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You can’t kill the boogeyman, and you can’t kill the “Halloween” franchise either. After a couple of story retcons in the original slasher series and Rob Zombie‘s take on the Michael Myers mythos, The Shape rose again in 2018 with David Gordon Green‘s “Halloween.” A redundant title to a tired narrative, to be sure, but there are plenty out there (including this writer) who still love to see Laurie Strode duke it out with Haddonfield’s least favorite son.

Leading US genre festival Beyond Fest has set a slate of programming comprising 39 features ahead of its return to theaters between September 29 and October 11.

an Instagram post shared by “Eastbound & Down” production company Rough House Pictures, which is run by Best’s collaborators McBride, David Gordon Green and Jody Hill, on Sunday. “We lost him the day before he would have turned 47.

After giving horror fans a solid “Halloween” installment, serving as a sequel to the original John Carpenter film with Jamie Lee Curtis playing a more seasoned and gritty incarnation of her iconic Laurie Strode role, director David Gordon Green is back with “Halloween Kills” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival yesterday.

Halloween Kills have been released following its debut at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.Halloween Kills is the second chapter in director David Gordon Green’s trilogy following 2018’s Halloween, which acted as a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic.The film brings back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, alongside Judy Greer, Andi Matichak and Will Patton who all reprise their roles.

John Carpenter has released a new track from the upcoming soundtrack to Halloween Kills.David Gordon Green’s sequel to 2018’s Halloween receives its world premiere at Venice Film Festival today (September 8). To coincide with the event, Carpenter has released ‘Rampage’, an instrumental composition made with his son Cody Carpenter and fellow composer Daniel Davies.The entire soundtrack is being released on vinyl on October 15 via Sacred Bones Records.

is the twelfth installment in the franchise, and it’s a shockingly realistic one. Laurie’s been stalked by Michael for 53 years, which means any spark of normalcy has been dampened by a hailstorm of knives, masks, cloaks and jump scares.

Of all the evenings for the Haddonfield Department of Plausible Human Behavior to close early, it’s deeply unfortunate that October 31, 2018 had to be one of them. For t’was on that very night that the events soberly documented in “Halloween” (2018), David Gordon Green‘s fun first stab (intentional, as are all puns that follow) at revitalizing John Carpenter‘s beloved franchise, took place.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn 2018, when David Gordon Green was given the hallowed mission of rebooting the “Halloween” series (that the director of “All the Real Girls” would embrace becoming the showrunner of a slasher franchise says a lot about the 21st century, but let’s leave that for another time), his job was to wipe away 40 years of bad sequels and to restore the lurchy cinematic gamesmanship, the perfectly-timed-shock-cut ingenuity, and the scary-classic mystique of the 1978

Linda Blair is speaking out about the upcoming reboot of “The Exorcist”. 

Peacock. “Halloween” director David Gordon Green is at the helm of the revived supernatural, cross-wielding priest film series.

Universal Pictures and and NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock, in partnership with Blumhouse and Morgan Creek, have closed a reported $400 million-plus deal to purchase worldwide rights for a new Exorcist franchise that will see Ellen Burstyn reprise her role as the mother of a demon-possessed child.

At one time, the “next Malick,” then a director of stoner comedies, now the go-to guy for reviving dormant horror franchises, David Gordon Green’s directorial career continues to be a peculiar one. The director has been tapped to write and direct not just one but a whole new trilogy of “The Exorcist” films for NBC Universal in a deal upwards of $400 million, the New York Times reports.

Refresh for latest…: The lineup for the 78th Venice Film Festival is being announced this morning from Rome. Fest Director Alberto Barbera will fill in a list that we already know includes Pedro Almodovar’s in-competition opener Madres Paralelas, starring Penelope Cruz.

EXCLUSIVE:  Judy Greer is headlining the independent feature LA Bound, which we have learned, is being written and directed by Chris McGowan.

The Exorcist universe is officially in the works at Blumhouse.Producer Jason Blum confirmed the news to Den of Geek, after years of speculation surrounding a potential remake.The film is set to be a sequel, with David Gordon Green due to be direct. There currently exists four sequels and a TV series, but Blum has said that the forthcoming film will connect closely to the original.“[It’s] going to be like David’s Halloween sequel,” Blum explained.

Only two films announced so far, and the 78th Venice International Film Festival already looks like it’ll be one of the biggest festivals of 2021. Denis Villeneuve‘s highly-anticipated “Dune” is already scheduled to appear, and now Venice organizers have revealed that David Gordon Green‘s “Halloween Kills” will make its world premiere at the festival.

The 78th Venice Film Festival will this year award a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to American actress Jamie Lee Curtis. The ceremony will take place on September 8 at the Sala Grande before the out-of-competition screening of David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills. Venice runs September 1-11 on the Lido.

The official trailer for the latest installment in the Halloween franchise, Halloween Kills, is on the loose.

“I’m coming for you Michael,” vows Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode in the latest “Halloween Kills” trailer. We’ll have to wait until this Halloween to see the follow-up to the rebooted “Halloween” directed by David Gordon Green, as the second installment in the new horror franchise was pushed back from a 2020 release to this October due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The “Halloween” films are a franchise of many canons. The series has now retconned itself three times, although it’s up for debate whether Rob Zombie‘s pair of films from the late 2000s count as retcons or remakes.

So, we just heard Luca Guadagnino is no longer ‘focused” on the “Call Me By Your Name” sequel, and while that sounds fine and all, it’s likely because of all the troubles that have befallen Armie Hammer, the subject of various sexual misconduct allegations. So, it’s clear that Guadagnino is excited about his new film, “Bones & All,” and a press release for the film notes that production has begun today.

EXCLUSIVE: On lunch break Thursday in the first day of shooting of his first U.S.-set film Bones & All, director Luca Guadagnino talked about seizing the chance to reunite with Call Me By Your Name cohorts Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg, latter of whom he added to cast along with André Holland, Jessica Harper, Chloe Sevigny, Francesca Scorsese (the Guadanino-created HBO series We Are Who We Are), and David Gordon-Green — yes, the Halloween director.

Dennis Harvey Film CriticMost parents have the odd stressful moment when they jokingly wonder if they’re raising a devil’s spawn.

Pandemic life may have been horror enough for most, and no, this isn’t some comment on Inauguration Day, but those of us who find comfort in giving ourselves the creeps have been in a bit of a drought.

You could argue that the biggest issue with David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” reboot back in 2018 is that the film was more of a retread than expected. The film served both as a reintroduction to the concept of the battle between good and evil, with Michael Myers once again stalking Laurie Strode.

Just in case you didn’t read the story of the mother who tracked down the cartel kidnappers who murdered her daughter when the New York Times published it earlier this month, you’re in luck, because Variety reports that Blumhouse just won a heated bidding war for the rights to the story.

Three years ago, who would have thought that David Gordon Green would go from being the guy who directed episodes of “Red Oaks” and “Eastbound & Down,” as well as films like “Pineapple Express” and “Your Highness,” to one of the biggest names in horror.

Halloween filmmaker David Gordon Green is reportedly in talks to direct a remake of The Exorcist, according to Observer.The film would be released via Blumhouse Productions and Morgan Creek, with Jason Blum, David Robinson and James Robinson on board as producers.Green would be following in the footsteps of William Friedkin who directed the original film in 1973, which went on to earn $193 million worldwide.The Exorcist was the highest-grossing R-rated horror movie of all time until It beat