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Judge Dredd Remake Director Booted, Is No Longer The Law

The line “I AM the law!” might yet still be spoken in Lionsgate’s 2012 Dredd , the Karl Urban-starring remake of the gloriously cheesy Sylvester Stallone vehicle about a decorated officer wrongfully accused in a dystopian future, but it looks like director Pete Travis won’t be uttering any iteration of that forceful declaration of authority. According to the L.A. Times , Travis has been booted from the remake, which is currently in post-production, while screenwriter Alex Garland steps in to make such significant changes that he might even seek a co-director credit.

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Trailer: Under What Circumstances Would You Pay $59.99 to Watch Tower Heist?

The latest trailer for Tower Heist is out, and not a minute too soon as Universal prepares to undertake Hollywood’s most adventurous journey yet on the VOD frontier: Releasing Brett Ratner’s comedy to on-demand audiences just three weeks after its Nov. 4 theatrical opening. Exhibitors are pledging boycotts , pundits are wringing their hands , and competing studios are paying extra close attention to how it could all affect them. All of which misses the bottom line for viewers, which is: How much???

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John Cusack Finds His Inner Crime-Fighting Poet in The Raven Trailer

The last time we saw John Cusack onscreen, he was turning back time in a hot tub. Now, Cusack returns to the multiplex to travel much deeper into the past — far beyond embarrassing ’80s ski suits and Rick Springfield singles and into the 1800s, where as Edgar Allan Poe, he helps search for a serial killer who uses Poe’s own gothic stories as inspiration for his murders. Take a look at the first eerie trailer for The Raven below.

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John Cusack Finds His Inner Crime-Fighting Poet in The Raven Trailer

A Modest Proposal to Turn Lady Gaga’s Fame Monster Into a Movie

Since news broke that a Lady Gaga biopic may be in the works, I’ve fretted. The 25-year-old superstar is ripe for a big-screen toasting, but she’s only been a phenomenon since the latter half of 2008. Would you want to watch a Madonna biopic that stopped after the release of True Blue ? Of course not. Lady Gaga has a gnarly, couture-bedecked arc ahead of her, and I say if she’s destined to be a cineplex draw, why not adapt her eight-track mini-album The Fame Monster into a full-fledged film?

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50 Cent Speaks Out About His Cancer Drama

“So you all know All Things Fall Apart is the kind of movie that is really hard to get studios to finances [sic],” rapper-turned-actor/writer/producer 50 Cent Tweeted to his 5M+ followers, following a screening of his upcoming cancer drama. “My partners were against the idea at first then changed there minds after they saw the movie. All the positive feed back I received makes me feel like I was right. I wrote produced and financed the film. I lost some really close to me to cancer. this film is symbol of our friend ship.” And he’s trying to feed the world ? Start lobbying now for the canonization of Saint Fiddy. [ @50Cent ]

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REVIEW: The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is Gruesome, Masturbatory Torture

Dutch director Tom Six struck a genre nerve (sliced clean through with cold, sterile precision, really) with his 2010 body-horror endurance test The Human Centipede (First Sequence) , in which a mad surgeon stitched together three poor souls, end to end to end to end, in the name of twisted science. In the very least, it seems Six has thought good and hard about the film’s success and why some of the most disturbed sights and ideas this side of Salo — his favorite film, naturally — titillated horror fans so. But in going meta with The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) , in which a mentally challenged British fan of the first film plays copycat with a dozen more unfortunate “patients,” Six frequently falls parallel to his own villain, indulging in a depravity of his own design with a masturbatory glee that becomes taxing and torturous to anyone else.

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Julia Roberts vs. Charlize Theron: Who Makes the Better Snow White Evil Queen?

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest Evil Queen of them all? Is it Julia Roberts, who will star opposite Lily Collins’s Snow White in Tarsem Singh’s untitled fairy tale adaptation? Or is it Charlize Theron, who will play the wicked queen opposite Kristen Stewart’s armored Disney princess in Snow White and the Huntsman ? Take a look at the side-by-side comparison below before deciding for yourself.

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REVIEW: Real Steel Is Movie Comfort Food, with Robot Boxers

In Real Steel Hugh Jackman plays a boxing promoter who’s forced to reconnect with his estranged son. But the boxers on which Jackman hangs his hopes aren’t human: Real Steel , which is based on a Richard Matheson short story, is set in the near future, when “robot boxing” is all the rage. Controlled by their handlers, these overgrown Rock’ Em Sock ‘Em Robots are sent into the ring to do the work real human athletes used to do, but not even these guys are always built to take a punch. Just like their primitive plastic forebears, their blocks get knocked off routinely.

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Mission: Impossible Dance-Off Video Surfaces: Did Tom Cruise Just Do The Worm?

Recent reports of Tom Cruise unleashing some sweet moves in a dance-off at the posh wedding of his Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol producer David Ellison, prompted speculative mental images of Risky Business -era Tom Cruise cutting loose on the dance floor. (Or, nightmare visions of Cruise busting out some Les Grossman-style swag. Make it stop!) Well, today brings video evidence beyond our mildest/wildest expectations. Did Cruise just do the worm??

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REVIEW: 1911, Jackie Chan’s 100th Movie, a Dour Historical Affair

1911 may be filled with lavish battle sequences and scenes involving masses of extras in picture perfect period garb, but the most breathtaking thing about Jackie Chan’s 100th film is how indifferent it is to international audiences. The Chinese blockbuster hasn’t needed or necessarily even sought out multinational success of late — if homegrown hits from the last few years like earthquake disaster drama Aftershock and romantic comedy If You Are The One and its sequel (all three of which happen to share the same director, Feng Xiaogang) don’t sound familiar, that’s because they’ve gotten nominal American releases or none at all. For U.S. markets, foreign still equals arthouse, and films that fall outside of that equation often confound studios and audiences who aren’t sure which niche subtitled mainstream fare should fall into.

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