Let the battle begin! An amusing little industry tussle is causing quite a stir in the web world recently and it’s an interesting debate to bring up. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, James Cameron “dissed” the recently released Piranha 3D, saying “that is exactly an example of what we should not be doing [...]

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After numerous delays, release date shifts, distributor changes, and straight-to-DVD scares, anyone who’s interested in actually seeing Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass, starring two Edward Nortons in twin roles, will finally have the chance to do so next month. Its been confirmed (by The Playlist and indieWIRE) that First Look Studios will finally be [...]

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Though they haven’t been released, there’s already a bit of negative buzz building regarding the influx of alien invasion movies, especially with Skyline and Battle: Los Angeles both bringing destruction to the City of Angels within the next few months. Well, Moviehole has word on yet another sci-fi invasion story on the horizon. Apparently Bob [...]

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Screening up at the Toronto Film Festival next month is a new kung fu comedy in the same vein as Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle called The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman from Chinese filmmaker Wu Ershan. I’m not exactly sure why, but Doug Liman is presenting the film at the festival and Twitch [...]

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Another great announcement regarding Fantastic Fest next month. Fantastic Fest will honor director and master fight choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the world premiere of his new martial arts fantasy True Legend (seen above), starring Vincent Zhao (Dragon Gets Angry), Zhou Xun (The Emperor and the Assassin) with Michelle Yeoh (Babylon [...]

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Yesterday evening, our friends at ComingSoon picked up on a bit of casting news found on the Argyllshire Standard website. Scottish actor Sylvester McCoy (who once played Doctor Who in the late 80s) told the newspaper that “I am being cast in The Hobbit,” but added that it’s not fully official yet. “We’re currently in [...]

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Revenge just rode into town. Today’s trailer is for a “neo-western” called Red Hill that actually comes out of Australia, directed by Patrick Hughes and starring Aussie actor Ryan Kwanten (of “True Blood” fame). It’s essentially about a police officer (Kwanten) who moves to the small country town of Red Hill, but on his first [...]

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I’m not normally one to post about casting news that isn’t finalized, but this is a good story about three very beautiful actresses fighting for one role. Paramount is trying to get things moving on Mission: Impossible IV (which won’t even be called that) and with Jeremy Renner as the male lead, their focus has [...]

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There’s a Mexican sci-fi film called Seres: Genesis that’s becoming a cult hit but no one has heard of it up in the US. Seres: Genesis is only the first film in a sci-fi series based on a Mexican graphic novel series that has everything from flying saucers to mysticism to archaeologists in action to [...]

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On the eve of the Emmys, where writer/producer Bruce C. McKenna is expected to win an award for his work on HBO’s The Pacific, Deadline reveals that McKenna’s new WWII pitch has been preemptively bought by Warner Bros. Apparently titled just The Battle of Midway, his pitch is a 3D WWII epic that focuses on [...]

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