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Review: A MAN CALLED OTTO, Grumpy Old Remake Remains Funny, Lovable

Tom Hanks stars as a grumpy old man in a remake of the Swedish original, directed by Marc Forster.

ALL I SEE IS YOU Envisions Chilling Haze In The First Official Trailer

Director Marc Forster brings forth a romantic tale that is much more than meets the eye in the new film, All I See Is You. Actress Blake Lively and actor Jason Clarke lead the way from a script by Forster...

Stanley Kubrick's 1956 Screenplay THE DOWNSLOPE To Be Made Into A Trilogy

Deadline reported earlier that a screenplay that Stanley Kubrick (The Shining, A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket) wrote in 1956 will be developed into a trilogy. Kubrick wrote the civil war era screenplay, The Downslope, between other war films, Fear...

Pretty Packaging: Take A Look At The French WORLD WAR Z Limited Edition

(Like a zombie I stumbled across something very palatable-looking!) Despite its massive cost-overruns and being sniggered at by the press upon its release, World War Z was actually profitable, doing decent business across the globe. Me, I like the film,...

Destroy All Monsters: World War C (Critics vs. Celebrities)

I'll be the first to go to the mat saying that The Lone Ranger didn't get a fair shake in a lot of circles. I can do that because I'm in one of those circles, and not standing in the...

AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks THE HEAT, WHITE HOUSE DOWN, MONSTERS U and WORLD WAR Z

After being bumped last week due to flooding in Alberta, we're back with a Canada Day chat about Paul Feig's buddy cop movie, The Heat, the lesser of the two Die Hard-in-the-Capital films White House Down, and last week's big...

TTTT: WORLD WAR Z As A Taut Thriller; THE BLING RING As The Right Movie At The Right Time

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Brad Pitt does not feel fine. He's separated from his idyllic family, mindless automatons are quickly devouring the known world, and he's sporting his worst haircut yet. But worse...

Review: WORLD WAR Z aka Zombies With Brad Shuffles, Stumbles, Drops Dead

I had little hope for this 'adaptation' when the first trailer popped up. Abandoning almost everything from the gripping and terrifying novel by Max Brooks, director Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace) instead funnels the story into a singular narrative that...

WORLD WAR Z Preempts Censors, Moves Outbreak Source Out of China

Will the problems never end for World War Z? The Wrap is reporting that they have been told exclusively by a Paramount Executive that they will be re-cutting their $175 million Brad Pitt vehicle to avoid offending Chinese audiences.In Marc...

Zombies On A Plane! - New WORLD WAR Z Trailer

It's been a long, long time coming, but a movie adaptation of Max Brooks' best-selling book World War Z (unsurprisingly with little resemblance to the tome other than its title) is in fact coming. With a June 21st release date...

IRON MAN 3! STAR TREK 2! THE LONE RANGER! OZ! WORLD WAR Z! Watch The Big Game Spots!

The Football Game Which Must Not Be Named was played yesterday and with it came new TV ads for the biggest upcoming films. Miss 'em? Here they are: The Fast & Furious 6, Iron Man 3, The Lone Ranger, Star...

There And Back Again: ScreenAnarchy Survives The 14th Butt-Numb-A-Thon

For my second year in a row, I made my way down to Austin, Texas, home of the infamous celebration of Movie Geekery known as Butt-Numb-a-Thon. This was the fourteenth iteration of this mad festival, what amounts to an...

That's A Big Tower O' Zombies! Here's The Trailer For WORLD WAR Z

For a moment, let's forget all the pre-production, production and post-production woes we've heard about on Marc Forster's adaption of Max Brooks' zombie apocalypse novel, and take a gander at the first real look we have of the Brad Pitt...

WORLD WAR Z In A World Of Trouble: Major Reshoots And A Damon Lindelof Rewrite In The Works

Marc Forster's World War Z is in a world of trouble. After a lengthy struggle to get the project off the ground at Paramount, Forster shot the film with a cast anchored by Brad Pitt in 2011. Principal photography has...

MACHINE GUN PREACHER Review

In my day, I've heard some preachers preaching like a machine gun. Sam Childers, the subject of director Marc Forster's ("The Kite Runner", "Monster's Ball") true-life drama of third world crisis, is not that kind of preacher. No, Childers...

Gerard Butler In MACHINE GUN PREACHER Trailer

The poster for Marc Forster's Toronto International Film Festival selected Machine Gun Preacher pretty much says it all, and it's leaving me torn as a result.On the one hand this is very clearly an African story from a colonial perspective...