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Peter Berg keeps it in the family with Father’s Day

June 20, 2012 by | Leave a Comment
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After the abysmal Battleship, director Peter Berg is looking to return to his family roots. Variety reports that Berg will direct Father's Day, a movie written by Berg's cousin and famous sports

Review: Battleship

May 16, 2012 by | 9 Comments

Taylor Kitsch isn't exactly having a banner year. He's the star of one of Disney's all-time worst box office bombs, John Carter, and now he's leading the troops in Universal's Battleship, which is

Universal rebooting The Mummy franchise with Prometheus writer

April 4, 2012 by | 6 Comments
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Step aside, Brendan Fraser - Universal is giving The Mummy films a makeover. The studio has committed to bring the franchise back to its scary roots and hired Prometheus writer Jon Spaihts to write

Studios buying into Die Hard model with White House Down and Speeding Bullet

April 3, 2012 by | 2 Comments
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Ever since Die Hard changed the face of action cinema in 1988, studios have been trying to recreate that success on the big screen. Aside from the three Die Hard sequels (with a fourth on the way),

New Battleship trailer highlights more action

March 13, 2012 by | Leave a Comment

Peter Berg's Battleship has been catching a lot of crap from people for looking too similar to Michael Bay's Transformers films - but then, that's exactly what the Hasbro (the company that brought us

Hugh Hefner movie going forward at WB

March 6, 2012 by | Leave a Comment
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Over the past few years, various iterations of a Hugh Hefner movie have been in development. All of these versions were set up at Universal, the most prominent of which had Brett Ratner to direct and

Universal lands Angelina Jolie/Luc Besson thriller

December 13, 2011 by | Leave a Comment

Angelina Jolie's directorial and screenwriting debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, hits limited screens in a few weeks, but people have been wondering when Jolie will next be seen in-front of the

Tom Hanks and Universal developing In the Garden of Beasts

December 2, 2011 by | Leave a Comment

It's been quite some time since we first saw Tom Hanks lead a group of soldiers on an emotionally gripping journey through Nazi-occupied France in Saving Private Ryan, and frankly it's one of those

Scarface remake gets Training Day writer

December 1, 2011 by | 3 Comments
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When news first hit last fall that Universal is planning a remake of Scarface, it was if the world was coming to an end and the little faith most fans have left in Hollywood seemed to have been thrown