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#youarenemesis

How To Make Yourself Infamously Immortal

Your body will die, but your name can live on forever... Or for however long it'll take for people to forget about comic creator Mark Millar's next project. He's auctioning off the name of his Nemesis lead character for charity. More »

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#antman

Stan Lee Raises Our Hopes For An Edgar Wright Ant-Man Action Movie

You may be excited about Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, but we're even more stoked about his much-rumored, Disney-produced Ant-Man film. And Stan Lee has once again ignited that excitement. More »

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Was reading geek quotes today and realized: a couple of my favorite sci-fi-ish cult movies don't get much love in the geek scene. I mean, I know not every movie can make it out there in the harsh realities of cut-throat sarcasm, but these are movies I would have expected to see more daylight than they do.

So I was wondering, which cult movies do you have love for that nobody ever discusses?

I'll start with two: "Split Second" and "The Hidden". I've heard people mention the Hidden before if only for the hard rock soundtrack, but nobody ever mentions "Split Second" anymore, even with the prescient global-warming subtext.

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#stargate

Has The Next Stargate SG-1 Movie Been Cancelled?

Has the classic Stargate been shuttered forever? You'd think MGM and NBC/Universal would welcome another Stargate direct-to-DVD movie after fans greeted the first two with open wallets. But sadly, Michael Shanks says another SG-1 film might be DOA. More »

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#greenlantern

Tim Robbins Helps Bring The Daddy Issues To Green Lantern

The Green Lantern cast is finally coming together. The latest addition: Tim Robbins as the disapproving father of one of the film's many villains — a character who's not in the comics. Spoilers ahead... More »

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#superman

Dark Knight's Nolan To Reboot Superman?

Superman is preparing for a cinematic rebirth, and the man behind The Dark Knight is playing midwife. At least, that's the interesting new theory being reported by Nikki Finke, who's saying that Chris Nolan will reboot the Man of Steel. More »

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#contagion

Soderbergh Infects A-List Actors Damon And Winslet In New Outbreak Film

Steven Soderbergh must be awfully excited about his infectious new film Contagion. The director has pushed this flick to the top of his to-do list and snagged some of Hollywood's most prominent actors for his "Traffic meets Outbreak" feature. More »

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By Meredith Woerner

#terminator

Terminator Rights Are Sold... But Not To A Movie Studio

The Terminator movie rights were finally sold at auction today, and both Lionsgate and Sony were outbid by a hedgefund. Halycon sold Arnold and friends for $29.5 million, to their debtholders Pacificor — the same company Halycon sued for extortion. More »

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#thething

The Thing Claims Its First Prequel Victims

The prequel film for John Carpenter's The Thing starts filming next month with newcomer actors Joel Edgerton and Elizabeth Winstead. But does the audience really care what happened to the science team before the monster ran into Kurt Russell? More »

02/08/10

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#planetoftheapes

Who Will Direct Apes' Rebirth?

Producer Peter Chernin may believe in his on-again, off-again Planet Of The Apes reboot, but he's having trouble convincing directors to feel the same way. Which big-name helmers have already said no, and who's in the running to replace them? More »

02/08/10

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#jonahhex

Do The Jonah Hex Reshoots Mean A Bigger Role For Megan Fox?

It was rumored that the Jonah Hex reshoots were required to add additional characters to the film, but the latest set pics make us think that Megan Fox's hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold role has been fleshed out. More »

02/08/10

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#ghostbusters3

Bill Murray Decides The Fate Of Peter Venkman In Ghostbusters 3

What's going to happen to Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters 3? We got our first hint from Sigourney Weaver, and now Bill Murray is insisting on it. What's the plot twist that must happen for Murray to be in Ghostbusters 3? More »

02/08/10

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#cultmovieworship

Screw K-Pax We Want Zonad, French Mutants And Bigfoot's Cousin The Grassman

We've got a collection of aliens, fake aliens, bigfoots and one demented Robin Hood film. This week on Cult, the strange gets stranger, but we promise you'll like it more than K-Pax. More »

02/07/10

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#tronlegacy

Tron Legacy May Be Only The Beginning

If rumors are to be believed, Disney are so proud of what they've achieved with the upcoming Tron Legacy that they're already working on the next installment in the series... Except that the next installment won't necessarily be a movie. More »

02/07/10

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#captainamerica

Captain America To Wield Shield, Microphone In New Movie

Wondering how the upcoming Captain America movie will fulfill its own hype about being unlike any other Marvel movie to date? It'll be by having its titular hero singing and dancing. And, no, we're not joking. More »

02/07/10

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#religion

The Bettany Blaspheme-Off

Paul Bettany currently stars in two films, Creation and Legion. Both go to work on traditional religion with a blowtorch and shovel, but which one takes the cake, heresy-wise? More »

02/06/10

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By Esther Inglis-Arkell

#stretcharmstrong

Twilight's Shirtless Werewolf Spies A Stretch For New Movie

Not content with playing a pouting werewolf in the Twilight movies and signing on to flesh out CGI cartoon hero Max Steel for the big screen, Taylor Lautner has decided to stretch himself with his latest superheroic role... literally. More »

02/06/10

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#moviereview

"District 13: Ultimatum" Delivers Asskickery For Great Justice In Paris

At one point in Luc Besson's District 13: Ultimatum, cop hero Damien intones seriously, "The Constitution is my Bible." The politics in this story of near-future justice are simple, like its pleasures - which include watching parkour badassery in Paris. More »

02/05/10

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#foundfootage

Mad Max Meets Star Wars, With Mutant Sex-Coaching [NSFW]

Ultra Warrior's opening monologue/montage is completely insane: four-breasted slave girls, a post-apocalyptic world run by armed "pimps, bohemians and sexual deviants," and mutant bandits who cut people in half. But it only gets worse in the 30 monologues that follow. More »

02/05/10

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#daredevil

A Daredevil Reboot Written By "Day The Earth Stood Still" Remake's Writer? Hell No!

After the Frank Miller-influenced The Dark Knight conquered the box office, it makes sense to make another movie about Daredevil, the other superhero Miller made awesome. But a reboot from the writer of The Day The Earth Stood Still? No! More »

02/05/10

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#triviagasm

How Did The Predators Script Change Since 1994?

In the early 1990s, Robert Rodriguez penned a Predators script, replete with half-human/half-Predator hybrids, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and an old-timey pirate ship. How does this nutty original treatment stack up to this summer's Predators film? Gargantuan spoilers after the jump... More »

02/05/10

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