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Win free tickets to U.S. premiere of anime thriller Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos will screen during this year’s AM2 Anime and Gaming event at the Downtown Independent theater, located at 251 South Main Street in Los Angeles, CA. Passport badge holders have a chance to attend the official premiere event. Passport ticket buyers will be automatically entered into the AM2 Pre-Registration ….

Terrence Malick, George Clooney and Rooney Mara take top honors at net Film Critic Awards

The Internet Film Critic Society have announced the winners of their 5th Annual Movie Awards, giving the top honor, Best Drama, to Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. Malick also won the Best Director prize. Other awards went to Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (Best Comedy), Drive (Best Action Film), and Attack the Block (Best ….

Romeo Must Die director going Beneath the Deep

Hannibal Productions has signed Romeo Must Die director Andrzej Bartkowiak to helm the extreme action-adventure feature Beneath the Deep. The announcement was made by Hannibal producer and CEO Richard Rionda Del Castro. Beneath the Deep will start production in March of 2012 in Puerto Rico. Producing the feature along with Rionda Del Castro is Armand ….

Harrison Ford joins sci-fi epic adaptation Ender’s Game

Harrison Ford, fresh off the sci-fi western Cowboys and Aliens, has been confirmed to appear in OddLot Entertainment’s epic sci-fi adaptation of the book Ender’s Game, along with Abigail Breslin and Hailee Steinfeld, Variety reports. Also starring in the film are Aramis Knight, Moises Arias, Jimmy “Jax” Pinchak, Suraj Parthasarathy, Conor Carroll and Khylin Rhambo. ….

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol sets IMAX opening record

IMAX and Paramount Pictures today announced that Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol The IMAX Experience, earned approximately $14 million at the box office in IMAX theatres worldwide during its opening weekend. Domestically, the film generated $10.5 million on 300 IMAX screens, for an IMAX per-screen average of $35,000. Internationally, it generated $3.4 million on 89 ….

KGB spy drama coming to FX network

FX has given a pilot order to the KGB spy drama The Americans, according to THR. The Americans was created by Joe Weisberg (Falling Skies, Damages), is set in suburban Washington D.C. during the early 1980s, and centers on the arranged marriage of Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings, who have two children who know nothing about their parents’ true ….

Casino Royale actress circling 300 prequel female lead

Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ 300 prequel is circling a potential female lead with Casino Royale’s Eva Green, according to THR. Green would play Artemisia in the film, currently titled 300: Battle of Artemisia, coincidentally. Noam Murro is attached to direct the project. 300: Battle of Artemisia sees the Persian king-turned-god Xerxes lead an army ….

Dougray Scott, Danny Trejo and Ving Rhames lensing Death Race: Inferno

Universal has announced that Death Race 3 is currently shooting in and around Cape Town, South Africa. In this all-new original feature film from Universal 1440 Entertainment, hardened criminals race for their freedom in what are described as vicious new vehicles, and face-off in the ultimate blood sport, when the popular Death Race is transported ….

Angelina Jolie and Luc Besson teaming up for Paris-set action thriller

Universal has nabbed North American rights to an as-yet-untitled Angelina Jolie-Luc Besson drama collaboration, in which Jolie is attached to star, according to THR. The project is described as a dramatic thriller with action, and is said to be a cross between Besson’s cult classic films The Professional and The Fifth Element. Besson wrote the ….

Jet Li’s Flying Swords of Dragon Gate to make history as first 3D Chinese IMAX release

IMAX and leading Chinese film distributor Bona Film Group, today announced that the 3D martial arts motion picture Flying Swords of Dragon Gate will be released in China, in the IMAX 3D format starting this Thursday, December 15th. The film will be released on 61 digital IMAX screens across China. Throughout its theatrical run, Flying ….