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Stephen Colbert talks 3D with Dreamworks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg

Posted 16 years ago

Dreamworks Animation honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg has been trumpeting 3D movies long before AVATAR made ludicrous amounts of money. On last night’s “The Colbert Report”, host Stephen Colbert grilled the guy about how the format has become the pervasive business plan...

Cool Videos: Dirty Dancing and Hugh Grant meet AC/DC and Iron Man

Posted 16 years ago

You’ve probably heard the hypothesis that Iron Man and/or the music of AC/DC can improve anything. No? Never heard that one? Well, YouTube user ‘reubenpac‘ strongly believes the theory, and has set about proving it by splicing in the armored...

Sam Mendes may be off to see the Wonderful Robert Downey Jr. of Oz

Posted 16 years ago

Weird A-list rumor of the day: Robert Downey Jr. is considering the role of the Wizard in an update of THE WIZARD OF OZ. And that’s not all: Sam Mendes is reportedly attached to direct, which would be something to...

James Cameron wants to go back into the water for Avatar sequel

Posted 16 years ago

As he’s demonstrated since THE ABYSS, James Cameron can’t be kept away from water for too long before his gills start to quiver for that H2O. An AVATAR sequel was a foregone conclusion, but the filmmaker is now starting to...

Leonard Nimoy beams out of the acting business

Posted 16 years ago

Leonard Nimoy returned to his most famous role for a pivotal appearance as Spock in JJ Abrams’ STAR TREK reboot, but the actor is now prepared to put away the pointy-ear prosthetics, spread his fingers and say “Live long and...

The Hangover director Todd Phillips wants YOU for his secret comedy project

Posted 16 years ago

Are you 18 years old? Do you have a camera? And a face? Congrats, you’re qualified to star in a movie! Maybe. THE HANGOVER director Todd Phillips and überproducer Joel Silver are putting together a new top-secret R-rated comedy, and...

Jack Bauer crams a day of travel into two hours in the 24 movie

Posted 16 years ago

The following takes place between paragraph one, and paragraph four. One-man antiterrorism unit Jack Bauer is currently in his final season of shooting terrorists, colleagues, and terrorists who used to be colleagues. But he’s taking his unique skillset and gravity...

Robert Rodriguez’s Machete gets a release date

Posted 16 years ago

While it seemed like MACHETE was destined to go directly to DVD when we first heard it would be expanded from faux trailer to feature length, nothing could be further from the truth. Now that Robert Rodriguez and Fox are...

Sam Claflin joins the new Pirates of the Caribbean. That’s right, Sam Claflin.

Posted 16 years ago

The questionably necessary sequel PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES has added a new cast member to sail with Captain Jack Sparrow on the high seas. None other than Sam Claflin will join Johnny Depp in the fourth POTC....

Garth Ennis’ comic Crossed will become a really sick and violent movie

Posted 16 years ago

Writer Garth Ennis has had a long successful career in comics, but not quite so much luck in Hollywood. While adaptations of his books PREACHER and THE BOYS slowly claw their way through Development Hell, his Avatar series CROSSED is...

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