This week on The Flickcast Chris, Matt and Christina talk about a whole bunch of new topics including the Disney/Marvel deal, Rob Zombie making a new Blob movie, Star Wars comics on the iPhone, the remake of the classic film Heathers as a TV show, Summer Glau heading to the Dollhouse, Apple’s latest OS Snow Leopard, Avatar tickets already on sale and much, much more.

The team also made some great picks again this week including Christina’s pick of The Simpsons Season 12, Matt’s pick of the sci-fi thriller Cube and Chris’ pick of Dollhouse Season One.

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Thanks for listening.

We got the chance to talk to Rob Zombie about his release of Halloween 2 this week, and though he stated that he has no intention of remaking any other horror movies, it looks like Genre Co.’s Richard Sapperstein may have made his mind up for him.

According to Variety, Genre Co., which is founded by former Dimension Pictures President Sapperstein, will be producing a remake of the 1958 classic The Blob along with the original producers at Worldwide Entertainment Corp. According to Zombie, this is something new for him, and he’s ready to take a crack at it.

“I’d been looking to break out of the horror genre, and this really is a science fiction movie about a thing from outer space,” Zombie said. “I intend to make it scary, and the great thing is I have the freedom once again to take it in any crazy direction I want to.”

Zombie has begun writing. He’ll follow the release of “Halloween II” with a new album and tour this fall and get the script done at that time.

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