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Futurama flick

Posted 19 years ago

Apologies if that headline was misleading to FUTURAMA fans hoping to see Fry, Leela and Bender float into theaters. But a new feature-length animated is indeed on the way — the Planet Express will be delivering the DVD movie FUTURAMA:...

Miller’s Spirit intro

Posted 19 years ago

Peter Jackson popularized it, and now lots of genre filmmakers are keeping fans apprised of the progress on their anticipated productions through videoblogs, from Zack Snyder’s WATCHMEN to Guillermo del Toro’s HELLBOY II to Frank Miller’s THE SPIRIT. Miller has...

Great Debaters trailer

Posted 19 years ago

When was the last time you had a good debate, let alone a really great one? Denzel Washington wants to change that. In THE GREAT DEBATERS, his second directing effort (after ANTWONE FISHER), Denzel plays a professor in 1930s Texas...

High Noon again?

Posted 19 years ago

The success of the recent 3:10 TO YUMA remake (or the exposure anyway — the film is still trotting toward its $55 million budget) seems to have helped raise some interest in the westerns once again. Existing westerns, at least....

G.I. Joe movie update

Posted 19 years ago

When the G.I. JOE movie was announced a couple of months ago, it was reported that the team would be changed to a multinational tactical organization (with the name now a “backronym” for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity) and based...

Connelly on Earth

Posted 19 years ago

While I’m not exactly sold on the idea of remaking the cautionary sci-fi film THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, I will admit that Keanu Reeves as a visiting alien is at least inspired casting. And now comes two more...

AFM horror posters

Posted 19 years ago

At the same time the (apparently inevitable) strike whips Hollywood into a frenzy, the American Film Market has been taking place in lovely Santa Monica. AFM is a gigantic week-long “global marketplace” where filmmakers, financiers and distributors from all around...

New Hellboy 2 art

Posted 19 years ago

We have to wait until next summer to see where Guillermo del Toro brings his red buddy HELLBOY. But the fan-friendly director and his creative crew are sharing a few scraps at the official site, including some nifty new concept...

Halo guys’ District

Posted 19 years ago

The live-action HALO movie remains in deep orbit (despite the third game in the franchise recently generating an ungodly amount of money), but producer Peter Jackson and his chosen director Neill Blomkamp can’t be bothered waiting around for someone to...

Fincher’s new Killer

Posted 19 years ago

Sometimes it seems like director David Fincher spends more time collecting projects than he does making them, but at least he’s keeping busy. The latest added to his stack is the Euro-flavored comic series THE KILLER, which (as you might...

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