The Avatar madness is already starting with new video and photos online

Just ahead of the free 3-D footage screenings of Avatar Day, Fox has released a flurry of new peeks at what’s in store when the sci-fi spectacular Avatar hits screens on December 18, 2009. Let’s get right to it. First bit of greatness from Avatar – Michelle Rodriguez posted the first image of herself from ….

Cult sci-fi drug traffic thriller Outland getting the remake treatment

Warner Brothers and Hollywood Gang Productions have attached cult favorite Shoot ‘Em Up writer and director Michael Davis to direct a remake of the cult 1981 Sean Connery sci-fi drug-fueled thriller Outland, Variety reports. Writer Chad St. John (The Days Before) will pen the new project. The original film, which was directed by Peter Hyams ….

New images from Thomas Jane’s directorial debut Dark Country

Thomas Jane makes his directorial debut with the horror Dark Country, which follows the story of two honeymooners (Jane and Lauren German) rescue a mysterious car crash survivor in the Las Vegas desert. But their decision to save the man becomes increasingly regrettable when he turns on them, forcing the newlyweds to do the unthinkable. ….

Trailer for the Kristen Bell comedy When In Rome now online

In the romantic comedy When In Rome, Kristen Bell plays a successful New York real estate agent, who’s completely unlucky in love. However, when she travels to Rome to attend her sister’s wedding, she impulsively steals some coins from a reputed fountain of love, and is then over-aggressively pursued by a band of wannabe lovers, ….

Trailer for the fact-based thriller The Fourth Kind

Sci-Fi Wire posted this exclusive trailer for the upcoming sci-fi thriller The Fourth Kind, which will be in theaters on November 6, 2009. The Fourth Kind stars Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Elias Koteas and is directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi (WIthIN, Etat), based on his own screenplay. In 1972, when a scale of measurement was apparently ….

Gerard Butler is no Law Abiding Citizen in this new trailer with Jamie Foxx

Overture has released the first trailer for the crime thriller Law Abiding Citizen, which tells the story of a brilliant sociopath (played by Gerard Butler) who orchestrates a series of high-profile murders that grip the city of Philadelphia – all from inside his jail cell – and the prosecutor (Jamie Foxx) assigned to his case ….

Crime thriller La Soga (The Butcher’s Son) to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival

This September marks the World Premiere of La Soga, which is set to screen at The Toronto Film Festival. La Soga has the distinction of being the first movie ever from the Dominican Republic to screen at the prestigious international festival. Josh Crook (The Fittest, Sucker Punch) directed La Soga from a script by the ….

Age-restricted trailer for the scriptural sci-fi action thriller Legion

In the supernatural action thriller Legion, a remote diner becomes the unlikely last stand for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring about the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a diner out in the desert, ….

Cult Cinema Icons: Not Quite Hollywood grindhouse movie trailers

I found this great playlist that was created to honor the recently released grindhouse documentary Not Quite Hollywood. Not Quite Hollywood is the wild, wonderful, untold story of “Ozploitation” films. It irreverently documents an era when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the-floor ….