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1 April 2013 4:54 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »

Already being hailed as the “Citizen Kane of Vampire Movies”, the upcoming August release of Blade promises to be one of the finest films ever crafted by man or god. In fact, the buzz in the AOL chat rooms is that in fifteen years, people will be referring to Citizen Kane as “the Blade of Movies”.

Based on the Marvel Comic, the movie will star Wesley Snipes from the recent unforgettable thriller Murder at 1600 as its titular character, a daywalker who kills other vampires. Blade will likely bury the vampire genre, making subsequent vampire movies entirely needless and obsolete. In fact, it seems unlikely that any of the major studios will even be willing to release another vampire movie after this one. In the years since Citizen Kane there haven’t exactly been a barrage of biopics starring fictionalized versions of newspaper magnates, right?

So in honor of the upcoming Blade, »

- Nick F

26 March 2013 2:30 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »

It seems that ever since Ronald Reagan took office in the '80s, everyone in Hollywood has been targeting the White House. But we're not talking about career-changing political aspirations here; we're referring to something far more sinister, like attempted coups ("Seven Days in May"), murders of nonessential staff ("Murder at 1600"), and hostile takeovers (the upcoming "White House Down"). But those are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the catastrophes movies have previously visited on the White House. Here, in order of severity, are the five worst things Hollywood has already done to the White House. »

- Sharon Knolle

27 January 2013 5:13 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

"You gonna put the President in a lineup?"

The arrival of the first trailer for Olympus Has Fallen revealed the first of two upcoming movies that are essentially "Die Hard in the White House," but Wesley Snipes and Diane Lane were already on the case of trouble in the White House in 1997's Murder at 1600. Instead of trying to take down terrorists who have taken over the White House, however, Snipes and Lane respectively play a homicide Detective and a Secret Service agent tasked with solving the death of a White House secretary. But with the murder happening inside the White House, everyone's a suspect — even the President. Alan Alda, Dennis Miller and Tate Donovan co-star.

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