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Steven Spielberg Signs on to Harvey Remake, Bridges Gap Between Production Companies

In 1950, Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Harvey was adapted for the silver screen. Nearly 50 years later, Steven Spielberg has recently agreed to direct and co-produce a remake of the classic film....  read more

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Fired Fox Critic Sues Over Wolverine Spat

Roger Friedman, the former Fox News critic and columnist fired earlier this year for posting a review of a bootlegged copy of Wolverine, has filed a long-expected lawsuit against his former employer alleging wrongful termination and libel....  read more

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Low concept and lower impact, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is...  read more

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Wolverine to Have Multiple After-Credits Endings

In an apparent bid to counter potential lost revenue from its infamous web leak, X-Men Origins: Wolverine director Gavin Hood has revealed that the final print of the movie will carry at least two different “hidden” endings after the credits....  read more

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Fox Hands Out Unlikely Release Dates; Fox Atomic Folding?

In what Variety touts as a stepped-up effort to create a year-round event-movie calendar, 20th Century Fox has announced it will open three high-profile titles, Date Night, Percy Jackson and The Tooth Fairy, in the early months of 2010....  read more

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Fox News critic is fired for bootleg Wolverine review

Was he or wasn’t he? The employment status of Roger Friedman, a columnist for FoxNews.com, became an unlikely flashpoint over the weekend after he posted a review of a bootlegged early version of Wolverine on his site last week. 20th Century Fox (which, like Fox News, is owned by News Corp.) released a nasty statement in response, and before the weekend was out a statement from News Corp. said that Friedman had been “terminated.”...  read more

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High-quality copy of Wolverine leaks online

What a mess. In a brazen act of piracy, a high-quality version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been leaked to file-sharing sites, a full month before the movie’s bow on May 1....  read more

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Still unfinished, Australia gets a new ending

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As we edge closer to its Nov. 26 release, the prospects for Baz Luhrmann’s Australia have become increasingly bleak. By Luhrmann’s own admission, the long-awaited war epic remains unfinished. Its budget has soared north of $130 million by some estimates. And now, it looks as if we might not even see the movie as Luhrmann intended it....  read more

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Fox plans another Planet of the Apes reboot?

Right around the time Mark Wahlberg started to make out with an ape-suited Helena Bonham Carter in Tim Burton’s remake of Planet of the Apes (pictured above), it was clear 20th Century Fox had failed to reignite the old franchise. The movie posted decent numbers, but even with a gotcha twist ending that suggested the possibility of another movie, it felt distinctly like a one-time gig....  read more

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Hollywood studios to help theaters pay for 3D technology

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In a rare collaborative effort for the major Hollywood studios, word from Reuters is that Disney, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Warner Bros. are close to an agreement worth upward of $1 billion to finance the installation of thousands of digital screens at theaters across North America....  read more

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