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The Director Of The New PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Film Could Be...
Merrick here...
THIS snippet at ShockTillYouDrop says that...
Paramount Pictures is close to announcing a director for Paranormal Activity 2, slated to open on October 22. And sources tell Shock Till You Drop that Akiva Goldsman is the one closest to sitting in the director's chair.
Goldsman's extensive credits include producing I AM LEGEND, MR. & MRS. SMITH, HANCOCK, and the LOST IN SPACE movie (a few of which he wrote as well). As a scripter, he's adapted ANGELS & DEMONS, I, ROBOT, A TIME TO KILL, and...well.... he wrote BATMAN FOREVER and the infamous BATMAN & ROBIN.
If Akiva signs on to the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY follow-up, 'twould represent his first feature film directing gig - although he's recently directed eps of FRINGE and the now-defunct KINGS for television.
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So much good word, so little delivery of the promise. Colour me unenthused for a sequel.
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Now that was a fun little movie.
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Hooray!
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...but Akiva Goldsman must NEVER be forgiven for Batman & Robin! If possible, he needs to be forever vanished to some hellish, immaterial phantom zone for all eternity. I know B&R was 12 years ago, but such an offense to everything should never be forgiven.
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...is the fat chick with the George Lucas chin-pouch going to reprise her role?
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Bill Cosby gotta eat.
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Why not just hang four fucking ipods from a cieling and have naked women run around screaming. then Avatar is #2 in moneys making
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is the only thing I remember about the first one.
Bring her back and have her show 'em. -
What, they couldn't get Renny Harlin or Paul Suck Anderson? I hear Anthony Hickox might need the work...
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Easily. It's really between him and John Logan as for absolute worst. Also, I really liked Paranormal Activity but part of that is was because it was just a guy who decided to make a movie with his friends and no budget and managed to pull it off (arguably). I don't see why they have to reinvent the wheel. Different house, maybe a family instead of a couple, and different demon. It's not like you need some marquee name to sell this. It's "the sequel to that movie that really scared your girlfriend." There's no need to class it up. That's how you get films like "Exorcist II: The Heretic" or "Book of Shadows."
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8 months away.
Oh yeah, this has quality written ALL OVER it. Fucking cock smoking Studio execs... -
thats my prediction, im sticking to it. $14 million it's first week from name recognition, then thats the last we'll hear of it.maybe the studio could take a chance, and make the sequel bat shit crazy because they really dont have much to lose... but they wont.
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the first one was craptastic already. the only thing that made it watchable for me was when Rifftrax added it to their roster. then again, rifftrax's duty is to make these things tolerable
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Didn't you guys post an article a couple weeks ago stating that DePalma would be directing this?
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I'm sure the paychecks were nice.
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Still bitter NBC aborted it so unceremoniously. What an immense waste of money and talent. Show was so quality, and more McShane on tv can never be a bad thing.
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. . . CGI headboard for the bed, CGI lamp, CGI doorknob, CGI placemats . . .
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If he were here right now? I bet he'd shoot a dolly shot or two, that's what Brian De Palma would do!
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is Kurtzman and Orci's hero.
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..the director of that movie should be directing this. check it out!
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Mar 16, 2010 2:47:37 PM CDT
somebody said John Logan is the worst screenwriter of all time?
by mr_ant
somebody is an idiot.
Somebody can't read. -
Someone's got relatives in the business and NO talent.
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...that's fucking perfect, actually. A useless, in-name-only, studio-mandated, instantly forgettable sequel to a mediocre low budget box office surprise. Yep, "Book of Shadows" all over again. This thing DESERVES Akiva Goldsman. Wow. Akiva Motherfucking Goldsman. When is he going to team up with a Uwe Boll? Can you imagine that unholy union? That's a movie that could be weaponized and used for nefarious purposes.
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I actually thought Goldsman did a good job with the Fringe episode I saw that he directed. But as the above post said, as least this cash-in-for-the-opening weekend bux-sequel will not tax the talents of a REAL director.
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I don't know about all time, but Larry Bishop's Hell Ride was the most self conscious piece of shit I've seen on screen in a looong time.
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Amen to that. The first one didn't scare me at all, I was too busy staring at...whatever her name was and her endless parade of tank tops and short shorts.
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...he'll need it.
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Hasn't there already been 6 or 7 posts on this site confirming who the director "IS?" Now, we're getting new posts talking about who the director "May be."
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Hasn't there already been 6 or 7 posts on this site confirming who the director "IS?" Now, we're getting new posts talking about who the director "May be."
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Mar 16, 2010 4:37:16 PM CDT
Oh, so now we have "Raja" and "Akiva" as AICN's good buddies
by reflecto
I didn't know we were now sucking hacks like this off.
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and completely unnecessary. If all he wanted was a happy ending, the infected Dark-Seeker woman could have been cured, and she would have escaped, to make it to sanctuary. A much better ending, because you wouldn't know how it turned out until the last 10 seconds. He's a hack.
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Wheres is someones tits on the movie??
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And didn't that win several Academy Awards?
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Don't try and explain everything away. I didn't hate it like a lot of people seem to but it could have been scarier. The low budget effects and jump scares are whats going to bring in the masses of mouth breathers again. They are the ones who saw it three times opening weekend. The rest of us just got curious and couldn't help it.
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which, let's be honest, was all about Crowe's performance anyway, and he didn't win, due to throwing a telephone at a hotel receptionist.
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has to be one of the worst films I've seen in years. The hype didn't concern me, the major plot holes that you could drive a bus through however....
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...got fatter if you Google the Entertainment Weekly cover.
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That's what I don't understand here. What happened??
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Not a fan of his.
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Is there any really crappy movie this guy is NOT associated with? Really, I wanna know, cause that list is so bad I almost thought it must be a joke.
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That film was pretty polished in terms of foreshadowing and thematic recurrence. I liked it.
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Paranormal was a small project done by nobodies that caught lightning in a bottle and made tons of money! now Hollywood of course will throw money, a name director and cast at a sequel! Bad move! Sometimes things work because they are small and cheap an personal and done by nobodies,,,Remember the success of Blair Witch? How about that ship that sank called S.S. Blair Witch 2?...The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre worked because it was cheap, gritty and made by nobodies in 16mm! It wouldn't have been the same if it were made for 30 million and filled with names!
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I guess I missed something, but why not let the director of the first one direct the sequel? Let him do it in the same way and style and maybe just give him a 1 million dollar budget? The film, good or bad, would be almost pure profit!
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What in the fuck are these suits thinking?
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all the fimls he has done ore has ben involved SUK ASSSS so no shook for him to be in this crap
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Who's watched THAT shit recently? What a pile of fucking gabage that film was.
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Will be made into a multi-million dollar sequel? Maybe it doesn't say that but you know its gonna come up that way. This guy doesn't know how to make a movie with a small budget. Which was what made the first one work so well. It was creative for making small things look big. This one will just be bigger, and look bigger, with CG ghosts and monsters. Fuck this.
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The spiritual father of Bob Orci? Fuck that clown!
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and just consistently deliver the same product year after year. I guess they hate money or something.
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A beautiful mind not any good? I hope you were being sarcastic.
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