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Liam Neeson almost got replaced on Taken 2?

Posted 15 years ago

A couple of years ago, a surprising number of people showed up to watch Liam Neeson use his particular set of skills to decimate the lowlifes who kidnapped his daughter in TAKEN. And we’ve been expecting Neeson’s globetrotting asskicker to...

Poster and behind the scenes glimpse of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Posted 15 years ago

Zombies and cutthroats and mermaids, oh yarrr. Are you prepared for more of Johnny Depp’s swaggering sloshed swashbuckler Captain Jack Sparrow? This should help get you ready (more than our eye-linered plunderer probably will be for whatever he faces) —...

Jake Gyllenhaal’s SXSW bathroom scuffle, brought to you in Taiwanese computer animation

Posted 15 years ago

You might have seen or read the story about SOURCE CODE star Jake Gyllenhaal recently getting into a minor altercation with an overzealous fan/paparazzo who took a snap of his junk in the public restroom at the SXSW film festival....

Silent Hill 3D sequel brings back Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean and Deborah Kara Unger

Posted 15 years ago

When we heard about the 3D sequel to SILENT HILL last week, it seemed like it might be a sequel in name only, since none of the original cast was announced. Fear not! (Well, not until you see the movie.)...

JoBlo.com previews this week’s new releases: March 18, 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. ******...

The CG remake of Yellow Submarine gets hit by a torpedo

Posted 15 years ago

After this weekend’s 3D CG-animated movie MARS NEEDS MOMS returned less than $7 million on a $150 million budget, Disney has decided to send Robert Zemeckis’ planned remake of The Beatles’ YELLOW SUBMARINE to the crush depths of the development...

Logan Marshall-Green is the leading man in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus

Posted 15 years ago

Actor Logan Marshall-Green must be thanking his agent, not to mention his genetics. The Tom Hardy doppelganger has landed a lead role in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic PROMETHEUS, playing Holloway, a starship crewman and the love interest for Noomi Rapace’s...

Robots vs. giant monsters? Possible details of Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim

Posted 15 years ago

With Guillermo del Toro’s planned project AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, we had some idea of what we might get: Tom Cruise on an Arctic expedition and an encounter with ancient tentacled creepozoids. But when the H.P. Lovecraft adaptation got...

Angry Birds: The Quentin Tarantino Edition

Posted 15 years ago

While we’d rather report more details about filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s next project (reportedly a spaghetti Western), and we’re all growing exhausted of celebrity conflicts and lawsuits, this is still odd and kind of amusing. Apparently Tarantino has taken major issue...

Our first look at the new Cimmerian warrior in the teaser for Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian

Posted 15 years ago

We’ve been waiting a long time to see how well beefy new star Jason Momoa fits the role of Robert E. Howard’s infamous Hyborian death machine, but unfortunately our first look at the new CONAN THE BARBARIAN in motion is...

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