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Horror supremo Kevin Williamson has revealed his plans for 'Scream 4'.

The 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' writer plans to introduce enough new characters in the next film to last him through 'Scream 5' and 'Scream 6', which he also hopes to make.

Kevin said: "The fourth one is an ensemble. It'll take place right now, 10 years later, and it's going to take place in character Sidney Prescott's hometown of Woodsboro. The film will star husband and wife team David Arquette and Courteney Cox, who have starred in the first three films in the series.

Paramount Pictures are reportedly greenlighting a sequel to this year's break out super-sleeper hit Paranormal Activity. The film was made for a platry $15,000, but went on to make a huge $84.6 million at the US box-office alone!

The Hollywood Reporter reports:

Given that a follow-up release wouldn't have the same element of surprise as "Paranormal," it will be key to craft a smart approach to a sequel, he said. "Our team will come up with the right creative and marketing approach to make sure that we benefit from a sequel," Dauman said.

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Director Ridley Scott has opened up and revealed some interesting details about the planned Alien prequel that he is involved with. The legendary British director spoke to Empire magazine in the UK.

"It's a brand new box of tricks," said Scott. "We know what the road map is, and the screenplay is now being put on paper. The prequel will be a while ago. It's very difficult to put a year on 'Alien,' but [for example] if 'Alien' was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior."

Jon Spaights is writing the script.

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Jackie Earle Haley has promised a "deeper" 'Nightmare on Elm Street' remake.

The actor is set to play Robert Englund's iconic character Freddy Krueger in the forthcoming movie and says filmmakers have done their best to pay homage to the horror franchise while still offering a fresh angle.

He said: "I think the glove is pretty familiar. It's really important for us, I think, as we're re-imagining this that there is a good, strong sense of new and fresh -- yet there's some recognisability, you know?

The folks that make the SAW series of movies, Twisted Pictures, are looking to take over the franchise for THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. That means that they will hold the rights to both Jigsaw and that evil, power tool wielding monster Leatherface.

The trade paper Variety revealed that the plan is to contemporize the storyline for a 3D film that would be scripted by Stephen Susco, who was behind THE GRUDGE remake. Twisted will get a multi-picture deal for the franchise, which is more than the folks at Platinum Dunes, the people that were behind the last two movies, had. They were on a one picture deal.

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THE EVIL DEAD director Sam Raimi has launched a news production banner to make thrillers for family audience, so says Variety. Spooky Pictures will first remake the Danish film THE SUBSTITUTE, which THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE helmer Scott Derrickson will direct. The trade says that Columbia Pictures will co-finance and distribute through a first-look deal with Spooky.

Derrickson will also write the script for the aforementioned film with Paul Harris Boardman. The film revolves around a terrified sixth-grade class as the students race to reveal to their parents that their new substitute teacher is an evil alien being. Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert will produce.

According to a couple of Internet websites, pre-preproduction has officially halted on Dimension FIlms' planned HALLOWEEN 3-D.  A new version of the film's script was apparently turned in last Friday by Todd Farmer, but now Bob Weinstein of Dimension Films feels the project is being rushed, hence the stopping of production.

Director Patrick Lussier has an apparent short window to shoot the film before he starts work on the Nicolas Cage starrer DRIVE ANGRY early in 2010.

An here's the North American one-sheet poster for SAW VI.

Just received the awesome new UK quad for SAW VI, and  the new trailer. The film arrives in theaters in just over a month's time. Must be nearly Halloween then... The quad is below. See the teaser in HD Quicktime right here.

SAW VI is set for release in the UK and Eire on October 23rd. Producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules unleashed the SAW VI trailer exclusively to fans earlier this year to a rapturous response.

SAW is the world's most successful horror franchise receiving over seven million cinema admissions and selling over two million DVD's in the UK to date. The franchise also boasts the world's first horror themed rollercoaster SAW the Ride launched in March 2009 at THORPE PARK the nations thrill capital. The franchise returns this Halloween with the next trilling installment SAW VI and SAW the Video Game due for release November 2009.

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy.  However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

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The Weinstein Company have announced that they have greenlit a third HALLOWEEN movie. HALLOWEEN 3D, yes it will be in 3-D, will hit cinemas in the summer of 2010. The Weinstein Co's co-chairman Bob Weinstein told The Los Angeles Times that Rob Zombie will not return for the third flick in the revamped series. Instead, he's off to remake THE BLOB (as we reported last Friday).

Weinstein said the studio is in negotiations with a new director, whom he declined to name, who has experience in horror and has a "different take" on the franchise.

HALLOWEEN II opened at number two at the US box-office this past weekend, with just over $17 million in ticket sales.