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August 31, 2007

Cusack, de Bont thriller cancelled

Jan de Bont was to be making an action thriller called Stopping Power which would lead with John Cusack. I say was because, as you can probably guess, the film has been cancelled, all US $40 million worth of it. However it doesn't appear to be a fault of the...

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The Brave One featurette online

There's a featurette online for The Brave One featuring Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Neil Jordan and Joel Silver, and it isn't disappointing. The film is looking very strong, mainly through Foster's performance, and I have high hopes for the film despite some early comments about it online. I'd go through...

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Breach clips and deleted scenes online

I have some new Breach clips including three deleted scenes and you can see them all in the main story. Breach is a film that is inspired from real events, from the biggest security breach in the U.S. secret service in history. A young FBI clerk who wants to be...

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More Sugarhouse clips online

While trying to clear out the huge list of emails sitting in my mailbox I found some new clips for the excellent British film Sugarhouse. Sugarhouse (Filmstalker review) stars Steven Mackintosh, Andy Serkis and Ashley Walters and provides an excellent piece of drama that looks as though it would be...

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Ratatouille clips online

I can't believe that Ratatouille hasn't been released in the UK yet, it's been halfway around the world and it still won't arrive until mid October. I have some clips that have been sitting in my inbox and thought I'd better use them before it's October already! The first clip...

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Rob Cohen blogs The Mummy

Rob Cohen has started blogging about the production of the next in the Mummy franchise, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. The thoughts haven't been positive about this fourth one in the franchise, the fact that it's Rob Cohen directing after the poor performance of Stealth and the news...

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New Death Proof trailer and review

There's a new trailer for Death Proof online which is superbly put together, it looks really good and does the film proud. I managed to see the film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year and I rather enjoyed it, apart from some Quentin Tarantino moments that I felt...

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The Mist HD trailer stuns

I've just been blown away by the trailer for Stephen King's The Mist from the superb Writer/Director Frank Darabont. Seriously, it has put me straight into the mood for some tense horror action within seconds of pressing play, and what's more is it looks fabulous in HD. Going by the...

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Star Trek plot and casting revealed

There are some massive rumours out there just now, some about the casting on the J.J. Abrams Star Trek film, and others about the plot. I have to say that the plot rumours really don't sound like J.J. Abrams at all and if people (i.e. studio executives and fans alike)...

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One Missed Call HD trailer online

Well I am surprised, the trailer for the remake of One Missed Call doesn't actually look that bad, in fact it looks quite good. Okay, trailers aren't always representative of the actual film, but here there's some subtlety and some strong scare moments. With that you can also say...

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Alien vs Predator 2 International gore trailer

The International version of the unrated Alien vs Predator 2 trailer just seems like a string of death scenes to me, much like the previous unrated trailer although with a few more kills and some extended shots of screams of pre-death agony. I like the tag line at the start...

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P2 clip reveals stock scares

There's a clip online for P2, the horror film from Franck Khalfoun which he has co-written along with Grégory Levasseur and Alexandre Aja who previously brought us the excellent Haute Tension (Switchblade Romance) (Filmstalker review) and The Hills Have Eyes (Filmstalker review) remake. So you can imagine how high the...

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Tarantino offered Hawaii Five-O film?

There's an amazing rumour online that Quentin Tarantino was offered the job of bringing the Hawaii Five-O television series to the big screen, and he turned it down for one of the strangest reasons. Or perhaps it's not really strange, just honest for the first time from someone who is...

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Director on Sigaw remake

Yam Laranas, the Writer and Director of the excellent horror film Sigaw (Filmstalker review), is getting the chance to remake his own film in Hollywood, now called The Echo, and from all accounts he's getting an incredible freedom to make it as he deems fit. During production he keeps posting...

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August 30, 2007

Download the Audio Commentary for The Nines

John August is rapidly joining my favourite Writer/Director lists, and I haven't even seen his upcoming film The Nines yet, so why am I so interested? Well he's just released a downloadable audio commentary for The Nines way before it's even on DVD, or released in the cinema. The idea...

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Ridley Scott says Sci-Fi is dull

You have to agree with the man who made Blade Runner, he has said that science fiction has all been done before and there's nothing original. Can you argue with him on that point? “There's nothing original. We've seen it all before. Been there. Done it. There is an over-reliance...

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European Film Awards People's Choice nominees

If you didn't know, the European Film Awards People's Choice allows you, the audience, to vote for your favourite films of the year. Of course they get to pick the nominees, but at least you get the choice to vote for the final one. Although it would be great if...

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The Kingdom clips online

Despite missing The Kingdom at the Edinburgh International Film Festival I'm not that bitter. However the next best thing before seeing the film on screen is to catch a few clips of it online, and that's what you can do right now. There are some fourteen clips online for the...

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Thornton, Basinger, Routh are Informers

The Informers is an ensemble film that is based on short stories from the author Bret Easton Ellis who was also one of the writers of the screenplay, that enough should raise interest, but then there's the Director, Gregor Jordan, who also directed Buffalo Soldiers. Now I'm interested. Today a...

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Repossession Mamba gains Braga

Repossession Mambo already has Jude Law and Forest Whitaker on board, but now Alice Braga has joined. Braga is most known for her role in City of God and is set to appear in I Am Legend, Crossing Over, Redbelt and Blindness. Miguel Sapochnik is directing from an adaptation of...

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Stalked: Zellweger, Connick Jr., Belushi directs and more for Repossession Mambo

This edition of stalked stories has: Harry Connick Jr. and Renee Zellweger are in talks for a romantic comedy which sounds rather uninteresting. James Belushi looks set to direct his first film about a true story of a man returning to college and playing American Football at the tender age...

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The Brave One new trailer

There's another new trailer for The Brave One starring Jodie Foster and Terence Howard online today, and it's being touted as a restricted trailer. It is strange though that I don't have to answer any questions to see it, prove I'm a U.S. citizen (since U.S. residents are the only...

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Sweeney Todd gets R rating

Looks like the rumours that Tim Burton was being asked to cut Sweeney Todd by DreamWorks were untrue. The rumours had DreamWorks asking Tim Burton to slice the film down as they were unpleased at how dark and gruesome the film had become, this was mainly in order to get...

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Is Notorious B.I.G. cast?

According to Sean Kingston himself, he's landed the lead role in the Notorious B.I.G. film, successfully coming through the audition to the Director, B.I.G.'s former Managers, Wayne Barrow and Mark Pitts, and his mother Voletta Wallace. Although there's no official confirmation as yet, and the casting call had gone out...

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Grace is Gone trailer pulls the right strings

Looking at the trailer for Grace is Gone in a detached way you can see a few things straight up, it ticks all the emotional boxes and John Cusack looks like John Cusack. Of course the trailer is just that, a trailer, and the word on the film is extremely...

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Another Dune film?

According to a comment made by one of the Herbert family members on the Dune forums, the forums for the novels not the film, it seems that someone in Hollywood is showing interest in the original Frank Herbert novel again, and they're actively trying to get hold of the project....

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August 29, 2007

The De2cent Director announced

When we first heard about the sequel to Descent, Descent 2 or as they were calling it De2cent, Neil Marshall wasn't involved and it sounded awful. Then he revealed he was a producer and pushing to get a good script, now we hear that his Descent Editor Jon Harris will...

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Control writer for John Lennon film

The writer of the film Control which looked intensely at Joy Division's front man Ian Curtis, has said that he's writing a film about the legendary Beatles singer John Lennon. Not just that, but it will be a film about the young Lennon. A film of the young John Lennon,...

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Verhoeven directs Paperboy film

When I first read that Paul Verhoeven was to direct The Paperboy I thought they meant that eighties videogame, but actually it's the Pete Dexter novel (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com). The story seems a somewhat complex one. The two grown sons of the local Moat County Tribune Editor are poles apart,...

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Pope Joan gets new Director

Soenke Wortmann is the next Director to helm Pope Joan after Volker Schloendorff was sacked from the production last month. The film is based on the novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com) that retells the ninth-century tale of a woman who disguises herself as a man and climbs...

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The Lost Boys 2 cast

Well it's finally out, The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe cast which will not feature Jason Patric but apparently will star three of the original stars with Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander and Corey Haim, despite previous concerns he couldn't appear, but definitely no Jason Patric as was previously rumoured in...

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Bad Lieutenant remake in development

It seems there is another remake in early script development at the moment, and that's Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant. Yes, the film which starred Harvey Keitel as the disillusioned, drug taking, sex crazed, and slightly unhinged cop, which was nominated for the Film Independent's Spirit Awards and won Keitel a...

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Zack Snyder directs Illustrated Man

Warner Brothers has announced that Zack Snyder will be directing The Illustrated Man, the remake of the 1969 film and of the Ray Bradbury novel of the same name starring the excellent Rod Steiger. There's no word yet on who will be leading the film, bets on Gerard Butler anyone?...

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Huge Justice League of America rumours

There are a number of rumours appearing about the new Justice League of America film, now they are strictly emailed in comments from an unnamed and unconfirmed source, but they are interesting none the less. The first is that the enemy in the film may not be the OMACs but...

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Owen Wilson out of Tropic Thunder?

It appears that Owen Wilson will be dropping out of Tropic Thunder, despite there only being a week's worth of work for the star. Now as you know I'm not into talking about the stars private lives too much and so all I'll say on this subject is that I...

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Brave One and D-War clips online

There are a couple of TV spots online for Jodie Foster's The Brave One, a film I'm really looking forward to, as well as a new trailer for the CGI heavy D-War aka Dragon Wars, which is making me think of Cloverfield more and more. The Brave One stars Jodie...

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Stalked: Zhang in Waiting and Affleck not into you

Ben Affleck joins the big cast comedy He's Just Not That Into You and Ziyi Zhang may be joining the long awaited English language Waiting. Ziyi Zhang is in talks to appear in the long awaited Waiting, an adaptation of Ha Jin's National Book Award-winning novel. The project was first...

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Stalked: Shahrukh Khan in Slumdog and Miike's Western Django goes worldwide

Shahrukh Khan is in talks for Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire and Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django gains worldwide distribution. Shahrukh Khan has been approched by Danny Boyle to star in Slumdog Millionaire. Khan is set to play the host of the Millionaire show, Kaun Banega Crorepati. The film is based...

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Stalked: Lightsabers by NASA and Unforseen seen in U.S.

Luke Skywalker's lightsaber will be sent into space and likely cause a terrible conflice, while The Unforseen ecological film gets U.S. distribution. The Unforseen has been picked up for U.S. distribution according to Variety. The film is produced by Robert Redford and Terence Malik and comes from Director Laura Dunn....

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August 28, 2007

Rock joins Disney's Witch Mountain

The Rock is seriously moving away from his action hero start to his Hollywood career as he continues his child friendly roles. This time he's joining the Disney sequel to the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain, the sequel will be directed by Andy Fickman. The film will see Dwayne...

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Thomas Crown Affair sequel starts casting

It seems that the sequel to The Thomas Crown Affair remake, The Topkapi Affair, is finally moving forward and is about to begin casting. Although there was no real sequel to the original, this version of The Thomas Crown Affair will have one courtesy of Pierce Brosnan's The Topkapi Affair....

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Updated: More Lost Boys 2 casting news

There's two pieces of casting news online that have me confused about the Lost Boys sequel. One is a positive story and the other is a rather negative one, so while the new casting rumour has me interested, word from the previously announced Corey Haim should have fans concerned. Let's...

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Stone's War zombie nazi trailer

The trailer for the World War II horror film War of the Dead looks interesting, well the plot perhaps moreso than the trailer. It makes me think of how the Return to Castle Wolfenstein film should be. The film was previously called Stones War and the story sees Captain Martin...

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Fast and Furious 4 in development?

Update: 21/11/2007 The full plot is revealed for Fast and the Furious 4, and Jordana Brewster is also looking to return. Update: 03/10/2007: Latest News: Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are officially in talks for the fourth film and Justin Lin is confirmed as Director. Update: 13/09/2007 With the Hollywood...

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Halloween film leaked online

It appears that Rob Zombie's Halloween has been leaked online, and like Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II, the film is a work print, and that means superb quality. According to the story the work print appeared on bit torrent sites today. So if someone was wanting to track it down...

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UK gets free movie download service

Vizumi has just announced a new download service for the UK, one that features films to rent, buy and even download for free, and this isn't a small offer of a couple of free titles, it features a huge amount of free films. Vizumi is backed by Arts Alliance Media...

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Horseman religious thriller

The Fourth Horseman has been picked up by Intrepid Pictures for production. Written by Marshall Uzzle and Perry Fair it tells the story of the first three Horsemen of the Apocalypse waiting for the fourth to arrive and of a priest trying to stop them. It sounds like a very...

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Another film to join Bollywood and Hollywood

It seems that there is a move to bring Hollywood and Bollywood closer together these days, and the latest film to attempt that is The Other End of the Line, a romantic comedy that brings together an American and Indian. Tracey Jackson wrote the screenplay and James Dodson is directing....

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Campbell says Bubba Nosferatu is dead

Oh this is terrible news, there's not going to be another Bubba film, well not with Bruce Campbell in it, as he announces that he's having nothing to do with the sequel to Bubba Ho-tep (Filmstalker review) Bubba Nosferatu and the Curse of the She-Vampires. Here are his exact words:...

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Willis in Stone's Vietnam film

Previously I wrote that Sean Penn was rumoured to be in Oliver Stone's Vietnam film Pinkville, but now it appears that Bruce Willis will be making that return journey along with Channing Tatum. Oliver Stone was to direct a film about the CIA tracking down Osama Bin Laden but that...

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Darjeeling Limited behind the scenes clips

There are three behind the scenes clips for The Darjeeling Limited online, the film from Wes Anderson that we know very little about starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman. Let me just take this opportunity to wish Owen Wilson as speedy recovery and that he'll be back on...

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Downey joins Foxx in Soloist

Robert Downey Jr. is joining Jamie Foxx in The Soloist which will be directed by Joe Wright. As we already heard this is the story of a journalist who discovered the amazing violinist Nathaniel Ayers who was living as a homeless person at the time. Ayers was something of a...

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Lucas hires writer for Red Tails

George Lucas has pulled in the talents of John Ridley to write his World War II fighter pilot film called Red Tails which tells the story of the American Tuskegee airmen who became the first African-American fighter pilots in U.S. history. Well that statemet is according to Variety as I'm...

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August 27, 2007

Filmstalker coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2007

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Is Starship Troopers 3 good?

An interview online with one of the stars of Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (not Starshop Trippers as I first typed) suggests that the film might be returning to the strength of the first, something that's backed up by one of the stars also from the first film, Casper Van Dien....

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Butler Brosnan thriller renamed

I had no idea that the upcoming film Butterfly on a Wheel starring Gerard Butler, Pierce Brosnan and Maria Bello had been renamed. It is now simply called Shattered, or at least in the U.S. it will be. The story sees Gerard Butler and Maria Bello playing a couple whose...

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Stalked: Piven and Gooding Jr

Cuba Gooding Jr. takes up a dramatic role that might just show some return to form, and Jeremy Piven goes all comedic after the rise in his dramatic big screen career. Cuba Gooding Jr. has made a string of bad choices since his 1997 Oscar for Jerry Maguire, mostly in...

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Stalked: Icelandic Leatherface and monkey soldiers

Leatherface is set to star in an Icelandic horror film, and a new film will see monkey's as soldiers in a horror comedy. The actor who played Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Gunnar Hansen, is to appear in an Icelandic horror film from Júlíus Kemp called Reykjavik Whale Watching...

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Speed Racer uses new filming technique

It seems that the Wachowski Brothers have other things up their sleeves after the new filming technique that they brought to the industry with Matrix as they do the same with Speed Racer. This time there's no bullet time and it's not just a few scenes, this time it's the...

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Keanu Reeves in The Day the Earth Stood Still

The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still is set to star Keanu Reeves as the humanoid alien who arrives on Earth along with his robot protector to deliver a warning to the world, change your aggressive ways or the planet will be destroyed by the alien race. The...

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Dan Dare film?

The head of Virgin, Richard Branson, has apparently had a hand in getting the rights to Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future to Virgin Comics to be restarted as a comic and a possible film. "Dan Dare is a heroic, thoughtful and fiercely independent character...I was an avid reader of...

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Rise of the Footsoldier trailer

Rise of the Footsoldier is based on the true story of Carlton Leach who was one of the leaders of one of the most feared football hooligan gangs in England to become a member of a notorious gang of criminals who were feared in the late eighties and early nineties,...

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EIFF 2007 award winners

The Edinburgh International Film Festival for 2007 is over, and the winners of all the awards have been announced. It's been a hectic two weeks of trying to see far too many movies than can possibly be seen in that time while still managing to write them up, as of...

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August 25, 2007

The Last Winter trailer like The Thing?

So we know there's a remake of John Carpenter's The Thing, but this trailer for The Last Winter seems to suggest a very similar feel, and indeed some of the quotes scream that same suggestion. The film is about an oil company's exploration team in Alaska working to try and...

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Justice League of America finds Superman

If rumours be taken for truth it could well be that Tom Welling, the actor who plays Superman in Smallville, is set to play Superman in the Justice League of America film, and another thing, it's not going to be all motion capture. First up the motion capture part. From...

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Alien vs Predator: Requiem trailer just gore?

So what does the red band Alien vs. Predator: Requiem trailer show us? Well the very barest of stories and just about every scene of a creature of any description being mutilated in some way with the odd padding of a blood splatter scene. Okay, there's a little more to...

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August 24, 2007

New American Gangster trailer online

There's a new trailer for the Ridley Scott film American Gangster online, and while the last one concentrated more on the performance of Denzel Washington as the 1970's drug lord in Harlem, this trailer looks more to the two sides of the story with more from Russell Crowe as the...

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A trailer for The Assassination of Jesse James

Finally it seems as though The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is moving forward as we finally get to see a trailer for the film. Previously we saw a very slight teaser, now though we're set for much more with this trailer that reveals more of...

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Campbell is holding up Bubba Nosferatu

Bubba Nosferatu and the Curse of the She-Vampires, the sequel to the excellent Bubba Ho-tep (Filmstalker review) is being held up by the star who plays the ageing Elvis, Bruce Campbell according to the other headliner Paul Giamatti. The first Bubba film is superb, and not for the obvious reasons...

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New Hitman trailer online

There's a new Hitman trailer online and I think it might have a bit of a mixed reception. It looks fantastic, much better than the first one, and we hear 47 actually speaking. Seeing this, although it looks really well put together and there are some classic shots, I am...

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Knocked Up red band trailer and twelve clips

I've just been sent through some links for the Red Band (read naughty) trailer for Knocked Up along with a few extra clips for the film. Now when I say some clips, I'm talking about twelve of them in all, with four that are sort of outtakes. You all know...

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Stalked: Fishtales and Blu-ray trailers

There are two trailers online which are quite interesting. The first is the trailer for the next film from Billy Zane and Kelly Brook, while the other is a behind the scenes report from the set of the Blu-ray advert production. The Blu-ray behind the scenes is interesting just to...

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Once trailer and release dates

I have the trailer for Once in various formats and sizes to celebrate the UK release on October the 19th while it is on show to the Edinburgh Film Festival crowd this week. It's already seen a release in Ireland and Germany, and Australia is set for the 30th of...

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Sunshine DVD alternate ending

Sunshine is getting a DVD release that carries a pretty good set of extras. The film, from Danny Boyle, features a strong cast who play a group of astronauts heading to the dying Sun in an attempt to reignite it and save Earth from a frozen future. The film had...

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Sommers and Beattie on G.I. Joe

Previously I wrote about Stephen Sommers being considered for the directorial job on the G.I. Joe film and a little while later we heard that he was asking too much money and was off, both rumours of course. Now though we hear that he actually does have the job and...

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Ang Lee has integrity

I like the fact that Ang Lee's latest film Lust, Caution has received an NC-17 in the U.S., only because they've stuck with the film and let the MPAA slap that mark on it. After all, the U.S. needs to be protected from seeing sexual scenes don't they? It's only...

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Another new Director for Dallas

I don't think the idea of a Dallas film is going to die, either does John Travolta who is still attached to the role of J.R. Ewing. Now though the film is most definitely heading down the comedy route with the possible new Director Betty Thomas. Betty Thomas filmed The...

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August 23, 2007

Li and Chan too old to fight in Forbidden Kingdom?

Jet Li is already trying to lower expectations about his new film The Forbidden Kingdom alongside Jackie Chan. He's warning not to expect great fight sequences, and that does sound disappointing. During a press conference Jet Li spoke up about how he and his co-star are a bit too old...

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Aliens vs. Predator 2 PredAlien photo online

So Alien vs. Predator 2: Requiem, is coming and sounds like it's going to have a bit more budget and love for the two franchises installed in it, well so I thought from everything I'd heard to date until I saw the first photo of the PredAlien, or whatever they...

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Halo live-action film footage online?

There's apparently more footage from the live action Halo film from Neill Blomkamp online, although I'm rather puzzled by it all. The alleged clip doesn't give any feeling of scope, and although there are some nice technical references to Halo such as the appearance of a Warthog being dropped in,...

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