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Pavement Reunion Gets a Tentative Date

The story of a Pavement reunion has developed further as Pitchfork this morning set an exact date: Sept. 21, 2010....  read more

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Has Charlie Watts Quit the Rolling Stones After Nearly Half a Century?

Update: A spokesperson for the Rolling Stones released a statement to Uncut magazine stating that Charlie Watts has not, in fact, left the band. “Contrary to a fabricated story that ran this morning on a small music web site in Australia," it reads, "drummer Charlie Watts has not left The Rolling Stones.” Fair enough.--If you shed a tear when Oasis disbanded late last week, you might need a willing friend's shoulder for this one: After 47 years playing in the Rolling Stones, it looks like drummer Charlie Watts is calling it a day....  read more

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Gillian Anderson Hints at Third X-Files Movie (Maybe)

A fansite devoted to The X-Files, X-Files News, has managed to get some traction out of a tiny report at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where series co-star Gillian Anderson apparently said “of course I will agree on making the new X-Files movie.”...  read more

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New Xbox Console Rumor Stirred Up by Natal Hype

With the introduction of Microsoft's Project Natal, a camera that tracks motion and recognizes voice and facial expressions, comes the obligatory gossip and hype that sets in whenever a technology giant makes a giant leap in technology. The latest talk toys with a rumored new, refined Xbox 360 console that might be released along with the Natal camera system....  read more

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Call of Duty Movie Might Be On the Way

One of the Top 5 best-selling franchises across all video game platforms in Europe and the U.S., Call of Duty, might be coming to a movie screen near you, along with World of Warcraft, according to The Hollywood Reporter....  read more

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Jackie Earle Haley rumored to play new Freddy Krueger

We learned earlier that Robert Englund would be replaced for the first time as Freddy Krueger in the new remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, but we didn’t really speculate who would be cast in his place. Other fans did, and they’ve begun to lobby hard for Jackie Earle Haley, a co-star of Watchmen who’s probably best known for his terrifying Oscar-nominated turn in Little Children....  read more

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Classic-series Battlestar Galactica movie possibly on the way

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Star Wars and the original Battlestar Galactica have more in common than you might realize. When ABC produced the show in the late 1970s, they brought on George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic crew (though they weren't called that at the time) to run special effects. Lucas agreed, but only on the stipulation that none of Star Wars' special effects be used. Things didn't work out as planned and, after a slew of lawsuits, Galactica never really recovered. We probably should be thankful; had Galactica been a smash success, it might not have been rebooted into one of the smartest...  read more

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Marc Forster rumored to be director on Kurt Cobain biopic

There would seem to be few tasks more thankless than making a biopic of Kurt Cobain. Gus Van Sant turned enough protective heads with Last Days (pictured), and that was only about someone whose final hours very much resembled Cobain’s....  read more

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Leonardo DiCaprio to reboot WarGames?

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Besides its notability as the year that your correspondent was born, 1983 is also known for bringing about Matthew Broderick's career with WarGames, a film about an innocent, young computer hacker (Broderick) who plays with the computer in charge of America's nuclear arsenal and inadvertently starts the countdown to World War III. This is all resolved with a friendly game of tic-tac-toe, an infinite number of computed stalemates, and the message that you can't hug your children with nuclear arms. Now its rumored that Leonardo Dicapprio wants to remake the sci-fi flick....  read more

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Wachowski Brothers Superman reboot rumored

According to the movie industry rumor mill, Bryan Singer has said he's no longer into Superman, and the Wachowski Brothers have been approached to take over the franchise....  read more

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