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Steve McQueen biopic on the way

Producers Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters are developing a Steve McQueen biopic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The team have acquired rights to the Marshall Terrill’s biography Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel. The new film will primarily focus on McQueen’s Hollywood career, which began in 1956 when the Indiana native got his break ….

Jackie Chan may be the next Mr. Miyagi

Jackie Chan is in negotiations to star in Columbia Picture’s remake of 80’s hit The Karate Kid. Chan would play the role of Mr. Miyagi, originally played by the late Pat Morita. These developments are according to a posting by The Hollywood Reporter. Columbia also just signed Harald Zwart (Agent Cody Banks, upcoming The Pink ….

Craig Brewer takes his flow on the road

Craig Brewer, writer/director of the critically acclaimed Hustle & Flow, has signed a deal with New Regency to write and direct the film Mother Trucker, based on a Maxim Magazine article written by Steven Russell, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Peter Jaysen, along with writer Gary Scott Thompson (Knight Rider) will produce the project. “Trucker” ….

Fighting trailer pounds the net

The new trailer for New York underground fighting flick Fighting is online. The film stars Channing Tatum as a street hustler who gets introduced to the world world of street fighting by Oscar nominee Terrence Howard. Things start to get dicey for the two, as Tatum fights his way to the top of the heap, ….

Mutant Chronicles to get On Demand release before it hits theaters

Magnet Releasing announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to the sci-fi/action epic, Mutant Chronicles. With an ensemble cast including Thomas Jane (The Mist), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Devon Aoki (Sin City) and John Malkovich, Mutant Chronicles boasts incredible special effects and riveting, action-packed battle sequences in a painstakingly crafted post-apocalyptic landscape. An Edward R. ….

Major Blaxploitation genre films

I was transferring material from the old forum, and came across list of Blaxplpoitation films I published a few years back. There’s some good ones in here, and all of them are available from the Film Fetish Store RIGHT HERE. SERGEANT RUTLEDGE Warner Bros. 1960 Cast: Woody Strode, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers Director: John Ford ….

New photo from X-Men Origins Wolverine

Ain’t It Cool nabbed this exclusive photo from the current issue of Entertainment Weekly, featuring their most anticipated movies of 2009. Hugh Jackman as Logan looks great, however according to the story’s report, this film really is “in hot water”, including rumors of rifts between director Gavin Hood and Fox. I hope the picture isn’t ….

Paradox comic adaptation coming from Arcana

Canada-based Legacy Filmworks and comicbook publisher Arcana Studios have teamed to produce a slate of five films based on Arcana’s comic titles, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The first will be the sci-fi thriller Paradox with Kevin Sorbo (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Andromeda), that will be helmed by Brenton Spencer (Stargate: Atlantis). Sorbo will play ….

Extended clip from Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse pilot

Entertainment Weekly has just posted an exclusive clip from Joss Whedon’s new Fox thriller Dollhouse, which revolves around a futuristic laboratory that assigns various tasks to its many residents, who then have their memories erased upon the completion of their assignments. One of those mind-boned humans, a young woman named Echo (Eliza Dushku), is slowly ….

Exclusive storyboards from The Spirit

The U.K. movie magazine Empire, has posted some exclusive storyboards from the just released companion book to Frank Miller’s soon to be released The Spirit, including the hero (Gabriel Macht) and the Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) squaring off on the Central City mudflats, and the Spirit alone on a rooftop. Miller storyboarded the entire film ….

Frank Miller bringing Buck Rogers to the big screen

Comic legend Frank Miller and Odd Lot Entertainment, the team behind the upcoming The Spirit film adaptation, are looking to bring the cult classic sci-fi comic-turned-TV-series Buck Rogers to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Odd Lot is in negotiations to option the rights to the “franchise” from Nu Image/Millennium, which obtained those ….

Win one of ten copies of John Grisham’s new book The Associate

Enter the My Favorite John Grisham Book Sweepstakes for your chance to win a copy of John Grisham’s new legal thriller The Associate, to be delivered to you on the day the book comes out on January 27, 2009. To enter, post on John Grisham’s Official Facebook Wall, what your favorite Grisham book is and ….

Win one of two copies of the unrated Death Race DVD

Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release the Jason Statham action/grindhouse flick Death Race on DVD and Blu-ray on December 21st (that’s right, a few days early in time for the holidays). To celebrate the release, Universal is providing FilmFetish with two copies of the Unrated DVD version of the film for two lucky winners to ….

Horror Western film Priest lands director

Scott Charles Stewart, who’s doing post-production work on his debut feature, the action thriller Legion, has signed on to helm the film Priest, an adaptation of what’s described as a horror Western comic book from TokyoPop, that was written by Min-Woo Hyung, and tells the story of a world ravaged by battles between humans and ….

Maggie Q working on King of Fighters with Fist of Legend director Gordon Chan and Star Wars bad guy Ray Park

Maggie Q, the action starlet who played the evil girlfriend of Tim Olyphant in Live Free or Die Hard, has joined the cast of the action film King of Fighters, an English-language, live-action adaptation of a bestselling Japanese videogame that’s lensing in Vancouver, according to Variety. Coincidentally, Q recently completed groundbreaking work, as the star ….