Post Tagged with: "Robocop"

by / on October 15, 2012 at 11:30 pm / in News

RELEASE DATE SHAKE-UP

A couple big name movies have been pushed back, leading one reporter to think that maybe, just maybe, the remake of Robocop isn’t going to be very good (yes, I’m aware this could have been realized sooner, but I was [...]

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by / on September 17, 2012 at 3:00 pm / in Everything Else, Man, I Love Funny

ROBOCOP REMAKE PRODUCER OPENS UP ABOUT POWER RANGERS INFLUENCE

  Over the weekend, Man, I Love Funny was able to sit down with the executive producer of the upcoming Robocop remake, Bill Carraro, in order to address the now-true rumors that the film is loosely based on Mighty Morphin [...]

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by / on September 17, 2012 at 9:33 am / in News

BEHIND THE SCENES OF ROBOCOP

Despite all the mess with the Hugh Laurie not being a villain and Michael Keaton coming in (not a real mess in the grand scheme of things but the will-he-won’t-he stuff with Laurie led to a last-minute decision on Keaton [...]

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by / on August 29, 2012 at 6:40 pm / in News

MICHAEL KEATON “REPLACING” HUGH LAURIE ON ROBOCOP

  After not much time at all, the remake of Robocop has its new villain. With all the talk (and sadness) revolving around the departure (or, as some said, a lack of an arrival at all) of Hugh Laurie as [...]

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by / on August 24, 2012 at 10:23 am / in News

UPDATE: NO ROBOCOP FOR LAURIE

It’s only been two months since I reported that Hugh Laurie, recently most famous for his portrayal of Dr. Gregory House on “House,” was in negotiations for the lead villain role in the Robocop remake, set to begin filming next [...]

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by / on July 23, 2012 at 11:35 am / in News

MORE ROBOCOP CASTING

From Rorschach to Robocop. Jackie Earle Haley, the great character actor who has appeared in films ranging from Watchmen to the recent Nightmare on Elm Street remake and Shutter Island, has joined the cast of the remake as Maddox, the [...]

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by / on June 25, 2012 at 3:00 pm / in Everything Else, Man, I Love Funny

AFTER BITTER INTELLECTUAL DEFEAT, RONNY COX GOES WHOLE HOG FOR BEVERLY HILLS COP REMAKE

At this point, everyone is tired of remakes. Sure, they’ve been around for a while, but if you were to ask any self-respecting artist his or her thoughts on the prospect of one of their movies being remade, they’d probably [...]

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by / on June 13, 2012 at 4:47 pm / in News

DR. HOUSE TO TURN VILLAINOUS FOR ROBOCOP?

And let my interest in yet another remake begin…. The 2013 reboot of the Robocop franchise already has some casting done. They have their title character (it’s Joel Kinnaman, one of the stars of AMC’s “The Killing”) and they have [...]

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by / on March 5, 2012 at 8:58 am / in News

SEQUEL NEWS ROUNDUP 3/5/12

It’s a new month in this post-leap year world, let’s see what’s been happening in the world of sequels, prequels, remakes and premakes.  Whatever those may be. Jason Siegel won’t be joining The Muppets sequel.  According to Collider Disney has already [...]

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by / on June 25, 2011 at 6:00 am / in Vault Reviews

VAULT REVIEW: ROBOCOP 2 (1990)

Tweetnopsis: #Robocop2: Dystopian Detroit’s Cyborg cop keeps fighting the good fight against drug dealers and corporate pirates. Great satyre + violence. I started out writing this post intending to write about Robocop, it’s been playing on Movietime lately, and I [...]

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