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John Woo’s Caliber

Posted 18 years ago

Hong Kong mayhem master John Woo’s Western influences have been apparent in many of his movies, and now it sounds like he’s heading back to the Old West with a six-shooter in one hand and a comic in the other....

Ferrell is Two Face?

Posted 18 years ago

I knew that, at the very least, Batman fans would click on that headline. Swerve, chumps! Fear not — curled comic Will Ferrell isn’t taking over the role of half-crispy DA Harvey Dent in the next Batman movie. He is,...

Monster Squad remake

Posted 18 years ago

Sometimes the most surprising thing about remakes is that nobody’s done it yet — such as high-concept 80s artifact MONSTER SQUAD. Spooky Dan (who’s actually a pretty nice fella) over at Bloody Disgusting hears that Paramount now has the remake...

Bay talks TF2, F13

Posted 18 years ago

Haha — according to director/demolitionist Michael Bay, us entertainment journalist/fansite types are the “Internet crazies”. Okay, not far off the mark, actually. But I digress. Entertainment Weekly squeezed the carnage craftsman for info on TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, but...

Tarantino’s Bastards?

Posted 18 years ago

Quentin Tarantino’s WWII project INGLORIOUS BASTARDS has been the (non-Batman) hot topic of the month. Now that he’s actually written the damn thing after discussing it for a decade, copies of his script made the rounds to various studios last...

Hayter on Lost Planet

Posted 18 years ago

Although he’s been busy providing the voice of Solid Snake in the METAL GEAR videogame series, David Hayter has kept a fairly low profile since “breaking through” as the credited writer of Bryan Singer’s first X-MEN. Now he’s on another...

Scream 4 and more

Posted 18 years ago

If you’re suffering from the current economic deterioration and a few questionable business decisions, what can you do? Why not form a partnership with Showtime and make another SCREAM movie? Okay, that may not be the perfect solution for everyone,...

Kate Hudson is a 9

Posted 18 years ago

Actress Kate Hudson will offer her remarkable talents (i.e., buttocks) for the increasingly star-powered musical NINE. Recurring co-star Matthew McConaughey will, fortunately, be left behind this time. Hudson joins a list of lovely ladies that includes Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard,...

More Joker antics

Posted 18 years ago

If you’ve read a movie-related website in the past year or so, you might have seen promotion for a Batman movie called THE DARK KNIGHT, sometimes in the form of antagonizing acts of crazed criminal The Joker. The movie finally...

Lynch grabs Snake

Posted 18 years ago

Jennifer “Yeah David’s my dad but let’s talk about me” Lynch is following her as-yet-unreleased thriller SURVEILLANCE with a trip into Bollywood’s supernatural side. Lynch will direct a horror tale called NAGIN: THE SNAKE WOMAN, based on the Indian lore...

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