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A new Fantastic Voyage

Posted 19 years ago

Considering his penchant for blasting away big chunks of the planet, director Roland Emmerich isn’t the person you’d expect to take things down to a really small scale. But the guy behind INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW...

Norton’s two Hulk jobs

Posted 19 years ago

We heard back during Comic Con that Ed Norton wasn’t just starring in THE INCREDIBLE HULK, but also took a crack at the script. Now we get a little more clarification on that gamma-irradiated morsel. It seems that original writer...

Wiseman meets Plissken

Posted 19 years ago

The rumor went ’round a couple weeks back, but it’s official: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD director Len Wiseman will help 300 king Gerard Butler enter (and then flee) a futuristic Manhattan in the remake of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK....

Bit o’ Bond talk

Posted 19 years ago

Newly licensed 007 Daniel Craig will be slipping on the tux and screwing on the silencer later this year to film his follow-up to the thoroughly satisfying CASINO ROYALE. It’s coming to theaters in late 2008, but it doesn’t have...

30 Days of Neverwhere

Posted 19 years ago

British fantasy writer Neil Gaiman is certainly making the rounds these days. His STARDUST arrived (and was sadly underseen) last weekend, he scripted the upcoming animated BEOWULF, his book CORALINE is being adapted for the screen, and he’s working on...

Another Indy clip

Posted 19 years ago

The official site of Dr. Jones now has another new video clip online, but don’t get your hopes up. Aside from a few glimpses of the cast (and quite a bit of Sallah archive footage, which is strange since he’s...

Maintenance for McG

Posted 19 years ago

Director McG just moved to a new home at Warner Bros. and has a bunch of stuff in the works there (including an unfinished Steve McQueen project), but is already piling more projects on his plate. McG has grabbed the...

Vaughn takes Thor

Posted 19 years ago

He didn’t get to play with their mutants, but director Matthew Vaughn is dipping into Marvel’s vaults again for another comic book character. Vaughn, whose fantasy STARDUST arrives in theaters this weekend (and whose LAYER CAKE was the best Guy...

Edgar is Superbad

Posted 19 years ago

By now the illustrious Judd Apatow and his colleagues have become notorious for videos of fabricated altercations, and now they’re even luring interviewers into their various pranks. Of course, sometimes the interviewer happens to be a somewhat recognizable director of...

Punisher 2 details

Posted 19 years ago

The PUNISHER sequel (or maybe “revisiting” is a better term) has a new vigilante (Ray Stevenson of HBO’s ROME) and a new director (Lexi Alexander, of GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS and general ass-kicking). And now Superhero Hype says it also comes...

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