This is a pretty simple equation: led by Miles Fisher, the cast of Final Destination 5 has spent some perfectly good Warner Bros. money on a promo video for the splatter sequel, in which a school full of characters very much like those from Saved by the Bell are killed in horrifying ways. And it's…
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Final Destination isn't the kind of franchise that surprises -- if you've seen any of the four previous installments, you probably already have a pretty good idea of what to expect from Final Destination 5. We were treated to a 3-D clip from the upcoming film, showing that scene familiar from any Final Destination movie:…
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The other day in a post about the trailer for The Myth of the American Sleepover I mused about how memories of first love are one of the batteries that powers cinema. Well, one of the other batteries is the thrill of seeing another human bite it. And so enter the Final Destination series, which…
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What adult woman brings a teddy bear to comfort her during Lasik? Thankfully, the answer is: one of the characters in Final Destination 5. The trailer for the fifth film in the 'kids cheat death' series is out and it shows what happens when you mess with death and then put yourself in the path…
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The J. Edgar casting train keeps on chugging. Clint Eastwood is in the midst of shooting his J. Edgar Hoover biopic, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and Armie Hammer as Hoover's colleague and reported lover Clyde Tolson, but more and more actors continue to fill out the cast. First Stephen Root was added,…
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Over the past week there has been some casting movement on 5nal Destination, aka the fifth Final Destination movie. We haven't reported some of it because, well, the movie was called 5nal Destination. And after the last couple films in the series, mustering up enthusiasm for this one is difficult. (Though there might be some…
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Su-su-Suri. In a new interview with Black Book, director Mary Harron dryly shares the revelation that Christian Bale's inspiration for his pretty-damn-legendary performance in her American Psycho was none other than Tom Cruise. What's more, there is previous online precedent to connect Cruise's go-getter, '80s attitude and famous physical regimen with Patrick Bateman's yuppie, psychopathic…
Read MoreAs much as I will forever remain a fan of Tracy Morgan's "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah," I won't be checking out Superhero Movie in theaters this weekend. Insert commenter saying, "yeah Hunter, but it's still worth a torrent." But Slashfilm would like to salute young actor and Harvard alum Miles Fisher for easily giving the…
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