Andrew Form

Michael Bay to Co-Produce New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Live-Action Movie

Back in October, Viacom's Nickelodean snatched up worldwide intellectual property rights and merchandising rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for $60 million. Now, according to Deadline, Nickelodean and Paramount have teamed up to reboot the franchise by bringing a new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie to the big screen and they've enlisted Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, to produce it with Galen Walker and Scott Mednick.

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Origins
• Michael Bay
• Brad Fuller
• Andrew Form
• Galen Walker
• Scott Mednick

Another Nightmare in the Making

After getting skewered by the critics, the Nightmare on Elm Street remake opened to $32.2 million at the box office last weekend, the biggest weekend ever for a horror movie in April or May, and good enough for Warner Brothers and New Line to order a sequel.

According to The Wrap, details on an Elm Street sequel aren't worked out yet, but Warners distribution president Dan Fellman says the studio is definitely interested in making one.

• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2
• Samuel Bayer
• Andrew Form
• Brad Fuller
• Eric Heisserer

Remake of Hitchcock's The Birds May Die, Thankfully

There may be a brief reprieve in the hideous world of Hollywood remakes. Chud.com reports that producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form might shelf their planned rehash of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror classic, The Birds. These are the same two geniuses that thought it would be a great idea to remake Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. That project got the axe, and hopefully this one will too.

Did the dynamic duo come to the sensible conclusion that a classic shouldn't be touched? Did they realize that the movie's legendary sound design and subtle pacing couldn't be replicated? Hardly. Fuller is apparently only concerned with the birds as a plot device:

What do they do? They peck and poke ... so there's not a lot of variety as to what can happen.

Had they not seen the original? You have to wonder if these basic bird traits came as a surprise. Regardless, if this ends their project, we'll simply be thankful.

In the meantime, here's the master, himself, with his hilarious promo:

• The Birds
• Birds
• Rosemary's Baby
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Brad Fuller
• Andrew Form
• Roman Polanski