The Director's Chair > Quentin Tarantino
Grind House
MacGuffin:
Weinsteins' 'godfathers' set to 'Grind'
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Quentin Tarantino, whose "Pulp Fiction" helped turn Miramax Films into a powerhouse, and Robert Rodriguez, whose "Spy Kids" movies have been a lucrative franchise for Miramax's genre arm Dimension, are teaming up to make a film for Bob and Harvey Weinstein's new Weinstein Co. The film is scheduled for a spring 2006 release as part of a rapidly evolving release slate, further details of which the Weinsteins announced Wednesday. Tarantino and Rodriguez will each write and direct a 60-minute horror film, and the two films will be packaged together under the overall title "Grind House." The film, which is planned for a spring 2006 release, also will include its own trailers, bonus materials and added extras from other filmmakers that will be packaged together between the two horror flicks in a tribute to the old, big-city movie houses like those on New York's 42nd Street that earned the moniker grindhouses for programming genre pics back to back. An aficionado of grindhouse, Tarantino sampled grindhouse genres in his recent "Kill Bill" films. He said "Grind House" could be the first in a series of films. In a statement, the Weinsteins said, "We couldn't imagine anything more exciting than a film being made together by the two godfathers of our companies, Quentin and Robert."
Ghostboy:
The part about the fake trailers and all that sort of has me sold on the whole thing already.
modage:
horror :yabbse-thumbup:
gimmick :yabbse-thumbdown:
socketlevel:
at least the gimmick opens up future possibilities for filmmakers. if the audience is willing to watch something that breaks, even if slightly, the mainstream way of telling the story then i'm more than happy.
-sl-
SiliasRuby:
Interesting idea but I am sick of waiting, if tarantino is going to quit before he becomes an "old person" he better start working on these films right away and stop getting distracted.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version