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Due to continuing problems with Blogger, we have changed how we publish the FilmBuffOnLine Newsreel. You can now read the Newsreel here.Please adjust your RSS feeds and bookmarks. Thanks.

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Last week, we discussed what comic projects might lie in Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier's future. Well, they are all going to have to wait. Variety is reporting that Leterrier has signed to direct the Clash of the Titans remake.Leterrier replaces the previously announced Steven Norrington, who dropped out of the project over budgetary concerns.Warner Brothers is putting the project in

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Everyone's favorite She-Devil With a Sword is coming back to the big screen, and Robert Rodriguez is bringing her there.USA Today announces that Rodriguez with be producing and directing a remake of Red Sonja. Who will be filling out, and filling out quite nicely, I'd image, the chain mail bikini? Rodriguez's real-life paramour, Rose McGowan.My knee-jerk reaction to this is mixed. The positive

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1.Wall*E (3,992 Theaters, 103 Minutes, Rated G): It's going to be a tough weekend for movies in the Gatevackes household. While we each want to see both of the movies opening this weekend, my wife wants to see this film more and I want to see Wanted more. Top that off by us going out of town to see friends this weekend, and might not be able to see any. Ach, such is life.This is the story set

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It seems almost impossible to believe, but John Badham's War Games is celebrating it's 25th Anniversary this year. And NCM Fathom is presenting a special, one night event to celebrate that fact.On July 24, 2008 at 7:30 local time, NCM Fathom and MGM will be showing War Games on the big screen at theaters near you.A Cold War thriller for the teen set, War Games featured Matthew Broderick as a

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A few months ago, Watchmen director Zach Snyder started a contest where fans who were handy with a camera could construct ads for products put out by company owned by the character, Adrian "Ozymandias" Veidt. Winners would get the chance to have their ads play on television sets in the background of the film.Well, it appears that the contest is over and the winners have appeared online. You can

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Pretty much everyone here at the FilmBuffOnLine offices are big Bruce Campbell fans. And we have watched in growing frustration as his comedy My Name Is Bruce has been repeatedly had its release date pushed back. So forgive us if we are skeptically hopeful that this latest announced release date - this coming October – actually holds.The word comes from Dark Horse Comic’s Mike Richardson, who was

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If you are a fan of Watchmen like the crew here at FilmBuffOnline, then you'll be sure to like this. The folks over at Collider.com have a great two-part video interview with director Zack Snyder and wife Debbie.The interview, recorded yesterday at the 34th Annual Saturn Awards, clocks in at about ten minutes and covers everything from Snyder being the main attraction at next-month's Comic-Con to

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As you may already know, it has been the ongoing mission of FilmBuffOnline to serve and protect our faithful community of readers. Once again we come to your aid to steer you far, far away from the movies created by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the pair that dared give us such humorless time-and-money-wasters like Meet The Spartans, Epic Movie and Date Movie.FilmBuff editor Rich Drees

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As those watching for news leaks from the set of the upcoming X-Files: Fight The Future have learned, writer/director Chris Carter is good at keeping secrets. It should come as no surprise then that the Hollywood Reporter has uncovered that Carter is already midway through the production of his next film, Fencewalker.The Reporter describes the film as "a coming-of-age semiautobiographical

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If there is one film currently in production that I am NOT looking forward to seeing, it is the upcoming remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. And despite what some would think, it has less to do with my continuing apathy towards star Keanu Reeves than it does towards the fact that this project even exists. The original not only is one of the best science-fiction films of all time, but one of

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USA Today has a nice article on Marvel's slate of movies, where they speak with comic legends Stan Lee and Joe Simon about their creations who are due to hit the big screen.But the paper also speaks with Iron Man director, Jon Favreau, who reveals that Marvel is pushing for the team line-up for 2011 Avengers film to be Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man and Iron Man.This should come as a

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Could the Big Red "S" be on the shelf due to a high-profile lawsuit? And does this mean good things for The Big Red Cheese?In a recent press junket, Get Smart director Peter Segal was asked by AMC's SciFi Scanner blog about his upcoming Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam, which adapts DC's Captain Marvel the screen. Segal's response raised a red flag for many comics fans.Here is the back and

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has send out its yearly round of invitations to join its organization to 105 individuals on Monday.Each year, AMPAS can only induct a maximum of 137 people. Invitations are usually sent out to a much lower number.Notable names on this years invitation list include Jet Li, Diablo Cody, Judd Apatow and Sacha Baron Cohen.For the full list of all 105

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We here at FilmBuff Online look out for our readers. We wish to warn you away from the movies of the team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans). We do this by showing you the posters for their films so you don't accidentally stumble into theaters showing their films by mistake.FilmBuff Editor Rich Drees brought one to your attention here. But the crafty

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Is the new Stephen Sommers live-action G. I. Joe film getting a subtitle? It appears that way for at least part of the world.The European film site Film1 was able to get a picture of a billboard at Amsterdam's Cinema EXPO which shows Channing Tatum's Duke and the film's logo with "Rise Of Cobra" underneath it. (Click to enlarge.)The addition of a subtitle definitely shows that the studio is

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In an interview with the Boston Tribune published over the weekend, Quentin Tarantino has confirmed that, at long last, he is definitely done writing the screenplay for his World War II epic Inglorious Bastards.“I’ve been working on it for a long time,” he said. “And I literally just finished it, so it’s too soon to talk about it. It’s too new.” Tarantino was being interviewed in conjunction with

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Although not a fan of gore slasher films, I may have been one of the few critics who actually had some positive things to say about Eli Roth's Hostel II. As oppossed to some other, similar films, I found Hostel II to have a very interesting subtext that could be seen as commenting on the geo-political landscape of the times.At the time of the film's release, there was the usual talk of a sequel

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George Carlin, the groundbreaking social satirist whose "Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say On Television" bit sparked a court case that lead all the way to the Supreme Court and a national discussion on indecency and censorship, has passed away last night in Los Angeles. He was 71.Primarily a stage comic, Carlin would take an occasional screen role, but a film career was something he never actively

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Without a doubt the biggest success story in films in the past two decades has been the rise of PIXAR Animation Studios. A small sidebusiness started by George Lucas but sold off to Steve Jobs, the small northern California-based studio rose to prominence through a combination of smart business strategies and the boundless imagination of its output.Recently, The PIXAR Touch, David A. Price's

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If all the stars align, 2011 might be a busy year at the cineplex for Marvel movie adaptations.Producer Laura Ziskin, promoting her one-hour Stand Up To Cancer fundraising special, announced to California and Nevada theater owners that the fourth sequel to the Spider-Man franchise is tentatively scheduled for a May 2011 release.This might seem like a case of putting the cart before the horse

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If you have ever wanted to hear Scarlett Johansson say to you, "On your knees then," well, this is your lucky day.I'm sure by now everyone has seen these teaser posters released for Frank Miller's The Spirit:However, if you want to hear the above characters say the lines of dialogue that have been photoshopped on their faces, click over to Yahoo Movies. They have a page showing the above poster

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Can a television comedy with roots in the spy mania of the 1960s and the Cold War be relevant and find laughs four decades later?That's the mission Steve Carell accepted when he stepped into Don Adams' iconic role of bumbling spy Maxwell Smart for a big screen revival of the classic televisino comedy Get Smart.Does he succeed? Read our review to find out.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approved two changes to their nomination rules Tuesday night in an effort to address controversies from years past.A change was made in the Best Original Song category limiting the total number of songs that can be nominated from a single film to only two.Last year, three songs from the movie Enchanted were nominated, causing a stir amongst people

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Turner Classic Movies will honor the recent passing of one of Hollywood's greatest dancing stars, Cyd Charisse, by devoting its June 27th evening schedule to showcase three of her films.At 8pm, TCM will present Singin' in the Rain (1952), featuring one of the most brilliant musical numbers ever filmed. As soon as her outstretched leg caught Gene Kelly's eye in the Broadway Melody sequence, you

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