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Salt director Phillip Noyce sticks with espionage action for Hunter Killer

Posted 15 years ago

Director Phillip Noyce has experience with the action-espionage genre that goes much further back than last summer’s SALT — he also directed two Jack Ryan movies, PATRIOT GAMES and CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER. Noyce didn’t get the opportunity to deliver...

Marvel’s Thunder God hammers you again in the latest trailer for Thor

Posted 15 years ago

Superhero Summer kicks off on May 6th, courtesy of Marvel’s Asgardian god of thunder, ass-kicking, and questionable social skills. THOR is going to swing Mjolnir at you in an additional dimension, and the latest trailer also gives us a better...

Adrianne Palicki is TV’s new Wonder Woman

Posted 15 years ago

Despite numerous attempts over the years, DC Comics’ Amazonian superheroine WONDER WOMAN still hasn’t found her way to movie screens. But she’ll deflect bullets and lasso villains on TV, courtesy of NBC and writer David E. Kelley (“The Practice”, “Ally...

Men in Black III is proving difficult to make without a script

Posted 15 years ago

It seemed pretty clear that MEN IN BLACK II just started with a basic story framework, put Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones back in the dark suits and shades, and hoped some magic would happen. It kinda didn’t, but...

Guy Ritchie replacing Zack Snyder for 300 prequel Xerxes? Superman problems? Plus Sherlock 2 gets a title

Posted 15 years ago

Last summer, comic creator Frank Miller announced XERXES, his prequel to the graphic novel 300. Soon after, that movie adaptation’s director Zack Snyder officially came on board to bring Miller’s work to bloody life again. At least on the page...

Cool Videos: Gaze locations and There Will Be Blood – What draws the eyes of movie viewers?

Posted 15 years ago

Ever watch a movie in a theater and suddenly wonder if you’re focusing on the same exact part of the screen as anyone else? Someone out there not only gave thought to that, but put it to the test. And...

Johnny Depp talks about playing the undead in Dark Shadows

Posted 15 years ago

The considerable fanbase of the long-running supernatural soap DARK SHADOWS shouldn’t be too concerned about Johnny Depp’s portrayal of sympathetic bloodsucker Barnabas Collins. Depp, himself a huge fan of the show (the actor has been trying for years to make...

The Mortal Kombat web series is kicking into production

Posted 15 years ago

That live-action MORTAL KOMBAT – REBIRTH short film that arrived last summer proved to be exceptionally popular, and since the game’s roster of oddities and all the gratuitously gruesome action are returning to consoles in April, it’s also a perfect...

AMC Theatres showing all 10 Oscar Best Picture nominees starting this weekend

Posted 15 years ago

Did you miss any (or, somehow, all) of the ten movies nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards? AMC has you covered. As they’ve done for the past few years, the theater chain is showcasing all the nominees...

Casting news and rumors: James Franco, Charlize Theron, Gerard Butler, Colin Firth, and many more

Posted 16 years ago

-Charlize Theron has officially signed on to Ridley Scott’s PROMETHEUS, joining Noomi Rapace (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) and Michael Fassbender (INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) in the Fox sci-fi epic. [Variety] While the studio, director and writer Damon Lindelof (“Lost”) have...

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