Count on Roland Emmerich, the Master of Disaster, to base an entire film on the (false) pretense that the ancient Mayan calender predicts Earth’s demise in three years, and then scarcely mention the source of the ensuing pandemonium. Less than a handful of sentences are spent on the pop-culture rumor oft-repeated about the so-called predictions [...]
Controversial Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, announced that he met privately with Academy Award Winning actor, Sean Penn, on Wednesday. THR reports that Penn may have plans to shoot a film in Venezuela adapted from Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier’s 1953 novel, “The Lost Steps,” about the journey of an American anthropologist and composer into the jungle [...]
That fact that 20th Century Fox is remaking/rebooting/prequeling the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic, “Predator,” is old news. The fact that horror hero, Neil Marshall may just land the directing gig is brand-spanking new. Bloody Disgusting has learned that Marshall, who directed horror classic, “The Descent,” as well as “Doomsday,” and “Dog Soldiers” is every close to [...]
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