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A sneak peek trailer of Nic Cage’s new thriller Season of the Witch has made its way onto the internet. The film revolves around a group of knights in 14th century France must transport a woman accused of witchcraft to a mountain abbey, where the monks attempt to understand and destroy her powers. The monks believe [...]

Lionsgate’s Twitter page updated with the release date of Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass!, it looks like the studio will be releasing it on April 16, 2010.
In case you do not know Kick-Ass! tells the story of Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), an average teenager and comic-book fanboy who decides to take his superhero obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. [...]

Lionsgate is gearing up for a remake of the 1987 classic Dirty Dancing and has set Julia Dahl (Uptown Girls) to work on the script, according to Production Weekly.
As we all know in the original we had Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. Grey (pre-nose job) plays a young woman in the summer where she meets Johnny Castle (Swayze) who [...]

Lionsgate has grabbed domestic distribution rights to Matthew Vaughn’s action-comedy Kick-Ass! after a 3 studio battle insued after massive buzz was generated from Comic-Con on the project and fan response.
The deal is being described as big with the mini-major studio committing to a wide 2010 release.
The film is based on a ongoing comic by Mark [...]

Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz Blog is claiming that three studios are now circling Matthew Vaughn’s film adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic series Kick-Ass! Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal are in the running for the pic, which Vaughn has financed independently after some studios found the project’s violence too graphic and some of its dialogue too profain and decided [...]

Paul Haggis and Russell Crowe will star in the American remake of the French film ”Pour Elle“ which reunites Lionsgate with its director of Crash.
Crowe will play a teacher whose wife is arrested and convicted of a murder she says she did not commit. He comes up with a desperate plan to free her.
Haggis said the film explores [...]

Risky Biz Blog has reported that Lionsgate and Nu Image/Millennium may have found the star for their ConanConan The Barbarian remake: 41-year-old Austrian actor Roland Kickinger is in talks to play the role that Arnold Schwarzenegger originated in the 1982 classic Conan The Barbarian.
Apparently, there are some other uncanny similarities: Kickinger is also a bodybuilder-turned-actor [...]

The director of Platinum Dunes remake of Friday The 13th is taking Brett Ratner’s place directing the remake of Conan. Marcus Nispel has signed on to direct the film according to CHUD.
We reported Ratner’s attachment and departure from the project but we were always told that an August start date was what Millennium and Lionsgate [...]

Here are the new Blu-ray releases for May 19, 2009:

24: Season 7 (Fox)
Batman (1989) (Warner)
A Bug’s Life (Walt Disney)
Changing Lanes (Paramount)
Circle of Iron (Blue Underground)
Dr. Doolittle: Million Dollar Mutts (Fox)
Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn/Wrath of the Dragon (FUNimation)
Driven to Kill (Fox)
Eden Log (Magnolia)
Enemy at the Gates (Paramount)
It Could Happen to You (Sony)
Lions for Lambs (MGM)
The [...]

Lionsgate has recently revealed some extremely cool poster and outdoor art for the highly anticipated Sylvester Stallone film, The Expendables, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
We knew a poster was coming soon via the last update we got when we posted Sly’s picture of him hanging on the side of a Seaplane. Now we have [...]