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Pirates 4 shoots in Hawaii this summer?

Posted 17 years ago

A fourth PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN movie has seemed sketchy for a while. Sure, Disney already sunk a sword into a release date of May 20, 2011. And there are creative people involved, including indispensable star Johnny Depp (despite his...

Avatar featurette proves the actors did a ton of acting

Posted 17 years ago

The term “performance capture” may tend to conjure visions of those creepy unblinking Zemeckis-made automatons from movies like POLAR EXPRESS and BEOWULF. But director James Cameron has long insisted that AVATAR was a quantum leap in the process, and that...

Marc Webb IS the new Spider-Man director!

Posted 17 years ago

He’s been the buzzed favorite almost since the perplexing news of a SPIDER-MAN reboot first came out, and now it’s quite official. Director Marc Webb ((500) DAYS OF SUMMER) is the new creative vision behind Sony and Marvel’s “re-imagining” of...

Gerard Butler is a preacher with a machine gun

Posted 17 years ago

Though he insists on following his badass action with the occasional excruciating romcom, Gerard Butler is still giving us a pretty solid ratio. According to Deadline Hollywood, the brawny Scotsman wants to star in MACHINE GUN PREACHER. Based on a...

A peek at Predators

Posted 17 years ago

Over the weekend, some snaps from the set of PREDATORS showed up on the AVPGalaxy forums, and swiftly disappeared. The aliens’ chameleon device appears to be malfunctioning, however — some pics can still be found here and there, such as...

Bruce Willis starts shooting Red, and bad guys

Posted 17 years ago

Bruce Willis doesn’t tend to do things small. For example, he’s taking some of writer Warren Ellis’ atypically small and straightforward work, the three-issue espionage comic RED, and ramping up the action and tossing in some Oscar-worthy talent. The movie...

Daniel Craig draws his six-shooters for Cowboys & Aliens?

Posted 17 years ago

Robert Downey Jr. might have just said “Happy trails” to the sci-fi/western flick COWBOYS & ALIENS, but the studio is scrambling to find another A-list actor to wear the spurs and ten-gallon hat. While his IRON MAN partner vamoosed, director...

Song made entirely from Terminator 2 sound effects

Posted 17 years ago

Much like the music remix of PULP FICTION, I can’t comprehend the mind, ear and talent it would take to extract tiny sounds from a movie and compile them into cool beats and melodies, but I can definitely appreciate it....

Stop-motion Wes Anderson accepts Mr. Fox award

Posted 17 years ago

THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX may not have burned up the box office like some of last year’s other animated offerings, but it seems to be getting a different kind of positive attention. The movie’s director Wes Anderson just received a...

The Thing prequel seeks human victims

Posted 17 years ago

You know that Norwegian research base in Antarctica, the place from which the alien escaped in John Carpenter’s icy paranoia masterpiece THE THING to wreak havoc among Kurt Russell and crew? Turns out it wasn’t actually full of Norwegians after...

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