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November 30, 2007

Justice League gets Batman and sexy Wonder Woman

There's some interesting Justice League rumour type news on the Interflab (so named because it's bulgingly overweight and in need of a diet), first up there's news that someone has been cast for the role of Batman, and secondly the film has found its Wonder Woman too. Now you'll have...

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Oldman in A Christmas Carol

Gary Oldman is apparently going to be in the next production of A Christmas Carol according to a rumour on the Interflab. The next Christmas Carol is a Robert Zemeckis version that will use...yes you guessed it, more of his unnecessary and very creepy motion capture technique....

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Week's Films to Stalk: 30th November to 6th December

Welcome to Filmstalker's Week of Films to Stalk. This lists all the UK releases in cinema and the films on non-subscription television this week that I'd recommend watching, or in a few cases would recommend steering clear of. Watch out for the Filmstalker hotdog award for favourites. Despite this being...

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Norton to direct comedy

Ed Norton is a fine actor, of that there's no question. Actually there's a few questions as his career choices show, but he can deliver a blistering performance given the right script. Now he's going to take the biggest challenge of his career, but this time it's with comedy and...

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly trailer online

I just caught the trailer for Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) online and it looks rather intriguing. It tells the true story of the editor of the French Elle magazine who believes that he's living life to the full, until he has a stroke with...

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Connery directs horror

I wondered what had happened to Jason Connery after he replaced Michael Praed in Robin of Sherwood the superb television series that introduced a great mystical element into the story. Well now he's directing, and he's directing a horror film no less with a superb cast including Cuba Gooding Jr.,...

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New Star Trek Enterprise is the same

It looks like the new Enterprise in J.J. Abrams Star Trek is going to be much the same as the one we knew from the original series as someone who has been on the set of the interior of the ship and seen the models reveals. Next we'll probably be...

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New Joker picture online

There's a new picture for the Joker online, and this one has him looking a bit more like Heath Ledger and less like the maniac we saw in the previous shot. His outfit looks great, but the face is a lot plainer and just looks like it has enhanced wrinkles...

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Studios offer Writers a new deal

The blackout was lifted on communications from the negotiations ongoing between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and the reveal is rather interesting. Although the Studios are saying little, the Writers statement reveals that the offer they've been bargaining around for the...

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November 29, 2007

Woody Allen leaves Barcelona

Rumour has it that Woody Allen has pulled his latest film out of shooting in Barcelona. He had been filming Vicky Cristina Barcelona there but apparently he's pulled the film out of Spain over disputes with Spanish funding....

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Friday the 13th - When is a remake not a remake?

According to an insider, Friday the 13th is not a remake. That would be like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes or Halloween weren't remakes. They were reimaginings or some such smoke and mirrors....

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Cruise and Spielberg honoured

Tom Cruise has received a German award for his willingness to take risks in his films, while Steven Spielberg has just won a Golden Globe for his contribution to entertainment. While the Steven Spielberg award requires no second thought, the award for Tom Cruise is rather dubious, and very surprising...

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Earth trailer

Earth is going to mark another stunning documentary from the BBC. It follows three different creatures and how their lives are on this fragile planet, particularly so with the changes it is undergoing so rapidly. The photography looks to be amazing, and the story equally so, and I've just been...

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Create your own Simpsons DVD cover!

I've just been handed the specifications for The Simpsons Movie standard and Blu-ray DVD's and there's tons of content on there to be had for Simpson's fans. The Simpsons Movie is the first big screen outing for the long running and highly successful television series. It sees Homer trying to...

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Hitman

Film Two Stars
Hitman Hitman is the adaptation of the EIDOS videogame, as the credits proudly tell us at the start of the film, and tells the story of Agent 47, possibly the best hitman in the world who was genetically engineered and altered psychologically from a very early age. Bald, and tattooed...

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Samuel L. Jackson takes rubbish roles

Although Samuel L. Jackson has produced some great roles, there's a lot to say that he's had some rubbish ones too, and the easiest thing to do there is to look to his upcoming films. Soul Men and The Man That Rocks the Cradle are two examples of his Snakes...

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Bonds Baseball and drugs film

Here come the sports biographies. Having just written about Jake Gyllenhaal to play Joe Namath, the famous Jets American Football player, now news has arrived that the San Francisco Giants Baseball star Barry Bonds is going to get the biographical film treatment. Once again his story incorporates much more than...

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Craig says no to four Bonds signing

Daniel Craig has denied the previous reports that he had signed up for four more Bond films. Not just in an offhand way either, but pretty strongly. Previously the stories were out that he'd signed for four more films, and that had come from the head of MGM through the...

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Catholic group attacks Golden Compass

It seems that the Catholic church is still unhappy about the film, or rather the film promoting the trilogy of novels. We always new there was issue with the Philip Pullman novels from Catholic groups, that's why the film was changed so drastically to remove all the religious undertones, but...

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Writers and studios keep talking

This is now the set to be the fourth day of talks, if my finger adding up is right, and there seems to be no movement between the Writer's Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. However, that's now four days of talks, and in...

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New There Will Be Blood trailer

A new trailer for There Will Be Blood trailer has appeared online, and this one gives another strong look at the film as well as some striking visual moments. This is the latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson and it tells the story of a prospector who arrives in an...

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November 28, 2007

Die Hard 4.0 (Live Free or Die Hard)

DVD Four Stars
Die Hard 4.0 is the fourth outing for Bruce Willis as John McClane. After a long gap and a big change in Hollywood there's a little concern over whether this would work, but the film turned out really well, and is perhaps the second best Die Hard in the series....

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New The Orphanage (El Orfanato) trailer online

There's a new trailer online for the Guillermo del Toro produced film The Orphanage (El Orfanato) from Director Juan Antonio Bayona and writer Sergio G. Sánchez. The film sees a woman returning to the house in which she was raised and deciding to turn it into an orphanage. Her son...

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Chain Letter horror - dumbest idea ever?

The story behind this film seems utterly ridiculous, but I have no doubt that it will make money and do well in the box office. Chain Letter is about a psychotic killer who murders people who haven't forwarded on his chain letter. He's called Chain Man and he kills people...

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Cuny: Master of Disaster film

The Man Who Tried to Save the World is a book by Scott Anderson (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com) about the U.S. aid worker Fred Cuny, a man who also became known as the Master of Disaster, which is about to be made into a film. The rights to the book, as...

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Stalked: Rambo site, In Bruges QT trailer, and Schreiber in Repossession Mambo

The website for Rambo has appeared online, and it's looking pretty good. There's loads of interaction and plenty to do on the site. In Bruges has a downloadable Quicktime or MP4 trailer on its site, and Liv Schreiber has joined Repossession Mambo....

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Written by Richard Brunton at 12:22 PM | | Comments (0)

Script review for Hell Ride

Hell Ride is the Larry Bishop written and directed film that is being produced and “presented by” Quentin Tarantino, and there's a script review appeared online. The film stars Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Eric Balfour as well as Larry Bishop himself. It tells the story of a group...

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Gyllenhaal to play Joe Namath

Joe Namath's time is a little before when my interest in American Football grew, and being over in Scotland that meant there wasn't that much for me to get interested in! However the news that Jake Gyllenhaal is set to play Joe Namath in a biographical film sounds like a...

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Update: Fool's Gold trailer surprises in HD

You know I don't hold much hope out for these type of films, and the combination of Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey hadn't really hooked me in, but the trailer has done something surprising, it's caught my interest. McConaughey seems to be playing a more comic and less manly Dirk...

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Writers keep striking

Despite the rumours the other day that there was going to be a resolution to the strike in Hollywood by Christmas, there's a decidedly negative feeling after the talks were reopened on Monday. Even as the second day stretched into the evening and talks kept going, there seemed to be...

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November 27, 2007

First photos of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

There are some cracking shots of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones online, the first shots we've really seen outside of the publicity podcasts and such appearing on the official site. These three are proper film stills from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and one features Shia...

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Written by Richard Brunton at 10:56 PM | | Comments (0)

New Hitman trailer, clips and animated shorts

There's a new trailer online for Hitman, and this one features a little more blood and a little more story. It's also a featuring some stylisn moments and some very Hitman looking shots. You can see the new trailer in multiple formats and sizes right here as well as three...

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The Other Boleyn Girl trailer online

The trailer for The Other Boleyn Girl has just arrived at Filmstalker in three different formats with three different sizes each, that means there's loads of ways to watch it. The film features Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and Eric Bana, the ladies playing the Boleyn sisters and Bana playing Henry...

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Written by Richard Brunton at 10:06 PM | | Comments (0)

The Joker revealed

Empire had been planning a great reveal of a full photo for Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight, the next in the Batman franchise of films, but they've been beaten to it and someone has revealed the full photo online. The new magazine cover has the full photo which...

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Chan and Smith in Karate Kid? Rumour resurfaces

The rumour is resurfacing on the Interflab that Jackie Chan and Will Smith, along with his son Jaden Smith, are planning a remake of Karate Kid. Well isn't this just an exact copy of the story from September that Will Smith strongly denied?...

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Golden Compass ending explained

Chris Weitz, the director and writer of The Golden Compass film, has talked about his reasoning behind chopping the book ending off of the film and passing it onto the start of the next film, The Subtle Knife. He reveals that the author Philip Pullman is perfectly find with the...

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National Treasure: Book of Secrets real life treasure hunt online!

There's a huge competition online for the upcoming sequel to one of the silliest films ever, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and there are huge prizes to be won. Every two weeks theres treasure worth US $100,000 to be won and a grand prize of a Mercedes Benz at the...

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Written by Richard Brunton at 9:35 PM | | Comments (0)

Bathory film in blackmail case

The Bathory film, about Elizabeth Bathory the seventeenth century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, is at the centre of a blackmail controversy today. Former production staff stole the film and were threatening to release it on the Internet if they weren't given GB £12,000. That's not...

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Stalked: Ruffalo joins DiCaprio and more Speechless shorts

Mark Ruffalo is teaming up with Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, and there are three more Speechless videos online with top actors coming out in support of the writers....

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Written by Richard Brunton at 9:19 PM | | Comments (0)

Sweeney Todd videos online

There are loads of videos for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street online today, unfortunately I can't view them at the moment so it's up to you to have a look and report back. I want to know if we're seeing more singing, more of the musical side...

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Writer's strike to end?

There's a rumour going around the Interflab that the Writer's strike could be coming to an end. The talks between the Writers Guild of America and the long winded title for the Studios Guild, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, have apparently come up with positive results and...

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Watchmen's Rorschach caught on camera

I don't normally post photos of sets or such, only unless there's something really interesting in them, and this time there is. There are a batch of photos on the Watchmen site from the set itself, and I must say that some of the sets look spot on, and one...

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The Eye new trailer online

There's a new trailer for The Eye online and it looks rather good actually, except for one thing. The Eye is the Asian horror film originally from the Pang Brothers that tells the story of a blind woman who is given new eyes by a donor. Except she's starting to...

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Written by Richard Brunton at 7:57 AM | | Comments (0)

American Gangster faces DEA action

It seems that American Gangster (Filmstalker review) has upset a few people it perhaps shouldn't have, namely one of the policemen who worked the original case. Gregory Korniloff was the case agent for the DEA and was heavily involved in the case, and according to rumour his attorney has sent...

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Alba on stage during actor's strike?

Jessica Alba might be preparing to head to the stage when the Actor's strike comes round as she prepares to head to Broadway. Apparently she is in talks to star in David Mamet's Speed the Plow, a role once played by Madonna....

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Stalked: Cusack and Gong, Cold Prey and Tom Swift

John Cusack and Gong Li are in negotiations to star in Shanghai before Pearl Harbour. Cold Prey, or Fritt vilt, is getting a North American distribution. The huge novel series Tom Swift, going since 1910, is going to be coming to screens in CGI or motion capture form....

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November 26, 2007

Actor's Speechless strike videos continue

Following on from the first three Speechless clips where A-List actors are speaking out for the striking writers in some clever short films, the next eight are online. The previous three starred Holly Hunter, Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss and Sean Penn. Now these star Jeff Garlin, the cast of...

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Christian Bale as new Terminator hero?

Okay this casting rumour is changing faster than Kylie on stage, as now Christian Bale is rumoured not to be playing Terminator in the fourth and franchise restart film, neither is he rumoured as being John Connor, the previous hero of the franchise. No, now he's being rumoured as being...

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Crowe to replace Pitt in State of Play

After Brad Pitt walked out of State of Play the other day over script issues it seems that Universal have been trying to find another big name star to take his place, and this weekend they have been concentrating on getting Russell Crowe. Crowe accepting, something we're due to hear...

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Indian train bombing film

The bombing of a commuter train in Mumbai last year that killed one hundred and eighty seven people is now set to be turned into a film. Mumbai Meri Jaan will be directed by Nishikant Kamat and recount the story through the eyes of a witness to the event. The...

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Documentary claims Nanking massacre lies

The Truth About Nanjing is a film from Japanese Director Satoru Mizushima who claims that the Chinese reported figures of civilian casualties are lies and propaganda, and that many of the eye witnesses were Communist spies. The film shows the Japanese view of the events after the World War II...

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Disney continues 3D trend

I'm a bit lost with all this 3D in films, I'm really finding it hard to understand and get a hold of. However Disney are right behind it and are releasing another 3D film, Bolt....

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Film to show Jesus' twin brother

The 13th Disciple sounds an interesting film and one that is set to court religious controversy. Robert Sigl is to make a film whose central premise is that Jesus had an evil twin brother who is reincarnated and begins a religious sect....

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November 25, 2007

Filmstalker's Week 19th to 25th November

Welcome to the weekly roundup at Filmstalker. Just click below for the weeks news, reviews and trailers. Don't forget you can suggest stories for Filmstalker on Filmstalker Readers, and if you want to do next weeks roundup just contact Richard....

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New Michael Hutchence documentary

The tenth anniversary of Michael Hutchence's death has marked the beginning of a new documentary about the man's life and his fame as the lead singer of INXS. David Leaf, the Producer, Writer and Director of The U.S. vs. John Lennon is set to direct this documentary which will be...

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Could Bale be the new Terminator?

The rumours are flying around Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, otherwise known as Terminator 4 and Christian Bale. When the previous rumour came out that he was to be playing John Connor I was surprised as he is clearly going to be better as a Terminator. So the rumour arrives...

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November 24, 2007

Week's Films to Stalk: 23rd to 29th November

Welcome to Filmstalker's Week of Films to Stalk. This lists the UK releases in cinema and the films to see on non-subscription television this week. Despite this being for the films in the UK, it's not just about what's on, but about finding some films you haven't seen in a...

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Farrell's In Bruges trailer online

I wasn't really expecting that much from the trailer for In Bruges, a film starring Colin Farrell as a hitman who's hiding out in Bruges. Yeah, doesn't sound that great really. Then you add in the other factors. Brendan Gleeson plays the other hitman who is hiding out with him,...

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November 23, 2007

The Ruins news reveals nothing

Hasn't anyone read the novel? I find this story funny, mainly because internet sites are going wild about it as though there's some huge big reveal on the scale of Cloverfield or something. Well there's not. Yes the villain in Scott Smith's The Ruins (The Ruins / Amazon.com) is a...

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Pinewood Studios suffers from writer's strike

The victims of the writer's strike aren't just the writers nor the films that they aren't writing just now, there are other victims reaching across distances and even time itself...(is that a line from Rocky Horror?). The UK based studio Pinewood Shepperton have just been hit by a GB £3...

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Dark Knight marketing site online

There's a new marketing site for The Dark Knight online, and this one looks rather interesting. It's four pages of a Gotham City newspaper, the Gotham Times, and it contains loads of stories to fill the background of Gotham and the Dark Knight, as well as the growing spate of...

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Actors and Actresses support Writers

A series of short videos are appearing online which show the support from actors and actresses for the writer's current strike action, and hints at something far more worrying for Hollywood in the months to come. You see the contract between the Screen Actors (and Actresses) Guild of America and...

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Harry Potter Fans Can Win Movie Role

Harry Potter fans are going to get a chance to win a walk on part in the next instalment of the Harry Potter film franchise, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince starring alongside Daniel Radcliffe and the rest of the huge cast. An online competition that runs from today until...

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Stephen Chow's alien CJ7 trailer online

Stephen Chow's latest film is an interesting one, and I wonder if it can follow in the steps of the excellent Kung Fu Hustle (Filmstalker review). CJ7 is the story of a Chinese labourer whose song finds a new toy, or rather it finds him. As you can see from...

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Malkovich hiring internet writers

John Malkovich has an idea for a script, unfortunately he hasn't written much of it and needs writers to keep it going. The thing is all those writers are on strike, so it's up to us non-professional writers to get in on the act. Sony Viao have teamed up with...

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We Own the Night clips

We Own the Night is the upcoming film starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg as brothers on different sides of the law who must team up to save themselves from the Russian mafia. So far We Own the Night is looking a strong film, it also stars Robert Duvall and...

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November 22, 2007

Taking Liberties

Film Four Stars
I have to admit that when I first heard about this film I thought it might either be just anti-government, anti-labour, or just some radical group complaining that their perfect communist state isn't happening the way they wanted. However the other night I watched the documentary and had an altogether...

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Vacancy

DVD Three Stars
I saw Vacancy in the cinema and was surprised at how strong the story was and how they didn't go too Hollywood on the whole. How they managed to concentrate on the main characters and their relationship and how this managed to come through the action and the tension. When...

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Christian Bale in Terminator Salvation?

The rumour is all over the Interflab this morning, and I mean all over, that Christian Bale has been signed up to play in McG's Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, otherwise known as Terminator 4. Now he's not the first character you might expect from the steely, sculptured man, apparently...

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Rec clips online

There are two clips online for the Spanish horror film [Rec] or Rec, obviously for the record button on video recorders, and while one offers a jump moment, the other gives the feel of the panic and tension that the film will convey. Rec is already planned as a Hollywood...

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Pitt drops out of State of Play

State of Play, the Hollywood version of the excellent British political television thriller, has just lost Brad Pitt. He's dropped out of the film due to script concerns after various meetings to try and iron out the issues....

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BIFA 2007 Nominations

The nominations are out for the British Independent Film Awards 2007, and there are some interesting choices this year. Hallam Foe, Control and Eastern Promises all appear a number of times, and both Daniel Craig and Ray Winstone are set to receive special awards. What's also great is that In...

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November 21, 2007

Cannonball Run remake

I loved the Cannonball Run, Burt Reynolds and “Him” aka Captain Chaos aka Dom DeLuise were fantastic, and the great line up of stars to race those cars were fantastic, but a remake? Well not yet anyway. The writer and creator of the original Cannonball Run film, Brock Yates, has...

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Written by Richard Brunton at 9:07 PM | | Comments (0)

Argento's Mother of Tears trailer

The new The Mother of Tears (La Terza madre) trailer is online, the latest horror film from the legend that is Dario Argento and starring Asia Argento and that superb star Udo Keir. I've already seen a couple of trailers, and this one doesn't look the best, although it provides...

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Finally, Sweeney Todd reveals musical side

It has been ages coming and it has been hidden from every trailer we've seen, but now, finally, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has shown some of a musical number on screen, and I have it right here for you to view. Johnny Depp appears in the...

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Fast and the Furious 4 full plot revealed

So the Fast and the Furious 4 rumours are coming true as more of the original cast return for the fourth outing in the Fast and the Furious franchise, currently called The Fast and the Furious 4, the more I hear about it the more interested I am getting. Jordana...

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Golden Compass sues documentary

If there's ever a single most promising way to make a piece of entertainment successful it's by banning it or trying to ban it, we see it with songs and music videos all the time, so the news that New Line is trying to ban a documentary on The Golden...

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Written by Richard Brunton at 9:54 AM | | Comments (1)

G-Force gains Cage, Buscemi, Nighy, Arnett and Morgan

Well I remember G-Force to have been quite a young crowd, but apparently they're a lot older in the film version as the following names seem to have been picked up for voicing the lead characters in the animated film version of the television series. Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi and...

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Written by Richard Brunton at 9:47 AM | | Comments (3)

Guy Pearce's Traitor plot

I love Guy Pearce, I think he's a stunning actor and even more amusing that he came from the Australian soap Neighbours and became such a huge actor. It's strange that the show also brought us Russell Crowe, Kylie, Danni Minogue, Holly Valance, Jason Donovan, Natalie Imbruglia, Delta Goodrem and...

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Written by Richard Brunton at 9:43 AM | | Comments (0)

Hitman sex scene looks awful

There's a sex scene online for the Hitman film, and it looks uncomfortably awful, in fact I squirmed my way through it. That's not because of the sleazy, sluttish behaviour of the woman in it, or the horrible lines Agent 47 utters, but just the whole against character moment the...