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Holy Crap Optimus Prime is Really Big
Here’s a couple of two new looks at Michael Bay’s upcoming “Transformers”, featuring Megan Fox, Shia LeBouf, and the huge, honking head of Optimus Prime himself as he confronts the two puny humans (images...
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Thomas Jane Quits The Punisher 2
Well this comes as a bit of a surprise, but Thomas Jane has officially pulled out of the upcoming “Punisher 2″, the sequel to the 2004 comic book movie adaptation about a cop who...
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Lionsgate to Distribute Frank Miller’s The Spirit Live-Action Movie
In case you haven’t heard (where have you been, living under a garage?), Frank Miller is writing and directing a live-action movie adaptation of Will Esiner’s pulp crimefighter, The Spirit. He’s since finished the...
Read More »Wong Kar Wai Opens Cannes with My Blueberry Nights, Trailer and Images
Returning to the film festival that gave him the Best Director Award in 1997 for “Happy Together”, Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai shakes off the shackles of his 5-year odyssey making “2046″ to...
Read More »Emperor Motion Picture Picks Up Jay Chou’s Kung Fu Dunk (formerly Slam Dunk)
News from Cannes is that Emperor Motion Picture has picked up international sales rights for Jay Chou’s upcoming Taiwanese high school action film “Kung Fu Dunk”, formerly called “Slam Dunk”. (The name change was...
Read More »Hitman-Comedy You Kill Me Gets a Trailer
It’s hard to do a mob hitman comedy, but it can be done. “The Whole Nine Yards” managed it, although its sequel, the “Whole Ten Yards” fell harder than William Shatner in Yoga class....
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Jade Warrior (2006) Movie Review
“The Fins do wuxia.” Something isn’t quite right about that statement, but that’s not going to stop first-time writer/director Antti-Jussi Annila. The writer/director of “Jade Warrior” has constructed an earnest melodrama set against the...
Read More »Nick Stahl Back for Terminator 4?
It might very well be that I am the only person in the known universe who didn’t think “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” was such a bad movie. In fact, I really liked...
Read More »More Details About that Magneto Movie
You can’t keep the Master of Magnetism down, as the X-Men certainly found out in the comic books and in the movies, as Magneto (played in the film by Ian McKellen) kept coming back...
Read More »Kevin Costner’s Mr. Brooks Gets an Official Site
Kevin Costner’s “Mr. Brooks”, which stars Costner as a successful businessman who hides a dark secret — he has an alter ego (William Hurt) who just happens to be a serial killer. Now Mr....
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Because You Demanded It — Point Break 2: Point Breaker
In the original “Point Break” (1991), FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) posed as a surfer dude in order to bust a group of surfer dudes who also moonlights as notorious bank robbers. The...
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Jet Li and Jason Statham’s War (formerly Rogue) Trailer
Jet Li may have sworn off wuxia for good, but that doesn’t mean he still isn’t kicking a whole lotta ass in his movies. His latest is a collaboration with Jason Statham (of “Transporter”...
Read More »Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart Trailer
Angelina Jolie’s accented adaptation of Mariane Pearl’s “The Breve Life and Death of my Husband Danny Pearl”, aka “A Mighty Heart”, gets an emotional trailer. I don’t know what’s stranger — that we’re supposed...
Read More »New Images from Rob Zombie’s Halloween Remake
It’s hard for me to get excited about yet another Hollywood remake of a movie, classic or otherwise, but I really can’t bring myself to hate or love this idea of remaking John Carpenter’s...
Read More »Lam, Hark, and To’s Triangle Gets a Poster
So these three guys, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark, and Johnnie To decides to make a movie together. Except instead of co-directing the movie, they’re going to make separate 30-minute films that will combine into...
Read More »Korean Pop Star Rain to Join Speed Racer?
According to his management (which means it might not be true, or even happen), South Korean pop star and actor Rain (his stage name, his real name is Jung Ji-Hoon) will be joining the...
Read More »Maria Bello Replaces Rachel Weisz in Mummy 3
Variety reports that actress Maria Bello has officially replaced Rachel Weisz for the upcoming “Mummy 3″ movie. She’ll be joining the returning Brendan Fraser, who has starred in all three “Mummy” films, and newcomer...
Read More »Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla Crime Caper
Guy Ritchie’s last two movies never made it to theaters in the U.S., with 2002′s “Swept Away” (starring his wife Madonna) and 2005′s “Revolver” both landing with thuds on both sides of the Pond....
Read More »First Picture from John Rambo: Mullet, Machinegun, and Double Chin
Oh man, time has not been kind to John Rambo. Not the least bit. Sure, he’s still built like a Mack truck, but apparently Rambo hasn’t been keeping up with his gym membership, because...
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