Hammer on

Hammer might do a little better than Beyond the Rave if they find themselves able to stick to classier influences than Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave. Outbidding Warner Brothers and Paramount for rights is a good start: Hammer has topped the abovementioned giants in a bidding war for remake rights to Let the Right One In, a novel-based Swedish kid-and-maybe-vampire romantic horror picture which won the feature prize at the Tribeca festival a couple weeks back. Tomas Alfredson directed the original; no writer or director has been assigned to the remake yet, but the original Swedish producers will remain involved.