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G-Force trailer

Your interest in Disney’s G-FORCE will probably be informed by your intellectual age, your love of megaproducer Jerry Bruckheimer, and/or how many kids you have. And your tolerance for digitally fabricated household pets, which are the augmented animals of the...
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Downey wants Poe?

After a rough phase where his career trajectory took a detour to the video shelves, Sylvester Stallone got back on track and managed to bring some pet projects to the screen. But although Rocky and Rambo had a hand or...
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Orion Slave Girls Must Die

With the imminent release of the new STAR TREK, it’s probably a good time to have a Trek-themed indie film ready for the masses. Enter ORION SLAVE GIRLS MUST DIE, an award-winning short film that explores the relationship between a...
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Wolvie updates

After the calamity with a workprint leak online, WOLVERINE could use some good news. And if early ticket sales are any indication (which they aren’t always, if you ask WATCHMEN), the movie could be on its way to a successful...
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RR talks Predators

After a pair of somewhat painful matches between ALIENS and PREDATORS, Fox is taking the xenomorphs out of the picture and focusing on the extraterrestrial hunters. They even gave the new project a release date of July 7th, 2010, and...
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More Avatar bits

In a time of constant “spy reports” and production minutiae available online for almost every movie, you have to admit — they’ve done a pretty incredible job keeping AVATAR a secret. The project has been in the works for years,...
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Later for Crazies

There’s generally two “seasons” when horror movies thrive — early in the year (Jan.-Feb.) and right after summer (Sept.-Oct.). The remake of THE CRAZIES is sliding from one to another, fleeing its initially planned release on this September 25th all...
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Bioshock on hold

Videogame fans were fairly thrilled when PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN director Gore Verbinski decided to make the acclaimed BIOSHOCK into a feature film — after all, someone coming from such grand-scale special effects extravaganzas seemed perfect for adapting the brilliant...
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Carriers gets a date

It looks like Paramount plans to take advantage of the impending fame of their STAR TREK star Chris Pine, finally unleashing the delayed horror flick CARRIERS from their vault on September 4, 2009. The movie, which seems like an interesting...
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Black Dynamite clip

Sony is bringing the blaxploitation spoof BLACK DYNAMITE to the Tribeca film fest, and we’ve got a clip of Michael Jai White as the titular kung fu fightin’ badass in a body-thumping practice session. Dig it below. In case you...
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