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Taken director Pierre Morel helps Sam Raimi fight aliens with Earth Defense Force

Posted 16 years ago

Ever since he unleashed the vengeance of Liam Neeson to massive success, TAKEN director Pierre Morel has been bouncing around a whole bunch of different projects but not planting his feet. Now the filmmaker (who also made DISTRICT B13 and...

Gerard Butler could feel the Afterburn

Posted 16 years ago

For a while it seemed like Gerard Butler was everywhere, but we haven’t seen him too much lately. Serving penance for THE BOUNTY HUNTER somewhere, maybe. Now he’s getting back into action — of the post-apocalyptic sort. Butler is in...

Poster frenzy: True Grit, Gnomeo & Juliet, The Mechanic, The Rite, The Dilemma

Posted 16 years ago

Looks like everyone decided to kick off the week with new posters! Not particularly compelling or revealing ones, but still… posters. Aside from the new COWBOYS & ALIENS, CARS 2 and PIRATES 4 teasers, here are some new one-sheets for...

A glimpse of Green Lantern!

Posted 16 years ago

Excited for GREEN LANTERN? If you weren’t, this too-damn-short sneak peek might get you there. (Or not.) ET premiered a preview of their preview for the DC superhero space epic, and while they’re yapping over the footage as usual, at...

Some suspicious Uncharted rumors: Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, Mark Wahlberg

Posted 16 years ago

We know that filmmaker David O. Russell ultimately decided to direct a movie based on Sony’s bestselling UNCHARTED games, but it sounds like Nathan Fillion’s public (and justified) campaign to play main character Nathan Drake might not come to fruition....

Cool Videos: “You Look Like Shit” movie scene collection

Posted 16 years ago

There may be a perception that Hollywood is filled with glamorous people, but as you’ll see in the montage below, plenty of their characters look like various styles and forms of shit. We’ve already seen many similar kinds of cliche...

A whole bunch of humans for the new Muppet movie, from Paul Rudd to Lady Gaga

Posted 16 years ago

Something tells me it’s going to end up being easier to list famous people who won’t be showing up in the new Muppet movie, considering all the friends of star/co-writer Jason Segel (FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL) and the nearly universal fondness...

Alien on the road in the poster for Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s road trip comedy Paul

Posted 16 years ago

Knowing the passion and comprehensive understanding that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, “Spaced”) have for all geek goodness, their sci-fi nerdventure PAUL should be hilarious bliss for fellow fanatics. We’ve got our first look at a...

A short but really ridiculously good-looking update on Zoolander 2

Posted 16 years ago

The story behind the ZOOLANDER sequel is nearly as tragic as a male model who can’t turn left. Despite the willingness of all involved, and audiences eager to chuckle at more vacant posing, the studio has been unwilling to commit...

The moon is the location of dueling “found footage” movies

Posted 16 years ago

Hollywood tends to either copy itself, or just happens to simultaneously tap the zeitgeist and/or collective unconscious. Which is how we get ARMAGEDDON vs. DEEP IMPACT, VOLCANO vs. DANTE’S PEAK, MISSION TO MARS vs. RED PLANET, ANTZ vs. A BUG’S...

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