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Amazing Spider-Man plot details emerge from Tokyo press conference

By Kervyn Cloete
January 19, 2012 - 14 years ago

Stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, as well as their producers recently hosted a press conference in Tokyo to promote their upcoming Amazing Spider-Man reboot. The press conference can be found in it’s 57 minute entirety below, but since I know most internet users have the attention span of a fruit fly, you can find the choice quotes from the …

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The future of motion-capture is no-motion-capture!

By Kervyn Cloete
January 19, 2012 - 14 years ago

Watch this hilarious video from Funny or Die, as directors Jon Favreau and Michael Bay as well as actor Ray Liotta explains the future of motion-capture technology.

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The first official trailer for horror movie Playback debuts, prepare to be confused

By Darryn Bonthuys
January 19, 2012 - 14 years ago

Remember The Ring? It was a horror-thriller film, with an easy plot. You watch a certain video tape, a raspy voice contacts you, and you wind up dead within a week, thanks to one demonic girl with water issues crawling out of your TV. Easy enough to understand for even the dullest of movie-watchers. Christian Slater is back with a …

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Expendables 2 will be PG-13 and it's all Chuck Norris' fault

By Kervyn Cloete
January 19, 2012 - 14 years ago

As has been thoroughly and scientifically proven over the last few years, there really is nothing that Chuck Norris can’t do. Now according to an interview he has done with Polish magazine Gazeta, he/his beard has even managed to scare all the naughty words out of a script.

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Extras! Cheesy montage overload, Movie posters from an alternate universe, The greatest reviews of 2011 and Dexter may be headed to the big screen! Plus much more!

By Kervyn Cloete
January 18, 2012 - 14 years ago

Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed!

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FDR: American Badass! redband trailer – What the….

By Kervyn Cloete
January 18, 2012 - 14 years ago

In what is clearly an outright cash-in attempt after the production of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a trailer for a new film has surfaced that makes even Wayans Brothers movies look high brow art. FDR: American Badass! is an ultra low budget affair that features veteran TV actor Barry Bostwick as polio-stricken and foul-mouthed American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who uses …

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Tommy Lee Jones signs up for Emperor, will play General Douglas MacArthur

By Darryn Bonthuys
January 18, 2012 - 14 years ago

The veteran actor is the latest cast addition to director Peter Webber’s World War 2 film, and will join Matthew Fox for the historical drama. Jones will portray infamous American General Douglas MacArthur, while Fox will portray General Bonner Fellers, one of MacArthurs staff members and an expert on the Japanese.

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Renowned author Cormac McCarthy has written a script

By Kervyn Cloete
January 18, 2012 - 14 years ago

So why is this a big deal, you may ask. Thousands of scripts get written every day, right? Well, Cormac McCarthy is a special case. Not only is he a Pullitzer winning author, but two of his most famous books have also recently been adapted for the screen to critical acclaim: No Country For Old Men and The Road. No …

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George Lucas is throwing in the flannel towel

By Kervyn Cloete
January 18, 2012 - 14 years ago

According to a NY Times article, George Lucas is retiring from blockbuster filmmaking. Yes, these are assertions that we’ve heard before from the man behind some of the biggest movie phenomenons in history, but this time he certainly seems like he means it.

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Gossip Girl actor Aaron Tveit joins the cast of Les Miserables

By Darryn Bonthuys
January 18, 2012 - 14 years ago

What’s that Hollywood, you need  another re-adaptation/re-imagining/reboot of something that has already been done? Well then, fetch your best shovels, because its time to go dig up the celebrated corpse of Les Miserables once again! Aaron Tveit is the latest actor to sign up for Universal Studios adaptation of the classic musical, joining an ensemble cast to bring the tale …

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Polish your monocles, as the BAFTA nominations are here!

By Darryn Bonthuys
January 18, 2012 - 14 years ago

Golden Globes? Oscars? Nicklelodeon Kids Choice Awards? Pffft, who needs those American awards shows when the British are getting ready to show us what had them gasping in cinematic pleasure and disbelief? Yessiree, it’s once again time for the British Film and Television Awards, complete with a list of who has received a polite nod from the UK entertainment industry. …

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Local heist film 31 Million Reasons, takes R320k on opening weekend

By Kervyn Cloete
January 18, 2012 - 14 years ago

  Now this makes me smile. A South African film making a splash at the local box office, and not a single hidden camera, white man in blackface/drag or cheesy Afrikaans liefdesliedjie in sight. TimesLive is reporting that the Durban heist film, 31 Million Reasons, has made R320 000 on it’s opening weekend, getting it onto the top 10 local …

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