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Halloween 1998 and Eric (Sam Huntington), Linus (Chris Marquette), Windows (Jay Baruchel) and Hutch (Dan Fogler) are at a party debating Star Wars trivia. The friends have done this for years and apart from Eric, who is trying to ‘get on with his life’, the friends seem happy with their fanboy lives. Desperate to see [...]
Deadline are reporting that Toy Story 3 is expected to cross the $1bn threshold in box-office receipts this weekend which, when taken with Alice In Wonderland, gives the House of Mouse two releases that have grossed over $1bn in the space of a single year. As of Friday morning, IMDb had Toy Story 3 sitting [...]
Here’s a fun little titbit for all you Trekkies out there. Slash Film have come across a 1987 memo from Paramount (see below) which lists all the actors who were up for potential key roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Some familiar faces here (American Werewolf’s Jenny Augutter (sic) as Beverley Crusher. Hmmm?) Also, you’ll [...]
The Playlist have posted a new clip from Henry’s Crime, and follows on from the images we posted the other week, here. Henry’s Crime was directed by Malcom Venville from a script co-written by Sacha Gervasi and David N. Wright. The film stars Keanu Reeves, James Caan, Vera Farmiga, Judy Greer, Peter Stormare, Fisher Stevens [...]
Three new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I images have been posted online, courtesy of ScarPotter. The images feature our three protagonists, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermoine (Emma Watson). The first shows the three of them in Grimauld Place, the second features Ron and Hermoine in a tent, and the [...]
The first five hours of Frightfest day two were all about horror legend Tobe Hooper and the day kicked off with his rare debut film Eggshells. Made in 1969 Eggshells is an early experiment from Hooper. Testing out techniques and experimenting with form Hooper misses more times than he hits but overall the film is [...]
It’s always hard to review a film like Alien vs. Ninja (also known as AvN). Released by Nikkatsu as part of their Sushi Typhoon label and directed by Seiji Chiba, AvN is a high concept low brow genre film that pits Aliens against Ninjas (yes the plural is more appropriate). The film has aliens, the film [...]
This evening has some rather interesting news that may be someone new on a twitter account mouthing off or could be an actual story! The thing is, when Sylvester Stallone joins twitter and makes a statement like this: Had dinner with Bruce Willis last night. I want him in EXPENDABLES II as a super villain. [...]
2012 was an odd film in more ways than one. Chief amongst the mysteries is how exactly they persuaded John Cusack to star in a film which was one part hokum, twenty eights parts CG showreel. Following his trip back to the future in Hot Tub Time Machine he took a part in Mikael Håfström’s [...]
The Playlist have posted the first trailer, and the first promotional still, from Womb. Womb is an indie-drama, and co-production between Germany/Hungary/France. Benedek Fliegauf directed the film, and it stars Eva Green, Matt Smith, Lesley Manville, Peter Wright and Hannah Murray. Synopsis: A woman’s (Green) consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her [...]
News fresh from FrightFest where the weekend of horror is just getting started. Craig Skinner is our man at the event and will be reporting daily as well as reviewing as many films as humanly possible. About ten minutes ago he got out of the Q&A session with the director and cast of F, a [...]
Deadline are reporting that James Wan, the co-creator and director of the original Saw, is set to direct a film adaptation of the comic book Nightfall. Currently in co-production between Platinum Studios and Aurora Productions, Nightfall follows a man who is sent to a prison run by vampires. Wan was quick to declare his love [...]
The Wrap are reporting that Stephen Dorff (Public Enemies) is in advanced talks to join Maria Bello (Downloading Nancy) in the indie-thriller Carjacked. Bello’s publicist has already confirmed her involvement. Carjacked was penned by Michael and Sherry Compton, with Peter Medak, whose recent work has been mainly in US TV, but has UK films The [...]
If you’re a budding filmmaker with the good fortune to have won a cruise ticket what do you do? The answer is Wah Do Dem, a mumblecore odyssey written and directed by Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner. We follow Max, played by Sean Bones, as he boards a cruise after his girlfriend (his intended cruisemate) [...]
We’ve been keeping you up to date with all manner of Machete news, images, trailers and TV spots lately. Here are some of the recent posts. Well, as they say, the hits just keep on coming. We now have a further set of posters from IMP Awards and they are every bit as subtle and [...]
Yesterday I posted a new trailer for The Freebie which has the basic premise that a married couple’s sex life is going down to the toilet so they decide to have one night where anything goes. Personally, I think the whole idea for the movie is a pretty sad one and I’m sure that whatever [...]
Deadline bring news that American actor and writer/director Albert Brooks has signed on to appear in Drive. Directed by Bronson’s Nicolas Winding Refn, he’ll be joining the likes of Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and Bryan Cranston in a tale of a Hollywood stunt performer (Gosling) who discovers that a contract has been put on him [...]
IMPA have debuted a brand new poster for George Clooney’s The American which also stars Anne Carey, Jill Green, Grant Heslov, Enzo Sisti, Ann Wingate, Moa Westeson and is directed by Anton Corbijn. Synopsis: Alone among assassins, Jack is a master craftsman. When a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American [...]
Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff, who co-wrote Dreamworks’ 2008 animation film Kung Fu Panda, have been hired by Columbia Pictures to pen the sequel to The Karate Kid. Directed by Harald Zwart, The Karate Kid starred Jaden Smith, Taraji P. Henson and Jackie Chan. They are all expected to return for the sequel. The Karate Kid, [...]
