'Death Race 2050' Trailer: This Wacky Series Goes Back To The B-Movie Basics
The Death Race 2050 trailer promises a sequel that is very much in line with Death Race 2000: silly, cheap, and really, really dark.
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Paul WS Anderson Begins Work On A Prequel To His Death Race Prequel
Paul WS Anderson never seems to stop working. It's a lot easier, sure, when working with unabashedly commercial projects, but if some of the filmmakers that I like a lot more could manage to work half as often as he does, this would be a very different cinema landscape. Now, according to Shock Till You…
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This Week In DVD: Burn After Reading, Hamlet 2, Death Race, American Teen
This Week in DVD is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, and Fry’s. Please don't take the commentary on the movies and TV shows too seriously, as they're meant not to be reviews but rather previews that…
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/Filmcast Ep 14: Death Race (GUEST: Paul Scheer)
In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra, Hunter, and Adam discuss the pernicious consequences of remakes, despair over the fate of their favorite actors from The Wire, and dissect as many plotholes from Death Race as they possibly can. Special guest Paul Scheer joins us from Human Giant! Have any questions, comments, concerns, feedback,…
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Weekend Box Office: Anna Faris Has Hops
While Peter is on the record questioning Anna Faris's cute-ranking, I have continuously defended her on the site as one of the funniest chicks working in Hollywood. My first ever item for Slashfilm was shot down, even. It was to be an essay on Faris's stoned character in Smiley Face, with a paragraph dedicated to…
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Death Race Movie Poster
Shock has a first look at the new Death Race movie poster which is now in theaters. Something about it just screams “shitty movie”. I’m surprised they didn’t try to play up the imagery of the custom killer cars instead of the generic floating heads. Jason Statham leads the cast of an action-thriller set in…
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/Filmcast Episode 4 - The Incredible Hulk + The Happening
In this jam packed edition of the /Filmcast, Dave, Adam, and Devindra ponder what could have been after reading Darabont's alleged Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull script, debate whether this Hulk is an improvement on the last one, question whether Shyamalan has still got it, and mourn the loss of a…
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Death Race Movie Trailer
Universal has released the first movie trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race remake starring Jason Statham. The prisoners who participate in death race have access to explosives and big guns which they incorporate into their cars in this anything goes race for freedom, but they don't try to use them to escape? Seems to…
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17 Photos From Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race
Universal has released a batch of new photos for Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race. Check them out after the jump. As always, click to enlarge. Official Plot Synopsis: Jason Statham leads the cast of an action-thriller set in the post-industrial wasteland of tomorrow, with the world's most brutal sporting event as its backdrop. A penitentiary…
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Death Race: Battle Photo Revealed, Test Screening Reviews
The new issue of Empire Magazine offers our first look at one of the explosive vehicular battle sequences from Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race. Click on the photo above to enlarge. Before this photo hit, the Vegas odds of Death Race being any good were lower than Stephen Sommers' G.I. Joe, and that's saying a…
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Release Date Changes: Death Race, Street Fighter, Alvin 2, 12 Rounds
There has been a lot of schedule shuffling going on at the studios this week. Universal has moved Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race remake up from September 26th to August 22nd 2008. The film was originally set to go head to head with DJ Caruso's Eagle Eye and Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua, but will now…
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Dreamworks Bitchslaps Eagle Eye To September?
Eagle Eye was a hot property from day one, originating as an idea/story from legendary director Steven Spielberg. Directed by D.J. Caruso, re-teaming with Disturbia star Shia LaBeouf (Transformers), and set for a much coveted early August release date. But something has happened... Maybe the film is running behind schedule. Or quite possibly, maybe they…
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First Look: Death Race
Lets make one thing perfectly clear. There are two Paul Andersons" Paul Thomas Anderson and Paul W.S. Anderson. One is a great director who created one of the best films of the year (There Will Be Blood) and what people are calling a cinematic masterpiece, and the other is a hack director who somehow found…
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