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Update: Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Official Site Denies Heart Attack By Germain Lussier/Oct. 20, 2010 7:00 pm EST Tuesday we, along with many other websites, reported the news that Jean-Claude Van Damme suffered a minor heart attack on the set of his new movie Weapon. Well, the official website for the Muscles from Brussels, that’s www.musclesfrombrussels.be of course, put up a statement that says “JCVD is in better shape than ever and preparing for his fight in July....

VOTD: Profile Of A Foley Artist By Russ Fischer/Feb. 25, 2011 7:00 am EST Most serious film fans have a good idea of the basics of foley work: sound engineers in a studio recreate (or, in many cases, simply create) all the incidental sounds that fill out the soundtrack of a film. Most of us have probably seen Ben Burtt talk about banging on high-tension wires to create laser sounds for Star Wars, or how he layered sounds and waved a microphone to create the signature lightsaber effects....

Warner Bros. Picks Up ‘ACME Warehouse’ Pitch By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2010 6:03 pm EST THR says that Kevin and Dan Hageman sold the original pitch to WB, and that the idea was developed with producers Dan Lin and Roy Kell, with the idea of “[building] a franchise out of the Warner property.” And this might never go anywhere, though since the deal was reportedly in the middle six figures I’d be surprised if it was buried completely....

‘Dark Shadows’ Character Posters And International Trailer (With Bonus Alice Cooper) By Russ Fischer/March 20, 2012 7:04 pm EST What to make of Dark Shadows? Is Tim Burton’s adaptation of / sequel to the ’60s supernatural soap opera itself a sort of giant melodrama, or a supernatural comedy, or something else? Or all of the above? ‘All of the above’ is what Burton would have made twenty years ago, and there are certainly moment sin the first US trailer for the film that suggest that Burton is working in closer to his own classic mode than we’ve seen from him in a while....

‘Headshot’ Trailer: An Upside-Down Thai Thriller By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2011 3:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Head wounds are unpredictable. One person might endure grievous trauma to the noggin and display no ill effects, while a seemingly minor knock on the dome can drop someone else into a coma for years. So I don’t find it difficult at all to accept the idea that a man who survives being shot in the head might find that he sees everything upside-down....

‘Mystery Team’ Helmer Dan Eckman To Direct ‘Community’ Episode, Adapt ‘The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep And Never Had To’ By Angie Han/Aug. 25, 2011 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Derrick Comedy then made a leap to the big screen in 2009 with Mystery Team, an underrated indie comedy about three naive high school detectives who get in over their heads. Now the film’s director, Dan Eckman, has lined up a couple of new projects that’ll reunite him with some of his Derrick Comedy teammates....

‘The Rocketeer,’ From ‘Captain America’ Director Joe Johnston, Hits Blu-Ray In December By Russ Fischer/Sept. 6, 2011 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Disney film was a flop in the summer of ‘91 but has earned a cult following thanks to Johnston’s lively use of ’30s action/adventure serial style and the simple appeal of a mechanic who becomes a sort of hero when a jetpack falls into his possession....

‘The Shield’ Creator Shawn Ryan Writing Adaptation Of Tom Clancy’s ‘Without Remorse’ By Adam Quigley/Oct. 21, 2010 6:34 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Tom Clancy has found great success expanding his various novels into the video game medium, as developers continue to churn out seemingly endless entries into the Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon series (among others), but when it comes to film, Jack Ryan has cornered the market....

‘The Words’ Is ‘Inception’ With Stories Instead Of Dreams [Sundance 2012] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 27, 2012 8:00 am EST Like the dreams of Inception, The Words is a story about a story within a story. On the top level, there is a plot featuring Dennis Quaid and Olivia Wilde. In the middle, there’s Jeremy Irons, Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana. And on the bottom, there’s Ben Barnes and Nora Arnezeder. With direction by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, the film’s structure is its second most interesting aspect....

“You Are Going To See” ‘Cloverfield 2,’ Says Matt Reeves By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2011 9:00 am EST Several years have past since we’ve heard anything about a sequel to the 2008 hit film Cloverfield. Since its release director Matt Reeves made Let Me In, a worthy remake of Let The Right One In, producer J.J. Abrams made another monster blockbuster, Star Trek, and remains in the mysterious movie business with Super 8 while writer Drew Goddard is writing Robopocalypse for Steven Spielberg....

Ethan Hawke Says ‘Before Sunset’ Follow-Up Will Shoot This Summer By Angie Han/June 13, 2012 1:00 pm EST Ethan Hawke was the first to give away the possibility of a Before Sunrise / Before Sunset follow-up during an interview last fall, but since then Hawke, star Julie Delpy, and director Richard Linklater have been careful to avoid saying anything too solid on the subject. Deply would only affirm that they were “thinking about it” when asked about the possible project at Sundance, while Linklater denied that there was anything “concrete” when he was posed the question this spring....

Fan Created ‘Ender’s Game’ Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2010 11:00 am EST Who knows when we might finally see a big screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel Ender’s Game. Hollywood has been trying to bring the sci-fi property to the big screen for the last decade, first with German filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, The Perfect Storm) set to direct based on a screenplay by David Benioff and D....

Focus Features Sets November Date For ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2011 6:53 pm EST One of my most anticipated films of the year is Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. That’s in part because it is the new film, at last, from Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson. And in part because the cast is about as good as they come (if quite skewed towards the male): Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciaran Hinds, Mark Strong, Svetlana Khodchenko, Toby Jones, John Hurt, Stephen Graham and Kathy Burke....

Geek Deal: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Blu-Ray For Only $6.95 By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2012 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ To Shoot In June? By Russ Fischer/March 7, 2011 2:00 pm EST UPDATED: Well, this is not the outcome I’d hoped for. Shortly after word came out that Guillermo del Toro might go to Legendary and Warner Bros. to do Pacific Rim, word started to filter out that At the Mountains of Madness is really not happening. And the Criterion Cast has run an email where the director says the film is dead....

Krang, Bebop, And Rocksteady To Be Featured In ‘Ninja Turtles’? By Angie Han/July 10, 2012 7:00 am EST Michael Bay sparked some predictable fan outrage a few months ago by revealing that his live-action Ninja Turtles feature would scrap the “Teenage Mutant” part of the characters’ identities altogether. But it sounds like his other plans for the heroes in a half-shell were a bit more familiar. According to an outlet that’s read the script, the Jonathan Liebesman-directed film would’ve featured some very recognizable Ninja Turtle figures and locales, like villains Krang, Bebop, and Rocksteady, Krang and Shredder’s Technodrome lair, and their home Dimension X....

Mad Max: Fury Road Will Feature “130 Cars And Bikes And 298 Stunts!” By Adam Quigley/Sept. 2, 2010 5:00 pm EST If the casting of Tom Hardy in the lead role of Mad Max: Fury Road didn’t convince you that this is already a film worthy of your hard-earned cash, maybe this news will. The movie hasn’t started shooting yet—it won’t until next year—but we now have some numbers to give a sense of the amount of vehicular chaos that’s going to ensue....

Must Watch: Trailer For Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2010 1:43 pm EST It has been a while since Tsui Hark was on top of the Hong Kong film scene. But for anyone who was knee deep in HK flicks through the ’80s and ’90s, the name should still be enough to pique some interest. If you didn’t have the good fortune to live through that fantastic movie boom, or if the name isn’t enough, just check out the trailer for his latest film, Detective Dee....

National Board Of Review Picks ‘The Social Network’ As Best Film Of 2010 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2010 2:24 pm EST The first round of critics awards has begun, as the National Board of Review, a non-profit group made up of 110 " film enthusiasts, academics, professionals, and students" has sent out its list of award winners for film achievement in 2010. The big winner is David Fincher’s The Social Network, which took Best Film, Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg) and Best Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin)....

Now Robert Rodriguez Has His Own Cable Channel By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2012 9:00 am EST Just as the Weinstein Company skips cable and goes straight to Netflix, one-time Harvey Weinstein genre film creator Robert Rodriguez is getting his own cable channel thanks to Comcast. Rodriguez proposed El Rey, “designed to be an action-packed, general entertainment network in English for Latino and general audiences that includes a mix of reality, scripted and animated series, movies, documentaries, news, music, comedy, and sports programming....