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Zombie Info has a heads-up on A.D. from creator Haylar Garcia. You can watch the newly released teaser trailer below, and take a look at the awesome poster here.

You can’t really gather much about the plot from the teaser – just that there will be zombies, and that these zombies will be killed in a bloody manner. But we knew that already. It reminds me of Left 4 Dead. The distinctive art style stands out however, and while I don’t really like the character designs (they look too “gangly” in my opinion), the lighting and the setting are absolutely beautiful, as is some of the cinematography.

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avatar neytiriToday the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced, and as expected Avatar picked up quite a few in a number of categories. Sandra Bullock, Christoph Waltz, Jeremy Renner, Morgan Freeman, Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep also recieved nominations for their acting.

You can see the full list of nominations below:

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Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the duo who created The Office and Extras, are together again with a new film: Cemetery Junction. Oddly, it looks like it may be a drama and star a group of younger actors. The film is set in 1970s England and “follows the lives of three working-class friends trapped in a small town.” One of them gets a new job and reconvenes with his childhood sweetheart, causing drama among the group. It’s set for release on April 14, 2010. Here’s the trailer.

Update: Sony has taken it down from YouTube. Will post again when it has been officially released.

Usually Gervais stars in most of his productions, but he may be a secondary character this go round. I’m a bit puzzled, but I’ll withhold judgment. What do you guys think? Are you prepared for a drama from the creator of the BBC Office?

megan fox transformers 3The 2010 Razzie nominations have been revealed today and it appears Megan Fox and Sandra Bullock will be battling it out for the Worst Actress Award later this month. Neither of them will want the glory I’m sure, especially Bullock who may be the first actress ever to win an Oscar and a Razzie on the same weekend.

Other actors and actresses graced with nominations include Will Ferrell, Robert Pattinson, Eddie Murphy, John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, and the actress who played Shia LaBeouf’s mother (the one that got high) in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

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liam neeson zeus IGN has received a new international trailer for Clash of the Titans. We’ve seen a lot of the footage in previous trailers, however this trailer gives us a few new scenes and there’s a lot more talking. The prospect of seeing Liam Neeson as Zeus having a Godly rant in 3D should be enough to make everyone see this during its opening weekend.

…release the Kraken!

bourne 4We haven’t heard anything on Bourne 4 since Paul Greengrass decided against returning to direct. Matt Damon made it known that he wouldn’t be back without Greengrass, so that either meant Universal could somehow woo Damon into returning, or they could do that thing studios do when they want to keep the rights but can’t carry on with the original cast/director. Reboot!

“There’ll probably be a prequel of some kind with another actor and another director before we do another one,” he said, “just because I think we’re probably another five years away from doing it – we’ve got to get a script…”

That’s what Matt Damon told Empire recently at the Invictus premiere. So I guess Bourne 4 is dead. Even if Universal reboot it’s unlikely they’ll bring Damon back to make Bourne 4 when they’ve just set up a whole new set of films.

Would you have prefered a Boune 4? Or is a reboot the way to go?

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Avatar has passed yet another milestone. Last week it passed Titanic to become the highest grossing movie of all time–Titanic had about $1.84 billion in sales). As of today, it is the first movie to gross $2 billion dollars around the world, taking in an estimated $2,039,222,000 through the weekend. More importantly, the movie shows no signs of slowing.

Interestingly, I saw an article on The Hollywood Reporter, saying Avatar is actually the #26 highest movie if we dismiss box office gross and instead count ticket sales. Under that model, Gone with the Wind and Star Wars are the most popular movies of all time, followed by The Sound of Music and E.T. The Extraterrestrial. My thoughts on counting ticket sales instead of  dollars grossed and the misleading nature of this article are after the jump. click to continue…

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Since leaving the Spider-Man franchise a couple of weeks ago, no solid news has broken regarding Sam Raimi’s next directorial gig. Sure, there have been the ever-present rumors about the World of Warcraft movie, but nothing that we can really sink our teeth into.

The latest rumor is that Raimi may slip into the director’s chair of an upcoming adaptation of The Shadow, a film he is already attached to as a producer. IESB has a script review and heard from their sources that Raimi is interested in directing again as soon as possible; apparently he loves the latest draft of the script and is interested in taking the reins on this project.
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