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Batman Lives! Oh wait, that’s Batman Live, the traveling stage show

Posted 16 years ago

It’s still a long wait until Summer 2012 when the Caped Crusader reappears in human form with Christopher Nolan’s anticipated THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, but you might not have to wait that long to witness the nocturnal hero in live-action....

Ice Cube is a trigger-happy cop for director David O. Russell

Posted 16 years ago

Ice Cube went from hardcore gangsta rapper to significantly less serious work (ARE WE THERE YET?, etc.), but now it sounds like he’s coming back to put that scowl to good use. Cube will reunite with his THREE KINGS director...

Spider-Man’s new Uncle Ben is former President Martin Sheen; Sally Field for Aunt May

Posted 16 years ago

The freshly rebooted SPIDER-MAN has its new arachni-teen Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), love interest Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) and villain (Rhys Ifans), and now secondary characters are showing up. Peter’s gentle Uncle Ben, who coins the famous phrase “With great...

Yep, Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are doing Dark Shadows next year

Posted 16 years ago

It seems like we just reported this recently (and indeed we did), but now it’s been super-extra-verified: Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are finally making DARK SHADOWS. Deadline says that work will start next April on the movie, one of...

Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis try Farrelly Brothers funny in the trailer for Hall Pass

Posted 16 years ago

Though they’ve since made a few tries, I don’t think the Farrelly Brothers have seen the same degree of comedic success as their brilliantly raunchy (and occasionally sticky) DUMB AND DUMBER and THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY. Their latest attempt HALL...

Danny Boyle finds his Frankenstein(s)

Posted 16 years ago

When he’s done promoting the James Franco real-life rock-climbing drama/thriller 127 HOURS, filmmaker Danny Boyle is jumping into some classic material, but not another movie. As we first heard at the beginning of the year, Boyle (SUNSHINE, TRAINSPOTTING, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE)...

Bryan Singer says Wolverine won’t cameo in the X-Men prequel First Class

Posted 16 years ago

Marvel mutant Wolverine may have a healing factor that slows his aging, so he basically looked the same in the 1960s as he does now. But we still won’t be seeing Hugh Jackman’s boneclaws and muttonchops during that time period...

Michael Caine and Ray Winstone take Shakespeare into sci-fi territory

Posted 16 years ago

If you thought there weren’t many more different ways to tell familiar stories, then how about Shakespeare with a science fiction twist? HENRY 5 is a futuristic take on the Bard’s play “Henry V”, about the British King’s invasion of...

Leonardo DiCaprio does some killing in The Devil in the White City

Posted 16 years ago

Leonardo DiCaprio can do a lot of things well, but now he’s looking to get downright murderous. Leo will put that famously furrowed brow to good use as killer H.H. Holmes in an adaptation of Eric Larson’s book THE DEVIL...

Villains and pecs in the hi-res snaps from Captain America: The First Avenger

Posted 16 years ago

Last week we got our first good look at CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER in the pages of EW. Now Paramount has released the full hi-res pics from Joe Johnston’s WWII origin story of Marvel’s star-spangled hero, with some much...

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