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Ghost Face from the Scream series
More than 10 years after the release of SCREAM 3 and following a drawn out will-they-won’t-they internet debate, Dimension Films have finally greenlit SCREAM 4 with a release set for April 15, 2011.
According to Variety Wes Craven is indeed returning as director along with series veterans Neve Campbell, David Arquette [...]

Twilight star Kellan Lutz
TWILIGHT star Kellan Lutz has signed on to play Poseidon in new sword-and-sandal epic WAR OF GODS. The film, to be directed by Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall), is yet another addition to the current sword-and-sandal revival and has been in development for a couple of years now.
According to Variety:
“War of [...]

Remy (Jude Law) gets blasted by a faulty defribrilator.
This week’s topic is REPO MEN, the new science fiction film starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker as company agents who retrieve artificial organs from donor recipients unable to pay for the price of a new heart. Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski also discuss the [...]

The Guardian has posted a slightly schizophrenic interview with Jane Goldman, who co-wrote the script for the upcoming KICK-ASS with director Matthew Vaughn, based on the comic book by Mark Millar. I say “schizophrenic” because Goldman says some rather contradictory things while trying to defend the film.

Shantel Vananten as Lori in “The Final Destination
That’s right folks, following the box office success of Warner Bros.’ THE FINAL DESTINATION (released last year in 3D) the studio has decided to back yet another sequel to the franchise.
Comingsoon.net has revealed that while at ShoWest in Las Vegas Warner Bros. confirmed that a fifth sequel will be [...]

Sources close to The Hollywood Reporter are claiming that Chris Evans has been approached for the role of Captain America, Marvel’s latest superhero to get the Hollywood treatment. Despite not having been screen tested, Evans has apparently been offered the chance to star in the upcoming film, currently entitled THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA (here’s hoping they shorten that title).

A fantasy film continues to rule the box office, with Tim Burton’s remake of ALICE IN WONDERLAND toping the chart yet again this weekend. Meanwhile, the science fiction film REPO MEN opened without much heart (or liver or kidneys). ALICE took in $34.5-million, raising its worldwide total to $565.8-million. REPO bowed with a meager $6.2-million.

Jam!’s showbiz website has an interview with Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, the directing duo who came on to HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON literally after the last minute: the film had already gone into production when the studio decided the story was not working, so DeBlois and Sanders (the team behind LILO AND STITCH) [...]

The Los Angeles Times has posted a lengthy sit down interview with director Bryan Singer and producer Lauren Shuler Donner, in which they discuss the possibility of Singer’s return to the X-MEN film franchise. Singer directed X-MEN and X-MEN 2, which helped jump-start the current wave of comic-book-to-film adaptations and established Marvel Comics characters (Spider-Man, [...]

Mike Fleming at Deadline.com reports that Paramount Pictures is planning to remake 1987’s THE MONSTER SQUAD, with Rob Cohen (one of the producers on the original) hoping to direct this time out. Cohen will partner with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes (a virtual remake factory these days) to produce the film, which has yet to be [...]

An article in the Congleton Guardian offers a preview of what to expect from the new DR. WHO. Actor Matt Smith, who recently replaced the departing David Tennant as the long-lived Time Lord, says his episodes will feature “madness, tenderness and recklessness with adventure and risk.”
The 26th-year-old Smith is the youngest actor yet cast as the [...]

Recycling some news from Variety, About.com tells us that director Craig Gillespie has come on board to direct a remake of FRIGHT NIGHT, the 1980s horror comedy about a kid who teams up with a horror-television host when a real, live (or, rather, undead) vampire moves in next door. Gillespie’s previous work consists mostly of [...]