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Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen to discuss action filmmaking at NAB con in Vegas

Rob Cohen, director and producer of numerous blockbuster films including The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, XXX and The Fast and the Furious, will be a keynote speaker at the 2009 NAB Show in Las Vegas. In a morning session on Tuesday, April 21, Cohen will look at the role of action in motion ….

Loew’s continues classic film series with vintage shockers Ghost and Mrs. Muir and The Innocents

This weekend the Loew’s Jersey Theatre is starting off their spring screening season by showing three classic ghost stories. If you’re a fan of classic film, the Loew’s shows them how they were meant to be watched. Two of the three films screening this weekend will be using fresh vault prints from 20th Century Fox. ….

Get A free set of limited edition Monsters vs. Aliens Trading Cards this weekend at IMAX theaters

IMAX and Paramount, DreamWorks Animation, are teaming up to offer moviegoers visiting participating IMAX theatres to see Monsters vs. Aliens: An IMAX 3D Experience the opportunity to receive a free set of character trading cards. The film opens in IMAX theatres worldwide this Friday, March 27th. To receive the cards, individuals should visit the official ….

Taye Diggs joins Brandon Routh in live-action Dylan Dog

Casting news continues for the nightmare investigator Dylan Dog live-action film Dead of Night. Joining the already cast Brandon Routh as Dylan, and Sam Huntington as his sidekick, is Taye Diggs. The actor, who’s currently featured in Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice, will play Night’s leader of the vampires, according to Shocktilyoudrop. Dead of Night ….

Sundance winner Five Minutes Of Heaven comes to the small screen

James Nesbitt and Liam Neeson star in award-winning director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Five Minutes Of Heaven, a unique one-off drama for BBC Two that explores aspects of Northern Ireland’s troubled past and the challenges the future holds in coming to terms with it. The story begins in 1975 when 17-year-old Alistair Little, a member of the ….

Attend the U.S. premiere of Tetsuya Nakashima’s latest film FREE

ANA presents the Nippon EIGA Series: Part 17, featuring the U.S. premiere of Tetsuya Nakashima’s film Paco and the Magic Book. Tetsuya Nakashima – who directed Kamikaze Girls and Memories of Matsuko – creates a story of miracles packed with laughter and tears, featuring a dazzling cast for epic, rainbow-colored entertainment. In the build-up to ….

Bryan Singer eyes comic adaptation Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland

New Regency has nabbed film rights to the Radical Publishing sci-fi comic Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland, which will be developed as a potential directing vehicle for Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns, Valkyrie), according to Variety. The movie will be distributed by Fox, which worked with Singer on X-Men 2. Michael Finch – who ….