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Yet another Batman casting rumour. Cinema Blend, say that Rhona Mitra is in the frame for the role of Catwoman in Batman 3.

Steve Carell will star in Brigadier Gerard, a period comedy about “a French soldier during the Napoleonic wars who is deluded about his level of bravery.” [THR]

Charles Ross’ One-Man Star Wars Trilogy will be in Baltimore from December 9th to the 21st. [theforce]

Bloody Disgusting has new photos from SAW V.

The official website for Coraline has gone live. [geeksofdoom]

Those of you who see Max Payne this weekend should stay until after the credits. Apparently there is a small clip that teases a sequel. [cinemablend]

"Harrison Ford has officially quashed fears of Shia LaBeouf taking up the lead role mantle in future "Indiana Jones" sequels - "No, that's never been (the idea)... I think it just doesn't work that way. And there's definitely a distinction between passing the fedora and someone picking it up"..." (full details)
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New Max Payne poster - This time Max is looking up

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Today it was announced that Dominic Monaghan (Lost) and Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under) have been cast in a horror thriller called Fortuna which sounds a bit like The Running Man meets Children of Men. Set in the year 2100, where “a collapsed economy and climate crises have eliminated the middle class” leaving a divide between the really rich and extremely poor. To avoid a revolt from the masses, the rich elite create a game called Fortuna, where one out of every thousand players will win a chance to join the upper class. Contestants are never seen from again.

Someone is selling a restored Ghostbuster’s Ecto-1 which was used in Universal Studios Florida for over fifteen years.

Warner Bros. Pictures is developing "Thumb," a comedy-adventure film featuring 16th century mischievous shrunken folklore character Tom Thumb says the trades.

David Cronenberg is in talks to helm The Matarese Circle, a global conspiracy thriller based on the 1979 book by the late author Robert Ludlum (the Bourne franchise). Denzel Washington is already attached to play one of the leads in the MGM production.

David Goyer, one of The Dark Knight screenwriters confirms that all the recent rumours are untrue. “It’s all B.S. ALL of it,” Goyer told MTV. “Chris and I haven’t even talked about it. He quite understandably is taking a long, long vacation and wants to purge himself.”

Matt Lucas has joined the cast of Imagi Studios' CG-animated motion picture "Astro Boy"..." (full details)

Marvel Studios will film their next four films at Raleigh Studios in Manhattan Beach, CA. [ComingSoon]

Entertainment Weekly lists the 25 Best and Worst Star Wars Moments. “Luke I Am Your Father” was #1 best, Greedo shooting first is the worst.

Lionsgate has launched the official website for Punisher: War Zone at PunisherWarZoneMovie.com.

FirstShowing lists 5 reasons why fans will love a Green Lantern movie.

A new edition of Watchmen motion comics has been released on iTunes.

Bond girl Gemma Arterton is concerned her appearance in Quantum Of Solace may spell the end of her Hollywood career.

20th Century Fox has launched the full official site for the upcoming film based on the "Max Payne" video game series.

Kevin Smith's has begun showing off a behind-the-scenes video journal from the set of his comedy "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" opening later this month.

"Jodie Foster hasn't heard anything about the upcoming 'Inside Man' sequel that Spike Lee is set on doing but would be keen on reprising her role of no-nonsense "fixer" Madeleine White - "Sure. From your mouth to his ears, of course I would love to"..." (full details)

"Steven E. de Souza, the director of the original "Street Fighter", says the new film has to be better than his version - "That has to make for a better picture. When we were making the original one, they insisted that all of the characters be in the movie... And if you do the math, that gives you about 7 minutes per character if you split it up equally"..." (full details)

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Dragonball Promo Teaser released - Is it any good? You Decide

A promo teaser for Dragonball was shown at Brand Licensing Europe 2008 this week. That video has now leaked online and can be watched using the player below. The full trailer will be released with Max Payne.

Written and directed by James Wong, the April 10 release stars Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Emmy Rossum, Eriko Tamura, Joon Park, Chow Yun-Fat, Texas Battle, Randall Duk Kim and Ernie Hudson.

20th Century Fox is releasing the Dragonball movie in theaters everywhere on April 3rd, 2009.

All our other postings on all things Dragonball (posters, news etc) can be found here.

The first trailer posting has been removed but here is another one which should still work. Let me know if it stops!

What do you think? Is this going to be any good? What do you Dragonball fans think of it? Is it faithfull or a big fat waste of time? Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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Director of Max Payne gets his PG-13 rating. Idiot!

"Max Payne" director John Moore has won his fight and secured a PG-13 rating for the video game adaptation reports Shack News.

Initially rated R by the MPAA, Moore strongly criticized the MPAA in an interview - calling the ruling unjust. Moore and crew "trimmed some frames more for the sake of trimming frames" and the film will now open with the PG-13.

The director also tells Game Daily that he is planning a "Gamer Dedicated Cut" of the film:"It's a little slower and a little more atmospheric. There are some rougher edges on it, but it's not going to be a bloodfest. I want this to be the Max Payne that I set out to shoot. It's not that I wanted to release one version in the theaters and make a cheap buck by following up with a blood-drenched DVD version. The movie you see in the theaters will be an intense experience and the movie you see on DVD will be as intense an experience with some extra sensibilities for people who really adore the game."

In my opinion making it a PG-13 will suck an awful lot of the appeal out of the movie. What do you think?
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Damn! Duke Nukem is kicking ass and chewing bubblegum...he's all out of bubblegum

The people over at Kotaku have news on the possibility of a Duke Nukem feature film. Watch out pig people, the Duke is coming!

Hollywood producer Scott Faye, who’s readying Max Payne for its October 17th release, is working with 3D Realms’ Scott Miller on a Duke Nukem movie.

“I'm working diligently at making a Duke Nukem movie scenario that will live up to the character and its import in the videogame world,” said Faye. “As is the case with all of my game adaptations, I'd rather not make the movie than make a poor adaptation.”

Faye stuck with that strategy with Max Payne – a game he first saw at E3 in Atlanta and made a verbal commitment to Miller to one day bring it to the big screen. Over 10 years and a couple movie studios later, the movie is hitting theaters with Mark Wahlberg in the starring role.

“With the two new games coming out based on Duke Nukem, I'm working at establishing a Duke film scenario that will compel a studio to finance a feature version,” said Faye. “Certainly, there's a large audience that knows and loves this character.”

Faye said he’s still actively developing the story and he will not shop the film in Hollywood until all the people involved in the project feel solid about where we are creatively.

“More than ever before, I feel that the feature adaptation of Duke Nukem will come to together nicely,” said Faye, who runs Depth Entertainment.

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Max Payne - R Rated? Good or bad thing?

Looks as if the Max Payne movie is going to be R rated and not PG-13 as the film makers wanted (our previous posts on the Max Payne posters and trailer's are here). Now this is good for the older movie going audience and could mean that it will be close to the game with lots of brutal killings. However, it does of course mean it might not do as well at the box office as a PG-13 rating would. The Max Payne games are a few years old now so the main fans of the game will all be old enough to go and see an R rating.

However, Max Payne director John Moore is not happy with the MPAA’s decision to give the film an R and is supposedly trying to cut the film down to the original PG-13. He tells Das Gamer, of his frustration with the whole process:

We’re suffering from what I call Batman blowback. The Motion Picture Association of America gave The Dark Knight a PG-13 rating and basically sucked Warner Bros. cock…The MPAA changes their rules willy-nilly and it depends on who’s seeing your actual movie at the time. It’s very difficult to get a hold on what’s acceptable. The only thing you can use is current standards. So I go and see The Dark Knight and I say, “Gee, that’s pretty gnarly for PG-13,” but I felt good about Max Payne after coming out of the theater. I thought Max wasn’t going to have a problem. And that’s not the case. They’re coming down on us pretty hard.
[The MPAA] really hung themselves with The Dark Knight. Every other filmmaker in town is knocking on their door saying, “Please sir, may I have my PG-13 rating and be as fair to my movie as you were to The Dark Knight.”

What is your opinion of all this? Should it be an R or PG-13? Should the Dark Knight have been rated R and, if it had, would it have been the huge box office smash?

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New Max Payne Posters

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Max Payne - Trailer

Max better watch out for those plants that are trying to kill you...oh wrong film. I hope Mark does a better job in this one than The Happening.