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Cool Videos: E.T. returns with a vengeance in E.T-X: Extinction

Posted 15 years ago

Although it’s extremely unlikely that Steven Spielberg will ever revisit the classic E.T.: THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL with a sequel, that doesn’t mean the thought hasn’t crossed the minds of the internet’s growing population of amateur editors, mashup makers and lunatics. And...

Amazon enters battle versus Netflix with Prime streaming service

Posted 15 years ago

There’s no way to tell just how far away from extinction the DVD and Blu-Ray formats may be, but it sure seems that more and more companies would rather have you pump movies through your broadband connection than spin up...

Heroes galore! Pics from Marvel’s Captain America and Thor

Posted 15 years ago

As we creep up on Superhero Summer, Marvel has given us a better look at their AVENGERS prequels — er, solo launches of classic comic characters. We’ve seen scans of most of these pics from CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER,...

Zack Snyder’s action girls hit the panic switch in the new trailer for Sucker Punch

Posted 15 years ago

I don’t know what kind of mental checklist director Zack Snyder had for his madhouse action epic SUCKER PUNCH, but if he forgot to include anything, I can’t imagine what it might be. Snyder’s massive mélange of stylized hyperviolence, sexy...

An American live-action Star Blazers movie, from Usual Suspects writer Chris McQuarrie?

Posted 15 years ago

After years of drifting around Hollywood seeking salvation, a live-action STAR BLAZERS is finally picking up some heat. Deadline says that Skydance Productions (who co-financed TRUE GRIT) is angling for the rights to the animated property, with the intention of...

Tom Hardy talks about Chris Nolan and playing villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises

Posted 15 years ago

With the release of the immeasurably anticipated THE DARK KNIGHT RISES still about a year and a half away, and director Christopher Nolan refusing to part his lips with substantial details of the project, we’ll be spending a lot of...

X-Men: First Class filmmakers will answer your questions about the movie

Posted 15 years ago

Did the trailer for Marvel’s mutant prequel X-MEN: FIRST CLASS leave you with questions or concerns? Wondering about that dapper red demon, or why Charles and Erik seem to be preparing for a mutie threesome? Worried about an overdose of...

Trailer for zombie videogame Dead Island is better than most movie previews

Posted 15 years ago

UPDATE: Unsurprisingly, in the past two days this popular trailer for the DEAD ISLAND game has set off a Hollywood frenzy to turn it into a movie. Studios are reportedly fighting for the opportunity to make a feature using a...

There’s a mystery on the moon in the trailer for Apollo 18

Posted 15 years ago

They just started making the “found footage” space thriller APOLLO 18 last November, but it already has a trailer and an April 22nd release date. But then, all director Gonzalo López-Gallego really had to do was assemble the “found footage”,...

Carla Gugino, familiar faces and exotic dancers in the trailer for Girl Walks into a Bar

Posted 15 years ago

Filmmaker Sebastian Gutierrez has been providing plenty of sexy Carla Gugino lately in movies like WOMEN IN TROUBLE and ELEKTRA LUXX, and he’s not even close to finished capturing her fine form on film (or digital storage, whatever). Their latest...

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