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First Look: Jared Harris is an Evil Professor in Hammer's 'The Quiet Ones'
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Hammer Films dominated the Gothic entertainment market throughout the 1950s-80s, before going dormant in the ’90s. Dutch producer John De Mol purchased the rights back in 2007, resurrecting the studio with such minor efforts as the vampire flick Beyond the Rave and the Hiliary Swank thriller The Resident. The company regained critical credibility with the remake Let Me In, before finding success at the box office with The Woman in Black starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter).
38 weeks 2 days ago via theothersenhman
Sony Pictures Acquires Publishing Phenomenon 'The Rosie Project'
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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has optioned screen rights to The Rosie Project, the global breakout novel by Australian writer Graeme Simsion. The film will be produced by Sony-based Matt Tolmach and Michael Costigan, both of whom were longtime colleagues as Sony execs and get to work together again for the first time as producers.
3 weeks 6 days ago via jetli
DreamWorks Animation Moves Forward with Trolls
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Following up on plans for a Trolls feature film back in 2010 , DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. has now acquired the IP for the iconic franchise from the Dam Family and Dam Things of Denmark with plans to introduce the beloved brand to a new generation of fans around the world.
5 weeks 6 days ago via jackiechan
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Rooker Talks Rocket Raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy!
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Anyone who knows James Gunn's work knows that he is a very loyal director who likes to use certain actors again and again. So when it was announced that he would be directing and re-writing Marvel Studios epic sci-fi adventure Guardians of the Galaxy, speculation started to fly about who would be cast in the film.
33 weeks 6 hours ago via jackiechan
Rob Zombie's 'The Lords of Salem' gets a creepy new trailer
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Love or hate him, Rob Zombie is a hell of a showman. Not many musicians can make the transition from singer to actor, but to go from singer to director is a unique feat. While I despised HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, I did love THE DEVIL'S REJECTS. HALLOWEEN was serviceable, but THE LORDS OF SALEM looks like a return to form for Zombie.
33 weeks 6 hours ago via theothersenhman
James Cameron May Add Chinese Na'vi to 'Avatar' Sequels
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The director tells THR that incentives for content and co-production could spur the move: "It is logical there would be Chinese on Pandora."
35 weeks 17 hours ago via jackiechan
Tom Jenkins And Simon Sharp Move From Viral Shorts To Sony Pictures' Pic 'Giants'
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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has set Tom Jenkins and Simon Sharp to rewrite to direct Giants. They will make their feature debut off of two short films that became big viral hits: Speed Of Light and Address is Approximate. In Giants, an alien race known as Giants on planet Gigantus are attacked by a foreign spacecraft, which prompts a team of soldiers to embark on a mission to Earth in order to wage war.
33 weeks 7 hours ago via jackiechan
Universal Acquires Untitled Pitch That Teams Zak Penn And Chris Morgan
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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has bought an untitled science fiction pitch hatched by Chris Morgan and Zak Penn. Penn will write and direct, and Morgan will produce. It’s described as an action film in the vein of Chronicle, the Josh Trank-directed supernatural sleeper hit for Fox. Morgan will produce through his Chris Morgan Productions, the Universal-based shingle from which Morgan wrote and is producing The Fast And The Furious 6.
33 weeks 7 hours ago via donnieyen
Why the Oscars Timetable Change Is Bad for Movies (Analysis)
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THR's awards analyst argues that the shift to earlier nomination voting will make it harder for small films to catch on and for big December releases to be seen before ballots are due.
35 weeks 18 hours ago via theothersenhman
Box Office Report: 'Ted,' 'Magic Mike' Score Big at Midnight
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Seth MacFarlane's R-rated comedy "Ted" grosses an impressive $2.6 million, while Steven Soderbergh's male striptease comedy also pleases with $2.1 million.
46 weeks 5 days ago via brucelee
'X-Men' Producer Lauren Shuler Donner Would 'Love' An 'Avengers' Crossover
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Most movie fans know that Marvel’s X-Men characters reside at 20th Century Fox and The Avengers reside at Marvel Studios, owned by Disney. It’s the type of distinction that might seem insignificant to some, but is in fact very important, as movie studios rarely share their prized properties. So while Avengers vs X-Men has been a huge success in the Marvel Comics world ...
32 weeks 2 days ago via brucelee
Disney Screenwriter Kelly Marcel to Write 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Adaptation
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Moving from "Mary Poppins" to exotic fiction overnight, screenwriter Kelly Marcel has been hired by Universal and Focus Features to write the adaptation of E.L. James' bestseller "Fifty Shades of Grey." They have the rights to all three books. Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti ("A Social Network") are producing.
32 weeks 2 days ago via jackiechan
6 New Images from OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL
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At Comic-Con, Disney showed off the first trailer for Oz the Great and Powerful, and then released it online as a nice way of saying, "Thanks for standing in line, suckers!" I thought the trailer looked very pretty, but I wanted to see more of the characters and plot. Six new images from the film have gone online, and they once again confirm that the movie will look very pretty, which isn't too much of a surprise considering that director Sam Raimi has a great eye for visuals and he has Robert Stromberg (Alice in Wonderland) as his production designer.
44 weeks 1 day ago via jackiechan
Dark Knight Rises 'critic' is banned from Rotten Tomatoes
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US blogger Eric D Snider posted negative review on aggregator site despite never having seen Christopher Nolan's new filmIt must have seemed like a surefire method of attracting new visitors to your website: take the year's most heavily anticipated movie, and post a negative review linked to the popular aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
44 weeks 1 day ago via jackiechan







