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The Wachowski siblings’ top secret war movie project is real and looking for cash

Posted 16 years ago

For a few months now, we’ve heard that MATRIX-makers Andy and Lana (once Larry) Wachowski have been quietly putting together some kind of secret sci-fi war movie. They’ve even shot footage featuring Jesse Ventura and blog queen Arianna Huffington (seen...

Director Walter Hill replaces Mickey Rourke with Pierce Brosnan

Posted 16 years ago

Back when Mickey Rourke first started getting a career rebirth thanks to THE WRESTLER, he was attaching himself to almost every project that came along. One of them was the indie crime thriller ST. VINCENT, which would reunite him with...

Bruce Willis is Joseph Gordon-Levitt… from the future!

Posted 16 years ago

It was exciting enough that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt was going to star in a time-travel movie called LOOPER, which would reunite him with Rian Johnson, the guy who directed him in the brilliant high-school noir BRICK. Now LOOPER just got...

Sam Worthington has yet another potential franchise: Allan Quatermain

Posted 16 years ago

After being passed through the rectum of a gigantic crocodile (I assume that’s what happened to him off-screen in ROGUE), Aussie Sam Worthington has taken Hollywood by storm with some high-profile parts. But while some of them (TERMINATOR SALVATION, CLASH...

Rambo 5 may be happening after all. Or will it? Nope.

Posted 16 years ago

Just last week, Sylvester Stallone essentially jammed a really huge knife into his famous screen war veteran. “I think Rambo’s pretty well done,” he said, preferring instead to focus on an EXPENDABLES sequel. But then Slashfilm spotted this poster at...

Shia LaBeouf wasn’t all that crazy about Transformers 2 either

Posted 16 years ago

TRANSFORMERS 2 sure made plenty of cash, but it also drew a lot of criticisms, mostly that the movie was too long, abrasive, nonsensical, juvenile and generally idiotic. Star Shia LaBeouf seems to understand some of the assessments. As he...

Jamie Foxx is a real Motherf*cker

Posted 16 years ago

Jamie Foxx has come a long way since portraying a heinous woman for chuckles on “In Living Color”, but he’s getting back into his funny groove for HORRIBLE BOSSES. The comedy “centers on three best friends who, frustrated by their...

Adam Sandler wants to make the short film Pixels into a long film

Posted 16 years ago

For the past couple of months, innovative short films with quality FX but minuscule price tags have been the rage in Hollywood, opening doors for a few amateur filmmakers. For example, you may recall one recent popular viral titled PIXELS,...

Cool Videos: The Secret Mission of the Terminator

Posted 16 years ago

It turns out that Terminators don’t just run on nuclear batteries, nor do they stick to SkyNet proprietary software. At least, that’s the speculation in “The Secret Mission of the Terminator”, a short from a Chinese FX artist featuring a...

Brad Pitt and Darren Aronofsky finally work together on The Tiger

Posted 16 years ago

So far, Brad Pitt and filmmaker Darren Aronofsky haven’t had much luck getting their combined talents on a theater screen. You may recall that Pitt was the initial star of THE FOUNTAIN (along with Cate Blanchett) before the project crumbled,...

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