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Quentin Tarantino will feel the heat at a Friars Club Roast

Posted 16 years ago

If you’ve ever seen a celebrity roast, you know that the “guest of honor” will be peppered by good-natured but accurate barbs from a gathering of celebrity acquaintances. So regardless of whether you’re a fan or a hater of filmmaker...

Get a serious buzz from official Ghostbusters Stay-Puft marshmallows

Posted 16 years ago

“I couldn’t help it. It just popped in there! I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us.” Good thinkin’, Ray. And now it’s good eatin’!...

Albert Brooks is a mobster in the Refn/Gosling action movie Drive

Posted 16 years ago

We mostly know Albert Brooks (BROADCAST NEWS, DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, FINDING NEMO) as a talented comedian with a genial demeanor — even when he played a criminal in OUT OF SIGHT. But he’ll be flexing his mean muscles as a...

Usual Suspects writer Chris McQuarrie helps Angelina Jolie feel Unforgiven

Posted 16 years ago

Angelina Jolie is one alarmingly busy woman. She’s raising a few dozen kids, she’s making her directing debut, and she’s ceaselessly pursued for just about ever female role Hollywood can think of. No wonder she’s so lean. Now she’s wanted...

Inglourious Basterds villain Hans Landa makes one creepy doll

Posted 16 years ago

If you’ve seen products from Hong Kong production house Hot Toys, you know they make unnervingly accurate figures from popular genre franchises like TERMINATOR, ALIEN, PREDATOR and BATMAN. The latest human to have his likeness captured in eerily detailed plastic...

Hatchet II says f#ck the MPAA, we’ll go with hardcore gore and no rating

Posted 16 years ago

I can’t say much for the story or acting in Adam Green’s HATCHET, but it sure did have some gnarly gore. Which I suppose was the point. And there will be much more of those gruesome practical effects in HATCHET...

Nic Cage’s flaming head will be in 3D for Ghost Rider 2

Posted 16 years ago

Hotheaded motorcyclist GHOST RIDER is coming back to theaters so fast, he’ll blast right through the screen in… 3D!!! The Sony sequel GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (which, like other Marvel characters at various studios, is being made partially out...

Casting rumors on the Fantastic Four reboot already

Posted 16 years ago

After two tries with the same humans in the unstable molecule suits, Fox is rebooting the FANTASTIC FOUR film franchise with a whole new crew. While it’s still early in the remake’s process, Screen Rant claims the studio is tossing...

Anime director Satoshi Kon has passed away

Posted 16 years ago

Downer for anime fans: acclaimed filmmaker Satoshi Kon has reportedly passed away from cancer at age 47. Kon started as a manga artist and graduated to anime features with the drama PERFECT BLUE, which he followed with the comedy TOKYO...

Joss Whedon talks about story and women in The Avengers

Posted 16 years ago

It’s still almost two years away from hitting screens, but that’s just plenty of time for us to discuss and speculate on Marvel’s massive hero collaboration, THE AVENGERS. While on a visit to Australia, writer-director Joss Whedon addressed the team’s...

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