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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

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...

November 20th, 2009 | Read More

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?...

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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...

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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...

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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

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...

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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...

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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

John Woo Not Directing Caliber, Has no Interest in Superhero Movies

Remember that announced movie based on the comic book called “Caliber”, that re-imagined King Arthur and his knights as gunfighters instead of, well, knights? Word was, John Woo was coming onboard to direct the film, but that was over a year ago. According to Woo, who is currently in the...

November 18th, 2009 | Read More

New Daybreakers Quad Poster Asks you to Side with the Dude with the Crossbow

If the last “Daybreakers” poster wasn’t “Matrix”-y looking enough for you, the new quad poster from across the pond tries to re-enforce the point home. And oh yeah, it also apparently has a little dash of “28 Days Later” in it, although from what I’ve seen,...

November 18th, 2009 | Read More

The CW to Take Another Stab at Warren Ellis’ Global Frequency TV Show

I’ve read a lot of Warren Ellis’ comic book work, but I’ve never read his “Global Frequency”. Initially I thought this was the comic series “Planetary”, but apparently they are two separate works. In “Frequency”, a woman name Miranda Zero leads a...

November 18th, 2009 | Read More

Kevin McKidd Talks Rome and Modern Warfare 2 Movies

I guess it’s true what they say: you do learn something new everyday. For instance, I didn’t know former “Rome” star Kevin McKidd was the voice of Soap MacTavish in the “Modern Warfare 2″ game. Go figure. In any case, speaking to the New York Post, McKidd, who can...

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Julia Stiles as the Black Cat in Spidey 4? Probably Not.

With Rachel McAdams having already denied rumors that she was talking to producers of “Spider-Man 4″ to play Felicia Hardy aka The Black Cat in Sam Raimi’s latest Spidey film, the question remains: is the Black Cat really going to be in the movie, and if so, who will play her? According...

November 18th, 2009 | Read More

Keanu Reeves’ Samurai Pic 47 Ronin Has its Director

So yeah, apparently Universal is still moving forward with its plans to make a big-screen movie about the famous 47 Ronin of Japan, to be called, of course, “47 Ronin”. The idea of Hollywood doing a Samurai movie is strange enough, but it’s been known for a while now that Universal...

November 18th, 2009 | Read More

Fight Club 10th Anniversary on Blu-Ray

David Fincher’s 1999 movie “Fight Club” is probably the least understood and least appreciated movies from the late ’90s. It’s a gem of a movie, and I loved the hell out of it when I first saw it in theaters. It was thrilling, it was new, it was insanely clever, and it made...

November 17th, 2009 | Read More

Rachel McAdams Calls Bullshit on Black Cat in Spidey 4 Rumor

See, this is why we don’t “break” movie news on the site — it sucks when you’re wrong and your fellow movie bloggers come down on you like hungry little vultures looking for a piece of meat. That, and no one ever sends me anything worth breaking. Ahem. Anyways, remember...

November 17th, 2009 | Read More