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Remakes are the film critic’s favourite hate object, mainly because it’s so rare that you come across a good one. So when director José Padilha – whose latest film, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within , became the most commercially successful Brazilian film in history – signed up for a reboot of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 action flick RoboCop , eyebrows were raised. Slated for release in 2013, RoboCop might seem a strange proposition for a winner of the Berlin Film Festival’s prestigious Golden Bear award (for Elite Squad in 2008). Padilha is known for his unflinching portrayal of very real social problems in contemporary Rio de Janeiro: why should he be the man to present us with, on the face of it, another shameless raid on the Eighties back catalogue that’s already seen The Thing, Clash of the Titans and Conan the Barbarian open to lukewarm reviews? Perhaps RoboCop is a special case. After all it is, among other things, a satire of corporate greed set in Detroit – today a notorious exam

Christina Hendricks , the actress who gives the TV drama Mad Men a lot of its heat, is growing fonder of the Sixties. Hendricks , who plays Joan Holloway, the no-nonsense head of office operations in the Sixties-set TV show, is in talks to appear in Sally Potter’s anti-nuclear movie, Bomb , which is also based in that decade. The picture focuses on two teenage rebels, played by Elle Fanning and Alice Englart , who become involved in the Ban the Bomb movement and the sexual revolution. Potter and producer Christopher Sheppard plan to shoot the film in February in London and on the South-East coast. Alessandro Nivola has also been cast in Bomb, and Annette Bening is considering a part in the film. Hendricks’s Jessica Rabbit meets Marilyn Monroe hour-glass figure caught audiences’ attention when Mad Men took off. Please Leave A Comment- Source- dailymail

January 13, 2012 We have your access to Joyful Noise . Warner Bros. has provide me with an Exclusive code for the fans to get access to the screening in Sacramento,Ca . NO PURCHASE NECESSARY Joyful Noise is an upcoming musical film, starring Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Courtney B. Vance, Francis Jue and introducing Jeremy Jordan . It was written and directed by Todd Graff, with gospel-infused music by Mervyn Warren.  In the film, two strong-minded women are forced to cooperate when budget cuts threaten to shut down a small-town choir. After the untimely death of a small-town choir director ( Kris Kristofferson ) in Georgia, Vi Rose Hill, a no-nonsense single mother of two teens ( Latifah ), takes control of the choir using the traditional Gospel style that their Pastor Dale ( Courtney B. Vance ) approves of. However, the director's widow, G.G. Sparrow ( Parton ), believes she should have been given the position. G.G. the major donor to their church, comes to

Dam they actually made a movie based on footage caught on camera. Remember never judge a book by it's cover. Danny Trejo stars in Badass , based on an incident on the Oakland bus system when a white bearded man and a young black man got into on the bus. The outcome is not what you would expect to see from a guys who is 65. Decorated Vietnam hero Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It’s not until forty years later when an incident on a commuter bus (where he protects an elderly black man from a pair of skin heads) makes him a local hero where he’s suddenly celebrated once again. But his good fortune suddenly turns for the worse when his best friend Klondike is murdered and the police aren’t doing anything about it. Watch the actual footage after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment-

We got our hands on another image from Stallone's next film  BULLET TO THE HEAD . Can you believe his is 65 years old. BULLET TO THE HEAD starring Sylvester Stallone, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater and Holt McCallany , directed by Walter Hill. Also starring the Asian driver from Fast Five, Sung Kang and Sarah Shahi (TV’s Fairly Legal) as Sly’s daughter.. Director Walter Hill (48 Hours) rewrote the script by Alessandro Camon (The Messenger), based on the graphic novel BULLET TO THE HEAD by Matz and Colin Wilson. The story is about a New Orleans hitman ( Stallone ) who partners up with a young NY detective (Kang) “in a high-stakes investigation that leads from the dingy back alleys of New Orleans all the way to the power corridors of Washington, D.C”. It’s an unlikely duo cop actioner investigating 2 murders, they’re willing to sacrifice everything to do some payback. Please Leave A Comment-

We have the fifth behind-the-scenes video diary for The Hobbit from Peter Jackson . A little holiday treat from the team in New Zealand! Location shooting, more of the the actors and sets. Just last week we got the trailer for the film. And now with have this new blog. Happy Holidays everyone. “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will ch

Looking to keep The Amazing Spider-Man in our festively blurred noggins over this quiet period between Christmas and New Year, Sony has shoved out a few new pictures from the film on to the web. Focusing mostly on Peter Parker ( Andrew Garfield )’s early days as the web-shooting hero, the new images feature him discovering his new found powers and going a little bit Teen Wolf on the high school basketball court. There is also a nice, close look at the mechanical web system he’ll be using, a switch back to the character’s roots before more recent comic runs – and Sam Raimi’s cinematic version – had them as organic developments. Also pictured is Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacey looking academic and her father, police chief George Stacey ( Denis Leary ). Please Leave A Comment- Source- Empire

Here we have the first image from  ARGO starring   Ben Affleck . Affleck directs ARGO , political thriller with wry humor based on a Wired Magazine article titled How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran about the Tehran hostage crisis. Based on true events, “Argo” chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis — the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades. Produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, the team behind Good Night And Good Luck. Scripted by Chris Terrio, the article was written by “Joshuah Bearman and published in April 2007, the story centers on how, during the occupation of the American embassy by Iranians in 1979, a rescue effort was mounted by the CIA and the Canadian government to extract six U.S. diplomats. The CIA used a disguise expert and concocted a scenario that involved the six being a Hollywood crew scouting a movie titled A

The search for a Thor 2 director to replace Patty Jenkins has ended. Sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter that Alan Taylor , best known for directing episodes of HBO's fantasy series Game Of Thrones , has nabbed the job. Jenkins (Monster) made headlines in early December when she departed the high-profile sequel to May's Thor. Both she and Marvel cited "creative differences" but THR's Kim Masters later revealed that Marvel abruptly dismissed Jenkins when the studio felt she was showing “a lack of overall clarity in her choices,” according to one source. Marvel was concerned that the filmmaking process would be “difficult” and that the planned release date might be hard to hit. The move to jettison Jenkins infuriated star Natalie Portman, who had been excited about Jenkins becoming the first woman to direct a major superhero tentpole film. A source speculated that Marvel executives might have been won over initially by Portman’s enthusiasm for Jenkins b

The first official tease from Steven Soderbergh's upcoming stripper film also highlights co-stars Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer and Joe Manganiello . Director Steven Soderbergh explores the world of male strippers with Magic Mike , and ahead of the film's June 2012 release, Warner Bros. has unleashed the first still from the dramedy. Magic Mike stars Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Joe Manganiello and Matthew McConaughey are all accounted for in the photo, with the latter apparently dressed as a shirtless Uncle Sam. The rest of the actors, all of whom play strippers in the movie, are only showing off their arms for now. Magic Mike is inspired by Tatum's experiences working as a stripper before his acting career took off. But instead of the lead, Tatum plays the mentor to Pettyfer's character, a performer in the troupe. McConaughey plays Dallas, a former stripper who owns the club where the two perform -- though from the looks of the photo, he doesn't take