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Yes, They're Still Making Butterfly Effect 3

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:15:22 PST

Reason be damned, they are still going forward with the third Butterfly Effect movie (Yes, there was a second). Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations follows a young boy that seize-nosebleeds back in time to uncover the mystery surrounding his girlfriend's murder. So it's exactly like the first, but without Thumper, Amy Smart or sassy-pants camera-hawking whats-his-face. Take a closer look at the stills from Butter 3 and see the youths seize themselves back into time.

Why Revelations? Probably because everyone who participated in the creation of this film should meet the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and be dragged off into the nether regions of Hell. Butterly Effect 3 will be screened at the After Dark Horrorfest on January 9 through the 15th.

Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:01:00 PST

Genre darling Ridley Scott is going to bring to life the famous monocle man in a film adaptation of the famous Hasbro board game Monopoly. Yes, you heard me right — they are making a movie about the board game Monopoly. Not only that, but Scott will be sourcing from his past work directing Blade Runner to give the overall film a futuristic feel. So in the future of Monopoly, will the boot fly?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott is attached to the film and plans on making his Monopoly movie have a little glimmer of tomorrow.

Ridley Scott, who has been attached as a producer on "Monopoly" and has been mentioned as a possible director, is now officially attached to helm the project, with an eye toward giving it a futuristic sheen along the lines of his iconic "Blade Runner."

Not only are we getting the real estate take-over movie, but Hasbro is working with Universal on a Ouija Board movie, as well as a Battleship flick. Wow, have we really fallen into an imagination depression so low that we have to find movies in crappy board games? And if so, why aren't we reaching for the good board games? Girl Talk alone had enough sad girl-shaming moments ripe for a classic horror flick.

[The Hollywood Reporter]

21 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Go See Disaster Movie

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:40:00 PDT

The cast of Disaster Movie lines up and gives us 21 reasons why the movie's opening night should be deserted. There isn't a single gag or parody in this tragic comedy that could possibly justify its existence. Click through for the full poster.

Action Movie Sequels Nobody Asked For

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:20:00 PDT

More signs that the end of days is nigh: the bendy-bullet, killing-machine movie Wanted is rumored to become a full-fledged trilogy. And boozy has-been superhero Hancock may get yet another chance to sully the screen with some terrible plot devices. Click through to find out who's back, and who's still dead, in the next pointless installments. With spoilers.

Cinema Blend's insiders spilled that Wanted isn't just getting a sequel as graphic novel writer Mark Millar has been saying, but going one further with a completely unnecessary trilogy about the fraternity of assassins and their super-loom. James McAvoy is considered a lock, as is bullet-making monk Terrance Stamp. And Angelina Jolie might be back briefly (they'll need someone to carry the brunt of the marketing after all). Let's go ahead and assume that this'll be a flashback featuring Fox, or else Fox's sexy evil twin, since Angelina's character was clearly dead by the end of the first flick.

In other "please dear god why is this being movie being made" news, the word on the street is Sony is already gearing up for Hancock number two. Still, the rumor has it Will Smith didn't actually like the first film, and he won't be back for a second outing unless he gets some sort of creative control over the next flick. Well, at least he has enough taste to hate his own work.

[Cinema Blend]

No More Butterfly Effects Please

Meredith Woerner — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:00:20 PDT

Get ready for a third installment of the eye fluttering, mind seizing time traveling adventures of bad actors in The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations. Spawned from the first Butterfly Effect starring Hollywood dim-bulb Aston Kutcher. The original followed Kutcher who could convulse himself into the past, thus altering his future and saving his lady love. The sequel followed the same premise (boy travels back in time and gets bad nose bleeds to save girl) and Revelations sounds like more of the same, but this time the main character unleashes a serial killer on the world. Why do they keep making these direct to DVD movies when it so clearly could be another terrible WB series? Click through for more details on BE3.

According to Bloody Disgusting, Existence director Anthony Leonardi the III is in negotiations to direct said Butterfly flick. The script has been penned by Holly Brix. If the Butterflies follow the Karate Kid rule of 3, it looks like we should be getting a she-nose bleeding seizing time traveler in no time.

[Bloody Disgusting]