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District B13 U.S. Teaser Trailer

Paris isn’t the open, artistic city it is now in 2010, according to District B13. No… The ghettos of Paris have surrounded by concrete barriers, keeping people in… and out. That is, until a nuclear bomb gets hijacked by a drug gang, looking to sell it on the black market. The real strength of District B13 is the amazing ….

Farrell and McGregor to Star in Woody’s Next

According to Production Weekly, Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor will star in Woody Allen’s new, as-yet-untitled film, which will shoot in London this summer. The film also stars Tom Wilkinson, and tells the story of two brothers in financial trouble. An outside party suggests that they turn to crime, which leads to the brothers becoming enemies. The film will be the third film ….

Michael May Comes Into the Light

Fox 2000 and producer Gil Netter are teaming up with Oscar-winning screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin (who wrote the Oscar-winning script for Ghost) to adapt the book Into the Light. The film will be based on Robert Kurson’s upcoming book, which was based on an Esquire article, according to the Book Standard. Into the Light tells the true story of Michael May, a blind athlete who, among other accomplishments, holds the ….

New Da Vinci Code Movie Clips

The Da Vinci Code finally hits theaters this Friday, after months of speculation on it’s basis in reality, scandals and trials. More publicity than any Hollywood studio executive could have imagined. Sony has provided us with clips from the film, about a murder in the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings that lead to the ….

Freeman and the Feast of Love

According to Variety, Morgan Freeman is in talks to star in the drama The Feast of Love for Lakeshore Entertainment. The Feast of Love will be based on a Charles Baxter novel about a community of friends in Oregon and the sometimes painful incarnations of love. Freeman would play a philosophy professor named Harry Scott. Director Robert Benton (who won an Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer) recently ….

Seven Swords Arms The Weinstein Company

The Weinstein Company (TWC) has acquired all theatrical and video rights in the U.S. to the martial arts epic Seven Swords directed by the master of kung-fu action films, Tsui Hark (Zu Warriors, Once Upon A Time In China). Cheung Chi–Sing and Chun Tin–Nam adapted the screenplay based on the original novel, Seven Swordsmen From Mt Tian, and it was produced by Lee Joo–Ick, ….

Candy Trailer

Candy is about a poet falls in love with an art student – drawn in by his bohemian lifestyle, and love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on H, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair. Candy stars Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Noni Hazlehurst and Tony Martin. View the trailer for ….

The Lake House Trailer

I have posted new photos and both of the new trailers for the Lake House, in the Film Library. The Lake House is about a lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect. Or does he even exist at all? The strange mystery begins on June ….

Tribeca Film Festival 2006 Winners

Argentine director Tristan Bauer’s Iluminados por el Fuego (Blessed By Fire), won the top award at the Tribeca Film Festival this year. Blessed By Fire,about the lives of soldiers who fought in the Falklands War, won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature. Another war-themed film, Deborah Scranton’s The War Tapes, with footage shot in Iraq by members of the ….

Updates on City of Golden Armor and Battle of Red Cliff

Zhang Yimou’s next epic film, The City of Golden Armor, which recently sold to more than 13 European countries, will soon complete filming in China. I have posted links to some set shots and video clips, in the Film Library. View the pics and footage in the Film Library RIGHT HERE John Woo gets back to basics with The Battle of Red Cliff ….

Knight Rider Returns

If quality and not ticket sales are any indication, revivals of old TV shows are improving dramatically. We’ve gone from The Mod Squad (1999) to Mission Impossible III (2006). I think that film didn’t live up to expectations, because of the changing landscape in the U.S. For one thing, as baby-boomers age, they simply don’t want to go to ….

Update Cinemas, Not Just Shows

So why didn’t Mission Impossible III live up to the hype. I don’t believe it was hype at all. I think Mission Impossible III fell victim to the same problems as many quality films released today. As film-goers become more saavy, and jaded by bad filmmaking, good films are being mistaken for “just another action movie”. People see explosions ….

Tying the Devil’s Knot

Dimension Films has reached an agreement with Scott Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman, the team behind the hit movie “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” to write the screenplay for “Devil’s Knot,” a film that will be based on the book of the same name written by Mara Leveritt and the actual events surrounding the 1993 murders in Arkansas of three 8-year-old boys and the subsequent convictions. ….