Pressman Movies is contemplating remakes of the horror movies Christmas Evil and Sister, and presumably the crime movie Unhealthy Lieutenant
Pressman Movie is a manufacturing firm that was based by Ed Pressman, a prolific producer of over 90 movies, together with the likes of Wall Road, American Psycho, and The Crow. Sadly, Pressman handed away earlier this yr on the age of 79. Now his son Sam Pressman is the CEO of Pressman Movie, which not too long ago rebooted The Crow – and landed an eight-figure home distribution deal for the movie with Lionsgate. Shifting ahead, the corporate is working with Antoine Fuqua on a challenge known as The Road, which was written by Goodfellas‘ Nicholas Pileggi, and planning an adaptation of the 1975 Edward Abbey novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which will probably be directed by Catfish‘s Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. They’re additionally making an attempt to determine how they’ll exploit titles within the Pressman Movie library… and in a latest article, Deadline mentions that endeavor may contain remakes of the 1980 vacation horror movie Christmas Evil and Brian De Palma’s 1972 psychological horror thriller Sisters.
Written and directed by Lewis Jackson, Christmas Evil had the next synopsis: Comical festive frights. A toy-maker who revels within the Christmas spirit suffers a psychological break when his work is met with hypocrisy and cynicism and goes on a yuletide killing spree.
The movie stars Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, and Andy Fenwick.
De Palma directed Sisters from a screenplay he wrote with Louisa Rose. Right here’s the synopsis: Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, style mannequin Danielle Breton, violently homicide a person. Panicking, she calls the police. However when the detective arrives on the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is pressured to take issues into her personal fingers. Her first transfer is to recruit non-public investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle’s previous that has them each seeing double.
Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, and Lisle Wilson star.
It’s price noting that there was already a remake of Sisters that was launched in 2006 and starred Chloë Sevigny, Stephen Rea, Lou Doillon, Dallas Roberts, and JR Bourne. That one was directed by Douglas Buck, who wrote the script with John Freitas.
Sam Pressman didn’t touch upon any potential remakes straight, however did say, “We’ve been performing some actually cool stuff that I can’t fairly disclose however there are a variety of avenues that, when the writers strike is over, we’ll have the ability to push ahead on. We’ve had a number of enjoyable going by way of the library in search of these hidden gems that may make nice TV collection or anime variations or stage performs – there are some attention-grabbing issues brewing in that regard.“
One other Pressman title that’s into account for the reboot remedy is the 1992 crime thriller Unhealthy Lieutenant, which beforehand acquired a 2009 companion piece of kinds known as Unhealthy Lieutenant: Port of Name New Orleans. Abel Ferrara directed the unique movie (the place the title character was performed by Harvey Keitel), whereas the New Orleans model (which starred Nicolas Cage) was directed by Werner Herzog.
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