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Archive for February, 2010

There’s only one thing Michael Moore likes more than talking about his home-town of Flint, Michigan, and that’s having a bash at right-wing America. The unashamedly biased critic’s latest target is capitalism itself, in all its green coloured glory. Setting your sights a bit high there [...]

There seems to be an epidemic in Hollywood these days with studios intent on wheeling out old properties and remaking them. Nowhere is this more evident than in the horror movie scene, with a spate of remakes ranging from downright rotten to devilishly good having been recently [...]

Fresh from the world of “why are they even considering this” comes news that the model idiot Derek Zoolander is ready to come back to the silver screen. Ben Stiller, writer, director and star of the first one, is teaming up with his Tropic Thunder co-writer Justin Theroux to fashion a [...]

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The cast of Bad Teacher has taken a definite turn for the better with the addition today of Jason Segel and John Michael Higgins. The movie, which is being written by Year One scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, definitely needed a pick-me-up and some comedic chops to add to the [...]

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Matt Damon as RFK? Yeah I can get behind that. It seems that the Bourne star is set to portray Kennedy the younger in a biopic from Seabiscuit director Gary Ross. The story, which is being adapted from Evan Thomas’ biography His Life by Eastern Promises screenwriter Steven Knight, focuses on [...]

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It shouldn’t have been possible, heck it probably shouldn’t have even been attempted, James Ellroy’s book was considered to be unfilmable by everybody in the business, save for one man. That man was Curtis Hanson, who at this stage was a average film-maker whose most notable contribution to cinema was [...]

Variety is reporting that Eric Bana is set to star opposite our own Saoirse Ronan in director Joe Wright’s upcoming action-thriller Hanna. The movie centres on a 14 year-old girl who has been brought up to be a ruthless killer. Leaving Eastern Europe for France she finds a home with a [...]

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Warner Bros. have unveiled the red band (adult) trailer for Kevin Smith’s new movie Cop Out, finally giving the film a trailer worthy of the mouthy man himself. The film tells the story of two NYPD cops, longtime partners and friends, who, after Jimmy’s prized baseball card is stolen, set out [...]

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Columbia Pictures have gotten themselves a writer wiling to pare down the tome that is Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol into a manageable movie. Steven Knight, screenwriter on Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things, is the man with the unenviable job. The story, for those of you who wisely steered clear [...]

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Universal Pictures has announced that production is about to start on the fifth title in the Fast and Furious franchise, titled Fast Five. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, director Justin Lin and producer Neal Moritz have all signed on to return, with Chris Morgan on scripting duties, marking his third time working [...]

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