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The LEGO Movie producer would like to make a Nintendo All-Stars film

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The LEGO Movie did a good job of bringing together several franchises in Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, DC Super Heroes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many, many more – and it’s producer would like to do the same thing again with Nintendo. “Zelda, Mario, the whole universe of characters, I feel like could […]

Update: Cannon Films are coming back and producing American Ninja Apprentice and Return of The Delta Force

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If you’re a fan of bad movies, then you’ll probably know The Cannon Group. Throughout the 1980s, they brought us cinema classics like Death Wish 3, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, The Apple, Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, American Ninja, Missing in Action, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Delta Force. They […]

David Bruckner talks about what his Friday the 13th movie could have been

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It’s been quite the tumultuous production for Paramount’s Friday the 13th. Since they got the rights from Warner Bros. in a deal over Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, the movie has been pushed back several times (see here, here and here) and recently lost its director. David Bruckner (The Signal), who was attached for over a year, has […]

Live-action Astro Boy in development at New Line with San Andreas writers

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It was around this time last year that we heard about a live-action version of Astro Boy, and it looks like it’s now heading into further development at New Line Cinema. New Line, a division of Warner Bros., are heavy into negotiations with Animal Logic Entertainment and Tezuka Productions and have brought in Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore […]

Ben Affleck got advice from Christian Bale and George Clooney on playing Batman

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Ben Affleck will be the fifth actor to take on The Dark Knight in a big screen role since 1989 when he suits up in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The actor has talked about how his Batman is different to other screen interpretations, but that didn’t stop Affleck reaching out to previous Bruce […]

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has a 32% chance of turning a profit, apparently

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Following on from some news over the weekend that Warner Bros. executives are ‘worried’ about the outcome of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a computer algorithm also has some bad news for the superhero team-up. Researchers at the University of Iowa have plugged some data into a computer about several films this year, which […]

Deadpool breaks Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ opening record in Russia

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The results for Deadpool keep rolling in, as the film has broken yet another record. On its opening weekend, Deadpool made more than Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four did it in its entire run, it broke the February opening record (in the US and the UK), it’s the biggest R-rated release of all-time, it’s the biggest R-rated […]

Ben Affleck says his Batman has “kind of given up”

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We’ve heard from Ben Affleck before about portaying a much older Batman than we’ve been used to seeing in previous big screen outings, and the actor has again been talking about his Dark Knight when he and co-star Henry Cavill dropped by during the NBA All-Star Game Pre-Show to promote Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. “He’s […]