Blockbuster Files For Bankruptcy After Massive Late-Charge

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In the two days since Blockbuster Inc. filed for bankruptcy rival Netflix has seen its shares reach an all time high. On Thursday 23rd September 2010, video-rental giant Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, announcing a number of major studios as its top unsecured creditors. With debts of $315 million owed to The Bank [...]

Superman Directors Talk Back!

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We reported here yesterday on the list of potential directors that Christopher Nolan is looking at for the forthcoming Superman reboot. All of them are interesting possibilities in their own way and now a couple of them have spoken about their names appearing on The List. First of all, JoBlo grabbed a few words with [...]

Mark Ruffalo Will be Hulking Out Too!

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You might not like him when he’s angry, but hopefully this time, you may be fooled into thinking that he’s genuinely real. Mark Ruffalo, the third person set to play Bruce Banner and his overly-aggressive alter ego on the big screen, has revealed to Vulture that will perform the dual roles in The Avengers feature. [...]

Doha Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Lineup Announced

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Today the Doha Film Institute announced the lineup for the second annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival, and it looks likely to be a very impressive five days in October with four world premieres, Arab film and Arab short film competitions and a packed World Cinema programme. Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law is set to open [...]

New German Poster for Tony Scott’s Unstoppable

German Unstoppable Poster

A few days ago we got sent a new UK poster for Tony Scott’s Unstoppable and now IMPA have released a German version. Fox are obviously loving those images of Chris Pine and Denzel Washington as they seem to be using the same images on every poster they bring out. In this one, we see [...]

New Poster for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest

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Oh the Millennium series, how I love you so much.  One of the best trilogies to come around since Lord of the Rings, the Millennium trilogy brings to us the modern age mystery thriller, one that can actually be faithfully adapted to the screen and will entertain us from beginning to end. While the Swedes [...]

Patton Oswalt and Patrick Wilson Attached to Jason Reitman’s Young Adult

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Patton Oswalt and Patrick Wilson are both said to be in advanced talks to star opposite Charlize Theron in Young Adult. Jason Reitman is on board to direct from a script penned by his Juno collaborator Diablo Cody. Young Adult centers on a a divorced ghost writer (Theron) from the Midwest who returns to her hometown to [...]

Abduction Claims Antonique Smith

Antonique Smith

According to Latino Review, Antonique Smith has joined John Singleton’s Abduction in a supporting capacity. The actress, who was last seen as Faith Evans in 2009′s Notorious, will star alongside Alfred Molina as a couple who try to protect Taylor Lautner’s character as he seeks the truth after finding his baby picture on a missing [...]

Jackboots on Whitehall Trailer

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Having played at the Edinburgh Film Festival earlier this year, Jackboots on Whitehall finally enters UK cinemas on the 8th of October and there’s a new trailer out today to entice the masses to action. When we saw it in Edinburgh this is what our reviewer, Nicola Balkind, said: My first screening was Jackboots on [...]

New Japanese Poster for Saw 3D

Japanese Saw 3D Poster

This may be the seventh Saw movie but you have to hand it to the guys who do the marketing for them all as it’s never dull! Saw 7 or Saw 3d is you prefer is being release 29th October and will be the final movie in the Saw franchise (probably!). This new Japanese poster [...]

Paranormal Activity 2 Viral Videos And Spielberg’s Influence

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Hallowe’en is almost upon us, and with it comes another bout of Paranormal Activity. Tod Williams takes over from Oren Peli to direct the sequel which, from what we’ve seen, seeks to scare seven shades of spooky out of us with the same home video footage as the first. This time there’s a baby involved. [...]

Batman 3: Nolan Working on Script Now!

We’ve had all manner of posts about Christopher Nolan’s involvement in the Superman reboot and casting rumours for Batman 3 as well. Now comes news from Collider that Nolan (who was in Italy talking about Inception) is working on the screenplay at the moment, now that his brother Jonathan has finished the first draft. Nolan’s [...]

First Stills and Synopsis from Pixar’s Cars Short

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The first images to emerge from the forthcoming Pixar Shorts release have arrived along with a little bit more info. The new shorts are called Moon Mater and Mater: Private Eye and will be featured on a new Blu-ray and DVD release of Cars Toon, subtitled Mater’s Tall Tales. Here’s what they say about Moon [...]

Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale Join Rachel Weisz in The Deep Blue Sea

The Deep Blue Sea

According to ThePlaylist, Tom Hiddleston (Cranford) and Simon Russell Beale (The Cherry Orchard) have been added to the cast of Terence Davies’ adaptation of the famous 1952 play The Deep Blue Sea, opposite Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener). The Deep Blue Sea centers on a woman (Weisz) who leaves her companionable husband when she becomes sexually enslaved [...]

Eat Pray Love Review

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Eat Pray Love – in case you are unfamiliar with the phenomenon – follows Julia Roberts’ Liz as she embarks on a quest to find balance in her life following a messy divorce. Finding solace in the Italian language, the teachings of a boyfriend’s guru and the prophecy she once received from a Balinese medicine man, she [...]

Leonardo Di Caprio & Joaquin Phoenix for Eastwood’s “Hoover”?

Clint Eastwood seems to be physically incapable of slowing down. Having only recently released Invictus and with Hereafter due out soon, Eastwood is now hard at work casting his planned biopic of FBI-founder and legendary cross-dresser J. Edgar Hoover. Eastwood is said to be keen to secure Leonardo Di Caprio for the role of Hoover, [...]

Emma Watson, Dominic Cooper and Derek Jacobi Board My Week With Marilyn

Emma Watson

Emma Watson (Harry Potter), Dominic Cooper (Tamara Drewe) and Derek Jacobi (The King’s Speech) have been added to the cast of Simon Curtis’ My Week With Marilyn. The trio will join Eddie Redmayne, Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Zoe Wanamaker, Phillip Jackson and Richard Clifford in the Marilyn Monroe biopic. My Week With Marilyn [...]

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Premiere Footage

One of the most anticipated sequels to come our way this year is Oliver Stone’s walk down memory lane – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. A revisiting rather than a reboot or a remake, Stone’s film has garnered positive reviews when it played the festival circuit. We saw the film at Cannes and you can [...]

Hollywood’s Hottest Properties – The Director

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In the first of a series of three articles, we will take a brief look at the hot properties of Hollywood – the director, leading man and leading lady respectively – who I believe are on the cusp of becoming the “next big thing”, the future Spielbergs, Pitts and Jolies. The contenders to become the [...]

Kate Beckinsale Confirmed for Underworld 4

Kate Beckinsale

Confirmation reaches us today, via THR, that Kate Beckinsale has officially closed a deal to reprise her role of Selene in the fourth installment of the Underworld franchise. John Hlavin (The Shield) wrote the initial script, which went under re-writes by J. Michael Straczynski (The Changeling). Underworld 4 will be a co-production between Screen Gems [...]