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Live Action NINJA SCROLL

October 27, 2008 Rich Drees

Leonardo DiCaprio must like the idea of turning anime into live action. First his production company, Appian Way, bought up the rights to do a live action adaptation of the classic Japanese animated film Akira. [click for more]

Sam Raimi Continues To Taunt Me, Places EVIL DEAD 4 On Backburner

October 22, 2008 Rich Drees

Oh, Sam Raimi. Why must you taunt me so? I’ve long been a fan of the director’s work since I first saw Evil Dead 2 in college in 1988. His unique and energetic visual style places [click for more]

Marvel Studio Chief Talks More Hulk, Post-AVENGERS Slate

October 22, 2008 Rich Drees

While comic book movie fans have been excited by Marvel Studios gameplan to cross-pollinate their superhero films over the next few years, culminating in the summer of 2011 with the superhero teamup The Avengers, Marvel has already [click for more]

Nick Fury In IRON MAN 2? Sam Jackson Thinks So

October 20, 2008 Rich Drees

“Mr. Stark, you’ve become part of a bigger universe. You just don’t know it yet… I’m here to talk to you about the Avenger Initiative.” And with those words in the post-credits scene from this [click for more]

Brett Ratner Still Set To Ruin CONAN

October 17, 2008 Rich Drees

Last month, we passed along a report that Brett Ratner was one of the directors the production house Nu Image was considering to helm their upcoming Conan film. This morning, AintItCoolNews is reporting from a [click for more]

Warners Not Interested In He-Man Movie GRAYSKULL

October 17, 2008 Rich Drees

Those looking forward to a live-action adaptation of the 1980s cartoon/toy line He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe are probably not going to be seeing their hoped for film any time soon. According to [click for more]

WALL STREET Sequel Still In The Works

October 13, 2008 Rich Drees

Producer Ed Pressman is continuing to push forward with his plans to make a sequel to the 1987 cautionary tale Wall Street. Variety is reporting that Pressman has hired 21 scribe Alan Loeb to pen [click for more]

Will We Ever Get To Go To Visit The RED STATE?

October 10, 2008 Rich Drees

Over at AintItCool this morning, writer Quint has a pretty good interview with writer/director Kevin Smith about his upcoming comedy Zack And Miri Make A Porno. It does get into spoiler territory, so if you’re [click for more]

A WONDERFUL WORLD For Forest Whitaker

October 8, 2008 Rich Drees

Forest Whitaker will be directing and starring in What A Wonderful World, a biopic of jazz pioneering trumpet player Louis Armstrong. Although Armstrong has appeared as himself in a handful of films – noteably High [click for more]

TR2N News Roundup

October 6, 2008 Rich Drees

For a sequel to a 26-year old film that is still technically in development, there certainly was a brief flurry of activity surrounding Tr2n the last 24 hours, with two different stories breaking on the [click for more]