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Next Friday, August 16th, The Museum of the Moving Image will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the landmark blaxploitation film Super Fly, with a screening of the film at 7PM, as part of the Changing the Picture and Fun City: New York in the Movies 1967–75 film series. Actress Sheila Frazier, who played Georgia opposite ….

Wong Fei-hung character to return in martial arts film Rise of the Legend

Bill Kong’s Edko Films is set to reboot the iconic Wong Fei-hung film franchise with a movie titled Rise of the Legend, Film Business Asia reports. Christine To, who co-wrote martial arts films Fearless and True Legend, is writing the script. The short official synopsis implies that the story centers on a younger incarnation of ….

Steven Spielberg futuristic thriller Extant coming to CBS next summer

Variety reports that Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television has nabbed a straight-to-series order from CBS for 13 episodes of a futuristic drama thriller titled Extant, set to air in summer 2014. The summer scheduling reflects the Network’s increased interest in original summer programming, following the successful debut of Amblin and Brian K. Vaughan’s Under the Dome ….

Weinstein Co. teams with Celestial to remake Shaw Bros. classic martial arts films

The Weinstein Co. has signed a two-picture deal with Celestial Pictures to remake a pair of classic martial arts action films from the Golden Era of Hong Kong cinema. The companies will produce English-language versions of Come Drink With Me and Avenging Eagle. John Fusco, who wrote the Marco Polo TV series and co-wrote the ….

Live-action Akira film gets a “new” director

Variety reports that filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra is in talks with Warner Bros. to return to the Akira directors chair for the studio. Collet-Serra left in early 2012 after production on the project stalled. According to the report, in early 2012, the studio shut down pre-production for script rewrites and budgetary concerns. At the time, Collet-Serra ….

Samuel L. Jackson joins Matthew Vaughn’s Secret Service

Variety reports that Samuel L. Jackson has joined the cast of director Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming Secret Service. Fox has already locked in its two heroes – Colin Firth and Taron Egerton. Now the production looks one step closer to ramping up production on The Secret Service with Jackson now set to play the villain. Production ….

Scarface remake may have a director

Deadline reports that, because both the 1932 Chicago bootlegging film and 1983 Miami cocaine-dealing versions of Scarface are such enduring cult classics Universal Pictures has been refining the script with several screenwriters, while keeping the new movie’s details under wraps. According to their report the studio is in heated talks with British director David Yates, ….

TV show based on DC’s Flash confirmed for CW Network

Variety reports that CW president Mark Pedowitz, speaking at the network’s TCA session on Tuesday, confirmed the development of Flash, a drama project based on the DC character. The show will apparently be seeded into the CW’s superhero drama Arrow. The Flash TV show introduction continues The CW trend of leveraging a property with a ….

Tom Cruise sci-fi action thriller Yukikaze will be adapted from epic Japanese novel

Variety reports that Warner Bros. is taking Tom Cruise‘s sci-fi action thriller Yukikaze into production with Wrath of the Titans screenwriter Dan Mazeau set to adapt the original Japanese novel by Chohei Kambayashi. The Studio nabbed film rights to Kambayashi’s Yukikaze earlier this year and attached Cruise to star in the movie. The producers of ….

Bloodsport remake coming with new story and Ninja Assassin director

Variety reports that Relativity Media is prepping a re-boot of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 1988 cult hit Bloodsport, with V for Vendetta director James McTeigue at the helm. According to the report, Relativity will produce the new Bloodsport with Edward R. Pressman, Chris Brown, Alberto Lensi, Australia-based Pictures in Paradise and Trans-American Films International. The new ….

Robert Rodriguez bringing Sin City 2 and his upcoming Latino action TV network El Rey to Wizard World Chicago Comic Con

Robert Rodriguez, who’s putting the finishing touches on Machete Kills and working on Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For, is making a rare convention appearance at Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, which takes place from August 8 through 11, 2013. In addition to his two upcoming film projects, Rodriguez is also prepping the ….

Keanu Reeves’ Man of Tai Chi to be released in Chinese IMAX theaters

IMAX, in partnership with China Film Group, Wanda Group and Village Roadshow Pictures, have announced that Man of Tai Chi, Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut and the first Mandarin-language film to be directed by a Western actor, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX format and released in IMAX theatres across China starting July 5th, ….

Exclusive I, Frankenstein and Hunger Games: Catching Fire footage coming to San Diego Comic-Con #SDCC2013 #CatchingFireComicCon #IFrankensteinComicCon

Lionsgate announced today that Fandango’s Dave Karger will moderate the studio’s annual San Diego Comic-Con panel on Saturday, July 20th, featuring stars and exclusive footage from two of the Lionsgate’s upcoming films: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which opens November 22nd, 2013, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth; and I, Frankenstein, hitting theaters ….