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Tarantino Vows Next Film For Next Year?

May 27, 2008 Rich Drees

As the Cannes Film Festival wound down this past weekend, director Quentin Tarantino made an announcement that has us already looking towards next year’s fest, just to see if his pronouncement comes true. When asked [click for more]

WATCHMEN’s "Tales Of The Black Freighter" To Be DVD Spin Off

May 26, 2008 Rich Drees

Next March, comic book fans are getting even more of the gritty world created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in the landmark graphic novel Watchmen. In addition to the live action adaptation hitting screens [click for more]

Tartan DVD Closes Doors

May 25, 2008 Rich Drees

Theatrical and home video distributor Tartan USA has closed its doors. This past week a public foreclosure sale put up for auction the company’s physical assest, right down to the office furniture in addiotin to [click for more]

Review: INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

May 22, 2008 Rich Drees

The best way to describe Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull is to compare the film to a reunion over your favorite rock band from high school after they had gone their [click for more]

Musical Based On Bruce Lee Headed For Broadway

May 21, 2008 Rich Drees

A musical based on the life of martial artist film star Bruce Lee is being readied for a future Broadway debut. Bruce Lee: Journey To The West is being targeted for a 2010 or 2011 [click for more]

Back To The 80s, Part Two: Columbia To Relaunch FLASH GORDON

May 21, 2008 Rich Drees

Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures has secured the rights to bring classic pulp hero Flash Gordon back to the big screen in the hopes of launching a new summer blockbuster franchise. OK, I may be cheating [click for more]

Back To The 80s, Part One: HIGHLANDER Remake In The Works

May 21, 2008 Rich Drees

Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, the two scripters currently receiving praise for their screenplay of this summer’s blockbuster Iron Man, have been hired to pen a remake of the 1980s genre classic Highlander for Summit [click for more]

The Inmates Of SUPERMAX

May 20, 2008 Rich Drees

Back in April 2007, screenwriter David Goyer announced that he was developing what sounded like an interesting take on the superhero film- Supermax. In it, DC Comics hero Green Arrow is, wrongfully of course, arrested [click for more]

Review: CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN

May 16, 2008 Rich Drees

A year has passed for the four Pevensie children – Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edward (Skandar Keyes) and Lucy (Georgie Henley) – since their trip through an enchanted wardrobe to the land of [click for more]

In Remembrance: John Phillip Law

May 16, 2008 Rich Drees

When one thinks of the pop-art inspired psychedelic films of the 1960s, inevitably John Phillip Law comes to mind for his roles in two of the genre’s best- Barbarella and Danger: Diabolik. Beyond that, Law [click for more]