Hammer Films

[Windthrop]

There is a good article about Hammer Films in The Sunday Times Colour Supplement

[dremble wedge]

And here it is

[Windthrop]

Looking forward to the proposed film version of The Woman In Black

[m35541]

Oakes wouldn’t be satisfied mining Hammer’s back catalogue — putting out DVDs and selling the right to do remakes

Very much a PR piece for the new owners hence allowing them to get away with a statement like this. Hammer own practically none of their own back catalogue so they can't issue any as DVDs. Not sure that they even have the rights to remakes.

[Windthrop]

name='m35541']Very much a PR piece for the new owners hence allowing them to get away with a statement like this. Hammer own practically none of their own back catalogue so they can't issue any as DVDs. Not sure that they even have the rights to remakes.

The films business has always been full of chutzpah (putting it politely)

[Number Six]

Let's give Simon Oakes a chance - I know we've been here before with Hammer but let's hope this time things really are on the up for them and we can look forward to some new releases. Although I'm aware they don't own a lot of their old films, it would be great if they could also negotiate a co-ordination of their back catalogue and make their classics available together. Little hope I know. The theatre-based idea sounds interesting too, as indeed do the TV and printed media possibilities. I for one would love to see Hammer back where they belong - Good luck Simon!

[dremble wedge]

Well at least this incarnation of Hammer is actually making films which hasn't happened for thirty years...

[frame69]

I look forward to this but still cant help thinking that Hammer has an old british creepiness to it and like to remember them so.

[HammerDave]

On the one hand I'm not too impressed that the director of Cloverfield (which I thought was crap) is remaking the excellent Let The Right One In for Hammer. On the other, the kids that have been cast are Kodi Smit-McPhee, who was incredible in The Road, and Chloe Moretz, who was pretty damn good in the bits of Kick Ass shown at Movie-Con II. So it could be good - and at the very least it's a vampire movie where the vampires actually bite people and don't mope around their emo girlfriends and don't bloody sparkle!

[Number Six]

name='frame69']I look forward to this but still cant help thinking that Hammer has an old british creepiness to it and like to remember them so.

Yeah kind of agree but it would be nice to see the old name back in the frame again!

[Gerald Lovell]

Martin Scorsese's comment about Hammer's logo has always puzzled me. Apart from a man at an anvil for films in the 30s, did Hammer ever have a logo at all? The films just appeared with the words "A Hammer Film Production" in the titles somewhere.

[Steve Crook]

name='Gerald Lovell']Martin Scorsese's comment about Hammer's logo has always puzzled me. Apart from a man at an anvil for films in the 30s, did Hammer ever have a logo at all? The films just appeared with the words "A Hammer Film Production" in the titles somewhere.

Don't the words "A Hammer Film Production" count as a logo?



Steve