How can you get the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Volume 1 on cassette tape? What did Robert Downey Jr. finally say when asked about appearing in Captain America 3? Which former X-Men villain has joined the cast of Arrow? What film does David Ayer compare Suicide Squad to? Which effects milestone will Avengers:…
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Mikael Håfström's The Tomb attracted some attention for reuniting '80s action stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, but the project's collected quite an eclectic cast since its early days. After adding Jim Caviezel back in February, The Tomb has now also signed Vincent D'Onofrio, Vinnie Jones, 50 Cent, and Amy Ryan. The combination isn't entirely random: D'Onofrio,…
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When eight-time Oscar host Billy Crystal stepped up to take over the hosting duties of the 84th Academy Awards after Eddie Murphy and producer Brett Ratner's departure, he seemed like a safe choice and one unlikely to bring the Oscars the new audience it seeks. However, it looks like the Academy hasn't given up hope…
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A couple of weeks ago we gave you an early look at Danny Glover as Captain Ahab in Age of the Dragons (previously titled Dragon Fire), the low-budget reimagining of Herman Melville's Moby Dick which sees the titular white whale replaced with a white dragon. Now there's an international trailer for the film, which also…
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Jonathan Hensleigh made a career writing films and then directed Thomas Jane in The Punisher (2004). Now he's done a feature with another Punisher actor: Ray Stevenson. Kill the Irishman adapts Rick Porrello's book To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia. It stars Mr. Stevenson and his wig as the Irishman of…
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Proving once more that the work of William Shakespeare is versatile enough to power a story with just about any genre trappings, here's Henry 5, which glues together a stellar cast -- Michael Caine, Ray Winstone, Gerard Depardieu and Derek Jacobi -- in what appears to be a sci-fi or apocalyptic version of Henry V.…
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An impressive quartet of actresses has just signed on for My Idiot Brother, the Paul Rudd comedy that we first reported on last week. Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Rashida Jones and Emily Mortimer are all part of the cast as of now. (And just the other night I was wondering how the hell Emily Mortimer…
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Earlier this month I mentioned in a brief casting note that Danny Glover had been cast in Dragon Fire, a low-budget reworking of Moby Dick that would shoot in Utah, with a white dragon standing in for the more traditional white whale. Glover is Captain Ahab, and Vinnie Jones is in the film not as…
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Though the territory was already covered to some extent in Almost Famous, Zooey Deschanel will star in a half-hour dramedy pilot for HBO based on I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, the memoir by famous band-aide Pamela Des Barres. Famous for sleeping her way through a succession of rock and screen stars in…
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Funny Or Die's GI Joe parody probably has a bigger all-star cast than the actual movie. Written by Daniel Strange & Kevin Umbricht, The Ballad of GI Joe shows us what the GI Joes do in their off time for fun, through a brilliant musical number. The list of stars features include: Laz Alonso as…
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There has been a brief report published in The Hollywood Reporter about Elevate Entertainment. They describe it as a "full-service management company that includes talent, literary and reality departments as well as a development and production arm". Amongst the first signings are Vinnie Jones and Howard Chaykin. I don't mention those two at random -…
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You've seen Red Dawn, but you haven't seen anything until you've seen Naked Dawn, Jake Szymanski's new Funny or Die's parody which stars Rob Schneider, Mena Suvari and Vinnie Jones. Can you imagine an 80's action movie at a nudist's camp? What if the Russians attacked the U.S.? What if Rob Schneider was our last…
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It was bound to happen eventually. We've had spoof movies about horror movies, teen movies, sports movies, disaster movies, epic movies, and now finally Hollywood is making a spoof of the spoof movie genre in David Murphy's Not Another Not Another Movie. When a studio head (Chevy Chase) quits his job at a successful Hollywood…
Read MoreDetails have have been kept tightly under wraps involving the upcoming Judd Apatow-produced Harold Ramis (Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation, Groundhog Day) comedy Year One. All that has been revealed thus far is the cast and creative list behind the film, which includes Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin), Jack Black, David Cross, Vinnie Jones, Juno Temple,…
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I hate to do another compilation post, but I have a lot of first look production photos to show you. Dito Montiel's (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints) Fighting stars Channing Tatum as Sean Arthur, a young ticket scalper who is introduced to the world of underground street fighting. Terrence Howard, Brian J. White, Luis…
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Christopher Mintz-Plasse will forever be known as McLovin. In the way that Seann William Scott will probably always be referred to as Stiffler. Plasse would probably be better off changing his name officially to McLovin. Judd Apatow is trying to get Mintz-Plasse some more work in Hollywood, casting the SuperBad star in the 2009 Harold…
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A couple weeks ago Joe Carnahan was debating publicly about what movie would be his next project. Would it be the Pablo Escobar bio Killing Pablo or the big screen adaptation of White Jazz? Earlier this week Smokin' Joe posted a mysterious photo on his blog (seen to the right) of Juggernaut from the X-Men…
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What happened to all the bad action movies from the late 1980's and early 1990's? You know, the ones with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris. The Condemned is the closest thing I've seen to those b-action classics in the last few years. And watching The Condemned I felt myself yearning for those…
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WWE won't give up. They have their mind set on making a genre classic with a WWE wrestler in the lead role. Too bad, their track record has been pretty bad: See No Evil, a bloody horror/thriller starring Kane, and The Marine, an action thriller starring John Cena. Now comes a film starring the man…
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