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Love steam? Love punks? No, seriously, steampunk is a burgeoning genre, and SyFy's new series, Riese, is yours to enjoy, via the wonderfully accessible medium of The Internets. Steampunk is slowly becoming more and more popular, and has been used for many well-known animes in Japan (Metropolis and Steamboy, to...

Looks like Blake Lively is the lady of the moment, everyone is trying to get a piece of her. We already know she's in the hotly-anticipated Green Lantern, playing Carol Ferris after beating of competition from the likes of Eva Green, Diana Kruger and Jennifer Garner. Now she is being lined up for roles...

Looks like the Merc with a Mouth is getting a new overlord on-set as Tim Miller steps up to the plate, after an endless procession of almost-but-not-quite directors. Now, before you start ranting about how you've not heard his name in connection with any directing gigs and how he's a minor director who may do...

Mick Jagger and David Bowie are apparently ready to start work on a film they have been writing for the past 15 years. The legendary rockers are thought to have a script about a couple of "hellraising rock'n'roll managers" who are rumoured to be based on Andrew Loog Oldam, the legendary manager for The...

The trailer for upcoming comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore and Emma Stone, has been released! Crazy, Stupid, Love sees Steve Carell play a middle-aged man whose wife (Julianne Moore) leaves him, meaning he is faced with the daunting world of dating and...

For those of you waiting to see if the remake of the dogged-by-death original The Crow will actually be any good, it's been announced that the person leading it all will be 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. As we've mentioned before, The Crow remake is well on its way to production, and people...

Andy Serkis, known in the Jackson-Middle Earth universe as the mo-cap (motion capture) actor behind Gollum, has been chosen by The Hobbit director, Sir Peter Jackson, to direct the second unit. This is a huge step up for Serkis, who has not only starred in The Lord of the Rings, but who also recently played...

King of cool (well, not really) Vanilla Ice has been signed up to star in a comedy with Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester. This isn't Ice's first foray into films, oh no, the rap star wrote a song for and had a cameo in, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, which you may have seen. He...

Ben Drew, aka rapper Plan B, will star in opposite Ray Winstone in a remake of classic 70s police drama, The Sweeney. The Brit Award-winning musician has already appeared in film's such as Adulthood and 4.3.2.1, and is currently in the process of completing his first stint as a director for upcoming film,...

Lindsay Lohan could be headed back to the big screen, with a role in an upcoming film about murderer Charles Manson. The troubled actress has reportedly had difficulty keeping her career afloat since being charged with driving under the influence and spending several stints in rehab. However, it seems...