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Cillian Murphy is a crazy woman in Peacock

Posted 16 years ago

All I really knew about PEACOCK was that it was a small-town thriller starring Cillian Murphy. Imagine my surprise watching the trailer and seeing him playing a woman. Not a bad looking one, at that. The synopsis: John Skillpa, a...

Rob Cohen prepping the Monster Squad remake

Posted 16 years ago

We’ve been hearing the possibility for a couple of years, but it sounds like Paramount is finally ready to pull the trigger on a remake of high-concept 80s artifact MONSTER SQUAD. Deadline says that Rob Cohen (who produced the original)...

Robert Rodriguez discusses the disappearance of Red Sonja

Posted 16 years ago

RED SONJA was announced at Comic Con in 2008, and it’s no closer to reality today than it was then. So where is the flame-haired warrior? As producer Robert Rodriguez explains to MTV, it got stuck in money problems and...

Ghostbusters 3 gets caught in a pool of slime and contracts

Posted 16 years ago

For a while there, it seemed like GHOSTBUSTERS 3 was really on its way to becoming reality, with a script commissioned and already undergoing a second draft. But have the ectoplasm gatherers hit a snag? According to Vulture, Sony wants...

New trailer for Jason Bateman’s The Switch, formerly The Baster

Posted 16 years ago

I don’t know if it’s my instinctive aversion to romcoms or if “Arrested Development” just set a high standard for Jason Bateman, but the new trailer for THE SWITCH (formerly THE BASTER) is leaving me kinda flat. Your chuckle-meter may...

Quentin Tarantino and Lady Gaga make a movie?

Posted 16 years ago

As demonstrated in the video for the tune “Telephone”, pop empress Lady Gaga and Quentin Tarantino have a connection: the Pussy Wagon from KILL BILL. Are there more collaborations in their future? According to MTV UK, Tarantino wants to work...

Jason Statham and Ben Foster shoot people in the promo for The Mechanic remake

Posted 16 years ago

Jason Statham may still have a way to go before he racks up the career cinematic body count of Charles Bronson, but he’s using a remake of one of Chuck’s movies to help get there. Judging by this new promo/international...

Jeremy Renner considers joining Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Thomas Anderson

Posted 16 years ago

Even before his acclaimed work in THE HURT LOCKER got recognition at the Academy Awards, we’ve been wondering how Jeremy Renner would fill his future schedule. Hawkeye in THE AVENGERS? Captain of Peter Berg’s BATTLESHIP? How about Paul Thomas Anderson’s...

Pandorum director blasts off with Captain Future

Posted 16 years ago

PANDORUM turned out to be one of my favorite flicks from last year, so I’m more than thrilled to hear director Christian Alvart is heading back into space again. Even if this trip won’t be quite a scary or grimy....

Producers discuss The Thing prequel

Posted 16 years ago

A prequel to John Carpenter’s sci-fi paranoia masterpiece THE THING is now underway, and apparently Universal is hoping it turns into a smash hit after their $100 million A-lister action movie GREEN ZONE thunked at the box office. The movie,...

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