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Da Vinci 2 scrapped

Posted 19 years ago

It looks like you’ll have to wait a while longer to see Tom Hanks return to his weird-haired professor for the DA VINCI CODE follow-up ANGELS & DEMONS. The movie is one of the first major projects to officially get...

Trailer counts to 21

Posted 19 years ago

The upcoming Vegas thriller 21 is based on a true story about MIT geniuses who who develop an intricate card-counting system to beat house odds at blackjack and make millions. Judging from the new trailer, the movie takes significant liberties...

Wear Roth’s holiday

Posted 19 years ago

Eli Roth’s faux trailer for the holiday slasher flick THANKSGIVING turned out to be a highlight of the GRINDHOUSE experience, but not exactly the first thing you might expect to generate merchandise. And yet, real stuff based on the fake...

Bunnies on a Plane

Posted 19 years ago

Of all the movies that have been condensed into thirty seconds by bunnies, few are as compression-ready as last summer’s slippery air-thriller SNAKES ON A PLANE, which has a narrative that’s barely complex enough for a whole minute. But the...

Burton in Wonderland

Posted 19 years ago

You may have wondered how eccentric director Tim Burton would follow his musical bloodbath SWEENEY TODD. You probably didn’t guess it would be an animated Disney movie. Burton’s next project will be a 3-D version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, which...

Get Smart poster

Posted 19 years ago

I grew up with reruns of GET SMART, and although plenty of secret agents spoofs have been made since then, few have done it as well. Warner Bros.’ big-screen remake of the 1960s TV show, a satire of espionage stories,...

John C. Reilly sucks

Posted 19 years ago

I don’t know who’s at the top of the Most Unlikely Leading Man list, but John C. Reilly has gotta be on there somewhere — talented though he may be, he’s not what anyone would describe as “traditionally handsome”. And...

Tom Jane’s Country

Posted 19 years ago

Noted genre fan Thomas Jane has been discussing his directing debut for months now (and actively working on it, in fact — read the production diary RIGHT HERE), but official news of the project is finally hitting the trades. The...

Dragonball Z is go

Posted 19 years ago

Fox has been sitting on the rights to a live-action DRAGONBALL Z feature for years now, but apparently they’ve finally saved up enough to budget for all the required styling product and computer-rendered speed lines. James Wong (FINAL DESTINATION) is...

Poltergeist… again

Posted 19 years ago

Remember all that stuff in POLTERGEIST that freaked you out? Coffins in the pool, the television of dread, ripping-face guy, the hallway monster and that goddamn evil clown of nightmares? Prepare to experience it all over again, except with different...

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