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The Last Airbender Super Bowl spot bends several elements

Posted 17 years ago

Is M. Night Shyamalan’s latest twist ending that he made a good movie this time? We won’t know for sure until July 2nd, but the Super Bowl spot for THE LAST AIRBENDER sure has plenty of flashy FX. The live-action...

Brad Pitt and Ryan Reynolds want to smell Gunsmoke

Posted 17 years ago

CBS Films is planning a feature film based on the longest-running (pre-“Simpsons”) TV series ever, the classic Western show GUNSMOKE. And it sounds like a lot of big-name actors want to strap on the sixguns to play Dodge City lawman...

McG demolishes New York with Bradley Cooper and love

Posted 17 years ago

Some might say that director McG delivered some serious damage to the future of mankind with TERMINATOR SALVATION. Is New York City his next destination set for destruction? McG is set to direct THIS MEANS WAR, a romantic action-comedy (??)...

Repo Men contest will pay you to disappear

Posted 17 years ago

In the upcoming sci-fi movie REPO MEN, Jude Law can’t pay for his artificial organ and has to go on the run. An unorthodox tie-in contest will pay you ten grand to do the same thing, although you won’t have...

Fast and Furious plus one more sequel equals Fast Five

Posted 17 years ago

FAST AND FURIOUS was theoretically going to be the end of the F&F franchise — a chance to bring back the original stars for one last sweaty nitrous-boosted blowout. But then the movie made a few hundred million bucks, and...

Aliens: the condensed rap version

Posted 17 years ago

James Cameron’s ALIENS is unquestionably one of the greatest genre films ever made. But does it improve with thumping drums and mad rhymes? Not necessarily, but it’s pretty damn good. As a tribute to Cameron’s sci-fi masterpiece, mixmasters DJ Mayhem...

The Griswolds return in Hotel Hell Vacation

Posted 17 years ago

A few months ago, New Line promised/threatened to deliver a new VACATION, a pseudo-sequel that would somehow retain a degree of continuity with the nightmare road trips previously taken by the Griswold clan. But while that project idles in the...

Fox wants an Avatar sequel (obviously) and says DVD arrives soon

Posted 17 years ago

Multibazillionaire media overlord Rupert Murdoch clearly knows what the people want (to pay for). He says that News Corp (the conglomerate that owns Fox and a substantial percentage of everything, everywhere) is in early talks with filmmaker James Cameron about...

Hugh Jackman goes to China for some Wang

Posted 17 years ago

It looks like Hugh Jackman has some room on his schedule before the robot punching machines of REAL STEEL, so he’s heading to Asia for a while. Jackman is in China to join the currently shooting drama SNOW FLOWER AND...

Sgt. Rock leaves the Nazis behind to fight in the future

Posted 17 years ago

You might think that after the success of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, the NAT-zee killin’ business would be a-boomin’. But apparently WWII is so yesterday. The WWII of the future is in… the future! That’s where classic comic character SGT. ROCK is...

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