FanTasia 2010: Herschell Gordon Lewis – The Godfather of Gore Review

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Share/Bookmark Herschell Gordon Lewis films are often far from from great films but they helped define a unique time in American exploitation cinema and films such as Blood Feast or The Wizard of Gore helped break new ground in what could be seen in film. In Herschell Gordon Lewis – The Godfather of Gore Frank [...]

Scream 4 On Set Photo Shows a Familiar (Ghost)face

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Share/BookmarkTwitter is a wonderful thing, and it offers cast and crew of much anticipated movies the opportunity to tease the waiting fans with pictures and videos from the set. Today Wes Craven tweeted the following, He’s baaack! It’s not hard to guess who the director is talking about, and returning to scare the face off [...]

Lars Von Trier Happy to Talk About Melancholia

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Share/BookmarkWith the fallout from Antichrist ebbing away into cinematic folk-lore,  director Lars Von Trier is beginning work on his next film, Melancholia, and at a recent press conference he opened up a little on the project. The film has been called a psychological horror film and deals with a planet looming towards the Earth and [...]

New Clip from The Expendables Has Talking, Violence

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Share/BookmarkI honestly thought that this new clip from Stallone’s movie cocktail of muscle and nostalgia, The Expendables, was going to rely on the nuanced performances of two of its actors, Sly himself and Jet Li. It begins with the two of them bantering about in a car, not exactly Mike Leigh, but fun enough and [...]

On Set shot from Rise of the Apes Emerges

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Share/BookmarkWe have been bringing you plenty of news lately on plot details and casting announcements for the 20th Century Fox prequel to the 1968 science fiction classic, Planet of the Apes. In the original film, Charlton Heston played a US astronaut who crash lands on a strange planet populated by intelligent, speaking apes, where the [...]

Win a Copy of Kick-Ass: Creating The Comic, Making The Movie

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Share/BookmarkNeeding little in the way of an introduction, and with an all-star cast including Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage (Gone In 60 Seconds, Face/Off), Mark Strong (Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes) and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad, Role Models), KICK-ASS is a relentlessly funny, jaw dropping action film, available to own on Blu-ray and DVD on 6 September. Packed [...]

The Social Network TV Spot Makes Friends

The Social Network TV Spot

Share/BookmarkTo ease you into the workless weekend Sony have aired a new TV spot for the Founding Fathers of Facebook movie, The Social Network. Out goes the eerie cover of Radiohead’s Creep and in comes Kanye West with his appropriately titled song, Power, and while there’s not a surfeit of new footage this new spot [...]

Peek Inside The Art of Hammer

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Share/BookmarkI’m a fan of poster art, and there’s nothing more fun than delving into the archives and seeing sterling examples of both gaudy eyesores and moments of true graphic genius, and in his new book, The Art of Hammer, Marcus Hearn is sure to find many examples of both. Never one to shy away from [...]

JJ Abrams to Produce Victorian Robot Film Boilerplate

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Share/BookmarkParamount Pictures have bought the rights to a graphic novel series, Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel, originally written by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennet. Boilerplate details the creation of the world’s first robot, built in the late nineteenth century. JJ Abrams has been tapped to produce a feature film adaptation through his Bad Robot company. You can’t make [...]

Tangled Teaser Poster

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Share/BookmarkYahoo! Movies have posted an exclusive new teaser poster for Disney’s upcoming traditional hand-drawn animation, Tangled. The story for Tangled is loosely based on the classic fairy tale Rapunzel, and will be the 50th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. Tangled, which has been directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, features the voice-talents [...]

Len Wiseman to Direct Total Recall Remake

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Share/BookmarkLen Wiseman, creator of the moderately successful Underworld series, is in advanced talks to direct a Total Recall remake. The film, originally released in 1990, is tentatively based on a short story by Philip K. Dick called We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. Columbia Pictures’ presidents, Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, announced the remake in a [...]

Four New Images from Never Let Me Go

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Share/BookmarkThe recent trailer for Mark Romanek’s adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go was one of the most impressive of recent years, and the poster released recently continues to promise great things. Fox released these new stills just now and the more I see of the troubled trio of Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield [...]

Zach Galifiniakis Interviews Steve Carell “Between Two Ferns”

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Share/BookmarkIf you’ve never seen or heard of Between Two Ferns, now is the perfect time to to tune into this post. The basic idea is Zach Galifiniakis interviews a Hollywood superstar and makes them feel as awkward as possible in the 3 minutes in which the interview lasts! In this case he’s up against comedy [...]

Venice Film Festival Competition Line-up Revealed

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Share/BookmarkYesterday the official line-up for Toronto Film Festival was unveiled and, today Venice Film Festival have revealed the twenty-two films that will be vying for the Golden Lion award at this year’s 67th ceremony. The festival, which will run from September 1 – 11, will open with Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller, Black Swan, and close [...]

Russell Brand – Mercenary For Hire?

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Share/BookmarkAs Russell Brand continues his ascend up the Hollywood ladder, news comes through from Deadline New York that the comedian is eyeing up the role of 14th century mercenary John Hawkswood in an action-comedy re-telling of his life. The film will be written by Jared Stern (scribe on Brand’s next feature Arthur, which is currently [...]

Sasha Grey Circling Role in I Melt With You

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Share/BookmarkSasha Grey is most prominently known for her roles in various adult films, but after headlining Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, it seems she’s caught the Hollywood acting bug, as she’s currently in advanced talks to star in I Melt With You, an indie drama ready to role with Mark Pellington at the helm. If she secures [...]

A New Image from The Last Seven

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Share/BookmarkJon and I got to visit the set of the Last Seven when they were filming a few months back and got to meet many of the cast. We hope to have some images up from our visit in the coming weeks. You can also see our short and sweet interview with Danny Dyer here [...]

Zach Galifianakis clicks “Reply All”

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Share/BookmarkSince bursting onto the screen with his surreal performance in The Hangover, Zach Galifianakis has been slowly but surely building up a pretty hefty roster of projects. As well as roles in Dinner for Schmucks, Operation Endgame and It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Galifianakis is now, as reported by Deadline, on board a new Dreamworks comedy going by the [...]

Piranha 3D Image is Ready to Eat You

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Share/BookmarkNot that we haven’t already seen what the Piranhas look like but EW has the first official image of these massive and deadly looking creatures from the upcoming film Piranha 3D. In case you have no idea what this awesomely bloody film is about I have posted the official plot synopsis below. Jaws…lots and lots of [...]

First Look at ‘Paul’

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Share/BookmarkLast week we gave you a look at Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s characters in the upcoming sci-fi comedy, Paul. Now, courtesy of BleedingCool, we have the first image of the alien, simply named Paul. It’s a bootleg image, quite possibly taken by someone during Paul’s panel at Comic-Con, where never-before-seen footage was shown. Paul [...]