Producer Says Gerard Butler May Return for 300 Sequel

Producer Mark Canton is pretty excited about a “300″ sequel, and why wouldn’t he be? The film did fantastically at the box office, and the DVD continues to sell well. So well, in fact, that they’re bringing out yet another edition, this one a “complete experience”,...

July 3rd, 2009 | Read More

New Bloody Images from Final Destination 4

Just in time for the Fourth of July weekend, some new bloody images from David R. Ellis’ sure to be gory horror sequel “The Final Destination” aka “Final Destination 4″. I guess adding “The” to the title just makes it more final-sounding like. Mind you, not that...

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Coming Soon (2008) Movie Review

New Thai horror “Coming Soon” certainly has an impressive pedigree, with debut director Sophon Sakdaphisit having written two of the country’s best recent genre hits in the form of “Shutter” and “Alone”, and with producer Yongyoot Thongkongtoon having worked on the recent “4bia” as...

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New Batch if Inglourious Basterds Posters, Wacky Quotes Included

Empire Online brings you five new posters for Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” this glorious Friday. The first one, with the cast, was seen before in International style, but these are all English versions. Each poster has a quote on it from the character it’s showing...

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Opening This Week: Public Enemies, Ice Age 3, Valentine’s Day, Lion’s Den, Monaco, Local Color

This week’s new movies include two major Hollywod releases, Michael Mann’s Depression-era shoot’em up “Public Enemies” and the third installment in the CG franchise “Ice Age”, which your kids will surely love because, well, it’s got cute furry CG animals...

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The Sci-Fi Week That Was: 6/27/09 – 8/3/09

If it’s Comic Con, then it has to have sci-fi, right? Let’s start off with a couple of sci-fi at Comic Con related news, starting with James Cameron’s “Avatar”, sure to be one of the biggest panel at the con. A new poster for it, and information on the movie’s panel,...

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Is the A-Team About to Get Game’d?

If you’re a black actor in Hollywood and your agent isn’t going around spreading rumors that you’re being considered for the role of B.A. Baracus in “Smokin’ Aces” director Joe Carnahan’s big-screen version of the ’80s TV show “The A-Team”,...

July 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Piper Perabo to Headline USA Network’s Covert Affairs

Oh look, the USA Network has finally found its leading lady for its new spy show Covert Affairs, and it’s none other than movie star Piper Perabo. I’ve been covering the show since it was announced, because I think it could be a winner. Kind of like Jennifer Garner in Alias, except less...

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Kristen Bell Says Veronica Mars Movie is Unlikely

According to Kristen Bell, while she and Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas (no, not the musician, the TV guy) are ready and willing to do a Veronica Mars movie, the folks at Warner Bros. aren’t having none of it. As in, they could care less about you Veronica Mars fans out there. But, says Bell...

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Book Giveaway: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Collector’s Book Box Set

Hey, fans of Harry Potter, still haven’t grabbed your copy of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” yet? What kind of fan are you, then? Well lucky you, because instead of having to bug your parents to buy you a copy, or working overtime at the Quickie Mart, we have some copies of...

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Angelina Jolie is Hollywood’s Highest Female Earner

For those of you who care about such things, Forbes.com ranks Angelina Jolie as the reigning female high earner in Hollywood from June 2008 and June 2009, thanks to her profit participation from the comic book movie “Wanted” and a nice paycheck for her spy thriller “Salt”. Jolie’s...

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New Dorian Gray Images

New images from Oliver Parker’s “Dorian Gray”, starring Ben Barnes (of “Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” fame) as the titular character, a handsome scamp who happens to live forever thanks to a nice, shiny painting. Based on the novel by Oscar Wilde, and co-starring...

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Two New Images from Christopher Smith’s Triangle

Christopher Smith’s “Triangle” is one of those movies that I know I’m going to love when I see it, and it’s a bummer that it’s taking the film so long to come out. It was first announced in 2007, started production in 2008, and as recently as early this year, we finally...

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Why, That’s a Mighty Big Gun You Got There, Hit Girl

Here’s another look at Chloe Moretz as Hit-Girl from Matthew Vaughn’s live-action adaptation of Mark Millar’s “Kick-Ass” pre-teens-go-wild (and extremely violent) comic book. There’s a lot of things wrong with this picture, and also a lot of things right with it. I’ll...

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Resident Evil 4 in Theaters by 2010?

So are they making this thing or not? From a purely business standpoint, it doesn’t make sense that they wouldn’t, considering that all three films did pretty well at the box office, and the last film, “Extinction”, scored the most money out of the three. It seems as if the franchise...

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Nightmare Reboot is a Planned Trilogy, Says New Freddy

This isn’t really so much news. Ever since the success of the “Matrix” and “Lord of the Rings” movies, movie producers wake up every morning dreaming of making a trilogy of their own, and isn’t shy about telling people about it. So whenever they get attach to a project,...

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Is Jessica Biel Thor’s Asgardian Warrior Babe Sif?

Maybe. The current rumor has Jessica Biel circling a role in Marvel Studio’s “Thor”. According to the boys over at NukeTheFridge, a source “from deep within” has told them that Jessica Biel is currently in negotiations to play Thor’s love interest in Kenneth Branagh’s...

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The Hurt Locker (2008) Movie Review

Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” is probably the most pro-military movie that has come out of Hollywood in the last few years. And truth be told, it’s not even that pro-military. It’s just that compared to the most recent dozen or so entrants, “The Hurt Locker” does not seem to share...

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New Images from Richard Kelly’s The Box

Five new images from Richard Kelly’s “The Box”. Despite the fact that I know the original story that “The Box” is based on (Richard Matheson’s “Button, Button”), I get this feeling that ol Richard Kelly is going to be pulling a fast one on the viewer. After...

July 1st, 2009 | Read More

The Punisher No Mercy FPS Game Trailers and Screenshots

No one frags’em like the Punisher, so it was only a matter of time before someone got the bright idea to spin the popular comic book character turned not-really-popular movie franchise into a videogame. I’m not sure if turning it into a First-Person Shooter is the way to go, since if you...

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