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The Incredibles director Brad Bird talks about moving on to live-action with Not-MI:4

Posted 16 years ago

At this weekend’s (Disney/Pixar-boycotted) Annie Awards, director Brad Bird received a Winsor McCay award celebrating his work on IRON GIANT, THE INCREDIBLES and RATATOUILLE. Bird couldn’t be present because he’s currently filming MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL, but he sent his...

Cool Videos: “Superman Classic”, a hand-drawn animation short

Posted 16 years ago

Still got a passion for traditional animation? Fortunately you’re not the only one. Disney animator Rob Pratt (TARZAN, POCAHONTAS) put together his own little piece as a love letter to the old SUPERMAN serials, adding his own flair to the...

Now Dracula is the one being hunted in the vampire project Harker

Posted 16 years ago

Which do you like more: remakes, vampires, or fairy tale movies? Someone out there sure likes ’em, because it seems like a good chunk of what’s in the works for the next couple of years falls into one (or more)...

Director Danny Boyle may take on some LA gangland werewolves

Posted 16 years ago

Filmmaker Danny Boyle is currently busy bringing flesh-creation FRANKENSTEIN to life on the London stage (and will also be broadcast in the US), but does he have more famous monsters in his future? Boyle’s writing collaborator Simon Beaufoy (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE,...

Will Superman kneel before a shapely Kryptonian villain?

Posted 16 years ago

There’s been a lot of talk about actresses vying to be the leading lady in Zack Snyder’s SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL. The most recent round named Diane Kruger, Rosamund Pike and the delectable Alive Eve here as candidates, leading to...

The Daily Franco: Oz the Great and Powerful may be James Franco instead of Johnny Depp

Posted 16 years ago

The James Franco global domination continues! Actor, writer, director, scholar, Oscar host… James Franco must be secretly dabbling in theoretical physics and somehow manipulating his own personal space-time in order to squeeze an extra dozen hours into each day. Seems...

Cool Videos: The Nic Cage Terror Threat Level System

Posted 16 years ago

Is there a major actor who’s provided more material for internet memes than overachieving over-actor Nicolas Cage? Mel, Keanu, Leo… They all have a ways to go before they can ever catch up with Nic. Even Conan O’Brien can’t resist...

Tom Cruise may be the tentacle-fighter of Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness

Posted 16 years ago

Guillermo del Toro is slowly clawing his way toward making pet project AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS become reality. And it looks like Tom Cruise will be fighting the sticky insanity. We’ve heard Cruise’s name associated with the project in...

Teen assassin Hanna is still lethal in this UK trailer

Posted 16 years ago

The first trailer for the teenage assassin movie HANNA (further below) was a slow burn to the action, but the new UK version has no time for that fluffy father-daughter relationship business and gets right on down to the killing....

The poster for Fast Five has cars and a whole lotta sky

Posted 16 years ago

FAST FIVE rounds up almost everyone who has been fast and/or furious in the past four movies (sorry, Michelle Rodriguez) for more octane and testosterone, and IGN has premiered the new poster below. There’s not a whole lot of the...

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