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• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) trailer online

  A trailer has arrived for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor), the film adaptation of the novel by Stieg Larsson (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com). The film version is directed by Niels Arden Oplev and adapted by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, and two more of Larsson's novels [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 4:18am EST
  

• Fallen, the next Twilight

  The next Twilight series is around the corner. Just as Harry Potter brought to life so many other options for similarly themed films, so has Twilight, and the latest is the adaptation of the novel Fallen by Lauren Kate (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com). The Fallen novel is the first in a [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 4:17am EST
  

• Wife vs. Ninja comedy

  While we're keen to talk about the lack of creativity in Hollywood, well I am anyway, there's also some great imaginative ideas out there, and Wife vs. Ninja sounds like one that has something rather unique in it, and when you read the blurb you'll most likely start getting interested. [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 3:43am EST
  

• Deadpool rumours and Ryan Reynolds

  There are a number of rumours going around about the X-Men Origins: Wolverine spin-off film for the character of Deadpool, first there’s the rumour of two new writers, and then there’s the one of the director, the latter coming from the lead actor and is basically a very short wish, [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 6:04pm EST
  

• War Birds promotional teaser

  I've just seen this promotional teaser for a film called War Birds that was talked about online a few days ago, it's a film about an illegal sub-culture of people who get together for real life aerial combat using older propeller and early jet planes, the kind of planes you' [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 5:58pm EST
  

• James Cameron's next science fiction film

  There's a tiny piece of information just been released online regarding James Cameron's upcoming schedule, and it's another science fiction film from writer Shane Salerno. Information is sparse on it, and while some are thinking this is a new project for Cameron and Salerno, others believe it could be a [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:18am EST
  

• The Sorcerer's Apprentice trailer online

  The trailer for The Sorcerer's Apprentice has arrived online, and I can't watch it because I'm stuck at work. That means you have to and then tell me all about it for a change. This is the Jon Turteltaub directed film rewrite of Disney's original The Sorcerer's Apprentice, taken into [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:18am EST
  

• Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever trailer online

  There's a teaser online for Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever online, the sequel to Eli Roth's Cabin Fever. However there are some notable points about it to bear in mind. The first is that it's not directed by Eli Roth nor is he involved in it, the second is that [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:17am EST
  

• Producer talks Gears of War

  The idea of a Gears of War film is superb, but the budget required to replicate the story told in the two video games we've seen to date is going to be huge, and for anyone who has played the game you'll know what I mean, it just looks too [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:46am EST
  

• Stalked: Confucius teaser and red band Youth in Revolt online

  There's a new teaser trailer online for Confucius, a very short teaser trailer, but one none the less, and it replicates the epic feel of the first one while still keep the focus very much on the characters. Oh, and it's in Chinese still. No great issue since it looks [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:46am EST
  

• Brolin in Men In Black 3?

  The first, and most important question, is why make a third film anyway? The second was pretty poor in my eyes, all that talking dog nonsense taking over the entire film, but we've heard that the series will return and that they've started work on the sequel. Now there's some [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:20am EST
  

• Better Tomorrow remake gets new director

  The John Woo film Ying hung boon sik, aka A Better Tomorrow, is getting a remake and it's not by Hollywood. Prepare yourselves but Korea is going to be remaking the Hong Kong noir gangster film which starred Leslie Cheung and the legendary Chow Yun-Fat in a story about an [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:09am EST
  

• Nightmare on Elm Street reshoots

  There's a bit of a ruckus online in some places about the news that there's reshoots on A Nightmare on Elm Street, some saying it doesn't matter, some saying it's terrible news, some saying it's now standard practice for Platinum Dunes the studio behind the film. Looking back at previous' [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 8:24am EST
  

• Jackson talks Temeraire adaptation

  Peter Jackson has been talking about a film that was first discussed back in September of 2006, the adaptation of Temeraire, a series of books that see the Napoleonic Wars rewritten in an alternative universe where the warring sides used Dragons as air cavalry in huge battles. The story sounded [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 8:19am EST
  

• Wachowski's futuristic Iraq war film?

  Now this could all be an elaborate ruse to rope in the online film critics, but looking into it the story seems a little too much like effort for nothing if it isn't. However some twitters from Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of The Huffington Post newspaper, have revealed that' [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:51am EST
  

• Romancing the Stone remake gains a director?

  According to rumour the planned remake of Romancing the Stone has been out looking for a director and apparently has already approached one. I wrote about the remake back in 2007, oh no that was Fool's Gold, I mean I wrote about the remake back in December 2008 when it [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:47am EST
  

• Tales From the Script the screenwriter's documentary

  The documentary Tales From the Script has been bought for release in America, and I'm surprised I've not heard of the film from Peter Hanson before, for the documentary sounds very interesting as it attempts to look into the life of the screenwriter through some rather well known names. It [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:45am EST
  

• Gilliam has his Don Quixote

  Terry Gilliam has his Don Quixote for the film he's going to have another crack at making, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. First time round he tried to make it with Johnny Depp, but the film just fell apart around him. Now he's trying to give it another go, [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:41am EST
  

• The Best Films of the Decade: 2003

  So we've already been voting on the Best Films of 2000, 2001 and 2002, and now it's time to turn our attention onto 2003 in the ongoing quest to find the Best Film of the Decade, well in our eyes anyway. 2003 promises a good year, with films such as' [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:26pm EST
  

• Seven Days (Les 7 jours du talion) trailer looks intense

  While Seven Days (Les 7 jours du talion) may give the impression of being similar in theme to films about revenge and torture that we've seen before, there's one big difference, this isn't a Hollywood film, it's French, and that fills me with hope. The reason for that is that [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:40am EST
  

• British Independent Film Awards 2009 winners announced

  The winners for the British Independent Film Awards 2009 have been announced and there's no real surprise to learn some of the major winners. For those fans of Moon it's perhaps a little surprising to them that Duncan Jones hasn't taken Best Director, but I don't think the actual winner [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:37am EST
  

• Update: Avatar featurette online

  There has been plenty of footage online about Avatar, but this one is slightly different, it features tons of new footage and feels like a great introduction to the film, narrated by Sigourney Weaver's character and showing tons of amazing looking footage. The featurette not only talks about the planet [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:33am EST
  

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I footage online

  This is not really a teaser trailer, but it does contain some footage from the film, and some behind the scenes footage too. This is a very short featurette that on the end contains a very short, special effects free, clipped together teaser with John Hurt narrating a very dark [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:30am EST
  

• Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries Part 1

  Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries Part 1 has quite an ambitious story, and it’s a film that doesn’t seem to know which genre it belongs in, undoubtedly it is horror but does is it focused on gore, comedy or something more dramatic. I certainly wasn’t sure, but throughout the [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 6:00pm EST
  

• Magic Kisa

  I never used to enjoy short films, and it was quite recently that I started watching them. I was surprised at how much they had to offer over features, and how satisfying they could be. However it always seemed the case that the short was just the right length for [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:22pm EST
  

• Jack Ryan Jr. to return

  The young Jack Ryan is definitely the direction that the franchise is taking now that there's the confirmation of Chris Pine taking the role, however the good news is that the story isn't going to be going back to his teens, but it is going back to when the character' [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  

• Damon say no Greengrass, no Bourne

  It seems that Matt Damon's memory is pretty short, he doesn't remember that the first Bourne film was directed by Doug Liman, however he is sure of one thing, Paul Greengrass will be making the next Bourne film with him, and he doesn't want to make it with anyone else. [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 4:29pm EST
  

• Death at a Funeral remake trailer

  There's a trailer online for the American remake of Death at a Funeral, the Frank Oz directed British comedy. Now that it's over in America there's one thing that stands out from the trailer straight away, and that's the lack of subtlety. Pretty much I have to say I'm dreading' [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 4:23pm EST
  

• Case 39 Behind the Scenes with more footage

  I'm not so desperate to see Case 39 after I saw Pandorum (Filmstalker review). My initial excitement for director Christian Alvart came from Antikörper (Antibodies), but with Pandorum that excitement was severely beaten. With the history of Case 39 and the delays it's seen, I really am beginning to wonder' [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 4:17pm EST
  

• Hendrix film, finally?

  It looks like we're finally set to see a Jimi Hendrix film, although this one isn't going to be based on fact. Slide is a fictional drama that will see the character of Jimi Hendrix pulled into another story and used for dramatic effect. The upside of this is that [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:37am EST
  

• Korean Phone remake

  The Korean horror film Phone by Ahn Byung-ki, one that I thought had some issues with the story and filming but that overall gave a good horror experience, is to be remade. However this isn't going to be a straight Hollywood remake like The Ring, the production are actually going' [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:35am EST
  

• Closing Credits: Richard Todd

  Richard Todd, the British actor who began on stage and Broadway, perhaps best known for his role in The Dam Busters, has died aged 90. He also starred in The Longest Day, one of the few actors who actually took part in the Normandy invasion on D-Day and were tasked [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:13am EST
  

• Terminator franchise saved?

  Well I think the Terminator franchise would have been saved whatever happened to the company currently owning the rights to the franchise, Halcyon. Should it have been sunk then the rights would have been sold to another company who would have taken it up, however the news looks good for [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:58am EST
  

• Spielberg ditches Harvey remake

  Steven Spielberg has dropped the idea of remaking the classic film Harvey, you know the one starring James Stewart as the man who befriends a six foot invisible rabbit? Dropped he may have (why am I writing like Yoda?) but the idea of the remake hasn't been dropped by the' [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:54am EST
  

• Nine score online

  It looks like the entire score for Nine is online, well I mean the songs that the stars sing anyway, and you can listen to them right here. All the major stars are singing their songs from Daniel Day Lewis to Judi Dench, and you really get a taste of, [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:51am EST
  

• The Best Films of the Decade: 2002

  The films of the decade continue here on Filmstalker with the biweekly updates and we've moved nicely onto 2002. I've actually decided to leave the voting for the previous years open until the voting is closed on 2009, so there's plenty of time to catch up. Remember once we've looked' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:35pm EST
  

• The Birds remake swaps director

  The news of a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds has been a truly terrifying prospect, but it went ahead anyway. Naomi Watts reportedly on board from the early days, and then it got a director in the form of Martin Campbell. Seemingly a slightly odd choice, but also one [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 5:20am EST
  

• Hoffman runs a cult

  Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to run a cult in a new film from Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of There Will Be Blood. The film, called Master, will see Hoffman playing the founder and leader of a new religious organisation in the 1950's. He will be known as “the' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 5:19am EST
  

• Micmacs trailer online

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a trailer online for his film Micmacs, and a strange but hugely entertaining trailer it is too. The film follows a man who is accidentally shot in the head and his life is totally changed forever. He's a little miffed and so he decides to go after [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:29am EST
  

• The Road new UK trailer

  There's a new trailer online for the film The Road, the adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel featuring no punctuation. Oh sorry, I mean it's a masterpiece. Plus the film stars Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce. Anyway, there's a new trailer online and I think this [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:06am EST
  

• Greengrass confirms exit from Bourne 4

  Paul Greengrass has confirmed that he is definitely off of the fourth in the Bourne series of films, and he states that its not a disagreement with the studio, its just time to move onto a new challenge. Although theres nothing great in the official press release other than rumour [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:24pm EST
  

• Peter Berg talks Battleship and story reveals

  Peter Berg took a bunch of people on a little tour of a Battleship to discuss the ideas behind the upcoming Battleship film, a film which sounds dull from the outset, and now is starting to sound rather crazy. I'm just not sure if that's crazy in a good way' [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:00am EST
  

• 44 Inch Trailer online

  There's a trailer online for 44 Inch Chest, finally, and it introduces all the big players in the film and shows bags and bags of style. Boy this is looking like a good film, and I wish I'd caught it at the Inverness International Film Festival. Starring the superb line-up' [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:01am EST
  

• Footage of Russian Black Lightning online

  I received a little bit of a fright when I started watching this footage from the upcoming Russian action/superhero film Black Lightning, mainly because I didn't read the article before heading into the video. It's a clip that's just over three minutes and contains tons of footage from the film,' [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• District 13: Ultimatum trailer online

  A new trailer for District 13: Ultimatum has arrived online and it's looking action packed, although I'm not feeling as totally bowled over as I was by the first, you can plainly see that this one is packed with superb stunts and looks to carry a little more in production' [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 2:55am EST
  

• New Armored trailer online

  The new Armored (Armoured) trailer has arrived and rather than go back to the joke opening that the first two have had, this one goes straight into the action and concentrates on the tension and building of the story, what it also does is concentrate on Matt Dillon who looks [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 2:52am EST
  

• Stalked: Nine year wait for Kitano over, Swedish Hunter sequel, Landis on more horror, My Fair Lady latest director, Call of Duty director on film

  Takeshi Kitano will write, direct and lead his latest gangster film some nine years since his last... The Hunters gets a sequel with the excellent Peter Stormare... John Landis lines up another horror... My Fair Lady gets another director!... Call of Duty director gets to make his own script into [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 7:33pm EST
  

• Roth turns to invading aliens

  Not only is Eli Roth making a film called Endangered Species, an alien invasion type film, but he's co-producing another alien invasion film called Invasion, described as a Cloverfield-esque story and based on a speculative script by Ben Magid, one of the writers who has worked on the upcoming Hack/Slash [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 8:56am EST
  

• Lee's black biographies dead, Inside Man 2 not

  It's amazing to think that while film projects from Spike Lee about Michael Jordan, James Brown and Joe Louis are failing to gain funding and have died, that one of his films making it through is Inside Man 2. Of course it's all about money and returns, but as successful [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 8:55am EST
  

• Blood Creek (Town Creek) trailer online

  There's a trailer online for Joel Schumacher's Nazi horror film Blood Creek, although the news is that it's not going to be a big release and it's destined for DVD in January, and from the trailer you can probably see why. The film looks pretty poor from the trailer, and [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 8:55am EST