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Grimm Up North 3

Manchester’s premier horror, fantasy, and sci-fi festival returns next month to the AMC cinemas on Deansgate. The festival, now in it’s third year, has an extensive selection of new and classic genre movies along with special guests. Guests this year include Adele Silva, star of Emmerdale and now the movie Strippers vs. Werewolves, and two [...]

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Bradley Cooper drops out of ‘The Crow’

The remake of 90s supernatural action movie The Crow has been hit with another disaster as lead actor Bradley Cooper has quit. Since news first broke of a remake of the 90s classic, originally starring the late Brandon Lee, it has been plagued with difficulties. Original writer and director Stephen Norrington was booted out, along [...]

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Watchmen writer working on ‘The Crow’ reboot

Alex Tse, who co-wrote comic book movie Watchmen with Zack Snyder has been brought on board to write the script for the forthcoming Crow reboot. So far the remake of the 90s cult classic originally starring the late Brandon Lee has hit one or two snags. Blade director Stephen Norrington was first attached to the [...]

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A brand new violent thriller made in Australia and based on real life events has earned a public health warning after people have fainted whilst watching it. Snowtown, produced by Warp Films who brought us the brilliant Four Lions and This Is England films, is based on the real life ‘Bodies in Barrels Murders’ committed [...]

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Human Centipede sequel banned in Britain

The British Board of Film Classification have rejected The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) saying it is sexually violent and potentially obscene. For those who missed the first centipede film, The Human Centipede (First Sequence), the film shows a mad surgeon who constructs his own “human centipede” by surgically attaching a line of people together [...]

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Stephen Fry joins Hobbit cast

Peter Jackson has announced via Facebook that Stephen Fry will be joining the cast of The Hobbit down under in New Zealand. Once the news broke Fry also Tweeted the news himself saying simply “the cat’s out of the bag” and linking to the breaking news in Variety. Fry will be playing The Master of [...]

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Rob Kazinsky replaced in The Hobbit

British actor Rob Kazinsky dropped out of the forthcoming Hobbit movies last week, due to health reasons, and today his replacement has been announced. Kiwi actor Dean O’Gorman has been chosen as the new Fili, he will now be teamed up with former Being Human star Aidan Turner who play Kili. The pair are young [...]

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Arnie’s back, and so is the entire original cast of Terminator

Rumours began flying almost immediately after Arnold Schwarzenegger left office that he would make a new Terminator movie, and the rumours escalated last week when it was announced that Fast Five director Justin Lin had been given the job of directing a fifth Terminator. Now that all sounds pretty crazy to begin with, at 63-years-old [...]

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Rob Kazinsky drops out of The Hobbit

Peter Jackson has announced via his Facebook page today that British actor Rob Kazinsky will not be appearing in the forthcoming Hobbit movies. Kazinsky, best known for playing Sean Slater in EastEnders was cast to play the dwarf Fili, one of two young brother dwarves paired up with Being Human star Aidan Turner. Jackson posted [...]

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Bradley Cooper in talks to star in The Crow

I don’t think anyone saw this coming, A-Team and Hangover star Bradley Cooper is currently in negotiations to lead the remake of cult-hit The Crow. Last week Juan Carlos Fresnadillo was hired to direct the remake, production is slated to begin in the autumn. Rapper Marky Mark Wahlberg was previously linked to the movie, fortunately [...]

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