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Fav Twits Iron Man 2

Much like he did a few years ago on MySpace (which I guess was the Twitter of its time), director Jon Favreau is keeping fans apprised during production of IRON MAN 2. This time it’s on the latest social craze/doofus-magnet...
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Subway Terminator

This is one of the more peculiar bits of studio pimpage — a video from Warner Bros. featuring the enormous TERMINATOR SALVATION T-600 model, who is apparently on tour. The artificially intelligent endoskeleton showed up at the Yonge & Bloor...
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Ninja trailer

I’ve always been kind of a ninja nut, so it’s great to see the sneaky death-dealers making a resurgence. Besides Team Wachowskis’ upcoming NINJA ASSASSIN, we’ve also got some stealthy carnage courtesy of martial arts whirlwind Scott Adkins in NINJA....
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Merantau trailer

True action and martial arts movie fans are constantly on the lookout for the “next big thing”, or at least some competently captured cinematic clashes. I don’t know if young Indonesian cyclone Iko Uwais is the new Jackie Chan or...
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Sexy Piranha food

Any “Gossip Girl” fans out there might be pleased to hear about some potential nipple-nibbling of that show’s pretty young thing Jessica Szohr, courtesy of some rather ravenous fishies. Szohr has joined Alexandre Aja’s PIRANHA 3-D, swimming with the already...
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Deadpool spinoff

If both comic fans and casual moviegoers wondered why characters like Gambit and Wade Wilson (eventually Deadpool) were ham-handedly jammed into X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, the answer is the obvious one: if the flick was a box office hit, Fox had...
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Stiller feels Used again

Ben Stiller’s a busy guy lately — not only is he keeping his directing chops sharp with a couple of big projects, he’s also defibrillating the comatose comedy USED GUYS. The high-concept sci-fi laffer was previously put in cryostasis when...
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Megan Fox’s big day

Let’s say you’re a newly minted female superstar of inordinate sexiness who recently spent an unreasonable amount of time sweating profusely and contending with large robotic objects. How do you unwind? If you’re icy-eyed, perky-breasted TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN...
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Pitt Basterds poster

Quentin Tarantino’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is preparing to slay audiences this month at Cannes, and AICN has a look at what I hope will be a series of character posters from the flick, starting with oddly mustachioed scar-necked scalphunter Brad Pitt....
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Rourke goes Rogue

As people like Vin Diesel will cheerfully demonstrate, the line between Hollywood and videogames continues to blur. Mickey Rourke is the latest to get digitized, though not quite in the same 8-bit way as in THE WRESTLER. Rourke is loaning...
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