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James Badge Dale goes from WWII to WWZ

Posted 15 years ago

Assuming that no outbreak occurs in the next year or so, we’ll get to see WORLD WAR Z before an actual zompocalypse. Paramount’s big-screen, big-budget adaptation of Max Brooks’ novel is currently coming to life, and has just added James...

G.I. Joe 2 gets a French ninja?

Posted 15 years ago

With Dwayne Johnson signing up with the good guys and Channing Tatum back for more action in G.I. JOE 2: COBRA STRIKES, the production is starting to gather the rest of the team. Joining the Joes’ international roster is French...

Watch Sean Penn in a brief and partial Fast Times at Ridgemont High reunion

Posted 15 years ago

Actor Sean Penn’s sense of humor has been on an extended vacation (aside from his deadpan “Colbert Report” appearance), so it’s nice to see him acknowledge an important part of his past — stoner surfer Jeff Spicoli from FAST TIMES...

Exclusive: Teaser poster for Despicable Me 2!

Posted 15 years ago

I didn’t quite know what to expect from the original DESPICABLE ME — based on the confounding teasers it appeared to be about a dastardly supervillain and a horde of sentient simple-minded beans. But it turned out to be a...

Risk is the latest board game to become a movie

Posted 15 years ago

I never really played much of the board game RISK when I was younger — the game seemed to take forever, and I was probably looking for a bit more immediate carnage in my global domination, so things often resulted...

Universal’s The Wolfman is getting a reboot?

Posted 15 years ago

The recent update of Universal’s classic lycanthrope THE WOLFMAN held plenty of promise but didn’t prove entirely satisfying — even director Joe Johnston acknowledged its flaws. But that hardly means we’ve seen the last of the legendary fanged moon-howler. In...

The Three Musketeers are ready for a sword fight in this new poster

Posted 15 years ago

You’ve already seen them in motion in the trailer (complete with director Paul W.S. Anderson’s trademark preposterous slo-mo action), and now here’s a look at the pretty new THREE MUSKETEERS posing for the poster. The synopsis: The hot-headed young D’Artagnan...

The reboots of Daredevil and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles now have writers

Posted 15 years ago

Fox’s reboot of Marvel’s DAREDEVIL already has a director in David Slade (30 DAYS OF NIGHT, TWILIGHT ECLIPSE) and now it has a writer and storyline. (You may recall the studio has to get the project moving along, else they...

The sequel to Tron Legacy gets a new writer

Posted 15 years ago

Sam Flynn helped his zen digital dad made the computer world safe and got to interface with a sexy ISO made flesh in TRON: LEGACY, but peace in the circuits could never last. That’s mostly because Disney had already planned...

JoBlo.com previews this week’s new releases: June 10, 2011

Posted 15 years ago

At JoBlo.com, we feel it’s our duty to keep you informed and satisfied. You want to know what your big choices are at the theater each weekend, and we’re happy to reach out and give you the full release. SUPER...

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