Trancas International Films to Produce
Along With Rob Zombie and Andy Gould

NEW YORK, NEW YORK (June 4, 2006) – Dimension Films is proud to announce that they will make a new “Halloween” movie with Rob Zombie (The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses) writing, directing and serving as a producer. Malek Akkad of Trancas International Films (Halloween H20: 20 Years Later) will produce the feature along with Andy Gould of Vision Entertainment Group (The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses). Zombie will also serve as music supervisor on the film. Miramax Films will co-finance the development with Dimension Films. The announcement was made today by The Weinstein Company co-chairman, Bob Weinstein.

Zombie's vision of this film is an entirely new take on the legend and will satisfy fans of the classic "Halloween" legacy while beginning a new chapter in the Michael Myers saga. This new movie will not only appeal to horror fans, but to a wider movie-going audience as well. It will not be a copycat of any prior films in the "Halloween" franchise. The film is set for an October 2007 theatrical release.

Bob Weinstein stated, "Rob Zombie is a gifted musician and performer as well as a talented filmmaker. His vision for this new 'Halloween' is spectacular and I am thrilled to be collaborating with him and to work closely with Malek Akkad to continue the legacy built by his father, the late Moustapha Akkad."

Zombie said, "I have been a huge, huge fan of John Carpenter's original film since its release. So when Bob Weinstein approached me about this, I jumped at the chance to join forces with Dimension Films on this amazing project."

The "Halloween" story began with the 1978 release of "John Carpenter's Halloween," executive produced by the late Moustapha Akkad, founder of Trancas International Films and became the highest grossing independent film of the time. Moustapha Akkad's son, Malek, is now taking some of the reigns on this new "Halloween" project to continue the outstanding work begun by his father. Malek Akkad stated, "Trancas is very excited to be working with Rob Zombie and producing another 'Halloween' with Bob Weinstein and Dimension, the home of the franchise for the last three installments. It will be a fitting and worthy tribute to my late father."

"I am thrilled to be working again with Rob and with Dimension Films on such an iconic project that will reinvigorate 'Halloween' and Michael Myers in a truly terrifying new way," stated Andy Gould, Rob Zombie's long time manager and producer of Zombie's two previous films.

Richard Saperstein, president of production, Matthew Stein, senior vice president of production and Alex Franklin, director of development and production will oversee the project on behalf of Dimension. Bret McCartney of Trancas International will oversee production on behalf of Trancas.

Andrew Kramer, executive vice president of business and legal affairs, and Lumumba Mosquera, senior vice president of business and legal affairs, negotiated on behalf of Dimension Films. Attorneys David Fox and Jeffrey Light of Myman Abell Fineman Greenspan & Light negotiated on behalf of Rob Zombie. Attorney Wayne Kazan of Weissmann Wolff Bergman Coleman & Silverman negotiated on behalf of Akkad. Rob Zombie is represented by Paradigm.

cant wait, are house of 1000 corpses and the devils rejects any good?????

"Devil's Rejects" is a more coherent, straight forward revenge movie, where as "House" is more or less an homage to the slasher genre. Both of which were great fun, the 2nd more so.

To be perfectly honest, I think he could really turn this franchise around.

Same here, I posted the announcement in the other Halloween 9 thread a couple threads down.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f58/t391743.html

Originally posted by C-Dic
"Devil's Rejects" is a more coherent, straight forward revenge movie, where as "House" is more or less an homage to the slasher genre. Both of which were great fun, the 2nd more so.

To be perfectly honest, I think he could really turn this franchise around.

do you have a link to that source by chance? you just knew eventually there was going to be another one.you cant end it all with in the hospital with him opening up his eyes.I just have a feeling they are going to make it into a james bond series though.a never ending thing.I mean they should have ended it with H2O.that would have been the perfect way to end it all.

I never seen this coming... [Zombie directing Halloween, not a new movie]

It sounds like a cool idea. I think Rob is a good director and as i am a fan off the firefly movies i will definetly check this out.

liked house of 1000 corpses and probably would love devils rejects

i would of gave halloween 9 to alexander aja, he would do a better job. imo

its not a sequel or a remake more like a different take on the 1st one ignoreing every single myers movie

wow thats weird.

got to agree, read some interviews with rob zombie and he is very dedicated to the horror genre,
one of my all time fav quotes of his was "everythign after texas chainsaw massacre is a ****ing joke, like at nightmare on elm street, they turned freddy into a ****ing prankster"

somethign like that anyway.

so is it official? he's making a new halloween movie?

again I ask where is the link to this? the thing that I find really dissapointing about all this is in the last halloween,he was in the hospital and it showed his eyes open up and thats how it all ended with him laying down on the bed,showing that he is obviously still alive so if this movie has nothing to do with the sequels, that sucks because I want to know what happens after that. 😠 well I guess the best thing to do is just pretend that movie never happened and just believe that it all ended with halloweed H20.because thats how it SHOULD have ended.That should have been michael and that should have been his head that got cut off and that was so wrong of them to kill of Jamie Lee Curtis. 😠 👇

its bound to be made. i just hope alexander aja gets to direct it.

I've been looking forward to Hall9ween for a few years now and I can't wait til October 2007, however with Rob Zombie directing this film it could be a real bust and succeed to destroy the halloween series even more than it is right now. I hope not but those are the facts.

yeah this last Halloween movie REALLY destroyed any chance of making any good sequals by killing off Jamie Lee Curtis. 😠 they should have just ended the whole thing with HALLOWEEN H20.that would have been a great way to go out and end the whole thing.

Originally posted by Deano
its bound to be made. i just hope alexander aja gets to direct it.

This isn't his kind of movie, IMO. He'd just gore it up, not that there's anything wrong with extreme violence, it just doesn't work for the "Halloween" franchise. Reinvisioned or not. Besides, no director wants to make a living doing remakes.

Im not happy he's directing it!! His movies suck

no director wants to make a living doing remakes. [/B][/QUOTE]

say that to michael bay