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Affleck directs more

Posted 18 years ago

Ben Affleck seems a skilled juggler — besides his family life and occasional acting work, he’s lining up more directing jobs to follow his excellent feature debut, GONE BABY GONE. Affleck is going to his old home Miramax (no longer...

Weaver talks Ripley

Posted 18 years ago

The principals behind the ALIEN movies (well, at least the first two masterpieces) do love to taunt the fans with talk of returning to that xenomorphic franchise. Sigourney Weaver recently discussed her iconic woman-warrior with MTV, and the possibility of...

Viggo on Road delay

Posted 18 years ago

Fans of post-apocalyptic stories and author Cormac McCarthy (NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN) weren’t the only ones dejected over the release date shuffle of THE ROAD (bounced from this past November to an undisclosed time next year). While talking with...

Wiseman in Atlantis

Posted 18 years ago

Director Len Wiseman (UNDERWORLD, LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD) seems to be taking steps to ensure he’ll be busy for a while — he’s spent the past year or so getting involved with high-profile, high-concept, high-budget projects. Plop another on...

Terminator clippage

Posted 18 years ago

Will we have to wait until the Oscars or the Super Bowl before we get a real solid official trailer for next summer’s TERMINATOR SALVATION? Could be… so in the meantime we’ll have to chew on little morsels like this...

Friday 13th trailer!

Posted 18 years ago

After hacking through hundreds of humans, traveling to hell, venturing into space and going head-to-crispy-head with another horror icon, Jason Voorhees is hurtling all the way back to the beginning. Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes is restarting the FRIDAY THE 13th...

Kid wizard Baruchel

Posted 18 years ago

Gawky comic kid Jay Baruchel is following in the footsteps of other Apatow graduates like Seth Rogen by joining numerous high-profile projects. The TROPIC THUNDER grunt and “UNDECLARED” student will join Nicolas Cage in Disney’s live-action THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE, playing...

World War Z talk

Posted 18 years ago

Most zombie movies tend to follow the “siege story” paradigm, where human characters are trapped in an isolated location and surrounded by the walking dead. Will WORLD WAR Z be the first real sprawling zombie epic? If screenwriter J. Michael...

Ghostbusters game trailer

Posted 18 years ago

Although it was briefly in limbo due to publisher shuffle, the official GHOSTBUSTERS videogame “sequel” is arriving next summer thanks to Atari. Here’s our first good look at the spook-shooters reunion in the digital realm, featuring likenesses and voices of...

Zoolander 2?

Posted 18 years ago

Ben Stiller seems like a guy who’s now in a position to make just about any movie he wants. That “want list” includes another ZOOLANDER (BLUER STEEL?). As he tells UK’s The Sun, “I’ve been trying to get ZOOLANDER 2...

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