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Fringe To Get Fifth And Final Season Of Thirteen Episodes

Fring is back for one final season. Woo Hooby Brendon Connelly, Source: Bleeding Cool

A deal has been closed for Fringe to get thirteen final episodes to round out its story and wrap up nicely. Well, in theory at least. Bad Robot television had a much longer to prepare for the ending of Lost and that still left most viewers at least a little niggled.

It seems that Bad Robot will have dropped their price to ensure Fox could – or rather, would – afford the new series. This will likely translate into lower budgets for the episodes, but it’s not necessarily so. Continue reading →

Del Toro may not direct At the Mountains of Madness after all

Not so quick for the next big epic by Del Toro

We’ve been looking forward for what seems like forever to Guillermo del Toro’s big-budget, R-rated, epic adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, with James Cameron producing. Well, now it looks like the project may not get off the ground anytime soon—and del Toro himself may have to move on.

Although a seemingly erroneous report went online earlier today that the movie was going to start shooting in June with Tom Cruise confirmed for the lead role, the story rapidly took a downward turn from there. According to Deadline, Universal Studios, which has been developing the movie with the director, is hesitant to commit $150 million to an R-rated horror film—even with Cruise interested in starring and fans everywhere salivating over the prospect of del Toro finally making his dream project after 12 years of development.

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Captain America: The First Avenger gets an official poster!

Welcome to the war Captain

Chris Evans gets somber, reflective and covered in debris for the first poster for Marvel’s World War II action flick. But is this the right tone to set for the star-spangled hero?

In a word, yes. This is, after all, a hero fighting in WWII and the cloudy, murky blast-weariness of the poster gives it an almost Saving Private Ryan vibe. And there’s something about the shield’s placement that makes it seem almost heavy, that the responsibility of carrying it weighs on the man who does.

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Lauren Ambrose Joins ‘Torchwood’

Lauren Ambrose is coming to Torchwood

So it seems the Doctor Who universe is getting another fiery red head to add to the ranks. Lauren Ambrose best known for her role as Clair Fisher on “Six Feet Under” is joining the cast of the new season of Torchwood as Jilly Kitzinger, a tough PR maven who is assigned, as the synopses say ambiguously, “the most important client of her career.”

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