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Jeff Shakoor rewriting Uptown Saturday Night remake for Will Smith

Studio System News reports that Jeff Shakoor has been tapped to rewrite the script for Will Smith’s upcoming remake of the cult classic Blaxploitation comedy Uptown Saturday Night, which Warner Bros. and Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment plan to release in 2014. Will Smith, James Lassiter, Ken Stovitz and Jada Pinkett Smith will produce Uptown Saturday Night, ….

Animated epic Mass Effect: Paragon Lost coming to big screen

Fans of the Mass Effect gaming franchise have an opportunity to attend an exclusive one-night-only screening of Mass Effect: Paragon Lost, which offers a sneak peek into the world of Mass Effect 3. Mass Effect: Paragon Lost will premiere in 6 theaters across the U.S. on Thursday, November 29th. Local fans of the ground-breaking Mass ….

Magnet picks up Viking epic Hammer of the Gods

Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today they have nabbed U.S. rights to Hammer of the Gods, a Viking epic from Vertigo Films and Protagonist Pictures. The feature film debut of Farren Blackburn, Hammer of the Gods is described as a visceral, intense action film starring Charlie Bewley (The Twilight Saga, Like ….

Spy Kids’ Alexa Vega no longer a kid in first image from Machete Kills

Spy Kids star Alexa Vega is all grown up. She’s also turning heads with this first official from Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming Machete Kills, the sequel to Mexploitation cult action flick Machete. Vega plays the very non-childlike character KillJoy in Rodriguez’s sequel, the bodyguard of a whorehouse, presumbly the one presided over by Sofia Vergara’s Madame ….

Kick-Ass director rumored to be in the running for Star Wars: Episode VII with Harrison Ford returning as Han Solo

Collider has posted a report they’re currently labeling as “rumor” that Matthew Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass, Stardust, Layer Cake and X-Men: First Class, is in negotiations with Lucasfilm to direct Star Wars: Episode VII. Acording to the report, that’s the main reason he bailed on the X-Men sequel, of which Bryan Singer is now at ….

Muay Thai photography exhibit coming to Martial Arts History Museum

The Martial Arts History Museum salutes the Thailand community with a special Muay Thai photography gallery exhibit at the Museum on Friday, November 16th, 2012. Jacob Klensin, whose work has appeared in solo gallery shows on the East Coast, for the first time will be showcasing his work on the West Coast. This is a ….

Ridley Scott to produce series of low budget horror, thriller and sci-fi movies overseas

Variety reports that filmmaker Ridley Scott and his Scott Free Productions London unit have pacted with Focus Features International and Orchard Media to produce low budget genre films that will primarily shoot in Northern Ireland. The deal will see Ridley Scott executive produce a slate of six horror, thriller and sci-fi features over three years ….

Blair Witch and The Raid filmmakers directing segments for VHS horror sequel

HeatVision reports that The Raid director Gareth Evans and Eduardo Sanchez, director of The Blair Witch Project and Lovely Molly, are co-writing and co-directing segments for a sequel to V/H/S, the hit horror anthology that apparently had people fainting at the Sundance Film Festival. Joining Evans and Sanchez for V/H/S/2 are Jason Eisener, director of ….