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BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT Goes Wider

October 25, 2007 Rich Drees

Impressed with the box office receipts it has earned on just two screens – a whopping $44,575 per screen its opening weekend as opposed to the $5,349 per screen the number one grossing movie, The [click for more]

Welles’s CITIZEN KANE Oscar Up For Auction

October 17, 2007 Rich Drees

New York auction house Sotheby’s has announced plans to auction the Academy Award that Orson Welles won for co-authoring the screenplay to Citizen Kane. Although it is a perennial topper of critics “Best” lists, Citizen [click for more]

Robb Moves From TERABITHIA To WITCH MOUNTAIN

September 26, 2007 Rich Drees

AnnaSophia Robb, last seen in the under-appreciated Bridge To Terabithia, will be joining Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for the Disney film Witch Mountain, which director Andy Fickman is claiming isn’t a remake of the 1975 [click for more]

They’re baaaack! POLTERGEIST Screenings Next Month

September 10, 2007 Rich Drees

Theaters are going to get a bit haunted for one night next month as Tobe Hooper’s 1982 scare-classic Poltergeist gets a special screening at close to 300 screens around the country on October 4. The [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]

Emmerich Signs On For FANTASTIC VOYAGE

August 16, 2007 Rich Drees

Roland Emmerich has been signed to direct a remake of the 1966 science-fiction classic Fantastic Voyage, according to today’s Variety. This is the second time that Emmerich has been attached to a remake of the [click for more]

Bollywood CASABLANCA

August 9, 2007 Rich Drees

We’ll always have New Delhi? The Hollywood Reporter is carrying a Reuters story that Indian director Rajeev Nath has mounted a remake of the 1942 classic Casablanca, changing the setting from war torn Morocco during [click for more]

National Archives Film Holdings Available On DVD

August 2, 2007 Rich Drees

Thousands of hours of film in the National Archives will be available for purchase on DVD by the general public through a new program that partners the archive with CustomFlix Labs DVD on Demand, a [click for more]

DVD News: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Original Cut To See Release

August 2, 2007 Rich Drees

The original 1977 theatrical edit of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters Of The Third will be available for the first time in nearly fifteen years with the release of the Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: [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]