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Writer hired to adapt true-life story of narcotics agent impostor

Dan Gordon (The Hurricane, Wyatt Earp), who recently wrote drafts of the upcoming mobster film Mafia Cop and the remake of Charles Bronson’s seminal 70s hitman thriller The Mechanic, has been hired to write the script for The King of Sting, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The upcoming drama revolves around the life of con ….

The Betrayed DVD review

The kidnap thriller The Betrayed makes its DVD debut tomorrow, June 30th, from MGM Home Entertainment. Golden Globe nominee Melissa George plays Philadelphia housewife Jamie Taylor, a young woman whose seemingly normal life gets upended when she regains consciousness after a car accident, only to find herself chained to a grate in the cold, dark ….

Trailer for the Spierig brothers’ Daybreakers

Daybreakers stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas, Michael Dorman and Vince Colosimo, and is directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig, better known as the Spierig brothers, who directed the Aussie zombie film Undead, which wasn’t well received critically, but became a cult ‘grindhouse’ hit.

House of Flying Daggers director to remake the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple?

Back in February, Shockya reported that Spider-Man director Sam Raimi was attached to produce a remake of the martial arts film House of Flying Daggers. Now comes a report from Empire, that Zhang Yimou – director of that seminal kung fu epic as well as Jet Li’s Hero, and choreographer of the amazing display at ….

Win one of three copies of the spy thriller Echelon Conspiracy on DVD

On July 21st, Paramount Home Entertainment will release Echelon Conspiracy on DVD and Blu-ray. Featuring an all-star cast including Shane West (A Walk to Remember), Edward Burns (Saving Private Ryan), Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) and Martin Sheen (The Departed), the high-tech action-thriller weaves a tale of greed, intrigue and the price of national security. To ….

Magnet to release acclaimed indie horror House of the Devil

Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired U.S. release rights to Ti West’s critically acclaimed horror film The House of the Devil. A homage to 1980s horror masterpieces, the film premiered at Tribeca earlier this year and is expected to be an instant classic among genre fans, building ….

Trailer for the Richard Kelly sci-fi thriller The Box

Cameron Diaz stars in the Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko)-directed sci-fi thriller The Box, based on Richard Matheson’s (writer of I Am Legend and The Shrinking Man) short story Button, Button about a suburban couple with a young child, who receive a simple wooden box as a gift from a mysterious stranger, who delivers the message ….

James Cameron choses Amsterdam to preview nearly 30 minutes of the movie that could change filmmaking forever

Reports are popping up all over the net about James Cameron previewing the first publicly shown clips from his $300 million epic 3D sci-fi movie Avatar. Rather surprising, however it does show a trend by filmmakers to embrace the global cinema audience. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox’s presentation at the ongoing Cinema Expo in ….

Australian horror Lake Mungo remake gets writer

David Leslie Johnson, who wrote the script for the Orphan, which hits theaters on July 24th, has been tapped to pen a remake of the Australian horror suspense film Lake Mungo for Paramount Vantage, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Vantage grabbed remake rights to the film in November, when it premiered at the American Film ….

More game images and info about the live-action James Cameron sci-fi epic Avatar surface

Additional images have been released from the game version of James Cameron’s first feature film since Titanic – namely Avatar, for the two of you who didn’t know. According to the Daily Telegraph, where the image above originates, producer Jon Landau also teased on how the game and film are being developed, saying that the ….

Watch the planet get ripped apart in this 2012 trailer

I have not idea why 2012 isn’t being released this summer. It looks like the kind of summer smash-up ripe for “tentpole” status. Well, it not due in theaters until November 13, 2009, but Emmerich just released the full trailer for the film, which gives more info on the storyline, characters and sheer scale of ….

Cruise and Abrams moving forward with Mission: Impossible IV

Mission: Impossible IV looks to be a go at Paramount, according to Variety. Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have agreed to co-produce the sequel, which is eyeing a 2011 release. The new Mission installment augments Paramount’s formidable list of sequels already in development, including Star Trek 2 and a third Transformers.

New trailer for Whiteout goes online

U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) searches for a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months, in the comic adaptation Whiteout, which is based on the Greg Rucka graphic novel.

Blofeld comes back, setting in Afghanistan and a new writer – getting things straight on the next James Bond film

I’ve been reading so much about the as-yet-untitled upcoming James Bond 23 film, it’s getting hard to keep up. I usually don’t discuss early development on projects this big, since much of the early news is so hard to confirm. But this is getting interesting. So just to bring everyone up to date on what’s ….