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GI Joe: Retaliation helmer Jon Chu in talks to direct Masters of the Universe live-action feature

Posted 14 years ago

By the power of Grayskull, will the guy behind JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER and the upcoming GI JOE : RETALIATION be handed the keys to Eternia? According to Deadline, maybe! Talks between Chu and Sony have just gotten underway...

Serious negotiations have begun as Peter Jackson moves forward with turning The Hobbit into a trilogy

Posted 14 years ago

So a couple of weeks ago during Comic-Con, we got word that Peter Jackson’s two-film adaptation of THE HOBBIT could possibly be turned into a trilogy, creating a whole new third film that would presumably bridge in even grander fashion...

Frank Marshall says George Lucas is not writing Indy 5 but that Jurassic Park 4 is closer than you think

Posted 14 years ago

We heard from Frank Marshall yesterday when he spoke a bit about the potential future of the BOURNE series, but that isn’t the only franchise the famed producer is connected to. In an interview with CraveOnline, Marshall debunked some info...

TMNT co-creator says Jonathan Liebesman’s upcoming reboot is the best Turtles movie yet

Posted 14 years ago

Though many a fanboy freaked the f*ck out when the ‘Mutant’ portion of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ got, um, mutated into something to do with aliens, the word coming out of Comic-Con and TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman should help assure...

Check out some new images from Rian Johnson’s upcoming sci-fi film Looper

Posted 14 years ago

Just when you think Rian Johnson’s much-anticipated sci-fi actioner LOOPER is almost here, you realize that it’s still about two very long months away. Dammit! To tide us over though, some new images have made their way online courtesy of...

Fox officially sets Chronicle director Josh Trank on Fantastic Four, Joe Cornish on Rust, and David Slade now off Daredevil reboot

Posted 14 years ago

While Fox isn’t bringing anything to Comic-Con this year, they do have a few announcements related to some of their comic book properties. Let’s take a look… – FANTASTIC FOUR: Now while we knew that CHRONICLE helmer Josh Trank was...

Cabin in the Woods director Drew Goddard rewriting ending for the troubled World War Z?

Posted 14 years ago

Director Marc Forster’s WORLD WAR Z is a project that’s been marred with tons upon tons of problems in recent months. Most recently, “Lost” and PROMETHEUS scribe Damon Lindelof was brought on to do some “script revisions”, i.e. overhaul the...

First clip from The Dark Knight Rises featuring Gary Oldman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Posted 14 years ago

Dark Knight this! Dark Knight that! In case you haven’t noticed the posters, the (fake) trailers, the musics, the pornos, the blah blah blah; Christopher Nolan’s THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is finally coming out next week! Are you excited or...

Eli Roth will direct Russell Crowe as Dracula in the film Harker

Posted 14 years ago

In case you don’t remember, the film HARKER is a re-imagining of Bram Stoker’s Dracula that follows the character of ‘Jonathan Harker’, now a Scotland Yard detective that’s investigating a series of murders perpetrated by Dracula. We reported on Crowe’s...

The Wolverine gets moving again, announces casting for the Silver Samurai, Shingen, Yashida, Mariko, and Yukio

Posted 14 years ago

Director James Mangold’s THE WOLVERINE has seen its fair share of delays up to this point, but with its August production start date inching ever closer, we’re now finally starting to get some important bits of casting filled. According to...

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GI Joe: Retaliation helmer Jon Chu in talks to direct Masters of the Universe live-action feature

Serious negotiations have begun as Peter Jackson moves forward with turning The Hobbit into a trilogy

Frank Marshall says George Lucas is not writing Indy 5 but that Jurassic Park 4 is closer than you think

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Check out some new images from Rian Johnson’s upcoming sci-fi film Looper

Fox officially sets Chronicle director Josh Trank on Fantastic Four, Joe Cornish on Rust, and David Slade now off Daredevil reboot

Cabin in the Woods director Drew Goddard rewriting ending for the troubled World War Z?

First clip from The Dark Knight Rises featuring Gary Oldman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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