And somewhere, in the state of Florida , Jeb Bush is eating a live puppy. That's how I feel about a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds . I know I've said each remake should be judged on its own terms, but remaking The Birds is as stupid an idea as remaking Psycho , and look how that turned out. Some movies should be left alone, and The Birds is one of them.

In what has to be one of the cleverest viral marketing ploys for a movie I've ever seen, we bring you this PSA from the Master of the Suspense himself -- Alfred Hitchcock. And he would like you to turn off your cell phones during the movie. The great Anthony Hopkins brings the director to life here, as he does in the upcoming biopic Hitchcock, due out next month. This is awesome. Pure awesome. And very much in line with the way Hitchcock used to introduce his TV series and films. Directed by Sacha Gervasi, Hitchcock stars Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, and Jessica Biel. Watch, share and enjoy.

The modern horror movie wouldn't exist without Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic Psycho. And judging from the below preview for Sacha Gervasi's upcoming biopic Hitchcock, it was a film no one wanted the master filmmaker to make. Few directors are as deserving of a biopic as Hitchcock. And it looks like Gervasi and screenwriter John J. McLaughlin have picked the perfect thread -- in the story of Psycho's trip to the screen -- to hang such a film on. I'm in! What a cast too: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson and her boobs, Jessica Biel. The list goes on and on. Hell, even Ralph The Karate Kid Macchio gets in on the action as screenwriter Joe Stefano! This movie looks great. I actually look forward to seeing it. Hitchcock opens in limited release via Fox Searchlight next month.  

We haven't featured much on Sacha Gervasi's upcoming biography on the life and times of famed director Alfred Hitchcock because, well, we just haven't. Back off about it! Now that we've scored a couple of pics from the film, which is due out next month, we figured what the hey -- let's post 'em. The film is a love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the filming of Psycho in 1959. Fleshing out what really is a great cast are Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel as Vera Miles and James D'Arcy as Anthony Perkins. Yeah, I might have to see this. Above is a pic of Hopkins in classic Hitchcock profile and below is the lovely Johansson as Leigh. If anything, the casting for this is perfect. We'll have to see if the film is as good.