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Taylor Lautner is quite literally becoming a boy toy. The ”Twilight” werewolf is already set to star in ”Max Steel” — he’ll play the titular extreme-sports-star-turned-superhero based on Mattel toy line — and now he’s stretching his acting limits even more.
According to a press release, Universal Pictures has lined up Taylor for “Stretch Armstrong,” a.k.a. another franchise based on a toy (this time [...]

Disney’s Touchtone Pictures and DreamWorks’ have issued a public casting call, searching for the lead role for Shawn Levy’s futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel.
The film, set to hit theaters on November 18th 2011, tells the story of a father and his estranged 11-year-old son who enter the world of robotic boxing. You see, in the future, [...]

Wilsonville-based Movie Gallery succumbed to mounting financial losses last week, as the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years.
Movie Gallery is the second-largest rental chain in North America, and is now set to shut the doors of at least 760 Movie Gallery, Hollywood Video and GameCrazy stores in [...]

Former WWE diva Trish Stratus is in the lead role for a new independent movie titled “Bail Enforcers” that will be shot in Toronto, according to a press release today.
Stratus will play the lead female role, “Jules Taylor,” in a movie about a team of bounty hunters running into a “moral dilemma” when confronted by a mob boss.
“Bail Enforcers is an [...]

Flixster has purchased the movie review aggregation website RottenTomatoes.com from New Corp’s IGN Entertainment for an undisclosed amount.
The combination of the two movie-related websites makes sense for all three parties involved.  For starters, the two are already partnered in certain Internet ventures.  RottenTomatoes scores are fed to Flixster’s extremely popular mobile application and the ratings [...]

I have a confession to make. I’m a little confused by one of the themes we’re already seeing from the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show: 3-D Televisions.
Before the C.E.S. announcements began rolling out Tuesday I expected to read a lot of interesting press releases about fancy new televisions. I did not foresee the majority of these [...]

Actress Sandra Bullock has nabbed the golden ring for 2009 as the top Hollywood star at the box office, according to a survey of cinema owners.
A poll of hundreds of owners by Quigley Publishing lists the 45-year-old performer as top dog for 2009, raking in $315 million US worldwide for her comedy The Proposal, co-starring Canadian [...]

No doubt about it, Avatar is one impressive film. I’m not entirely sure this is the “future of movies” as it has been endlessly promoted, but it is something to behold, a picture you should definitely see on the big screen where it can truly be appreciated.  
That would indeed make Avatar not just an average flick, [...]