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FIVE DEADLY VENOMS Remake A Go, Finally

September 6, 2007 Rich Drees

The long-rumored remake of the Shaw Brothers kung fu classic Five Deadly Venoms looks as if it finally has a start date, according to a story in the Beijing News. The film, being financed by [click for more]

TRON Director Lisberger Back With SOUL CODE

September 5, 2007 Rich Drees

After nearly a two decade absence, writer/director Steven Lisberger, best known for his groundbreaking 1982 science-fiction/adventure film TRON, will be stepping back behind the camera with a new science-fiction project Soul Code for Reliant Pictures. [click for more]

HOTEL CHEVALIER Unreachable Via DARJEELING LIMITED

September 5, 2007 Rich Drees

Wes Anderson’s 13-minute film Hotel Chevalier, which the director has stated is a prequel of sorts to his upcoming feature film The Darjeeling Limited, is reportedly not going to be running in front of Darjeeling [click for more]

DVD News: Unrated EYES WIDE SHUT

September 5, 2007 Rich Drees

It has been confirmed that the upcoming DVD release of auteur Stanley Kubrick’s final film Eyes Wide Shut will contain both the R-rated version released in United States theaters plus the more sexually explicit unrated [click for more]

BAD LIEUTENANT Revisited

September 5, 2007 Rich Drees

We reported last week that producer Ed Pressman was working on a follow-up to his 1987 production Wall Street. Now, a report from the Los Angeles Times states that Pressman is revisiting another past project- [click for more]

DEATH PROOF International Posters

September 4, 2007 Rich Drees

Broken in half, perhaps by its less than stellar reception in the United States, the two halves of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse will be screening internationally as two separate films. An expanded version [click for more]

Academy Attempts To Block Sale Of Oscar Statuettes

August 31, 2007 Rich Drees

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the bestowers of the Academy Awards, is filing suit in Los Angeles Superior Court to block the sale of Oscar statuettes that originally belonged to silent film [click for more]

VINCE VAUGHN’S WILD WEST COMEDY SHOW Poster

August 31, 2007 Rich Drees

Here’s a little something lite to take you into the Labor Day weekend- the poster for Vince Vaughn’s upcoming (deep breath now) Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights – Hollywood [click for more]

This Week’s Theatrical Releases.

August 30, 2007 Bill Gatevackes

I. Balls of Fury (3,052 Theaters, Rated PG-13, Opened Wednesday): Ah, will Hollywood ever run out of sports to parody? I think ping pong falls somewhere between Ice Dancing (Blades of Glory) and Dodgeball (DodgeBall: [click for more]

Greed Is Good Again: WALL STREET Sequel In The Works

August 30, 2007 Rich Drees

Gordon Gecko, the slick inside trader/anti-hero of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987) may be gracing cinema screens once again, according to an interview with the film’s producer Ed Pressman in the West Australian. Pressman has [click for more]