Warner Bros. Wants Christopher Nolan to Help Them out with Superman. Pretty Please?

Nolan + Superman = fanboys ruin pants. Could it be true? Could Christopher Nolan, the man who resurrected Batman from the ashes of rubber nipples and cheesy villains actually be involved in developing a “Superman” reboot for Warner Bros.? Yes, it could be, at least according to Deadline....
February 9th, 2010 | Read More

Steven Soderbergh Fast Tracks Thriller Contagion

Steven Soderbergh (“Oceans 11″, “The Informant!”, “Traffic”) has dropped all the other projects currently in the fire to direct “Contagion” with Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Marion Cotillard all either closely orbiting or signed to star. “Contagion”...
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Tim Robbins is the Bad Guy’s Dad in Green Lantern

Wow, so Tim Robbins is playing dad characters in movies now, huh? And we’re not talking about toddlers or little cute tykes here, we’re talking about grown men. Sheesh, is Tim Robbins that old? Am I that old? Damn. Anyways, apparently Tim Robbins is now old enough to get cast in Martin Campbell’s...
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Rachel Weisz Checks into Daniel Craig’s Dream House

Rachel Weisz is the latest A-lister to move into Daniel Craig and Jim Sheridan’s horror/thriller “Dream House”. The film already has Craig in the lead, and recently added Naomi Watts to the cast. Weisz’s casting rounds out the film’s main principles. In the film, Craig will...
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24 The Movie May Finally Get Made Before Jack Bauer Signs up for Medicaid

After a lot of fits and starts, Twentieth Century Fox seems finally ready to make a “24″ movie, possibly as early as the end of the current Season 8. There is no deal in place for the show’s Season 9, and many believe the current season will also be the show’s last on TV, with...
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Is Rob Cohen’s Medieval Dead?

Apparently yes, according to a source of Latino Review. For now, at least. Apparently the big sticking point is that the studio wanted Rob Cohen, the film’s director, to introduce a central leading man to the movie instead of the ensemble cast that the film calls for. This, after Cohen had already...
February 8th, 2010 | Read More

Fichtner and Heard Drives Angry with Cage — in 3D

Wow, another movie in 3D. Figures. In any case, at least this time around the 3D gimmick will get a boost from Amber Heard (below), who will be showing off her glorious self in the format along with “Prison Break’s” William Fichtner (left). The duo will be joining the cast of Nicolas...
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Saturday Night Live Doesn’t Get Burn Notice

USA Network’s “Burn Notice” is probably the best show on TV that most people have never heard of, but there’s enough of an audience for it that it’s currently in its fourth season and still going strong. And apparently it’s also a show that the writers of “Saturday...
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Dolph Lundgren Covers Elvis, Teaches Wooden Boards a Lesson

Never let it be said that Dolph Lundgren doesn’t have a sense of humor. The veteran action star/intellectual titan was recently hired to present the Melodifestivalen in Sweden, and thanks to the endless wonders of this thing we call “The Internet”, the event’s opening number has...
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E1 Entertainment to Release Fruit Chan’s Don’t Look Up Remake

Although I was seriously pumped about Fruit Chan’s remake of Hideo Nakata’s 1996 chiller “Don’t Look Up,” I’d actually forgotten about the production until I discovered at small blurb about its upcoming release on the Fangoria News Blog. The film, which stars Eli Roth,...
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After Much Delay, the Sarah Michelle Gellar Chiller Possession Arrives on DVD

If I remember correctly, Joel Bergvall and Simon Sandquist’s 2008 supernatural thriller “Possession” was supposed to appear on North American DVD sometime last year. For whatever reason, the film vanished into the vapor, never to be seen again. For those of you who have been sitting...
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It’s Like Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Except With Mr. and Mrs. … Jones

The boys at NY Mag seems dismissive of this new film called “Mr. and Mrs. Jones” from Fox, but I don’t kinda mind it at all. Sure, it’s basically a retread of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” from 2005, the film that starred Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as killers who get hitched,...
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Ju-On: White Ghost/Black Ghost (2009) Movie Review

From its relatively humble beginnings in 2000 as a direct to DVD release, the Japanese horror “Ju-on” series went on to become one of the modern Asian ghost genre’s most influential franchises, and one of the country’s most popular domestic blockbusters and exports, also inspiring a series of...
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Written (2007) Movie Review

Korean indie “Written”, the second outing from writer director Kim Byung Woo is a brain teaser of a film which doesn’t blur the line between fiction and reality, so much as it jumps all over it, before proceeding to erase it completely. Needless to say, the film is one which requires a fair amount...
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Has Batman 3 Finally Gotten off its Ass and Back to Work?

David Goyer has been one of the “behind-the-scenes” guys of the “Batman Begins” franchise since the very beginning, having scripted/contributed story ideas to the first two movies. He’s also expected back for the third one, and if this article over at Deadline is to be believed,...
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Captain America Updates: The Invaders, Casting, and The Red Skull

A trio of Captain America news for ya today. First up, director Joe Johnston has revealed to CHUD that The Invaders super team will indeed be joining Captain America as he battles the dastardly Nazis in his very own movie, “The First Avenger: Captain America” in 2011. And it won’t be...
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Sam Worthington Checks into the Texas Killing Fields

Continuing his quest to star in, or at least become attached to every movie ever made by Hollywood from 2009 onward, Aussie Sam Worthington has officially signed on to star in the true-life murder mystery “The Texas Killing Fields”. The film will be produced by “Heat” director...
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The Complete List of 2010 Superbowl 44 Movie Trailers

Who dat? The Superbowl champs, of course. In case you missed it (if you’re like me, you probably spent a lot of the commercial breaks between the beer and the bathroom), here are the movie spots that showed up during this year’s Superbowl game between the Colts and the Saints. The game was...
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Sappy Chick Flick Downs Avatar in Week 8

Of all the movies in all the world, who would have thought it would be a sappy chick flick starring Channing Tatum called “Dear John” that would eventually end “Avatar’s” reign at the top of the box office charts? Well that’s exactly what happened this weekend, as...
February 7th, 2010 | Read More

Taylor Lautner is Stretch Armstrong — in 3D!

For a kid who was this close to losing out on the franchise of a lifetime, young Taylor Lautner sure has his hands in a lot of pies. In fact, if he actually ends up doing all the movies and projects he’s committed himself to, he might just end up either surpassing all his “Twilight”...
February 7th, 2010 | Read More