Four months after Guillermo Del Toro officially signed on to direct “The Hobbit” and its sequel, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens have officially agreed to collaborate on the productions. The films are set to be filmed back to back and New Line president Toby Emmerich made the announcement that said production would begin [...]

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There was once a time when hack filmmaker Stephen Sommers could’ve churned out a fun popcorn flick. Before he became notorious for ruining Universal’s imminent plans to reboot their most famous movie monsters in 2004, he was making passable children’s films like The Jungle Book and fun action-horror hybrids like Deep Rising and, to [...]

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No longer content with just teasing people in an IMAX theatre, Warner Brothers has finally released the actual trailer for Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince online before its reported theatrical premiere, which is reportedly this Friday, where it will be attached to prints of The Mummy 3.
A first for the series, the trailer actually [...]

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After creeping me out with the dead-eyed characters of Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis takes another stab at a film populated entirely by CGI. This time, he tackles the Old English epic poem, Beowulf. While the film does contain fair amount of the source material, writers Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary made some changes to [...]

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He’s laughing all the way to the bank.
Despite word from Warner Brothers earlier this week about not having a trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, they never said anything about a teaser. Many of you will be split on this sort of marketing but WB did a similar one to great effect late [...]

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Rating: - Pure unadulterated cheese
Conquest is a film that plays out like a fevered dream after watching 24 hours of swords and sandals epics. It’s got all the gore and sleaze you’d expect from the maestro of mutilation, Lucio Fulci, who must of used up most of the world’s dry ice on this production [...]

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