Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
Sick and tired of Screen Gems and Platinum Dunes remaking horror movies from the '70s and '80s? So is RKO Pictures -- and thanks to its new interim WGA agreement, the studio is getting ready to do something about it.
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 01/26/2008
RKO Productions, Inc., a subsidiary of RKO Pictures, and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced today that they have reached an interim comprehensive agreement.
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 01/26/2008
RKO Pictures has signed an interim deal with the striking Writers Guild of America, the union said Friday.
WJZ Baltimore, Maryland News Weathe (Free subscription) | 01/26/2008
RKO Pictures has signed an interim deal with the striking Writers Guild of America.  Details were not released, but the guild says the agreement announced Friday includes fair and respectful compensation for writers for work used on the Internet and other new media.
Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 01/26/2008
The side deal for RKO Productions Inc, a subsidiary of RKO Pictures, is similar to agreements the WGA recently reached with Lionsgate, Marvel Studios, The Weinstein Company, United Artists, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Spyglass Entertainment, MRC, Jackson Bites, Mandate Films, and Worldwide Pants.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 09/19/2007
A high, steel tower has loomed above the landscape at 69th and Ludlow streets since 1927. Evocative of the old RKO Pictures logo, the structure initially was topped off with a swirling, illuminated ball that could be seen for miles, and gave the Upper Darby showplace beneath it, the Tower Theater, its name.
IGN (Free subscription) | 08/15/2007
RKO Pictures is remaking its 1945 cult classic Isle of the Dead as a contemporary horror film. The revitalized studio has tapped Brian Horiuchi and Matt Lazarus to script; no director has been hired yet. RKO honcho Ted Hartley will produce. The original Val Lewton-produced Isle , set during the First Balkan War, starred Boris Karloff as a military commander on a Greek island that is quarantined after...
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 06/20/2007
He introduced more hit songs in movies than any singer. He has been rated in the Top Five Hollywood Actors of All Time. Balanchine and Nureyev argued that he was the greatest dancer of the twentieth century. Wow. Not a bad career for a fellow whose initial RKO Pictures screen test was dismissed with these infamous words: "Can't sing. Can't act. Balding. Can dance a little." The feisty yet fastidious...
skullring.org (Free subscription) | 06/17/2007
According to the fine folks at Firstshowing.net, Twisted Pictures (the company behind the "Saw" franchise) is joining forces with RKO Pictures to release several remakes of classic (and not so classic) horror films. On the menu for these motion picture graverobbers? "I Walked with a Zombie," "Bedlam," and the oft-remade (and remade, and remade) "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Give it a freakin'...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 06/15/2007
We mean REAL classic, vintage,as in 1940s RKO films such as The Body Snatcher. From Variety...Evolution Entertainment's horror division Twisted Pictures has formed a joint venture with RKO Pictures and plans to remake four genre pics from the RKO library.The...
