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‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’ Was a Summer Flop
Warner Bros. Twilight Zone: The Movie featured some of the biggest names in the genre – Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, John Landis and George Miller – which is probably why the studio pushed it out on this day 31 years ago.
I think the biggest mistake the movie makes is being PG, and clearly it didn’t connect with audiences as it only made $29M. That’s a flop considering the names attached.
The feature version of “The Twilight Zone” television series consisted of three adaptations of classic episodes (and one original story) from Rod Serling’s anthology series.
What’s sad about the film is not that it’s known for any successes, but because of the tragedy that occurred during filming.
Wiki explains:
The film garnered notoriety before its release for the tragic stunt helicopter crash which took the lives of Vic Morrow and two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, during the filming of the segment directed by Landis. The two child actors were hired illegally. Their deaths led to a high-profile legal case, although at the end of the trial no one was found to be criminally culpable for the accident.
If anything, the Twilight Zone: The Movie reminds us how good the original series was, and that maybe retelling the same story again isn’t the way to go (we were arguing about remakes 31 years ago? Well then…)
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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