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Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam gets Rim job from Guillermo del Toro

Posted 15 years ago

Conflicted “Sons of Anarchy” club VP Charlie Hunnam knows about riding machines, but he’ll really step it up when he goes from motorcycles to monster-fighting mechs in filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s PACIFIC RIM. The hunky Brit (who seemed to be...

Will Smith to star in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained?

Posted 15 years ago

Just days after Quentin Tarantino’s new Western script DJANGO UNCHAINED arrived in Hollywood (and the inboxes of many movie website editors), the project is already attracting some significant attention. Now Heat Vision says A-lister Will Smith is being pursued by...

Aardman goes from Wallace and Gromit to the clay seas with The Pirates

Posted 15 years ago

WALLACE AND GROMIT fans will be excited to hear that Aardman Animation is at work on a new movie, even if the cheese-loving inventor and his faithful hound are nowhere to be found. Aardman (Aarrrrrdman?) is working on THE PIRATES!...

Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln movie gets Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and a bunch of others

Posted 15 years ago

Steven Spielberg’s LINCOLN project has taken a long time to get going, but now it’s full steam ahead and picking up people like a mid-19th century locomotive. Daniel Day Lewis is portraying the fashionably hatted President, with Sally Field as...

Bradley Cooper might just be the Devil for director Alex Proyas

Posted 15 years ago

Bradley Cooper may be hot in Hollywood, but he’s no angel. The opposite, in fact, if he joins PARADISE LOST. Cooper is in talks to play Lucifer himself in director Alex Proyas’ ambitious adaptation of John Milton’s challenging text. The...

Kid-friendly zombies in the 3D stop-motion animated ParaNorman

Posted 15 years ago

It’s kind of disheartening that the menace of the walking dead has been diminished to the point where the re-animated are animated in a family-ready movie. But on the plus side, it’s coming from the people behind the occasionally unsettling...

More meat for hungry fish: Piranha 3DD gets Rhames, Lloyd, Scheer, Bowden

Posted 15 years ago

When the ravenous swimmers relocate in the sequel PIRANHA 3DD, some of the first movie’s survivors will lend their fish-fighting expertise. Christopher Lloyd, Ving Rhames and Paul Scheer will be back for more gory fun in the follow-up. They join...

The Weinsteins are remaking Seven Samurai without actual samurai

Posted 15 years ago

A new version of influential Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s legendary SEVEN SAMURAI is getting dragged into the 21st century, trading honorable swords for mags loaded with full metal jacket. British director Scott Mann is making the modernized update for Weinstein...

Rachel Weisz is an evil witch in Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful

Posted 15 years ago

That lovely lady doesn’t seem like much of a hideous witch, does she? That’s why Rachel Weisz is such a good actress. While no stranger to FX-filled movies (THE MUMMY, CONSTANTINE), the Oscar-winner will dig down deep to find her...

Cool Videos: All of Bill Paxton’s lines as Hudson in Aliens

Posted 15 years ago

James Cameron’s ALIENS is a sci-fi classic, loaded with memorable moments. But none are as quotable as jabbering jarhead Pvt. Hudson, played to perfection by Bill Paxton. This new edit distills the entire movie down to the pure essence of...

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