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Warner Bros. nabs rights to 1990’s serial killer story

Warner Brothers has acquired the film rights to John Leake’s non-fiction book Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer, according to Screenhead. The book told the story of Austrian Jack Unterweger, a journalist who led a double life strangling prostitutes in Vienna and Los Angeles. He used to act on and then cover ….

The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration Blu-ray review

Paramount Pictures recently released a meticulous restoration of director Francis Ford Coppola’s Academy Award-winning classic films The Godfather Parts I through III, which was overseen by Coppola himself. The first two films have been fully restored, along with a newly remastered version of The Godfather Part III. All three films are currently available individually or in a five-DVD collection, as ….

New Spirit trailer locked and loaded

When I sat in the panel for THE SPIRIT at Comic-Con a few months ago, I had the same reservations as everyone else does, about whether the film will work. The early footage and trailers were so-so, but didn’t get my fanboy juices flowing. And while I was thrilled by the entire Comic-Con atmosphere, and ….

Stephen Chow directing and playing Kato in Green Hornet update

Variety reports that Stephen Chow, who directed and starred in Kung Fu Hustle, is going to helm and co-star in the upcoming The Green Hornet movie for Columbia Pictures. He’ll be joining Seth Rogen, who’s already on board the long-in-development project, as the title character. Chow, whose work also includes the sci-fi fantasy Cheung Gong ….

Botched film trailer

Botched follows Ritchie Donovan (Stephen Dorff), a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross, locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper. ….

Elite Squad (Tropa De Elite) film review

Elite Squad is director José Padilha’s follow-up to his widely acclaimed documentary Bus 174. The story follows Captain Nascimento (realistically played by Wagner Moura), a veteran member of BOPE, Brazil’s equivalent to S.W.A.T., only with tactics that include government-condoned violence and mayhem-creation. BOPE is a meticulously trained and widely feared super-elite Rio police squad engaged ….

The X-Files: I Want To Believe Blu-ray to have web enhanced features

The truth is finally out there on DVD and Blu-ray! Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents The X-Files: I Want To Believe, a gripping feature film based on the global phenomenon that descends onto DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) on December 2nd. Marking the Studio’s first foray into BD-Live, The X-Files: I Want To Believe ….

Flash of Genius film trailer

Below is the trailer for the new Greg Kinnear film Flash of Genius. Kinnear plays Robert Kearns, who took on the Ford Motor Company, who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. Flash of Genius will be in theaters on October 3, 2008.

Same gang to return for Inside Man 2

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a sequel to Spike Lee’s Inside Man has been green-lit at Universal, with Terry George (Hotel Rwanda, The Boxer) in negotiations to write the screenplay and Lee returning to the director’s chair. The project is tentatively titled Inside Man 2, and picks up on the characters from a different storyline ….

The Crash TV series widget

The Crash TV series premieres exclusively on Starz, on Friday, October 17, 2008 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Starring an ensemble cast led by film icon Dennis Hopper, the series looks at the way different lives intersect and collide in the melting pot of LA, and will be quite different from the movie portrayal. From the ….

Bone thriller adds a cop and a thief to cast

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paul Walker (The Fast and the Furious) and Hayden Christensen (Star Wars sequels) have joined the cast of the Screen Gems crime thriller Bone Deep, which is being helmed by John Luessenhop. This will be Luessenhop’s sophomore effort after directing Lockdown in 2000. Bone Deep was co-written by Luessenhop, Gabriel ….

Italian crime thriller Gomorra film trailer

Gomorrah won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Fest in May, and IFC Films soon after scooped up the rights to US distribution of the film. The film is an inside look at Italy’s modern-day crime families, as seen through the eyes of rising lieutenants in the global criminal organization. The film is based ….

New photos, poster and scenes from Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill hits theaters on September 12th, just two from now. I have new pics from the film below, as well as three new clips, that were just uploaded to the net. Academy Award winners Robert De Niro and Al Pacino play a pair of veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of ….

Starz Media releases Righteous Kill: The Game

Righteous Kill: The Game was released yesterday, which is inspired by the upcoming crime thriller Righteous Kill. The film will be released theatrically on September 12th. The movie stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as two veteran New York City detectives who are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. Similarly, the game ….

Fast and Furious trailer and guess what sexy chica is coming back to Lost

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return for Justin Lin’s Fast and Furious, along with Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster, all alumni from the original Fast and the Furious. The first trailer premiered this past weekend, while I watched Death Race (Yes, I watched it). Fitting time for the trailer to break, with Diesel’s sci-fi flick ….