The Making of The Wolfman

A few days ago Variety reported (you kind of have to mine for it in the article) that veteran editors Mark Goldblatt and Walter Murch were being brought in to recut The Wolfman, even though the release date is only a few months away, on February 12, 2010. This could be a very bad thing for the film,...
November 20th, 2009 | Read More

More Daybreakers Images Posit a World where Vampires are Scientists, Too

Lionsgate has sent over two new images from their sci-fi/horror movie “Daybreakers”. Set in the year 2017, the film’s premise finds a world populated by vampires facing a dilemma when their human blood supply starts to run low, leaving them to hunt down the few remaining humans to replenish...
November 20th, 2009 | Read More

Steven Plus Stephen: Dreamworks Options the Rights to Under the Dome

While there might be a hilarious buddy sitcom in here somewhere, Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, cinematic and literary savants respectively, are teaming up to produce a television cable miniseries, according to Variety, based on King’s recent book, Under the Dome, which is about an enigmatic...
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Sam Worthington is Mad he’s Not Mad … Max

Okay, so maybe he’s not actually mad about not being Mad Max in George Miller’s upcoming “Mad Max 4: Fury Road”, but he is a little shock that he wasn’t even asked about the role by ol Georgie. Being that, you know, Mad Max is Australian, will be shot in Australia, and Sam...
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Rose McGowan Insists Red Sonja Isn’t Dead, Filming Next Year

I gotta admit, as much as I don’t see Rose McGowan as Red Sonja, the fact that she seems completely gung-ho about making the movie happen come hell or high water sort of makes me want to see it. Surely, if the lead actress is this excited about a movie, it couldn’t be all bad — right?...
November 20th, 2009 | Read More

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) Movie Review

The midnight showing was sold out and electricity rocketed through the air from the excitement. It was as if a viewer was attending a midnight mass for a Goth Christmas, and when everyone got home, Edward and Jacob would have visited and left presents under the posters bearing their likeness. BOOYAH!!...
November 20th, 2009 | Read More

Pachya Pinkaew Chases the White Elephant with Djimon Hounsou

I hadn’t heard that “Ong Bak” director Pachya Pinkaew was looking to get into the English-language movie scene until I stumbled across this report that the Thai director had signed on with Zero Gravity Management for his beyond-Thailand representation. The short article also mentions...
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Underworld 4 Gets a Writer, But Still Lacks a British-Accented Heroine Babe

With a fourth “Underworld” entry already greenlit by the studio, the biggest question on everyone’s mind (or at least, everyone who thinks werewolves and vampires fighting in a gothic setting with dark-blue scenery is awesome, anyway) is whether either of the franchise’s two British...
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Universal Soldier 3 Poster and DVD Release Date

Original going by “Universal Soldier 3: The Next Generation”, it seems Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren’s return to one of their glory day franchises has been changed to “Universal Soldier: Regeneration”. I suppose that makes some kind of sense. Or as much sense...
November 20th, 2009 | Read More

Sam Worthington and Bradley Cooper to Solve the Texas Killing Fields?

It used to be that I thought Gerard Butler was attaching himself to way too many movies for his own good, and I made fun of him for it. Well guess what? Compared to Sam Worthington, Gerard Butler was an amateur. A scant day after Worthington was attached to the sci-fi “The Last Days of American...
November 20th, 2009 | Read More

Battle Clips from John Woo’s Red Cliff

For those who are interested in such things, John Woo’s martial arts epic “Red Cliff” (formerly “The Battle of Red Cliff”) opened in limited release in the States yesterday. Granted, the perfect timing for this post would have been yesterday, but hey, better late than never,...
November 19th, 2009 | Read More

Chuck’s Returning – Why I’m Hopeful, And Why I’m Worried

It’s finally official – “Chuck” is coming back, earlier than what previous rumors told us. Instead of the unfortunate March release date that some anticipated, two back-to-back episodes of “Chuck” will be airing Sunday, January 10, and then the show will immediately...
November 19th, 2009 | Read More

Brad Pitt Steps Into the Void

Risky Business reports that Reliance Entertainment and Brad Pitt’s Plan B are going to develop the upcoming Dark Void videogame from Capcom into a feature film, the first movie to come out of a 2008 deal between the two studios, with Brad Pitt potentially starring. The story is typical videogame...
November 19th, 2009 | Read More

Brittany Murphy Gets a Call From the Past. The Deadly Past!

Former “8 Mile” star Brittany Murphy has been cast as the female lead in Matthew Parkhill’s horror/thriller “The Caller”, the premise of which sounds a tad sci-fi to me, or at least, a little “Twilight Zone”-ish. She joins a cast that already includes “True...
November 19th, 2009 | Read More

Impressive Teaser Trailer for Michael Chuah’s Fist of Dragon

Well-executed promotional trailers for intense martial arts movies are not unlike a hit of crack: as soon as you you get that initial buzz, you instantly want more. The clip for Michael Chuah’s upcoming kung fu extravaganza “Fist of Dragon” is insanely tasty, and has quickly wormed...
November 19th, 2009 | Read More

Twilight New Moon Will be the Biggest Movie in the History of Movies. Nay, in the History of History.

Or perhaps, just the biggest movie of 2009. Either/or. According to the folks at online movie ticket vendor Fandango, advance ticket sales numbers for “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” has easily beat out every movie in the company’s 10-year history, including “Harry Potter and the...
November 19th, 2009 | Read More

Anne Hathaway Rumored to be Approached For a Part in Spider-Man 4

I don’t know if Felicia Hardy is going to be a villain in Spider-Man 4, but the rumors for a female part are so ubiqitous, Rachel McAdams and Julia Stiles having been rumored in as many days, that there must be some large role that necessitates the inclusion of a well-known actress. The rumors...
November 19th, 2009 | Read More

Donnie Yen Kicks More Japanese Ass in Chen Zhen

Donnie Yen kicking ass on film is always cause for celebration. Yen may have been mired in some really awful vanity projects in his early Hong Kong film career, but he’s on a major streak of box office success (both domestically and internationally) in recent years, putting out some really good...
November 19th, 2009 | Read More

Groovy new Posters for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland

Tim Burton being Tim Burton, you can pretty much bet that his version of “Alice in Wonderland” will feel familiar, and yet, radically different. The movie stars Mia Wasikowska as the titular Alice, who returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure and reunites with her old friends...
November 18th, 2009 | Read More

Jason Lee Directs Get Back

A lot of comedy actors are pretty dispensible,  even if they are highly paid, but there was nobody better suited than Jason Lee to play Earl Hickey in My Name is Earl, at least when he dons the moustache. With the cancellation of the series, Lee is working on several new projects, including Get Back,...
November 18th, 2009 | Read More

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