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Fox bringing 24 back, along with new M. Night Shyamalan series Wayward Pines

Variety reports that 24 will indeed return to Fox next summer as a limited series, with a roll out over 12 weeks beginning next May. The innovative series originally wrapped its eight-season run on Fox in 2010. According to the report, the M. Night Shyamalan-produced mystery event series Wayward Pines will follow 24. Fox chairman ….

Pride Prejudice and Zombies adaptation gets new life

Variety reports that Pride Prejudice and Zombies – the long in development film adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith illustrated novel – may have risen again from the dead. Burr Steers is attached to direct the film, with Lily Collins in talks to star. Pride Prejudice and Zombies follows the tangled relationships between lovers from different ….

Snake Plissken, Neil Gaiman, Richard Donner, Leonard Nimoy and Scott Pilgrim coming to Cape Town Film Fest

Entertainment Weekly and the American Cinematheque are sponsoring the Cape Town Film Festival, which makes its debut with a 7-day event starting this Wednesday. Sci-fi, super-hero and fantasy fans will have the opportunity to see their cult favorite films return to the big screen along with rare live Q&A sessions with their filmmakers and stars ….

Classic Western screening marathon celebrates Dead Man’s Burden

Jared Moshé makes his feature directing debut with the hard-edged classical western Dead Man’s Burden, opening Friday, May 3rd at the Village East in New York City. On Monday April 29th, a seminal Western classics screening marathon will celebrate the release of Dead Man’s Burden in Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn bar and screening room ….

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, Transformers 4 and 3 more Paramount blockbusters coming to IMAX

IMAX and Paramount Pictures have announced an agreement to release five of Paramount’s upcoming films in the immersive IMAX format under an extension of the two companies’ long-standing agreement. The pact features some of Paramount’s most highly anticipated tentpole films, including Michael Bay’s Transformers 4 (June 2014) as well as its co-production of Christopher Nolan’s ….

World’s largest IMAX coming to historic Chinese Theatre in Hollywood

IMAX and Chinese Theatres have announced an agreement to add an IMAX theatre to the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, through an extensive transformation of the landmark site. The addition brings the theatre into the 21st Century and gives Hollywood its first IMAX theatre, which those involved say will provide fans with a movie-going ….

Robert De Niro and Edgar Ramirez prepping Roberto Duran biopic Hands Of Stone

Deadline reports that Robert De Niro and Edgar Ramirez have agreed to star in a biopic on Roberto Duran called Hands Of Stone, slated to be written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. Ramirez will play boxing champion Roberto Duran, with De Niro playing his trainer Ray Arcel in a drama that focuses on how each ….

Return of the Old School Kung Fu Fest bringing Angel Terminators, Shaolin and Wu Tang back

It’s been 10 years since the organizers of New York’s Subway Cinema had a good old fashioned Old School Kung Fu Fest. So from April 19th through the 21st they’ll be screening a series of kung fu movies from the 70’s and 80’s that pop your lock, rattle your chops, and put the pain inside ….

Tom Cruise to host free screening and live 9 city simulcast Q&A for sci-fi epic Oblivion

IMAX, Universal Pictures and Los Angeles Times have announced that the next feature in The Times’ Hero Complex IMAX Screening Series will be Universal Pictures’ Oblivion. An interactive, live Q&A with Tom Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski, moderated by Times film writer Rebecca Keegan, will follow the screening in the IMAX® theatre at New York ….

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson make Fast and Furious run for IMAX screens

IMAX and Universal Pictures today announced that Fast & Furious 6, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX format and released in select IMAX theatres internationally beginning May 22nd. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of all-stars as the global blockbuster franchise built on speed races to its next ….

Pam Grier’s autobiography optioned for movie project

While making an appearance during a Lincoln Center Film Society Retrospective of her most memorable roles, Pam Grier mentioned that her autobiography, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, which she wrote with Andrea Cagan, has been optioned for an upcoming film on her life. It sounded like the project is still in early development, however ….

Relativity Media grabs Silver or Lead about cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar

Relativity Media has nabbed rights to the script Silver or Lead, the epic story behind the manhunt for cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, one of the world’s greatest outlaws. Relativity will produce the film with Atmosphere Entertainment MM. Enrique Urbizu, whose gritty crime thriller No Rest for the Wicked swept the Spanish Goya’s last year with ….