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Norman Jewison, Robert Vaughn, Candice Bergen, Peter Yates and more to appear at Steve McQueen classic film screenings at Lincoln Center

For one week only, now through May 26th, twelve of Steve McQueen’s most thrilling crime thrillers and adventure yarns, will be screening at

Twilight Saga New Moon teaser movie poster released

Summit Entertainment has just released the first teaser movie poster for The Twilight Saga: New Moon. With the movie still scheduled to hit theaters on November 20th, 2009, look for a trailer soon. Check out the synopsis and poster below.

New images and details on Terminator Salvation

New details have emerged about Terminator Salvation. The Memorial Weekend release will actually have midnight screenings starting Wednesday, May 20th, before its official theatrical release on Thursday. Along with that, Warner Bros. has released a bushel of new images from the sequel, sure to whet the appetite of any true-blue sci-fi fan. Here is the ….

Jet Li and Andy Lau’s action epic Warlords picks up U.S. distribution

Mark Cuban’s Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired North American distribution rights to Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s historical action epic, Warlords, featuring Jet Li (The Forbidden Kingdom), Andy Lau (Infernal Affairs) and Takeshi Kaneshiro (Returner). Warlords was a huge critical and commercial hit in China, winning eight Hong ….

Jason Statham joining the espionage film The Killer Elite

Jason Statham is attached to play a former Navy Seal in The Killer Elite, based on the novel The Feather Men by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, according to Empire Magazine. The deal for the film was closed a few days ago at the Cannes Film Festival and it will be directed by commercials director Gary McKendry. ….

Trailer for long-delayed post-apocalyptic The Road

Speaking of post-apocalyptic movies, the trailer for The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy’s (No Country for Old Men) novel, has been released. The John Hillcoat-directed (The Proposition) film will finally be released on October 16, 2009, after sitting on the shelf for a bit.

Live action kung fu version of Snow White gets green light

I had heard about this project a few years back, when Jet Li was attached to star opposite Natalie Portman. Then he went off to do The Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan, and the project sat for a while. Now Sci-Fi Wire reports that screenwriter Scott Moore announced to reporters that he and writing partner ….

George Miller prepping a 4th Mad Max…finally

I’ve been waiting for this moment for many years. I’ll never forget how I first watched Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior). I had never seen nor heard of the original cult classic Mad Max, and my best friend at the time Michael Davalos’ eccentric family, took us to a now-demolished grindhouse theatre to watch ….

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 ….

Star Trek shatters virtually every IMAX box office record

IMAX and Paramount Pictures announced yesterday that Star Trek: The IMAX Experience, directed by J.J. Abrams (Mission: Impossible III, Lost, Alias), shattered virtually every opening weekend IMAX box office record, posting $8.5 million from 138 IMAX theatres domestically. The limited IMAX run registered a per screen average of approximately $62,000 for the weekend, marking the ….

Jason Statham gets Charles Bronson’s role in The Mechanic remake

I’ve been watching this project for years. As regular readers of the site know, I’m a huge fan of 1970’s action films, so projects like Taking of Pelham 123 and The Mechanic have been on my radar since studios decided to capitalize on them years ago. IMDB has had The Mechanic remake listed as being ….

Vin Diesel to star in film adaptation of Wheelman

Paramount has set John Singleton (Four Brothers, Boyz n the Hood, Shaft) to direct and blockbuster producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) to shepherd The Wheelman, a live-action adaptation of the Ubisoft console game Wheelman, according to Variety. Vin Diesel, the main character and producer of ….

Open casting call for Conan role, plus Brett Ratner won’t be directing after all

According to Empire Magazine, producers of the upcoming Conan reboot film, will be

First images of Superman Brandon Routh in Cracktown and Dylan Dog

Brandon Routh has been fairly quiet the past few years, with little to nothing announced in the way of movie projects, aside from a potential Superman sequel, and a few cameos and walk-ons. Well now it seems Routh’s career is heating up again, with a number of projects in the can, in pre-production or short-order ….

Win Terminator Salvation: The Game and a custom X-Box 360, plus pics of collectible tie-in items now available

This is sorta following up on a post featuring a burned out 7-Eleven, that will be used as part of a barren landscape in Terminator Salvation. Of course the chain wants to capitalize on being part of impending Armageddon, and has turned its stores totally Terminator, and have some limited edition Slurpee flavor Apocalyptic Ice, ….