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Director David Slade can’t escape vampires, now takes Last Voyage of the Demeter

Posted 16 years ago

They say you should stick with what you know, and director David Slade is certainly familiar with bloodsuckers. After a narrow miss with THE WOLVERINE, the 30 DAYS OF NIGHT and TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE director is keeping the fang theme with...

Die Hard 5 has a director! And it’s… Noam Murro?

Posted 16 years ago

Detective John McClane isn’t nearly done saving his wife, kids, country and species from thieves and terrorists. DIE HARD 5 is on the way, and now has a director supposedly hand-picked by star Bruce Willis himself: Noam Murro. Murro (SMART...

UPDATED: Sorry, Murphy. No RoboCop statue for Detroit

Posted 16 years ago

UPDATE: Robo fans are trying to raise the money for a statue on their own, and have set up the site Detroit Needs RoboCop to crowd-fund the project. According to the Detroit Free Press: “If all goes as planned, enthusiasts...

Jason Statham steps in for Eric Bana as SAS badass Nick Stone in Echelon

Posted 16 years ago

While it does seem sort of criminal that Eric Bana still doesn’t have a badass action movie franchise of his own, Jason Statham clearly intends to collect as many potential recurring tough guy characters as possible. The twice-CRANKed, thrice-TRANSPORTERed, likely...

A look at the assembled actors of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit

Posted 16 years ago

While director Peter Jackson and his innards recuperate, the cast of THE HOBBIT has started gravitating to New Zealand for the back-to-back movies’ lengthy production. As seen in the pic above, the new face of Bilbo Baggins, Martin Freeman, has...

Black Swan composer Clint Mansell gives Shepard a dramatic score for Mass Effect 3

Posted 16 years ago

If you spent many hours glued to your chair keeping the galaxy safe from Sovereign and the Reapers, you’ll be excited for any interesting news about the MASS EFFECT universe. While most gamers have their preference between the first two...

Josh Hartnett does samurai gangster weirdness in the trailer for Bunraku

Posted 16 years ago

When we first heard about Guy Moshe’s action movie BUNRAKU a few years back, it was described as a stylistic cousin to SIN CITY and 300. And then star Josh Hartnett went a step further, comparing it to 400-year-old Japanese...

Lethal Weapon writer Shane Black may take over Iron Man 3?

Posted 16 years ago

Fan-gasm! Yes, writer Shane Black (LETHAL WEAPON, THE LAST BOY SCOUT, etc.) could possibly reunite with his KISS KISS BANG BANG star Robert Downey Jr. when Tony Stark returns to the screen post-AVENGERS for a third IRON MAN. Marvel is...

From Fright Night remake to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?

Posted 16 years ago

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL director Craig Gillespie probably wasn’t the sort of guy you expected to update an 80s fave like FRIGHT NIGHT, but he must have proven himself with such satirical horror material. According to Vulture, Gillespie is...

Cool Videos: Reel Wisdom – Lessons from Films

Posted 16 years ago

Movies aren’t just good for entertainment — sometimes we can learn something from them, right? And not just what to do in case of zombie outbreak or when the Earth’s core stops spinning, but more illuminating practical life advice. Some...

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