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Samuel “Afro Samurai” Jackson, to bring more behind-the-scenes coolness to TV

Samuel L. Jackson, who will soon don comic-badness in the Frank Miller-directed The Spirit, as The Octopus (pictured), has just signed a deal with CBS TV to develop projects. According to the Variety story, there is no acting component to the deal, although it hinted that he could play a cameo role in whatever project ….

Star Wars: The Clone Wars film information, trailer, behind-the-scenes and release dates

Ok, here we go. Everything you wanted to know about the upcoming Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Genres Animated Science Fiction Fantasy Action Adventure Thriller Synopsis The Grand Army of the Republic, led by Yoda, Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and other Jedi Knights, fights the New Droid Army of the Separatists. (Expanded synopsis below, in ….

20th Century Boys a.k.a. 20-seiki shonen a.k.a. Twentieth Century Boys a.k.a. 20 Seiki Shounen film information

Fantasy Manga Comic-Based Action Adventure Science Fiction Synopsis 20th Century Boys is the first film in a planned trilogy with a budget of $57 million, that will be shot in seven countries, including China, Thailand, the U.K., Japan and the U.S. The first film will revolve around a “Book of Revelations” written by the main ….

Fear Itself: Episode One Review

I just finished watching the premiere of Fear Itself on NBC. The television series is broken down into 13 separate 60 minute films fleshed out by today’s premiere horror writers and directors. Mick Garris, who brought us Masters of Horror on Shotime, and Masters of Science Fiction on ABC, created this one too. Of the ….

Two new trailers for X-Files: I Want to Believe online

Two new story-revealing trailers for X-Files 2 are online. The one just below comes from Joblo.com. Click on the official website link below the embed to see the Flash trailer there. See another cut of this trailer at www.xfiles.com [amazonify]B000UZDO5I::text:filmfetish-20:::Click here to get the original X-Files series on DVD[/amazonify]

French thriller Max et les Ferrailleurs (Max and the Junkmen) getting remake treatment

France’s StudioCanal and John Woo’s Lion Rock Productions are joining forces to push forward a remake of the 1970 French thriller Max et les Ferrailleurs, to be directed by Kim Jee-woon, whose film The Good the Bad the Weird just wrapped this year’s Cannes Film Fest. This is according to a story from Variety. Ferrailleurs ….

Cicely Tyson and HBO’s Frank E. Flowers to be honored at Caribbean Heritage Salute to Hollywood

Caribbean Heritage Organization (CHO) and the Institute of Caribbean Studies, DC (ICS-DC) are pleased to announce that stage and screen actress Cicely Tyson and writer and director Frank E. Flowers will be honored at its 2008 Salute to Hollywood & the Arts during National Caribbean-American Heritage Month. The daughter of immigrants from the tiny Caribbean ….

Lost Boys The Tribe on Blu-ray and DVD…Why not in theaters?

All-new chapter of the cult classic stars Tad Hilginbrinck, Angus Sutherland, Autumn Reeser, with appearances by Jamison Newlander, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman as Edgar Frog Prepare to sink your teeth into the long-awaited and highly-anticipated next chapter of the cult phenomenon started by the 1987 cult classic The Lost Boys when Warner Premiere’s Lost ….

Big Screen Entertainment Completes William Shatner Documentary

Big Screen Entertainment CEO Kimberley Kates has announced that post production is complete on “William Shatner’s Gonzo Ballet,” a documentary chronicling the production of a new ballet based on Shatner’s album, “Has Been.” The critically acclaimed album, produced by Ben Folds, provided renowned choreographer Margo Sappington, of the Milwaukee Ballet, with the inspiration to create ….

Gale Anne Hurd and Platinum Studios partner to bring Final Orbit to big screen

Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures, producer of Marvel Studios’ Summer release The Incredible Hulk, and Platinum Studios, an entertainment company that controls an international library of more than 5,600 comic book characters which it adapts, produces and licenses for all forms of media, today announced a deal to co-develop and produce a feature film ….

Shorts finishes casting and shooting begins with Robert Rodriguez

Casting is complete on the family comedy adventure Shorts, being directed by Robert Rodriguez (the Spy Kids trilogy) from his own screenplay. Rodriguez is also producing the film with Elizabeth Avellan under their Troublemaker Studios banner. Dan Lin, Hunt Lowry and Stacy Cohen are serving as executive producers on the film, which is being filmed ….