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20 Toons want Oscar

Looks like 2009 will have been a good crop for Toons at the movies, as for only the second time the next Oscar ceremony will see 5 films nominated in the “Thanks for Trying” category, otherwise known as Best Animated...
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See Franco in a soap

If you thought -or hoped to Hell- it was a joke, where here’s the punch line: it ain’t. James Franco really did agree to appear in a story-arc for long-running ABC soap General Hospital, and now the network has a...
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Birch talks Shazam

So who’s confident to see the Captain Marvel movie finally get made? At least it’s been heading to us under the same director, Pete Segal, for about 3 years so that’s a good sign, right? Scribe Bill Birch also sounds...
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Area 51 Script deets

Alright, so I still haven’t seen PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, and this time it’s not because I’m a pussy, I just elected to see Zombieland again instead… Anyhoo, PARANORMAL director Oren Peli is getting on everyone’s radar these days, and from the...
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Sony aims Dads & Guns

Here’s something that will make DJ Qualls happy since, if you haven’t listened to this week’s JoBlo Podcast yet, the diminutive actor chastised us Canadians for not getting behind our cinema nearly enough. I did mention to him that French...
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Avatar’s real cost

As if expectations on James Cameron’s AVATAR weren’t high enough, now comes the ultimate question: what exactly will determine if the film is a success or a failure? Although TF2 came out with some of the most scathing reviews this...
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I Am Sgt. Rock

Apparently Joel Silver has been laboring for 20 years to have DC’s WWII non-superpowered hero Sergeant Rock on the big screen. Silver and producing partner Akiva Goldsman feel that the latest director they’ve attached to the project will be the...
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Wiseman’s Apocalypse

Do moviegoers have it in themselves to watch the Earth go through one more apocalypse on screen? Fox thinks so, and they want Kate Beckinsale‘s husband to do the planet trashing. The studio is developing a yet-untitled film based on...
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Oldboy remake is Dead!

   When it’s just not meant to happen, let it go. And so apparently Will Smith and Steven Spielberg have put their OLDBOY re-adaptation to rest once and for all. Dreamworks and Mandate pictures have had a hard time from...
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Viggo talks Hobbit

Ever since Peter Jackson announced plans to produce a film version of THE HOBBIT, constant speculations have been made on whether the original cast, a large part of the LOTR success, would be back. Especially Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, one...
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