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Dreamworks Animation hires the supervillain janitors of the comic Maintenance

Posted 16 years ago

Dreamworks Animation seems to have a thing for supervillains, whether they’re from outer space (MONSTERS vs. ALIENS) or MetroCity (MEGAMIND). Now they seem to be working their way down past henchmen, all the way to the cleanup crew. DWA has...

Ron Howard discusses adapting Stephen King’s Dark Tower

Posted 16 years ago

Filmmaker Ron Howard has a pretty big job ahead of him, adapting Stephen King’s DARK TOWER books to film (and TV). How does he plan to tackle this massive challenge? Well, Howard started early. “We worked on it for a...

Bret Easton Ellis goes from American Psycho to killer shark

Posted 16 years ago

Though he’s notorious for the satire and excess of stories like AMERICAN PSYCHO, LESS THAN ZERO and RULES OF ATTRACTION, writer Bret Easton Ellis apparently also likes a good shark movie. Ellis’ horror-thriller script BAIT is getting made by Picture...

Update on Bendis comic series Powers and Alias coming to TV

Posted 16 years ago

We don’t cover too much TV around here, but Frank Darabont’s cinematic horror series “The Walking Dead” deservedly got our attention. Then a couple weeks ago, there was some chatter that the writing staff was being replaced for the successful...

Writer Bob Gale talks about the Back to the Future videogames

Posted 16 years ago

It’s been a quarter-century since that plutonium-powered Delorean first hit 88mph and we saw some serious shit, but even though we’ll never get another BACK TO THE FUTURE movie, there’s more time-bouncing to be experienced with Doc Brown and Marty...

Aussie Abe Lincoln? Eric Bana may fight vamps; also becomes bro to Olivia Wilde for KIN

Posted 16 years ago

If a Brit can play one of America’s greatest Presidents, why not an Australian? As Daniel Day-Lewis prepares his beard to play the part for Steven Spielberg’s biopic, WANTED director Timur Bekmambetov is seeking an appropriately action-ready actor to star...

Sacha Baron Cohen is thinking about being a corrupt cop in a remake of Torrente

Posted 16 years ago

If you’re unfamiliar with the popular Spanish TORRENTE movies, they feature writer-director-actor Santiago Segura as an infamously incompetent, mangy, booze-swilling, politically incorrect policeman. But if Torrente were imported into our country (because apparently we don’t have enough of our own...

Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and Christoph Waltz join the circus in the Water for Elephants trailer

Posted 16 years ago

If you’re interested in period stories about the circus, or you want to see what else Robert Pattinson can do outside of TWILIGHT or what Christoph Waltz has been up to since winning the Oscar for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, or you’re...

Another movie project is off to see the Wizard: Corpse Bride co-director for Oz Wars

Posted 16 years ago

SNOW WHITE and FRANKENSTEIN are hardly the only the well-known properties with new competing movie projects at the moment — there’s also a race taking place on the Yellow Brick Road. Disney is working on getting Sam Raimi and Robert...

Cool Videos: Christian Bale sings Powerpuff Girls, Mark Wahlberg sings The Touch

Posted 16 years ago

We’ve seen and heard plenty of the intense Christian Bale for a good while, so it’s nice to see the Jesus-y looking actor show his lighter side… by belting out the theme song for “Powerpuff Girls”, of all things. (And...

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