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Thanks to a certain sparkly tweeny franchise, werewolves have lost a lot of their street cred over the years. Director Joe Johnston tried to get the lycanthropes back on the badass path with The Wolfman, but that fell a bit short of the mark. Now it’s the turn of X-Men and X2 screenwriter David Hayter, who’s making his debut in the director’s chair with …

There’s a lot of films out there with great casts attached that always seems to slip under the radar, and Prisoners looks like such a film. The upcoming movie has actors such as Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhall and Melissa Leo attached, and now, it’s adding Maria Bello to that list as well. Last Updated: November 12, 2012

Cop films are popular. So are horror movies. So why don’t we get to see more such movies combining talents and themes then? That may just be the case for Eric Bana though, as he’ll be investigating a 666 for the upcoming mash-up, Beware the Night. Last Updated: November 12, 2012

Another weekend, another great big revelation about Star Wars Epi- Actually, wait. There were no great revelations this weekend past, which kind of made for a nice change of pace after all the headline hogging that happened over the last few weeks. What we did get though, are a couple of confirmations of exactly who is/isn’t doing what on this …

Hotel Transylvania seems to be one of the toon film highlights of the year so far. Despite having a stock-standard “everyone learns something and becomes better”, the film was still crawling with other story nods and winks, that helped it grab a cool slice of box office revenue to the tune of $270.4 million so far. And Sony wants to …

Transformers 4 is happening. The Internet managed to snag Marky Mark Wahlberg a lead role and Michael Bay is going to Bayspolde your eyeballs with even more 3D? Do you want to know more? And are you now dreading the idea of the Master Baysploder helming a Starship Troopers reboot with that one line? My work here is done! Last …

After two weeks where it pretty much conquered the international markets, the latest James Bond escapade exercised a license to thrill as it tore through the North American box office. There was no doubt that Bond was going to make some money, but after the last weekend, Auric Goldfinger would have been better off raiding cinemas if he seen the …