Lionsgate released the first international (French) teaser trailer for Transporter 3. Jason Statham is back as Frank Martin, a professional “transporter” who has relocated to Paris to continue his low-key business of delivering packages without questions. Louis Leterrier opted to direct The Incredible Hulk instead of the third film, so French filmmaker and former graffiti [...]

With the success of American Idol, I knew it would be only a matter of time before Hollywood would auction off film roles in reality television shows. VH1 has greenlighted a new reality series called Scream Queens which will involve 10 unknown actresses competing for a “Major Role” in a upcoming horror film from Lionsgate [...]

You special kids can stop meddlin’ with your mashed potatoes because the last major bit of casting on Oliver Stone’s W. is close to a done deal: ass tamale Richard Dreyfuss will play elusive veep Dick Cheney. Wow. There wasn’t any question that Stone was going for the president’s jugular with this biopic, but [...]

UGO has the first poster for Punisher: War Zone, which is probably much better than the actual film.

A couple new photos from Lexi Alexander’s Punisher: War Zone have shown up online. The film stars Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, who faces his most deadly foe yet: Jigsaw. I’ve also included the previously released photos below. As always, click to enlarge.

Yup, looks pretty shitty. Punisher: War Zone hits [...]

Lionsgate has revealed new details about the future of the SAW franchise. The fifth installment, follows Hoffman (Costas Mandylor), who has been carrying Jigsaw’s (Tobin Bell) legacy, goes on a man hunt after the secret is threatened.
“People escape one trap, just to get caught in another; it’s closer in feel to the original SAW as [...]

The latest issue of Comic-Con Magazine has the first official photo of Samuel L. Jackson as The Spirit arch-enemy the Octopus. They also have an interview with Frank Miller talking about the upcoming comic book adaptation. Click to enlarge.

The Spirit hits theaters on Christmas 2008.

Originally scheduled to open wide on July 2nd, Religulous, Bill Maher and Larry Charles’s documentary aimed at the pulsing jugular of all religions, will now be released on October 3rd, 2008. Lionsgate says the film wasn’t ready to premiere at this month’s Cannes Film Festival, where it would have become a “media lightning rod” according [...]

The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has the first photos of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks as George and Laura Bush from Oliver Stone’s upcoming film W. Problem is, when we posted the photos last week no one had a high resolution scan of the two photos. Click on the photo above and below for [...]

Yesterday, we posted the first, rather ace photos of Josh Brolin as the worst U.S. president of all time for Oliver Stone’s W., and today brings word that the flick has picked up a distributor, Lionsgate, and is set for release nationwide on October 17th, 2008. Keep in mind that even though the film [...]

Lionsgate has decided to move the release date of Frank Miller’s adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit up from January 16th next year to Christmas Day (December 25th 2008). Apparently Lionsgate’s president Tom Ortenberg decided to change the release date after he saw the reaction to the film’s teaser trailer at the New York Comic [...]

Earlier in the week it was reported that Corey Haim had been cast in Crank: High Voltage. And now we have our first look at Haim in action, at the receiving end of a beat-down by Amy Smart, who returns as Eve, the girlfriend of Chev Chelios (Jason Statham).

Meanwhile, Collider has a huge scoop: Directors [...]

The Movie Blog is reporting that Corey Haim has been cast in a role in Crank 2. No other details are known at this time. Let the Haim comeback begin! AWESOME.

Viacom, MGM and Lionsgate have teamed for a new, yet-to-be-named, cable pay-channel which hopes to compete with HBO, Showtime and Starz. Showtime previously had a deal with Viacom to air their new films, but the money was not enough.
Here are the details direct from the press release: The new venture will have access to Paramount [...]

Crank 2: High Voltage is set to begin shooting on April 28th in Los Angeles and the casting announcements were made over the weekend:

Jason Statham returns as hitman Chev Chelios
Amy Smart returns as his girlfriend Eve
Dwight Yoakam returns as Doc Miles
Efren Ramirez returns, but as a character named Venus (Ramirez played Kaylo, who died in [...]