It’s been a while since we’ve seen Nana Visitor in genre piece. Sure, she followed up Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with a short stint on Dark Angel, but then she moved more towards mainstream comedy and drama. The actress is stepping into the realm of horror for the first time, with a brief appearance in the upcoming Friday the 13th remake.

ScreenGeeks reports that Visitor talked about her upcoming appearance in a recent interview. She will be playing Pamela Voorhees, mother to the hockey-masked serial killer Jason.

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Collin Chou, who played Seraph in the Wachowskis' "Matrix" films, will reunite with the duo for Ninja Assassin, which V For Vendetta helmer James McTeigue will direct.

The actor tells SCI FI Wire that he will be one of the four leads in the film, that also stars South Korean pop star Rain.

"I am working with the Wachowski brothers next month... It will be in Berlin," Chou said. He said that the Wachowskis' ninja movie starts production in late April or early May.

The film will be produced by Joel Silver.

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Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin have acquired screen rights to Richard Price's novel "Lush Life," just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Price, who recently won the Edgar Award for his script work on HBO series "The Wire," will write the script. Deal for book is for mid-six against seven figures.

"Lush Life" is set up as a police procedural in which a restaurant manager and his bartender set out to walk a drunken friend home on Gotham's Lower East Side. One of the men winds up on the wrong end of a bullet, and a murder investigation reveals much about the city and the characters involved in a mugging gone wrong.

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Examines the mindset of Mark David Chapman, the man who gunned down John Lennon outside the Dakota in New York City on December 8, 1980...

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In Ridley Scott's masterfully crafted new movie, Denzel Washington, playing real-life Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas, is so deeply embalmed in dignity that he leaves Russell Crowe, as the detective determined to bring Lucas down...

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Trio team for crime drama
Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, and Amanda Peet will star together in the Brian Goodman-directed autobiographical crime drama Real Men Cry for Yari Film Group. The story is about childhood friends Paulie (Hawke) and Brian (Ruffalo) who are forced to survive on the streets of South Boston through a life of petty thievery. They join a local gang of criminals, but Brian struggles to cope with his work while maintaining a relationship with Paulie, his wife (Peet), and his son.

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There's a lot of things you can say about Brutal. One look at the box practically screams "Torture porn ahead!" The plot synopsis on the back is no help at all. But once you get past the heavily flawed box, what you find inside is a strange little package of ups and downs, of what might have been and what might be great. Read the rest of this entry »

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Release Date: November 17, 2006

Directed by Emilio Estevez, this historical drama revisits the night Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. The film follows 22 individuals who are all at the hotel for different purposes but share the common thread of anticipating Kennedy's arrival at the primary election night party.

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