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Rogue calls Couriers

Posted 20 years ago

Rogue (Universal’s genre-focused subdivision, not the mutant hottie) and Intrepid Pictures took a recent trip to the comic shop, and walked out with a new movie project. Rogue is planning to adapt COURIERS, a graphic novel series from publisher AiT/PlanetLar....

Re- and Pre-Departed?

Posted 20 years ago

Martin Scorsese’s Boston cop thriller THE DEPARTED has been making plenty of favorite lists since it hit theaters a few months ago, and despite the grim fates of a few characters (okay, most of them), there apparently could still be...

300’s Xerxes speaks

Posted 20 years ago

Pacino does Dali

Posted 20 years ago

Al Pacino might have forgiven director Andrew Niccol for S1M0NE, but I haven’t. That’s probably why he’s starring in Niccol’s next film, and I am not. The gruff veteran thesp will portray drippy-clock visionary Salvador Dali, the famed flamboyant Spanish...

Shutter babe

Posted 20 years ago

Asian horror remake alert! If you’re tired of seeing ground-gazing ghosts with long dark hair and dirty attire, this may not interest you. However, if you like hot blondes, please read on. Sexy young up-and-comer Rachael Taylor will star in...

Fishburne can count

Posted 20 years ago

Laurence “Stop Friggin’ Calling Me Larry” Fishburne knows when to double-down, and he knows how to spot a cheat. He’ll star in the Vegas thriller 21, based on Ben Mezrich’s bestselling account “Bringing Down the House”. Based on a true...

Biazarro Brosnan

Posted 20 years ago

If he’s trying to tap the poker zeitgeist that’s already suffocated even casual card sharks, Pierce Brosnan is coming a bit late to the table. But he’s betting on THE BIG BIAZARRO, a 1978 Leonard Wise novel set in the...

New Driller Killer?

Posted 20 years ago

I’m not sure I’d call Abel Ferrara’s horror flick THE DRILLER KILLER a “classic” (surely not in the stratum of his later KING OF NEW YORK), but someone apparently liked it enough to… well, remake it. Yep, British filmmaker Andrew...

Newer Jack City?

Posted 20 years ago

More than 15 years after druglord Nino Brown rose to power, a sequel to NEW JACK CITY is in the works. Like many studios looking to take advantage of home format viability with archived brands, Warner Bros. has been rifling...

The Host trailer!

Posted 20 years ago

This will probably sound like major hyperbole (and no doubt lead to inevitable disappointment), but the South Korean horror flick THE HOST isn’t just an amazing monster movie, it’s a near masterpiece. You’re probably wondering how that’s possible – at...

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