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Vince Vaughn Working With Ron Howard?
12 hours ago | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Vince Vaughn hates love and anyone in it. Okay, maybe not (he did, after all, just get married). But he's clearly not done exploring what can go wrong with relationships, lining up a new project on infidelity with Ron Howard. Universal is slotting the pieces into place for Howard to direct and Vaughn to star in a new, yet-to-be titled movie, based on an idea by the actor, with 21 scribe Allan Loeb behind the keyboard for a plot that follows one man's problems when he learns his best friend's wife is cheating.That's about all the details we have for the film, aside from the fact that The Hollywood Reporter has it shooting early this year and that it'll tackle similar comedy/drama themes to The Break-Up. Oh, and it also drops the extra morsel that Couples Retreat apparently had darker moments" that were left on the cutting room floor. »
USC Scripter Award Nominees: An Education, Crazy Heart, District 9, Precious, Up in the Air
8 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
For the first time, I participated in the annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards. Voted on by a jury of screenwriters, critics and scholars, these awards honor the authors and screenwriters of the year’s best English-language feature (animated or live action) adapted from a printed work. Scripter winners No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire also won adapted screenplay Oscars. Awards circuit faves and recent PGA nominees An Education, District 9, Precious and Up in the Air were nominated, as well as Crazy Heart, a surprise. Also surprised, perhaps, are the left-out writers behind Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Last Station, Julie & Julia and Invictus. Unfortunately, … »
Exclusive: Taylor Lautner Is Now Hollywood's Highest Paid Teenage Actor
7 hours ago | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »
I've just learned that Taylor Lautner is now being paid per ab. That's right, the 17-year-old co-star of the Twilight Saga franchise who's famous for his buff physique that is making girls scream when he takes off his shirt in New Moon, is getting $7.5 million for his next pic. The project is Paramount's Northern Lights, a Tom Cruise vehicle to be directed by John Moore (Max Payne) with a start date of April 1st. The logline says the pic is about "a gifted, young, aerobatics pilot who faces off with his controlling, billionaire father and falls in love with a gifted, female [...] »
- Nikki Finke
Leo Tolstoy: the forgotten genius?
17 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Leo Tolstoy is widely considered in the west to be the greatest writer of all time and this year sees the release of a film, The Last Station, to mark the centenary of his death. So why is his native Russia lukewarm about the literary genius?
For Tolstoy fans, 2010 is set to be a wonderful year. One hundred years after the great Russian novelist fled from his country estate outside Moscow – dying three weeks later in a small provincial railway station – the world is gearing up to celebrate him. In Germany and the Us there are fresh translations of Anna Karenina; in Cuba and Mexico Tolstoy bookfairs; worldwide, a new black- and-white documentary. Dug up from Russia's archives and restored, the original cinema footage shows an elderly Tolstoy playing with his poodles and vaulting energetically on his horse.
Next month also sees the UK premiere of The Last Station, an »
- Luke Harding
Sylvester Stallone left with broken neck as hardmen battle it out on screen
50 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Fight scenes in Sylvester Stallone's new movie were so realistic that he broke his neck during filming, the actor says in a magazine interview.
Stallone stars in The Expendables, which boasts some of the acting world's best-known tough guys, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke and British actor Jason Statham.
The 63-year-old said a fight scene with the wrestling star Stone Cold Steve Austin became so "vicious" that he needed an operation for a hairline fracture and had a metal plate inserted in his neck.
Stallone, a writer and director on the film, told this month's FHM Magazine: "Man, it was seven guys, kicking each other's ass, one guy tougher than the next … no joke, our stunt guys were begging for mercy," he said.
"Actually, my fight with Stone Cold Steve Austin was so vicious that I ended up getting a hairline fracture in my neck. »
New footage from A Nightmare On Elm Street 2010
1 hour ago | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
I'm going to go on record here as saying that I absolutely despised the Platinum Dunes Texas Chainsaw Massacre films, and (although I've had the DVD sitting here for ages) have yet to watch their take on Friday The 13th. While their previous remake fare didn't exactly pique my interest, I have to say that I'm becoming increasingly excited about their reboot of Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street franchise.
With each new tidbit to escape the New Line/Warner Bros./Platinum Dunes camp, my interest grows - and thus far, I can't find a single thing to gripe about. That said, those that purchased the just-release Blu-ray edition of The Final Destination got a special treat in the form of an extended preview and behind-the-scenes featurette from Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare On Elm Street, and thanks to YouTube user "jmayer2009" the clip is online. With a little luck, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
Fvza: Federal Vampire And Zombie Agency – Issue #2 of 3 (Comic Review)
1 hour ago | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Radical Publishing | Written by David Hine | Art by Roy Allan Martinez and Wayne Nichols with paint by Kinsun Loh and Jerry Choo
Sometimes, you just can’t let go. As a vampire, eternal life seems to be missing the “life” part as the heart no longer beats in the sunlight. As a zombie, you’re not suddenly changed in a matter of moments like the movies. Instead, you’re a rotting corpse, slowly losing everything you have as father time picks away at your flesh and bones. Both creatures of the night lost more than their humanity, and to let go of it all is to simply be destroyed by the living. For me, letting go is simply trying to ignore a comic book dealing with zombies and vampires. I need to find Waldo to keep my sanity!
Fvza is certainly an exception as I can’t put the thing down when reading it. »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Mike Fish)
Is Pixar Socially Conservative?
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Brad Bird's The Incredibles has long had many political meanings read into it. Perhaps most controversial is how well the film lines up with Ayn Rand's objectivist movement. It's also quite popular with politically conservative types as well --- the National Review named it number two on their list of the top 25 conservative movies. Tom Elrod, over at The House Next Door, points out that The Incredibles isn't the only Pixar film that could be read conservatively in a recent post. He argues that while Pixar's movies may not be politically conservative, you could apply a more relaxed notion of conservatism to many of their films due to their focus on preserving the family unit. Elrod explains it best in his article: There is something conservative about much of Pixar's output, but when I say conservative, I mean a small “c” conservative that sees the world along the »
- Devindra Hardawar
The Dead (Book Review)
1 hour ago | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Ever since I read Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend back in middle school, I immediately saw the potential written prose had, as oppose to cinema, for conveying a great zombie story. A story that was not only affective pop horror but intelligent and thought provoking as well.
I already feel many of you about to pounce; “I Am Legend wasn’t about zombies! I Am Legend was about vampires! Rabble, rabble, rabble!” Little pop-culture lesson for you. Zombies, as you know them today, have little to nothing to do with their like-named voodoo predecessor. The zombie, as redefined by the great George Romero, based in the work of Matheson, is strongly rooted in vampire lore. Each are undead, each feed on the living, each die only (usually) after trauma to a major organ, each turn others into horrid abominations such as themselves via inflicted bite. Simpley because I Am Legend »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Compton)
Satan”S School For Girls (DVD Review)
1 hour ago | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
There is a point in Satan”S School For Girls (David Lowell Rich, 1973) that you realize how thankful we should all be for hidden gems, films that by all accounts should be bad, but thankfully are not. This is one of those films; at once an atmospheric mystery-thriller and a relic of the days of drive-in horror. Although misplaced boom mikes slip into shots, and footsteps running down a flight of stairs sound like they came directly from the coconut clappers in Monty Python, and dialogue echoes in empty rooms, the film still manages to capture a mood of growing terror and hysteria, balancing tension against predictability.
Posing as a student to investigate her sister’s supposed suicide, Elizabeth Sayers (Pamela Franklin) infiltrates the Salem Institute (naturally…Satan…witches…Salem…subtle) only to find a school under the influence of, well, Satan. On her way she befriended by a group of girls, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Alicia Kozma)
Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom Chapters 1-3 (Comic Review)
1 hour ago | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Arcana Comics | Written by Bruce Brown | Art by Renzo Podesta
Here I thought the werewolf was taking over this year. Instead, it looks like Howard Lovecraft’s amazing world has come to fruition in the land of comics and will give the furball a run for his money in 2010. With a few releases already on the shelves featuring Lovecraft’s creepy byproducts, and a few more on the way, one could say this is the right time and place to make it happen. I mean come on, how many zombie stories can one eat in a year anyway?
I have to be honest with Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom... at times I loved the book and other times I just rolled my eyes in grief. I think the extreme separation in both loving and disliking the book has to come from the frenetic writing of Bruce Brown. I certainly »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Mike Fish)
Zombieland writers to pen Deadpool
1 hour ago | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Pretty much bang on a month back, whispers came that Zombieland screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were set to script the stand-alone, Ryan Reynolds-starring Deadpool flick. Finally, Variety have put us out of our misery and confirmed that the rumour is true. Except that’s pretty much all we know. Aside from stating that the writing team “will stay true to the mythology of Deadpool given that Reynolds is a huge fan and protector of the property,” everybody’s staying pretty much shtum. Which is par...
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- Josh Winning
New Elm Street footage revealed
2 hours ago | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
To be honest, we haven’t been all that excited about the post-millennium reworking of Wes Craven’s slasherific A Nightmare on Elm Street. The full trailer, released some weeks back, did little to stir our inner hellraiser. And, apart from that, buzz has been minimal. But now a behind the scenes look at the film has popped up on YouTube, and seems a little more promising. Lifted from the Us DVD release of The Final Destination, it’s basically an extended trailer with added juicy visuals and some soundbites from...
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- Josh Winning
Penn a Stooge again
2 hours ago | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Last summer, Sean Penn dropped out of the Farrelly brothers’ Three Stooges film to spend more time with his family. Now, though, it seems that he’s officially re-joined the project. Bobby Farrelly spoke to The Boston Herald and confirmed: “we got him back. He always said he wanted to do it after, you know, taking care of his family.” The film all but came to a grinding halt after Penn pulled out last year (the power of a Hollywood name, people), meaning that the brothers Farrelly moved on to Owen Wilson...
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- Josh Winning
Spider-Man 4 definitely in trouble
2 hours ago | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Over Christmas, reports ran rampant that Spider-Man 4 was having problems. Now those rumours have been all-but confirmed by Hollywood insider Nikki Finke on her blog. Verifying that issues with the film’s villains are to blame, Nikki published an email sent out to the visual effects team that stated “Sam Raimi has story issues [that] need to be resolved before we are ready to shoot”. Apparently, Raimi and Sony are still at loggerheads over who should be the villain (or villains) in the fourth Spidey...
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- Josh Winning
Votd: Droll Na’Vi Make Up Tutorial
2 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
My favourite YouTube upload of the last week or so is at once a basic guide to Halloween-ready Na'vi makeup - and let's face facts, there's going to be a strong tang of Avatar to All Hallow's Eve come October, not to mention every possible cosplay outlet from here until the end of time/until the sucky Avatar prequel trilogy defiles some childhoods/for a year or two [delete as applicable] - and a tour de force in unforced glibness. The skinny legs line even kicked a stale old Lol out of me... and you've gotta love to Jo-Bros poster too. »
- Brendon Connelly
Mendes a maybe for Bond 23
2 hours ago | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Only yesterday we were reporting that Bond 23 might be in troubled water thanks to MGM’s current ‘on sale’ status. Well, it seems MGM don’t like all the negative attention they’re attracting. So they’re looking to hire Brit director Sam Mendes as a ‘consultant’ on the project – and no doubt hush up those doom mongers. What does that mean? Basically, MGM haven’t got the money to officially hire a director. But they need somebody onboard to steer Bond into...
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- Josh Winning
Producer's Guild Nominations Are Here
2 hours ago | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
The Producer's Guild of America has announced their award nominations this year, and the group - which has a long history as an Oscar predictor - has made some surprising choices, nominating sci-fi films including Star Trek, Avatar and District 9 as well as the animated Up.In the slightly-more-predictable group we get The Hurt Locker, Up In The Air and Invictus, along with Quentin Tarantino's surprisingly award-friendly Inglourious Basterds (guess that's the closest they could find to a Holocaust drama this year). Filling out the list are smaller releases An Education and Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire.In an Oscar season light on the usual Holocaust dramas and historical epics, the field's been left wide open for films that people actually, y'know, went to see this year, which we're guessing is why several superior sci-fi films sneaked their way onto the list. That, and the fact that the PGA, »
Sebastian Stan Joins The Apparition
3 hours ago | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Sebastian Stan (”Kings”, “Gossip Girl”) has been cast in Dark Castle’s “The Apparition”. Stan joins Ashley Greene (Twilight) and Luke Pasqualino in the project, which is about a couple who begin being haunted by an unknown supernatural presence in the wake of a mysterious college experiment. Todd Lincoln wrote the script and is also directing the project. Joel Silver, Andrew Rona, and Alex Heineman are all producing “The Apparition”, with Daniel Alter on-board as executive producer. Filming is slated to begin this February. Stay tuned for more movie news on “The Apparition” right here at Shockya.com. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Shock Til You Drop) »
- Costa Koutsoutis
Yes People, Spider-Man 4 Is Delayed
3 hours ago | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Things are not well over in Sony Towers, following on from the rumours last month that Spider-Man 4 had been put on hold (rumours which Sony vehemently denied) it now seems that it has in fact been confirmed that Spider-Man 4 is on hold due to differences between the studio and director Sam Raimi.
The problem has arose because Raimi is hoping to have The Vulture as the film’s primary villain while Sony bigwigs are dead against the choice and are also hoping to crowbar The Black Cat in there for an additional love interest (Gwen Stacey: Spider-Man 3 anyone?). Personally, since we’ve already covered this story, none of this comes as a huge surprise. Yes, Sony denied it back in December, however it seems that THR have now confirmed the rumour and that’s pretty much all there is to it, this from THR:
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- Craig Sharp
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