Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Breaking the records for highest grossing opening day for an animated feature and the best opening ever for a Pixar movie, “Toy Story 3” skyrocketed into first place with $109 million. “Karate Kid” finished in a distant second with $29 million. The weekends only other debut, “Jonah Hex” finished in …
Read More »“ComiTRON” Takes Over Comic-Con International
Returning for an unprecedented third year to the fans and Convention that “started it all,” Walt Disney Pictures is pleased to present a very special, insider look at its upcoming “TRON: Legacy” at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International Convention. At 11:15 a.m. on Thursday, July 22, 2010, the panel …
Read More »Oldman, Slater & Cook Go for Girls, Guns & Gambling
Actors Gary Oldman, Christian Slater and Dane Cook have signed on to the new indie crime thriller Girls, Guns and Gambling from writer-director Michael Winnick (2007’s Shadow Puppets) . Along with a slightly off-beat cast and a great title, the film has a story that involves “Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern …
Read More »Alexander Skarsgard Enlists for Battleship
Alexander Skarsgard will be keeping his fangs in check for his next role. The True Blood star has been cast in Battleship, Peter Berg’s movie adaption of the classic Hasbro board game for Universal, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog. Battleship’s script is written by Erich and Jon …
Read More »The Scooby Gang is Back with More Spooky Mysteries to Solve
Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and their talking dog Scooby-Doo are back, solving mysteries in the spooky town of Crystal Cove in the animatedScooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated premiering Monday, July 12 at 7 p.m. (ET, PT). Crystal Cove is a sleepy coastal village that boasts a long history of ghostly sightings, werewolves …
Read More »Imagine & Radical to Develop Graphic Novel Legends
With the big success of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, new takes on classic fairy tales are becoming the latest trend in Hollywood. Not to be outdone by Disney, Imagine Entertainment’s Brain Grazer and Ron Howard and Radical Pictures’ Barry Levine are teaming up to develop the upcoming graphic novel titled …
Read More »28 Days Later Scribe May Pen Logan’s Run
Just a couple of weeks back it was announced that the long delayed remake of Logan’s Run had finally landed director Carl Rinsch to helm the project. Now comes word that Alex Garland, the scribe of 28 Days Later is now in negotiations to write the new version of Logan’s …
Read More »Raimi and Downey Jr. Will Travel to Oz
Word over the last few days was that Sam Raimi was in negotiations to direct the Wizard of Oz prequel for Disney. Now Deadline has confirmed that a deal was finalized to make Oz: the Great and Powerful Sam Raimi’s next stint in the director chair since he removed himself …
Read More »Battlestar Galactica Online Tech Demo To Debut At E3 Expo
The global market leader in browser-based massively multiplayer online games (MMOG), Bigpoint, (http://www.bigpoint.com/) will be demonstrating the first technical demo of Battlestar Galactica Online at E3 Expo in Los Angeles. A tactical space combat and adventure MMOG based upon Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica series, Battlestar Galactica Online ( http://www.bgo.bigpoint.com) will be …
Read More »Karate Kid Chops Up Box Office
“Karate Kid” took the top spot at the weekend box office, bringing in $56 million in a showdoen for the action movie viewer with the remake of The A-Team. The gang who couldn’t shoot straight pulled in a mere $26 million, putting it far below expectations but solidly in second …
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