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By now, it’s pretty common knowledge that “World War Z” was/is a troubled production. The Marc Forster-directed film, based on the book by Max Brooks and produced by star Brad Pitt, has been hit by rewrites, stalled production, reshoots and even a raid by the Hungarian police! It’s a horror in more ways than one.Continue Reading

“The Grey” director Joe Carnahan was attached to a remake of “Death Wish” earlier this year, but then dropped out. Looks like his next project will be an adaptation of a book instead. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news today that Carnahan is in final talks to write and direct an adaptation of the crimeContinue Reading

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this lavish adaptation of the famous book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, from the director of “Moulin Rouge”….

The very first footage from this sequel reveals that Katniss and Peeta may have won The Hunger Games but their situation has instead grown far more dire, with much bigger stakes…

Somehow, I get the feeling that “World War Z” is a zombie movie that seems determined to NOT market itself as a zombie movie. So far, in all of the trailers, stills and posters, the studio has not shown a single hint of this being about the living dead. Instead, the Marc Foster-directed film’s conceptContinue Reading

Based on the bestselling novel, this action fantasy is set in a modern world where warriors called Shadowhunters battle supernatural forces of evil…

Y’know, I know next to nothing about this. Apparently, “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” is based on a series of bestselling books and is about some line of supernatural warriors. The film itself is directed by Harald Zwart (“The Karate Kid”) and features the stereotypical main cast of young, attractive relative unknowns. Well, maybeContinue Reading

Brad Pitt plays a UN officer who is one of humanity’s last hopes in defeating a worldwide zombie plague…