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Hunter Stephenson’s Review: Lost Boys: Reign Of Frogs By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 6, 2008 7:42 am EST The fact that writer Hans Rodionoff scribed both the comic book miniseries and the direct-to-DVD sequel reaffirms for the millionth time that Hollywood is a place where visions are greeted by more hands than an eager, campaigning politician. Review continues after the jump with exclusive images from Reign of Frogs…Discuss: Have you guys checked out The Lost Boys comic books yet?...

Joel Silver Says Lethal Weapon 5 Might Happen Eventually By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2008 11:56 pm EST Last we heard, Shane Black’s treatment for a new Lethal Weapon film was shot dead in the water by series star Mel Gibson. IGN was able to talk to producer Joel Silver, who claims that the project might still happen, eventually. “We talked about it, but it was something that Mel didn’t want to do now,” Silver explained....

Josh Schwartz Writing And Directing New Bright Lights, Big City By Brendon Connelly/April 1, 2009 11:21 am EST OC, Chuck and Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz has spoken to Variety about his plans for a new film adaptation of Jay McInerney’s novel Bright Lights, Big City. The novel is a hip, wry and moral tale of night-life excess, featuring a 24-year old fact checker with literary ambitions and a taste for nose candy....

LOL: Boba Fett - The Cylon Bounty Hunter By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2008 5:00 am EST What if Boba Fett was a “Toaster”? He would look something like the above animated concept photo by crucial taunt, an entry in Fark’s latest Star Wars photoshop contest. via: SuperPunch LOL: Boba Fett - The Cylon Bounty Hunter By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2008 5:00 am EST What if Boba Fett was a “Toaster”? He would look something like the above animated concept photo by crucial taunt, an entry in Fark’s latest Star Wars photoshop contest....

LOL: Disney’s First Ever Jewish American Princess By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2009 11:00 am EST After creating their first ever African American princess, Disney breaks new ground with a Jewish American Princess. In LandlineTV’s new spoof short film, we get a behind the scenes look at a faux Disney animated production titled Rachel and the Dragon. Watch the video now, embedded after the jump. LOL: Disney’s First Ever Jewish American Princess...

Marvel Reenvisioning Canon For Japan’s Anime Market By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 26, 2008 2:59 pm EST Marvel is teaming with Madhouse, the respected Japanese animation studio responsible for Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and Ninja Scroll, to reenvision its comic book characters, their origins, and new characters for anime series. Iron Man and Wolverine have been tapped, but others characters were not specified. In a report by the NY Times, Marvel’s International President, Simon Philips, says the venture will create a “parallel universe” to the current canon....

Mickey Rourke Cast As Conan’s Father, Sean Hood Rewriting The Script By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2010 1:15 pm EST Heat Vision is reporting that Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler, Iron Man 2) is in talks to play Corin, Conan’s father in Marcus Nispel’s Conan remake for Lionsgate. Meanwhile, SHH has confirmed that Sean Hood has been hired to give the script a last minute rewrite.Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer penned the original draft....

Mike Judge Talks New Live-Action Beavis And Butt-Head Film. Johnny Depp Hoped To Play Beavis By Hunter Stephenson/May 14, 2008 1:26 pm EST Obama chimp t-shirts. The Love Guru. These guys. “That f’ing hat.” How many words are wasted criticizing, analyzing and decrying today’s world, when all we really need is a “This sucks!” delivered by an AWOL Beavis and Butt-Head? Bring ’em back. The brilliant creator of America’s foremost juvenile delinquents, Mike Judge, tells MTV that he’s finally considering a new Beavis and Butt-Head film, albeit a live-action one…...

Mongol Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 2, 2008 11:28 pm EST Exceeding all expectations and boldly showing up Hollywood on how to craft a stunning, historical battleground epic with tasteful violence and, sure, sweeping romance, Mongol was one of my top 10 films of 2007. And while it’s valid to make the argument for those films notoriously left out of the category, Mongol deserves to win this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film....

New Grindhouse Movie Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2007 6:05 am EST The new movie trailer hit on Thursday, and today we bring you the New Theatrical Poster. I love the retro ripped and torn look they’re using for all the marketting materials. Click on the poster for a high resolution look. Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino exploitation double feature Grindhouse plays homage to B-movie thrillers of the 1970’s. Tarantino’s Death Proof is about a psycho named Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) who stalks and kills beautiful women with his fast sports car....

New Indiana Jones Trilogy DVDs By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2008 4:17 pm EST Paramount Home Entertainment have announced they will be releasing new Special Edition DVDs for the Indiana Jones Trilogy on May 13th, to coincide with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’s release. Most of you, like me, probably already own the Indiana Jones box set which was released a few years back. The new set features a bunch of new extra features, none of which I’m hugely excited about....

Polanksi’s The Ghost To Be Finished And Released With Or Without Him By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 1, 2009 11:54 am EST Some rather surprising news has come on down today from a Deauville, France conference for cinema exhibitors. Jerome Seydoux, the chairmen of Pathe, announced that Roman Polanski’s political thriller The Ghost, which they will be distributing in France, will be finished and released to cinemas whether or not the director is extradited to the US or even incarcerated....

Producer Neil Moritz To Make Animals By Hunter Stephenson/March 7, 2008 4:13 pm EST “Purrr.” Isn’t it funny/sad/make you angry when heated discussions you had when you were, like, nine, are made into beyond epic movies? Producer Neil Moritz (I Am Legend, Even Almighty) looks to make a movie called Animals from a script by former lawyer turned hotshot screenwriter Mike Sobel that was just purchased by Columbia. The movie pitch is this: what if all of the world’s animals, including pets like kittens and gerbils, turned on us?...

Rupert Wyatt To Direct Planet Of The Apes Prequel By Peter Sciretta/March 11, 2010 11:17 pm EST The film won’t have talking monkeys and will not end with chimps taking over Earth. Instead the film will be a hard science fiction film about humans that use science to create hyper-intelligent chimpanzees. Fox’s Tom Rothman has said the film takes place before the first film, and that it will be “a return to the social thematics that mark the first one, but with an entirely contemporary setting – Earth 2009....

Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell To Star In Judd Apatow’s Sherlock Holmes By Hunter Stephenson/July 2, 2008 11:58 am EST Sacha Baron Cohen will play Holmes, and Will Ferrell, Watson, in a comedic take on Sherlock Holmes for super-producer Judd Apatow. To avoid confusion, last month we reported on Guy Ritchie’s forthcoming, unrelated “Bond-like” take of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic English sleuth for Warner Bros. No director is attached, and the flick, which see the two comedic stars re-teaming for the second time after their smash, Talladega Nights, is untitled at this time....

Sally Field In Spielberg’s Lincoln By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 23, 2007 1:06 pm EST Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Mrs. Doubtfire) has signed on to play Mary Todd, the wife of the sixteenth President of the United States in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. Based on the biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln), Liam Neeson (Star Wars: Episode I, Batman Begins) will play Abraham Lincoln, as he guides the North to victory during the Civil War....

Sundance Photo Preview: Howl - Starring James Franco By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2009 12:00 pm EST Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, two filmmakers best known for their documentary features The Times of Harvey Milk and Paragraph 175, make their narrative feature film debut with Howl, a nonfiction drama which premieres at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as one of the 16 films which were selected from 1,058 submissions for the U....

The Cast Of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2009 5:22 pm EST Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body, Mama Mia), Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical), Abbie Cornish (Stop-Loss), Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler, Across The Universe), and Emma Stone (Superbad) are in talks to join the all-female cast of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. Snyder has called the film “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns”, an R-Rated $100 million budgeted 1950’s-period action movie which tells the story of a girl named Baby Doll (Seyfried) who is confined to a mental institution by her evil stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days....

The Crazies Movie Trailer By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2009 3:20 pm EST Whomever edited that great ‘No Signal’ montage of cell phone failure in horror movies did so too soon. There’s a primo example of it right here in the new trailer for The Crazies, directed by Breck Eisner (Sahara director and Micheal Esiner’s son) and loosely based on George Romero’s 1973 thriller. Perhaps very loosely based? Though there’s a definite Romero vibe to this trailer, the basic character set is a bit different from the original and the overall feel is (unsurprisingly) of a modern studio horror film rather than the independent, homegrown original....

Video Interview With John Landis And Paul Davis - An American Werewolf In London, Trading Places And Burke And Hare By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 3, 2009 12:54 pm EST The world premiere unveiling of a freshly remastered digital print of John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London was arguably the highlight of the Film 4 Frightfest last weekend. To accompany this, the festival also premiered Paul Davis’ long awaited, self initiated American Werewolf retrospective documentary, Beware the Moon....