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In a recent interview during a stop at San Diego's ComicCon, Hellboy and Hellboy 2 director, Guillermo del Toro, alongside his go-to actor Ron Perlman who plays the titular de-horned protagonist, expressed mutual interest in pairing once again for the trilogy finale of the ....
Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: Hellboy 3; Captain America 2; Ouija Adaptation
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In what should come as no surprise to anyone with a television, Vince Gilligan's acclaimed dramedy Breaking Bad scored a whopping 13 Emmy Nominations this morning thanks to the solid Fourth season showing. Continuing his dominance over the category ...
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Not that news of yet another sequel, prequel, reboot, or remake is either earth shattering or particularly interesting, but when such word is about the continuation of the Jurassic Park story it certainly warrants mention. While making the PR rounds for next month's ...
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...And the decade of trilogies continues. If one wasn't enough for Peter Jackson, the Oscar-winning director is contemplating making his most recent Tolkien adaptation into a 3-piece. As of right now, it's only a two-fer, with this December's An Unexpected Journey being the first ...
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Hoping to level the playing field and drastically cut down on the barrage of improper promotional shenanigans between filmmakers and the Academy Award voters (AMPAS members), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a series of tweaks to its campaign ...
Read more: Academy Changes Oscar Campaign Rules for the 85th Academy Awards
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Though very careful to indicate he was speaking solely for himself during a recent interview, uber-producer Frank Marshall gave a very pessimistic outlook for a fifth film in the Indiana Jones series. The beloved producer behind such film classics as the ...
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Those long-held, guilt-ridden fantasies over Emma Watson for those who still associate her with her kid-friendly Hermione image may be a few steps closer to justification as the Harry Potter star is rumored to play the lead role of Anastasia Steele in the film adaptation of ...
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In what should come as a shock to no one, AMC announced that they will not be renewing the perpetual "red herring" formulaic The Killing. The series began in 2011 and had a promising start. For those who cast it aside like every other AMC show that isn't The Walking Dead ...
Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: THE KILLING, THE OFFICE, The state of TRUST US WITH YOUR LIFE
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Dan Aykroyd has been a very successful comedic actor for three decades now. He's got some great classics under his belt, but to me, none compare to the Ghostbusters tandem he did with Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson donning the tan suits, with Ivan Reitman in ...
Read more: GHOSTBUSTERS III Moving Forward Without Bill Murray
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Warner Bros. today announced it's plan to push back Baz Luhrmann's 3D spectacle The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Macguire, Isla Fischer, and Joel Edgerton. The film's original release date was set to be Christmas Day ...
Read more: The Great Pushback (of Dates): Luhrmann's GATSBY Now a Summer Film
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Even with Mission Impossible, Avengers and Bourne movies to boot, recent action favorite Jeremy Renner is far off from laying low from the silver screen and may be set for a more serious dramatic lead as talks of a Wikileaks movie from Dreamworks has him pinned as the controversial Julian Assange ...
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Considering the gigantic success of The Avengers earlier this year, it should come as no surprise that Marvel would fall all over itself to bring back Joss Whedon to direct the sequel. And that's exactly what the studio did yesterday by signing an exclusive deal that will bring the filmmaker back ...
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Today, everyone's favorite Hollywood hatemonger Mel Gibson announced that he has no plans to star in the highly not-anticipated Lethal Weapon 5. The former wild man Martin Riggs will not be appearing in the fifth installment in the long running (?) but also long gestating franchise because ...
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Before it's even hit the theaters, The Expendables 2 is already getting the hype machine started for it's already assumed three-quel. Mastermind Sylvester Stallone will continue to make the rounds on the classic action circuit by recruiting supposedly Nicholas Cage in what ...
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As female action movies continue to gain traction with an ever-expanding fan base that prefers sword-wielding heroines over swooning princesses, it was only a matter of time before the Hollywood machine pointed its fascination in the direction of an all-female, star-studded action film...
Read more: All-female Version of THE EXPENDABLES in the Works
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Ellen DeGeneres is currently in negotiations to reprise her role as the forgetful Purple Tang in Disney/Pixar's as-of-yet-unnamed upcoming Finding Nemo sequel. Though the busy talk show host doesn't do much film work these days, she has, for years, expressed an interest in working on the film again as the lovable Dory...
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Fearing overexposure, Johnny Depp is looking to become very picky about his future roles as he begins the next phase of his career. And to aid him in that quest are the recent rumors that the actor has agreed to a $90 million offer to don the Jack Sparrow get-up for yet one more ...
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Forgive us if we bristle at this bit of news, but this bad idea just won't go away. We first got word about a year ago that Eddie Murphy was tossing around the idea of breathing life back into his Axel Foley character from the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. But rather than attempt a follow up to ...
Read more: Eddie Murphy Wants to Make a BEVERLY HILLS COP TV Show
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Russell Crowe got into a fight with the ocean and lost terribly this holiday weekend. He and a friend took to kayaking off the coast of Long Island on Saturday and got swept away by the current. Eventually the Coast Guard was called to bail his ass out. I find it ironic that ...
Read more: Russell Crowe Lost at Sea Kayaking Off Long Island
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We first caught wind of the revival of the cult-fave TV show Arrested Development a year ago with rumors that the new season would lead into a big screen adaptation. Then as word came down earlier this summer that the production arm of Netflix was adding the revival of the series to ...
Read more: Confirmed: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Season 4 Will Lead in to Movie
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Here’s news for the literature fandom. In a fictional re-telling of their lives, Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs get together to solve a real-life murder mystery set in 1944. Starring Elizabeth Olsen, Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, ...
Read more: KILL YOUR DARLINGS sees Daniel Radcliffe in Gay Role
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Ms. Marvel - Avengers 2 rumors are swirling around the interwebs that have a new superhero about to be unleashed to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the form of Ms. Marvel, also known as Major Carol Danvers. A British tabloid site is saying that Emily Blunt and Ruth Wilson are under consideration for ...
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As he begins making the promotional rounds for his upcoming film called Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise is also taking the time to get chatty about some other projects in the works, specifically another installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise...
Read more: Tom Cruise Already Working on MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5
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While discussing today's release of yet another Watchmen cut out on blu-ray and DVD (that's the third), filmmaker Zack Snyder not only talked about why he thinks that film continues to appeal to viewers today more than when it was released back in 2009, he also shared some ...
Read more: Snyder's MAN OF STEEL to be a "More Serious Version of Superman"
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Shaming didn't work. Neither did self-policing. And the incessant reminders to "just do the right thing" have certainly had little effect on the problem plaguing the cineplex in our all-digital-all-the-time-world. Struggling to make the cineplex a more friendly environment for ...
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Apparently there are those willing to pay upwards of $500 to watch a movie, and very soon there will be a place for them to do just that. A Los Angeles-based start-up company called Prima Cinema is proposing a service which will bring theatrically-released ...
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Each year, the Library of Congress selects 25 motion pictures that represent important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in filmmaking to include in the library's National Film Registry where each will be preserved for future generations to enjoy. The announcement just came down ...
Read more: A CHRISTMAS STORY and THE MATRIX Among Films Picked for National Film Registry
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Grants Trekkie's Dying Wish to See New STAR TREK Film. In our world of seemingly ever-decreasing compassion, it's always enlightening when a bit of good news from Hollywood's money-grubbing soullessness crosses over into the general interest of we ...
Read more: J.J. Abrams Proves There Are Still Good People in the World
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Nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were announced this morning by Emma Stone and Seth McFarlane from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. As expected, Les Misérables, Argo, Lincoln, and Silver Linings Playbook led all comers, with a few notable surprises and snubs...
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Every last one of the Oscars has been handed out, even those that go to all the geeky technical categories (in the words of one of the worst Oscar hosts in history, "Thank you nerds"). And we were there planted on the couch watching every last pitiful minute of it ...
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