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DVD News: LOONEY TUNES VOL 5 Update

August 27, 2007 Rich Drees

Over at his blog Cartoon Brew, animation historian Jerry Beck has a few corrections to the information (including ours) currently circulating about the upcoming Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 5. Disc 1 will include over [click for more]

Keanu as Klaatu: THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Remake

August 27, 2007 Rich Drees

Keanu Reeves closed a deal this weekend to play Klaatu, the alien who comes to Earth to warn its populace to change its war-like ways or face annihilation from a confederacy of alien races, in [click for more]

DVD News: Fox Continuing Noir Series

August 26, 2007 Rich Drees

A purusal of Twentieth Century Fox’s new Fox Studio Classics website reveals that their Film Noir series of releases may not be as dead as previously thought. The last titles in the series – 1946’s [click for more]

Trailer Park: SHINE A LIGHT

August 25, 2007 Rich Drees

I have to wonder if it’s more than just a coincidence that in the same week that the website for Martin Scorsese’s documentary/concert film on the Rolling Stones Shine A Light goes live that rumors [click for more]

This Week’s Theatrical Releases.

August 24, 2007 Bill Gatevackes

1. The Nanny Diaries (2,629 Theaters, Rated PG-13): A movie featuring a spunky young woman in a demeaning job answering to a demanding boss adapted from a popular chick lit novel? It’s no stretch of [click for more]

FREDDY VS JASON VS ASH To See Life As Comic Book

August 23, 2007 Rich Drees

The cross franchise melding of the A Nightmare On Elm Street, Friday The 13th and the Evil Dead series Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash developed by New Line Cinema back in 2004 will see new [click for more]

DVD News: CASINO ROYALE 40th Anniversary Edition

August 23, 2007 Rich Drees

MGM will be releasing a new DVD special edition of the 1967 version of Casino Royale in November to commemorate the film’s 40th anniversary reports James Bond fansite 007 Magazine. The disc will sport a [click for more]

GRAVEYARD OF THE FIREFLIES To Get Live Action Redo

August 21, 2007 Rich Drees

Akiyuki Nosaka’s semi-autobiographical novel Graveyard of the Fireflies, which was adapted by director Isao Takahata and Studio Ghibli into the classic anime feature, is set to be made as a live-action film by Tokyo-based Pal [click for more]

LOGAN’S RUN Finds New Director

August 21, 2007 Rich Drees

Commercial director Joseph Kosinski has been signed to helm Warner Brothers’ remake of the 1976 science-fiction picture Logan’s Run according to a Hollywood Reporter article published today. Although he was originally developing the film and [click for more]

DVD News: ERIK THE CONQUEROR

August 20, 2007 Rich Drees

Tim Lucas, the man who has literally written THE book on the films of Mario Bava*, has announced on his blog, Video WatchBlog, that in addition to contributing a full length commentary track to Anchor [click for more]