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Is this supposed to be cool/creepy/hip/awesome and/or tempting? Well it ain’t. It’s just plain weird, man. The hell’s up with the vampire dude? That tagline is all wrong. It should read, “Call the police right now because this wack-job pervert is touching someone’s daughter.”
Maybe that’s why we’re not in marketing. Nobody likes the truth much [...]

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Variety reports irritating but not at all surprising news about the Will Smith vehicle, I Am Legend.
Warner Bros. has set in motion a prequel to the Will Smith starrer “I Am Legend.”The plan is for Smith to reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville, with Francis Lawrence returning to direct. Akiva Goldsman and his Weed [...]

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I Watch Stuff tells us that Hollywood has faded to absolute shamelessness. Quoting from an article on Variety, we find out from IWS that:
[Writers Adam Cooper and Bill Collage] revere Melville’s original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. Gone is the first-person narration by the young seaman Ishmael, who observes how [...]

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First let me say that I am aware of the fact that Vin Diesel can’t act his way out of a paper bag even if that paper bag was on fire and full of dog shit.  Despite this fact I’ve enjoyed some of Diesel’s films including both Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick.  Plus, [...]

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Because, sweet smokin’ Judas, we have some favorable Hollywood news:
“Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro have officially announced that they’re writing The Hobbit and its follow-up themselves.”
How did this happen? Was a movie exec asleep at the wheel? Did some Tinseltown mogul find real, true and genuine love and subsequently decide that it was ok—for [...]

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