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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

THE GODFATHER 1.5?

I don’t know where Garth Franklin gets all his links from. Dark Horizons links to the most obscure corners of the net, which I love – it makes the site one of my daily must-reads. Otherwise how would I ever know that “MyVideoStore.com” is reporting that Paramount is thinking about adapting the new Godfather novels … Continue reading

WEIR’S SUB MISSION

Peter Weir, who last directed the vastly underrated Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, is getting nautical again with his next film, Shadow Divers. A long in development movie – once rumored to be Ridley Scott’s – it’s based on a book of the same title (with the additional subtitle “The True … Continue reading

TEASED BY VOLDEMORT

Voldemort, you snake-faced bastard! The first teaser poster for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* has been loosed upon the world (below!), and it makes it look like things are going to be pretty dark for our heroes this time around. Actually, if you’ve read the book you know that things get very, … Continue reading

COMEDY CLAUS

We haven’t even had Christmas 2006 and already the 2007 holiday movies are strutting their stuff. Thankfully the ’07 Christmas film that’s running a teaser happens to be one I’m actually looking forward to: Fred Claus. It’s about Santa Claus’ brother Fred, played by Vince Vaughn. The teaser is exclusive to MySpace and looks like … Continue reading

FED EX FROM IWO JIMA

The face of the Oscar race may be getting an overhaul, if Tom O’Neil’s Gold Derby is right – Warner Bros is going to give Letters From Iwo Jima a one week New York and LA qualifying run at the end of the year.Letters is the companion piece to Clint Eastwood’s recent disappointment, Flags of … Continue reading

THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON XENU

Talk show couches across the nation, beware! Tom Cruise is coming back. After getting canned from Paramount and seeing Mission: Impossible III deflate at the box office, the tiny thespian is acting just like a Tom Cruise character at the end of the second act of a Tom Cruise movie – he’s getting back on … Continue reading

PIXAR SMELLS A RAT

Disney and Pixar sure bang out movies like it’s nothing. It seems like we’re always anticipating another Pixar classic. Unfortunately, we’re going to have to wait until June 29th, 2007 for our next dose of greatness. In the mean time, here’s the official one sheet that they just released for their next epic, Ratatouille. Ratatouille … Continue reading

BURTON THINKS COHEN IS ‘VERY NICE’

Though it was a mere rumor a few months ago, it’s now official. Sacha Baron Cohen has signed on to Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd. Cohen fills the role of Signor Adolfo Pirelli, Sweeney’s arch-nemesis, who also happens to be a barber. The picture is set to begin production in London in February. Based on the … Continue reading