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-- Rebecca De Mornay, who I'll always identify with the delightfully cheesy "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle," gets to roll out her sadistic mommy act again when she stars in the upcoming remake of the 1980 horror flick "Mother's Day." Latter-day "Saw" director Darren Lynn Bousman is directing, so expect plenty of greasy, grimy gore to keep you up at night when De Mornay and her band of twisted sociopaths terrorize a family living in their old home. (Variety)

-- Nicolas Cage has signed on to star in the revenge flick "Driving Angry," which will be a 3-D release. Cage will play a man who sets out on a quest for bloody murder after his daughter is killed and her child is kidnapped. Patrick Lussier will direct a script that he co-wrote with Todd Farmer. Lussier previously directed "My Bloody Valentine 3D," so he's got plenty of experience in looking at a scene with an eye towards multi-dimensional spectacle. (The Hollywood Reporter) Read more...

Tags Darren Lynn Bousman, Derek Haas, Driving Angry, heath ledger, Jamie Chung, jerry bruckheimer, mothers day, nicolas cage, Rebecca De Morney, Shake, sucker punch, terry gilliam, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Zack Snyder

Disney surprised a lot of tweeters this morning when the company announced its acquisition of Spider-Man and X-Men publishers Marvel Entertainment. Kevin Smith, Jeff Katz, Dax Shepard, and many others chimed in with thoughts on the purchase.

Elsewhere, the tweets are still trickling in from those remembering DJ AM, including renowned Vegas party-goer Paris Hilton. The list of tweets today was actually fairly thick to sort through, with all of these reactions, a photograph of a "Twilight" star biting into a horse and Bob Saget's response to a fan's request for him to tell the "Aristocrats" joke on Twitter. It's all below in the Twitter-Wood Report for August 31, 2009. Read more...

Tags bob saget, brian lynch, dax shepard, dj am, jeff katz, paris hilton, peter facinelli, rachelle lefevre, selena gomez, Twilight

I've unfortunately not gotten to see it yet, but "The Baader Meinhof Complex" looks pretty great. Kurt Loder's endorsement is really all the prodding I need, and yet I've been assaulted on all sides by friends who have nothing but praise to shower on the movie. The based-on-truth story gives viewers a glimpse of the Red Army Faction (or RAF), a gang of student protestors/terrorists who operated during the 1970s.

From the look of things in the exclusive clip below, we're getting a look at the movement in its earliest stages. The RAF crew is looking for training and... well... they're not the friendliest bunch. See for yourself below, then check out the movie, in theaters now:

Tags The Baader Meinhof Complex, Video

Due to the success of “The Final Destination” over the weekend, we can expect to see a lot more 3-D movies going into development over the next few months. Just this morning The Hollywood Reporter had news of a film in the works titled “Drive Angry,” which will feature Nicolas Cage popping out at you in three dimensions.

Also in the past few days were reports of a possible 3-D “Swamp Thing” remake and confirmation that The Weinstein Co. is moving ahead on a third “Halloween” movie that will be made in 3-D and released next summer. Read more...

Tags Bad Boys 3, guillermo-del-toro, Halloween 3-D, Halloween II, the-hobbit

Let's play a little word association. New York Stock Exchange... ...Troma's "Toxic Avenger."

Wait, what?! I crap you not. These two things, which previously did not go together like peanut butter & jelly, are now inextricably (and inexplicably) joined... the way a toxic mutation might join, say, a pigeon and a rat. The cast of "Toxic Avenger" (the musical) headed down to Wall St. last week to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Why, you ask? Because it's freaking AWESOME! Click the pic below to check out our image gallery from the event.

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-- In the pantheon of classic action movies, there is "Aliens" and there is "Die Hard." They're not the only ones of course, and I'm not entirely sure why those two live together -- maybe because both deal with trapped protagonists? -- but which one is better? It's the sort of question that movie nerds like me can debate into the wee hours of the morning. And that's exactly what George "El Guapo" Roush does in this feature for Latino Review. (Latino Review)

-- Did you know that four of this summer's many movie offerings featured a miscarriage or stillbirth? And that 12 featured vomiting, or a direct reference to the same? How about that two ended with Flo Rida's "Right Round" and two others ended with the Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow"? Find out which ones and more fun summer movie facts in William Goss's feature on Cinematical. (Cinematical) Read more...

Tags aliens, die hard, Twilight

With "Predators" being produced by Robert Rodriguez and his Troublemaker Studios, it stands to reason that the film will shoot in Rodriguez's Texas-based studio. But what's a "Predator" movie without lush landscapes and dangerous jungles? Rodriguez seems to understand that necessity, which is why he's booking a trip to Hawaii.

According to Tim Ryan's Reel Hawaii, "Predators" is hoping to film in Hawaii for 18 days starting in October. And do you know what other beloved franchise is filmed in Hawaii? None other than "Lost," ABC's hit television series that concludes with the upcoming sixth season. That's right -- the Predators are coming to the Island! Read more...

Tags lost, predators

With the bloody awesome that ensued in "Rambo" and the hopefully bloody awesome contained in next year's "The Expendables," there is absolutely no reason that today's announcement of a fifth "Rambo" film should be anything but bloody awesome news.

According to Variety, Sylvester Stallone is officially planning a sequel to last year's "Rambo," which he will once again direct and star in for Nu Image/Millennium Films. Production is expected to start in the spring of 2010.

Variety describes the plot of the untitled "Rambo" sequel as revolving around "Rambo fighting his way through human traffickers and drug lords to rescue a young girl abducted near the U.S.-Mexico border." Read more...

Tags rambo, Rambo 5, Sylvester Stallone

Brian Levant is no stranger to translating animated classics into live action features. The "Beethoven" director oversaw both "The Flintstones" in 1994 and "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" in 2000. For his new Cartoon Network production "Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins," however, Levant went in with a lofty goal to reboot the "Scooby-Doo" franchise, which has already seen two feature films with flesh-and-blood actors. The director's first step was to recruit a younger cast.

"When we started filming, the youngest member of our cast was barely 16 years old, and I think the age of the cast reflects the innocence and energy and an openness to new stimuli – in general and specifically – in this franchise," Levant said. "By starting over, we have re-energized the franchise and given it a new reason to exist." Read more...

Tags brian levant, scooby doo, scooby doo the mystery begins

This Friday at 7pm, MTV's semi-regular series "Behind the Screen" is back with exclusive clips and interviews from some of the fall season's most anticipated releases. In addition to getting your very first look at the set of the "Clash of the Titans" remake, starring Sam Worthington, we'll also take you behind the scenes with "Jennifer's Body."

In case you've somehow missed it -- a difficult thing to do, given all the... ummm... exposure "Transformers" star Megan Fox has brought along -- the Diablo Cody-penned teen horror flick is all about a possessed cheerleader (Fox) who preys on the souls of her male classmates while her bookish friend (Amanda Seyfried) tries to put an end to the madness. In the below interview clip, a preview of Friday's "Behind the Screen," Fox discusses a subject that I imagine most of you male readers might be interested in: kissing other women.

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Tags amanda seyfried, clash of the titans, diablo cody, jennifers body, megan-fox, sam worthington, Video