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International Horror Anthology Spoof, Paris, I’ll Kill You, In Development
Anthologies are a long-standing tradition in the horror genre. They’re a way to tell a lot of scary stories where you don’t have to invest a lot of time in characters that will imminently...
Read More »Dolph Lundgren And Mr. T, Together At Last
Dolph Lundgren and Mr. T, the villains in “Rocky IV” and “Rocky III” respectively, may finally team up, though, unfortunately, not to gang up on Sylvester Stallone. Movie Hole reports that they are “in...
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Even The Threat Of Prison Can’t Slow Down Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes is such a badass that even the threat of prison time can’t slow him down. He wants to make a movie about J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King Jr., and now...
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Paul Haggis Goes To Prison, Again, Sort Of
Does director Paul Haggis have a prison fetish? His “The Next Three Days”, opening in a few weeks, is about a prison break, and now Deadline reports that he is hovering around the CBS...
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Character List And Plot Details For Wolverine 2
With director Darren Aronofsky at the helm, I was hoping that “X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2” was going to take some cues from the late 1980s, Chris Claremont/Frank Miller “Wolverine” miniseries. That’s always been one...
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New Images From Andrew Niccol’s New Sci-Fi Film I’m.Mortal
Andrew Niccol (“Gattaca”) is presently filming his latest sci-fi film. The project was called “I’m.mortal”, which is just awful, but that has been changed to the overly generic “Now”. The film stars Justin Timberlake,...
Read More »IFC Will Distribute Hong Kong Slasher Dream Home
IFC has acquired the American rights to Pan Ho-Cheung’s gore filled, horror movie “Dream Home”. Lauded as Hong Kong’s first slasher film, “Dream Home” follows a woman, played by pop star Josie Ho, as...
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Super 8 Gets A Release Date
The J.J. Abrams directed, Steven Spielberg produced “Super 8” is a film shrouded in mystery. No one really knows what it’s all about aside from the fact that it takes place in 1979, it...
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“There Is No Top Gun 2 In Which Maverick Is Not The Starring Role.”
Lots of “Top Gun 2” news has surfaced over the past few weeks. First and foremost is that it is happening at all, and on Monday Tony Scott confirmed that he is indeed on...
Read More »Team Behind 100 Bullets Reunite For Spaceman
Writer Brian Azzarello and illustrator Eduardo Risso, the team behind Vertigo’s Eisner Award-winning pulp/noir comic series “100 Bullets”, announced that they are going to collaborate again. They made the pronouncement at Crack Bang Boom,...
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New Images From The Next Three Days
“The Next Three Days” looks like the kind of film that will help get me through the end of the year Oscar bait that clogs the theaters around the holidays. The tense, prison break...
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Khan Will Not Be The Villain In Star Trek Sequel
Yesterday we reported a little hint about the potential villain in J.J. Abram’s “Star Trek” sequel. It was barely news, little more than an idea really. There have also been rumblings and speculation that...
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Francis Ford Coppola And Val Kilmer Are Shooting A Horror Movie Called Twixt Now And Sunrise
Francis Ford Coppola is shooting a horror thriller starring Val Kilmer? Interesting. Kilmer was good as the delirious sidekick in “Bad Lieutenant—Port of Call New Orleans” (and did other people know he voiced K.I.T.T....
Read More »Badass New US Trailer For Ong Bak 3
It is no secret that I was disappointed with “Ong Bak 2”, though I’ve encountered fans of the sequel. While their points are certainly valid, I’ve watched the movie a couple of times, and...
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A Tiny Little Hint About A New Star Trek Character
It’s not concrete, and it doesn’t provide any substantial information, but hell, it has to do with the “Star Trek” sequel, which is good enough for me. In a New York Times article about...
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Don Coscarelli’s New Film Is John Dies At The End, With Paul Giamatti and Clancy Brown
Don Coscarelli, of “Phantasm” fame, has been dropping mysterious little hints and clues about the film that he is currently shooting. He hasn’t directed a movie since the Bruce-Campbell-Mummy-JFK-Elvis shenanigans of “Bubba Ho-Tep” in...
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Wesley Snipes Talks Martin Luther King, J. Edgar Hoover, And Blade, But Oddly Enough, Says Nothing About Prison
Out of all of the villains he has faced in his illustrious film career, the toughest enemy Wesley Snipes has yet faced turns out to be the federal government. He’s been fighting with the...
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Don’t Cut In Front Of Rainn Wilson In This New Super Clip
The “SCREAM” awards last night had a few shining moments. Sigourney Weaver popping out of an Alien egg sac was awesome, as was the scene from “The Walking Dead”, but overall the night involved...
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Piranha 3D Sequel Gets Bigger, Here Comes The Sequel, Piranha 3 DD
In the best news I’ve heard all day, Deadline reports that Dimension Films has hired a director and team of writers to make a sequel to the best movie of 2010, “Piranha 3D”, entitled...
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