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Jim Caviezel, Jamie Campbell-Bower and Lennie James descend on Comic-Con 2009 to preview The Prisoner mini-series

Stars of AMC’s highly anticipated mini-series The Prisoner, including Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ, Thin Red Line, Pay It Forward), Jamie Campbell-Bower (Sweeney Todd, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) and Lennie James (Jericho) will attend Comic Con 2009 for a panel event and exclusive sneak preview of the six-part series. The Prisoner panel, ….

Burn Notice: Season Two Blu-ray review

With the advent of the reality show and record short attention spans, TV producers are hiring top talent to create a higher calibre of drama. Burn Notice is one of that new crop of shows benefiting from this effort. Burn Notice is an inventive television spy series, that combines hilarious, biting dialogue with colorful action. ….

Win one of three copies of the spy thriller Echelon Conspiracy on DVD

On July 21st, Paramount Home Entertainment will release Echelon Conspiracy on DVD and Blu-ray. Featuring an all-star cast including Shane West (A Walk to Remember), Edward Burns (Saving Private Ryan), Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) and Martin Sheen (The Departed), the high-tech action-thriller weaves a tale of greed, intrigue and the price of national security. To ….

Cruise and Abrams moving forward with Mission: Impossible IV

Mission: Impossible IV looks to be a go at Paramount, according to Variety. Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have agreed to co-produce the sequel, which is eyeing a 2011 release. The new Mission installment augments Paramount’s formidable list of sequels already in development, including Star Trek 2 and a third Transformers.

Blofeld comes back, setting in Afghanistan and a new writer – getting things straight on the next James Bond film

I’ve been reading so much about the as-yet-untitled upcoming James Bond 23 film, it’s getting hard to keep up. I usually don’t discuss early development on projects this big, since much of the early news is so hard to confirm. But this is getting interesting. So just to bring everyone up to date on what’s ….

Taken Blu-ray review

I knew very little about Taken when I first watched it in the theater back in early February. Me and my wife thought it was about as close to the perfect pure action film as they come. Little did I know that there was an even bloodier, more violent version of the film, that was ….

Three Days of the Condor Blu-ray review

The classic cat-and-mouse political thriller Three Days of the Condor stars Robert Redford as Joseph Turner, designation (codename) Condor, a bookworm CIA agent, whose New York City division is responsible for reading every book ever published, seeking patterns, codes or hidden messages, that may somehow threaten the security of the United States. Turner’s laid back ….

Bruce Willis up for mob pic Scarpa, video game adaptation Kane & Lynch, and a bunch of other action films

Bruce Willis is currently in discussions to appear in three new action films, including a thriller titled Inventory, an espionage film called Red and the mob biopic Scarpa, according to The Risky Business Blog. In Red, the actor would play a former black-ops agent now in retirement, who’s forced back into action when a high-tech ….

Jack Bauer to hunt terrorists in New York City?

A New York Times blog reports that Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) will be hunting terrorists in New York City, when his Fox television series 24 comes to the Big Apple. A Fox spokesperson told TV Guide that the eighth season of show, which takes place in real time, would be set and at least partially ….

Quantum of Solace Blu-ray review

Quantum of Solace has been thoroughly criticized as being nothing more than the fourth Jason Bourne film, rather than James Bond 22. It seems most people were expecting the more classic Bond that Casino Royale hinted at resurrecting. I am in total disagreement with the majority I guess, in thinking that taking Bond back to ….

Fifty Dead Men Walking trailer

Fifty Dead Men Walking is based on the true-life story Martin McGartland, a young man from west Belfast who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA in the late 1980s. He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the IRA, saving lives in the process; until he is ….

Feature film coming based on MacGyver TV series

New Line is betting its twine, some bubble gum and a pencil, that the TV show MacGyver can become a feature film franchise. This just had to happen sometime, right. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Raffaella De Laurentiis – daughter of iconic Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis – is producing a film based on the ….

First pics of Angelina Jolie in the spy thriller Salt

USA Today has posted the first two pictures of Angelina Jolie in disguise as CIA operative Evelyn A. Salt, in the Phillip Noyce-directed Salt. The article says that Jolie began work a few days ago on the spy thriller, which follows a rogue CIA operative attempting to clear her name after she’s accused of being ….

Sean Penn in talks to star in Bourne Identity director’s next thriller

Bourne Identity director Doug Liman is officially attached to the thriller Fair Game, which chronicles the outing of former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, who will be portrayed by Naomi Watts, according to Variety. According to the report, Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn – who nabbed Best Actor honors last night at the Academy Awards, is ….

Tom Cruise is working on a boatload of spy thrillers – Champions, Matarese Circle, Tourist and more

Tom Cruise is circling a series of exciting espionage thrillers and spy adaptations right now. Variety posted a report on Cruise’ many projects in the works and what stands out is that he is developing, actively producing or being courted, for some top-notch projects, that reports say, should put him back on top of the ….