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First Photos Of January Jones As Emma Frost In X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

INF Daily has a number of photos from the Buckinghamshire, England shoot of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, with January Jones looking very much the part of Emma Frost. The White Queen appears to be on some kind of World War II-era set in these images, walking around along with her stunt...

DEMONS 3 - Adding to the Mythology of a Cult Film

My first experience with the Demons films was back around 1989. A friend’s father had returned home from a car sale with a pair of VHS he’d picked up for the paltry fee of one British pound. The first was the incestuous crapfest Nights of Terror - known in the...

Fall TV - 10 Best Shows for Geeks

It's the most wonderful time of the year for TV viewers. The airwaves are just minutes away from being filled with new shows, old favorites, and ideas so epically bad they'll be canceled before the first hour is even finished airing. So here it is the official GEEKWEEK Top Ten...

The DARK TOWER to span across TV and Film

This is pretty massive news even if you aren't a fan of Stephen King's meta-Gunslinger world: Deadline Hollywood is reporting unprecedented plans of a Dark Tower film trilogy that will be simultaneously augmented by a TV show-- Ron Howard has committed to direct the initial feature film, as well as...

Robert Schwentke To Direct R.I.P.D.

According to Heat Vision, German director Robert Schwentke (RED, THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE) has signed on to direct Universal's adaptation of the Dark Horse comic, R.I.P.D. Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi penned the script, which follows a murdered cop working in the Rest In Peace Department, a police force that...

Michael Caine In Final Negotiations To Join JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH Sequel

Michael Caine is in final negotiations with New Line to join Dwayne Johnson and Josh Hutcherson in JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, according to Heat Vision. Caine will play the grandfather of Hutcherson's character who is missing on an island. The script is loosely...

The Mayor Of Halloween Town Is Dead: RIP Glenn Shadix

More sad news from Hollywood, especially for fans of Tim Burton's movies, with the announcement of the death of Glenn Shadix. Glenn was another example of the great character actors out there, that never get the spotlight, but manage to bring the screen to life in every scene they touch,...

Another Short But Sweet WALKING DEAD Clip (We are grateful but sad...)

With Halloween approaching fast (not fast enough) you'd like to think that we'd be seeing more TV spots, posters, skywritings, and messages written on the moon for AMC's The Walking Dead, you know that show that will change the history of television? But instead we are left scavenge the interwebs...

Liam Neeson Joins BATTLESHIP

According to Heat Vision, Liam Neeson has signed on to play Admiral Shane in Universal's BATTLESHIP, based on Hasbro's classic game. Neeson is the latest addition to the cast, which includes Taylor Kitsch, a naval officer engaged to the admiral's daughter; Brooklyn Decker, the daughter of the admiral; Alexander Skarsgard,...

Top 5 DVD's of the Week 9/7/10

PICK OF THE WEEK – MacGruber (Blu-ray/DVD) Will Forte’s MacGruber character was a pretty simple joke on Saturday Night Live, so expanding it into a feature may have been a bad idea (and the grosses suggest people weren’t convinced), but funny is funny, and this demented and horny film from...

Natalie Portman Offered Cuaron's GRAVITY

Amid early praise for her role in BLACK SWAN, Natalie Portman has been offered the female lead role in Alfonso Cuaron's 3D space survival story GRAVITY, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The studio reportedly approved Portman without requiring a screen test. Portman is expected to make her decision shortly, once...

JUDGE DREDD Movie Renamed, Gets Official Synopsis

The new adaptation of the British sci-fi comic series JUDGE DREDD has been renamed DREDD, likely in order to distance itself from an earlier failed adaptation starring Sylvester Stallone, Slashfilm reports. DREDD, which stars Karl Urban as the titular character, also now has an official synopsis provided by IM Global,...

Ridley Scott Meeting With Gemma Arterton About ALIEN Prequel Role

PRINCE OF PERSIA star Gemma Arterton told British newspaper The Sunday Times that she will be meeting with ALIEN director Ridley Scott to discuss possibly starring as the female lead in his upcoming prequel. Scott reportedly requested a meeting with Arterton after he saw her performance in the film THE...

Road Rage, Roger Corman-Style

Labor Day is the last get-out-there-and-drive holiday of the year — the traditional end of Summer — and what better way to celebrate than with a few pedal-to-the-metal exploitation movies from the Roger Corman archives? While we’re still waiting on reissues of such rubber-burning drive-in staples like Grand Theft Auto...

HALO Movie Still A Possibility

Microsoft may be throwing all its energy into marketing HALO: REACH at the moment, but the possibility of adapting the franchise to film has been lingering in the minds of the series' creators for quite some time. First, some backstory: in 2005, co-partners Universal and Fox were close to greenlighting...