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New Preview For Pixar Short La Luna

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The Pixar shorts that play alongside their movies are often as big a treat as the movie’s themselves. This summer’s Celtic tale Brave will get La Luna as its accompaniment, and now Disney has released a brief look at the short, which looks like it’s going to be exceptionally beautiful.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘La Luna is the fable about a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family’s most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his Grandpa? Will he be able to find his own way in the midst of their conflicting opinions and timeworn traditions?’ Brave (and La Luna) opens in UK cinemas August 17th, 2012.

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Pusher Remake Trailer

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Before Bronson and Drive, director Nicholas Winding Refn first made his name with him 1996 Danish movie, Pusher. 16 years on it’s getting a Brit flick remake, with Richard Coyle playing a drug pusher who grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord. While redos aren’t usually that great, there’s cause for hope as Refn himself has helped shepherd the movie as a producer. The film also features Bronson Webb, Paul Kaye and Agyness Deyn and will hit UK cinema screens in May.

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Dark Tide Trailer – Halle Berry vs. sharks!

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Director John Stockwell must really like the water, as he’s following Blue Crush and Into The Blue with the shark thriller Dark Tide. In the movie Kate (Halle Berry) is a shark expert whose business has been failing since a shark attack killed a fellow diver under her command. Once dubbed “the shark whisperer,” Kate is haunted by the memory of the attack and unable to get back into the water. With bills piling up and the bank about to foreclose on Kate’s boat, Kate’s ex-boyfriend Jeff (Olivier Martinez) presents her with a lucrative opportunity: lead a thrill-seeking millionaire businessman on a dangerous shark dive…outside the cage. Battling her self-doubts and fear, Kate accepts the proposal – and sets a course for the world’s deadliest feeding ground: Shark Alley. Now a new trailer has arrived, so take a look!

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First Croods Poster Surfaces

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During March 2013, Dreamworks Animation will be launching the caveman comedy The Croods on the world. Now the first poster for the movie has arrived, giving us a look at the main characters from the film, who are voiced by the likes of Ryan Reynolds, Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, and Emma Stone.

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Crank Co-Director Brian Taylor Takes On Twisted Metal Game Adaptation

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It seems the Neveldine Taylor directing team that brought us Crank, Gamer and this week’s Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance, is going on hiatus, as half the team, Brian Taylor is planning to go it alone with an adaptation of the videogame Twisted Metal, according to Deadline.

Sony owns the game so unsurprisingly they’re handling the movie as well, which revolves around a Death Race style tournament that pits a number of combatants in a fight to the death. They are outfitted in armored, weaponised cars that are pimped out with heavy weaponry that includes missiles and machine guns. The sole survivor will get any wish granted. The movie will apparently include signature contestant characters as Sweet Tooth, a homicidal clown who drives an ice cream truck, and Doll Face, a young woman who is trapped behind a porcelain mask and drives an 18-wheeler.

Taylor will now help develop the film, for which he’s being paid a seven-figure salary. We’ll have to wait and see if the other half of Neveldine Taylor, Mark Neveldine, will find a solo project too.

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Jonathan Liebesman In Talks To Direct Live-Action Ninja Turtles

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For quite a while now, a new, live action version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been in the works and now it appears its found its director, as Variety reports Battle: Los Angeles and Wrath Of The Titans helmer Jonathan Liebesman is in talks to helm the movie.

Iron Man co-writers Art Malcum and Matt Holloway and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’s Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec have both already had a go at the script for what is planned as a big budget take on the story of the walking, talking, martial arts vigilante amphibians. Michael Bay is producing but there’s no info on the direction the movie is taking, and whether the film will be pitched as a family adventure or a more grown-up movie in the vein of the original comics.

It’s not certain either where this might fit in Liebesman’s schedule, as he’s also attached to Greek epic Odysseus and a movie about Julius Caesar.

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Michael Mann To Direct The Big Stone Grid

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While he’s brought Luck to TV and produced his daughter’s directorial debut, Texas Killing Fields, we haven’t had a new movie from Michael Mann since 2009’s Public Enemies. Now he’s added a possible new flick – although probably not his next – to his list, as Columbia Pictures has brought on Mann to direct The Big Stone Grid, a project which was first set up by the studio last March.

The movie revolves around two New York City detectives, who uncover an extortion ring operating throughout the city’s criminal underbelly. S. Craig Zahler wrote the screenplay, which is said to be in the vein of Seven and Marathon Man, although it is said that Michael Mann will take a crack at the script alongside the writer. There is also talk that Michael Mann may relocate the story to Los Angeles, although that has not been confirmed.

Mann will likely direct Go Like Hell for 20th Century Fox next, a project we last heard about in May, which is about a the race car rivalry between Ford and Ferrari in the 1960s. The Big Stone Grid is getting lined up for sometime after that. (Source: Deadline)

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John Carter: An Introduction Featurette

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It’s just a few short weeks until John Carter hits cinemas on March 9th, and now a short but fairly informative featurette has popped up online to give us a bit of an intro to the movie for those who aren’t clued into Edgar Rice Burrough’s classic characters. It certainly looks like filmmakering on a massive scale, but whether Andrew Stanton has managed to make this year’s first true blockbuster is yet to be seen.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘John Carter tells the tale of war-weary, former military captain John Carter, who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly involved in a conflict of epic proportions between the inhabitants of the planet. John Carter – the newest movie from Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton is an action adventure story set on Barsoom, the exotic and mysterious planet we know as Mars. Based on the classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, John Carter is the story which inspired many of the most imaginative and well known Hollywood movies, past and present. Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of the John Carter character, first created in the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel.’

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First Pic Of Saoirse Ronan In Vampire Drama Byzantium

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Interview With the Vampire director Neil Jordan is returning to the world of bloodsuckers with Byzantium, which stars Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Caleb Landry Jones and Jonny Lee Miller. Now the first image from the movie has arrived, with Saoirse Ronan looking bloody fingered and slightly Red Riding Hood.

Byzantium is about two young women (Ronan and Arterton) who arrive in a nameless British town and claim to be 200-year-old vampires. Local teachers and parents then try to counsel the girls to get to the bottom of their delusions. However, when people start disappearing, people in town must confront the possibility that the two women are, in fact, what they say they are. The film will be out later this year.

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion Getting A Remake

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Remaking Hitchcock is all the rage at the moment, as just last week DreamWorks and Working Title Films announced plans for a new take on Rebecca, with Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight writing. Now Variety reports that Veena Cabreros Sud, who’s best known for working on TV’s The Killing, has been hired to script a remake of Hitchcock’s Suspicion.

The original film is about a dowdy young woman (portrayed by Joan Fontaine) who married an irresponsible charmer (Cary Grant) despite the strong disapproval of her wealthy father – and then begins to suspect that her new hubby plans to kill her. Joan Fontaine won a best actress Oscar for her performance in the 1941 feature.

It’s a decent but basic set-up, which Hitchcock took to a higher level. Hopefully this new version will be able to do something interesting with it. It’s early days so there’s no director or production schedule set as yet.

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