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‘Star Trek’ Director J.J. Abrams Drops Hints About IDW’s ‘Countdown’ Prequel Comic

“Well, we all sort of came up with the broader strategy together, and Alex and Bob have been much more hands on as I’ve been working on locking the movie, and now mixing the movie,” said Abrams in regards to his involvement with the comic. “As Bob is the resident Trekker, he’s been sort of [...]

J.J. Abrams: Not Being Made to Keep Secrets

On staying mum about his upcoming Star Trek film: “It’s like having a really big secret where you just feel like, ‘Alright, I have to carry this around.’ It’s good news, meaning it’s not carrying a secret around that’s a depressing burden. It’s a fun, exciting anticipation as opposed to dread. All I want to [...]

Nicole Kidman to Play Transsexual in Upcoming Movie

Nicole Kidman as the world’s first post-op transsexual, married to Charlize Theron? You betcha.
The Australian actress will star in and produce “The Danish Girl,” based on the true story of Danish artists Einar and Greta Wegener. Their marriage took a sharp left turn after Einar (Kidman) stood in for a female model that Greta (Theron) [...]

YouTube and MGM: A B-movie marriage

The other shoe has dropped in the YouTube.com licensing deal to host feature films. It’s a resounding thud: they will post a few archive films from MGM, such as Bulletproof Monk (which had a successful run on the Starz Low Budget Flops network on DISH), The Magnificent Seven (on the HBO Yul Brenner channel) and [...]

Di Caprio on Crowe, great interview

Movie : Body of Lies.
“Ridley Scott is a unique director and they (Scott and Crowe) are really unique in the way they work together,” sayd Di Caprio.
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FOX gives Fringe a full season

J.J Abrams’ new show, “Fringe”, has been been picked up for a full first season!
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Paul Newman is dead!

Ten-time Oscar nominee Paul Newman, creator of iconic movie anti-heroes in “The Hustler,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” has died after a battle with cancer.

Matt Reeves Goes Vampire

CLOVERFIELD director Matt Reeves is planning an Americanization of the outstanding Swedish vampire movie LET THE RIGHT ONE IN.
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Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci -Interview

The screenwriter-producer team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci got its start in the television world of “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” and “Alias” before typing out $1.4 billion in worldwide revenue with a quartet of feature scripts that included “Mission: Impossible III” and “Transformers.”
With its new TV series “Fringe” running on Fox, K/O will follow [...]

Movie industry opens Irving office to combat DVD bootleggers

Local bootleggers, beware: The Motion Picture Association of America is setting up shop in Irving to stop DVD piracy in North Texas, one of the country’s largest hubs for the crime.
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