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Cooper departs the Crow reboot

A reboot of ‘The Crow’ franchise has been rumoured to be in development for some time, based on a comic book series by James O’Barr in the 1990’s the original film adaptation was produced in 1994 with Brandon Lee in the headlining role. Aside from film and comics ‘the Crow’ franchise was also adapted into a short lived television series in 1998. The reboot film ...

AccessReel Reviews – Cowboys & Aliens

A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way. COWBOYS & ALIENS was originally pitched to studio’s back in 1997 by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and went into development, a bunch of roadblocks got in the way and the film never got off the ground, then in 2006 a 100 page graphic ...

AccessReel Reviews – Conan the Barbarian

A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior known as Conan, turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil. Marcus Nispel, director of previous horror remakes ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ ...

Friends with Benefits Featurette

Friends with Benefits is due to hit Australian Cinemas on the 18th August starring Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake and Woody Harrelson. Accessreel has edited together a featurette with interviews from the cast and some behind the scenes footage. A young female head-hunter (Mila Kunis) in New York convinces a potential recruit (Justin Timberlake) to accept a job in the Big Apple. Despite an attractio...

WIN! – Submarine Preview Screening Tickets

SUBMARINE is the highly-acclaimed debut feature from Richard Ayoade (star of THE IT CROWD and NATHAN BARLEY), based on the hilarious, best-selling novel by Joe Dunthorne. In his head, 15-year-old Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is a cool literary genius. In reality, he’s socially inept and unpopular. Oliver has set himself two tasks for the summer: to lose his virginity (before i...

Resident Evil 5 Moving Along…

More casting news has been circling around as Milla Jovovich looks to be returning with some familiar faces for the next instalment in the Resident Evil franchise. Paul WS Anderson looks to be at the helm of directing duties once again in this instalment and it appears that Sienna Guillory will return in the role of Jill Valentine. Followers of the franchise would recall Jill Valentine appearing i...

G.I. Joe 2 Casting

Casting appears to be continuing for the sequel to the Stephen Sommer’s directed film ‘G.I. Joe’ with some rumours speculating that veteran actor Bruce Willis is in talks to join the project. Willis appeared on screens in 2010 in the comic book adaptation ‘Red’, and has a number of projects currently in the post-production and pre-production phases of development. It ...

American Pie: Reunion Gets a Teaser Poster

The first American Pie film hit our screens pretty much 10 years ago, with three movies made and four spin off straight to DVD release’s the original three films managed to pull in approx $754 million dollars world wide. I grew up with these movies, they were hilarious and to this day I would say the best teen comedies out there, well with AMERICAN PIE: REUNION currently filming Universal ha...

Red Dog Proves its Mans Best Friend

Well Red Dog has been in cinemas for a couple of weeks now and its been pulling some incredible numbers! Suffice to say it will be the best aussie film this year eventhough it has gone up against some quality films such as Griff the Invisible and Snowtown. Red Dog continues to bring the punters in with a strong word of mouth helping the film reach its opening weekend figure of $1.8million. Starrin...

Working Dog’s New Film Announced

Working Dog’s highly anticipated feature film to be released on Australia Day 2012 Eleven years on from the success of THE DISH, Australia’s hottest production team has a brand new comedy called ANY QUESTIONS FOR BEN? The film, directed by Rob Sitch and co-written by Sitch, Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner, is slated for release on Australia Day (January 26th) 2012 by Roadshow Films...

AccessReel Reviews – Green Lantern

In a mysterious universe a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Ea...

AccessReel Reviews – Glee: The 3D Concert Movie

The multi-generational phenomenon that has inspired millions to embrace their inner-Gleek will soon bring them together to experience Glee a whole new way. Now not that many of you would know but I am actually a pretty big fan of Glee the characters, the music and really just the hilarity of the show. So when the invitation came through to sit down and check out GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE I though...