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Cuba goes to War

Posted 19 years ago

If you’ve been following the career of Cuba Gooding Jr. — and let’s be honest, you probably haven’t — you’ve seen him go from winning an Oscar for JERRY MAGUIRE to picking up Eddie Murphy’s sloppy seconds, playing everything from...

Akira still lives?

Posted 19 years ago

A live-action remake of the anime AKIRA (itself based on a long-running manga series) was in the works a few years ago, with BLADE guy Stephen Norrington in the director seat. But Norrington seemingly got fed up with Hollywood after...

Travolta takes Pelham

Posted 19 years ago

We recently learned that Denzel Washington would star in a remake of the excellent 1974 crime thriller THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123, and now his New York transit cop (once played to cranky perfection by Walter Matthau) will be facing...

Mad Max comes back

Posted 19 years ago

Just a few years ago, a fourth MAD MAX movie called FURY ROAD was barreling down the asphalt. But the “war” in Iraq made the plans to film in that region a dicey proposition, delaying the project indefinitely. But now...

Millar wants Superman

Posted 19 years ago

UPDATE: No dice for Millar. Short version, Warner Bros. (and DC Comics owners) didn’t want a writer so closely associated with Marvel, their superhero competitors. Millar gives the full lowdown HERE. Oct. 22, 2007 — Mere milliseconds after the announcement...

DeNiro’s Machine runs

Posted 19 years ago

Let’s say you’re Robert DeNiro. You have a gangster movie you really want to make (because honestly, you don’t want to do another goddamn FOCKERS sequel). Your longtime collaborator Martin Scorsese isn’t available. Do you settle for the guy who...

Foxx meets Zebra

Posted 19 years ago

Undeterred by the impending Strike of Armageddon, A-listers like Jamie Foxx are lining up future projects under the assumption that Hollywood will not crack off the country and sink into the Pacific or be charred to a black husk within...

Assigned to Area 52

Posted 19 years ago

The Image Comics series AREA 52 is getting the feature treatment, and it has a new guy in charge of the secret facility. Director Steven C. Miller will adapt Brian Haberlin’s comic about a group of soldiers guarding a remote...

The Arcanum gathers

Posted 19 years ago

If movies are to be believed (and we should, given their usual basis in fact), the world would have been doomed several times over if not for all the various secret societies keeping us from harm. Thomas Wheeler’s book THE...

New Rambo trailer

Posted 19 years ago

After the brutally visceral thrills and gratuitous carnage of the previous clip, the new trailer for RAMBO seems like kind of a drag, especially with Mr. Movie Voice droning on while our favorite troubled veteran/senior citizen feeds his pet snakes...

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