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Tron Legacy gets a bonus level from Pixar

Posted 16 years ago

Just a week or so before the 3D sequel TRON: LEGACY blasts into San Diego for the massive Comic Con push, we’re hearing that the movie got a few extra pixels and polygons courtesy of the masters at Pixar. EW...

Satan rides the elevator in the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil

Posted 16 years ago

In between bending air, M. Night Shyamalan was spending time in the past couple years putting together a new series of flicks based on his own concepts (and twist endings, probably) but made by other filmmakers. First up is DEVIL...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame: your newest action hero?

Posted 16 years ago

Proving that there is still commercial potential to be squeezed from popular stories in the public domain, an update of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME is in the works. Victor Hugo’s classic story of bell-ringing kyphosis sufferer Quasimodo and his...

The Rock accelerates into the Fast and the Furious franchise

Posted 16 years ago

Five times the tires, five times the beef, five times the furiosity. It’s the fifth FAST AND THE FURIOUS movie, because you apparently demanded it. The latest nitrous-powered testosterone injection, going by the handle FAST FIVE, not only brings back...

Ed Norton won’t be Bruce Banner in Marvel’s Avengers movie

Posted 16 years ago

UPDATE #2: Wow, this thing’s turning into a dramatic sniper battle. Hitfix now has a reaction to the below from Norton’s agent Brian Swardstrom, who calls Feige’s comments “unprofessional, disingenuous and clearly defamatory”. More: “This offensive statement from Kevin Feige...

Eric Bana may be SAS badass Nick Stone in Echelon

Posted 16 years ago

Jason Bourne is on ice, Jack Ryan is in no rush to return, and James Bond is sitting forlorn with empty pockets. Can any actor and franchise fill the action-espionage void? How would you feel about Eric Bana as former...

Charlize Theron is a lethal ninja babe in this Brandon Flowers music vid

Posted 16 years ago

Are you a fan of the band The Killers? Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron certainly seems to be, since she’s willing and able to slaughter her way through a small army of ninjas to rescue frontman Brandon Flowers in his new...

Shyamalan thinks The Last Airbender isn’t the last Last Airbender, plans sequels

Posted 16 years ago

Although THE LAST AIRBENDER has been almost universally reviled, M. Night Shyamalan seems undeterred on his mission to make the property into a live-action trilogy. And the eventual total box office could conceivably give him that opportunity. ShyamWow tells MTV...

Dolph shoots a guy in half in this behind-the-scenes look at The Expendables

Posted 16 years ago

It’s sort of hard to believe we were once concerned that Sly Stallone’s all-star bulletstorm THE EXPENDABLES might be tamed down to a PG-13 rating to maximize audience appeal. Doesn’t seem that was ever a practical consideration, looking at this...

Operation: Endgame has a trailer and a decent cast

Posted 16 years ago

You might think an action-comedy with familiar faces like Rob Corddry, Ving Rhames, Zach Galifianakis, Adam Scott, Ellen Barkin, Jeffrey Tambor and TROPIC THUNDER’s Brandon T. Jackson — not to mention hotties like Maggie Q, Emilie de Ravin and Odette...

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