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Dragon Tattoo actor to play villain in Mission: Impossible IV

Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) has been tapped to play the villain for Paramount’s fourth Mission: Impossible film, according to Variety. The Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille)-directed espionage thriller is set to begin shooting this fall in ….

Emma Stone circling leads in 21 Jump Street and Spider-Man reboots

Emma Stone, from the recently released Easy A, is circling the female lead in the long in development 21 Jump Street film adaptation, opposite Jonah Hill, according to Variety. The story comes from Hill, along with Michael Bacall, who wrote the script. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs director Phil Lord is set to helm ….

Annual TromaDance AFM Panel to preview fest and discuss state of indie filmmaking

TromaDance founder Lloyd Kaufman announced that the annual American Film Market’s TromaDance Press Conference will take place this year on November 4, 2010, at 3 pm in the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel Press Room. Now in its 12th year, the TromaDance Film Festival is considered a beacon for truly independent cinema. Each year, the ….

Magnet grabs U.S. rights to Takashi Miike’s samurai action film 13 Assassins and releases two bloody photos to prove it

Mark Cuban’s Magnet Releasing announced today that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Takashi Miike’s epic samurai masterpiece, 13 Assassins. The historical action epic, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, recently had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, has just been named as the Closing Night film at this ….

Orson Scott Card’s epic sci-fi tale Ender’s Game back in development for the big screen

According to The L.A. times, the sci-fi film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s seminal epic tale Ender’s Game is now back in active development, as independent production company Odd Lot Entertainment moves forward on a movie project of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel. According to sources, Tsotsi and X Men Origins: Wolverine director Gavin ….

James Cameron’s True Lies becoming TV series?

Avatar director James Cameron’s 1994 blockbuster espionage action film True Lies, is headed to ABC television as a weekly series, according to THR Livefeed. ABC has made a script deal for the project, with Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment, Fox TV producing and Rene Echevarria as writer/showrunner and co-executive producer. If greenlit, the project will mark the ….

All-Star Superman voice cast lines up

James Denton (Desperate Housewives), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) and Anthony LaPaglia will lend their voices to Warner Bros. Animation’s All-Star Superman, the animated film adaptation of the acclaimed comic, according to HeatVision. All-Star Superman – which has won three Eisner Awards, two Harvey Awards and three Eagle Awards – is the 10th DC Comics story ….

Clive Barker joins guest list for Weekend Of Horrors 2

Artist, writer and filmmaker Clive Barker – creator of Candyman, Hellraiser, Nightbreed and countless others – has joined the list of celebrities attending Creation Entertainment’s Weekend Of Horrors II, coming to the Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel in Burbank, California. Barker joins a cavalcade of horror and cult film icons, including Bruce Campbell, Sid Haig, Jeffrey ….

Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma goes in a new direction with Purge

Troma’s most recent acquisition, Purge, stretches the boundaries of science fiction and the age range of Troma’s audience. An original creation of Australian writer-director David King, Purge offers something previous youth-only-oriented Troma films have not: a point of identification for the Baby Boomer generation. King spent his 1970s rebelling through a camera lens. Part of ….

Black Dynamite comic and animated series to preview at New York Comic-Con 2010

New York Comic-Con 2010 is just around the corner, and I’ve heard surprisingly little so far surrounding the film and TV-related events that will take place during the 3-day fan fest. So we were very excited when Black Dynamite director Scott Sanders sent in info on the Black Dynamite panel that will take place on ….

Magnolia sponsoring nationwide pay-what-you-want advanced screenings of Freakonomics

Magnolia Pictures is sponsoring a unique screening program in ten major cities across the U.S. that will allow moviegoers to choose how much they want to pay for an advance screening of Freakonomics: The Movie. The highly anticipated film version of the internationally bestselling book by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt hits theaters nationwide on ….

Preview image of author Stephen King as a biker gang member from Sons of Anarchy

Iconic horror author Stephen King will make an appearance as “Bachman” on next week’s episode of FX Network’s Sons of Anarchy, titled “Caregiver,” airing September 21st at 10:00 PM, and producers have released an image of the legendary writer straddling his ride. In anticipation of the episode, Sons of Anarchy’s (Samcro’s) official production blogger recently ….