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Favorite Movies: Aliens, Jaws, Inglourious Basterds, the Mad Max movies except the kid read more parts of Thunderdome, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starship Troopers, the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, They Live, Pandorum, The Warriors, Darkman, The Thing, The Untouchables, a good percentage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, B-movies, Westerns

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Status of X-spinoffs

Posted 19 years ago

We know that Marvel’s mutant characters WOLVERINE and MAGNETO are spinning off into their own prequel movies, but when, dammit, when? Fox honcho Tom Rothman tells us, sorta: “”It’s really soon to tell. The most important thing is to get...

New Logan’s Runner?

Posted 19 years ago

Apparently Bryan Singer won’t be spending any time in the 23rd century after all. While he’s off making his WWII Nazi thriller VALKYRIE, Warner Bros. is lining up a replacement director to kill everyone for their 21st birthday. According to...

Bored of Bourne?

Posted 19 years ago

With the same “three and out” mentality that a lot of actors seem to have in regards to franchises (until they are pelted with weighty paychecks), Matt Damon has publicly declared his lack of interest in continuing the Bourne series...

Into some Skulduggery

Posted 19 years ago

Studios are constantly seeking family-ready properties to transform into inordinately lucrative movie franchises, and Warner Bros. is hoping the supernatural kids book SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT does the trick. The studio has grabbed rights to the new tome, about a wise-cracking skeletal...

Neill’s a Daybreaker

Posted 19 years ago

He did okay when facing dinosaurs, so vampires should be a snap, huh? Sam Neill is dealing with bloodsuckers in the futuristic horror flick DAYBREAKERS, the follow-up from UNDEAD filmmakers Peter and Michael Spierig. The Lionsgate flick is set a...

Molina’s mortuary

Posted 19 years ago

With a quick whip-idol exchange offer, Alfred Molina started an acting career that would ultimately find him smacking eight shades of shit out of Spider-Man. He’s not traveling far from genre material — he’ll reportedly be playing a funeral director...

King of Fighters flick

Posted 19 years ago

Although the movie based on the fighting videogame DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE still sits in a vault awaiting escape/release, another similar project is battling its way to theaters. A live-action flick based on the KING OF FIGHTERS series is preparing...

Alba licks ice cream

Posted 19 years ago

If that headline got your attention, then you may think like I do. A frightening proposition. Anyway, it’s actually the international teaser poster for Alba’s upcoming romcom GOOD LUCK CHUCK, in which she eats ice cream (I guess) and plays...

The Game Plan trailer

Posted 19 years ago

This is sort of depressing. I love The Rock (now utilizing his given name Dwayne Johnson as well), but aside from maybe THE RUNDOWN he just hasn’t found the right vehicle for his natural charisma and physicality. Unfortunately, rumor has...

Rodriguez-arella!

Posted 19 years ago

Surprise! Robert Rodriguez is following up the creatively inspired financial flop GRINDHOUSE by upgrading the cheeky 1968 sci-fi/erotica BARBARELLA. Veteran producer Dino De Laurentiis has brought Rodriguez on board, virtually guaranteeing the 2008 release for Universal’s new adventures of the...

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