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Tony Jaa learns Monk style, quits movie biz

Posted 16 years ago

If you were looking forward to a lot more bone-shattering action from acrobatic Thai cyclone Tony Jaa, you’re out of luck… at least for a while. The pachyderm-loving martial actor and star of the ONG-BAK movies has reportedly left the...

The Green Lantern movie synopsis reveals all

Posted 16 years ago

Until now, I assumed that the villain of the upcoming GREEN LANTERN would be Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard) or, by the end, Mark Strong’s power-hungry Corps member Sinestro. Apparently that’s not quite the case. ComicBookMovie.com got their hands on the...

Tom Cruise briefly brings back Tropic Thunder’s megaproducer Les Grossman

Posted 16 years ago

Aside from Robert Downey Jr. as the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude, the best thing about TROPIC THUNDER might have been Tom Cruise’s appearance as caustic movie mogul Les Grossman. To help promote the upcoming MTV Movie...

Warner Bros. really wants to bring you some DC Comics superheroes

Posted 16 years ago

Marvel’s superheroes have been hitting movie screens at quite a clip, but longtime rival DC is finally on track to give them some spandex-clad competition. At an investor presentation, Warner Bros. honcho Barry Meyer verified a July 20, 2012 release...

Marvel’s Runaways gets a writer who knows Heroics

Posted 16 years ago

Everyone seems to be squeezing in their comic-related movie announcements before the long weekend. Now it’s about Marvel’s RUNAWAYS, their team of superpowered teens who don’t wear X uniforms. The project, which recently brought in Peter Sollett (NICK AND NORAH’S...

Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes will reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Posted 16 years ago

The color-coded half-shell heroes Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael are getting yet another chance at life, this time courtesy of Paramount and demolitionist Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company. Radical? Or bogus? While they’re best known for unnecessary remakes of...

James McAvoy uses his brain as Professor X in X-Men: First Class

Posted 16 years ago

As was hinted when Bryan Singer’s return to the X-MEN franchise was announced (now in a producer capacity), X-MEN: FIRST CLASS may be more of a prequel to Professor X/Magneto than the mutant-powered team itself. So naturally it would need...

Steve Carell will be big in the Philippines

Posted 16 years ago

Steve Carell might be getting another chance to show off his singing voice (or at least pretend he is). The funnyman is reportedly considering a project based on the real-life story of music producer/songwriter Dennis Lambert, a hitmaker (“Rhinestone Cowboy”,...

The star of the Spider-Man reboot is maybe one of these dudes

Posted 16 years ago

Yes, Sony is really going through with their 3D reboot (3Dboot?) of Marvel’s webslinger SPIDER-MAN, obviously trying to lure the lucrative TWILIGHT crowd by pushing it as “an angst-ridden tale of a teen dealing with the knowledge that his uncle...

Travolta, Macy, Garrett and Gooding Jr. in War-Pigs?

Posted 16 years ago

Would you be interested in a wacky comedy starring John Travolta, William H. Macy, Brad Garrett and Cuba Gooding Jr. as dads who venture into North Korea to rescue their kidnapped kids? With “Lloyd from Entourage” as Kim Jong-Il? In...

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