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Iron Man 2 toys kinda look like the characters

Posted 16 years ago

While some movie tie-in toys bear a chilling resemblance to their cinematic counterparts, others just seem to try and keep it in the ballpark. Pop Eater got a look at the first round of Hasbro toys for IRON MAN 2,...

A new trailer shows you How to Train Your Dragon

Posted 16 years ago

I have to give credit to Dreamworks — they keep cranking out the CG-animated movies. Even though I can’t really remember any of them. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON is the latest to try and leave a lasting impression, but...

A sequel to Monsters Inc.? Really?

Posted 16 years ago

Is the closet world of Monstropolis experiencing some new problems that even giggle-power can’t solve? If Latino Review‘s report is on the money, Sully and Mike Wazowski are coming back to handle it in a sequel to Pixar’s wonderful MONSTERS,...

Bradley Cooper to McG: Sorry, I have a Hangover

Posted 16 years ago

Top-shelf mancandy Bradley Cooper has jilted director McG to engage in another weekend of lascivious behavior. The perpetually scruffy actor was attached to a goofy-sounding “action romantic comedy” called THIS MEANS WAR, about two competetive best friends who fall in...

Neil Marshall’s Centurion comes to America

Posted 16 years ago

For a while there, the medieval action flick CENTURION from Neil Marshall (THE DESCENT, DOG SOLDIERS) was languishing without US distribution. Magnet Releasing owner Mark Cuban reached into his impossibly deep pockets to fix that problem, and now the flick...

Zoolander 2: Bluer Steel

Posted 16 years ago

For a couple of years, Ben Stiller has occasionally mentioned a desire to bring his brainless high-haired supermodel ZOOLANDER back to screens. It looks like he now has his partner in crime, and it’s not Hansel. (Not yet.) Regular Stiller...

Jennifer Garner and Anna Faris have the Hangover (for girls)

Posted 16 years ago

THE HANGOVER was a monster moneymaker, so why not try to repackage and rebottle that lightning with some babes? THE BACHELORETTE PARTY is just such an attempt to capture the same kind of wild-weekend debauchery, but with the gals raising...

Len Wiseman heads to your television for Hawaii Five-0

Posted 16 years ago

Hard to believe there was a time that TV was where talent ended up when their movie careers started to dissolve. Now top-level directors, producers and actors flock there for the promise of big regular paychecks and returning audiences. The...

The A-Team: The Movie: The Comic

Posted 16 years ago

Joe Carnahan’s big-screen update of the cartoonish 80s series about wrongly accused soldiers turned righteous mercenaries hits this summer. And like a lot of big movies nowadays, THE A-TEAM is getting a tie-in comic. You’ll pick it up if you...

Watchmen’s Matthew Goode, the Hobbit maybe?

Posted 16 years ago

It will probably be a while longer before we hear official casting for Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson’s live-action adaptation(s) of Tolkien’s THE HOBBIT. But we’re sure whoever they select will be good. But will it be Goode? WATCHMEN...

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