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A Death Race Cameo And Sin City Sexiness
Original Frankenstein, David Carradine, will make a cameo in the Death Race, starring Jason Statham. Unless Carradine is running Statham over with his car, I'm sure the cameo will be just a brief little nod to the fans, who won't go and see this bastardized version of the original anyway. In other casting news, Angelina Jolie plays with Frank Miller's heart strings as she casually drops the notion that she's "curious" about playing Ava Lord in Sin City 2, an idea that Miller and crew have been hinting at for years. [MTV]
Original Frankenstein, David Carradine, will make a cameo in the Death Race, starring Jason Statham. Unless Carradine is running Statham over with his car, I'm sure the cameo will be just a brief little nod to the fans, who won't go and see this bastardized version of the original anyway. In other casting news, Angelina Jolie plays with Frank Miller's heart strings as she casually drops the notion that she's "curious" about playing Ava Lord in Sin City 2, an idea that Miller and crew have been hinting at for years. [MTV]
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Fiery Blasts Don't Compensate For Death Race's Wimpiness
Boom goes the dynamite, as Jason Statham unflinchingly walks away from a splodey fireball, as his new film Death Race desperately tries to resurrect some of the bad-ass cred that it lost by reducing the gore content from the original Death Race 2000. Sorry buddy — Walk away from as many explosions as you like, this movie still won't beat its predecessor. In a future world where prisoners race to the death for our viewing pleasure, Jensen Ame (Statham) must race to live after he's framed for murder. Click for a new gallery of the cast and cars. More »
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New Clips From BSG And Hancock, Plus A New Hulk Review
The new issue of Entertainment Weekly is full of hand-wringing about spoilers, and how they're ruining things like the Lost season finale for everybody. According to our critics, spoiler whores are really just attention whores — which isn't necessarily true. We just love finding things out early. Like the secrets of how Incredible Hulk sets up a new villain for its possible sequel. Or exactly how things work in Joss Whedon's new amnesiacs-for-hire show Dollhouse. Not to mention our glee when we get new clips from Will Smith's Hancock or this Friday's Battlestar Galactica. We're also excited by new hints about Lost, Iron Man 2, Spectacular Spider-Man, and Jason Statham's new film Death Race. We're spoiler-happy, and we're happy to share. More »
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Here's a first peek at scenes being filmed for the remake of violent death-car-meets-game-show movie Death Race 2000, directed in 1975 by cult filmmaker Paul "Eating Raoul" Bartel. Flamethrower = hell yes. This remake, called simply Death Race, could be the psycho, gritty rejoinder to sparkly flop Speed Racer — though some key plot points have been changed, probably to make it more palatable for people disturbed by rampant child-crushing. More smashy cars below.
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The Awesome Cars of Futuristic Smashing Death
Here's a first peek at scenes being filmed for the remake of violent death-car-meets-game-show movie Death Race 2000, directed in 1975 by cult filmmaker Paul "Eating Raoul" Bartel. Flamethrower = hell yes. This remake, called simply Death Race, could be the psycho, gritty rejoinder to sparkly flop Speed Racer — though some key plot points have been changed, probably to make it more palatable for people disturbed by rampant child-crushing. More smashy cars below.
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Death Race Has Flamethrower Carnage, But No Dead Pedestrians
The new Death Race movie can throw as many weapons-packed cars at us as it wants, but it still won't be half as entertaining now that they've done away with earning points for mowing down pedestrians. This remake of 70s classic Death Race 2000 is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Alien vs. Predator) so there will be explosions, car flippery, and bad dialogue. But it still won't pack any of the kick of the original. Click through for more details (and to enlarge that flamethrowery image, from Empire Magazine). More »
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Death Race's Postapocalyptic Road Rage Will Be Splattery, Silly
The first reports from early screenings of September's Death Race have popped up online, and the dystopian race-for-your-life movie sounds just as silly as you'd probably expected. Starring Jason Statham, Death Race is less a remake of 1970s cult classic Death Race 2000 than a movie inspired by it. It features lots of weird video-game touches, and some very over-the-top graphic violence, courtesy of director Paul W.S. Anderson (Event Horizon). Click through for details and spoilers. More »
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Worst Postapocalyptic Game Of Death Ever
A nuclear holocaust has caused a new ice age and all but wiped out humanity... and the survivors kill time with pointless murder games. Robert Altman's Quintet has two of the greatest movie concepts in history jammed together, in a quintessentially 1970s blend of apocalypse and wacky death game. No wonder Paul Newman is excited! It's like stumbling into Rollerball, Death Race 2000, Jericho and the Sci Fi Channel's Ice all rolled into one. (And check out the proto-Bartertown sets, complete with weird slogans.) Sadly, the seemingly innocent game of Quintet hides a dark secret, as you'll see after the jump. More »
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The Meanest Car Wins, In Post-WWIII Wasteland
The only way to survive the fall of America is to build the most bad-ass car in the universe, and then roll out and destroy everybody else's cars. Mad Max and Death Race 2000 came to life at the roll of your six-sided dice in Car Wars, the classic 1980s strategy game. You would rack up "points" and use them to add armor, tank guns, fire-proof wheels, mini-engines inside the wheels and nitro-injectors, then you'd duel, either out on the open road or in an arena. Click through for the history of Car Wars. More »
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Scotty's Weird Sidekick In Star Trek Movie
This morning's piping hot helping of spoilers include some new details about Star Trek... and a very bizarre rumor about the hard-drinking Montgomery Scott, played by Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz). We also have some bizarre and awesome new details about Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race and a tidbit about Wolverine. And we have new Lost spoilers, plus two new clips. It's all because we're fighting for a spoil! Or something. More »
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The fact that another science fiction remake is announced every week doesn't mean Hollywood has run out of ideas. It just means nostalgia is the mind-killer. And it's only going to get worse, now that the Omega Man remake I Am Legend was such a huge success. So which planned remake makes you want to firebomb your local cineplex? Click through to vote.
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What Movie Remake Are You Dreading Most?
The fact that another science fiction remake is announced every week doesn't mean Hollywood has run out of ideas. It just means nostalgia is the mind-killer. And it's only going to get worse, now that the Omega Man remake I Am Legend was such a huge success. So which planned remake makes you want to firebomb your local cineplex? Click through to vote.
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Greatest Car Chases In Science Fiction (Part 1)
Emilio Estevez talks smack to Mick Jagger and manages to dodge 10,000 futuristic dune-buggies at the same time, in this huge car-chase from the movie Freejack. Car chases are a huge part of sci-fi movies. And with Knight Rider coming back next month, we want to pay tribute. After all, no matter how high-concept your plot may be (like time travel and brain-transplants) it always comes down to a bunch of cars zooming around trying to smush each other. Here's part one of our favorites, with clips. More »
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15 Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
Some movies radiate their awesomeness backwards in time as well as forwards. You practically have memories of enjoying films that haven't come out yet, the anticipation is so great. Other movies are so horrible, the pain travels back in time and becomes your childhood trauma. Here are the 2008 movies that are already thrilling and horrifying us: More »
2:00 PM on Thu Jan 3 2008
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First Glimpse Of Indiana Jones Aliens -- In Lego!
Those rumors about aliens in the new Indiana Jones movie? Appear to be true, judging from new images of the Lego playset. Click through for a picture of skeletons in alien helmets, plus Terminator TV and movie spoilers. It's all part of Morning Spoilers, where we reveal the plot twists of tomorrow. More »
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New Pics From Hulk, Possession, X-Files and More
Want to see what Edward Norton will look like as Bruce Banner in Incredible Hulk? Or how intensely Jason Statham will stare at the windshield of his makeshift jalopy in Death Race? The studios have released a ton of new promo pics. Click through for pics from Possession with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and X-Files 2. More »
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A remake of the 1975 cult classic that inspired Grand Theft Auto, Death Race 2000, is on the way next year. But this version has all the testosterone drained out. Gone are the point systems for running over pedestrians, gone is the entire revenge plot that had David Carradine after the President, and gone is the fact the "Death Race" was shown on national television. What does that leave you with?
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Death Race 2000 Remake Has No Balls
A remake of the 1975 cult classic that inspired Grand Theft Auto, Death Race 2000, is on the way next year. But this version has all the testosterone drained out. Gone are the point systems for running over pedestrians, gone is the entire revenge plot that had David Carradine after the President, and gone is the fact the "Death Race" was shown on national television. What does that leave you with?
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