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In the wake of the huge success of the Walking Dead television series, spawned from the popular comic book by Robert Kirkman, another comic entity has been given the greenlight; Powers. Powers, created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, follows a unit of homicide detectives who focus on cases involving super-heroes. Powers, originally acquisitioned by Sony Pictures to be a feature fi...

As we gear up for the 2011 Oscars, Australians will be hoping that Nicole Kidman takes home a second Oscar for her powerful role in the movie RABBIT HOLE. The sentimental favourite is Jacki Weaver, nominated in the best supporting actress category. The veteran actress has been an important figure in Australian film and theatre for more than 40 years, however, Weaver didn’t have an internatio...

BAD TEACHER has pretty much crept up on me and this trailer is pretty damn hilarious! BAD TEACHER stars Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel and Justin Timberlake who is still trying to explain to the studio people that hes not an asshole. We don’t have an australian release date as yet but will tell you guys as soon as I find out. Some teachers just don’t give an F. For example, there’s El...

Last night the WA feature film WASTED ON THE YOUNG had its hometown premiere at the Luna Cinema in Leederville; cast, crew, local pollies and perthonalities strode the red carpet on Oxford Street.  There had been considerable Internet buzz about the movie and the packed house was eager to see how accurate the international reviews had been. The film has already done an impressive circuit of f...

It has been announced that Warner Brothers will be remaking the 1992 mega cash cow ‘The bodyguard’.  Hiring Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer to pen the script and Dan Lin to produce, Warner Brothers will be updating the story for a contemporary audience. ‘The Body Guard’, starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, shot Houston to international pop super stardom with ...

Preacher the comic book series written by Garth Ennis with artwork by Steve Dillon has been the subject of discussion around a film adaptation for some time now. Various rumours have cropped up over recent years of a potential film or TV series to come from the series which ran for 66 regular issues published by Vertigo and ended in 2000. The most recent news has surfaced via a twitter announcemen...

In a press release that just hit my inbox, Paramount Pictures announced it will distribute Martin Scorsese’s next film HUGO CABRET starring Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley and Jude Law. HUGO CABRET will also be Scorsese’s first 3D feature! Coming off films such as ‘Shutter Island’ this one sounds brilliant! Check out the press release below, n...

It seems like a reboot to the Robocop franchise is still a possibility with recent talk that MGM whom are in the process of getting back on track following some recent financial woes are working towards production of such a film. Previous plans which intended to see a reboot come out in recent years are rumoured to have been cancelled as MGM entered financial difficulties which also resulted in th...

Tropfest, which bills itself as the largest short film festival in the world, was on again last night.  More than 700 entries were whittled down to 16 finalists. The rules state that no film can be longer than seven minutes and must contain an object or a reference to the “TSI” or Tropfest Signature Item.  This year’s TSI was “key”. Although the main event o...

Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are best friends who have a lot in common, including the fact that they have each been married for many years. But when the two men begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate) take a bold approach to revitalizing their individual marriages: granting them a “hall pass,” one week of freedom to ...