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UPDATE: Sam Raimi wanted for Oz the Great and Powerful

Posted 16 years ago

UPDATE – Deadline is reporting that Raimi accepted the deal from Disney, signed the contract and will make OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL with Robert Downey, Jr. his next film. Disney is hot to get someone in the director’s chair...

Things get bloody in the red-band Centurion trailer

Posted 16 years ago

I dig the elements Neil Marshall throws into his movies. Werewolves, special forces soldiers, savage underground creepers, post-apocalyptic cannibals… and now the period pursuit flick CENTURION provides fireballs, axe maiming, spurting arteries and badass warrior women. The movie doesn’t hit...

Cool Videos: the Care Bears return… in a violent live-action movie

Posted 16 years ago

On a weekend where the only major releases are remakes of a popular movie and a famous TV show from the 80s, it’s clear that Hollywood’s insistence on trying to profit from nostalgia will continue unabated. A new movie based...

Elf: the Broadway musical?

Posted 16 years ago

Can an oversized Santa’s helper succeed where a superhero like Spider-Man has (so far) failed? While the big-budget Spider-Man Broadway muscial has continually crumbled, Will Ferrell’s Christmas fave ELF will dance and sing and jingle all the way through the...

Another potential Guillermo del Toro project: Van Helsing

Posted 16 years ago

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro spent a couple of years working on THE HOBBIT, only to depart the project with no start date in sight. Now he seems to be making up for lost time. According to Pajiba, GdT is planning...

Angelina Jolie as Cleopatra?

Posted 16 years ago

Last time we heard about a CLEOPATRA project, it was Steven Soderbergh’s planned (and now apparently dead) 3D rock ’n’ roll musical. Now it’s reportedly Angelina Jolie who will smear on the heavy eyeliner and don the gold headdress of...

Release of Red Dawn remake gets delayed… indefinitely?

Posted 16 years ago

As we recently heard, some members of the Chinese press aren’t too happy about the country’s depiction as invaders in the RED DAWN remake. Turns out they may not have a movie to worry about — the update of the...

Peter Dinklage, Steve Zahn and Ryan Kwanten fight a demon

Posted 16 years ago

I don’t know if this is a “dream cast”, but it sure as hell is intriguing. Diminutive thespian Peter Dinklage, “True Blood” beefstick Ryan Kwanten and wisecracking sidekick extraordinaire Steve Zahn are joining forces to fight evil. The movie is...

The fourth Bourne movie is really in the works

Posted 16 years ago

It looks like renegade superspy Jason Bourne will be, well… Bourne again. At least on the page. Universal has hired writer Tony Gilroy to work on a fourth installment of the globetrotting asskicker, tentatively titled THE BOURNE LEGACY. Gilroy, who...

Tom Cruise’s megaproducer Les Grossman officially gets his own f@#kin’ movie

Posted 16 years ago

Abrasive Hollywood hotshot Les Grossman came back, then said he wanted his own movie. Now he’s officially getting his way. Diet Coke!!! Tom Cruise’s TROPIC THUNDER character will be showcased in his own feature, courtesy of Paramount and Les/Tom chum...

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