Craig Brewer

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: “Footloose” director Craig Brewer views his career in reverse. He never would have been able to attempt the remake of the classic 1984 dance drama if not for “Black Snake Moan.” And he never would have received the opportunity to make “Black Snake Moan” if it wasn’t for his Oscar-winning “Hustle & Flow.” And “Hustle & Flow” wouldn’t exist without his debut feature film, “The Poor and Hungry.”“At the time I made that movie, I was living in a house that’s...Read Full Story

Hollywoodnews.com: Join us at the 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival for a special tribute and Q&A session with “Footloose” director Craig Brewer who was discovered at the festival eleven years ago.To commemorate the 15th year of the HFF, director Craig Brewer, who got his start at the festival, will be doing a special Q&A on Saturday, October 22, at 7:00p.m. Brewer was discovered by the HFF in 2000, when the festival screened the world premiere of his feature film, “The Poor and Hungry...Read Full Story

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: If you’ve been on Twitter at any point over the last month, there’s a very good chance you saw “Footloose” director Craig Brewer, aka @MyBrewTube, actively defending his remake to anyone who’d comment.Brewer took on all comers, retweeting positive and negative remarks regarding the need for a “Footloose” remake and convincing Twitters participants, one post at a time, to go see his movie.“It’s basically for me. It’s not for the movie,” Brewer told me...Read Full Story

I managed to find three new images from Craig Brewer’s upcoming remake of Footloose that we haven’t seen yet. The last first look we saw of the film was in October of last year ,where we saw the prom photo image that looked like the original movie. One of the images I found on a Paramount press site, so it may just be a publicity image for star Kenny Wormwald, while the other two are from the film featuring Julianne Hough. The LA Times previewed one of the photos and even had an interview...Read Full Story

It’s been no secret that Warner Brothers has been trying to get a new Tarzan movie off the ground. Stephen Sommers was going to direct a film for the studio but that project was placed on hold for rewrites. Now it seems Footloose director, Craig Brewer is the guy that may hold the key to the studio rebooting the jungle hero. Brewer’s Footloose will hit theaters later this year and was most likely an entry film for the director to prove to the big studios he could do more. Deadline says, “This...Read Full Story