Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters

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Fresh Nazi Zombies In These ‘Dead Snow 2′ Pics!

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 15, 2013 @ 10:47am
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Writer and director Tommy Wirkola is back behind the helm of the Dead Snow franchise after pulling studio duty on Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. We’ve now got the proof that he’s back Norway to direct the action-filled Dead Snow: War of the Dead with some set photos and a synopsis (via Twitch).

The film, “ will be shot in both English and Norwegian. In the sequel the story follows the sole survivor of a Nazi zombie attack who battles an even larger army of Zombies with the help of a professional gang of American zombie killers who call themselves the Zombie Squad.”

Per Wirkola, “I am delighted to step back into the world of Nazi zombies yet again with Dead Snow: War Of The Dead, a world that is very close to my heart. We have a script that I am super excited about, which is bigger, scarier, funnier, more action-filled and gorier than the previous one, and I can’t wait to unleash another horde of undead Nazi zombies onto the world again.” READ MORE

[BD Review] Jonny Gives ‘Hansel And Gretel’ A Spin And Likes What He Sees

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on January 25, 2013 @ 10:12am
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Walking into Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, I can honestly say my expectations were lower than the Marina Trench. After all, it looked like another Van Helsing, which I fell asleep during watching in the theater. Imagine my surprise when I not only managed to stay awake throughout the film but I also had a pretty damn good time during it as well!

The basic plot of the film is that a grown up Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arteron) are a pair of witch hunters who travel the land taking jobs fighting and killing witches and other supernatural baddies. They arrive in a town where several children have been kidnapped and since all signs point to the culprits being witches the dynamic duo are hired.

What follows is a very straightforward story, one that doesn’t require any strenuous thought at all. In fact, you can probably shut off the vast majority of your brain, sit back, and just enjoy the ride because the story is really that simple. The dialogue is incredibly basic with almost no supernatural jargon (does anyone else think it ridiculous when characters speak in “fake” languages?), and yet there are some genuinely laugh-worthy moments.

Aside from a few jarring cuts to new scenes, the only real negative thing I have to say about this movie is that there is a rather glaring plot hole (SPOILER ALERT) in that they don’t realize that this job is in their hometown. They get quite surprised when they stumble across their old home and yet nothing in the beginning of the film (which shows the Hansel and Gretel/Gingerbread house story) indicates that there was any memory loss whatsoever. It’s rather odd and had me scratching my head a bit.

However, the movie offers a lot of positive qualities as well. The use of practical FX is fantastic, including a great deal of gore, some really nice witch makeup, and pretty awesome looking troll named Edward (Derek Mears). The set design is also well done although admittedly just over the top, giving everything a fairytale quality (which is rather appropriate). There is limited but necessary CGI when it comes to the set design, usually reserved for vistas and extreme wide shots.

The action sequences, of which there are many, are crisp, fun, and feel exciting and also allow for a good bit of physical comedy.

With movies like this, it’s interesting trying to decipher if they are horror or not. There isn’t a single scare in this film or even a moment where I felt any sense of suspense or impending fear. However, the visuals and atmosphere practically ooze everything a horror fan could want.

At the start of the movie, I was expecting a waste of my time. By the middle, I found myself with a grin on my face. By the end, I was hoping that there would be a sequel. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters isn’t a movie meant to scare or make you think but it is one of the most entertaining and enjoyable movies of its kind that I’ve seen in years.

‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ Looks Like All Kinds Of Cheesy Awesome!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on September 04, 2012 @ 2:47pm
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Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, which comes from Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola.

Starring Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton and Famke Janssen, the footage looks crazy cheesy, but also crazy fun. We can only hope that this makes right what happened with the lame Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. I totally dig these original retellings and want more.

In theaters January 11, 2013, “15 years after their traumatic gingerbread-house incident, siblings Hansel and Gretel have become a formidable team of bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world.” READ MORE

[News Bites] Space Edition: ‘Alter’ And ‘Afterburn’ Head For Orbit

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 16, 2012 @ 9:52pm
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A couple of small, sci-fi horror space stories popped up late this afternoon that warrant some attention on what has already been an insanely busy day in the genre world.

First off, Variety is reporting that Voltage Pictures has acquired the rights to Alter a sci-fi script by John Sonntag and Thomas Sonntag, and will be partnering with Benderspink to shepherd the project to the big screen. The script, “centers on a team of scientists aboard a space station monitoring activity around a black hole when they receive a transmission showing their deaths at the hands of mysterious aliens.” Sounds like a pretty cool concept actually.

In somewhat bigger news, director Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow, Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters) is now onboard to rewrite and direct Afterburn. In the film, “is set in a future where solar flares have left half the world a ravaged wasteland filled with mutants and pirates. Buried beneath the ash and rubble are priceless artifacts and some of the world’s most valuable works of art – for which wealthy Americans will pay any price. The story centers on a treasure hunter who leads his team into the quarantine zone, braving rival bounty hunters, rogue armies, pirate gangs and deadly mutants along the way.” THR is reporting that Gerard Butler (300, The Awful Truth) is set to star. Antoine Fuqua had been previously attached to direct. READ MORE

Release Date Shifts: ‘Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters’ and ‘Detention’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on January 10, 2012 @ 1:43am
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Release Date Shifts: Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters and Detention

After The Devil Inside killed the boxoffice, Paramount Pictures is securing that date in 2013 for another potential sleeper. The studio has made a full-year shift for Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola’s twisted spin Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D, which stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as the title characters. Moving from March, it will now arrive in theaters January 11, 2013.

Word on the street is that this flick is good, like really good. It’s an original take on the classic fairytale that is set 15 years after the siblings killed the witch who kidnapped them. Hansel and Gretel have now evolved into bounty hunters who pursue witches.

In addition, Samuel Goldwyn will take Joseph Kahn’s awesome Detention (review) to theaters on April 6 of this year. Odds are it will also hit various VOD platforms day and date. In the film a downtrodden 17-year-old girl is sent to detention where she must survive a slasher film killer and save the world in time for prom. READ MORE

First Look: Paramount’s ‘Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on December 02, 2011 @ 5:52pm
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First Look: Paramounts Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D

In theaters March 2, 2012 from Paramount Pictures’ is Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola’s twisted spin Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D, which stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as the title characters.

EW premiered the first ever image of both Renner and Arterton in the flick, with the promise of a trailer premiere next Thursday.

“You see a series of flashbacks with their experience of killing that first witch, which is brilliant,” Arterton says of continuing Grimm’s fairytale in flashback form. “The candy house, and the witches are really repulsive and quite frightening. The make-up is out of this world. It’s this bone-chilling scene. Very dark. The girl who plays my character is brilliant, with the horrified expression she has.” READ MORE

The Creepy Peter Stormare Plays Villainous Sheriff in ‘Witch Hunters’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 24, 2011 @ 5:31pm
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Peter Stormare (Undocumented, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, Marianne, The Divide) has joined Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, and Ingrid Bolso Berdal in Paramount Pictures’ Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters, their 3-D fairytale re-imagining arriving in theaters March 2, 2012, reports Deadline.

He will play the villainous town sheriff ‘Berringer’.

The pic is an original take on the classic fairytale set 15 years after the siblings killed the witch who kidnapped them. Hansel and Gretel have now evolved into bounty hunters who pursue witches.
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‘Cold Prey’ Survivor Grabs a Witches Broom for ‘Hansel and Gretel’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 21, 2011 @ 8:42pm
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Bloody Disgusting regular “Kevin M” just emailed us with some pretty exciting news from the land of candy-built houses.

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal of the Fritt Vilt (Cold Prey) franchise has been cast as “one of the Witches” in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D. Kevin tells us that she will be wearing some cool prosthetics, and describes her Witch as being “superbad” and “a hardcore killing machine.”

She joins previously announced Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, and Famke Janssen in the fairytale retelling by Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola.

In theaters March 2, Paramount’s 3-D film is an original take on the classic fairytale is set 15 years after the siblings killed the witch who kidnapped them. Hansel and Gretel have now evolved into bounty hunters who pursue witches.

Cold Prey Survivor Grabs a Witches Broom for Hansel and Gretel

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 17, 2011 @ 9:51pm
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Paramount Pictures knows what I want for my birthday as they’ve locked in a March 2, 2012 release for Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, which will now be filmed in 3-D.

Starring Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, and Famke Janssen, the original take on the classic fairytale is set 15 years after the siblings killed the witch who kidnapped them. Hansel and Gretel have now evolved into bounty hunters who pursue witches.

In other release news, Dimension Films might have actually sat down and watched Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein’s Shelter as the film was pulled from its planned February 25 release. No new date was given.

Already in stores overseas, the Julianne Moore-starrer follows a female forensic psychiatrist who specializes in debunking multiple personality disorder. When she discovers that her latest patient’s various personalities are all murder victims, she struggles to find a logical explanation for the man’s delusion.
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‘X-Hottie’ Famke Janssen Joins ‘Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 08, 2011 @ 7:21pm
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The absolutely stunning Famke Janssen (who you might know as Jean Grey in X-Men) has landed an unknown role in Paramount Pictures’ Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola’s original take on the classic fairytale that’s set 15 years after the siblings killed the witch who kidnapped them. Hansel and Gretel have now evolved into bounty hunters who pursue witches.

Gemma Arterton and Jeremy Renner star in the title roles, it can only be assumed that Janssen will portray a witch? I hope a crazy hot witch….

Playlist adds that the studio is working furiously to get the movie in production by the March 7 start date.

Janssen also starred in Eric Red’s 100 Feet and “Nip/Tuck”.

X Hottie Famke Janssen Joins Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters