John Landis News

Hollywood has got its claws into John Landis's 1981 horror-comedy cult classic. Why can't the Weinsteins leave An American Werewolf in London alone? A howling success a the original An American Werewolf in London.

Hey folks. Capone in Chicago here. It's one thing to meet a filmmaker who you consider a hero, it's quite another thing to meet one whose films directly influenced major decisions in your life.

According to Bloody Disgusting , the Weinstein Brothers have purchased the rights to remake An American Werewolf in London from original writer/director John Landis .

Film director John Landis is as boisterous and garrulous a character as you're likely to meet.

Studios are going back to the future and banking on rereleasing film classics such as Spartacus to bring in the masses Kevin Maher When the director John Landis was 27 he was handed $2 million by the legendary studio chief Lew Wasserman and told to go and make his own movie, his own way.

Relive the Best 7 Years of Your College Education. Features: DVD One of the most popular movie comedies of all time is also the film that made John Belushi a star.

At the Lincoln Theatre, 156 Lincoln Way E. 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 6 p.m. Sunday Sponsored by: Smith Ambulance This week's classic film is the 1980 cult-classic, "The Blues Brothers," directed by John Landis and starring a very young John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.

The Product: How do you follow up a phenomenon? What do you do next when your previous film finds an audience eager to deliver the necessary repeat viewing dollars to grant you unfettered control? If you're ...

Should a nun run it all? Would we be better off with them in charge? Feature films March Of The Penguins and Happy Feet made penguins a part of pop culture.

LOS ANGELES: Former "King of Pop" Michael Jackson is being sued by the director of his seminal 1983 video Thriller over unpaid royalties, US media reported.

Acclaimed Hollywood director John Landis, who co-wrote and shot the 1983 Michael Jackson Thriller music video, filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Jackson in Los Angeles Superior Court on January 21st, ...

This one will be playing out not on Broadway, however, but in a Los Angeles courtroom.

Get ready zombie lovers - "Thriller" is heading to Broadway. 'Cause this is Thriller - " Thriller matinee? It looks like the zombies of Michael Jackson 's legendary album and hit single "Thriller"are shifting ...

Makeup master Rick Baker was honored by the International Press Academy over the weekend in Los Angeles, and TV's True Blood and the movies Ghost Town, The Dark Knight, Iron Man and WALL*E all took home ...

Forrest J Ackerman, a writer, editor and collector who helped popularize science fiction and brought horror films into the mainstream with his magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland , died Thursday at his home ...

The frank and startling observations of noted American director John Landis on Indian media and politicians in the backdrop of Mumbai terror attacks were the highlights of day nine of the ongoing 39th ...