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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and no director, as David O. Russell departs

Posted 16 years ago

Not too long ago, Natalie Portman was optimistic about getting her adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s hit parody book PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES (which she’s starring in and producing) up and rolling next year. But now the project has been...

Mortal Instruments adaptation is the latest attempt to fill the looming Harry Potter void

Posted 16 years ago

Unless JK Rowling changes her mind and comes up with some new HARRY POTTER stories, in the near future there’s going to be a movie audience looking for an alternate world of magic and monsters. So far the scramble for...

Bruce Willis talks Expendables 2 and Die Hard 5

Posted 16 years ago

Action veteran Bruce Willis didn’t actually see much action in Sly Stallone’s action extravaganza THE EXPENDABLES, but should a sequel come together, he’s ready for action. And he won’t be the only one, apparently. While it’s been buzzed that Bruce...

Lisbeth Salander goes fauxhawk in the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest trailer

Posted 16 years ago

As David Fincher’s work on adapting Stieg Larsson’s acclaimed “Millennium Trilogy” just begins, the original Swedish movies are now coming to a close (here in the US, at least — the last movie came out almost a year ago in...

Just Cause goes from your videogame console to your local theater

Posted 16 years ago

I have to admit, I only played the recent “sandbox” videogame JUST CAUSE 2 for a couple of weeks before I gave up — it was just too damn huge. The property isn’t too big for the big screen, though....

Wonder Woman is finally coming… to TV?

Posted 16 years ago

Earlier in the year, Warner Bros. supposedly insisted they would have big announcements regarding plans for adapting DC Comics heroes to the screen. But for the most part, we’re still waiting and they’re still in the dust of Marvel’s expanding...

Ghost Rider 2 gets a new devil and a leading lady

Posted 16 years ago

If you’re not all that fired up about the idea of a sequel to GHOST RIDER, I’m not sure if this casting news will fuel any more excitement. GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE will find Nic Cage’s hotheaded motorcyclist facing...

Wild fantasy Old West martial arts in the trailer for The Warrior’s Way

Posted 16 years ago

Years ago there was a bizarro Western project in the works called LAUNDRY WARRIOR, set to co-star Zhang Ziyi. That has since become THE WARRIOR’S WAY, and now features a grungy Kate Bosworth, a nearly unrecognizable Geoffrey Rush and Danny...

Emily Blunt joins Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt in Looper

Posted 16 years ago

LOOPER is a trippy time-travel project that will reunite filmmaker Rian Johnson with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the star of his excellent high school noir BRICK. The project also stars Bruce Willis, but that’s all somehow just not cool enough, so now...

A look at the Black Dynamite animated series, plus more stuff

Posted 16 years ago

The cult fave blaxploitation badass BLACK DYNAMITE is coming back to hand out more beatdowns, but not in a sequel just yet. The hard-hittin’ lady-pleasin’ street machine is coming to Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim next year, and we’ve got a...

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