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Watch cult classic Battle Royale on the big screen and stay for a midnight screening of The Warriors

Hot on the heels of Anchor Bay Entertainment’s recently released gorgeous collector’s edition of the cult classic Battle Royale, IFC Center tonight starts an exclusive New York City theatrical run of Kinji Fukasaku’s teen survival epic, featuring a high-definition digital projection. A long-unavailable underground hit, veteran director Fukasaku’s incredibly violent, still-shocking and deeply influential genre ….

Ridley Scott retrospective starts tomorrow at Walter Reade Theater

Check out the films of filmmaker Ridley Scott before he made the highly anticipated Prometheus. A look back at Scott’s complete library of classics, favorites and Oscar nominated work includes Alien, a young Tom Cruise in Legend, Blade Runner: the Final Cut, the Nicholas Cage and Sam Rockwell grifter film Matchstick Men, and a brand ….

Zoe Saldana joining Sofia Vergara, Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez in Danny Trejo’s Machete sequel Machete Kills

Danny Trejo spoke to MovieHole about his next project, Robert Rodriguez’s highly-anticipated follow-up to the modern day Mexploitation film Machete, titled Machete Kills. Trejo says that the film kicks off in about three weeks, and says “The sequel to Machete, Machete Kills is going to be a lot more over-the-top than Machete. We’ve got Sofia ….

Horror classic The Exorcist being prepped for a TV series?

Vulture reports that, nearly 40 years after The Exorcist became the first horror film ever to be nominated for Best Picture, William Peter Blatty’s best seller is in the limelight once again. According to reports, filmmaker Sean Durkin, writer-director of the Elizabeth Olsen thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene, is adapting the classic into a 10-episode ….

Paramount decides to release G.I Joe: Retaliation in 2013….in 3D

THR reports that Paramount is pushing G.I Joe: Retaliation from its planned June 29th release date, to 2013, setting a new date of March 29th, 2013. The studio has also decided to convert the big budget sequel into 3D format, according to the report. Apparently this is all about money. Paramount financed 50 percent of ….

Companies team up to produce slate of martial arts films

US film sales company Birch Tree Entertainment and Malaysian media empire Astro All Asia Networks are teaming up to produce and distribute a slate of martial arts action films, according to Film Business Asia. The projects are being produced by Astro’s production subsidiaries — Tayangan Unggul Snd Bhd and Malaysia’s Astro Shaw — and then ….

Relativity Media goes for Paranoia

Relativity Media announced today that it has nabbed U.S. rights to the film Paranoia, directed by Robert Luketic (21) and starring Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games), Oscar-nominee Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight), Oscar-nominee Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones) and Lucas Till (X-Men: First Class). Production begins this summer and Paranoia is scheduled to hit theaters on ….

David Arquette hosting 14th Annual CASTLA Slavery to Freedom Gala

Tonight CASTLA (The Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking) is having their 14th Annual From Slavery to Freedom Gala at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. This event will honor survivors, as well as those who have shown extraordinary leadership in protecting and empowering survivors of modern day slavery and creating social change that ….

John Woo going back to gangster film roots with yakuza classic remake Day of the Beast

John Woo is attached to direct the action thriller Day of the Beast, a remake of Suzuki Seijun’s 1963 yakuza classic Youth of the Beast, according to Film Business Asia. Day of the Beast is a co-production between Nikkatsu Corp, the production company behind the original movie, and John Woo and Terence Chang’s Lion Rock ….

Romantic sci-fi action thriller The Machine gets distributor

Content has nabbed worldwide rights to The Machine, an original romantic sci-fi thriller. Directed by Caradog James (Little White Lies) and currently being cast, The Machine is produced by John Giwa-Amu from Red and Black Films & will be unveiled this week at The Cannes Film Festival. The Machine, part sci-fi action thriller and part ….

Jet Li’s record-breaking Hong Kong action flick Flying Swords of Dragon Gate to be released in U.S. IMAX 3D theaters

IMAX, in partnership with Indomina Releasing, today announced the release of Hark Tsui’s blockbuster Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, starring Jet Li, for an exclusive, limited engagement across North America in September in the immersive IMAX 3D format. Acquired for North American release by Indomina, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate is the first Chinese-language film ….

Magnolia Pictures to distribute Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview

The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnolia Pictures announced today they have nabbed U.S. distribution rights to Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview. This candid, in-depth interview with the late visionary was filmed in 1995 by Robert Cringely, and Jobs discusses at length his early days, career battles, and vision for the future. Small portions of the piece were ….

Starship Troopers 15th Anniversary cast and crew reunion headed to Arclight

In 1997, director Paul Verhoeven created Starship Troopers, and what is now a sci-fi cult classic exploded onto the screen with a rousing mix of intergalactic warfare, raw teen angst and sly political satire. Loosely based on Robert Heinlein’s controversial, award-winning novel, the film startled audiences and critics alike with its bloodsoaked man-vs-bugs warfare and ….