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The Weinsteins Dedicated to Getting ‘Piranha 3DD’ 3-D Correct?

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Some pretty interesting news broke exclusively over at Moviehole that, depending on how you look at it, could be good or bad.

The site writes that the reason Dimension Films/The Weinstein Company has delayed production, and thus the release of Piranha Double D (November 23, 2011), is so they can ensure the 3-D is done right (thank the gods).

Joel Soisson, the genre vet who has worked on everything from ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ to ‘The Prophecy’ and ‘Feast’ (with Gulager, Dunstan and Melton) has been brought on board to not only produce ‘Piranha 3DD’ but rewrite the script by Dunstan and Melton,” they write. “But mostly, Soisson likely knows his way around a 3D movie. Though he hasn’t been involved with one directly, the filmmaker’s surely spent enough time studying and observing his frequent collaborator and friend Patrick Lussier, director of ‘Drive Angry 3D’ and ‘My Bloody Valentine 3D’, to know how to utilize and make the best use of the technology. So yes, Soisson’s knowledge of 3D is the reason he was brought onboard the project and not because the ‘Piranha 3DD’ needed a lot of work; the Weinstein’s simply want the film’s 3D sequences to play as effectively as the last one – as they would.

It’s worth noting that Soisson recently wrote, produced and direct the horrid Children of the Corn: The Dweller. Take it for what it’s worth. Piranha 3DD has yet to begin casting, so everything you’ve read online thus far is false. BOOM!

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New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer

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Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?

The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.

THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”

You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.

The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.

More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.

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