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New Fame movie gets a trailer

MGM has released the first trailer for the new version of Fame. The new film hits theaters on September 25th, 2009, and stars Asher Book, Kristy Flores, Paul Iacono, Paul McGill, Naturi Naughton, Kay Panabaker, Kherington Payne, Collins Pennie, Walter Perez, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, Debbie Allen, Charles S. Dutton, Kelsey Grammer, Megan Mullally ….

Full trailer for The Hangover…and a sequel already greenlit?

Todd Phillips’ The Hangover isn’t due to hit theater until June 5th, but apparently Warner Bros. has already asked Phillips and his writing partner, Scot Armstrong, to work on the screenplay for a sequel, which has Phillips back to direct and produce, and stars Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms all on board. This ….

Jackie Earle Haley goes from Rorschach to Freddy Krueger in new Nightmare

That’s right, according to THR’s Risky Business Blog, Jackie Earle Haley is taking over for Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in New Line Cinema’s remake of Wes Craven’s classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. The original film was released in 1984, and featured Krueger is a serial child killer that was murdered by angry parents, ….

Spike Lee, Natalie Portman, Gael Garcia Bernal, Eric Bana and more to host free filmmaker series at Apple Store

The Apple store in Soho New York will be celebrating the spirit of independent film and the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, by hosting a series of free filmmaking events from April 22 to May 3, 2009. Grab a seat in the store’s theater for the Meet the Filmmakers series, presented by Apple Computer and indieWIRE. ….

Vintage-looking photos from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds

CanMag has posted some promotional photos from the set of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, featuring the cast, crew and a lot of Brad Pitt. Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine, who’s in charge of the ‘Basterds’, who’s only mission is to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis during World War ….

FilmFetish is giving away two copies of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on DVD

A thrilling adventure and captivating story of one man’s unusual and enchanted life, director David Fincher’s Academy Award-winning film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button debuts as a two-disc DVD and two-disc Blu-ray on May 5, 2009 from Paramount Home Entertainment. To celebrate the release, I’m giving away two copies of the DVD edition to ….

Find out how to win $2,500 from producers of the slasher flick Laid to Rest

On April 21st, 2009, Anchor Bay Entertainment releases the Unrated Director’s Cut of Robert Hall’s Laid to Rest on DVD, featuring the debut of the next great masked serial killer – ChromeSkull. For fans who want to find out more about Laid to Rest and ChromeSkull, there’s a new website and contest where fans can ….

World Without Us being adapted to big budget tentpole

Man’s disappearance from the planet Earth is set to become big box office. Fox has nabbed film rights to an environmental non-fiction book titled The World Without Us, and intend to turn it into a tentpole feature for Mark Protosevich (The Cell, Poseidon) to write and Francis Lawrence (Constantine, I Am Legend) to direct, according ….

Hugh Jackman giving fans an opportunity to host World Premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in their hometown

In an announcement made yesterday on YouTube, Hugh Jackman, who plays the antihero in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is taking Hollywood and the film’s premiere to the people who made the X-Men film series one of the industry’s biggest – inviting the legions of X-Men fans across the U.S. to be the first to “witness the ….