Tuesday, November 3

• Let Me In Starts Production

  Let Me In, the American remake of the Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In, starts production today, transporting the coming-of-age tale from the cold and blustery Stockholm, Sweden to the dry and hot Albuquerque, New Mexico. Director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) is returning to the source material for Let the Right One In, the Swedish novel of the same name by author John Ajvide Lindqvist, to help inspire the story about a young boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee from The Road) who befriends a mysterious new girl in town (Chloe Moretz from the upcoming Kick-Ass), who happens to be a vampire.

  With Richard Jenkins already cast as Moretz's caretaker, the new cast additions announced are Elias Koteas as the policeman, Cara Buono (The Sopranos) as Smit McPhee's mother, and Sasha Barrese (The Hangover) as Virginia, the character who survives a vampire attack in the Swedish original.

  Reeves intends to pay homage to the Swedish version in Let Me In, but wants to take the story in his own direction. "This project is very personal to Matt as it is to the many passionate fans of the original story," said producer Simon Oakes. "The brilliance of that story deserves to be seen by audiences on a wide scale and we are excited that the pieces are in place to make that a reality."

  When foreign horror movies do well critically, they're often remade in America, but time will tell if Let Me In will work as well as The Ring, or become a debacle like Quarantine, which couldn't do justice to the Spanish zombie movie [Rec] it was based on.

  Shooting on Let Me In will start in Albuquerque and travel to various parts of New Mexico. With a projected end for the shoot sometime in January, we expect to see its original release date of January 15, 2010 pushed back.

  
  
  

  Let the Right One In - Trailer

  Posted 11/03/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Richard Jenkins | Cara Buono | Elias Koteas | Sasha Barrese | Matt Reeves | Chloe Moretz | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Let the Right One In | Let Me In

Thursday, October 1

• Richard Jenkins Joins Remake of Swedish Vampire Flick

  Variety reports that Richard Jenkins has joined the cast of Let Me In, a remake of last year's Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In, which was released to very high acclaim from both audiences and critics. The movie won Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, among many other accolades.

  Also joining the cast are Chloe Moretz, who starred in (500) Days of Summer, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, who can be seen opposite Viggo Mortenson in The Road, which arrives in late November. Moretz will play a pre-teen girl vampire who moves to a new neighborhood and befriends Smit-McPhee's character, a boy about her age. Jenkins will star as the girl's caretaker.

  Cloverfield director Matt Reeves will helm Let Me In, which is scheduled to begin production this fall in New Mexico. The movie is currently slated for a January 15, 2010 release.

  
  

  Posted 10/01/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Richard Jenkins | Matt Reeves | Chloe Moretz | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Let the Right One In

Friday, June 27

• No Cloverfield 2 Just Yet
  

  Scifiwire reports that the sequel to Cloverfield is currently on hold until director Matt Reeves and co. can find a story that "felt to us as fresh to make as [Cloverfield] did."
  
  Reeves was on hand at the Saturn awards where he was awarded the Filmmaker's Showcase Award. He went on to add that the sequel plans are currently in the "baby stages" and that he and producer J.J. Abrams are also discussing other, non-Cloverfield projects.
  
  Read the full story on Scifiwire.
  
  
  
  

  Posted 06/27/2008 by reelz

  Related: Matt Reeves | Cloverfield

Thursday, January 31

• Cloverfield Part Deux on the horizon?

  After the record-setting success of Cloverfield (biggest box office open for the MLK JR weekend, and it as a big'un), Paramount is itching to go back to the well for some more money-making monster madness.

  Yes, director Matt Reeves is in talks with the studio to do a sequel to Cloverfield, although whether it actually comes to fruition also depends on negotiations with producerJ.J. Abrams and writer Drew Goddard. In the meantime, Reeves has signed to direct a Hitchcockian thriller called The Invisible Woman for GreeneStreet Films.

  Source: Variety.

  
  
  

  Cloverfield trailer

  Produced by J.J. Abrams - Now in Theaters

  Posted 01/31/2008 by reelz

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Monday, January 21

• Cloverfield sequel already in the works?

  It's an inevitability in Hollywood that whenever an original movie scores big at the box office, talk of a sequel soon follows. In the case of Cloverfield, the heavily-hyped monster movie that scorched the Cineplex to the tune of $41 million over the weekend, director Matt Reeves prepared for this contigency. In a recent interview with comingsoon.net, Reeves revealed the scene in which he planted the seeds of a potential Cloverfield sequel (Note: Spoilers Ahead!!!):

  "Did you see the thing in the last shot? In the final shot there's a little something, and I don't wanna say what it is. The final shot before the titles. The stuff at Coney Island, there's a little something there and I don't want to give it away 'cause the fun is sort of to find it, but I will say this: there's a funny thing, you look at the shot and until you see it you don't see it and you really don't see it and obviously you don't 'cause none of you have seen it, but once you see it you'll never stop seeing it."

  Which raises an interesting question: Is a sequel that covers the same events -- albeit from a different perspective -- really a sequel? Discuss.

  Source: comingsoon.net

  
  

  Posted 01/21/2008 by reelz

  Related: Matt Reeves | Cloverfield