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The Road's Release Date Gets Pushed Back...Again

In the movie business, every time a film's release date is moved back, industry confidence and media support for the project drops at least a little bit....  read more

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The Road Set for October Release

The film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's contemporary classic book, The Road, has hit every bump on the road (sorry) possible, from shifting release dates to delayed production schedule. However, it seems that the father-son wartime drama will finally see the light of day. The Road is scheduled for release on Oct. 16....  read more

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Springsteen, Vedder, Damon, Cheadle, many more aboard for People's History of the United States

In an unusually ambitious project, the History Channel announced that it plans to adapt Howard Zinn’s seminal 1980 book A People’s History of the United States as a two-hour film with archival footage and readings by Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and John Legend and film stars like Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Don Cheadle and Marisa Tomei....  read more

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Eastern Promises 2 may reunite Mortensen and Cronenberg

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If, like most people, you had the feeling that the movie Eastern Promises had a lot of potential, but rushed the ending (spoiler coming up soon), then a resolution to that problematic conclusion may have presented itself. In an unprecedented move, director David Cronenberg announced that he's moving towards a sequel. (Cronenberg has never directed a sequel to any of his movies, although The Fly and Scanners both had sequels.)...  read more

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Appaloosa

If you're setting out to make a Western, you can deconstruct and reinvent...  read more

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Mortensen, McKellen and Serkis all in talks for Hobbit roles

It's great that Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson are both on board for the upcoming Hobbit  features, but what about everyone else involved with The Lord of the Rings? For the most part it looks like they're just as excited about the feature as everyone else. Two key roles, and one perhaps-ancillary one, are in talks to be filled with the same actors as in the original trilogy....  read more

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Eastern Promises

It’s difficult to enjoy the twists and turns of a film’s path when you already know...  read more

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