Briefly: Quentin Tarantino has the primary players locked down for his anti-slavery 'southern' Django Unchained. Jamie Foxx plays the freed slave Django; Christoph Waltz plays Dr. King Schultz, the bounty hunter who frees him; and Leonardo DiCaprio plays Calvin Candie, the plantation owner and slave runner that Django and Schultze have to go through to…
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The superhero-supervillain showdown is a staple of any costumed-hero flick, but writer/director Jason Trost's indie thriller Vs takes it to a whole new level by expanding that central conflict and mixing in an element of horror. Described as "Kick-Ass meets Saw," Vs revolves around a quartet of young superheroes who are forced by their archnemesis Rickshaw…
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Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, isn't going to stop acting any time soon. And by the looks of his two most recent trailers -- one for Things Fall Apart and this one for Setup -- he might not start making good movies any time soon, either. While Things Fall Apart looked like a saccharine feel-good…
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I know there's resistance to Red based on the fact that the film looks quite a bit different from the Warren Ellis comics upon which it is based. I haven't read the comic, so can only approach the film based on what I see -- and I really enjoy the stuff we've been shown so…
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Eventually, AMC will release something for The Walking Dead that I think doesn't look great, but it hasn't happened yet. There's a good piece of art to promote the show's debut at Comic Con, which you can see in part above, from IGN. See the whole image after the break, along with the first character…
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I would never have guessed that the director of Flightplan and The Time Traveler's Wife might turn out the most entertaining-looking under the radar comic book adaptation of this summer. But I grinned all the way through the trailer for Robert Schwentke's Red, which adapts Warren Ellis' graphic novel about a group of retired CIA…
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Buried director Rodrigo Cortés will next direct Sigourney Weaver in Red Lights, in which she'll play Margaret Matheson, "a para-psychologist who attempts to debunk a very reputable psychic who has just returned to the limelight after 30 years." What are the chances her character is named after author Richard Matheson? Pretty good. Cortés told Bloody…
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On Easter Sunday, I landed in New Orleans to sweat and drop by the set of RED, yet another comic book adaptation, but one packing the following A-list cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren (as a tea-sipping sniper with a 50-cal machine gun), Mary-Louise Parker, Star Trek's Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Richard…
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Disney has released a bunch of new character stills from Pixar's presentation of Ratatouille. Check them out below: Official synopsis: Academy Award®-winning director Brad Bird ("The Incredibles") and the amazing storytellers at Pixar Animation Studios ("Cars," "Finding Nemo") take you into an entirely new and original world where the unthinkable combination of a rat and…
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