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Hank Azaria’s Gargamel seen searching for Smurfs in New York

Posted 16 years ago

The little blue bipeds known as THE SMURFS are coming to life, quite literally — the movie involves the tiny shirtless dudes (and one babe) somehow crossing from their magical world into our own reality, landing in Central Park. Which...

Ron Howard tackles Stephen King’s Dark Tower series

Posted 16 years ago

A couple of years ago, JJ Abrams got the rights to Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” series of books, and along with his “Lost” comrades Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse had planned to adapt them into either a TV/cable series...

James Cameron will get his ass to Mars

Posted 16 years ago

No, James Cameron isn’t remaking TOTAL RECALL. Or GHOSTS OF MARS. Or SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS. Nor is he finally tackling his once-planned update of FORBIDDEN PLANET, or working Mars into AVATAR 2. However, Cameron does have interest in...

Diane Lane and horse passion in the trailer for Secretariat

Posted 16 years ago

Do you like inspirational real-life stories? Horses? Diane Lane and John Malkovich? Then SECRETARIAT would seem to have it all — it’s like the equine BLIND SIDE. The Disney movie comes from the people behind such other uplifting tales as...

Scream 4 teaser poster, and comments from Wes Craven

Posted 16 years ago

The Weinsteins continue struggling to survive during their much-publicized financial deterioration, so it’s no shock they’re resurrecting successful franchises like the SCREAM series. Yet another sharp-edged adventure of “Ghostface”/”Father Death” is indeed on the way with original director Wes Craven,...

Schwarzenegger’s Commando gets a remake, of course

Posted 16 years ago

Remember when I promised to remake you last? I lied. That’s right: COMMANDO, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic of cartoon violence, is being given the remake treatment over at Fox, who never met a previously existing property they didn’t like. Deadline says...

The Thing prequel: details revealed and script reviewed

Posted 16 years ago

The prequel to THE THING has been described as a “companion piece” to Carpenter’s classic, focusing on the body-hopping shape-changing alien as it decimates a Norwegian research base in Antarctica before being discovered by MacReady and friends. (It turns out...

Michael Bay hits the fire button and launches Heatseekers

Posted 16 years ago

I have to assume that destructicon Michael Bay has his personal army of lingerie-clad henchwomen alert him whenever a new script with an explosive title hits the Hollywood market. Needless to say, an original action script called HEATSEEKERS caught Bay’s...

The Transporter will leave skid marks on your TV

Posted 16 years ago

Jason Statham may have driven on, but beefy wheelman Frank Martin still has deliveries to make and faces to kick. He’ll just be doing it on a smaller screen. Luc Besson and EuropaCorp (along with Atlantique Prods.) are bringing their...

Director Neil Marshall joins up with The Professionals

Posted 16 years ago

Filmmaker Neil Marshall’s checklist: Werewolves. Subterranean subhumans. Post-apocalyptic cannibals. Roman soldiers on the run. But where’s the espionage? Ah, it’s coming. According to Empire, Marshall (THE DESCENT, DOG SOLDIERS) is attached to an adaptation of the 70s UK telly show...

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