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Casting Round-Up: Kiefer Sutherland is going to Pompeii and Rufus Sewell joins Dwayne Johnson's Hercules

There's casting news on two different big-budget projects and I'm not going to lie the only reason I'm running the stories together is so I can reference DARK CITY. If you want to complain about it I'll make sure the Strangers pay you a visit. The disaster film POMPEII started filming last week in Toronto and has added Kiefer Sutherland to its cast according to THR. Sutherland joins...

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Brett Ratner's Hercules adds Headhunter's star Aksel Hennie

While we've known for awhile that Dwayne " The Rock " Johnson was set to star as the Greek hero in the HERCULES movie from Brett Ratner , there hasn't been any other casting news until now. The Hollywood Reporter has news that Aksel Hennie (from the Norwegian thriller HEADHUNTERS) has singed on to play Tydeus, "a warrior devoted to Hercules who wields twin axes and is such a...

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WTF news: Brett Ratner to make annoying Facebook app Farmville into an animated series

Hey, remember when I sent you that request to join Farmville on Facebook? Remember when I sent it 65 times? Remember when I posted that my cow was lost? Oh yeah, you remember, and you're probably very thankful that Facebook finally found a way to put the ka-block on that shit, keeping the mindless, fruitless activities of Farmland out of your already convoluted feed of...

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Director Renny Harlin to tackle Hercules 3D; now competing with Brett Ratner's film

Director Renny Harlin , once one of the top action directors of his day (CLIFFHANGER, DIE HARD 2, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT) has had a bumpy go in the last decade or so, although he's worked steadily during that time. Unfortunately, it's mostly been direct-to-video material or TV work, keeping the bombasitc, slow-motion macho action at bay in favor of more commercial and uninspired...

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Review: Movie 43

PLOT: A deranged writer forces a studio executive to listen to a rambling, borderline insane pitch for a movie made up of eleven unrelated stories. REVIEW: Since the title MOVIE 43 doesn't mean anything (the anthology's mastermind, Peter Farrelly, has admitted this), they might as well have called it CRINGE: THE MOVIE. A collection of nasty shorts that seek to humiliate an...

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A leaked clip from Movie 43 plus news on Dumb and Dumber To

MOVIE 43, which looks like a funny diversion, is apparently the latest movie to suffer the January Dumps. No advance screenings have been advertised for critics, which never bodes well for a studio picture. MOVIE 43 has been pieced together for years so the directors and actors could squeeze filming in between their major projects. How else would a small budget film get Hugh Jackman ,...

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Brett Ratner's Hercules with Dwayne Johnson gets an official release date

For those of you hoping that Brett Ratner 's HERCULES, starring Dwayne " The Rock " Johnson would never come to light, well, you're out of luck. Paramount Pictures and MGM have set a release date of August 8, 2014 for the pic, which is an adaptation of the comic, Hercules: The Thracian Wars, published by Radical Comics. The story is said to be a "revisionist take on the classic...

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Red-band featurette for Movie 43 starring Emma Stone, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Gerard Butler and everyone

MOVIE 43, the new ensemble comedy featuring everyone and their sister, is hard to decipher.� I can't decide if it looks hilarious or like an absolute mess, but probably both.� I don't know, it's just too weird to call.� Having as many stars involved in this makes it seem like something too good to be true, but then you start to wonder just how in the hell they pulled it off.� Well, the simple...

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Poster for the ensemble comedy Movie 43 exposes itself

I just don't know what to make of MOVIE 43, the ensemble comedy starring just about everyone. The red-band trailer(s) we've seen certainly have some funny bits, but something feels off about the whole thing. Let's face it, you may not love everyone in the cast, but there's no denying that there are some heavy hitters in there. I mean, Josh Duhamel, Johnny Knoxville...Richard...

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Dwayne Johnson and Brett Ratner teaming for Hercules

Looks like Dwayne Johnson is returning to SCORPION KING territory. The former wrestler will team with director Brett Ratner for HERCULES. The film is scheduled to start filming in early spring of 2013. This version of the Greek myth is based on the Radical Comics series "Hercules: The Thracian Wars" which takes place in barbarian Thrace rather than Greece. In the comic book,...

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The red band trailer for Movie 43 is packed with stars acting like hilarious a-holes

The green band trailer for MOVIE 43 aired at the end of Tosh.0 tonight and I laughed a few times, especially at the Terrence Howard basketball scenes. Comedy Central posted the full red band version online and it feels like the Farrelly Brothers we have been missing. Check out the trailer below. Very NSFW. Comedy Central I love the sheer number of celebrities acting...

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First images from the ensemble comedy Movie 43 featuring Kate Winslet, Terrence Howard, Emma Stone, and more

While I am not exactly sure what the title MOVIE 43 means, I have a feeling it is going to be pretty funny. The anthology comedy will feature 25 shorts from 12 different directors including Patrik Forsberg, Peter Farrelly, Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk and Brett Ratner. That is a lot of directors to go...