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Film Film Fridays Film Fridays: Brad Pitt vs. James Franco for ‘Akira’; Robocop Gets His Own Statue; New Trailer For Thor

February 18, 2011 - 5:48 pm

In a desperate move to get the live action AKIRA off the ground and recoup the serious $$$ they’ll be doling out, execs at Warner Bros. supposedly phoned Brad Pitt in a bid to get him as the lead.

Apparently there’s some serious sh*t brewing between the Hughes Brothers and Warner Brothers honchos in the pre-production stages for the film adaptation of what is arguably the greatest Japanese animated film of all time. The general consensus is that it’s also possibly the worst idea in a long time, even more than re-making Footloose.

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Film Fridays Film Fridays: 1980s Cinema’s 5 Darkest Moments

by Jeff Nau

February 11, 2011 - 6:01 pm

5. KARATE KID III (1989) – You think you can rely on that crane crap?!
Everyone knows that Daniel-San got through Karate Kid 1 by pulling off a mean last-minute ‘Crane’ — that rather effeminate move that Mr. Miyagi probably just made up while drinking sake to make Daniel look like an ass. But it’s part 3 when Daniel, forced to learn under his newer, uber-yuppie master, is given the devastating news that his crane is no longer any good. “You don’t get it, do you?!” yells the new guy. Then he goes off to pout around the corner, secretly listening while a determined Daniel goes at it. Yeah, make his knuckles bleed!

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Film Fridays Bill Murray Delays Ghostbusters 3 (Again) and More Dark Knight Rumors

by Jeff Nau

February 4, 2011 - 6:25 pm

In movie and film news, Bill Murray has officially halted production on Ghostbusters 3. This is nothing new:

“Harold [Ramis] tells a very funny story about the several months it took to get Bill to read the script for Groundhog Day,” says a source behind the production. “Every week or so, [Bill] would go up to Harold and say, “You know, I read 10 pages… they’re really good. Is it going to stay this good?” The source went on to say: “He hasn’t even read 10 pages [of Ghostbusters 3] yet, to the best of our knowledge.”

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Film Film Fridays Film Fridays: Top 5 Actors Who Behave Like Their On-Screen Counterparts

by Jeff Nau

January 28, 2011 - 6:09 pm

*Slightly NSFW (read: use your headphones)
5. Nicolas Cage — Castor Troy, Face/Off: At a nightclub in Romania, Nicholas Cage went on a rant that closely resembled his outbursts in 1997′s Face/Off, where he played psychotic drug lord Castor Troy.

Outside, Cage shouts “You know it! I get in the car and you walk away! Otherwise, you wanna kill me? Don’t fuck with my brothers! I would f*ckin’ die in the name of honor! I would die right now! Want to hit me in the head? Go for it!” Cage walks to his car, then backtracks: “F*ck you! I would DIE in the name of honour!”

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Film Fridays Film Fridays: Dark Knight Villains: Good or Bad?, Plus A New Dark Knight Short Film, and Liam Neeson Returns to Star Wars

by Jeff Nau

January 21, 2011 - 6:05 pm

Holy Batsh*t! It’s been a busy week in the comic book-to-movie world: this week, director Christopher Nolan announced who would play his villains in The Dark Knight Rises. One of them isn’t surprising (Catwoman), but the other (Bane) seems mildly insane. It’s not that Bane is a terrible choice, it’s just…kinda unsettling. If Nolan had picked The Riddler, I’m sure a lot of us would feel safer — but face it, The Riddler ain’t much to work with.

In other Batman news, a short film called “The Rat” is getting some decent buzz. It’s set in the Nolanverse, right after Batman puts the Joker away in The Dark Knight. Life has apparently become extremely boring for some Gotham City Detectives.

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Film Fridays Film Fridays: The Top 5 Superheroes/Supervillains That Shouldn’t Be in Movies

by Jeff Nau

January 14, 2011 - 5:45 pm

5. Color Kid: A DC Comics superhero, Color Kid wasn’t quite good enough to be in The Legion of Superheroes, so they made him a member of the Substitute Legion of Superheroes. It’s a little like substituting Go-Bots for Transformers, or Hydroxes for Oreos.

POWERS: Can change the color of anything. ANYTHING, you hear? Specifically, switch the color of the ground and the sky to confuse his flying opponents. Take that.

Why he shouldn’t be in movies: I changed my mind, he should. According to his online biography: “In the 1985 Legion of Substitute Heroes comic, he was temporarily known as ‘Color Queen’ after being exposed to Granderian Gender-Reversal Germs.”

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