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Viggo Mortensen goes back On The Road with Amy Adams

Posted 16 years ago

No, Viggo Mortensen isn’t returning to Cormac McCarthy’s bleak post-apocalypse, but he is planning to beat his feet on another cross-country trip. Mortensen will appear in the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s influential semi-autobiography ON THE ROAD, playing Old Bull Lee....

Red director Robert Schwentke may take a dip with Shadow Divers

Posted 16 years ago

While we wait for him to unleash the deadly elders of RED, director Robert Schwentke is thinking about taking a cue from James Cameron and spending an inordinate amount of time in the ocean. Schwentke may plunge into the depths...

Maggie Grace and Guy Pearce get launched into space by Luc Besson

Posted 16 years ago

After being kidnapped (and running like a total dork) in TAKEN, former “Lost” castaway Maggie Grace is getting back with writer-producer Luc Besson for a new sci-fi/action project called LOCKOUT. The movie will feature Guy Pearce as “a man wrongly...

Exclusive: New character posters for Centurion

Posted 16 years ago

If you can’t wait for it to chop into theaters on August 27th, Neil Marshall’s period chase movie CENTURION is already available on VOD, VUDU, Playstation Network, Xbox Marketplace and Amazon. We’ve got an exclusive first look at some new...

David O. Russell won’t make the Uncharted movie after all

Posted 16 years ago

When his name was first linked to an adaptation of the cinematic PS3 video game(s) UNCHARTED a few months ago, notorious director David O. Russell (THREE KINGS, I ♥ HUCKABEES) seemed like an odd choice. And apparently the wrong one,...

Comic book Mage: The Hero Discovered gets rediscovered as a movie

Posted 16 years ago

After more than a decade battling demons in Development Hell, Matt Wagner’s comic MAGE: THE HERO DISCOVERED is finally fighting back toward possible production. Producer Lloyd Levin (WATCHMEN, HELLBOY) has revived the property, and plans to put the film together...

Nic Cage exits and then returns to Joel Schumacher’s thriller Trespass

Posted 16 years ago

If you missed the news yesterday, it has essentially negated itself already, but… Nicolas Cage was set to star with Nicole Kidman in TRESPASS, from Cage’s 8MM director Joel Schumacher and Millennium Films (who also fronted dough for Cage’s WICKER...

The new Jack Ryan movie may get one of Lost’s directors

Posted 16 years ago

Has the Jack Ryan revolving door finally stopped spinning? After numerous attempts to reboot the Tom Clancy franchise (with three different actors already portraying the character), Paramount may have finally found their team to head to MOSCOW. According to Vulture,...

Inception made Matthew Vaughn change his plans for X-Men: First Class

Posted 16 years ago

The collective unconscious can be a real pisser to writers — one moment you come up with a brilliant and original idea, and the next you discover someone has already beaten you to it. So imagine the dismay of X-MEN:...

Three young actors give ATM a try

Posted 16 years ago

If you thought the headline was referring to something besides a currency dispensing device, you’ve got a raunchy mind. Congrats! The ATM in question is in fact an upcoming thriller, which just disbursed funds to a trio of actors. Brian...

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