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Saturday Trending Topics: Not Groovy? (Also: SUPERMOON)

Published Sun, 06 May 2012 01:13:09 -0500

Last updated Sun, 06 May 2012 01:32:27 -0500

This is strange: "Award Pictures are pressing ahead with plans to produce the new sequel Evil Dead: Consequences without the involvement of Sam Raimi or his company, Renaissance Pictures. Award's claim is that Renaissance abandoned the Evil Dead trademark, and amongst their evidence is a quote from Raimi, published in a book in 2000,* wherein he says that he would "never" make another sequel."

Also: It appears to be time to re-open last year's SUPERMOON poll.

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