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Universal Studios, one of the studios who backed HDVD has announced their first releases for Blu-Ray DVD. The studio will release ‘Doomsday’ along with 40 other titles later this year. Also on the slate for the holiday season are a bunch of the studio’s big summer releases including ‘The Incredible Hulk,’ ‘Hellboy II,’ ‘Mama …
Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that actor and screenwriter Edward Norton clashed with Marvel Studios about the cut of their upcoming film and second take on the Hulk story. Norton has now agreed with Marvel, after offering up his own cut of the movie. Norton reportedly thinks that the Marvel cut will make a lot …
Ridley Scott has signed on to direct and produce “The Kind One,” starring Casey Affleck. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of an amnesiac who finds himself working for a mobster. A murderous thug named “the Kind One,” Affleck’s character falls in love with the “Kind One’s” girlfriend. The film is also …
Oh fudge. Chris Carter has released the official title for the upcoming X-Files sequel and it is….’X-Files: I Want to Believe.’ That sound you hear is probably the air escaping from my happiness balloon. Now I didn’t really think the first movie’s title, ‘X-Files: Fight the Future’ was particularly inspiring, but at least it had …
Apparently Spielberg is a master at keeping his upcoming movies in the news with ridiculous information. Just released is the runtime for ‘Crystal Skull’ and it is about 140 minutes! Man that’s exciting stuff. So now you know if you have time to watch this movie, or if you will have to reschedule your Pilates …
Richard Gere has signed on to star opposite Hillary Swank in ‘Amelia,’ a biopic chronicling the relationship between Earhart and her husband, George Putnam. ‘Amelia’ will be directed by Mira Nair, who has been been planning on heading out to India to shoot ‘Shantaram’ with Johnny Depp, but was delayed due to the strike. ‘Amelia’ …
Finally, re-mastered versions of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece films ‘The Godfather,’ ‘The Godfather, Part II,’ and, um, ‘The Godfather, Part III,’ (well, two out of three ain’t bad,) are being released on DVD. Before you race out to get in line to buy them, you should know that, right now, the discs are only coming …
The Oscar nominations will be announced on January 22nd next year, instead of the usual January 20th. Why would they do that, you may be asking. Well, someone at the Academy was looking at the calendar and noticed that the Presidential inauguration is also scheduled for January 20th. Figuring that a press conference was easier …
A web-site dedicated to action star Chow You Fat is claiming that Chow, along with Hong Kong director Johnny To will be teaming up to shoot an English-language remake of Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘Le Cercle Rouge.’ Orlando Bloom and Liam Nesson are also reportedly part of the cast. The original film starred Alain Delon and …
Personally, I was a fan of ‘Paris Je Taíme,’ maybe I didn’t completely love the all the shorts, but I loved the concept. A series of shorts by different directors, all tied together by a single city. Well, I hope I won’t have to spell out what New York, I Love You, is about. Today, …