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Dreamworks takes on "Wife vs. Ninja"

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:16:23 GMT

Company has nabbed Michael Besman's pitch "Wife vs. Ninja," which centers on a Long Island housewife who discovers that the beautiful young intern who recently stole her scientist husband is actually a bloodthirsty Ninja assassin intent on stealing his work.

Besman, who is best known for producing such critic faves as "About Schmidt" and "The Opposite of Sex," will write the high-concept script with tyro scribes Michael Zam and Jaffe Cohen. Besman will...

Dragonball Evolution 2, er, Bulletproof Monk 2, no wait, Nick Cage's LA Sorcerer's Apprentice thingy

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:08:11 GMT

Trailer.

Taken writer seeks Vengeance + Taken 2?

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:11:13 GMT

CBS Films has made a preemptive deal to acquire "Vengeance," an action pitch by scribe Robert Mark Kamen. Erwin Stoff will produce.

While material sales are few and far between in the waning days of 2009, CBS Films prexy Amy Baer stepped up to the chance at an action genre entry with a modest budget that is very much in the vein of "Taken," the 2008 sleeper hit Kamen wrote with Luc Besson.

"Basically, it's a contemporary revenge love story -- what...

More white people in Japan movies in the works

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:09:05 GMT

"Young Victoria" director Jean-Marc Vallee has found his next project: "Lost Girls and Love Hotels."

Kate Bosworth is attached to star and is also producing with Relativity Media.

Nadia Conners wrote the screenplay, which adapts Catherine Hanrahan's 2006 novel.

The story centers on a woman (Bosworth) who tries to forget her past while working in Tokyo as an English specialist at a stewardess training institute by day and losing herself in...

Michael Bay loves Victoria's Secret

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:07:47 GMT

Ad he shot.

Universal Soldier 3 Trailer (Van Damme/Lundgren)

feeds@yuku.com (mpm74) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:22:19 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO_6ThUGEpc&annotation_id=annotation_204267&feature=iv

Jaa's got money problems

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:54:36 GMT

Story.

Don't really keep up, but for Alvin, R.I.P. Umaga

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:51:30 GMT

Eki "Eddie" Fatu died in Houston on Friday after a massive heart attack, adding a long list of professional wrestlers who died by the age of 40.

The 36-year old Fatu, who achieved his greatest fame in recent years as a star in the industry-leading World Wrestling Entertainment under the name "Umaga," was found unconscious in his Spring, TX living room by his wife, who had him rushed to the hospital. Fatu had a second heart attack in the hospital before he...

QT likes to Japander himself

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:14:02 GMT

Link, courtesy of Scott Green @ AICN Anime.

New edition of Gozu next week

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:48:39 GMT

Link.

Production company behind Twilight movies to remake Phone

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:24:07 GMT

Imprint Entertainment, the production company behind "Twilight" and "New Moon," has inked with South Korea's Mirovision to remake "The Phone," a 2002 Korean horror hit by Ahn Byung-ki.

The project was unveiled at a press conference in Seoul on Thursday by Imprint Entertainment prexy Mark Morgan, Mirovision prexy Jason Chae and helmer Ahn.

"I thought Korean horror films would succeed in Hollywood once Korean directors steer the remake...

R.I.P. Ting Shan-hsi

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:09:38 GMT

Story.

China wants to beat Disney's grip on Mulan-mania

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:08:52 GMT

Story.

New rant against Yellow-face in Hollywood

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:48:52 GMT

Link, courtesy of Hollywood Elsewhere.

Cool December shit @ the New Beverly in L.A.

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:05:53 GMT

Stunt Rock tomorrow night; a triple billing of George Romero's "There's Always Vanilla", the original "The Crazies", and "Day of the Dead"; Blake Edwards' "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" w/ "10"; Patton Oswalt presenting "Big Fan" and "The Wrestler"; the original "Woodstock"; the "Grindhouse" movies paired with "Black Dynamite"; "X-mas Evil" and "Black X-mas";...

HBO teams up with Mei Ah in Asia for new channel

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:45:36 GMT

HBO Asia has unveiled an Asian movie channel as part of a joint venture with Hong Kong's Mei Ah, which will launch across the continent next year.

It will be HBO Asia's first channel dedicated to Asian content. HBO Asia is available in 22 territories in the continent.

"The new channel will have a unique Asian feel, marrying HBO Asia's on-air presentation ... with exclusive access to Mei Ah's library of Asian language movies and acquisition expertise," HBO...

Kitano returns to gangster roots with Outrage

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:55:13 GMT

Japanese helmer Takeshi Kitano ("Zatoichi") has finally unveiled details of his latest gangster pic -- his first in nine years.

"Outrage" depicts power struggles among Tokyo gangsters. Kitano not only helms and scripts but also plays the lead, a low-ranking gang boss who does his superiors' dirty work.

The cast includes Tomokazu Miura, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase, Jun Kunimura, Tetta Sugimoto, Renji Ishibashi and Takashi Tsukamoto.

Warner Japan and...

Kitano returns to gangster roots with Outrage

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:55:13 GMT

Japanese helmer Takeshi Kitano ("Zatoichi") has finally unveiled details of his latest gangster pic -- his first in nine years.

"Outrage" depicts power struggles among Tokyo gangsters. Kitano not only helms and scripts but also plays the lead, a low-ranking gang boss who does his superiors' dirty work.

The cast includes Tomokazu Miura, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase, Jun Kunimura, Tetta Sugimoto, Renji Ishibashi and Takashi Tsukamoto.

Warner Japan and...

Original 'Titans, new Clint collection specs

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:14:29 GMT

Warner Home Video has officially announced the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of the 1981 classic Clash of the Titans on 3/2. The Blu-ray will come in book packaging. Extras will include the A Conversation with Ray Harryhausen featurette, a Maps of Myths and Monsters

Rain of Swords poster, premise

feeds@yuku.com (NINGEN21) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:42:34 GMT

Details here, courtesy of Dark horizons.