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Yesterday we saw the first-ever trailer for Timur Bekmambetov's hyper-stylized supernatural flick Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. If you enjoyed masculine Abe chopping trees in slow motion with his axe, then you're going to love this new trailer with double the carnage and hot-dead-president action! Dance for us rail-splitter, dance! Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter will hit theaters on June 22. More »
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We got a sneak preview of Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov's new production, an alien invasion flick set in Moscow called The Darkest Hour. Directed by Chris Gorak and starring Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer) and Max Minghella, the movie is about five Americans stranded in Moscow when a seemingly unstoppable alien invasion decimates the city and kills off what Gorak estimated jokingly to be precisely 91% of its inhabitants. Our protagonists have to band together with locals to survive in a city that's been turned upsidown. More »
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We're pretty excited about Timur Bekmambetov's moon mystery movie Apollo 18. If the ominous tagline doesn't pull you in, this alien footprint (presumably on the Moon) poster should. Take a closer look. More »
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The race to cash in on the found footage movie craze has just hit a new peak of hysteria, as the Weinsteins are determined to film their Moon astronaut movie, Apollo 18, in time to release it in March. More »
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The Weinstein Company is funding Apollo 18, the Timur Bekmambetov-produced thriller about a never-was Apollo mission's encounter with extraterrestrials. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5683406&view=rss&microfeed=true Gareth Edwards, writer and director of indie monster movie Monsters,is readying his next film, and he wants Timur Bekmambetov to produce. No plot description or title has been released, but the duo describe it as "an epic human story, set in a futuristic world without humanity." [Deadline] More »
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Sure, there are tons of "take me to your leader" movies on the horizon, but the news that the hyper-stylish Timur Bekmambetov is saddling up to produce The Darkest Hour is good indeed. More »
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Rumor has it that 9 producers Burton and Bekmambetov are joining together again to film the new Abraham-Lincoln-vs.-vampires novel, making it the second genre-fied classic to become a film. More »
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Two bits of awesome news! First there will be no contrived Wanted sequel, thanks to Angelina Jolie. Instead she's going to star in Gravity from Children Of Men director Alfonso Cuarón. Which is definitely the second bit of good news. More »
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Shane Acker's animated movie 9 features nine plucky ragdolls facing an army of beast machines after the human race has died off. We talked to Acker a while back, and he told us nine rules for great post-apocalyptic films. More »
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In most post-apocalyptic movies, we bring destruction on ourselves with our advanced science, and there's a cautionary message about trusting technology. But the lyrical 9 may be the first film that shows good machines fighting evil ones, after we're dead. More »
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You may think that 9 is all about ragdolls surviving the end of the world — but actually it's about the people you deal with every day, says producer Timur Bekmambetov. Plus your first look at his Russian superhero film! More »
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Timur Bekmambetov will be revisiting superpowered assassins with his sequel to Wanted, but he's already looking to his next project, a contemporary adaptation of Moby Dick. But this being Bekmambetov, his whales and whale hunters will have their own superpowers. More »
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So Wanted ended with a pretty final resolution for Angelina Jolie's character. But she's supposedly coming back for the sequel. We asked director Timur Bekmambetov how she could return, and his answer was as simple as curving a bullet. Spoilers... More »
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A new clip from Shane Acker's 9 shows us the harrowing confrontation between the last remnants of human society — a clan of rag dolls — and a nightmarish cyber-bird. This is the clip that blew our minds at Wondercon. More »
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This week in Cult, Heroes' Ando and 80s pop sensation Tiffany take on a bunch of flesh-eating ghosts, we show you commercials from the Eraser Children future, and a better look at Timur Bekmambetov's flying car. More »
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An explosive trailer for Shane Acker's 9 just premiered on Attack Of The Show. It gives the origins of these post-apocalyptic ragdolls... plus why the terrifying red-eyed machines are so determined to wipe them out. More »
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Shane Acker's animated movie 9 already impressed us with its blend of action and gothy postapocalyptic-ragdoll imagery. But a new clip underscores how scary the film, produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmabetov, will be. More »
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A follow-up to an ultraviolent comic book movie being written by a former Winnie the Pooh writer from an idea by the creator of Fast and Furious? Wanted 2 sounds like must-see car-crash cinemagoing. More »
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Check out this new concept art from Black Lightning, the next project from Wanted's Timur Bekmambetov. It's like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, only with a thousand percent more bang. More »
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We've been excited about the animated film 9 since we saw the trailer, and we got a chance to see some footage and hear from animation director Joe Ksander and star Elijah Wood. Spoilers! More »
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Those awesome rag doll guys (in the animated film 9) may be able to defeat a whole army of killer robots. But now they're facing the most unlikely adversary - another movie, called Nine. More »
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Here's another animated movie we're dying to see. Produced by Tim Burton and Timur "Wanted" Bekmambetov, 9 features straw men fighting mechanical monsters in a post-apocalyptic world. See the original short film, below. More »
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While some critics may bemoan Timur Bekmambetov's movie adaptation of Wanted a beautifully-filmed piece of misogyny, they're apparently unaware that the movie's casual hatred and disdain for women is simply a more targeted version of the contempt that the original comic had for its own readers. Under the jump, two of the greatest, most over-the-top, pages of ending any comic has ever had. Potential spoilers, so be warned. More »
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There was a lot of initial fan outrage that Timur Bekmambetov's movie version of Mark Millar's "If supervillains ruled the world" comic Wanted ditches the costumes, superpowers and even plot of its source material. But early reviews of the movie seem to suggest that the comic's biggest selling point - that it's a fun, dumb actioneer with pretentions to depth - still remains, but now has added gun porn, jokes and Matrix effects, to boot. More »
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This 7-minute clip from Wanted supposedly depicts the "realism" of this super-powered secret assassin movie. Though director Timur Bekmambetov insisted that his writers and designers make this movie as realistic as possible, you won't see much gritty true-to-life stuff in this fanciful, exciting chase scene — though I think the dialog is fairly realistic. I love seeing Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) screaming for Angelina Jolie to stop for most of the ride. So what exactly is realistic about this flick, and why would we want realism in a comic book movie anyway? More »
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