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The Road director John Hillcoat’s Red Dead Redemption videogame “film”

Posted 16 years ago

Director John Hillcoat knows his way around a Western — check out his feature THE PROPOSITION as evidence. He also knows his way around a Western videogame, namely Rockstar’s recently released time-sponge RED DEAD REDEMPTION. The 30 minute short is...

The next and probably not final Final Destination gets a director

Posted 16 years ago

The Reaper has been tracking lucky/doomed souls through a FINAL DESTINATION trilogy, then one last FINAL DESTINATION. But the Reaper never sleeps, and so the FINAL DESTINATION series continues. The next FINAL DESTINATION (perhaps to be called THE NEXT FINAL...

Michael Fassbender: maybe your new (young) Magneto?

Posted 16 years ago

We’ve already got James McAvoy (WANTED) as the young mutant idealist Charles Xavier in Matthew Vaughn’s X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. But who will be his friend-then-foe Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a., Magneto? According to Showbiz411, Michael Fassbender is being pursued for the part...

A-Team director Joe Carnahan wants to do Preacher and Taskmaster

Posted 16 years ago

Given its controversial approach to religion, it’s no surprise that a movie adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s phenomenal comic PREACHER has been mired in Development Hell. There’s one guy who wants to play shepherd to Jesse Custer and...

Bill & Ted’s director Stephen Herek gives orders to WWE’s Triple H

Posted 16 years ago

After a few flaccid attempts in feature films (SEE NO EVIL, 12 ROUNDS, THE CONDEMNED), the rasslin’ masters at WWE are trying a slightly different tactic: comedy. The Triple H-fronted flick THE CHAPERONE comes from Stephen Herek, who directed 80s...

Cool Videos: Sam Mendes’ iPhone commercial

Posted 16 years ago

Not that you needed more excuses/pressure to buy Apple products, but… While we’re still waiting to see what filmmaker Sam Mendes (AMERICAN BEAUTY, ROAD TO PERDITION) will do for his next feature while James Bond is on ice, he’s filling...

China is not amused by being the villains of the Red Dawn remake

Posted 16 years ago

The fictional China is the one attacking America in the upcoming remake of 1984’s RED DAWN, but the real-life China apparently isn’t keen on the negative portrayal. And in a way they have a point, considering the US owes them...

Joseph Fiennes and Eva Green go to cable for Camelot

Posted 16 years ago

It’s not quite “The Sopranos”, but I’ve gotta hand it to the original programming on Starz — the cringe-comedy “Party Down” is hilarious, and while I was prepared to write off “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” as merely a blatant 300...

John Carpenter pays a visit to Fangland with Hilary Swank

Posted 16 years ago

For too long, legendary genre filmmaker John Carpenter sat on the sidelines collecting royalty checks for lousy remakes of his superior work. Now he’s back in the swing of things, finishing off his haunted asylum tale THE WARD before heading...

How about an “edgy” Snow White, from Brett Ratner?

Posted 16 years ago

With ALICE IN WONDERLAND mystifyingly making a billion bucks at the box office, we can probably expect to see fairy tale updates rival vampire projects in the Hollywood lemming line. The latest is a new version of SNOW WHITE, which...

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