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• Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest early trailer online

  Antoine Fuqua's latest film, Brooklyn's Finest, has a trailer online. However beware, despite the intensity running through it, the star studded cast, and some excellent looking scenes, this is an early release trailer and the film is still in post production. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if this was' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:09pm EST
  

• Solitary Man trailer online

  The first trailer for Solitary Man starring the legendary Michael Douglas, an actor who seems to be on a bit of a run of late, has arrived online and it looks really good. My only concern is that with my birthday coming up soon have I all this to look [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:53pm EST
  

• I Spit On Your Grave director reveals updated brutality

  I'm a bit confused by this update from the director of the remake of I Spit on Your Grave. Talking about the film the director Steven R. Monroe has revealed what they plan to do to make it different from the original, and everything he says about it sounds the' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:33pm EST
  

• Greengrass leaves Bourne 4

  Paul Greengrass has reportedly left the production of Bourne 4, and the reasons seem to be down to not seeing eye to eye on the budgeting and the appointment of a new writer. What does this mean for Bourne 4? Well the studio could be looking for a new director, [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:24pm EST
  

• Jonah Hex plot revealed

  What has me most surprised about the plot of Jonah Hex is how much it reads like a modern film, and how you could easily mistake the setting for a soldier just coming out of Iraq or Afghanistan. However it's not. Far from it. The setting is still the wild [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:21pm EST
  

• Area 51 filmed and sold

  Oren Peli, the man behind the unusual hit Paranormal Activity (Filmstalker review), has apparently already filmed Area 51 and brought it in under budget at around US $5 million, and that's a hell of a leap from the US $11,000 that Paranormal Activity took to make. What's really interesting about [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:49am EST
  

• Beatles break-up in new John Lennon film

  There finally looks set to be a film of the break-up of the Beatles, and it's getting a pretty interesting cast, most importantly with Christopher Eccleston playing John Lennon. However the bad news for film audiences around the world is that the film is made for British television, BBC4 in [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:47am EST
  

• The Best Films of the Decade: 2001

  One step closer to 2010, and we're just starting the race towards the end of the decade here on Filmstalker. We've already looked at 2000, the first year in the decade we're just about to say goodbye too, and so this time round we're going to look at the year [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 4:04pm EST
  

• Raimi signs Ataque de Pánico! (Panic Attack!) director

  Uruguyan director Federico Alvarez created a short film, less than five minutes in length, that showed the destruction of a city by an invading force of flying machines and gigantic robots. The scenes of destruction and the merging of CG and the landscape around them are superbly done, and the [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 3:56pm EST
  

• Predators director talks casting

  The director of Predators, Nimród Antal, had been talking about the film and the casting that we've heard of to date, he's also been discussing the role that Robert Rodriguez will play in the film. Also, that inevitable question has arisen, what of Arnold Schwarzenegger and would he return to' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:03am EST
  

• Terminator Salvation (Director's Cut)

  Having seen Terminator Salvation in the cinema I have to admit I was a little disappointed. It had been hyped up quite a bit and I was hoping for a real return to the Terminator franchise, and although we were close, I felt there were a number of holes and [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 4:15pm EST
  

• Exam trailer finally online

  Exam, the psychological thriller from British director Stuart Hazeldine, has finally appeared online. I say finally because I actually saw it at the Edinburgh International Film Festival earlier this year, the trailer that is, and it looked really interesting. However it fell fowl of the problems that often do with [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:24pm EST
  

• The Best Films of the Decade: 2000

  Well here we are, rapidly approaching the big number of 2010, a number that would have meant someone would have had their space epiphany by now and we were finding that there was something amazing on a moon of Jupiter. The films have got it wrong. However with the passing [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 3:06pm EST
  

• James Cameron's thoughts on Terminator Salvation, McG and Ridley Scott

  James Cameron has been talking rather candidly about the latest Terminator film, Terminator Salvation and its director McG. As well as that he's talked about what he thinks Ridley Scott is doing with his career, and it's the wrong thing. You have to admire Cameron for his outspoken views, and [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:27am EST
  

• New Toy Story 3 trailer online

  There's another trailer online for Toy Story 3, and to be honest it's less than exciting. Once again there's footage from the previous films, and then we leap into the third with plenty of stuff flying past the camera. However when we do get there it just feels there's something [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:16am EST
  

• New Daybreakers trailer online

  There's a good new trailer arrived for Daybreakers, the vampire horror film (no neutered vampires who drink milkshakes and hang out at the mall during the day here) starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas and Claudia Karvan. The film is written and directed by Michael and Peter [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:55am EST
  

• The Amityville Horror to get remade again?!

  How ridiculous is this getting, and why do the audience keep going back? Word is out today that there's consideration of another remake of The Amityville Horror. That's after the recent remake, which is the second remake after the four film run, one 3D and a direct to video before [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:54am EST
  

• Lawrence's In his Small World

  Francis Lawrence hasn't done much since his superb outing in I Am Legend (Filmstalker review), since then he's had his name tied in with nine other projects, and we're still waiting to see one of them. Despite these titles there's word of another one that's popped up, In the Small, [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:41pm EST
  

• Youth in Revolt trailer revolts

  Youth in Revolt shows an interesting concept for a film, and yet it features the same sort of performance we see from Michael Cera and young actors of a similar ilk, like Jesse Eisenberg, the mumbling, unsure young character. Let's hope they grow out of it soon. Except with Youth [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:16pm EST
  

• The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond trailer plays like a TV movie

  The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is a screenplay from Tennessee Williams which was supposed to be the third film for him and director Elia Kazan after A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll, however it was never to be and the screenplay sat unused. Now, over forty years later, [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:15pm EST
  

• The Hungry Rabbit Jumps gains Pearce

  The latest news on the Roger Donaldson thriller The Hungry Rabbit Jumps is that Guy Pearce is joining the production. Already signed up to the thriller are Nicolas Cage and January Jones. That's already an interesting cast list, but it's not the cast that has me interested in this film, [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:22am EST
  

• Ben Kingsley builds the Taj Mahal

  It's not too often that a project gets everything together before a director, but when there's a big name actor like Ben Kingsley involved in the production as well as taking such an iconic lead, anything is possible. Kingsley is set to play Shah Jahan, the man who built the [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:19am EST
  

• The Last Station trailer online

  The Last Station is a story loosely based on fact that sees a young man dispatched by the powers that be to, under the guise of an assistant to help chronicle the works of Leo Tolstoy, keep an eye on him and his wife, Sofya Tolstoy, during his final years [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:54am EST
  

• The Shining sequel?

  Stephen King has been talking at another book signing session, and probably surprised at the fact his last one got so much press - I mentioned it regarding a possible Under the Dome mini-series - he's been talking again about a possible sequel to his book The Shining. Now this [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:53am EST
  

• Beastly teaser online

  Beastly caught my eye, despite this very short teaser, the character that he turns into reminds me a little of the character I'm playing in InFamous on the PS3 at the moment, and the moment as he looks over the skyline, looks great. However that has started to fade extremely' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:51am EST
  

• Avatar interactive trailer online

  I was right earlier today when I talked about a 2D footage onslaught from Avatar, it's really coming out today, and now there's an interactive trailer that allows you to download an Adobe AIR application to run alongside the official trailer. Apparently, because I've not been able to get it' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:41pm EST
  

• Family Guy's Star Wars take off continues

  Not really film, but it's damn cool and well worth talking about. It's the new Family Guy film take off of the Star Wars saga, with Family Guy: Something Something Something Darkside. The trailer isn't as great as Family Guy: Blue Harvest was, and I'll include that one for you [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:36pm EST
  

• Jackson talks 3D Hobbit and Tintin

  Peter Jackson has revealed that Tintin has finished filming, and yet the film won't be ready for another two years. How so? Well there's all the animation work to be done yet, and that's where the great bulk of work lies. He also talked about The Hobbit, and one of' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:35am EST
  

• The Crow remake producer talks

  One of the producers behind The Crow has been talking about the remake, and despite what we've been hearing last year about Stephen Norrington writing and directing the film and all the other associated stories since, it seems that the film is still not actually greenlit. However he did sound' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:06am EST
  

• Avatar complete scene online

  I'm a bit concerned that Avatar might just over expose itself before the time comes. I've seen sixteen minutes of it in 3D and I think that I'm well placed to get through the onslaught of non-huge screen, high definition content that is starting to come forth, but I wonder' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:03am EST
  

• Broderick's Wonderful World trailer online

  It's been a long time since I've seen Matthew Broderick in a film that captures my interest, but Wonderful World might just be it. Okay, there's an intense feeling of The Visitor (Filmstalker review) here, and in fact it feels almost too close to that story, but then that was' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:46am EST
  

• Stiller's Greenberg trailer online

  Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans and Jennifer Jason Leigh sound like names that should have me excited to watch, well the latter two do anyway, but the trailer for Greenberg leaves me wondering where is the story that I would want to watch? Where are the characters that have me drawn [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:41am EST
  

• Judge Dredd remake continues

  I remember when I first heard about Sylvester Stallone taking the role of Judge Dredd and I was excited, he really did look the part and fit the bill, and I thought it could be superb casting. Then the script and direction missed the point, and while I think they [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:46pm EST
  

• Universal Soldier: Regeneration trailer online

  The trailer for the next Universal Soldier, Universal Soldier: Regeneration, is online and it features two blasts from the past, Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme going head to head, but this time Lundgren's soldier has an allay, in the guise of Andrei Arlovski. Arlovski plays a Universal Soldier under [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  

• Scottish Blair Witch Project remake?

  I'm surprised I didn't hear about a new horror film coming out of Glasgow, especially when I'm an hour away in Edinburgh, but it took a US site to alert me to the fact that a new horror film in production in Glasgow is looking to remake The Blair Witch' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:37am EST
  

• The Wolfman is recut, and recut longer

  There have been a lot of things said about The Wolfman film from Joe Johnston starring Benecio Del Toro, the remake of the classic old horror, and if you listened to them all you probably thought that the project was doomed. Well whether it was or not two new editors [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:26am EST
  

• Uncharted: Drake's Fortune changes writers

  It was back in June of this year that we heard about the new PlayStation video game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune being adapted for film, and at that time it was given to Kyle Ward, the man who wrote 3 Rounds and the upcoming Hitman 2 and Kane & Lynch scripts, [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:22am EST
  

• More Avatar footage online

  There's more footage online for James Cameron's Avatar, something I'm rather surprised about as I thought Cameron, after the preview day, would want to keep as much quiet about the film as possible. However he's not, and there's footage appearing week after week, probably to try and get the hype' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:43am EST
  

• Jackson joins UFO

  It was back in May that we heard about the film adaptation of the seventies television series UFO which featured a group called SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization), hidden beneath a film studio, who flew regular missions to intercept and destroy alien ships who were intent on kidnapping and [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:41am EST
  

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a film I first saw on pirated videotape when I was far too young to be watching it. My brother had managed to secure a copy and I sat down to watch it one night when my parents were away. It scared me so [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:40pm EST
  

• Moon

  I really enjoyed Moon (Filmstalker review) when I saw it, Duncan Jones crafted an excellent film that could have gone disastrously wrong, after all it concentrates on just one main character, and when a film does that for it's entire length, it has to be good and that character rich [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:15pm EST
  

• Brüno

  Sacha Baron Cohen was a huge success with his film Borat, so why not try and follow it up with another of his characters he's developed from his television show and bring him to life in a fully fledged film? Once again the idea is that Brüno is a character [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:12pm EST
  

• Stalked: Last Days of American Crime, Dark Void video game adaptation, American Gladiators, The Factory is happening

  Sam Worthington is set to star in an interesting sounding science fiction film... Brad Pitt's Plan B has picked up the video game Dark Void before it's even released... American Gladiators really is happening... So is The Factory with John Cusack......Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:44pm EST
  

• Season of the Witch full trailer reveals all

  I have to wonder why I'd bother watching Season of the Witch after watching this new trailer, for it seems to reveal a hell of a lot of the film's story. However, to be fair, it looks a pretty decent film starring Nicolas Cage, then again we don't get to [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:04pm EST
  

• Kull the Conqueror to get remake?

  Kull the Conqueror was a film from 1997, doesn't seem that long ago really, but there's talk of a remake already. Well remake may be unfair because it seems that this new film is going back to the original source, the Robert E. Howard character who first appeared in 1929,' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  

• Avary still on Silent Hill 2

  Silent Hill 2 has been on the go for a very long time, and with the recent news that Roger Avary, the man tasked with writing the film, has been sent to prison, it would seem that there's little chance of the film happening. Well that might not be true [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:16am EST
  

• Underworld 4 gets Shield writer

  This could be huge news for the fourth in the Underworld series as word comes out that the a writer of The Shield, John Hlavin, is set to write the script for Underworld 4. Although that spells good news for the series, let's put this in context, there's no director [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:59am EST
  

• Spielberg developing King's Under the Dome

  It was good news for Stephen King fans when we heard that his latest story, Under the Dome, was coming to the big screen, but news today brings great and not so good news for the film. Great news first? Steven Spielberg is one of the executive producers on the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:52am EST
  

• Stalked: Nicholas Flamel, Jekyll and Hyde, Orphange remake dead

  The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel to be adapted... Jekyll and Hyde moves forward... The Orphanage remake dead?... 47 Ronin with ex-Alien prequel director......Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:15am EST
  

• Stalked: Gibson talks Mad Max, McKidd on Call of Duty film, Connery's acting again, Murphy in Caller

  Zack Snyder's Guardians of Ga'hoole gains cast... Kevin McKidd is hoping to be in the Call of Duty film... Sean Connery returns to voice animated character... Mel Gibson has been talking about that Mad Max role... Brittany Murphy is joining a supernatural thriller......Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:00am EST