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Looks like those rumblings we heard a few years back about a Raging Bull sequel making its way to the big screen had some truth to them after all as we just got word that Raging Bull II will begin production later this summer. Simmer down all you...
Despite the many roadblocks in getting a TV revival of the The Rockford Files up and running, Universal Pictures is apparently moving full steam ahead with the big screen adaptation of the 1970's TV series that starred James Garner as a private investigator working the ...
Read more: Vince Vaughn to Headline Upcoming ROCKFORD FILES Film Adaptation
Reel Reviews film critic Christopher Symonds has been quite busy of late. When not holed up in a Goulburn, NSW movie theater basking in his love of all things cinema and reporting it back to you, the dear reader, the Australia-based screenwriter was ...
Read more: Reel Reviews Critic Christopher Symonds Publishes First Novel
Despite the fairly firm denial earlier this month by Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige that another Hulk solo film could be on the horizon, we get word from a second Marvel insider that the positive early feedback from the green one's appearance in The Avengers has made the ...
Wings (1927) - Fully Restored, Breathtaking Epic to Screen at Select Cinemark Theatres Wednesdays, May 16, 2012.
If you’ve got a mad crush on all things Oscar and have a burning desire to ...
Read more: Wings (1927) - First-Ever Best Picture Oscar Winner Returning to Theaters
Have you ever become so enraged at the excessive theater talker you wanted give him a Mel Gibson back-hand square across the popcorn-stuffed face? That's exactly what one Seattle-area theater-goer did when ...
Read more: Theater Patron Slaps Excessive Talker, Charged with Felony
Normally, any news coming from a movie studio not directly related to the release of a new movie, or the signing of a new deal goes mostly unnoticed and certainly unreported. Especially any news about the studio itself. However it's certainly newsworthy when a Hollywood...
Read more: Paramount Pictures Celebrates 100 Years with Fabulous New Poster
Those ever-persistent rumors of the rise of a second Beetlejuice movie have come to life once again, as we're getting a fresh round of news bites from an interview with Tim Burton in which the iconic director has finally addressed the project verbally ...
The list of directors who still shoot movies on traditional celluloid film rather than on digital media just got shorter by one as Martin Scorcese is reportedly ready to concede to the collapse of the format and turn to bits and bytes instead. His long-time editor and friend ...
In a recent interview during a stop at San Diego's ComicCon, Hellboy and Hellboy 2 director, Guillermo del Toro, alongside his go-to actor Ron Perlman who plays the titular de-horned protagonist, expressed mutual interest in pairing once again for the trilogy finale of the ....
Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: Hellboy 3; Captain America 2; Ouija Adaptation
In what should come as no surprise to anyone with a television, Vince Gilligan's acclaimed dramedy Breaking Bad scored a whopping 13 Emmy Nominations this morning thanks to the solid Fourth season showing. Continuing his dominance over the category ...
Not that news of yet another sequel, prequel, reboot, or remake is either earth shattering or particularly interesting, but when such word is about the continuation of the Jurassic Park story it certainly warrants mention. While making the PR rounds for next month's ...
...And the decade of trilogies continues. If one wasn't enough for Peter Jackson, the Oscar-winning director is contemplating making his most recent Tolkien adaptation into a 3-piece. As of right now, it's only a two-fer, with this December's An Unexpected Journey being the first ...
Hoping to level the playing field and drastically cut down on the barrage of improper promotional shenanigans between filmmakers and the Academy Award voters (AMPAS members), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a series of tweaks to its campaign ...
Read more: Academy Changes Oscar Campaign Rules for the 85th Academy Awards
Though very careful to indicate he was speaking solely for himself during a recent interview, uber-producer Frank Marshall gave a very pessimistic outlook for a fifth film in the Indiana Jones series. The beloved producer behind such film classics as the ...
Those long-held, guilt-ridden fantasies over Emma Watson for those who still associate her with her kid-friendly Hermione image may be a few steps closer to justification as the Harry Potter star is rumored to play the lead role of Anastasia Steele in the film adaptation of ...
In what should come as a shock to no one, AMC announced that they will not be renewing the perpetual "red herring" formulaic The Killing. The series began in 2011 and had a promising start. For those who cast it aside like every other AMC show that isn't The Walking Dead ...
Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: THE KILLING, THE OFFICE, The state of TRUST US WITH YOUR LIFE
Dan Aykroyd has been a very successful comedic actor for three decades now. He's got some great classics under his belt, but to me, none compare to the Ghostbusters tandem he did with Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson donning the tan suits, with Ivan Reitman in ...
Read more: GHOSTBUSTERS III Moving Forward Without Bill Murray
Warner Bros. today announced it's plan to push back Baz Luhrmann's 3D spectacle The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Macguire, Isla Fischer, and Joel Edgerton. The film's original release date was set to be Christmas Day ...
Read more: The Great Pushback (of Dates): Luhrmann's GATSBY Now a Summer Film
Even with Mission Impossible, Avengers and Bourne movies to boot, recent action favorite Jeremy Renner is far off from laying low from the silver screen and may be set for a more serious dramatic lead as talks of a Wikileaks movie from Dreamworks has him pinned as the controversial Julian Assange ...
Considering the gigantic success of The Avengers earlier this year, it should come as no surprise that Marvel would fall all over itself to bring back Joss Whedon to direct the sequel. And that's exactly what the studio did yesterday by signing an exclusive deal that will bring the filmmaker back ...
Today, everyone's favorite Hollywood hatemonger Mel Gibson announced that he has no plans to star in the highly not-anticipated Lethal Weapon 5. The former wild man Martin Riggs will not be appearing in the fifth installment in the long running (?) but also long gestating franchise because ...
Before it's even hit the theaters, The Expendables 2 is already getting the hype machine started for it's already assumed three-quel. Mastermind Sylvester Stallone will continue to make the rounds on the classic action circuit by recruiting supposedly Nicholas Cage in what ...
As female action movies continue to gain traction with an ever-expanding fan base that prefers sword-wielding heroines over swooning princesses, it was only a matter of time before the Hollywood machine pointed its fascination in the direction of an all-female, star-studded action film...
Read more: All-female Version of THE EXPENDABLES in the Works
Ellen DeGeneres is currently in negotiations to reprise her role as the forgetful Purple Tang in Disney/Pixar's as-of-yet-unnamed upcoming Finding Nemo sequel. Though the busy talk show host doesn't do much film work these days, she has, for years, expressed an interest in working on the film again as the lovable Dory...
Fearing overexposure, Johnny Depp is looking to become very picky about his future roles as he begins the next phase of his career. And to aid him in that quest are the recent rumors that the actor has agreed to a $90 million offer to don the Jack Sparrow get-up for yet one more ...
Forgive us if we bristle at this bit of news, but this bad idea just won't go away. We first got word about a year ago that Eddie Murphy was tossing around the idea of breathing life back into his Axel Foley character from the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. But rather than attempt a follow up to ...
Read more: Eddie Murphy Wants to Make a BEVERLY HILLS COP TV Show
Russell Crowe got into a fight with the ocean and lost terribly this holiday weekend. He and a friend took to kayaking off the coast of Long Island on Saturday and got swept away by the current. Eventually the Coast Guard was called to bail his ass out. I find it ironic that ...
Read more: Russell Crowe Lost at Sea Kayaking Off Long Island
We first caught wind of the revival of the cult-fave TV show Arrested Development a year ago with rumors that the new season would lead into a big screen adaptation. Then as word came down earlier this summer that the production arm of Netflix was adding the revival of the series to ...
Read more: Confirmed: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Season 4 Will Lead in to Movie
Here’s news for the literature fandom. In a fictional re-telling of their lives, Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs get together to solve a real-life murder mystery set in 1944. Starring Elizabeth Olsen, Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, ...
Read more: KILL YOUR DARLINGS sees Daniel Radcliffe in Gay Role
Ms. Marvel - Avengers 2 rumors are swirling around the interwebs that have a new superhero about to be unleashed to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the form of Ms. Marvel, also known as Major Carol Danvers. A British tabloid site is saying that Emily Blunt and Ruth Wilson are under consideration for ...
As he begins making the promotional rounds for his upcoming film called Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise is also taking the time to get chatty about some other projects in the works, specifically another installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise...
Read more: Tom Cruise Already Working on MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5
While discussing today's release of yet another Watchmen cut out on blu-ray and DVD (that's the third), filmmaker Zack Snyder not only talked about why he thinks that film continues to appeal to viewers today more than when it was released back in 2009, he also shared some ...
Read more: Snyder's MAN OF STEEL to be a "More Serious Version of Superman"
Shaming didn't work. Neither did self-policing. And the incessant reminders to "just do the right thing" have certainly had little effect on the problem plaguing the cineplex in our all-digital-all-the-time-world. Struggling to make the cineplex a more friendly environment for ...
Apparently there are those willing to pay upwards of $500 to watch a movie, and very soon there will be a place for them to do just that. A Los Angeles-based start-up company called Prima Cinema is proposing a service which will bring theatrically-released ...
Each year, the Library of Congress selects 25 motion pictures that represent important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in filmmaking to include in the library's National Film Registry where each will be preserved for future generations to enjoy. The announcement just came down ...
Read more: A CHRISTMAS STORY and THE MATRIX Among Films Picked for National Film Registry
Grants Trekkie's Dying Wish to See New STAR TREK Film. In our world of seemingly ever-decreasing compassion, it's always enlightening when a bit of good news from Hollywood's money-grubbing soullessness crosses over into the general interest of we ...
Read more: J.J. Abrams Proves There Are Still Good People in the World
Nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were announced this morning by Emma Stone and Seth McFarlane from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. As expected, Les Misérables, Argo, Lincoln, and Silver Linings Playbook led all comers, with a few notable surprises and snubs...
Every last one of the Oscars has been handed out, even those that go to all the geeky technical categories (in the words of one of the worst Oscar hosts in history, "Thank you nerds"). And we were there planted on the couch watching every last pitiful minute of it ...
Mad Max, the sci-fi franchise that introduced Mel Gibson to the world, will come together for the first time as a Blu-ray collection when Warner Bros. Home Entertainment debuts the Mad Max Trilogy on June 4th ...
Read more: MAD MAX Trilogy Coming to Blu-ray on June 4 in Limited Premium Tin Packaging
Saying it's the hardest thing they've ever had to do, DreamWorks studio exec, Jeffrey Katzenberg announced yesterday that the studio is not only going against company culture by furloughing 350 employees, but is in the midst of a complete restructuring following the commercial failure ...
Read more: RISE OF THE GUARDIANS Flop Prompts DreamWorks Lay-offs
Millennium Entertainment announced today that they will distribute titles from the Hammer library in the U.S.Established in 1934, Groundbreaking British film studio Hammer was instrumental in creating the horror genre and has delivered ...
Read more: Hammer Horror Library Gets U.S. Distribution Deal
Let the re-release buzz begin! No, it’s not another Star Wars film needlessly prepped for 3D distribution. This time we’re going way back and celebrating the 90th anniversary of a classic film. Janus Films, the preeminent U.S. distributor of foreign and classic films, has ...
Read more: Harold Lloyd's Classic SAFETY LAST Restored for Re-Release
Despite recent talks to the contrary, it sounds like the sequel to the indie hit Chronicle is moving along nicely. Not that every surprise hit needs to be revisited, but as long as the major studios think so, it's always good news when a screenwriter and studio are on the same page. At least that's what they're telling us, anyway...
Read more: CHRONICLE Sequel Moving Along Despite Rumors of Script Trouble
Demand for tickets for the upcoming Star Trek release was so high, the current technology couldn't keep up, causing the British Film Institute's dedicated IMAX website to crash under the load. The inundated server probably sounded a lot like the Klingon cruiser crashing into ...
Read more: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Advance Ticket Sales Crash IMAX Ticket Site
Warner Bros. are marking the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz in a way that's sure to please both the film's fans as well as home video enthusiasts. First up will be the release of a 3D remastered version of the film along with a return to the ...
Read more: Remastered THE WIZARD OF OZ Coming in 3D, IMAX, and Home Video for 75th Anniversary
The poster for the documentary Particle Fever almost makes it look like a sequel to The Ring. It’s a simple image of a circle in white and colored lines. The tagline doesn’t explain much, either: “With one switch, everything changes.” So what’s it about?...
Disney has found the Next Big Thing. The Disney Channel’s Teen Beach Movie surpassed even High School Musical in ratings. So get ready to see more of Tanner, Rascal, Cheechee, Dopey and Grumpy (okay, maybe not the last two). When the blandly titled Teen Beach ...
Read more: Move Over HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, TEEN BEACH MOVIE Draws 8 Million Viewers
What have they done to Mickey Mouse? The poster for the indie film Escape from Tomorrow shows Mickey’s gloved hand reaching up, as blood drips from his fingers. Despite the use of Mickey and the familiar Disney font, the movie’s obviously not kid friendly ...
Read more: Poster for ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW Hints at the Unhappiest Place on Earth
According to "Ash" himself, Bruce Campbell says that, despite rumors to the contrary that have been buzzing around the web of late, a follow-up to the 1997 cult classic, Army of Darkness will not be happening. Fans may recall that last month Campbell was reported by ...
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- 12 YEARS A SLAVE Takes Best Picture Oscar
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Name BIRDMAN Best Picture of 2014
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Names Birdman Best Film of 2014
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Name SPOTLIGHT” Best Picture of 2015
- Kansas City Film Critics Name MAD MAX: FURY ROAD the Best Film of 2015 During Presentation of 50th Annual James Loutzenhiser Awards
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- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Name MOONLIGHT Best Picture of 2016
- Kansas City Film Critics Pick Manchester by the Sea Best Film of 2016
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- Colorado Street Suicide Bridge
- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman