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Our first clip this week comes riding in on the new wave of Batmania sweeping the nation with the amazing box office performance of Matt Reeves' "The Batman." What we have is an exclusive clip from a new documentary titled "Batman and Me," which focuses on Australian Darren Maxwell who has amassed a rather extreme collection of Batman memorabilia. It began as a hobby in the late '80s...

The post Clips Round-Up: Batman And Me Collects, Topic's Arctic Circle Trailer, & More! [Exclusive] appeared first on /Film.

"Don't you see, child, we all have our sin!" Totally nuts, eh? Indican Pictures has released an official trailer for an indie horror thriller titled Sin Eater, from filmmaker Carmelo Chimera making his feature debut. This hasn't shown up anywhere else yet and is arriving directly to VOD in March. When a woman on the run from her past suffers a terrifying injury, she becomes stranded in a town with a dark secret. As the bizarre phenomena intensify and with no one to trust, she'll have to face her inner demons before a real one takes her soul. The film has a crazy twist where this girl wakes up with her jaw wired shut. Freaky. It stars Jessie Nerud as Christine, with Bill Moseley, Danny Bohnen, Scotty Bohnen, and Scott Moore. This looks like a cult thriller mashed up with religious horror, which is almost too scary. Check out the footage below.

From writer, director and producer Carmelo Chimera (After Masks), the haunting horror film, Sin Eater, arrives on DVD and On Demand March 15, 2022, from Indican Pictures. Based on the mythology of the same name, Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive look at the trailer for the supernatural story that explores what happens when a woman […]

The post Trailer for ‘Sin Eater’ Has Its Mouth Wired Shut [Exclusive] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

An almost two-minute trailer for Season 2 of American Gods is out, showcasing the ongoing squabbles between the Old Gods and New Gods.

Based on the Nail Gaiman novel, the show will have its Season 2 bow on Sunday, March 10 at 8 Pm Et/Pt on Starz.

American Gods stars Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon and Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday. The one-hour drama centers on a war brewing between Old Gods and New Gods, as the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world steadily lose believers. Their challengers are an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society’s modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs.

In Season 2, the battle moves toward a crisis point, as the destinies of gods and men collide. While Mr. World plots revenge for the attack against him in the first season, Shadow throws in his lot...

In today’s film news roundup, Nik Dodani makes a script deal, Sony shifts dates for “Miss Bala” and “Escape Room” and Jake Manley books two roles.

Script Deal

Nik Dodani, who stars on “Murphy Brown” and “Atypical,” will write the script for a movie version of “Blue Boy,” based on Rakesh Satyal’s coming of age story, Variety has learned exclusively.

The Lambda Literary Award-winning novel follows the transformation of Kiran Sharma, a boisterous 12-year-old boy from Cincinnati, as he attempts to go from a social outcast to local god through his school’s annual talent show. Taking place against the backdrop of the early ‘90s, Satyal’s debut novel tackles adolescence, family drama, and grade school politics from the perspective of an Indian-American pre-teen.

“Kiran Sharma is a mischievous little git who thinks he’s the center of his own ridiculous universe. I’ve never related to a character more,...

Kate Bosworth to star in The I-Land, with Neil Labute as showrunner and director.

Netflix is expanding its slate of sci-fi projects with three new series, including one with Kate Bosworth starring and Neil Labute as writer, director and showrunner.

Bosworth will star in and serve as a producer on The I-Land, about a group of people who mysteriously wake up on an island and face psychological and physical challenges trying to get back home.

Netflix has ordered seven episodes of the show, scripted by Mr .Robot writer Lucy Teitler, from Nomadic Pictures Entertainment. Playwright and film writer-director Labute (previously...

Michael Ahr Sep 28, 2018

Original series The I-Land is in development at Netflix with Kate Bosworth starring and producing.

As part of its new focus on genre content, Netflix has added a new sci-fi action adventure series called The I-Land to its development line-up. A portion of the main cast, including star Kate Bosworth, has already been announced and will feature Natalie Martinez, recently of The Crossing which was canceled after one season, and Alex Pettyfer of Magic Mike fame. Kate Bosworth is also on board as producer.

The I-Land will begin with ten people, including Bosworth’s Kc, Martinez’ Chase, and Pettyfer’s Brody, who wake up on a treacherous island with no memory of who they are or how they got there, and they set off on a trek to try to get back home. They soon discover the world they find themselves in is not as it seems.

Michael Ahr Oct 12, 2018

The monster hunters of Idw Comics’ October Faction will be adapted at Netflix for ten episodes, and we've got the latest cast news.

For those who enjoy monster-killing and secret societies, Netflix’s latest sci-fi comic book adaptation of Idw’s October Faction may be just the thing. The ten-episode first season of the series will introduce globetrotting monster hunters Fred and Deloris Allen who, after the death of Fred’s father, return to their hometown in upstate New York with their teenage children Geoff and Viv. As the family adjusts, Fred and Deloris must hide their identities as members of a secret organization, and our heroes quickly discover that their new small-town setting isn’t as idyllic as it seems.

The comic upon which October Faction is based comes from Idw and famed horror comics scribe Steve Niles, who will executive produce the adaptation. Niles’ original...

Michael Ahr Sep 28, 2018

The American manga, Warrior Nun Areala, will be adapted into a ten-episode supernatural series for Netflix.

Manga fans rejoice! Warrior Nun will be adapted into a new ten-episode series as part of Netflix’s increased science fiction slate. Inspired by the Warrior Nun Areala manga novels created by Ben Dunn, Warrior Nun revolves around a 19 year-old woman who wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she is now part of an ancient order that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces representing both heaven and hell want to find and control her.

Whether or not the 19-year-old protagonist will be modeled directly after Sister Shannon Masters from the graphic novel remains to be seen, and the dropping of the name “Areala” may indicate a change from the original mythology...

Netflix is expanding its sci-fi/genre portfolio with three new series orders, to Neil Labute’s The I-Land, starring Kate Bosworth, Natalie Martinez and Alex Pettyfer; October Faction, based on the Idw comics by Steve Niles, and Warrior Nun, inspired by the Manga novels.

Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of October Faction, from creator/executive producer Damian Kindler, High Park Entertainment in association with Idw Entertainment; seven episodes of The I-Land, from Nomadic Pictures Entertainment, with Bosworth also producing; and 10 episodes of Warrior Nun, from creator/executive producer Simon Barry.

They join the recently picked up new sci-fi series The Order, Wu Assassins, Locke & Key, V Wars, and Another Life as Netflix is making in big push in the genre arena as is rival Amazon.

The I-Land marks Magic Mike star Pettyfer’s TV series debut. Bosworth previously did stints on The Art of More, Young Americans and BBC’s SS-bg.

In the last two weeks, Netflix has renewed four original series: “Busted!,” the Korean detective series, earned a Season 2 pickup; “The Rain,” a Danish drama, also snagged a second season; “3%,” the hit Brazilian dystopian series, landed a Season 3 renewal; and even “13 Reasons Why” got another controversial extension for a third season.

So where’s the order for “Dear White People” Season 3?

It took just over a month (33 days) for “3%” to get renewed, while “13 Reasons Why” got scooped up after only 19 days. “The Rain” and “Busted!” premiered the same day as “Dear White People” Season 2, and both got the call for additional episodes before May came to a close.

Now, not all television is created equally. Each of these series is very different from the others, and it goes without saying that not every deserving TV show gets renewed. But with Netflix, there’s no telling what’s a hit and...

An unexpected side effect of the recently lowered barrier to entry into game development is that it dilutes the amount of infamy available for individual titles. While there were plenty of bad games in the pre-App Store and pre-Greenlight eras, the true disasters are known far and wide for their lack of quality alone. These days, true disasters are everywhere, and externalities like dishonest or litigious developers are required to leave the kind of impression that Superman 64 left just by existing. Take Past Cure, for example. It’s a terrible game that will disappoint anyone drawn in by its striking screenshots and somewhat promising description, but it will be immediately forgotten, because it’s at least exactly what was advertised, albeit the worst possible form of it.

If I had to pin down the root cause of the game’s woes, I’d point to its minimal understanding of its own identity.

Director Brian Helgeland’s Legend (2015) tells the based-on true story of Ronald and Reggie Kray: twins (both played by Tom Hardy), East End boys, racketeers, murderers, icons. The Krays were shaped during the 1960s, a post World War II boom for England. They came to symbolise the smartly dressed gangster for a new youth-orientated generation. They had money and they wanted to flaunt it – and that meant suits and a lot of jewellery.

Costume designer for Legend, Caroline Harris, boasting over 20 years experience in both film and television with credits such as Mr Nice (2010), Red Riding (2009) and Fleming (2014), here chats exclusively to Clothes on Film about her work on the project:

Legend is not set during the ‘swinging sixties’; there is still an air of long-established formality present, especially in nightclubs in casinos.

How did you approach your overall representation of the 1960s?

The 1960s was an entire decade and fashion changed and developed throughout.

Tom Hardy is fab, but this is GoodFellas-lite, depicting violent sociopaths as glamorous, even amusing, and lacking all understanding of what made them tick. I’m “biast” (pro): love Tom Hardy

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have not read the source material

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Tom Hardy is Ronnie Kray. And Tom Hardy is Reggie Kray. And Tom Hardy (London Road, Mad Max: Fury Road) is the best — and pretty much the only — reason to check out this rather shockingly laudatory crime thriller based on the life and, er work of two of the most notorious gangsters London has ever borne witness to. As both of the identical Kray twins, Hardy is a wonder, carrying his body, comporting his face, and subtly shifting his voice in ways that never leave the viewer in any doubt as to which brother he is...

Shannyn Sossamon became something of an "It Girl" in the early noughties with roles in films including "A Knight's Tale," "40 Days and 40 Nights," the Bret Easton Ellis adaptation "Rules of Attraction" and "The Order" (her second and final film with the late Heath Ledger, whom she called "a very special spirit" but was otherwise reticent to talk about in a short-form interview), but after giving birth to her son Audio in 2003 she all but disappeared from the spotlight. Since then, Sossamon has popped up in everything from well-received indies ("Wristcutters: A Love Story") to big, star-studded Hollywood com-coms ("The Holiday") to TV series (the cult single-season CBS vampire drama "Moonlight"), though recently her resume is heavy on so-called "genre" work, from the 2008 J-horror remake "One Missed Call" to the 2011 post-apocalyptic thriller "The Day" to this year's buzzy summer series "Wayward Pines" and now "Sinister 2," the sequel to the sleeper...

Legend

Director: Brian Helgeland // Writer: Brian Helgeland

There was initially a lot of promise for writer turned director Brian Helgeland’s career, his directorial debut was the entertaining 1999 adaptation of the Donald E. Westlake (aka Richard Stark) novel The Hunter, which was titled Payback for his version. Following that up with a pair of Heath Ledger titles, A Knight’s Tale and the doomed The Order, we didn’t see Helgeland get in the director’s seat again until 2013 with 42. He’s sticking with based on true story stuff with this resurrection of the notorious Kray Bros., the subject of an enjoyable Peter Medak film from 1990, The Krays. Here, we have Tom Hardy playing the twin gangsters, one of the few performers that can supersede the shortcomings of Helgeland and co-star Emily Browning to nab a slot on our list (we’re also curious as to the absence of Violet Kray,...

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Our journey through the lesser-known films of the 2000s continues. This week, it's 2003...

It was the year that Arnold Schwarzenegger went from Terminator actor to Governor of California, and when The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King dominated the global box office with a gross of more than $1bn. 2003 was also the year the Wachowskis' Matrix trilogy thundered to a close, the year Freddy Krueger clashed with Jason Voorhees in, er, Freddy Vs Jason, and the year Pixar scored another hit with Finding Nemo.

But as you've probably gathered by now, 2003 was also a year of quite brilliant, less lucrative films. The movies we've included in this week's list were chosen for a variety of reasons - some were ignored in cinemas, while others were harshly treated by critics. Some were modestly popular or given awards on release,...

Laremy is in Greece, which is why we decided to do the podcast today instead of yesterday and you'll have to bear with us, there was a slight delay in his audio. I also had to edit a few times as his side continued to break up here and there. However... the show must go on! Today we discuss the new Tom Cruise movie Oblivion, take a look forward at the box office potential of the summer films, play some games, answer some questions and voicemails and much more. I also want to remind you there will be a slightly different podcast this Friday where hopefully Laremy can join, but I will be getting together with Kevin Jagernauth from The Playlist and Emma and Aurelien from CinemaTeaser.com to discuss the 2013 Cannes Film Festival lineup as all four of us will be in Cannes to cover what is already shaping...

No one really wanted Scary Movie 5. Seven years ago audiences turned out to give Scary Movie 4, what easily should have been the last one, a decent send off with a very respectable $40 million opening and a domestic total of $90 million. But some folks don't know when to let it go and audiences showed just how last decade the franshise is. The movie launched to the tune of $15 million, taking a distant second place at this weekends box office and setting a record low for the series, far below what most of the other Scary Movies entries enjoyed. We haven't seen Brian Helgeland behind the lens since his thriller The Order tanked almost ten years ago. But the director of A Knights Tale discovered his directorial second wind with the historical drama 42, the number one movie this weekend. The movie recounts the tumultuous events surrounding the signing of Jackie Robinson,...

Will the just-released 42 have the most successful opening weekend for a baseball movie? Writer-director Brian Helgeland's 42, which features Chadwick Boseman as baseball player Jackie Robinson and veteran Harrison Ford, whose credits range from The Conversation and Star Wars in the 1970s to the more recent Cowboys & Aliens, debuted with an estimated $9.1 million at 3,003 locations this past Friday, April 12, as per studio figures found on the web site Box Office Mojo. (Almost) undeboutedly, 42 will end up grossing between $25 million and $26 million by Sunday evening. If that does indeed happen, the film will boast the best debut weekend ever for a movie about baseball -- well, sort of. Pictured above: Ford, looking remarkably different under heavy makeup, plays Brooklyn Dodgers' team executive Branch Rickey in Helgeland's movie. Well, if you dwell on a planet where inflation is as real as the plots of Hollywood films -- including those based on real-life events,...

Baseball Biopic Surpassing Expectations: Will Easily Top Domestic B.O. Chart This Weekend Written and directed by Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential screenwriter), and starring Chadwick Boseman as pioneering black baseball player Jackie Robinson and veteran Harrison Ford as the Brooklyn Dodgers' team executive Branch Rickey, the biopic 42 was the no. 1 movie at Friday's domestic box office; it'll surely be the weekend's top film, too. As per early, rough estimates found on the web site Deadline.com, the period drama will be the only movie grossing more than $20 million at the domestic box office. (See below more information about Scary Movie 5 and last weekend's holdovers.) (Pictured above are an unrecognizable Ford as the Brooklyn Dodgers' team executive Branch Rickey and Boseman wearing Robinson's baseball uniform.) The 42 movie brought in an estiamted $8.5 million at 3,003 U.S. and Canada venues on Friday (April 12) and by Sunday evening may possibly...

Access' Scott "Movie" Mantz weighs in on the new Jackie Robinson film, and says it's not exactly a home run, but it's definitely a hit.

"42"

Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford

Directed by: Brian Helgeland

Brian Helgeland has always been better as a writer than as a director. Try holding up his Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Mystic River" or his Oscar-winning screenplay for "L.A. Confidential" up against middling directorial efforts like "Payback," "A Knight's Tale" or "The Order," and the proof is in the pudding.

As a director, Helgeland moves up to the big leagues with ...

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The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and it’s time to crack open the windows after so many long months. Ah, springtime, when a young man’s (and many not so young) thoughts turn to … baseball. Well, it turns out that many in Hollywood have the old “horse-hide” on the brain too. This favorite American pastime has graced the big screen many times from light comedies such as Alibi Ike and Major League to heavy dramas like Bang The Drum Slowly. One classic flick, The Natural, could be classified a Fantasy allegory while another, Bull Durham, is a sexy bedroom romp. Of course, film makers have chosen to tell several real-life stories of the diamond with Pride Of The Yankees (Lou Gehrig’s tale), a couple of Babe Ruth biopics, and the lady players of World War II in A League Of Their Own. Now Brian Helgeland (The Order...

Shannyn Sossamon has signed with Apa in all areas. She was previously with Paradigm. Sossamon, who broke into movie by nabbing the female lead opposite Heath Ledger in A Knight’s Tale, most recently landed a a gig as series regular on ABC’s upcoming show, Mistresses. Her other notable feature credits include The Holiday, Rules of Attraction and 40 Days and 40 Nights, as well as The Order, which reteamed her with Legder. She also appeared on shows such as FX’s Dirt and CBS’ Moonlight. Sossamon continues to be repped by Oren Segal at Mpe.

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In an ideal world, Australian actor Heath Ledger would have been celebrating his thirty-third birthday today. Heartbreakingly, he isn't here for it: the actor passed away from an accidental prescription drugs overdose just over four years ago, on January 22, 2008. At the time, the actor was shooting Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," and the director managed to finish the film with Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law paying tribute to the late actor by joining the production.

Ledger had a rare talent that seemingly wowed everyone he would work with -- Matt Damon, who appeared with the actor in Gilliam's "The Brothers Grimm," recently called him "the best actor I ever worked with" -- and it's hard not to be distraught at the thought of the performances we'll never get to see. But even so, Ledger left behind an enormously impressive body of work for one so young,...

Brian Helgeland has been in the screenwriting business for a while, having written some great movies (L.A. Confidential, A Knight's Tale, Man On Fire) and some not so great movies (The Order, Robin Hood).  And now his son Martin has entered the writing game, with a spec script called Slayer that has been picked up by Legendary Pictures.  In a curious case of art reflecting life (i.e. the son taking up the father's mantle), Slayer "is described as a modern-day story...

Harrison Ford and relative newcomer Chadwick Boseman are set to star in Legendary Pictures’ Jackie Robinson biopic. Brian Helgeland wrote the script and will direct the movie, titled 42.

Ford will play Branch Rickey, President and manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 when he broke the “color barrier” by signing Robinson as the first African-American in Major League baseball. Deadline reported his offer this week and Legendary sent a press release blitz Friday confirming his casting. Robert Redford had long been attached to the role.

30-year-old Boseman, whose resume consists of mostly bit television parts until now, will play the second baseman. Robinson won the inaugural Rookie of the Year award that year, the National League Mvp two years later, a world series title in 1955 and, in 1962, he was inducted in the Hall of Fame. Mlb retired his number, 42, across all teams in 1997.

Helgeland is best known as an Oscar-winning screenwriter,...

Yeah, I can see it. Harrison Ford is the first choice to play Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey in the Jackie Robinson biopic 42, directed by Brian Helgeland [Deadline]. The film will tell the story of Robinson, the first African-American integrated into Major League Baseball, and Rickey, who trailed-blazed against the old guard of racism owners and managers.

For as long as anyone can remember, this project has been in place in some form, with Robert Redford long the first choice to play Rickey.

Now Redford’s 75 years old. Ford’s 69 years young. Alright, so not that big an age difference but the former does look considerably older than the latter. Legendary Pictures is producing the picture, with no word yet on who’ll be cast in the role of Robinson. It’s an interesting choice for Helgeland, a man who’s name isn’t househeld but perhaps should be. He...

FremantleMedia Enterprises (Fme), the commercial and brand extension arm of FremantleMedia, today announced it has acquired the rights to Universal Soldier, the hit movie franchise, rebooting it as a major new global television property. It will be written by Damian Kindler (Stargate Sg-1, Sanctuary) and produced by FremantleMedia North America.

David Ellender, Global CEO, FremantleMedia Enterprises, said:

"Universal Soldier is Fme's first foray into the sci-fi action genre, further diversifying our growing drama portfolio and underlining our reputation as one of the industry's leading developers, co-producers and distributors of globally popular, high-quality scripted content."

Allen Shapiro and Craig Baumgarten, who will executive produce the series, said:

"We've long wanted to come up with a bold new way of updating Universal Soldier. We're thrilled to team up with FremantleMedia and are sure that the millions of fans who loved the movie will now welcome it into their living rooms."

FremantleMedia Enterprises,...

Robert Redford is going back to baseball again. The “Natural” star has signed on to an untitled film by Legendary Pictures involving the historical drama about the Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey and baseball player Jackie Robinson. Rickey was known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier by signing the league’s first African-American player Jackie Robinson. Brian Helgeland will write and direct the film. Helgeland wrote the screenplays 2010’s “Robin Hood,” “Man on Fire,” “Mystic River,” and “A Knight’s Tale.” His last directorial film was with 2003’s “The Order.” According to the Los Angeles Times, the untitled film will “look less at the specifics of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier and more at the complex relationship between Rickey, who scholars believed integrated baseball for reasons of both idealism and economics, and Robinson, the second baseman who faced tremendous discrimination when he signed with the Dodgers...

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Q: After seeing Blaine chase Kurt around the room in Glee’s “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” Christmas episode number, I said to my close friend/ex that I would "let Blaine chase me around that room for days on end," and his response was, "See, I'm more of the person who'd be doing the chasing." I'm 5' 9'' and 130 lbs, and more than one person has referred to me as a "twink" (a word which I find to be derogatory and demeaning). What confuses me is that my instinct to be chased by Blaine does not follow with him dominating me, but the complete opposite. I am always attracted to the most butch, athletic, tall, hyper-masculine guys around me because I want to ravish them. Is that weird?...

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Live in Phoenix or the nearby environs? Interested in seeing Little Fockers on December 16? Then, pal, I have just the ticket for you. In fact, I have a lot of tickets so by all means shoot me a line at Christopher_Stipp@yahoo.com and I’ll see about hooking you up with passes to see it.

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This holiday season come Little Fockers the third installment in this blockbuster series (Meet The Parents and Meet the Fockers.) The test of wills between Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) and Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) escalates to new heights as Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) and Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) and the family...

20th Century Fox is one of the most frustrating companies to deal with when it comes to Blu-ray. When it comes to their big releases, they do great work, but when it comes to catalog, it’s hard to say or know what you’re going to get. It’s great that they’re putting a lot of catalog out – like Warner Brothers they seem invested in the format – but if you already have the film on DVD, you may have to hold your old copy if you want the supplements. The 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Return of the Living Dead, the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror and The Order all come with varying degrees of their original supplements on Blu-ray. And my review of this quartet of Blu-rays follows after the jump

Phillip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers is easily the best of the lot.

The Robocop Trilogy will be available on Blu-ray for the first time on October 5 and you know we have to celebrate this classic trilogy in high definition. We have a new contest running and we're giving away copies of this three-disc Bd set to our readers. You know these discs will surely go fast, so enter this new giveaway today.

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Packed full of memorable moments and Robocop quotes, the Robocop Trilogy is a fan must-have. Viewers can experience their favorite "human" robot in all three classic films, now on Blu-ray. Directors Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall, Basic Instinct) of Robocop, Irvin Kershner...

Cyborg super-cop Robocop is set to get an upgrade as the Robocop Trilogy blasts to Blu-ray as a collector.s set on October 5th from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and M&C.s giving away two copies! The collection includes the original Robocop on Blu-ray as well as the Blu-ray debut for Robocop 2 and Robocop 3. Directors Paul Verhoeven (Totall Recall, Basic Instinct) of Robocop, Irvin Kershner of Robocop 2 and Fred Dekker (Monster Squad Forever, Nighs of the Creeps) of Robocop 3 bring the half robot, half police officer to life with the help of an intensely talented cast, including Peter Weller (The Order; 24), Robert Burke (Good Night, and Good Luck; Tombstone), Kurtwood Smith (Rambo III; That...

On October 5, the complete Robocop trilogy will be hitting blu-ray for the first time in a special edition from Fox. And you guessed it - we're giving it away. And not just one set of high-def cyborg cop action - nope, two lucky winners will be taking home this Twitch Top Kill Candidate.

What do you have to do? Nothing special. Just e-mail me your name and address with "Robocop Contest" in the subject line by Wednesday, September 29th at midnight Est. Contest is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada only.

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The cyborg super-cop Robocop defends citizens of Old Detroit with three times as much action when the Robocop Trilogy arrives...

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The Girl Who Played With Fire (Music Box Films) Follow up to the hit The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo finds Lisabeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) joining forces once again as Blomkvist is about to break a story on Sweden’s sex trade, which leads unexpectedly to a dark secret from Elizabeth’s past. Starts off well, then quickly nose-dives into sensationalism and downright silliness, with a pair of villains who are straight out of a Roger Moore-era James Bond film. A real letdown for those of us who felt Dragon Tattoo had finally breathed life into the cinema’s long-stagnant genre of the thriller. Bonuses: English language track; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.

The Killer Inside Me (IFC Films) Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s classic, and notorious, novel about the psychotic mind of a small town sheriff (Casey Affleck,...

After a very quiet post-Labor Day weekend for new movies, where Resident Evil: Afterlife (review) was the only major film released widely (and owned the box office), this week's new horror DVD titles aren't aplenty either.

But we do have television shows from the recent season and re-releases of older titles all trying to chase the Blu(-ray) dollar.

Fringe: The Complete Second Season

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While "Fringe" is not strictly horror per se, the sense of fear and suspense that greets us week after week should qualify for some mention. They have enough quality freaks of the week and bloodshed to satisfy the fiends in us. This is the acting job that Leonard Nimoy is retiring from! "Fringe" stars Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown and Jasika Nicole.

Buy the Blu-ray set or the regular DVD box set.

The Twilight Zone: Season...

We have a brand new exclusive clip from The Order, which will be released on Blu-ray for the first time September 14. Click below to watch this scene, which features Shannyn Sossamon trying to convince Heath Ledger to let her go to Rome:

The Order: Promise

After the head of his order of priests dies, Alex Bernier (Heath Ledger), is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death. The body bears strange marks on the chest that may be the sign of a Sin Eater, a renegade who offers absolution, last rites and a path to heaven outside the jurisdiction of the Catholic Church. Alex enlists the aid of an old comrade Father Thomas (Mark Addy) and of a troubled artist (Shannyn Sossamon) for whom he once performed an exorcism, only to find himself plunged into a mystery that brings him to the very brink of hell.

The theatrical trailer for the long-delayed vampire action movie Priest is finally out, and, in my opinion, it’s sufficient proof that this movie will likely not be worth the long wait – though that’s not to say that the final product looks totally bad.

Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Min-Woo Hyung, Priest stars Paul Bettany as an exiled priest who must save a young girl from the clutches of the vampires.

You might read that explanation and think you’re in for a new version of the Dracula mythology – or perhaps another version of The Order, that moody and brooding Heath Ledger movie about a Priest who goes around combating evil forces. However, Priest is directed by Scott Charles Stewart, who also worked with Bettany on the religious-themed action/horror flick…

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The Order arrives on Blu-ray September 14th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and M&C.s giving away three copies! Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) stars as a troubled priest caught up in the murderous conspiracy of an arcane sect of dissident holy men in The Order. The very laws of heaven and hell are defied in this religious thriller that .does not disappoint. (Sight and Sound) from Academy Award-winning writer/director Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, A Knight.s Tale). After the head of his order of priests dies, Alex Bernier (Ledger), is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death. The body bears strange marks on the chest that may be the sign of a...

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Afterschool" (2009)

Directed by Antonio Campos

Released by Mpi Home Video

Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, Campos' polarizing debut stars Ezra Miller as a high schooler whose Av club assignment leads him to capture the drug-induced deaths of two of his popular prep school classmates. [Sam Adams' review of the film is here.]

"All Men Are Brothers" (1975) and "Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms" (1978)

Directed by Chang Cheh and Wu Ma/Chang Cheh

Released by Well Go USA

Well Go USA do long-suffering American kung fu fans a solid and finally release "All Men Are Brothers," the sequel to the Shaw Brothers' epic "Seven Blows of the Dragon" (a.k.a. "Water Margin") featuring David Chiang and Chen Kuan-tai as warriors battling against the tyranny of despots, and "Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms," which pits Shaw brothers favorites' the Venom Mob against the master that crippled them.

The Robocop Trilogy is hitting store shelves in high-def Blu-ray for the very first time on October 5. This new three-disc set will be priced at $59.98 Srp. You can take a look at the cover art below. No details on special features were given, but the set will feature all three theatrical films - Robocop, Robocop 2 and RoboCop 3. We'll keep you posted if any special feature updates are given:

Packed full of memorable moments and Robocop quotes, the Robocop Trilogy is a fan must-have. Viewers can experience their favorite "human" robot in all three classic films, now on Blu-ray. Directors Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall, Basic Instinct) of Robocop, Irvin Kershner of Robocop 2 and Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad, Night of the Creeps) of RoboCop 3 bring the half robot, half police officer to life with the help of an intensely talented cast, including Peter Weller (The Order; 24), Robert John Burke (Good Night,...

John C. Reilly as a vampire? I thought: How can that not be funny? And it is funny, in a gentler, more unassuming way than you might expect from a movie by screenwriters Paul Weitz and Brian Helgeland, who’ve collectively given us dark and brooding (Helgeland’s The Order and Mystic River) or sharp and satirical (Weitz’s American Dreamz and About a Boy) but never anything so modest in scope and ambition as this inoffensive and subsequently bland fantasy. Bland fantasy? That’s just sad.

Forget about the 1974 movie of the same name. I’m not putting it down: I’m saying, Whether you’ve seen it or not, whether you like it or not, doesn’t matter. This nominal remake (same title, same premise, mega-updated for 21st-century NYC and 21st-century movies)? It’s good. Damn good. Like this good: I’ve been waiting for a Die Hard movie to actually come close to approximating the spectacular cinematic experience that Die Hard was more than 20 years back, and the 2009 Taking of Pelham 123 is the first movie to get real close to that. It’s always a question when it comes to remakes: Why remake this particular movie, and why remake it now? And director Tony Scott (Deja Vu, Domino) and screenwriter Brian Helgeland (Man on Fire , The Order) -- working from the same novel by John Godey [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon U.K.] that was the basis for the first film...

Sally Hawkins ( Happy-Go-Lucky ), Zoe Wanamaker ( Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ), Jimi Mistry ( RocknRolla ) and Mark Addy ( The Order ) have joined the cast of Gurinder Chadha's horror-comedy It's a Wonderful Afterlife. Chadha directed Bend It Like Beckham and says her latest endeavor doesn't skimp on red stuff as it tells the story of an Indian mother who takes her obsession with marriage into the world of serial murder. It's supposedly Shaun of the Dead meets My Big Fat Greek Wedding . Afterlife is currently shooting in the UK and stars actress Shabana Azmi in the lead role and reunites some of Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham cast including Shaheen Khan, Ash Varrez and Adlyn Ross.

It's hard to believe almost a year has gone by since Heath Ledger's tragic passing, but next Thursday will be the one-year anniversary of his death. He's already been honored with a few posthumous awards, including a Golden Globe, and with Oscar nominations less than a week away, the buzz around Heath's performance in The Dark Knight is as loud as ever. To continue honoring and celebrating his memory, Entertainment Weekly made Heath its cover story with quotes and highlights about his life from the people that worked closely with the actor and grew to know and love him over the years. Here are a few highlights from the touching article: Gil Junger, director, 10 Things I Hate About You: "Heath came in to read, and he exuded a sexuality so uncommon for a man of that age. As soon as he left, I stood up and said, 'Ladies, I...

By Matt Singer

It feels completely appropriate in a year of incredible financial turmoil, particularly in the independent film sector, that so many good movies were made about people teetering on the edge of economic extinction. My own list features two such films, without even getting around to "Slumdog Millionaire," "Frozen River" or the small but immensely powerful "Shotgun Stories." Movie stars were feeling the pinch, too: in the semiautobiographical "Jcvd," audiences saw faded action hero Jean-Claude Van Damme resorting to begging his agent for money to pay for his divorce.

Stars, and studios too. Even before the bottom fell out of the economy, Hollywood studios were beginning to shutter their indie divisions; Paramount eliminated Vantage, Warner Brothers closed Picturehouse and Warner Independent and absorbed New Line. It wasn't much better for smaller distributors: David O. Russell's upcoming "Nailed" was in the news all summer because its production kept...

Critic circles are going to be unveiling their top tens of 2008 at a furious clip and as evidence I have four new lists for you today over the next few pages as critics from St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco and those Southeastern folk have weighed in with their picks for the best films and performances of 2008. As noted in the teaser above Milk comes out with two pics for Best Picture while The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire also took a top prize each. Sean Penn continues to battle with Mickey Rourke for the Best Actor slot and even tied in San Francisco as they just couldn't make up their minds and offered up another tie. Heath Ledger took Best Supporting Actor on all four lists and Kate Winslet gets a bit of love for Revolutionary Road from the St. Louis crowd and for The Reader...

• Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain, The Brothers Grimm) speaks in his native Australian accent for the first time in 10 years in Candy, the debut feature film from accomplished Australian stage director Neil Armfield. Adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by Luke Davis (and also co-author of the screenplay, along with Armfield), Candy is the story of Dan (Ledger) and Candy (Abbie Cornish – A Good Year, Somersault), whose deep love for one another blossoms into a destructive and out-of-control relationship with the aid of their ever-increasing heroin addictions. At the start of the film Dan is a young, naive and unambitious poet – we don’t actually see him do any writing, though his poetry is mentioned a few times, and he does read e.e. cummings. He is certainly no Jim Carrol or Charles Bukowski, using his substance of choice to fuel the creative process and cranking out mountains of prose. Dan

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