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Green Hornet recruits BSG’s Admiral Adama

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Worldofsuperheroes.com has announced that Admiral Adama will be lending a helping hand to Seth Rogen for the latter’s film remake of 1960’s radio and TV series ‘The Green Hornet’.
Edward James Olmos, who took the role of Admiral Adama from Lorne Greene in the updated ‘Battlestar Galactica’ TV series is joining the cast of [...]

3D for Underworld 4

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Would you be able to resist the temptations of 3D sexy vampires (think Rhona Mitra or Kate Beckinsale in a skin tight leathers) fighting werewolves?
Sony’s Screen Gems can’t. They’ve announced a fourth film in the successful Underworld franchise. We don’t know if the Underworld: Rise of the Lycans stars (Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy [...]

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant trailer

The Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant is based on The Saga of Darren Shan the first book from the Darren Shan collection. It’s an age old story – teenager runs away to join the circus. There’s a twist – teenager runs away to join a circus of real freaks and vampires.
Who wouldn’t join the [...]

Singing dead people in WET’s “Shot at love” trailer

First off; don’t watch this is you’re not a fan of glory action video games. Second off; don’t watch this if you don’t like musicals!
No kidding.
“My true love just blew me away,” sings one corpse for this trailer from the Bethesda Softworks.

There’s a catch with this video. Loads of people might start flooding the internet [...]

Tron Legacy score by Daft Punk

Looking forward to the Tron sequel Tron Legacy? Pretty much everyone I know is – and I’ve disowned the rest.
Some of the score to Tron Legacy has surfaced on the web and its been show cased from everyone through Latino Review to SciFiWire.com (the website for SyFy – surely they need to migrate to SyFyWire.com?).
Daft [...]

The Picture of Dorian Gray trailer

The trailer for the forthcoming Dorian Gray horror movie has been released and it looks good – ugly but good.
The film is based off the Oscar Wilde classic and features the artist Dorian Gray. Gray is painted by Basil Hallward, who becomes infatuated with him. Gray, in turn, meets Lord Henry who introduces him to [...]

Gungrave Live Action

The rather excellent anime action series Gungrave may see life as a live action film. Convergence Entertainment, known for The King of Fights, has secured the rights to the manga.

Variety reports that the film will have a budget between $30 and $35 million and that it will be Asian partners response for raising most of that.

What’s so good about vampire love?

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The first thing to get straight is that Let the Right One In is not your average teen/horror film. The inspiration for the title of the film refers to the Morrissey song “Let the Right One Slip In”, whilst the film itself is based on the vampire fiction novel by Swedish [...]

The Damned United: a tale of two sides

When you have a film adapted on the controversial David Peace book – The Damned United – and scripted by Peter Morgan – who previously filmed The Queen – you would probably be right in anticipating one of the most endearing films to be released this year. And, not to mention a cast that includes [...]

Slumdog Millionaire cashes in on awards

With seven awards and a number of other nominations at this year’s BAFTAs, Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire has taken the industry by storm.
Based on the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup, director Boyle’s adaptation follows Jamal Malik through his life’s ordeal as he struggles to explain his innocence to policemen who doubt his honesty in being [...]