Jean-Claude Van Damme hits UK to shoot UFO

Writer and director Dominic Burns has revealed how he got Jean-Claude Van Damme to star in his British sci-fi movie UFO: he emailed the actor's wife. Burns admits he was surprised by the response, telling BBC News he was “astonished when the star agreed to play the role.” Van Damme will play a retired military advisor in the movie and according to the director the muscles from Brussels is looking forward to seeing Derby. "We heard he once visited the city to take part in some sort of martial.»

New poster for Gerard Butler’s Machine Gun Preacher

The first poster for the soon-to-be-released Machine Gun Preacher has been unveiled. The image shows Gerard Butler against a city slum backdrop, holding an Ak-47 whilst standing protectively in front of a Sudanese child. Some questionable Photoshopping makes it looks like it could be a promo for a comedy film-within-a-film vanity project, but, remarkably, this is based on a true story. The film chronicles the life story of biker Sam Childers, a former drug dealer who found God and became the hero of hundreds of Sudanese children who were.» By : IMDb.CoM

Planet Of The Apes' Keeps Rising At The Box Office

From MTV Movies: Not only did the apes begin to conquer the human world onscreen, but they managed to retain their top spot at the box office as well. Despite competition from four diverse new movies, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" remained the #1 movie in America over the weekend.

The sci-fi prequel took in another $27.5 million during its second weekend of release for a $104.8 million total, according to studio estimates. Starring James Franco, "Rise" is a descendent of 1968's original "Planet of the Apes" which was itself based on Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel of the same name.

Whereas "Apes" was written in the '60s but set in a distant future, "The Help" was written just a couple of years ago but is set in the '60s. The movie adaptation of the hit book about a Southern belle who collects the stories of several African-American maids opened at #2 with $25.5 million, » By : IMDb.CoM

Friday Box Office – What the Smurf? The Smurfs Edge Out Cowboys And Aliens On Opening Day

This week the box office gave us Cowboys and Aliens: a huge action movie directed by Jon Favreau, written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman and produced by Steven Spielberg. It also gave us The Smurfs: a movie about tiny, animated blue creatures from the eighties which was supposed to play as family-friendly counter-programming to the would-be summer blockbuster. So what’s with that chart? Opening in 3,750 locations, Cowboys and Aliens was projected to take the weekend with $45-$50 million to The Smurfs $20 million from 3,395 dates. With Friday’s estimates, however, it now looks like Cowboys will be a first-place disappointment with $40 million while The Smurfs will overperform in second place with at least $30 million. Meanwhile, the third new release of the week, Crazy Stupid Love, opened in 3,020 locations, taking in an estimated $6.6 million for a weekend projection of $20 million. Full details and analysis tomorrow. Title Friday Total 1 The Smurfs $13,300,000 $13.3 2 Cowboys » By : IMDb.CoM

Leonardo DiCaprio up for Creed Of Violence with Todd Field?

Rumours are rife that Leonardo DiCaprio could be set to join another period western: Todd Field's The Creed Of Violence. We say another, as DiCaprio is set to play villain Calvin Candie in Quentin Taratino's Django Unchained (there still hasn't been a 100% official confirmation on that casting, but it seems to be taken as a given now). According to an unnamed source in a Los Angeles Times report, DiCaprio is reportedly interested in starring in The Creed Of Violence, which is based on a novel by Boston Teran. Set in 1910, the story takes... » By : IMDb.CoM

‘Just Like Being There:’ A Gig Poster Documentary, Now In Production

/Film is proud to exclusively announce that a previously untitled, currently in production documentary on the world of gig posters has officially been dubbed Just Like Being There. The crew, lead by director by Scout Shannon and producer by Johanna Goldstein, has been traveling the country documenting some of the best poster artists in the business and they plan on releasing a movie about this world. If you read /Film, you know this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart so when I heard about this film, I had find out more about it to share with you all. "Gig posters" doesn't only refer to concert posters, though. It pretty much covers all kinds of limited edition poster art such as the posters that Mondo releases [1], gallery shows at places like Gallery 1988 [2] in Los Angeles or Spoke Art [3] in San Francisco and, of course, the art that » By : IMDb.CoM

Antoine Fuqua To Direct ‘Storming Las Vegas’ For Summit

Summit Entertainment, those crazy cats behind the Twilight movies and distributors of Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker, have just picked up another book and attached some pretty big names to it. Antoine Fuqua will direct Storming Las Vegas under the watchful eye of producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. To explain what Storming Las Vegas is about, one only needs to read the actual, full title of the book by John Huddy. The full title is "Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down The Strip to the Tune of Five World Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars." Yup. Got it. More after the jump. Deadline broke [1] the news of the deal to adapt the book, which is based on a true story. They're calling it modern day Robin Hood story set in the mid-1990s when a man named Jose Vigoa battled against Vegas's increasingly » By : IMDb.CoM