Update on in-development girl-fight epic Magdalena

Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures, producer of Marvels’ The Incredible Hulk, and Platinum Studios, have attached Jenna Dewan and Luke Goss to star in the feature film Magdalena based on Top Cow’s comic book character Magdalena, which is currently in development. Jenna Dewan is set to play Patience, a young woman who discovers that ….

Battlestar Galactica wunderkind Michael Rymer set to helm Witchblade feature

Platinum Studios, in conjunction with Top Cow Productions recently announced that director Michael Rymer, who helped reimagine TV’s Battlestar Galactica, is set to direct and co-produce Witchblade, a feature film based on the best-selling action fantasy thriller comic book from Top Cow which has sold over 100 million units worldwide since its debut in 1995. ….

Watchmen downloadable console game coming in 2009 with feature

Warner Bros. Interactive will publish Watchmen in 2009, an episodic downloadable game based on the upcoming film, for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Windows PC. The game captures the action and intrigue of the Watchmen film directed by Zack Snyder. The screenplay for Watchmen is by David Hayter and Alex Tse, based on the ….

De Niro’s What Just Happened trailer now online

What Just Happened is a comedy about two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer, as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. Academy Award winning director Barry Levinson reunites with Academy Award winning actor Robert De Niro and leading ….

Assassination of a High School President film synopsis

High School. Four of the most important years of your life. But it isn’t always dances and keg parties and sucking face in your parents’ mini-van. Sometimes it’s ugly and hard and complicated. As complicated as a conspiracy to overthrow the president… There’s something rotten at St. Donovan’s High and sophomore newspaper reporter Bobby Funke ….

Trailer and website for Brick director Rian Johnson’s new crime caper film

I was just doing a random search for Rian Johnson, who wrote and directed a masterwork in 2005 called Brick, that I caught by chance at the Angelica Film Center in downtown NYC. I was just praying that this guy was writing his own ticket on some huge new project with Oscar potential. It must ….

More info on the new Robocop film

MGM has signed Darren Aronofsky to direct and David Self to write a new installment for its Robocop franchise. Aronofsky, the director of The Fountain, and Self, the writer of Road to Perdition, make a formidable creative team and fast track Robocop and spotlighting it as one of the most anticipated new films for 2010.   ….

Afro Samurai returns to Spike in January

Spike TV’s critically-acclaimed anime series Afro Samurai returns with an original movie event set to premiere on the network in January 2009. Afro Samurai: Resurrection stars Academy Award-nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson opposite, Emmy Award-nominated actress Lucy Liu. Award winning artist The RZA once again provides the original score. Afro Samurai: Resurrection is based on ….

Insanitarium film synopsis

Jesse Metcalfe stars in this horror thriller about a man who cons himself into a mental hospital in order to break out his beloved sister. Once inside, he discovers that a doctor (Stormare) is mercilessly using his patients as lab rats and is turning them into bloodthirsty killers. Trapped inside an inescapable labyrinth, will they ….

Heima rated top all-time documentary

Heima, the 2007 documentary film that chronicles a tour by Icelandic group Sigur Ros, has been named the number-one documentary of all time by widely respected movie industry source IMDB. Alan Calzatti, director of Musicians Institute’s Music Video-Film-Television program, served as Director of Photography on the location shoot (widely praised for its stunning visuals) and ….