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