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One Missed Call trailer

Posted 19 years ago

The American remake of the hit Japanese cell phone spooker ONE MISSED CALL has connected with a trailer, which seems to give away most of the film’s creepy moments and looks a bit like THE RING with ringtones. Like the...

Verhoeven’s Paperboy

Posted 19 years ago

Manic Dutchman Paul Verhoeven took a lengthy break after HOLLOW MAN before returning with the acclaimed WWII thriller BLACK BOOK (ZWARTBOEK), and now he’s getting back into the swing with a killer project. Literally — it’s about a killer. Verhoeven...

The Mist trailer

Posted 19 years ago

Sometimes you just want to go to the grocery store for Crunch Berries, sliced turkey and the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar. If you live in Stephen King’s world, however, you also get the unexpected bonus of a thick fog...

Descent 2 director

Posted 19 years ago

In past interviews, writer-director Neil Marshall didn’t seem too eager for more spelunking with savage creatures, but it looks like he’ll be quite involved in a sequel to his trouser-soiling terror flick THE DESCENT after all. While pimping his upcoming...

New Bad Lieutenant?

Posted 19 years ago

Generally when movies get selected for remake treatment, it’s to take advantage of potential commercial aspects of the property. Why, then, might someone want to remake a movie as aggressively non-commercial as BAD LIEUTENANT? But TV guy William Finkelstein (NYPD...

Snyder is Illustrated

Posted 19 years ago

He’s barely even started on his ambitious adaptation of the iconic graphic novel WATCHMEN, but director Zack Snyder is stacking up projects like they’re gonna kick him out of Hollywood. The 300 helmer now has plans to make THE ILLUSTRATED...

The Rock gets witchy

Posted 19 years ago

I’m not entirely sure what The Rock is cookin’, but… it’s smelling a little rank. Maybe it’s just some bad ‘shrooms, which would explain why he’s planning to make yet another toothless (not to mention punchless and bulletless) movie. What...

Lucas hires Red writer

Posted 19 years ago

I may catch some flak for claiming that the last good idea George Lucas had was letting other people make EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (okay, maybe putting Carrie Fisher in a slave bikini), but it’s always a relief to see him...

Wall-E robot store

Posted 19 years ago

Looking to purchase a new yardbot? Or are you just in the market for a new space condo? Well, Buy-N-Large is your store! This faux-conglomerate site (undoubtedly a knock at our future overlords, Wal-Mart), another of the now-omnipresent “viral marketing”,...

No Bubba Nosferatu?

Posted 19 years ago

There’s been talk of Bruce Campbell growing the sideburns and slipping on the TCB shades to play elder Elvis once more in a sequel to the cult fave BUBBA HO-TEP. Supposedly the follow-up, often referred to as BUBBA NOSFERATU, would...

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