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Shane Black is Writing the Doc Savage Movie

News from over the weekend is that Shane Black says he’s currently preparing to write a script for a “Doc Savage” movie, based on the pulp novels of Lester Dent and created by Henry W. Ralston and John L. Nanovic back in the good ol days of the ’30s and ’40s. There was a...

October 26th, 2009 | Read More

Footloose Remake Loses Director

I know, I know, it’s a remake of “Footloose”, why even bother following it? It’s definitely hurting my street cred, that’s for sure. But I can’t help it, the original movie with Kevin Bacon and John Lithgow (about a city kid who moves to a rural town where music is...

October 26th, 2009 | Read More

Paranormal Activity Sequel in the Works. Why? What Part of Box Office Phenomenon Don’t you Understand?

$62.5 million. That’s how much Oren Peli’s little $15,000 movie (essentially shot on home video equipment) has made so far, including the $22 million the film just pulled in over the weekend, the film’s first time in 1,945 theaters after Paramount Pictures decided there was money to...

October 26th, 2009 | Read More

George Miller Confirms Mad Mad 4: Fury Road is Revving its Engines

Well slap my bottom and call me Sally. When rumored news that George Miller was about ready to go into production on a “Mad Max 4″ surfaced over the weekend, I was a tad skeptical. Okay, I didn’t believe it at all, especially the premature casting tidbits about Worthington and Theron....

October 26th, 2009 | Read More

Liam Neeson’s Unknown White Male Adds Kruger, Jones

Liam Neeson’s mysterious Berlin adventure has just gotten a little bit of color — blonde, that is. The mystery/thriller has added two lovely ladies to its cast — “Mad Men’s” January Jones (below) and “Inglourious Basterds’” Diane Kruger (left). The...

October 26th, 2009 | Read More

Box Office: Low-Budget Activity Favored Over Neverending Redundant Sequel

It used to be you could just toss a script together and call it “Saw”, release it on Halloween, and the kids would flock to see it. Well that’s still sort of true, though not nearly in the same league as previous incarnations of the “Saw” franchise. Especially when there...

October 25th, 2009 | Read More

Sam Worthington as Mad Max? Shooting in 2010?

Yes, and yes, according to the Aussie site The Daily Telegraph, which you would think would know about all things “Mad Max”, right? After all, it doesn’t get anymore Aussie than George Miller’s “Mad Max” movies. (Well, except for “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”....

October 24th, 2009 | Read More

Bad Lieutenant Clip: Nic Cage Show his Castle to Eva Mendes

Nic Cage acting all hopped up on drugs and stuttering his way through a story about pirate treasure and a missing spoon while showing off his shack/childhood castle? Nic Cage does that in his sleep, buddy, and he does it here, in this clip from Werner Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call...

October 24th, 2009 | Read More

The A-Team Boys’ First Official Coming Out Photo

From what I hear around the interwebs, this is the first official cast pic from Joe Carnahan’s “The A-Team”. They really went to great lengths to get Liam Neeson, chowing down on a cigar, to look like the TV version of Hannibal, and from everything I’ve seen, Faceman (Bradley...

October 24th, 2009 | Read More

Red Cliff Clip: The Final Siege Begins…

Apple has a new clip from John Woo’s mega epic “Red Cliff”, which features, if I recall correctly, a one-hour siege at the end of the movie that features a series of elaborate, bloody battles as the good guys march to the bad guys’ final last stand. It’s an insane amount...