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Captain America has a Bucky: Sebastian Stan

Posted 16 years ago

After much drama, debate, deliberation and delay, Marvel’s CAPTAIN AMERICA finally found someone to wear the shield in Chris Evans. And now the star-spangled hero has found his comrade-in-arms Bucky, who’ll be played by Sebastian Stan. Probably best known for...

Three Xs plus three Ds equals a new Vin Diesel xXx in 3D

Posted 16 years ago

While it pays to be wary of movie announcements on April 1st, this one seems pretty plausible: Vin Diesel and director Rob Cohen are re-teaming for a new xXx flick, in 3D. It’s been in the works for a while,...

This is a Beastly poster

Posted 16 years ago

Aside from former Disney cupcake Vanessa Hudgens, my interest in BEASTLY is mostly to see if it somehow captures the same audience that made the TWILIGHT series such a monolithic moneymaker, since it’s clearly aimed at fans of romantic monsters....

Beastly star Alex Pettyfer is an alien digit in I Am Number Four

Posted 16 years ago

He’s messing up his chiseled features for his US debut BEASTLY, and now dreamy JBF-haired Brit Alex Pettyfer will show his extraterrestrial side for the big-budget sci-fi/action movie I AM NUMBER FOUR. Based on book by author James Frey (best...

The Hangover sequel officially gets moving

Posted 16 years ago

Considering the first raunchy weekend made nearly half a billion dollars, a sequel to THE HANGOVER was a foregone conclusion. A follow-up has actually been in the works before the first even hit screens (Warner Bros. wisely asked director Todd...

David Fincher and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Posted 16 years ago

Another week, another new David Fincher project! The prolific attacher but leisurely director was recently associated with PAWN SACRIFICE, a movie featuring Tobey Maguire as chess wizard Bobby Fischer, but the filmmaker was apparently just consulting on the project. Now...

A Kidless sequel to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

Posted 16 years ago

Four decades after their fateful shootout, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID are returning. Well, that’s half right. A new project called BLACKTHORN follows up the Oscar-winning Western, but leaves behind Robert Redford’s Sundance, and fills the boots of the...

Tarsem’s War of Gods gets a release date, and maybe a new title

Posted 16 years ago

Though it won’t hit theaters until long after Titans have clashed, Tarsem Singh’s probably-colorful mythology battle WAR OF GODS has reportedly been given a release date (via Production Weekly twitter) of Veterans Day next year — November 11, 2011. Digitally,...

Cool Videos: Schwarzenegger’s greatest quotes

Posted 16 years ago

In his decades of on-screen slaughter, comedy, and amusing carnage, Arnold Schwarzenegger has amassed a pile of quotable dialogue nearly as big as his career body count. Pajiba has sifted through the one-liner king’s entire catalog for memorable hits and...

Frank Darabont’s Walking Dead show skips pilot, goes right to series

Posted 16 years ago

Filmmaker Frank Darabont (THE MIST, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION ) has been hard at work developing the popular ongoing Image comic THE WALKING DEAD as a potential series for cable channel AMC. While the network initially greenlit a pilot, they’ve since...

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