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The first trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ Flight starring Denzel Washington has landed

Posted 14 years ago

Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis has ditched the dead-eyed mocap he’s clung to for years now and returned to living, human actors on celluloid for his latest project FLIGHT starring Denzel Washington. Below we have the film’s first trailer and poster, and...

The MTV Movie Awards reveal lots of cool new footage from The Dark Knight Rises, plus news on a marathon and the film’s run-time!

Posted 14 years ago

“Let the games begin!” It’s go time for WB, as the studio is hellbent on releasing every single bit of promo for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES that it can between now and its July 20th release date. So today we’ve...

Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone in talks to star in boxing film Grudge Match

Posted 14 years ago

You would think that a clash of fists between Rocky Balboa and Jake LaMotta would yield some potentially great sports drama, right? Yeah, well, instead we’re gonna be getting a boxing comedy from the director of ANGER MANAGEMENT. Because that’s...

David Cronenberg talks about his next film Maps to the Stars with Robert Pattinson, hopes Viggo Mortensen will join

Posted 14 years ago

Though our own Chris Bumbray felt David Cronenberg’s latest COSMOPOLIS to be a “bore”, the word I’ve been hearing is that it is in fact quite good and definitely a return to a style of filmmaking more in line with...

Early buzz out of Cannes suggests Django Unchained is awesome and surprisingly funny

Posted 14 years ago

So the Cannes Film Festival is currently underway, and while Quentin Tarantino’s eagerly-awaited “southern” DJANGO UNCHAINED was not there to screen in its entirety, it did make an appearance with seven minutes of footage that has just about unanimously been...

This NSFW trailer for the remake of Maniac starring Elijah Wood is disturbing

Posted 14 years ago

Oh, Frodo. Much like what was done with him in SIN CITY, director Franck Khalfoun and writer Alexandre Aja (THE HILLS HAVE EYES, HIGH TENSION) have subverted Elijah Wood’s inherently sweet and adorable features and brought out their hidden creepiness...

Check out the new 4-minute super trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man!

Posted 14 years ago

On last night’s season premiere of “America’s Got Talent”, an exclusive 4-minute “super trailer” for Marc Webb’s THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN was unveiled. And though the majority of the trailer is basically the last one we’ve already seen, it does open...

Kurt Russell and Sacha Baron Cohen drop out of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained

Posted 14 years ago

UPDATE: The role originally set for Kurt Russell has been “absorbed” by character actor Walton Coggins (“Justified” and “The Shield”). Coggins already had a role in DJANGO, but somehow, they’re gonna make that work. No word on why Russell left...

Rebecca Hall in talks for the female lead in Iron Man 3

Posted 14 years ago

While THE AVENGERS continues to rake in the dough both here and overseas, it’s funny to think that IRON MAN 3 is already almost set to begin shooting (happening later this month). And while we just found out that Jessica...

Cameron Diaz takes on role previously eyed by Angelina Jolie in Ridley Scott’s The Counselor

Posted 14 years ago

Ridley Scott’s follow-up to his hotly anticipated PROMETHEUS is the Cormac McCarthy-scripted film THE COUNSELOR, and it’s already boasting an incredible cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, and Brad Pitt. And for a moment there, it seemed like Pitt’s...

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