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Ti West Prepping Western “In a Valley of Violence” to Shoot This Summer
In today's world of social media, it is now easier than ever to communicate directly with fans and bypass press statements. I could write a piece on how much we as the press should or should not take tweets as serious sources - even when they come directly fro...
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Lionsgate and Saban are Go Go for a New ‘Power Rangers’
Since the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers debut over twenty years ago, that must mean its time for a new movie. Lionsgate and Saban have announced plans to bring the rangers back to the big screen with a new live-action adaptation. That means the Power Rangers ar...
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Three Separate Versions of “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” To Be Released This Fall
Deadline has word out of Cannes that the upcoming debut from Ned Benson, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby starring Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, will have 3 different cuts released this fall. Plot details are somewhat vague, other than it revolves aroun...
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Release Date Roundup: “Live By Night” Pushed, “Midnight Special” Set
Deadline reports that release dates for films I'm looking forward to have been finalized. The first is that Ben Affleck's followup to his Best Picture Oscar-winning Argo, Live By Night has been pushed from December 25, 2015 to October 7th, 2016. No other films...
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Weekend Box Office: Spidey Starts Summer
The first weekend of May means the kickoff of the summer movie season, and usually a superhero movie kicks things off (last year brought Iron Man 3 and the year before was The Avengers). This year brought us the fifth cinematic outing for Spider-Man and the se...
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Joe Carnahan Adapting “Narc” For Television: The State of Filmmakers and TV
In a recent interview with /Film Joe Carnahan revealed details on the adaptation of his 2002 film Narc into a mini-series for Paramount.
I’m writing the outline of it right now. I mean, dude, it’s crazy. I came up with, what I thought, was a really cool way o...
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“Olympus Has Fallen” Sequel “London Has Fallen” Release Date Set
My name is Dylan Moses Griffin, and I loved Olympus Has Fallen. I have a strong weakness for terrible action films. Did this film have any cinematic merit? No. But did I enjoy the hell out of it? Yes. In a year with two Die-Hard-in-the-White-House films (the o...
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Joshua Oppenheimer Readying “The Act of Killing” Sequel “The Look of Silence” for Festivals
Joshua Oppenheimer's stellar documentary The Act of Killing was one of the most uniquely cinematic films of last year. Documenting the modern day mass murderers that partook in a 1965 Genocide in Indonesia, Oppenheimer challenged them to recreate their murders...
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Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth Together Again for “Before I Go To Sleep”
There's nothing like a good team. Astaire and Rogers. Redford and Newman. Hope and Crosby. Some of the most prolific film duos of all-time. Just where Kidman and Firth will land is anyone's guess, but they will team up again for Before I Go To Sleep.
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Tomas Alfredson to Team With Martin Scorsese for “The Snowman”
An interesting collaboration of directors has come to light just now. Variety just dropped that Let The Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has boarded the adaptation of author Jo Nesbo's "The Snowman". Martin Scorsese flirted with directing the film fo...
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