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Favorite Movies: Aliens, Jaws, Inglourious Basterds, the Mad Max movies except the kid read more parts of Thunderdome, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starship Troopers, the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, They Live, Pandorum, The Warriors, Darkman, The Thing, The Untouchables, a good percentage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, B-movies, Westerns

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Rambo goes where?

Posted 18 years ago

Now that John Rambo has killed the absolute shit out the evil Burmese military, what population gets ventilated next? After the popularity of RAMBO, Sylvester Stallone and studio Lionsgate unsurprisingly intend to bring the badass ex-Green Beret back for more...

Morgan stalks Swank

Posted 18 years ago

Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan has an eye for Hilary Swank. A seriously creepy eye. Morgan, perhaps best known to genre fans as Daddy Winchester on TV’s “SUPERNATURAL” and about to be much better known for playing The Comedian in WATCHMEN,...

Brotherhood of Tatum

Posted 18 years ago

I’m not quite sure what to make of Channing Tatum just yet. While his dancing skills are undeniable, that’s doesn’t sufficiently justify his sudden A-listness. Perhaps the upcoming G.I.JOE and PUBLIC ENEMIES will settle the matter. In the meantime, Tatum...

Blunt and Segel Travel

Posted 18 years ago

When portly punchliner Jack Black goes journeying in GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, he’ll be meeting some funny and familiar faces (on tiny bodies). Dishy Brit Emily Blunt, along with Sarah Marshall forgetter Jason Segel, will be joining the modernized “re-imagining” of the...

Writing the Afterburn

Posted 18 years ago

The post-apocalyptic comic AFTERBURN is being adapted to feature film by producer/webslinger Tobey Maguire and noise machine Neal Moritz (of STEALTH, XXX and FAST AND FURIOUS infamy), and now the project has a writer. Matt Johnson is working on the...

More Muppet humans?

Posted 18 years ago

We know that Jason Segel has an affinity for puppetry — in case this wasn’t clearly demonstrated by the climax of FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, he also plans to revive Kermit, Fozzie and all the fabric characters made popular by Jim...

The Thing prequel

Posted 18 years ago

For quite a few years, we’ve heard rumblings about a possible sequel, prequel or remake to John Carpenter’s sci-fi masterpiece THE THING (based on the short story “Who Goes There?”, also adapted into a 1951 movie). Universal is finally pulling...

Sigma Protocol director

Posted 18 years ago

Amnesiac superspy Jason Bourne might be taking a rest (for the moment), but Universal is putting another Robert Ludlum creation in the pipe. The author’s “final” novel THE SIGMA PROTOCOL is coming to life, courtesy of Jose Padilha. The award-winning...

Indy videogame trailer

Posted 18 years ago

If your fingers fidgeted while watching the most recent adventures of creaky archaeologist INDIANA JONES, subconsciously wishing you could control his actions (preferably in a more interesting scenario), you were probably looking forward to playing the nefarious treasure-collector himself in...

Carnahan does A-Team

Posted 18 years ago

THE A-TEAM is suddenly the WTF-TEAM. The feature version of the 80s TV series has a new plan coming together that Hannibal ought to love. Fox is rounding up an impressive cast to fill THE A-TEAM’s new creative ranks: Joe...

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