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Watchmen screenwriter discusses Illustrated Man and Frankie Machine

Alex Tse – who wrote the screenplay for Watchmen – spoke exclusively with Collider.com about the upcoming adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi classic The Illustrated Man, which Zack Snyder is also attached to helm, and the Michael Mann crime thriller Frankie Machine, based on the Don Winslow novel about a retired hitman lured back into ….

Win one of two copies of the classic thriller Primal Fear featuring Ed Norton’s Oscar-nominated debut performance

On Tuesday March 10, 2009, Paramount Home Entertainment will release Primal Fear: The Hard Evidence Edition on DVD and Blu-ray. This classic legal thriller is filled with amazing talent including Edward Norton (Fight Club, The Incredible Hulk), Richard Gere (Chicago), Laura Linney (The Savages) and many more. The deluxe release is packed with special features ….

All about the three different versions of Watchmen coming out this year

Watchmen will run about 2 hours and 37 minutes when it’s released in theaters on March 6th. But that will be only the first of several versions of the film, which is envisioned for multiple home-video releases on DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def, director Zack Snyder and wife/producer Deborah Snyder told reporters on Wednesday at a ….

The Boondock Saints Blu-ray review

The Boondock Saints follows religious Irish brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus – played by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus – who grab Boston by the balls as vigilantes out to eliminate evildoers. It all starts after they kill a Russian mobster in self-defense, and decide that they have found their calling from God – ….

Trailer for Denzel Washington and John Travolta going mano-a-mano in The Taking of Pelham 123

Columbia Pictures has released the first trailer for the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, directed by Tony Scott, from a script by Brian Helgeland. So many questions enter my mind, when I think about what this movie will be. For those of you who don’t know, I am a huge fan of 1970s ….

Mickey Rourke to team with iconic action director Walter Hill for hitman thriller St. Vincent

Empire Magazine reports that Mickey Rourke and Walter Hill, who worked together on the seedy 1989 revenge thriller Johnny Handsome – are re-teaming for St. Vincent, a hitman tale that brings Hill behind the lens again for the first time since the 2002 boxing drama Undisputed, The plot will see Rourke as a hitman who ….

Trailer for U.K. thriller Hush

The trailer for the U.K. thriller Hush has been popping up on a sites around the web, including QuietEarth, Movie-List and 24FPS, and it looks phenomenal. The film revolves around a tired and irritable couple, Zakes (Will Ash) and Beth (Christine Bottomley), who are driving home along the M1 motorway. When a white truck narrowly ….

First-time writer gets Silver Pictures ‘Convicted’

Silver Pictures has acquired a spec script titled Conviction, an undercover cop thriller from first-time writer and longtime script reader Jon Herman, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is being shepherded by Warners Bros., where Silver Pictures has been based for many years. The story follows a master bank thief who’s just been released ….

Cuddly Terminator T-800 and Watchmen Rorschach and The Comedian toys?

Yet more Watchmen goods have popped up online. I found this unique line of toys while browsing rapper Common’s blog. He had posted images of the Terminator Salvation line that Medicom is releasing. For those of you who don’t know, Common is co-starring in the film as Barnes, one of John Connor’s closest allies. When ….

Dark Knight producer’s son carves his own path with martial arts, action and comics partnership

Creative Impulse Entertainment, which recently expanded from film and music video production into comics, and has the first comic series in the history of the industry to include DVD media with each issue (the flagship JFH: Justice-For-Hire) today announced a multimedia partnership with COG 1 Entertainment. COG 1 is headed by David Uslan, a second-generation ….

Casino Royale director looking at Green Lantern comic adaptation

Warner Bros. is currently in discussions with Martin Campbell to helm the Green Lantern adaptation of the DC superhero, according to Variety. Campbell’s most recent projects include Casino Royale and the Mel Gibson film Edge of Darkness. According to the report, the hot DC properties headed to the silver screen include Green Lantern and the ….

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad I Love the 80’s DVD review

Paramount Home Entertainment and VH1 celebrate the best films of that unforgettable decade in the second wave of the I Love the 80’s Collection. Thirty of the most memorable motion pictures released by the studio between 1980 and 1989 were released on DVD yesterday, February 3rd—all accompanied by a special bonus CD containing songs by ….

Check out the full Echelon Conspiracy film trailer

The full trailer has been released for Echelon Conspiracy, the action thriller starring Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Yuri Kutsenko, Sergey Gubanov and Martin Sheen. Echelon Conspiracy revolves around mysterious messages from a new cell phone that promise a young American engineer untold wealth, and giving it to him – for a price. He ….

Zack Snyder launches new website and photo from Watchmen

Director Zack Snyder debuted a new photo from the Watchmen at Entertainment Weekly and has launched a new website for his production company Cruel and Unusual Films at CruelFilms.com. Rorschach is featured in the new image, and it is apparently one of the first glimpses of him in the storyline. Watchmen opens in theaters and IMAX on March ….