Saturday, November 7
Despite pushing back production on Halloween 3-D due to possible financial woes within the company, The Weinstein Company is still keeping its fingers crossed about getting a Hellraiser remake off the ground after two years of attempts. At the American Film Market, ShockTillYouDrop reports that The Weinsteins included a synopsis for the remake, listing no director or writer but creator Clive Barker as Executive Producer in their AFM guide.
The re-telling of Clive Barker's classic horror masterpiece. Basedon Barker's critically acclaimed novella The Hellbound Heart, Hellraiser tells the story of an unfaithful wife who attempts to assist her dead lover in his escape from hell. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of forsaken demons — lead by one of the most enduring horror characters of all time, Pinhead — he must force his former mistress to bring him the necessary human sacrifices to complete his body. Clive Barker's Hellraiser promises to be a terrifying journey into the darkest corners of the soul.
Producer Bob Weinstein told Variety in September that he was planning to go "back to doing what I do best," which apparently means sequels for franchises like Scream, Spy Kids, and a Hellraiser sequel in 3-D. Weinstein seemed confident that financing for the sequels wouldn't be a problem.
There is no question that financing is readily available to produce and market these films. I am eager to expand our scope in the 3D business.
Looks like he is doing just that.
Posted 11/7/2009 by Ryan
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Monday, December 29
It's "a child's dream coming true," says Director Pascal Laugier, recalling the how the original Hellraiser shocked and inspired him as a 13-year-old boy. Now tapped to direct the Hellraiser remake, Laugier tells Ain't It Cool News that he would never betray Clive Barker's original conception and, noting that he has a much larger budget than the original, says, "It will be of course more epic, it will be bigger, and I hope that it won't be softer." Given his earlier work on the controversial French horror flick Martyrs, which one reviewer termed "the new yardstick against which all forms of extreme genre films should be measured against," a softer treatment seems rather unlikely.
Posted 12/29/2008 by reelz
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Wednesday, October 29
It was just over a year ago that Dimension Films first announced plans to remake Hellraiser, the 1987 horror hit which introduced movie audiences to an amiable chap named Pinhead. Since then, a prolonged writers' strike and turmoil at Dimension's parent, the Weinstein Company, have combined to repeatedly stall the project in that Hollywood wonderland known as "development hell."
Now it seems that the Hellraiser reboot may finally be moving forward. Our pals at Bloody-Disgusting report that producers are close to a deal with 
Frenchie director Pascal Laugier (Martyrs) to helm the new version, which was once slated to open in January of 2009. That ain't gonna happen, obviously. A Halloween '09 release, on the other hand, isn't out of the question.
Now that a director has been apparently nailed down (pun intended), we can commence Pinhead casting speculation. How 'bout Moby? He could use the work.
Posted 10/29/2008 by reelz
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Tuesday, October 16
Clive Barker's landmark 1987 horror flick, Hellraiser, about a couple with the misfortune of moving into a house inhabited by a man left skinless after being tortured by creatures that have escaped from the gates of Hell, is set for a remake.
Julien Maury and Alexander Bustillo, who made last year's French horror movie, Inside, will direct for Dimension, who is hoping for a repeat of the success with they had remaking Halloween. Barker will produce.
Source: Variety.
Posted 10/16/2007 by reelz
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