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May 31, 2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End cast podcasts

I have some excellent streaming podcasts available for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End which have the actors and crew talking about all aspects of the film, interestingly Jerry Bruckheimer gives a little away about the possible Pirates of the Caribbean 4. In the first two you can watch...

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Scriptwriter talks Teen Titans

Mark Verheiden has briefly mentioned his signing to write the Teen Titans film. Although he says he's too busy to write that much about it, he does give a couple of little snippets away. Over on his blog he says how happy he is and gives away a few very...

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New Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer trailer

There's a new trailer online for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and this one is looking heavy and tense throughout. There's a definite feeling of impending doom (if you'll pardon the pun). Still, I wonder if poor Dr Doom and the Four are being pushed to the side...

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Spawn 2 begins

Todd McFarlane is set to finance the script development for the sequel to Spawn, Spawn 2, or rather as it is going to be called, Spawn. Todd McFarlane is the man who created the Spawn comic books and also produced the first film. According to Home Media Magazine through Bloody...

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DOA ladies on film

There are some pretty indepth interviews with the ladies of DOA: Dead or Alive online, that's Jamie Pressly, Sarah Carter, Holly Valance, Natassia Malthe and Devon Aoki. As well as the five clips there's also three behind the scenes clips to go with it as well, behinds the scnes clips...

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Speed Racer car revealed

The first picture of the Speed Racer car, Mach 5, has been revealed, and it looks pretty cool. You can see the full size image over at USA Today through Coming Soon. The paper also has some inside details on the film directly from Joel Silver… The film, Silver says,...

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Scott Sigler’s Infested is bought

Scott Sigler's next novel and its sequel have been bought for a film deal by Rogue Pictures and Random House Films, and the story sounds superb. The story is about a CIA black ops specialist and a CDC (Center for Disease Control) scientist who team up to try to stop...

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Witherspoon on Midnight, the Bunny Lake killer

Is this the film that Reese Witherspoon dropped out of Bunny Lake is Missing for? She's just been announced as signing up for a remake of a 1939 comedy called Midnight. The upside of this is that it is being written, and possibly directed, by Michael Arndt. The announcement comes...

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Shawnee Smith in Saw IV?

Despite both Shawnee Smith and Darren Lynn Bousman saying that the character of Amanda Young will not return in the next franchise excursion for Saw, Saw IV, there's a rumour going round that she most definitely is going to be. Bloody Disgusting were the guys who came out with the...

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Kilmer in Conspiracy

Val Kilmer is a great actor. I've recently seen him at two extremes of his career, Déjà vu and Top Secret, and both were enjoyable performances, really! However I think some of his best have been in thrillers rather than comedies, although Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Filmstalker review) is a...

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Stalked: Cassandra's Dream, The Happening, The Oxford Murders, Hercules

Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream film gets bought in Cannes, Zooey Deschanel joins M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, Alex de la Iglesia's The Oxford Murders gets a distribution deal, and Hercules is coming back to the big screen. Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream has been saved by the Weinstein Company. Previously, on...

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Miller says Sin City 2 likely

Frank Miller has come back on the recent comments from Michael Madsen that he doesn't know if Sin City 2 is going to get made, and frankly his comments aren't that comforting. He says that it is still likely to happen, the script is written, but now there are other...

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End final scene after credits

The closing scene of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End has appeared online, and I have a copy right here. So if you missed it before and left during the credits, the first question is why? I always stay to the end. Okay I'm usually writing up notes for...

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Melbourne gangland Macbeth trailer

There's a new trailer out for Macbeth, the updated version of the classic Shakespearean tragedy by Geoffrey Wright, the Director of Romper Stomper that we first heard about last year. This version is modern day Australia, ganglands of Melbourne to be exact, and with guns. It stars Sam Worthington, Victoria...

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May 30, 2007

Writer for Nakata's Entity remake

A long time ago I wrote about how Hideo Nakata had been lined up for a number of Hollywood remakes, including The Eye and The Entity. Well we knew he was off The Eye, but it looks like he's been kept on for The Entity remake as it finally gains...

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Eli Roth agrees with Filmstalker, trilogies are bad

Well there I was writing a feature about trilogies and if they can really work, and along comes Eli Roth and agrees with me, trilogies don't work, and he's not going to let Hostel follow that proven route. He says that the two Hostel films say it all, and manufactured...

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The Hulk plot revealed

The plot for the Incredible Hulk is out and it sounds like a nice mix between the previous film and the TV series, perhaps in a hope to try and pull in the audience after the fate of the first film. I think enough people have said it now so...

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À l'intérieur bought in Cannes

The Weinstein Company have bought À l'intérieur (Inside) a French horror that has been described as extremely violent and stars Béatrice Dalle, and you can see the trailer right here. The plot of À l'intérieur is pretty simple, a heavily pregnant woman and her boyfriend are involved in a car...

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The fourth Terminator?

Could this be the new Terminator for the fourth episode in the franchise? His name is Marcus Schenkenberg and he's a male model - surprise! Recently on Dutch TV he declared that he was signed up for a bunch of new projects, one of which he says is Terminator 4....

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D-War trailers

I've totally missed out on the "other" Korean monster film destined for mainstream, D-War, however a trailer popping up online grabbed my attention and made me take notice. I have to say it doesn't look in the same ballpark as The Host (Gwoemul) was, although on effects and sheer scale...

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Craven's Last House on the Left gains writer/director

The remake of Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left seems to be going ahead well as we hear that a Writer and Director have been signed up. Currently finalising a deal are Dennis Iliadis to direct and Adam Alleca to write the remake of Wes Craven's classic The...

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Bertolucci to film 16th century murdering musician

Bernardo Bertolucci is to direct a film about the life of the 16th century Italian musician Gesualdo da Venosa. Now how exciting could that be I hear you ask, well apparently very. Not only was he a famed musician, but also a famed murderer. Read this short introduction to his...

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Dirty Dancing, the videogame?!

Oh I can't help writing about this. It looks like the videogame industry is turning the tables on Hollywood and pillaging their marerial as now there's going to be a Dirty Dancing videogame. Yes, I hardly believed it either, but according to the story the game developer Codeasters will release...

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May 29, 2007

DreamWorks confirms Shrek 4 and 5!

The CEO of DreamWorks Animation, Jeffrey Katzenberg, has revealed the plans for Shrek, and they don't look good. It seems the previous rumour of Shrek 4 being a prequel and showing the green ogre arriving in that swamp is right, and not only that but there's going to be a...

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New Might Heart clips

There are four new clips for the film A Mighty Heart online. This is the true story of Mariane Pearl who tried to track down her husband Daniel Pearl, the journalist who was taken hostage by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. She searched in vain though and he was executed....

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Update: Missing comments

Have you lost your comments? Have you commented on the site and then not seen the comment appear? Well it could be there now, or if not I may have addressed the problem. Behind the scenes MovableType runs Filmstalker, and within it there is an automatic spam filtering system that...

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Written by Richard Brunton at 10:32 PM | | Comments (1)

Knightley to play Princess Diana?

Rumour time as it is claimed that Keira Knightley will be asked to play Princess Diana in a film based on her life, adapted from the book Diana and the Paparazzi. The book by Glenn Harvey and Mark Saunders is yet to be released, but is being touted around Cannes,...

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Madsen says Sin City 2 in doubt

Michael Madsen has been talking about his latest film Boarding Gate, which you can see a few clips for on Filmstalker. While he was speaking about that film he mentioned both Sin City 2 and Inglorious Bastards. He confirmed that Quentin Tarantino is writing Inglorious Bastards, although he's hard at...

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HD Update: Clooney's Michael Clayton trailer online

The trailer for George Clooney's latest film, Michael Clayton, is online and it does look powerful indeed. It looks as intriguing as Syriana and way more tense. The film tells the story of Michael Clayton who is a fixer for a large corporate law firm. His whole life is the...

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Mirren in Isreal-Palestine drama

Helen Mirren is set to court more controversy in a new film she'll be starring in which is set to have the backdrop of the Isreal-Palestine conflict. The film will look at a Jewish woman living on the Gaza Strip whose daughter is shot and killed. Not too controversial so...

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Natali's Splice revealed in casting calls

Previously I wrote about Splice, the horror coming from Vincenzo Natali who also wrote and directed Cube, today there are a few more details revealed as the casting calls are announced. To recap, the story is about two scientists who ignore all the legal, ethical and moral boundaries and splice...

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Woo to direct modern day Ninja

John Woo's next film has some more details, as we hear that he's set to write and direct Ninja Gold, a film which comes from the mind of Warren Spector, the videogame create responsible for such titles as Deus Ex and Thief. The story concentrates on the mixing of traditional...

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Mann to direct Depp in Russian spy story?

According to a report from Cannes Johnny Depp may be playing the murdered Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, the man who was poisoned in London last year using radioactive material, and Michael Mann will be directing him. I'm a little confused about this as previous stories we heard had Johnny Depp...

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Paxton to direct JFK film

Bill Paxton is being reported as saying that his dream project is a film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a story that has already been told in great depth. In a recent interview he said: ...my dream project is to make a movie about the assassination of President...

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Early Babylon A.D. footage online

Okay I'm not calling this a teaser, but there is some behind the scenes footage pulled together for an early look at Babylon A.D., the Mathieu Kassovitz directed science fiction film starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh and Gérard Depardieu, as well as a fair few other big names. There are...

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May 28, 2007

The Hollywood Trilogy, does it work?

I’ve just watched Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Filmstalker review) and although it isn’t the worst in the series it sill isn’t nearly as good as the first film. The second in the series, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Filmstalker review) was undoubtedly the worst. It...

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Win Déjà Vu on Blu-ray

I've seen two Blu-ray films so far, Casino Royale and Déjà Vu, and both of them have looked and sounded superb. Now I've been given three copies of Déjà Vu on Blu-ray to give away. This marks the start of a good few Blu-ray competitions (if the marketing company are...

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Allen's Cassandra's Dream struggling?

Woody Allen has been having a hard time trying to sell his latest film in Cannes, despite Cassandra's Dream having a strong cast and story. Previously his film Scoop failed to gain a UK release, despite the bankable talents involved. Apart from his own name there were Hugh Jackman, Scarlett...

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Stigmata sequel appears

Stigmata was a pretty good film which had a poor theatrical ending, although the alternative DVD ending was much better. Now it's being rumoured that a sequel is in development. The original told hte story of a young woman, far from religious, who started showing signs of stigmata. A priest...

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May 27, 2007

Flyboys

Film Two Stars
From the start my hackles were up over this film and I was fighting an instant reaction. What with American films rewriting war history before, with different nationalities taking victories, other nationalities ignored, and generally changing events for a more Hollywood cinematic film, I thought this might follow the same...

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May 26, 2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Film Three Stars
I loved the first film in the franchise, it really was a lot of fun and I too, fell in love with the characters and their relationships. It was a superbly crafted script and it had something for everyone, then there were the effects and the set pieces which just...

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Stalked: Cassell, Mikkelsen, Molina, SIMS and Bullock

Here's a roundup of some stories that I've not been able to keep you up with over the last few days. SIMS, the computer game which has no plot whatsoever, it is a mere engine for you to create something, is going to have a film made out of it....

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Lohan, Dawson, MacLaine and Dukakis in grannie crime comedy

Despite the reports of Lindsay Lohan messing up her own career, she's certainly getting the roles. She's just signed up for a film alongside Rosario Dawson, Channing Tatum, Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis in a comedy that doesn't sound too exciting to me. Variety describe it as a "grandma gang...

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The Beast, comic book World War II film

After Babylon A.D. Mathieu Kassovitz is set to make an animated film about the Holocaust, an interesting choice but not really that far from some of the sentiments in the story of Babylon A.D. starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Gérard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling and Mark Strong. The Beast is a...

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Bryan Singer off Logan's Run?

The word on the digi-street is that Bryan Singer and Joel Silver have not seen eye to eye on the remake of the classic Logan's Run and that the winner isn't the person that had a passion for the project, it's the one with the money, so Bryan Singer is...

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Lohan in I Know Who Killed Me trailer

The theatrical trailer for I Know Who Killed Me, the film starring Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond and Neal McDonough. There's been a lot of interest in how this is going to work out, mainly because of Lindsay Lohan and her out of work activities, but let's try and focus on...

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Clips for Argento, Madsen, Dafoe, Hoskins in Boarding Gate and Go-Go Tales

There are a couple of clips for two films I hadn't heard of until today, films that have a few good names attached to them too. The first is Boarding Gate starring Asia Argento and Michael Madsen which tells the story of an Italian woman living in London that has...

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May 25, 2007

Paul Newman retires

Some sad news today for Paul Newman and Robert Redford fans, it seems that the hopeful teaming of the two great actors has just been put to rest as Paul Newman has announced his retirement from acting. On Good Morning America through FemaleFirst.co.uk he announced the sad news: "I've been...

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Weekend films to stalk

Well this weekend the cinema is a foregone conclusion is it not? However there are a couple of alternatives should you find the gazillion showings of Pirates all booked up at every cinema ever built in your neighbourhood. There are, as always, the UK Freeview channels to choose from, and...

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Jackson talks Dambusters and Halo

Peter Jackson has been talking about his remake of the British classic World War II film The Dam Busters, as well as his involvement in the Halo film and his hopes that it will still be made. Of the Dambusters film he talks about how he went after Stephen Fry...

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Is Blanchett Indiana Jones' villain?

The rumours are everywhere now regarding Indiana Jones IV. We're hearing about specific scenes, complete plot details, and now we're discussing who could be the villain of the piece, and that is perhaps one of the more positive stories to come out of the film so far. Forget aliens and...

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Cage off Untouchables: Capone Rising?

There's more horrific news this morning regarding Nicolas Cage, this time that he might not be able to appear in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables: Capone Rising. I can hear the shock through the screen. Yes, Brian De Palma might have to find someone else to play the lead of...

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National Treasure: Book of Secrets teaser online

Well there's a teaser trailer online for National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and I have to say it is incredibly underwhelming. Nicolas Cage is flat as a pancake, as he all to often is, and the attempt at a build up of some great conspiracy just leaves me feeling that...

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Dennis Hopper in Tarantino’s Hell Ride

Dennis Hopper has confirmed that he's going to star in the next "Quentin Tarantino presents" film Hell Ride. The film comes from the Writer and Director Larry Bishop who will also star alongside Hopper, Michael Madsen and Eric Balfour. It is an old style biking film that is described as...

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Damon is done with Bourne

Matt Damon has spoken out at Cannes about his Bourne franchise and where he stands on it, and unsurprisingly he says he's done. The third is his last. "I'm definitely done with that. I think we've ridden that horse as far as we can…The character lives on in the books...

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Stalked: Mikkelsen plays Stravinsky and 9/11 Internet film gets UK release

William Friedkin is directing Mads Mikkelsen as Stravinksy in another Chanel story, while the 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change is getting a UK cinema release. The most downloaded film in history has been bought Revolver and is set for UK distribution. The film is Loose Change 9/11 which looks at...

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Carnahan talks Smokin’ Aces DVD prequel

Joe Carnahan has been talking about the prequel for Smokin' Aces and it seems that he and the "Nigerians", as he calls the filmmakers who are going to be taking on board the film, have come up with a story for the film, a politically topical story, and with the...

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Mao Tse-Tung the Hollywood hero?

There's a bizarre story online that suggests that there's going to be a film that is a positive look at the life of the Chinese dictator Mao Tse-Tung. Human rights groups allege that millions died under his regime, but despite this Stephen North is planning a film called Challenging Heaven,...

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May 24, 2007

An Inconvenient Truth sequel?

Here's an interesting idea, how do you create a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth? Well there is a way as the Director of the film Davis Guggenheim is saying that he is in talks with Paramount about the film. According to the Director he is off next week to talk...

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Pirates crew to develop The Lone Ranger?

The team who brought us the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and made Pirates cool again are turning their hand to another not so successful genre in Hollywood, westerns, and with that we're possibly set to see the return of The Lone Ranger. Although the usual pesky sources are the...

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Depp and Rush for more Pirates

I saw the story that Johnny Depp had signed for another Pirates of the Caribbean film yesterday, but I didn't think it was that important. Since everyone's talking about it though I thought I would join in the bandwagon. FreezeDriedMovies through Moviehole are saying that he has already signed, however...

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Weinstein's try He-Man, but do we care?

Well it has been confirmed, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe now resides at the Weinstein company and that means that there will be another crack at getting the film made. It also means that this time it might just happen. However it isn't quite that easy as Mattel...

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Weitz warns of CGI backlash

Chris Weitz thinks that there will soon be a backlash against the CGI we see in films, or at least where the CGI is used to make up for a lack of story. The BBC byline is quite misleading on the story though, it says: "The Golden Compass director Chris...

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Costner returns to Westerns

Kevin Costner is sticking to the cowboy aspect of his career as he reveals that he has another cowboy film written and ready to go, although he's very coy about the rest of the details. Kevin Costner has done a few cowboy films in his time, Dances with Wolves being...

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Skulduggery Pleasant nine book franchise bought

Skulduggery Pleasant is an unusual book by the Irish writer Derek Landy, and it has just been picked up by Warner Brothers to become the latest childrens franchise. The book has a quite unusual write up, here's what the official blurb says about it: Meet Skulduggery Pleasant, Ace Detective, Snappy...

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May 23, 2007

Sex and the City gains director but no cast

So Sex and the City has a director and we finally hear that there is most definitely going to be a Sex and the City film, well, almost. Michael Patrick King is the man who has been given the task, a long time Executive Producer of the show. Mario Cantone,...

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McQuarrie gets scriptwriters organised

Christopher McQuarrie is a top class scriptwriter, his scriptwriting career may be short, but there's a top class list of scripts sitting ready to go, and of course he's been responsible for that top class The Usual Suspects. Now he's using that power, along with a number of other scriptwriters,...

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Burton's Sweeny Todd makes cast cuts

There are reports out that Christopher Lee and a number of actors have been cut from the Sweeny Todd film before their scenes have even been filmed. It all sounds a bit confusing, but it seems that Tim Burton had written a number of new characters into the Sweeny Todd...

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Rock's Game Plan trailer looks woeful

Oh good god, I think it's fair to say that the Rock is on a road to ruin, especially after seeing the trailer for The Game Plan, it looks sickly sweet and formulaic. Now I know some of you are going to say you don't even know where he had...

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Evans and Tucci in Hitler's Weatherman

Lee Evans and Stanley Tucci are starring in a very strange comedy indeed, I Was Hitler's Weatherman, which I'm sure will upset some. The film will see Lee Evans playing a young Jew who assumes the identity of a Nazi meteorologist Ernest Deisin to hide himself away. Except the opposite...

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Blu-Ray: Déjà Vu

DVD Three Stars
Déjà Vu has arrived on Blu-Ray, and I was fortunate enough to be able to review it. Having already seen the film in the cinema, I shan't review the actual film again, instead you can head over and read the original review. However here's a quick overview of the story...

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The Outer Limits series one

DVD Four Stars
When I review a DVD I watch the whole thing, and sometimes that can take a while when there's a couple of commentaries and some extra features. When it's a complete series though, the review gets even harder. The Outer Limits series one boxset contains twenty two episodes and additonal...

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Russell, Weinstein and Tarantino talk new Grindhouse release

Kurt Russell has spoken before he's thought about the impact before, but this time he's right on the money with his comments that he's disappointed that audiences won't get to see Grindhouse in its original double bill form. Interestingly at the same press conference in Cannes Quentin Tarantino talked about...

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Indiana Jones IV plot revelations

We know that there's a rumour that Karen Allen is returning to the Indiana Jones series for the fourth, and hopefully final, film, but there's another rumour that suggests who she might be playing as well as how Shia LaBeouf fits in. So if you don't want possible spoilers then...

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Paris Je T'aime trailer online in HD

The trailer for Paris, Je T'Aime is online and although it seems difficult to work out any of the story lines, other than just love and in Paris, you can see a whole range of big names, the actors on screen and the directors as their names flash by. Paris,...

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Shrek IV a prequel?

Well the news is out about Shrek 4 and where that story is going to go, and frankly I think the warning bells are tolling, "stop now!" comes the cry... The film is going to be an origin story, it's going to tell us where Shrek came from, how he...

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Myers in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty remake

Mike Myers is the latest name attached to the attempted remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye classic The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I loved Danny Kaye films when I was young, anyway, stop those dancing and singing flashbacks. The remake has been on the go for sometime and according...

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Haggis to rewrite Bond 22

Paul Haggis is signed up to rewrite the Bond 22 screenplay, reviving the writing team from Casino Royale, not really much of a surprise as the Producers would be insane to turn away from the magic that helped bring that superb Bond film to the screen. I'm actually not sure...

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Transformers and Harry Potter clips online

There are some TV commercial teasers online for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Transformers, and while there's nothing really earth shattering about them, they do provide a little bit of a new glimpse to the films. First we have links to the six TV spots for...

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McTiernan's huge Urban actioner