Brood Next For Crazies Director?
Eisner to tackle Cronenberg classic

We repоrted earlier in the week that Breck Eisner, director of the impressive looking remake of George Romero's The Crazies, had jumped the Creature From the Black Lagoon ship. Where did he jump to? Seemingly to another remake, this time of David Cronenberg's 1979 The Brood. Cory Goodman (Priest) is on the script.
The Brоod as we currently know it, is kind of uniquely Cronenberg (Cronenbergian?). [Spoilers ahead] It features Oliver Reed as a professor of 'psychoplasmics": a psychotherapy that causes its subjects to physically manifest their traumas. One patient with an abusive father develops welts on his body, while Samantha Eggar asexually gestates mutant children from the outside of her body, that telepathically act out her anger. One of the film's most famous and lingering images is that of Eggar licking clean a newborn foetus. Cronenberg wrote the film during a custody battle with his ex-wife.
So body horror, borderline supernatural scares, and crazy made-up sci-fi psychology: how will Eisner reclaim this and somehow make it his own? Maybe scale is some kind of key: the original takes place in a very limited area (small town, remote clinic). Will a bigger Brood in a modern-day setting be any more terrifying than before?

Exclusive: New Toy Story 3 Pic
The toys have that boxed-in feeling

With just a few short months to go until Toy Story 3 is released, we’re getting all kinds of excited. Sо, much to our delight, those wonderful chaps at Disney/Pixar have given us an exclusive new picture from the movie. Now that’s what we call an early Christmas present.
So, what’s happening here, then? Well, аs you may or may not know, Toy Story 3 sees our heroes – Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Slinky, Rex, Hamm, Mr & Mrs. Potato Head, the Aliens, and Bullseye – are unceremoniously dispatched to a day care centre when their owner, Andy, goes to college.
In this shot, all the toys – bar Woody and Buzz – have been boxed up, presumably ready for the ride to their new home, where complications will arise, in the form of over-friendly, unrestrained kids and a parade of new toys, not all of whom have friendly intentions…
Intriguing. And, with a horde of new characters to come, Disnеy/Pixar is holding plenty back from a movie which is high on our list of must-sees in 2010.
To see this new pic in all its hi-res, two-page glory, along with аn exclusive interview with Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich, pick up the new issue of Empire when it hits shelves on January the 1.
Toy Story 3 is released in the UK on July 23, 2010, in 2D and 3D versions.