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Dragon Ball Z the movie

James Wong of The X-Files, The One and Final Destination has been reported to write and direct the ever-popular manga and bring it to the silver screen for 20th Century Fox.

Wahlberg’s up and coming

Apart from the immediate We Own The Night (official site here)with Joaquin Phoenix and Robert Duvall out next week, Mark Wahlberg will also be portraying the boxer Mickey Ward in The Fighter, as well as the latest from M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening scheduled to be released next summer.
The follow-up to the The Italian Job, The [...]

John Rambo out in January

Having watched how old and slow Sylvester Stallone has become in Rocky Balboa last year, and how the movie never really made an impact, it is a wonder how Rambo, one that has much more action than the previous, will come out.
All will be revealed very early next year. John Rambo, out January 25.

Here’s hoping they are great Chinese period pieces…

A few big period pieces coming out from the Chinese movie industry, starting with:
Warlord
Starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro
I caught the first trailer once and only wished for more as that kind of strong intensity is seldom felt from a mere trailer. The editing made it looked fantastic and with that line-up, it [...]

Big winners at 64th Venice Film Festival

Best Film: Lust, Caution by Ang Lee (another win for Cinematography)
Best Director: Brian De Palma for Redacted
Best Actor: Brad Pitt for The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett for I’m Not There