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Titanic 3D: Coming to a Screen Near You in 2012

Just like the love of Titanic characters Jack and Rose, James Cameron movies never die. Cameron recently announced his intentions to re-release a director’s cut of Avatar this summer to give the new 3D box-office champ, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, a run for its (literal) money....  read more

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Amanda Seyfried in Talks to Star in Catherine Hardwicke's Little Red Riding Hood Movie

Hollywood seems hot for fairy tales all of a sudden. Alice in Wonderland hit the box office with a bang last weekend, and now there’s word that director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Lords of Dogtown) is working on a dark adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood....  read more

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Shutter Island Review

Release Date: Feb. 19 Director: Martin Scorsese Writers: Laeta Kalogridis (screenplay), Dennis Lehane (novel) Cinematography: Robert Richardson Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley Studio/Run Time: Paramount Pictures, 138 mins. Scorsese gets his Hitchcock on Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s pulp thriller is a brainy and compelling take on that most hoary of film genres: psychological horror. Equal parts parable and cautionary tale, Shutter Island is an expertly-paced thriller that feels far shorter and more exhilarating than its lengthy runtime suggests....  read more

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Leonardo DiCaprio Goes Viking for Mel Gibson

For his next film, Mel Gibson is planning another period piece. Adding to his repertoire of Braveheart (1995), The Passion of the Christ (2004) and Apocalypto (2006), Variety’s blogs recently announced that Mel Gibson’s newest film will be an as-yet-untitled period piece about vikings starring Leonardo DiCaprio....  read more

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The 10 Worst Movie Accents of All Time

Casting a famous actor in a role can be a crapshoot. Just because a director can snag a big name for their film doesn't always mean that they belong there. Case in point, generally talented and experienced actors, when asked to do foreign accents, may stumble somewhat...or they may stumble a lot. Here, we've listed 10 of the worst examples of famous actors doing infamously bad accents:...  read more

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Live-Action Akira Driving Forward with Children of Men/Iron Man Writers Onboard

A live-action version of the classic 1988 animé Akira will go ahead, red motorcycle and all....  read more

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Watch the Cheerfully Incoherent Teaser Trailer for Christopher Nolan's Inception

Christopher Nolan has evidently returned to his roots with Inception, the first teaser for which premiered with some prints of Inglourious Basterds this weekend. The architect of some staggeringly high-concept movies (Memento, The Prestige and some little-known, hardly-watched flick called The Dark Knight), Nolan has kept the details of his latest mindscape under tight control and certainly doesn’t let up now. All we know is that the movie has a pretty amazing cast and Nolan has definitely seen The Matrix. This one-minute teaser is open to interpretation, but we’ll leave that to you:...  read more

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Nolan's Inception Heads to Paris as Trailer Looms

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Christopher Nolan couldn’t be farther from Gotham. He began shooting his sci-fi thriller, Inception, in London last month. And now, he is shooting in Paris, on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim.  ...  read more

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Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio to Produce Brave New World Film

Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio have teamed up to produce a new film version of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s fearsome cautionary novel from 1932. ...  read more

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New Twilight Zone Movie on the Way

Warner Bros. and, randomly, Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company have decided to greenlight a new film version of The Twilight Zone, the seminal sci-fi series that originally came to the screen in 1983. ...  read more

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