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Russell Crowe jailbreaks Elizabeth Banks in the trailer for The Next Three Days

Posted 16 years ago

Your wife is Elizabeth Banks, and she’s unjustly sent to prison. Naturally, you break that babe out of the big house. Especially if you’re Russell Crowe and you know the Noo Yawk version of Liam Neeson. The trailer for the...

Karl Urban will be the Law in the new Judge Dredd movie

Posted 16 years ago

UPDATE: Empire confirms that Karl Urban will indeed be wearing the famous head-bucket, and that the producers plan to make “a very hard, R-rated, gritty, realistic movie of Dredd”. 7.21.10: After being kicked around the Cursed Earth by Sylvester Stallone,...

Shia LaBeouf may play cops and robbers with The Road director John Hillcoat

Posted 16 years ago

When Shia LaBeouf finishes his third time playing with Michael Bay’s big noisy toys, he seems to have plenty of choices, including a couple of Tony Scott projects, and a “romantic action” story called THE NECESSARY DEATH OF CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN....

Josh Hartnett time-travels with his Slevin director Paul McGuigan

Posted 16 years ago

Where has Josh Hartnett been hiding? Or his movies, anyway — his last major release was 30 DAYS OF NIGHT (though he’s apparently filmed five or six others since then). Hartnett will reportedly reunite with Paul McGuigan, who directed him...

Jeffrey Dean Morgan has a package for you as The Courier

Posted 16 years ago

The TRANSPORTER franchise may be on blocks at the moment, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t important deliveries to be made. Enter Jeffrey Dean Morgan (WATCHMEN, “Supernatural”), who will star in the action vehicle (ahem) THE COURIER. Morgan will play...

The Hangover director Todd Phillips does a John Belushi biopic

Posted 16 years ago

Considering his first big hit OLD SCHOOL was a spiritual cousin to ANIMAL HOUSE, director Todd Phillips would seem like a good match for a movie about hard-living funnyman John Belushi. Warner Bros. has the late comedian’s life rights and...

This Saw 3D motion poster has a lot of heart, and fists

Posted 16 years ago

With the SAW franchise refusing to die (SAW 3D likely won’t be the last after all), the marketing people obviously have their work cut out for them trying to come up with new stuff to put on posters for the...

Cool Videos: Scott Pilgrim trailer made with graphic novel images

Posted 16 years ago

If you’re a fan of the SCOTT PILGRIM graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley, you’ll appreciate this re-edit of the movie adaptation’s trailer featuring art from the original books (or as much as possible, given the deviations the film takes)....

Scarlett Johansson versus Blake Lively for space tragedy with Robert Downey Jr. in Gravity

Posted 16 years ago

Ever since Angelina Jolie climbed in an escape pod and launched herself away from Alfonso Cuaron’s sci-fi survival thriller GRAVITY, the project has been looking for a suitable leading lady to drift among the stars with Robert Downey Jr. Heat...

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Learn about the infuriating economy from The Other Guys end credits

Posted 16 years ago

If you haven’t caught THE OTHER GUYS yet, or didn’t sit through the closing credit sequence, you missed an insightful and maddening series of animated factoids about the depressing economical situation and the various ways that Wall Street has been...

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