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Godzilla vs. Kong will be “a massive monster brawl” (and will have a clear winner)

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2014’s Godzilla and this year’s Kong: Skull Island had drastically different tones. Kong, in many ways, felt like an answer to the big criticism of the Godzilla reboot; mainly, that it was too slow, over-serious, and didn’t show enough of the beast himself. Kong: Skull Island ended up being more action-packed, and a bit lighter in […]

Godzilla vs. Kong director discusses size difference between the two monsters

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Director Adam Wingard was at Comic-Con this past weekend to promote the release of his new movie Death Note, and IGN managed to get a brief update from the filmmaker as to his next project – the MonsterVerse crossover Godzilla vs. Kong. “It’s been a pleasure already in the first stages of it, having an […]

New images from Netflix’s Death Note movie

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With Death Note set to arrive on Netflix next month, the streaming service has released five new images from director Adam Wingard’s upcoming manga adaptation which you can check out below… SEE ALSO: Adam Wingard on adapting Death Note for U.S. audiences SEE ALSO: New trailer and featurette for the live-action Death Note movie We suggest […]

Adam Wingard on adapting Death Note for U.S. audiences

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Unlike this year’s Ghost in the Shell – which retained the Japanese setting of its source material, leading to whitewashing criticisms – director Adam Wingard’s has relocated the action of his upcoming manga adaptation Death Note to the United States, and speaking to IGN, the filmmaker has discussed how that forced him to make adjustments to the […]

Death Note director Adam Wingard defends his film being set in the U.S.

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The director of Death Note has come to his film’s defence for moving the story to America. The classic manga/anime is being adapted as a Netflix film starring Nat Wolff and Willem Dafoe and directed by Adam Wingard. The story is originally set in Japan but for the live action movie version, events have been moved […]

Godzilla vs. Kong lands Death Note director Adam Wingard

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It looks like Death Note director Adam Wingard is officially directing Godzilla vs. Kong! Announced today, this could be Legendary Pictures way of finding the horror in two enormous monsters on the loose, and looking for blood. After all, it would be reasonable to assume that a huge fight involving these two beasts would not only […]

Interview: Simon Barrett talks Blair Witch backlash, the challenges of writing a sequel and more

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Luke Owen gets on the phone with writer Simon Barrett… Last year I spoke with Adam Wingard just a couple of months after his project The Woods had been revealed as a sequel to 1999’s The Blair Witch Project and a few weeks before the film was released [read that interview here]. At the time […]

October Horrors Day 29 – The Guest (2014)

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The Guest, 2014. Directed by Adam Wingard. Starring Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Leland Orser, and Lance Reddick. SYNOPSIS: A family is in mourning after their son is killed in action while away in the military. Soon after this loss, a mysterious stranger by the name of David arrives, claiming to be a squad […]

Blair Witch disappoints and earns just $9 million at the box office

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Despite heavy marketing and a lot of buzz coming from its surprise announcement at San Diego Comic Con, Adam Wingard’s sequel Blair Witch has fallen below expectations. Showing on over 3,100 screens, Blair Witch managed just $9 million domestically coming second to Sully in its second week of release. It did fend off Bridget Jones’s […]