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Guillermo del Toro, Lovecraft tentacles and… Tom Cruise??

Posted 16 years ago

Yesterday we talked about how excited James Cameron is to be working with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro on his 3D live-action adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s horror tale AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. Today things get a bit weird. Even for...

Go back to Back to the Future… but only in a videogame

Posted 16 years ago

Unless there’s some chronal chicanery involved, we’re never going to see more BACK TO THE FUTURE movies. But that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of Doc Brown and Marty McFly. Telltale Games (known for their “Sam & Max” games)...

Kind of an update on the Bioshock movie

Posted 16 years ago

A movie based on the fantastic videogame BIOSHOCK was announced over two years ago, but a live-action visit to Rapture remains just a dream at the bottom of the ocean. But the original game’s creative director Ken Levine was recently...

Cool Videos: Robocop – The Musical (“Murphy It’s You”)

Posted 16 years ago

Musical variations of genre favorites are now nearly as ubiquitous as mashups of popular trailers. But as long as they get a chuckle, we’ll keep sharing them. The latest takes heavy-steppin’ police weapon ROBOCOP and gives him a tuneful spin....

Some lovely ladies may join Cruise and Renner in Not-MI4

Posted 16 years ago

UPDATE: Deadline now says that Paula Patton won the role in what is still being called a “franchise reboot”. 8.28.10: Aside from who’s involved so far, nobody seems to know what the hell the next MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movie really is....

Cameron talks about Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness

Posted 16 years ago

There’s been a lot of attention given to this week’s James Cameron 3D imbroglio, but of more interest is his comments on the big-screen adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. A longtime pet project of filmmaker Guillermo...

Because you apparently demanded it, maybe a prequel to Takers

Posted 16 years ago

After a stint in movie prison, the endlessly delayed heist flick TAKERS finally hit theaters, and overcame cast troubles, dead-zone release date and laughably amateurish Photoshop work to narrowly swipe the top spot at the box office this past weekend....

Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston is interested in serial killers

Posted 16 years ago

Bryan Cranston has come a long way from playing Jerry Seinfeld’s dentist and the one-armed colonel in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Just after collecting his third Emmy for his riveting work as the “Breaking Bad” cancer-stricken meth-maker, the actor will shift...

Hypothesizing about a Half-Life movie

Posted 16 years ago

For years, fans of Valve’s HALF-LIFE videogames have wanted to see scientist Gordon Freeman get the Hollywood treatment. But getting it right is the exact reason we haven’t seen it yet. As Valve honcho Gabe Newell tells PC Gamer, after...

Cool Videos: Inception of The Matrix trailer

Posted 16 years ago

Trailer mashups have become the latest viral rage, with all kinds of analogous and incongruous movies getting blended, and no signs of stopping. Christopher Nolan’s dream-trip INCEPTION may bear some thematic and superficial similarities to the MATRIX trilogy, but that...

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