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Universal To Remake SHINOBI

August 1, 2007 Rich Drees

Variety is reporting that Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to remake the Japanese action film Shinobi (2005). A variation on Romeo And Juliet, Shinobi told the story of two lovers from rival ninja clans [click for more]

DVD News: BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT

August 1, 2007 Rich Drees

Director Ridley Scott has announced that he had finally finished his ”Final Cut” edit of his futuristic noir classic Blade Runner (1982) and that it will be released in a variety of collector’s editions on [click for more]

Number 5’s Alive! And For Sale

August 1, 2007 Rich Drees

Number 5, the heroic robot from the 1986 Steve Guttenburg comedy Short Circuit and its 1988 sequel Short Circuit 2, is one of the keynote items up for an online auction tomorrow and Friday from [click for more]

FilmBuff Newsreel Goes Live!

August 1, 2007 Rich Drees

We here at FilmBuffOnLine are thrilled to announce the debut of a new feature here at the site- the FilmBuff Newsreel. The Newsreel is a new news initiative for the site that will deliver to [click for more]

AIRPLANE! vs ZERO HOUR!

July 10, 2007 Rich Drees

One of my all time favorite movies is the Zucker-Abrams-Zucker disaster spoof Airplane!. If you by chance haven’t seen the film, there’s no real way to describe the film’s offbeat, random, out-of-left field sense of [click for more]

SONG OF THE SOUTH- Finally?!

July 6, 2007 Rich Drees

It’s been a question that seems to have been on Disney fans’ lips since the first DVD players rolled off the assembly lines and into retail outlets over 10 years ago- “When is Disney going [click for more]

Review: EVAN ALMIGHTY

June 23, 2007 Rich Drees

It is virtually in name only that Evan Almighty is a sequel to the 2003 Jim Carey comedy Bruce Almighty. While Morgan Freeman returns in his role of God and Steve Carell’s obnoxious Evan Baxter [click for more]

All My Heroes Have Been Japanese Cowboys

June 21, 2007 Rich Drees

The folks over at DoubleViking.com, a sort of on-line variation of magazines like Maxim, have published an article announcing something that I’ve known for the past 23 years- Real Men Love The Adventures of Buckaroo [click for more]

Remake Roundup: Cartoon To Live Action Edition

June 7, 2007 Rich Drees

With all the hype surrounding the live action adaptation of the popular Transformers 1980s cartoon sure to make the film a hit at least over its opening weekend, it’s not surprising that we’re starting to [click for more]

KING OF KONG ‘Villain’ Speaks Out

May 31, 2007 Rich Drees

Since its January premier at the Slamdance Film Festival, the documentary The King Of Kong and its inside look at competitive video gaming and one man’s quest to break the world’s record for classic Donkey [click for more]