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Dan Aykroyd talks Ghostbusters III

Casting rumours for the impending third Ghostbusters film have been flying around this week, and Dan Aykroyd has been chatting about them. The veteran comedian/actor was conducting an interview with a Chicago radio station this week and revealed that the rumoured favourites Anna Faris and Bill Hader are definitely on the top of list to [...]

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Wahlberg will not be playing The Crow

Crow fans can breathe a sigh of relief, Marky Mark Wahlberg has revealed that he won’t be playing the lead role in the supposedly forthcoming reboot. Last month the project was thrown into turmoil when Wahlberg was hotly tipped as the star of the new movie. News of Wahlberg’s involvement wasn’t the only problem, two [...]

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Sylvester McCoy confirms Hobbit role

Sylvester McCoy has told fans at Armageddon Expo in Auckland that he will definitely be appearing in the new Hobbit movies. The former Time Lord told gathered fans that he would be playing the part of Middle Earth wizard Radagast the Brown when the new films are released. McCoy was very nearly Bilbo Baggins in [...]

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Another Star Wars trilogy?

It’s obviously that time again, it’s been a full 12 months since the last rumour that George Lucas was planning another three Star Wars movies. It must be something about the end of October, Christmas is just on the horizon and all that merchandise needs a little bit of a push to get it off [...]

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Medieval living dead

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Medieval living dead

Amber Entertainment are teaming up with 2000ad and Rebellion to produce a medieval zombie movie based on the book Stronghold. Tomes of The Dead: Stronghold was written by Paul Finch and tells the story of Welsh wizards using magic to create zombies to fight off English invaders in the year 1295. Knights in armour go [...]

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Marky Mark Wahlberg may already be ruining ‘The Crow’

Following the recent news that ex-rapper Mark Wahlberg had been offered the lead role in the new Crow movie director Stephen Norrington has been sacked from the project. Speaking to Mania this week the director revealed that he had been fired as writer/director after a an unnamed actor attached to the film demanded a complete [...]

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Marky Mark Wahlberg offered lead role in ‘The Crow’

When news first broke of a Crow remake people were understandably a little excited. Hopes took a bit of a dip when it emerged that Stephen Norrington who worked on the God awful League of Extraordinary Gentlemen had been draughted in to write and direct, but perked up again when Nick Cave was asked to [...]

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Freeman favourite for Hobbit role

After what seems like an eternity of uncertainty The Hobbit looks like it’s finally set to begin filming, with Peter Jackson directing and quite possibly Sherlock star Martin Freeman in the lead role. Last week it was confirmed that Peter Jackson would be thankfully directing The Hobbit when filming begins in New Zealand in February [...]

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Beckinsale back for ‘Underworld 4′

Kate Beckinsale has been officially confirmed as reprising her role as sexy vampire Selene in the next Underworld installment. Fans of the franchise will be aware that Beckinsale ducked out of the third movie, last year’s Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and the lead role went to Rhona Mitra. But Selene fans will be happy [...]

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Bill and Ted returning for another excellent adventure

I bet you never thought you’d see the day when a third Bill and Ted movie was announced. Last week Matrix star Keanu Reeves joked at the Toronto International Film Festival about returning to the role which catapulted him to superstardom, and this weekend his co-star, who unfortunately didn’t get catapulted quite as far, has [...]

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