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 ‘Iron Man 3′ and Robert Downey Jr. start Shane Black era

“My sense of it is that we need to leave it all on the field — whatever that means in the end,” Downey said of the May 2013 film. “You can pick several different points of departure for that.”  Read the full LA Times article

With Conan and The Thing back at the cinema it’s like 1982 all over again

In 1982 there was an unprecedented investment in the fantastic. Subjects that would previously have been confined to B-movies, to exploitation flicks, to drive-in fodder became the stock-in-trade of the mainstream. It was a year that changed Hollywood, a year that the movies have never quite recovered from. Read the full UK Guardian article

What Spooks the Masters of Horror?

JAMES GUNN, director of Slither: I saw Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in a theater when it first came out, and it was so gritty and dark I felt sick to my stomach for a couple of days afterwards — like the evil of it stuck to my soul. Read the full NY Times article

Three Unmade Kubrick Films In Active Development; Lunatic at Large Close to Financing

Now writer Stephen R. Clarke has developed the treatment for Lunatic at Large into a period screenplay that Hobbs has been pushing towards production. British commercial director Chris Palmer was slated to direct while Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson, respectively, were to play the unhinged carney and a young barfly he meets up with along the way .Read the full indieWIRE article

The 25 Greatest Harry Potter Characters

A few weeks ago we asked you to vote for your favourites. We collated and counted the results, and here are the best-loved characters in the wizarding world… Read the full Empire article

Hey Academy, why not Brendan Gleeson?

I’m not one to ignore a hat-trick of signs, however tenuous, pointing to a particular film — particularly one I saw over six months ago and could otherwise have stored on the dusty top shelves of my memory. Someone, somewhere, on high clearly wants me to blog about “The Guard” today; more to the point, I do, because I couldn’t agree more with Tim’s order. Read the full In Contention post

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