Flight Plan Takes Off

Originally Published: July 25, 2005 Jodie Foster is back in what looks to be another strong thriller, called Flight Plan. While flying at 40,000 feet from Berlin to New York, Kyle Pratt (Foster) faces every mother’s worst nightmare when her young daughter Julia vanishes mid-flight. Already emotionally devastated by the unexpected death of her husband, ….

Superman Returns Updates

Originally Published: April 18, 2005 Superman Returns is really starting to come together over in Australia. Below we have some shots of Brandon Routh as Clark Kent AKA Superman. The story begins as Superman has been missing for six years. Something happened six years ago when he gave up his powers for Lois Lane and ….

Lost Finale is Epic Length

Originally Published: April 19, 2005 Javier Grillo-Marxuach, a writer and supervising producer on ABC’s hit series Lost, told SCI FI Wire that the season finale will clock in at a staggering three hours. “In terms of epic storytelling and shocking destiny, you ain’t seen nothing yet!” Marxuach said in an interview. Exodus Part 1 will ….

Amityville Creepy Happenings

Originally Published: April 19, 2005 Amityville Horror stars Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George and director Andrew Douglas were interviewed by Sci-Fi Wire recently, and talked about, among other things, the strange happenings during production, including the death of the real Kathy Lutz during the first week of filming. The film goes back to the source ….

Fun With Dick and Jane

Originally Published: July 25, 2005 ‘Bonnie and Clyde they ain’t.’ That was the tagline of the original 1977 comedy, Fun With Dick and Jane. Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni star in this updated version of the hilarious George Segal and Jane Fonda vehicle. The Film Library has more info on the remake, along with photos ….

La Femme Nikita on DVD

Originally Published: March 23, 2005 Based on the characters created in Luc Besson’s action thriller classic French film of the same name, La Femme Nikita was a hit on the USA Network and avoided cancellation in 2000 following a phenomenal letter-writing campaign by loyal fans. From acclaimed writer/ producers Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran (who ….

Miramax and Disney Agreement

Originally Published: March 30, 2005 Variety has just reported that Bob and Harvey Weinstein and Disney have settled the distribution on the Miramax company’s assets. The Miramax co-founders will leave The Walt Disney Co. in Sept. to launch their own film distribution company, Disney and the Weinsteins said Tuesday. As was expected, Disney will retain ….

Return of the Ninja Coming

Originally Published: March 30, 2005 Sho Kosugi, who starred in a series of ninja films that began with Enter the Ninja in 1981 is returning for an ass-kicking encore. Kosugi will reprise his role in The Return of the Ninja, a film being scripted by Steven de Souza, who wrote 48 Hours, Die Hard and ….

Christmas Horror on Tap

Originally Published: March 31, 2005 Variety reports that 2929 Productions has acquired the remake rights to the 1974 horror thriller Black Christmas (a.k.a. Silent Night, Evil Night) and hired the filmmaking team of James Wong and Glen Morgan (who bought us Final Destination and The One with Jet Li) to make it happen. The original ….

Mutant Turtles are Back

Originally Published: March 31, 2005 Kevin Munroe has been tapped to write and direct the new 3D animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles flick for Imagi Services. Producers hope to take advantage of the new momentum the pizza-eating, evil-fighting reptiles have gained since they launched a new syndicated TV series three years ago, according to Variety. ….

Exclusive War of the Worlds Game TrailerOriginally Published: March 31, 2005

Originally Published: March 31, 2005 At least for the moment, we have exclusive access to the new teaser trailer for the War of the Worlds game, which is being released this Summer along with the Tom Cruise film. The trailer still doesn’t expose the mysterious creatures that attack the earth, but it still gives some ….

Watch the Matrix Online Trailer

Originally Published: March 23, 2005 The official movie trailer of The Matrix Online has been released! It can be found AT THIS LINK, along with the other story trailers, and in AMC theaters nationwide in front of all PG-13 and R movies. This trailer is the finale of the 9 previously released story trailers that ….

HBO and New Line to Purchase Newmarket Films

Originally Published: March 23, 2005 Variety just reported that HBO and New Line Cinema have announced that they will purchase specialty film label NewMarket Films. NewMarket will be conbined with New Line’s existing specialty label, Fine Line Films. Current Newmarket chief Bob Berney is expected to lead the new division with HBO domestic distribution head ….