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According The Hollywood Reporter, Jeph Leob (HEROES) has been made the head of a new division of Marvel Entertainment: Marvel Television.
Loeb, with writing and producing credits for both comic books and TV shows (SMALLVILLE) will supervise the the adaptation of Marvel Comic’s properties into live-action and animated projects for televsion and the Direct-To-DVD market.
Dan [...]

On October 26, Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release a 25th anniversary box set of the BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy on Blu-ray and DVD, featuring transfers of newly restored prints and over two hours of bonus material. This represents the Blu-ray debut of the three blockbuster time travel films, starring Matthew J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, and directed by Robert Zemeckis.

HATCHET – writer-director Adam Green’s gleefully gory homage to slasher films of the 1970s and ’80s – is coming to Blu-ray on September 7. The new disc will feature the unrated director’s cut, not the R-rated cut released briefly in theatres in 2007. Bonus features from the previous DVD release will be ported over, and add a new audio commentary will be added, featuring Green and actor-stuntman Kane Hodder.

Variety has confirmed that Tommy Lee Jones is indeed playing U.S. Army Colonel in Marvel Studios’ CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER.
In the comics Gen. Phillips recruited Rogers to join Project Rebirth, the top secret super-soldier program.
The article suggests the character with be “re-vamped” for the film. Presumably that means the part will be [...]

The highly-anticipated first trailer for Warner Brothers’ HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS has arrived! The first of a two-part finale to the wildly successful film series based on the novels by author J.K. Rowling is directed by David Slade and features the return of the beloved cast.

According to Deadline.com
David Strathairn (THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES, pictured) is in talks for the lead role in SyFy’s ‘plain-clothes superheroes’ TV movie/pilot ALPHAS.
The 90-minute pilot film, set to be directed by Jack Bender (LOST), was written by Zak Penn (X-MEN: THE LAST STAND) and Michael Karnow.
The long-in-development project was originally called Section 8.
The premise is that [...]

Digital Spy reports that Season Four (or Series 4, as the British say) of PRIMEVAL has been completed, and that production of Season Five has begun.
Don’t get too excited, Season 4 is seven episodes, and Season 5 will be six episodes, for a grand total of thirteen.

These new seasons will feature a mixture of old [...]

THE LAST AIRBENDER comes out this Friday and the film is doing its best to whet your appetite by releasing two new photos!

Tom Hardy is set to roam the wastelands as the new Mad Max!

While blurry pictures have been circling the internet of Paul Bettany as Priest, we’re finally given an OFFICIAL photo from the film. Based on the Tokyopop comic of the same name, PRIEST takes place in the middle of a war between humanity and vampires that has left the world decimated. Bettany’s character is [...]

Magneto has been found! After much speculation, actor Michael Fassbender (INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS, JONAH HEX) is slated to play the super squad’s arch-nemesis in the upcoming X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. The film examines the early life of Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr, the two friends who would eventually grow to become Professor X and Magneto [...]

ith no new horror, fantasy, and science fiction films opening nationwide this week, the Cinefantastique Podcast turns its eye on the 50th anniversary of a trio of terror from the year 1960: Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO, Michael Powell’s PEEPING TOM, and Roger Corman’s HOUSE OF USHER. Relax and sit back in your time machine as Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski offer their retrospective analysis of these classic films.

Poor pacing and weak continuity prevent WOLF MOON from being any kind of sleeper success, in spite of production values that are occasionally impressive for a little movie that apparently came out of nowhere. Fans of TWILIGHT will probably find the story too derivative and the violence too graphic, while general horror fans will be put off by the attempt to cash in on the teen-romance elements of the popular franchise. Fans of the cast’s familiar names and faces may be the only ones interested.