I wonder how many people are kicking themselves right about now? After years of slavish-devotion to the franchise that surrounded Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and the disturbing countdowns to them becoming legal, it turns out younger sister Elizabeth Olsen may turn out with the career worth watching. Last year she was constantly surrounded by buzz thanks to the independent Martha Marcy May Marlene and... 

My guess is that Avatar is going to rock, at least in the trailer department. Based on the number of awesome trailers that have hit the Internet over the past few days, I can only imagine what it’ll be like to sit through the trailers in front of Avatar. The one I wasn’t expecting: a trailer for the remake of Clash of the Titans, starring Terminator Salvation’s Sam Worthington as Perseus. I love... 

Fans of High School Musical and Zac Efron have reason to cry today. Paramount Pictures has announced the departure of HSM director Kenny Ortega from their planned Footloose remake. Fans of the original Kevin Bacon movie can temporarily breathe a sigh of relief as the movie will temporarily be on hold until a new director is found, but there’s no sign Paramount means to cancel their remake plans just... 

At first sight the A Nightmare on Elm Street trailer looks suspiciously familiar to the original. On a second look, however, the trailer seems to offer some scenes which look fresh and inventive. Categorized as a contemporary reimagining rather than a remake, Nightmare wants to tell the “origin story” (getting tired of that buzz word?) of Fred Krueger in a new way while staying true to the mythos... 

Now here’s a movie I never would have imagined being slated for a remake. Robert Zemeckis and Walt Disney Studios have acquired the rights to the 1968 animated Beatles film, Yellow Submarine, as well as the musical rights for the sixteen songs featured in the movie. The plan is to utilize Zemeckis’s motion-capture animation technology to make a remake to premiere in London’s 2012 Summer Olympic... 

My hope for Spielberg’s remake of Harvey just diminished a bit. I was already wary about the director doing a new adaptation of the Mary Chase play, especially when the previous adaptation is such an iconic picture. However, the one thing that got me excited about the project – the possibility of Tom Hanks in the leading role – is not to be, as Hanks hasn’t even looked at the script. Variety... 

Steven Spielberg is heading behind the camera again, although he’s choosing a relatively risky project as his next one. The director will be handling a new adaptation of Harvey, the play by Mary Chase that served as the starting point for a previous remake – an iconic classic film starring Jimmy Stewart. The play tells the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a relatively ordinary man with an extraordinary... 

I wasn’t crazy about a Nightmare on Elm Street remake, but slowly the folks at Platinum Dunes are winning me over. The casting of Jackie Earle Haley, who was the best part of this year’s Watchmen, as the new Freddy Krueger, was an inspired addition to the franchise. As cool as it might be to see Haley as Freddy, the studio is keeping their new killer hidden in the shadows, at least as far as the... 

Apparently THR set out to destroy my childhood this morning. First we get the news about a bad idea Buffy remake being planned, and now there’s news that one of my favorite childhood movies is heading for remake as well: Flight of the Navigator. Honestly, we should have seen this coming. Disney has been feeding off their past successes for a while, rekindling them into more visually stimulating,...