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March 31, 2008

New Wanted trailer online in multiple formats

I'm really looking forward to Wanted, despite the huge changes from the Mark Millar comic series, the film starring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie and Mogran Freeman from the talented director Timur Bekmambetov and the writing team of Derek Haas and Michael Brandt. So the addition of a new trailer for...

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Flashbacks of a Fool trailer in multiple formats

The strength of Flashbacks of a Fool really didn't strike me until I saw the trailer when it first appeared, and then I was caught by the slow burning development of the script and the fantastic performance of Daniel Craig. What I particularly love is the fact that Craig is...

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Reeves was Dr Manhattan

Keanu Reeves has revealed that he was going to play Dr Manhattan in the upcoming Watchmen film but it seems scheduling conflicts put pay to that. Not only was he going to play Dr Manhattan but he was also going to be Racer X in Speed Racer. One might ask...

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Trejo says Machete still on

Danny Trejo has been talking about the much hyped Machete, a film that hasn't been made yet and was inspired from the response for one of the fake trailers made for the Grindhouse feature. He says that Robert Rodriguez is in fact directing the film and that it's intended to...

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Shankland from Waz to The Day

Tom Shankland, the writer and director of the superbly dark and scary thriller Waz, starring the excellent Stellan Skarsgård and Melissa George, has signed up to direct a script by Paul Andrew Williams, the write of The Cottage, called The Day. The film is about a family trip that goes...

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War of the Worlds 2 by C. Thomas Howell trailer online

You wouldn't have guessed that the man famous for his role in the excellent The Hitcher has just directed War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave, and much more that it's going direct to DVD. Reading C. Thomas Howell's career since that famous film show a wealth of appearances...

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Stalked: Keaton and Martin, Hopper Jr., Jason casting

Another name is linked with the casting of Jason in Friday the 13th... Diane Keaton and Steve Martin are acting together again... Dennis Hopper's son is starring in Wes Craven's new horror......

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March 30, 2008

Filmstalker's Week 24th to 30th March

This week there are two competitions to enter, and three film reviews including Eastern Promises and The Sixth of May. There are also plenty of trailers such as Redbelt, Meet Dave and the US remake of Bangkok Dangerous. Also we have the best of the week's news, including the latest...

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Madonna to remake Casablanca?

Seems strange to even think of the classic Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains being remade, but in Hollywood just now anything is possible, after all they're remaking anything they can. Now this could be the lowest Hollywood has stooped, Madonna remaking Casablanca? Whatever next? Yet could...

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Gears of War has a director

Having just completed Gears of War for the second time, on insane no less (co-op with Louise who delivered the final shot) I'm interested to see how the videogame fares in the world of film, especially with the comparisons to Halo and seeing how that videogame has failed to make...

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Hitman

DVD Three Stars
Hitman is perhaps one of the few direct videogame adaptations that has worked in the cinema, and I know it may not have been that successful, but it works well as a film and carries through everything that is strong about the Hitman game franchise. Then there's the DVD, the...

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The Sixth of May

DVD Two Stars
The Sixth of May is a film from Theo Van Gogh which weaves fact and fiction together, taking the assassination of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn and building a conspiracy thriller around it which pulls in the Dutch government and the CIA, so not exactly a film with little ambition....

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Eastern Promises

DVD Four Stars
When you hear that a film has Viggo Mortensen and Vincent Cassel in it and is directed by David Cronenberg you should sit up and take notice. Oh yes, there are other stars, but for me it's Mortensen, Cassel and Cronenberg that are the main draws. My only concern was...

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March 29, 2008

Vaughn directing Millar's Kick-Ass?

A little while ago it was announced that Matthew Vaughn was to be co-writing the screenplay for the comic series Kick-Ass by Mark Millar, the man responsible for the excellent comic Wanted, and John Romita Jr., and now there's a rumour that Matthew Vaughn will also be directing. Well Millar...

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Persian Prince not in Prince of Persia

We already heard that David Zandi, a producer in Hollywood who is an actual ancestor of the Zand dynasty and could therefore call himself a Prince of Persia, has been rumoured in connection with the film role. Well there seems to have been some poll or petition being raised about...

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Stalked: Def as Chuck Berry, Hanks leaves Farenheit 451

Mos Def is to play Chuck Berry in Cadillac Records... Tom Hanks has pulled out of Farenheit 451......

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March 28, 2008

Bangkok Dangerous remake English trailer online

The English language trailer for the remake of Bangkok Dangerous is online, and it doesn't make me feel any better than the non-English language trailer did. The remade film stars Nicolas Cage in a storyline that appears to have been altered rather a lot from the original film....

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My Sassy Girl remake trailer online

The trailer for the American remake of My Sassy Girl has arrived online, the film starring Elisha Cuthbert and Jesse Bradford and directed by Yann Samuell. The original Yeopgijeogin geunyeo Korean film was made in 2001 by Jae-young Kwak and is based on the true stories of a man who...

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Connery considering Bond villain?

Although this is a bit of idle banter, Sean Connery has said in an interview that he wouldn't mind playing a Bond villain. That said though, there are two big things standing in his way, his desired pay cheque, and the fact that the producers would probably never involve and...

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Girls Aloud want their Spice World?

Girls Aloud are apparently not content with dominating the music charts, now they want to have a go at the big screen too, in their very own film. They've been talking about how they want to have their own film but they've been sent some really awful scripts and nothing...

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Lohan keeps filming

With everything that’s happened in her private life and the onset antics and performances I’m surprised that Lindsay Lohan is still being used in films, but then I might just have answered my own question, she carries with her a level of notoriety for half the price tag. Now, she’s...

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Stalked: Lone Ranger, Asian horror remake, Radha Mitchell, Maria Bello

The Lone Ranger has the Caribbean Pirate writers… Another Asian horror film remade... Radha Mithcell joins Bruce Willis in The Surrogates... Maria Bello replaces Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee......

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Hawke and Fuqua in Brooklyn's Finest

Ethan Hawke and Antoine Fuqua are teaming up together again for a crime thriller called Brooklyn's Finest which is gathering a fine cast already. Their last outing together was Training Day, which was a powerful thriller with some great performances from Hawke and Denzel Washington....

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Dolph Lundgren directing

Dolph Lundgren has a number of directing credits to his name, something I never realised until now, and his next seems to be a Steven Seagull inspired film called Command Performance. The story sees him as a drummer at a rock concert who has to save the day with his...

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Legion gains cast

Legion is the story of God losing faith in humanity and bringing about the apocalypse with only the archangel Michael standing between humanity surviving and being destroyed. While Paul Bettany is playing the archangel Michael, now a number of strong names have been added....

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Inside Man sequel still on

Back in November of 2006 we heard that Spike Lee was planning a sequel to Inside Man starring Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, and a superbly delicious character from Jodie Foster. Well that was some time ago and nothing has really been heard until now. Lee was cornered again about the...

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Rumsfield rumours for Bush film

Now there are even more rumours coming out for the casting of Oliver Stone's George W. Bush film, W., and these feel a little more stretched than the other casting stories to date, but they are still weighty names. According to rumour, another two names are about to be cast,...

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World War Z script review

I've recently read Max Brooks' World War Z (World War Z / Amazon.com / Play.com) and I thought it was an interesting story and a fresh take on the world of zombies, but I never thought it would make a film, not directly at least. That's just what's happening though,...

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March 27, 2008

New X-Files 2 trailer online

The new X-Files 2 trailer has been bootlegged and put online for all to see, and while the first one that I caught has been removed, there are now copies galore doing the rounds. It's short and sharp and pretty much to the point, but it really does hit the...

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More George W. Bush casting

The casting for Oliver Stone's George W. Bush film is growing, and it's looking pretty damn amazing. Now there are two new names on the rumour board for some pretty big roles, those of Colin Powell and Dick Cheney. Now if you think of how the current casting is going...

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X-Files 2 plot surprise and Millennium film?

Chris Carter has been talking about the coming X-Files 2 film, and he's revealed the very thinnest of hints about the plot, something that has been concerning me for some time, and while it doesn't alleviate my fears it does suggest that they might just be unfounded. He also reveals...

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George W. Bush parents cast

The film which from Oliver Stone about George W. Bush seems to be racing ahead as the announcement comes that his parents have been cast, and with the previous family announcements we're looking at a fantastically strong set of actors. Both George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush have been...

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More actors hit comic books

Tobey Maguire is the latest actor who is turning to comic books to produce a new film, and perhaps star in it. He's joining up with Neal Moritz to turn the comic series Afterburn into a film, something that a lot more actors are looking to do....

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Ice Cube gives up kids films?

The words Ice Cube, gangster and rapper hardly fit well together these days as the man has become a parody of himself with his terrible comedy films and poor appearances in kiddies films. However he looks set to return to the world of adult orientated films, and I don't mean...

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True life Thai boxing film

Thai boxing is something amazing to watch, it looks incredibly difficult and painful, and while there's a lot of grace in the movements, it also can look quite brutal. Now instead of a martial arts film where the boxing moves are mixed in with great film stunts for effect, we're...

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March 26, 2008

The Descent 3?

The Descent 2, or the stupidly named De2cent, is not even made, and in fact casting calls have just gone out for the film, but already they're talking about the third in the series, yes The Descent 3, or something like De3cent. According to that very casting call one of...

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Tom Clancy films with games company

The rights to the Tom Clancy name and brand have been bought by the videogame company that undoubtedly produces some of the best entertainment under the Clancy banner. Ubisoft have bought the rights to almost the entire brand name of Tom Clancy, and that means everything from games to films,...

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Producer suing Oscars fails

Bob Yari is one of the six credited producers of Crash, the Oscar winning film from Paul Haggis, but was not mentioned by the Producers Guild of America nor the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences when the film was nominated for awards. In fact there were a number...

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Bush casting for Oliver Stone film

There has been another announcement made on the casting of Oliver Stone's next film about George W. Bush. We already heard that Josh Brolin was set to play George W. Bush himself, but now we're starting to hear of family members joining the cast, and it's starting to feel a...

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Kapur replaces Minghella on New York

With Anthony Minghella's untimely passing one film has been left unmade by the great director, his segment set for the New York, I Love You, the sequel of sorts to Paris Je t’aime (Filmstalker review), which he has already written. However the segment isn't going to go unmade, and his...

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Jackson and McKellen push for Gandalf

It seems that both Ian McKellen and Peter Jackson want Gandalf to return to The Hobbit, and why not? He's captured the role so perfectly. However it's not a done deal, not as much as Guillermo del Toro as director it would seem. For McKellen writes on his own site...

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March 25, 2008

Jackman's comic book film

Hugh Jackman is the next big name to be associated with a Virgin Comics deal. He'll be helping create a new comic for the publisher and working it into a film and videogame, although not in that order. Nicholas Cage and Guy Ritchie have already been working on Virgin Comics...

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Genius of Unspeakable Evil gets made

I love the idea of the story of I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President, which is a book idea from the writer behind The Daily Show, Josh Lieb. It tells of a teenager who everybody assumes is a bit of an...

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My Bloody Valentine gets 3D remake

My Bloody Valentine is the next horror film up for a remake, first made not that long ago in 1981, and Lionsgate have secured Jamie King to star. Not only that but the film is set to be in 3D....

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Crank 2 plot spoiler details

Details have arrived online of the plot and characters in Crank 2, although the details raise more questions than anything. I'm looking forward to Crank 2: High Voltage as Crank (Filmstalker review) was so much fun, there's the chance that this might be better. However there's the question of how...

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Eddie Murphy's Meet Dave trailer online

I've finally managed to watch the trailer for the next Eddie Murphy film Meet Dave, and I'm rather surprised because for the most part it looks okay. Not anything spectacular, although there are some hints at cleverness, but the main thing is it doesn't look the standard and poor comedy...

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Fanboys gets dual release

Fanboys, the story about a group of complete Star Wars fans who break into the Skywalker Ranch to see The Phantom Menace, has been held back for release for some two years by the Weinstein Company. However the news is that it might finally get a release, and not just...

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Twilight Zone story to film

A story from the Twilight Zone series is getting its own film version with the writer Michael Brandt set to co-write the adaptation and make his directorial debut with it too. Countdown is a futuristic film which tells of a group of astronauts who land on a planet and find...

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RocknRolla a trilogy?

Thandie Newton has been talking about Guy Ritchie's upcoming crime film RocknRolla, and she's revealed that it's set to be a trilogy, and a trilogy that's not going to take years to come out. I would assume the trilogy will only happen if the first one is successful, or maybe...

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New Redbelt trailer online

There's a new trailer out for David Mamet's Redbelt, and while it looks really intriguing, it also looks rather confusing and I'm unsure what the trailer is trying to tell me about the film. Perhaps what is even more confusing about it is that I know what the plot is...

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March 24, 2008

PS3 to get new Blu-ray

The next big update for the Playstation 3 brings with it some well deserved features for Blu-ray, including the much desired BD-Live. The new features are set to improve the Playstation 3 and bring the much anticipated and talked about Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0 to home users....

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Reeves says no Constantine 2

Keanu Reeves has announced that he's just not interested in doing another Constantine film anymore, he maybe was once, but not any more. Personally I wonder what's changed, especially since he was so willing to do the sequels to Matrix which were much less than the original....

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Gangs exposed in Brewer film

Michael Caleo is set to adapt the book by Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader For A Day - A Rogue Sociologist Crosses The Line (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com / Play.com), with Craig Brewer directing, and why does that sound so exciting? Well the book tells the story of how college professor Venkatesh...

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Stalked: Cowboys for Christ, James Gandolfini, Nailed, The Bleeding, Fast and the Furious 4

Cowboys for Christ, the Wicker Man remake from the original director, has more casting announcements... James Gandolfini is playing the Mayor of New York City in the remake of the Taking of Penham 123... James Marsden, Catherine Keener and Tracy Morgan are in negotiations for Nailed, a romantic comedy that...

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March 23, 2008

Filmstalker's Week 17th to 23rd March

This week the Filmstalker Hot Dog Awards enter the next stage, so get voting. There are also two competitions to enter, with DVDs as prizes. There are trailers for The Happening, Mamma Mia! and Daniel Craig's new film, Flashback of a Fool, to name a few, and the best of...

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March 22, 2008

Terminator 4 changes again?

I'm really confused about Terminator 4, formerly Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, because they are talking about changes to the plot once again, and it seems that the plot has been leaping around ever since the producers first talked about it. Now the story seems to be about the relationship...

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Eastwood not reviving Dirt Harry

I was really sceptical about the rumour of Clint Eastwood reviving Dirty Harry, in fact I didn't really believe it was true, and now there's a new explanation of the plot of his next film Gran Torino where he appears in front of the camera as well as directing. The...

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Written by Richard Brunton at 6:18 PM | | Comments (2)

Terror Train remake trailer online

The trailer has arrived for the remake of Terror Train, the horror starring Jamie Lee Curtis, has arrived and it isn't that great, or rather it's hard to see much of it other than short cuts of what looks like Hostel type torture and...well...other flashes of stuff. Not only have...

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Reeves talks Day the Earth Stood Still remake

Keanu Reeves has been revealing a little about the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still that he's going to be leading, no not as the emotionless robot, but the emotionless alien. He's been talking about the changes in the new version of the film, and what they're going...

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Stalked: Ridley Scott and DiCaprio, Jason casting, Marley's music denied

Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio are set to collaborate together on a new film called The Low Dwellers... Jared Padalecki is in negotiations to star as Jason in the Friday the 13th remake... Bob Marley's family refuse music rights to the Weinstein film......

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Clip's n Pic's: Fast and the Furious cars, Snakes Eyes, Indy, Bond and The Ruins

More from the Fast and the Furious 4 cars... G.I. Joe's Snake Eyes is revealed in some cool publicity photos... Video of Shia LaBeouf on the set with Indiana Jones and the infeasibly long film title... Then there's a behind the scenes of the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace......

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March 21, 2008

Tintin cast?

Could Tintin have been cast? Seems so according to a UK daily paper, and it's going to be seventeen year old Thomas Sangster. Who you might ask? Well I remember him most for his heart warming performance in Love Actually, which I did love, actually....

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Arthur C. Clarke film to upset religion

Arthur C. Clarke passed away the other day, but the adaptations of his work into film continue with Kimberly Peirce about to direct Childhood's End (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com / Play.com), a film which is sure to enrage religious groups as it despatches religion and uses one of it's iconic images...

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Standard Operating Procedure trailer online

Standard Operating Procedure is the new documentary from Errol Morris which talks with those involved in the incidents of abuse and torture at the U.S. prison Abu Ghraib. It looks an interesting and powerful film that is going to do more than expose the real stories of the soldiers who...

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Deception trailer online

The trailer for Deception, formerly The Tourist, is online. Starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor alongside Michelle Williams, Maggie Q and Natasha Henstridge, it looks pretty good. You'll remember Jackman plays the high flying laywer who entices McGregor's boring accountant into an underground sex club. However when the accountant is...

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The Happening International trailer in multiple formats

There's a new trailer around for M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening and I have it here in multiple formats for you, no poor quality fllash embedded player here, just Quickime, Windows Media Player and Real Player and four different sizes each. The Happening is M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming horror film...

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Win St. Ives / All For Love DVD

I've got a few interesting non-mainstream competitions for you coming up, the first is for the adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson novel St. Ives, also known in film as All For Love. It's a costume drama (with some comedy) starring such names as Jean-Marc Barr, Anna Friel, Miranda Richardson, Richard...

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March 20, 2008

Filmstalker Hotdog Awards nominations

The Filmstalker Hotdog Awards 2008 are entering the nominations stages...finally. Now that a few regulars have voted for the categories that they would like to see in the Filmstalker Hotdog Awards 2008, they are being opened up for voting, and it's pretty easy to have your say. We're in the...

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Grindhouse UK screenings from March

I have just been given the locations and dates for UK screenings of Grindhouse, that's the two films from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, Planet Terror and Death Proof (Filmstalker review), joined together in one film and separated by those infamouse fake trailers. The film hasn't actually been given a...

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Justice League in political battle

Last we heard Justice League was pulling out of filming due to it being denied a heft forty percent tax break by the Australian government and was heading to film in Canada. Now the news is that George Miller is trying to push the government to award the film the...

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Marshall directing Jackman in Drive?

Neil Marshall has another project on his slate, Drive. Not the adaptation of the videogame, although there are a few similarities between this and the game, no it's the James Sallis novel of the same name (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com / Play.com). What's more it's possible that Hugh Jackman may take...

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Eastwood reviving Dirty Harry?

Get that bag of salt out right now and start wallowing in it. Word is that the article I wrote the other day about Clint Eastwood heading to the front of the camera is actually a revival of one of his old franchise characters, one of the most famous in...

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Monahan writes true life serial killer script

William Monahan really shot to fame with his adaptation of The Departed (Filmstalker review) and now everyone knows his name, but he's not resting on his laurels as the latest script he has planned sounds another absolute cracker. It's based on the story of a drug dealer who rather than...

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Miller's Ronin gets writer and director

Despite Frank Miller saying that no one else would direct his work again, his comic series Ronin is set to be directed by Sylvian White with Joby Harold adapting. Harold recently wrote Awake, a film which looks to have much promise, and White directed Stomp the Yard and is to...

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Stalked: Oldman, Giamatti, The Proposal, The A-Team

Gary Oldman is negotiating for a thriller called Rain Fall... Paul Giamatti is joining the already big name cast of Duplicity... More names join the Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock starrer The Proposal... The A-Team gets a release date and nothing much else......

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead trailer

The trailer for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead is rather interesting, the idea of a small production of Hamlet being infested by vampires and the director of the play having to take arms against a sea of troubles, or to take stakes at least. The film has an interesting list...

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March 19, 2008

Haggis to rewrite Terminator 4 and plot twist revealed!

Anton Yelchin is talking about joining McG's Terminator 4, which is currently going through a name change, but that's not the interesting bit of news coming out about the film. The really interesting part is that Paul Haggis has been in talks to rewrite the film and in the story...

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Clint Eastwood acting again

Clint Eastwood is set to star in a new film called Gran Torino, and while I may have thought that had said Gran Turismo for a second and become all confused, it may not be anything to do with cars. The problem is that we don't know what the film...

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Stalked: Beau Bridges in Max Payne and Neal McDonough in Street Fighter

Beau Bridges has joined the cast of Max Payne as the character's mentor. Although that news in itself isn't hugely exciting, it is rather surprising the level of cast that is being attached to the project, and while it's no A-list, it is certainly pushing upwards. Neal McDonough is cast...

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New Mamma Mia! Trailer

So we have a new Wanted trailer, but what about something more light hearted and heart warming, something a little more relaxing? Well how about the new trailer for Mamma Mia! the film version of the hugely successful stage musical. There's a brand new trailer online for the film and...