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Priest, directed by Scott Stewart, is a short, dour and stodgy creature feature with average 3D effects that draws on so many film influences from westerns, action adventures and sci-fi tales that what fun there is comes from spotting the many sources. Set in some nameless apocalyptic past or future it’s a vicars-versus-vampires yarn that [...]
Will Smith has emerged as the frontrunner to star in Quentin Tarantino’s next film, Django Unchained, a spaghetti Western about a slave in the Old South who teams with a German bounty hunter to search for his wife. Tarantino stalwarts Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz also are circling key parts. The film, Tarantino’s follow-up [...]
Scoring a strong start at the domestic box office, Paramount and Marvel Studios’ summer tentpole Thor is on its way to grossing $25 million to $30 million on Friday. That gives the 3D pic a great shot at earning well north of $60 million for the weekend, and even close to $70 million. Friday’s tally [...]
The week isn’t completely over until a new casting for The Hunger Games movie is unveiled. This time, unknowns Imanol Yepez-Frias and Annie Thurman have been tapped as the unnamed District 9 tributes for the upcoming Lionsgate film, to be directed by Gary Ross. Yepez-Frias and Thurman join a group of relative newcomers as the [...]
Dragonslayer, Tristan Patterson’s documentary about a California skate-punk who spends his days getting wasted and road-tripping, picked up the best international feature trophy at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on Friday night. The juried award came with a $10,000 prize. Hot Docs also gave a special jury prize in the international feature competition [...]
There was a time when even Stephen King didn’t think he’d finish the tale of Roland the Gunslinger and his quest to reach The Dark Tower. It took the near-death experience of getting hit by an out-of-control driver to finally spur him toward a resolution. Now come rumblings that an ambitious plan by Ron Howard [...]
You can go home again, even if that home is at 21 Jump Street. Johnny Depp made his breakthrough on that Fox crime series in the late ’80s, and last week flew to New Orleans to shoot a cameo in the upcoming big-screen remake, though it stirred up memories of when he fought to be [...]
What do mermaids, mutants, pirates, cowboys, nice aliens, mean aliens, handsome vampires, gross vampires, evil fascist wizards, evil fascist robots, evil fascist Nazis, evil communists who have the redeeming trait of not being fascist, and homicidal psycho rebel apes have in common? They’re all going to kill — or be killed — at your friendly [...]
“I’m very excited, I am very, very excited!” the actor told Access Hollywood when asked about his upcoming role in the musical “Rock of Ages,” before be accepted his Humanitarian Award at the 2011 Wiesenthal Center National Tribute Dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Thursday night. “Great cast, great cast, great, great cast. We’re going [...]
Hilary Duff is no longer an outlaw … she’s just OUT — TMZ has learned the actress will be REPLACED as Bonnie Parker in the upcoming movie, “The Story of Bonnie and Clyde.” Sources connected to the project tell us … Duff will still get paid … but producers are looking to find a new [...]
For those of us who grew up on kid-friendly, puppet-centric shows like “Sesame Street” and “The Muppet Show,” our association with the fuzzy, frequently funny creatures is mostly a positive one. Therefore, anytime a puppet is featured in a commercial or film, we’re sort of trained to expect them to be lovable. In “The Beaver,” [...]
With “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” out in less than a month, some lucky guests at “The Oprah Winfrey Show” were fortunate enough to hit those strange tides before anyone else. Leading man Johnny Depp visited Oprah on Thursday (May 5) to promote his upcoming “Pirates” film. As part of her last Harpo [...]