The American version of Akira  has been scrapped (again, for now, who knows), but that doesn’t mean we can’t get our crummy paws on some storyboards displaying the whitewashed Hollywood wank job.

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Our culture is such that when you tell me that Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are getting rebooted, I don”t bat an eye. Despite using the term “reboot” with classic fucking characters is fucking insane. When you tell me that these characters are also going to be adults and the reboot  contains supernatural elements…I just nod.

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Django Unchained  is dropping this year and just thinking about it has me grinding into my computer chair and yelling “Homage!”, “Witty dialogue!”, “Auteur!” I can’t wait. While everything has been quiet on the (spaghetti) western front (hey man that’s a good one), the executive producer has offered up some tidbits.

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Yeah, The Lizard is the antagonist in the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man, no I don’t really give a shit. There’s new promo art that provided a look at said baddie, and I am equally unimpressed with this reveal.

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MGM didn’t make a lot of money from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Go figure. They released a long as fuck dismal as hell R-rated movie at Christmas. Why didn’t it crush the box office?

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Can’t wait for Prometheus. Won’t wait for Prometheus. I’m storming the Ridley Scott compound right now, glazed in pork grease and chunky peanut butter, intending to take the film. During this liberation, sate yourself with these wallpapers. I’ll have the goods for us soon.

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Despite the fact that Orson Scott Card is a raging homophobe, there’s no denying that Ender’s Game is one of the classics of science fiction literature. In it, a young boy named Ender Wiggin is taken to Battle School where is gifts as a strategist are revealed. His talent is used in the ongoing conflict with the “buggers” – an alien race who won’t stop fronting on the human race. It’s “sequel” Speaker for the Dead, is one of the greatest books I’ve ever read. Period.

After decades of planned adaptation, the book is finally coming to the big screen with Hugo‘s Asa Butterfield as the lead, Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) directing, and Roberto Orci producing. The crew has started a Tumblr so we can all follow along with the production at home. This excites me more than Taco Tuesdays or Pizza Mon-Fridays.

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Russell Crowe seems like a sturdy son of a bitch who could both build something and drink too much. This makes him the perfect Noah, a factoid which didn’t escape Darren Aronofsky. The director has paused for long enough from directing J. Lo in nauseating Kohl’s commercials long enough to land a lead man for his bio-disaster-bibilical-journey Noah.

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Sony has gone out of its way to market The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo  in clever ways, with the most recent example being their DVD. Instead of some glossy product, they’re riffing on all those pirated discs we used to rock back in the day.

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For those of you who have been missing the David Cronenberg of yore – the kinky philosopher with a camera who brought the world The Brood, Videodrome, and Crash – the first teaser for Cosmopolis is here and it’s infused with flashes of physical taboos. I’ve enjoyed the hell out of Cronenberg’s output since he went “soft” with Eastern Promises up through last year’s A Dangerous Method, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t eager for some more body-horror-kink.

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