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Alexander Skarsgard may have lost the chance to wield Thor's hammer, but at least he'll get to terrorize the heck out of Cyclops and Lois Lane. According to Variety, Skarsgard and Kate Bosworth are set to costar with James Marsden in "Straw Dogs," Rod Lurie's controversial remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 classic thriller.
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Actor to play opposite on Jaden Smith -- Jackie Chan will play the wise kung-fu master in a Hollywood-Chinese remake of the 1984 hit "The Karate Kid" that kicked off filming in the Chinese capital at the weekend, a movie company publicist said Monday.

Nimrod Antal, the director of the horror film "Vacancy," has been hired to direct "Predators" for Fox and producer Robert Rodriguez.

It’s okay to be afraid of the dark, just don’t be afraid of “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.” Particularly not when you’ve got an actor of Guy Pearce’s (”Memento”) caliber attached to the ticket. The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop that Pearce will star in “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” a remake of a ...

Despite a behind-the-scenes legal tangle involving a pair of production companies that no longer exist, Will Smith and Steven Spielberg's planned "Oldboy" remake continues to move forward.

John Landis has apparently sold off the remake rights to this film.

So last we heard, Neil Marshall was one of seven contenders according to AICN to direct the Alex Litvak penned reboot PREDATORS, based on Robert Rodriguez's treatment. LatinoReview has exclusively learned that director Nimród Antal, not only is he one of the seven names, but is also the top contender and the guy most likely to get the gig.Who?I said the same damn thing.

Thanks to that Internet phenomenon known as Twitter, the Scream world was buzzing over the weekend, clearing up some questions whilst opening up a whole other can of worms.

Now that we've launched these two new genre sites -- Horror Squad and ScFi Squad -- there's going to be a good amount of content over there that's not over here. Like this post from SciFi Squad about Joss Whedon and how he was offered the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, but turned it down.

The "Total Recall" remake being produced by Neal H. Moritz has got itself a writer: "Law Abiding Citizen" scribe Kurt Wimmer.