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Ryan Phillippe and Taylor Kitsch photograph brutal combat in the trailer for The Bang Bang Club

Posted 15 years ago

The evidence of combat can be grim. But those who capture it on film sure can be handsome! THE BANG BANG CLUB, from documentary filmmaker Steven Silver, features Ryan Phillippe and impending blockbuster star Taylor Kitsch (BATTLESHIP, JOHN CARTER OF...

UPDATE: Juno Temple and (officially) Joseph Gordon-Levitt join The Dark Knight Rises

Posted 15 years ago

UPDATE – Oh the drama! Just two days after Variety’s report below that claimed Joseph Gordon-Levitt would be starring as Alberto Falcone in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, Entertainment Weekly files a report claiming that while JGL is in the film,...

Cool Videos: Broken Toy, episodes 1-4

Posted 15 years ago

UPDATE: It’s been a while, but a new chapter in the BROKEN TOY series has been released, with Part 4 taking our mentally unstable protagonist in a new direction. Or at least to the beach. You can check out the...

Posters and posters: Tom Hardy, Natalie Portman, Dylan Dog, more Pirates

Posted 15 years ago

Some new one-sheets for several movies dropped this week, collected here for your perusal. Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton will pound each other in the MMA movie WARRIOR, YOUR HIGHNESS has some Natalie hotness (where’s the Zooey poster?), Brandon Routh...

Billy Bob Thornton comes back for more drunken holiday animosity in Bad Santa 2?

Posted 15 years ago

The raunchy 2003 comedy BAD SANTA has become a non-traditional holiday favorite over the past several years, and star Billy Bob Thornton has previously expressed interest in reprising the role of a booze-soaked mall Santa. Looks like he was serious...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies still needs a damn director

Posted 15 years ago

One would think a high-concept horror mashup like PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES would be a slam dunk, but the feature film adaptation has continuously suffered headshots and been tossed back in the grave, only to rise again. The adaptation...

And now The Fighter director David O. Russell may direct a biopic about boob-lover Russ Meyer

Posted 15 years ago

Even before THE FIGHTER started gathering accolades and statues, director David O. Russell’s name was getting linked to different new projects at an alarming rate, including a Will Smith biblical movie, a sequel to THE FIGHTER, the comic adaptation 2...

The new Fast Five poster features a curiously stationary five

Posted 15 years ago

What’s the best imagery to convey the power and velocity of criminals and cops who will be bombing through 100 minutes of screentime in hyped-up vehicles? For FAST FIVE, the answer is clearly to have several humanoids posing before a...

Cool Videos: “The Dude” – The Big Lebowski meets Quincy Jones

Posted 15 years ago

Movie mash-ups continue to flood video sharing sights, but only an increasing minority can be considered inspired. Jeff Yorkes found inspiration in not so much mixing different movies, but essentially making music videos edited together from one of our favorite...

Shia LaBeouf grows some cranium ornaments in an adaptation of Joe Hill’s Horns

Posted 15 years ago

After he’s done helping Michael Bay obliterate more Autobots, Decepticons and a substantial amount of real estate, Shia LaBeouf will get in touch with his demonic side. Kid Beef is attached to an adaptation of Joe Hill’s horror novel HORNS,...

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