In case there was lingering hope that Brett Ratner’s proposed Beverly Hills Cop sequel would be anything but suck, you can forget about it. MTV asked the director what his biggest challenge would be and he replied: “10-year-old kids, 12-year-old kids don’t really know the old Beverly Hills Cop. So it’s an opportunity to make it [...]

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Though Universal has said nothing irreplaceable was lost in the studio fire on Sunday, according to Anne Thompson, a memo from NBC Universal Distribution vice president Paul Ginsburg went out Monday to those who book classic films saying that nearly 100% of the archive prints kept on the lot were destroyed.
In the short term, this [...]

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According the the Alamo Drafthouse’s Rolling Roadshow Tour website, Quentin Tarantino will not present Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy in Spain as originally planned because he has “cleared all appearances to begin preproduction on his new feature, Inglorious Bastards.”
Make of it what you will, or ignore it. I’ve started paying attention now so I can’t stop.
Source. JoBlo

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Stephen Rea gets Stuck
Stuart Gordon’s new film, Stuck, kicks off with a slow motion credit sequence of senior citizens in a rest home taking their medication as a profane rap by DJ Honda blares on the soundtrack. There’s nothing supernatural, but even audiences who’ve never seen the director’s cult hits, Re-Animator and From Beyond, will [...]

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