Filmstalker: October 2007 Archives

Kung Fu Panda official trailer in HD

The Kung Fu Panda trailer has arrived, and I don't mean the one that Jack Black has been talking over that I recently posted, I mean the official film trailer. Frankly, they should have stuck with the Jack Black version, and I'm someone who hasn't fallen for his style of...

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Pearce takes The Road not Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen was being rumoured to be heading up John Hillcoat's adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel The Road, however the word is that it's not going to be Mortensen after all but Guy Pearce. The novel tells the story of a father and son who make a journey through...

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Watchmen's Black Freighter on DVD

Zack Snyder had been keenly talking about his desire to include the sub-story of Tales of the Black Freighter along with Watchmen - for those of you who don't know, throughout the Watchmen story this comic within a comic is referenced and we a story that gives us a little...

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Lowe and Fox in Dallas?

There's an interesting casting rumour online for the Dallas film, and it comes from the same source as the previous James Brolin rumour. This one has Matthew Fox, Rob Lowe, Kevin Conway, Kate Cassidy and Paul Logan are all in various stages of negotiating and signing for the film....

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Dillon gets Armored

Matt Dillon and Columbus Short have signed up to the film Armored which is about a security guard on an armoured car who is persuaded by his cohorts to steal the US $10 million in the truck. The story is to be directed by Nimród Antal who brought us the...

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Police guitarist biographical film

Andy Summers, the guitarist of that iconic band The Police, has an autobiography out which has just been picked up to be turned into a documentary. It does sound strange since you might expect a film to come from an autobiography, but this is expected to be turned into a...

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Scott brothers do Poe

Ridley and Tony Scott are getting together again to produce a film based on a famous Edgar Allan Poe short story called The Tell-Tale Heart. The story is narrated by someone who has murdered an old man and hidden his body parts underneath the floor boards of his house, and...

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Romero's Diary of the Dead gets sequel

George A. Romero hasn't even completed his latest zombie film Diary of the Dead and already there's a sequel being talked about. More than a sequel (is that a song?) in fact it looks as though it's a signed deal…if someone will pay for the film that is....

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Wanted trailer online in HD

The trailer for Wanted has arrived online, and for those of you who don't know what that means then you haven't been following the site much have you? Wanted stars James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman in the big screen adaptation by Timur Bekmambetov (director of the Russian Watch...

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Gerard Butler leaves Escape From New York

Gerard Butler has just breathed a sigh of relief today, and so have his agent and his fans, as the announcement arrives that he's left the remake of John Carpenter's classic Escape From New York. It seems about time as we heard that Len Wiseman dropped off and then that...

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Sider-Man 4 gets a writer

Now this is interesting news for the direction of the Spider-Man franchise. Sam Raimi may have announced that he's taking a more hands-off view to the project, but this could be some great news in return. According to reports the writer who brought us the screenplay for David Fincher's Zodiac...

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Mandrake actor chosen

Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been signed to play the character of Mandrake in the film of the same name that updates the comic book hero and brings him to life. Meyers has a look about him and a way that actually would suit the magical character really well....

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Clooney for G.I. Joe?

I find this hard to believe, but the rumour out today is that George Clooney is looking for a blockbuster to star in and that he's talking about appearing in G.I. Joe. What makes it worse is that the news was out a few days ago that he had walked...

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Kurosawa's Fortress gets remake

Akira Kurosawa's 1958 film The Hidden Fortress is often said to be the inspiration for Star Wars and it is about to be remade in Japan. They've been hit by the Hollywood box office formula for making money. The film seems to be undergoing a few changes to make it...

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Resident Evil franchise continues in 3D

Resident Evil: Extinction wasn't the last of the series after all, well perhaps it was for live action but not for film. Biohazard: Degeneration is the next in the series and will have an original storyline and be entirely computer generated. Oh, and it will also be in 3-D....

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Ving Rhames Throws Phantom Punch

Ving Rhames has appeared in some really interesting casting news today. He's going to be playing the famous heavyweight boxer Sonny Liston in a biographical film of his life entitled Phantom Punch. This is a great lead for Rhames who has so often been cast in the supporting shadow of...

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Stalked: Penn's, Moore, Ryder, Ledger, Malick and Kravitz

Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore and Wynona Ryder are to star in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Heath Ledger and Sean Penn are in negotiations to star in Tree of Life, and Lenny Kravitz is set to star in Lee Daniels Push....

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Microsoft in talks with Halo film?

Apparently Peter Jackson's representative has said that Microsoft are in talks with a new distribution company to strike a deal for the Halo film. Ken Kamins has said that talks are under way and that pre-production is still on going over at Weta with the company still working on the...

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Director for Akira film

There's a rumour going about that a live action version of the anime epic Akira is going to make it to the big screen. The word is light but the classic film is heading to a live action remake from Warner Brothers with the director Ruairi Robinson....

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Stalked: Hammer's Rave teaser and Wanted photos

There are some photos online for the Wanted film starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman and directed by Timor Bekmambetov from Mark Millar's excellent comic. Then there is a little bit of footage online for the new Hammer House film which is heading straight for the Internet...and you...

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Crank 2: High Voltage plot revealed

So we heard that Crank 2 was getting made, and we couldn't really figure out how. Now we have the title and the plot revealed, and it seems even more bizarre. At least with the first film there was a semblance of sense to it, and the story just built...

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Del Toro on Harry Potter?

There's a rumour doing the rounds that Guillermo del Toro might well be directing the next Harry Potter film, and the basis for this conjecture is that del Toro himself has revealed that he was approached to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Now I find that really...

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Kung Fu Panda trailer online

There's a teaser trailer for Kung Fu Panda online and it's being introduced by the voice of Kung Fu Panda himself, Jack Black. He gives us a little introduction to the plot and the characters, giving us clips and comedy on the way, and it looks pretty fun. The animation...

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Wonder Woman officially delayed

It's not really a surprise that Joel Silver has announced that the Wonder Woman film has been delayed, and not just because of the Justice League of America film. I think it's fair to say this was in the cards when the production was going through changes galore earlier on...

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Firth in Piers Morgan biography?

You know I really didn't even know there was a Piers Morgan biographical film planned, but according to the rumour online today there's more than a biography planned as we find out that, just maybe, Colin Firth is being considered to play the role. Colin Firth has spoken out about...

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Van Peebles to direct own sci-fi script

Yes the title sounds intriguing, and quite out of the blue. Mario Van Peebles is going to direct his own science fiction screenplay called The Uniter. Apparently Van Peebles has been working on the script for some six years, and that the inspiration for the story comes from his travels...

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Green Lantern gains director

The Green Lantern looks set to be the next superhero to make it to the big screen with Greg Berlanti signing a deal to co-write and direct the live action film of the character. Green Lantern is a test pilot who finds a crashed spaceship with a dying alien aboard....

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Princess trailer shows Denmark manga

I just received an email from Tartan films which pointed the way to this trailer for Princess, a manga animation from Writer/Director Anders Morgenthaler. It's certainly rather interesting, as it seems to look at pornography and one man's efforts to destroy all the pornographic material that his sister made before...

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Ratner leaves Escape From New York

The good rumour today is that Brett Ratner has left the remake of Escape From New York, and any news that results in Hollywood turning away from a remake of such a classic film is good news in my book. I wonder how long it will be before Gerard Butler...

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Hostel II on Blu-ray and DVD trailer

Hostel II is out now on Blu-ray and DVD and looking at the trailer for the new version it looks like there's quite a bit of footage that we haven't seen. This trailer promises to be bloodier and nastier and...well I'll leave it to the trailer to tell you. The...

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Filmstalker's Week: 22nd to 28th October

Welcome to the weekly roundup of what's happening at Filmstalker. This week has seen a fair amount of trailers and a couple of complete corkers, as well as plenty of articles and a few good reviews. So here's the week at Filmstalker, and remember to have a look at Filmstalker...

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The Flash changes Director again

The Flash started with David Goyer at the helm, then it was Shawn Levy, and now its David Dobkin. It seems that he announced it during his press junket for Fred Claus, now there's a good sign. We've gone from one of the most prolific writers of Superhero films, to...

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Zulu receives new DVD release

Zulu is one great war film, and I love the classic war films, and this one is just about to make a new appearance on DVD. Despite the new release there's a few glaring shortcomings in the new release. For those of you who don't know, Zulu is a classic...

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Awake HD trailer unnerves

The trailer for Awake is online, the film stars Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba in a film about waking up under anasthetic during an operation. More than that it weaves a thriller through the story and looks pretty damn powerful. I was really taken in by the short trailer and...

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Craig will be Bond four more times

Daniel Craig has signed up for four more James Bond, that means that Craig is going to be Bond for a very long time. With four films on his slate it looks like Craig is going to be remembered as one of the greatest Bond's there's been, if his first...

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McAvoy rumoured as Kurt Cobain?

Could James McAvoy be lining up to play Kurt Cobain in a biographical film of the man's life? Well it might just be if rumours are true. Apparently he's being looked at by the studio to take the lead of the film adapted by David Benioff from the Charles Cross...

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Lucas as Captain Pike?

There's another great Star Trek rumour out there, and a heavy rumour to boot. The rumour is that Josh Lucas is being eyed for the role of Captain Pike by J.J. Abrams and his Star Trek crew. The rumour is pretty much conjecture at the moment, but he could well...

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Genre defining: Sport

This really should have been last week as there was a mountain of sport to be had, Rugby World Cup and Formula 1 World Championships being the most prominent, but that weekend of sport made me think of the next topic for our Genre Defining series at Filmstalker, Sports. So...

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Week's Films to Stalk: 26th October to 1st November

Welcome to Filmstalker's Week of Films to Stalk, previously known as the Weekend Films to Stalk. I've decided to expand this a little, especially as I was finding that I was catching good films during the week that I thought you should know about and that we could be discussing....

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30 Days of Night

30 Days of Night, the graphic novel adaptation about an Alaskan town starting its usual month of darkness that is plagued by vampires sounded really promising from the outset. Directed by David Slade, who brought us the excellent Hard Candy (Filmstalker review), and written by Steve Niles, Stuart Beattie and...

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Kaare Andrews He-Man pitch video online

Kaare Andrews is a comic book writer and filmmaker that is looking to pitch an idea for the new He-Man film, well if there is going to be a new He-Man and the Masters of the Universe film. What's more is that he's taken the idea a step further than...

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Travolta joins Washington in Pelham 123

John Travolta has signed up for Tony Scott's new film The Taking of Pelham 123, which already stars Denzel Washington. That's great news for us as we'll get to see Travolta, not only play something dramatic again, but also play a villain....

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Molina and Davis on Hitchcock remake

Alfred Molina and Hope Davis are starring in a remake (don't give me that reimagining rubbish) of The Lodger, the Marie Belloc Lowndes novel which was adapated to film in 1927 by Alfred Hitchcock as his debut film. So reimagining aside, this is the remake of Hitchcock's first film. Now...

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Spyro the Dragon the film?!

What in god's name is going on? Spyro the Dragon is the next game making a big screen appearance, and I can't imagine why. Actually I can see why this videogame would make a film adaptation, the cute factor. The studio's will be drooling over the young audience for this....

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JLA's Wonder Woman found?

According to a couple of different reports Justice League of America may have found its Wonder Woman, and she's Australian. Now there's no official word to the rumour, but the word does come from a Director that recently worked with the actress and there's a follow up in an Australian...

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Underworld prequel star and story revealed

The Underworld prequel is going ahead, a film we've heard talk of before, but not with Len Wiseman at the helm, it will be Patrick Tatopoulos who designed all the effects for the film, he's been promoted to the Director's chair and has brought with him a new direction for...

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Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro?

Guillermo del Toro has been chatting about the possibility of making Frankenstein, and from the Frank Darabont script that was used for the Kenneth Branagh version starring Robert De Niro. So at the moment it's just off hand chatter from del Toro, but it's interesting to note that after the...

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24 Day 7 World Premiere trailer online

Now I know this isn't film, it's Television, but the box set could be thought of as a serialised film, and in fact the production values are so good and story line is so intense that it might as well be. So here is the trailer for 24 Day 7,...

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Blade remake?

If this rumour is correct then we're already looking at a remake of the film Blade, you know the really good first one starring Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kriss Kristofferson, Udo Keir and I have to mention Traci Lords in there too. Well the rumour is that they are going...

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Harrelson joins Willis in Stone's Pinkville

Woody Harrelson and Michael Peña are teaming up with Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum to join Oliver Stone's return to the Vietnam War on film with Pinkville, a story about the My Lai Massacre where U.S. soldiers killed some five hundred people during a morning market. In Pinkville, Woody Harrelson...

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Stalked: Costner in horror, Caviezel and the Fanning sisters

Kevin Costner is to star in a Spanish horror, Jim Caviezel is in a remake of a thriller about revenge filled wildlife, and the Fanning sisters, Dakota and Elle, are joining Cameron Diaz in Nick Cassavetes new film....

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Nakata's Out gets deal

Talk about old news, there have been quite a few stories lately that have "broken" elsewhere only to find that I have had them on the site for a while, but this one is ridiculously old. Hideo Nakata is to direct Natsuo Kirino's very good novel Out, something I wrote...

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Carnahan hits trouble blogging

Joe Carnahan seems to have been getting into a little bit of bother over his open attitude to blogging about his career and projects. Indeed just this week he was asking for his readers to assist him in his decision of what to make first, White Jazz or Killing Pablo....

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Millar blocked from Superman

A few days ago I wrote about Mark Millar pitching for the Superman Returns (Filmstalker review) sequel after the current writers left the project. Then we heard from J. Michael Straczynski that there was no chance he would get the job, something that Millar has just confirmed. Mark Millar talked...

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Ritchie confirms Dirty Dozen

Guy Ritchie has confirmed that he's set to direct the remake of the classic film, The Dirty Dozen. Something we heard about when the first studio pre-strike rumour was released as his name appeared against the title with no other word. It seems that up first for Ritchie though is...

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Foxx signs for Zebra Murders

It wasn't long ago that we heard of Matthew Michael Carnahan talking about his new script which would chronicle the Zebra Murders story, well now Jamie Foxx has signed up to the film and it looks set to be a powerful one. The story looks at a group of African...

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Mann directs De Niro in Frankie Machine

Michael Mann has signed up to direct Robert De Niro in Frankie Machine, the adaptation of The Winter of Frankie Machine (Amazon.com / Amazon.co.uk) written by Don Winslow. The story of Frankie Machine, a retired hitman with a successful business and a new life away from the mob. One day...

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Die Hard 4.0 and Quadrilogy on DVD and Blu-ray

Die Hard 4.0 or Live Free or Die Hard (Filmstalker review) if you're not in the UK, was actually surprisingly good, I really enjoyed it, and I'm considering buying the Blu-ray when it gets a UK release on October the 29th, just a few days away. I've been given the...

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Auf Bösem Boden (On Evil Grounds) world screenings

I reviewed Auf Bösem Boden (On Evil Grounds) quite recently and gave it four stars, quite rightly too as it's an enjoyable film that mixes comedy and thriller very well and produces a diverse and very unique film that touches on many genres. Peter Koller's excellently shot film is starting...

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Family Guy Season Six DVD special offer

Family Guy is hilarious, and that's that. Season sox of the show has just been released on DVD and to coincide with it there's a special money off offer with Play.com if you have a Facebook account and sign up to the superb Facebook application Peter's Sex Club. Believe me...

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The Simpsons Movie DVD specifications

It's DVD evening on Filmstalker, and I've received the full specifications for the DVD and Blu-ray release of the film on December 10th in the UK. The film sees the popular series characters come to the big screen in a tale that is almost Earth shattering as Homer takes on...

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The Bourne Ultimatum DVD specifications

The Bourne Ultimatum is due out on DVD on December the 10th in the UK, and the specifications for the DVD have been released. You can read my review of The Bourne Ultimatum on the site, but suffice to say it's the final in the trilogy and takes the action...

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New HD U.S. I Am Legend trailer online

There's yet another new trailer for I Am Legend this time in Quicktime and HD, they are really trying to advertise this one like mad. Originally I caught it and thought it was just the high definition version of the second trailer we saw in Flash format the other day,...

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John Rambo trailer arrives

The trailer for John Rambo has finally arrived, and while the voiceover may be a little cheesy, it really does build up to a superb ending with a great line from Rambo himself. This is a great trailer for the film, it doesn't give away too much and sets the...

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Repo! The Genetic Opera teaser trailer online

The first teaser trailer for Repo! The Genetic Opera has arrived online, and you can see it right here. I'm really not sure what to make of it, I'm torn between thinking this could be really cheesy, over the top, or it could turn out to be a really good...

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Stalked: Dallas and Superman casting rumours

There are a couple of early casting rumours out there which really are rumours but sound rather interesting none the less. There's the one that Superman from the Justice League of America has been cast, or is very close to casting, and he's a man who's been in a cracking...

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Stalked: Area 52 Director and Biel Dies a Little

This is not the videogame adaptation that has been talked about, but the comic series by Brian Haberlin (Amazon.com), the news is it has a Director and is going ahead. Meanwhile Jessica Biel has signed to star in a crime thriller called Die a Little which is an adaptation of...

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Now I haven’t seen the first film Elizabeth, so there aren't going to be any comparisons in this review, and to be honest any comparison should be a single paragraph and not throughout the review. The film should be compared uniquely, and that it is. Elizabeth: The Golden Age is...

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Update: New I Am Legend trailer reveals plot in Quicktime HD

There's a new trailer for the last man on Earth story I Am Legend online and this one is much, much better than the last. The previous was big set pieces and then emptiness with the promise of something. Now we're seeing glimpses of what that something is, and a...

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Autopsy trailer looks bloody

There's a trailer online for the horror film Autopsy, and it looks pretty horrific indeed. The story is about a group of people in their twenties who have an accident in the middle of nowhere and head to the nearest hospital they find. Little do they know it's haunted and...

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Win Tell No One DVD's

Ne le dis à personne, or Tell No One, is an excellent French thriller adapted from the bestseller of Harlan Coben by Guillaume Canet, who also directs, and Philippe Lefebvre. I really enjoyed this film when I saw it, and it provided quite a few surprises as it played out....

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DiCaprio and Scorsese in Lehane adaptation

Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are going to be working once again in a film called Shutter Island which is based on a Dennis Lehane novel. Not only are we getting these two great talents teaming up again, but we're seeing another strong Lehane novel adapted for the screen....

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Hopkins to play Hitchcock

It seems that Anthony Hopkins is going to be playing Alfred Hitchcock after all, and the source is the man himself. Hopkins, not Hitchcock. We had heard that Hopkins was possibly going to be playing Hitchcock, so consider this the best confirmation you can get....

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Gershon wants Bound 2

In a bit of self promotion to try and kick off a film, the gorgeous lips of Gina Gershon have uttered that she would love to star in a sequel to the film Bound, and would do it in a second. She says that all it would take is a...

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Braveheart writer directs Conan Doyle film

The writer of Braveheart, that rousing Scottish film, Randall Wallace is set to direct a film about Arthur Conan Doyle and a secret society called The Arcanum. The story not only has Arthur Conan Doyle but also Harry Houdini, H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley and Marie Laveau as members of the...

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Heather Mills biographical film?

Back in April, yes April, Filmstalker had the news about Heather Mills planning a film of her life, such as it is. The funny part of it is who she wants to play herself in the film, and believe me it's a funny one....

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Stalked: Fox reveals Body and stalker love story

Megan Fox is set to star in a comic supernatural thriller (eh?) called Jennifer's Body, while Paddy Considine and Julia Stiles are teaming up again in an unusual tale called Cry of the Owl....

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Straczynski says Millar a no go for Superman

Now there are a few pinches of salt to be taken with this story, I presume that this is the actual J.Michael Straczynski, and of course it may not be, but if it is he has some potentially bad news for the hopes of Mark Millar on his desire to...

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Updated: Charlie Wilson's War reshoots

You know most films go through reshoots of one kind of another, but it's out of the norm to see huge reshoots such as The Invasion, especially with different Directors, but it's just as unusual to see reshoots climbing to the expense of US $30 million. That's the rumoured cost...

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Ridley Scott's Nottingham revealed

Brian Grazer, that big name Producer, and Ridley Scott have revealed some more details about the plot of their latest film Nottingham, and just how they are going to take a fresh look at the legend of Robin Hood. Nottingham is the famous legend of Robin Hood, who gave to...

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October 31, 2007