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Forgotten Films: Santa With Muscles

24 December 2009 12:20 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Forgotten Films [1] is a semi-regular feature on Film Junk where we explore interesting movies that have fallen off the radar or slipped through the cracks over the years. Everyone loves a good turkey around Christmas, so this week we've got a very special movie to satisfy that holiday craving: Santa with Muscles, the 1996 crapterpiece starring Hulk Hogan! Sometimes movies become "forgotten films" for a very good reason, and in the case of Santa With Muscles, it seems perfectly acceptable that the majority of the world is blissfully unaware of its existence. Still, with a ridiculous title like that, I felt compelled to seek out a copy and investigate further. It had to be good for at least a few laughs, right? In recent years we've seen plenty of WWE wrestlers make the transition to questionable acting careers, but many people forget that a handful of the popular '80s wrestlers »

- Sean

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First Run Grabs Docu Filled with Nightmares: Tales From the Script

14 December 2009 7:03 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

If you ever wanted to find an irritable bunch of people working in Hollywood, you wouldn't have to go much further than the names in the screenwriter's directory. First Run Features have picked up the rights to Peter Hanson’s talking heads docu about the horror stories of those of who lived to tell the tale: contemporary screenwriters who got stung in their careers as scribes and consider themselves lucky, managed to see one of their works turn into a final product and retain some shards of its former self. - If you ever wanted to find an irritable bunch of people working in Hollywood, you wouldn't have to go much further than the names in the screenwriter's directory. First Run Features have picked up the rights to Peter Hanson’s talking heads docu about the horror stories of those of who lived to tell the tale: contemporary screenwriters »

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DVD Art and Stills: The Riverman

7 December 2009 2:31 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Sometimes to fight evil, you must enlist evil. That's exactly what happened many years ago when serial killer Ted Bundy was enlisted to help capture the Green River Killer, and with the January 12th DVD release of The Riverman that tale is finally being told.

Based on real-life events recounted in the best-selling book The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer (co-written by Robert Keppel, former chief criminal investigator for the attorney general of Washington state), The Riverman recounts Keppel’s efforts to track down mass murderer Gary Ridgeway, aka the Green River Killer.

With ten unsolved murders weighing on his mind, Keppel (Bruce Greenwood, Star Trek, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Déjà Vu) recruits imprisoned serial killer Ted Bundy (Cary Elwes, The Princess Bride, Saw, The Alphabet Killer, and A Christmas Carol) to help find the killer-at-large.

Sentenced to life in prison without »

- Uncle Creepy

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December Member Of The Month - Michaelcg

5 December 2009 12:08 PM, PST | twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news »

Congratulations to MichaelCG our member of the month winner for December.ScreenName MichaelCG yes Im a girl...Real Name YvonneDoes your screen name mean something? What? Was invented when some idiots got on my nerves... Translated it just means I dont wanna talk to you but when i signed up I didnt know what other nick i should use...Where do you live in the world? Germany near MunichAge 21Favorite Color Black White Silver Blue.... no questions!!! Favorite Animal uhm... Butterfly turtle and sheepsFavorite Ice Cream flavor Nougat and Tiramisu... and all the fancy special stuff!!!Favorite Place in the world London and in front of the Fontana di Trevi at night and also Greece...Favorite Hobby I have to pick just one? Then... surfing the internet?Thing that annoys you the most People who cant be open for things... different lifestyles or opinions or whatever!What are you good at? »

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Johnny Depp Goes From Jack Sparrow To Pancho Villa In New Biopic

4 December 2009 10:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Captain Jack Sparrow isn't the only daring adventurer in Johnny Depp's repertoire, as the actor plans on bringing his own unique spin to the historical Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa.

According to Variety, Depp will star as Villa in an upcoming biopic titled "Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman with Six Fingers," which is easily one of the longest, most terrific titles I've heard for a prominent film in the past couple of years.

Depp will share the screen with Salma Hayek, who is in "advanced talks" to star in "Pancho Villa," most likely as the titular woman with six fingers. Does that mean she only has six fingers total, or six fingers on one hand ala "The Princess Bride"? All six fingers are crossed for the latter.

The film comes courtesy of Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica and screenwriter Gordan Mihic, based on the novel "The Friends »

- Josh Wigler

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Robin Wright Took Only One Take To Film Her Sex Scenes With Keanu Reeves

27 November 2009 8:56 AM, PST | Gossipvita | See recent Gossipvita news »

The ‘Forrest Gump’ actress – who recently ended her marriage to Sean Penn – found it hard to shoot parts of her new movie, ‘The Private Lives of Pippa Lee’, especially when her character had to make love to Keanu’s in the back of a truck. She said: "Any kind of vulnerability is always hard to do. Just being exposed in that way is difficult. People say it's hard to do those scenes revealing the blood and soul of your heart, crying. That's easy-peasy for me. Intimacy is far more challenging. Thank God we did it in one take." Robin also revealed she wants fans to start remembering her for her new movies rather than 1994's ‘Forrest Gump’ and 1987's ‘The Princess Bride’. She told USA Today newspaper: "I love those movies, and they're going to go down in history. They're iconic. And I love that I'm a part of film history. »

- Alice

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'The Princess And The Frog,' 'Me And Orson Welles' And 'The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee' In This Week's unLimited

24 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

It's another big holiday weekend with plenty of new releases to consider following your Thanksgiving feast this Thursday (and following your subsequent leftovers feasts through Sunday). In the same way that many Americans prefer alternatives to the traditional turkey and stuffing dinner on the day of gratitude, many moviegoers want something other than a studio tentpole release the day after Thanksgiving. Really, why would you want a popcorn movie when you're still full from the night before?

There are a couple of limited release options this week, including an important studio film getting a surprisingly soft opening, to appease such a film diet. Check these films out if you want something different as or additional to your main course this weekend:

"Me and Orson Welles"

What is is: Richard Linklater, director of "Dazed and Confused" and "School of Rock," returns with a fictionalized coming-of-age drama set during production of Orson Welles »

- Christopher Campbell

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Exclusive Video: Robin Wright Penn and Blake Lively Discuss The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

23 November 2009 12:47 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Robin Wright is best known for playing two highly iconic roles on the big screen. The first, was where she gained her fame as the title role in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride, the second is where she earned her Oscar nomination as Jenny in Forrest Gump. Blake Lively is best known for her break-through roles on both the hit series Gossip Girl and in the movies The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and it's sequel. So it only makes sense that the two actresses would share the title role, playing the same character at different points of her life in the new film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, opening in theaters on November 27th. We recently had a chance to sit down with both Robin Wright and Blake Lively to discuss their new film, how they went about playing the same character, working with director Rebecca Miller »

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Burglar Bunch -- Four More on Their Hitlist?

9 November 2009 9:40 PM, PST | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »

One of these four is not like the others! TMZ has found pictures of four other possible celebrity targets of the Hollywood Hills Burglar Bunch, including one photo of ... Prince Humperdinck from "The Princess Bride"!?!According to a search warrant affidavit released last week, Nick Prugo and his cronies allegedly used TMZ.com to search for information about their victims.On a computer seized from Prugo by the Lapd -- which we obtained -- we »

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What next for boxing's Russian giant?

9 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The defeated champion Nikolai Valuev needs a new career. Surely he was born to be a Bond villain

Forget David and Goliath. For most movie fans watching the heavyweight title fight between David Haye and Nikolai Valuev on Saturday night, the first mythical conflict to spring to mind was Rocky and Drago. Not since the 1985 showdown between Sylvester "Adrieeennnne!" Stallone and Dolph "pretty boy" Lundgren, have we seen such a mismatch of plucky western underdog and eastern bloc fighting machine. Admittedly, you have to make some allowances. Like the fact that Haye is British, not American. And Valuev's training routine probably didn't involve working out in a top secret muscle lab while Soviet technicians monitored his readouts, but he was praised by Vladimir Putin as a "national hero", so there's at least a frisson of cold war tension. Nor could you mistake him for a male model like Lundgren. But with his hulking 7ft 2in, »

- Steve Rose

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WWE Planning Old West Undertaker Origin Movie

4 November 2009 8:50 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

We’ve seen a lot of origin stories in the past few years – Wolverine just came out this summer, Magneto may or may not be happening, there is always Superman and of course Batman’s origin has been told several times. Heck, The Hobbit can even be considered an origin story. Ghost Rider was unfortunately given an origin movie that dated back to the old west. I’m a huge fan of Tremors and the 4th movie went back to the old west as well, for an origin story about the subterranean monster worm.

So I understand why studios and copyright holders want to make origin movies on comic book characters and even monsters, but I cannot for the life of me figure out this latest news coming from “wrastlin” news site Lords of Pain. WWE, in a bid to capitalize on one of their brands, is in the process »

- Paul Young

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Top 7 Films Directed by Actors Turned Directors

30 October 2009 4:34 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10.

The old joke is that all actors want to direct.  Though it’s maybe not true of all, I still had plenty to choose from in making this list.  The directors on this list all started life as actors, some still are, but I’d argue that they’re better known as directors.  This month, two well known actresses have tried their hand at direction, Drew Barrymore with Whip It (which was a great movie, I have no idea why it did so badly) and Natalie Portman doing a segment of New York I Love You.  Who knows, maybe one (or both) has a second career around the corner.

7. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Directed by John Cassavetes

Recap: A portrait of family in crisis when a woman (Gena Rowlands) goes mad and her husband (Peter Falk) tries to understand it.

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- Megan Lehar

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Carrey Discovers Hollywood Link To Scrooge

25 October 2009 6:26 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Jim Carrey unearthed an interesting fact while researching the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for the new A Christmas Carol movie - author Charles Dickens based his miser on actor Cary Elwes' relative.

The funnyman is sketchy on his facts, but he's keen to find out if the story linking The Princess Bride star Elwes' great-great-great uncle to Scrooge is really fact or just a myth.

He tells WENN, "I gathered Scrooge was actually based on one of Cary Elwes' great, great, great uncles; I think it's John Elwes, but I'll have to check on the name.

"One of his relatives was a model for that character. He was a member of Parliament and he was so cheap that he would wear the same clothes all the time, even though they were in tatters. He would wear a wig that he found in the garbage. He wouldn't buy new game until he had eaten all the meat - even if it was rancid he would finish it.

"So he was the character that Dickens based this story on." »

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Somali Pirates Plan On Boarding A Theater Near You

23 October 2009 12:24 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Is there any more exciting film staple than pirates? Pillaging, raping, kidnapping, cannon-firing, parrot-owning, Sicilian-beating, Keith Richards-loving, one leg missing, singing and dancing pirates! And now we can add real-life pirates to the list thanks to those pesky Somalian rapscallions who've been terrorizing the coast of Africa for the past several years. Per Variety, Columbia Pictures has hired Billy Ray to write a film based on the five-day hostage drama that played out earlier this year. More specifically, the film will center on Captain Richard Phillips whose life story rights as well as the rights to his upcoming book were optioned by Columbia. Phillips was held hostage by pirates before being rescued by Navy Seals. Spoiler alert! Ray's most recent work as screenwriter includes State of Play, Breach, and Flightplan. He also has a Westworld remake and the potential Ryan Reynolds vehicle Motorcade on his plate as well. This project is easily a year or more »

- Rob Hunter

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'Saw Marathon' Tix Now Available!

20 October 2009 11:03 AM, PDT | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »

How do you know it's almost Halloween? Another Saw movie opening is a sure clue. While it seems like yesterday that The Princess Bride's Cary Elwes was screaming out in agonizing pain in the first episode, yes, boys and girls, we've now arrived at installment six. In case you missed one here or there, or just can't get enough of the crazy "games" set up by Jigsaw and his devious apprentices, then Lionsgate has your tricks and treats lined up in the form of this Thursday's Saw Marathon, a one-day event happening October 22nd at select theaters - leading right into a midnight screening of Saw VI. For all you filmgoers with a huge love of horror (and a strong constitution), here's your chance to catch all of the terrors, story, mythology...

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Balloon Boy Has Nothing To Do With Robert Zemeckis' Next Performance-Capture Project

20 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

This may not be the best time to be developing a movie about a young boy and a flying contraption, but I guess the adaptation of Eoin Colfer's "Airman" won't be arriving in theaters for awhile. The movie, which Variety reveals Robert Zemeckis is producing as his latest entry into the performance capture animation trend, will be directed by Gil Kenan ("City of Ember") and scripted by Ann Peacock, who previously adapted "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."

Set in the 19th century off the coast of Ireland, "Airman" tells of a flight-obsessed boy wrongly sent to prison for allegedly killing his king. Not only does he escape from his jail by building a flying machine, he also constructs gliders that help him rescue a princess, save his family and otherwise act the hero as a swashbuckling pilot of homemade air transports. He even »

- Christopher Campbell

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FX Lab: A Conversation with Andrew Clement

15 October 2009 11:26 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

From working FX on SNL and Letterman to creating monsters for Dark Shadows, Andrew Clement has some tales to tell. Recently-wrapped on the reboot of A Nightmare On Elm Street (for which he redesigned Freddy Krueger), Jason Anders caught up with Clement for a candid conversation about his world of Creative Character Engineering.

Ja/Fangoria: So let's begin with your work as a make-up artist for NBC's Saturday Night Live; tell me about the work you did for the show, how you became involved, the memories you have being around the cast of actors, and which seasons you were involved in.

AC: I wish I had been involved in the first few seasons of SNL, it was such a fertile time for the show. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I’m not quite that old. As it is, I watched those shows in Jr. High and High School, and now I have the DVD’s. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Jason Anders)

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Mandy Patinkin back to CBS... as guest on Three Rivers

14 October 2009 6:04 PM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

If I were an executive at CBS, I would never want to do business with actor Mandy Patinkin again. Even though Mandy is a terrific actor and one of my personal favorites -- I loved him on Broadway in Evita and Sunday in the Park with George, not to mention on screen in The Princess Bride and Yentl -- his history with CBS is abominable.

He was an Emmy-winning star on Chicago Hope, then left after a couple of seasons to be closer to his family in New York. Okay, that was understandable. Then after getting Criminal Minds off to a great start, he walked out of that show, citing creative differences.

Apparently, someone has said let bygones be bygones because Mandy Patinkin will be a guest star on Three Rivers. Maybe because this is a very personal issue with Mandy, he's convinced the powers that be to let him return to the network, »

- Allison Waldman

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Lists of Doom Xxvii: Skillet's "Monster" List

14 October 2009 3:22 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Greetings Fango Fiends! It's time once again for another installment of Fangoria Musick's Lists Of Doom - the column where we track down some of your favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) bands to get their thoughts on on the world of horror, and which films scare them.

For our 27th feature, we caught up with John Cooper, Lead Vocalist & Bassist of Skillet, the Grammy-nominated band that recently released Awake on Atlantic Records. A certified connoisseur of pop culture with "an irrational love for comic books, Star Wars, and mostly all thing science fiction", it was time for Fango to pick his brain to find out what he digs on the Horror side of life. After all, with a new single and video called "Monster", there had to be something brewing beneath the surface, right?

1. Alien (pictured left on Starlog #23)

One of the best movies of all time!  Favorite director, Ridley Scott. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Top 5 Movies That Scared the Hell Out of Me

3 October 2009 8:07 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Ya’ know, since it’s Halloween coming up at the end of the month, I thought it would be appropriate to make a list of the top 5 movies that, for whatever reason, just scared the hell out of me. It may not be the entire movie, maybe it was just a particular scene/moment; they may not be the technically Best horror movies (they may not even be strictly “horror” per se.), but just something about them had me hiding behind the pillow, jumping at every noise, looking through the cracks in my fingers, thinking about it for days afterwards, and… changing my underwear — okay, too much information…

Before I get on with the list, just know that (like every list) this is purely opinion and therefore it obviously isn’t going to match Your list. If a movie that you find particularly scary isn’t on my list then »

- Ross Miller

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