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indiewire.com is reporting Wayne Wang has decided to make his film, “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” available online, for free, shortly after it hits theaters.
The film stars Yu Feihong, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha Lychnikoff, and was adapted from her short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a high-end high-definition video camera.
The film was lauded [...]

In an interview with MTV, Vin Diesel said that writer-director David Twohy is currently working on the scripts, and that the “only question” is whether they will be shot together, LoTR-style, or as two separate productions. Why did it take so long? No money problems, Diesel insists — they just want to get it right. This was, after all, [...]

We are finally getting a Scott Pilgrim update from Edgar Wright, via WizardUniverse.com. Wright told Wizard that,
“The script that we’ve written essentially covers all six. If it was at the level of Harry Potter we might be able to talk about doing six films but in this case our film is very much an adaptation of [...]

The director of the upcoming movie, Babylon A.D. has talked amctv.com and given us further reason not to watch this film.
“I’m very unhappy with the film,” he says. “I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn’t respected. Bad producers, [...]

Mark Steven Johnson has told Comics Continuum that his attempts to bring Garth Ennis’ Preacher to HBO as a series were close but ultimately unsuccessful.
“We were budgeting and everything and it was getting really close to going,” Johnson told The Continuum.
“It was a very faithful adaptation of the first few books, nearly word for word. They [...]

Remember all those great WB shows you used to love so much? Well they’re back, my friends in the form of their new website. TheWB.com has finally launched and is a very real threat to Hulu. 
TheWB.com is significantly more feature-rich than its competitors, offering an advanced search engine and allowing users to mashup selected clips [...]