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New poster and images from Dredd film adaptation

Lionsgate has revealed a new poster and images from their upcoming Dredd film adaptation. Based on the famed John Wagner/Carlos Ezquerra comics series, the futuristic thriller Dredd stars Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby and Lena Headey. The film centers on a powerful law enforcement officer (Karl Urban) caught in a high-stakes drug war with his rookie ….

Horror icon Clive Barker tapped by Amazon’s film studio to rewrite Zombies vs. Gladiators

It looks like Amazon.com is serious about getting into production of movies. Today the DVD (and everything else under the sun) retailer announced that Hellraiser creator and prolific horror and fantasy writer Clive Barker will rewrite the action horror project, Zombies vs. Gladiators, for its own Amazon Studios. Based in ancient Rome, Zombies vs. Gladiators ….

Win one of three DVD copies of apocalyptic thriller The Collapsed

Tomorrow, Anchor Bay Entertainment will release the apocalyptic thriller The Collapsed on DVD. The film gives a chilling glimpse into one family’s battle to stay alive while traversing a hellish landscape of barbarism and cannibalism. Society has collapsed after an unknown event has catapulted civilization into a fatal downward spiral. I have three copies of ….

Exclusive gallery of images from boxing thriller Knockdown

Tabcum Entertainment is set to release the boxing action/thriller Knockdown in select theaters, on June 8th. Knockdown stars Casey T. Evans, Tom Arnold and Bai Ling, and was directed by Todd Bellanca. The film is coming off of a strong festival run, having won Best Feature at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, SOHO Int’l Film ….

James Bond film retrospective coming to American Cinematheque

American Cinematheque at the Egyptian and Aero Theatres, will celebrate James Bond’s 50th birthday in style, as they present The Complete James Bond Retrospective: Bond at 50, co-Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (in celebration of their 25th Anniversary). The series runs from June 8th through June 24th, 2012, ….

Tom Cruise may want more than one shot at action thriller Jack Reacher

Deadline New York reports that Tom Cruise’s originally titled action thriller One Shot, named after a Lee Child novel about ex-military policeman-turned-altruistic drifter Jack Reacher, Paramount Pictures has retitled the Christopher McQuarrie-directed movie Jack Reacher. Fans of the book series may have to get used to Tom Cruise as the namesake protagonist, who in the ….

New photos of Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio from Quentin Tarantino’s western Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino’s western epic Django Unchained is set in the South two years before the Civil War. The new film stars Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail ….

Watch cult classic Battle Royale on the big screen and stay for a midnight screening of The Warriors

Hot on the heels of Anchor Bay Entertainment’s recently released gorgeous collector’s edition of the cult classic Battle Royale, IFC Center tonight starts an exclusive New York City theatrical run of Kinji Fukasaku’s teen survival epic, featuring a high-definition digital projection. A long-unavailable underground hit, veteran director Fukasaku’s incredibly violent, still-shocking and deeply influential genre ….