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Jason Statham’s remake of The Mechanic finds a home with CBS Films

Posted 16 years ago

The Jason Statham-starring “re-imagining” of the Charles Bronson hitman flick THE MECHANIC has actually been finished for a while, but it’s going to be still a while longer before you can see it. Via press release: CBS Films today announced...

Timur Bekmambetov talks Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and other projects

Posted 16 years ago

Ever since WANTED shot to success, Russian director Timur Bekmambetov has been collecting projects like they’re limited time offers. Among his extensive plans, Bekmambetov intended to at least produce an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s historical/fiction mashup ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER....

Cool Videos: Lando goes retro in Blackstar Warrior

Posted 16 years ago

Lando’s not a system, he’s a man. And he’s got no love for the Empire, baby. Lando Calrissian is also the subject of BLACKSTAR WARRIOR, a blaxploitation parody in the tone of BLACK DYNAMITE. This preview for a “lost” STAR...

Natalie Portman gives an update on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Posted 16 years ago

Natalie Portman plans to get her frilly dress covered with brain chunks in an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s hit parody book PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES. Portman recently gave an update to MTV, saying that director David O. Russell (THREE...

Chris Evans IS Lucas Lee in these fake movie posters from Scott Pilgrim

Posted 16 years ago

In SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD, in order to win the heart, mind, body and/or soul of the lovely Ramona Flowers (played by the lovely Mary Elizabeth Winstead), the titular slacker must first defeat her seven exes. One of those...

New Resident Evil Afterlife banners have guns, Milla, clones, an axe and a cool toilet

Posted 16 years ago

One cool thing about RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE being in 3D: you should almost be able to taste the cheese as it sails out of the screen toward you. The post-apocalypse has never had so many Ds! (METALSTORM: THE DESTRUCTION OF...

McG helps Ryan Reynolds police the dead on R.I.P.D.?

Posted 16 years ago

An adaptation of the Dark Horse comic R.I.P.D. has been in the works for years, but recently caught a wave with producer Neal Moritz (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUSes) reportedly roping in comic regular Ryan Reynolds for the project. Universal...

French poster for Ben Affleck’s The Town is pretty busy

Posted 16 years ago

After seeing the trailer for Ben Affleck’s ambitious thriller-romance THE TOWN (which you can check out further down, if you missed it before), it doesn’t really seem like the kind of movie that can be summarized in a standard “floating...

A remake of An American Werewolf in London still threatens to become real

Posted 16 years ago

It’s been over a year since we heard that Dimension wanted to remake the hairy, scary monster masterpiece AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, and while the horror faithful figured that following silence was a positive, no such luck. Dimension hasn’t...

Exclusive: Red-band clip from Middle Men

Posted 16 years ago

You like internet porn, right? Never mind — we’ll just assume you do. But you wanna know how it got started? That’s the idea behind MIDDLE MEN, and we’ve got another look at the movie for you below. Warning: it’s...

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