Because Hollywood has become a hell of repetition, endlessly repeating the entertainment we’ve seen before over and over and over again, we are now facing an existence in which a Hellraiser TV show is going to exist.  Surely, the most necessary movie-to-television transitions, the Hellraiser weekly TV series will be following on the heels of the upcoming Hannibal Lector NBC TV series.  Using this as a metric, in the next five years we will see weekly TV series’ dedicated to the lives of Chucky, the guy from Maniac Cop, and maybe the kid in the Santa suit from Silent Night, Deadly Night.

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Here are some of the top stories you may have missed this Watchmen weekend…

• The first official photos of Jake Gyllenhaal as Dastan in next year’s video game adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time have been released. Besides the one above you can view another pic when you click on the link. [Huffington Post]
• French director Pascal Laugier recently gave an interview regarding his upcoming Hellraiser movie. He stresses that it’s not a remake but a reboot. I say if it looks like a duck, and talks like a duck…[Screenrant]

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OK… so much going on in the world of Hollywood today that we thought we’d make it easy for you. Here is your brief rundown of Hollywood news and other cool commentary from around the blog world today…

• FilmSchoolRejects response to the top 10 most overrated directors [FilmSchoolRejects]
• Steven Seagal joins reality TV show: Oh how the mighty have fallen [Variety]
• Anagram movie posters gone VERY wrong (one of which is featured above) [Cinematical]
• Vera Farmiga Joins Jason Reitman’s adaptation of the book “Up In The Air” [/Film]
• French Director Pascal Laugier might be signing on to Hellraiser [FirstShowing]
• What every teenager wants: A Darth Zader toaster that makes Darth Vader toast! [Cinematical]

Finally, some sad news…

• John Michael Hayes, screenwriter for Hitchcock dies of natural causes at age 89 [Variety]

• Kate Beckinsale done with Underworld: Although another film is most likely in the works, Kate won’t be a part of it. “I think they’re still going, they probably will. I’m not sure I will,” she told us. “I feel like I’ve played that character enough times that I don’t think I’d be excited to play the same character again. It’s a weird experience. I’ve never done that before, you’re playing the same character in two movies, and after two, I feel like I’m kind of done with that.” [ComingSoon]
• Looks like there will be a new Hellraiser: Director, Pascal Laugier is in final negotiations to write and direct a remake of Clive Barker’s classic Hellraiser. “This is a dream project for me,” Laugier said. “I know Clive Barker’s work very well, and I would never betray what he has done. Fans are expecting a definitive ‘Hellraiser,’ and I don’t want to take that away from them.” [Spill]

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