Here are a few statistics on the 2003 film Hulk:

Directed by Oscar winner Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger)
Written by Michael France (Cliffhanger), James Schamus (The Ice Storm), first-timer John Turman (and maybe 15 other screenwriters)
Estimated budget: $137 million
Worldwide box office: $245 million
Rotten Tomatoes score: 61% positive
IMDb user rating: 5.8 out of 10

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Almost a year ago, I alerted you to a foreign project in the works -- one that would tell the little-known story of Benito Mussolini's secret child. It's a pretty sad and unfortunate story. Basically, before the man rose to power in Italy, he had married a beautician named Ida Dalser. All was not romantic and ever-lasting for the couple...

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No, it won't be a movie based on the duet between Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. It will be a movie version of the Ernest Hemingway novel, posthumously published in 1970, about an American painter who lives the quiet life in the Bahamas and ends up getting entangled in some naval activities-adventures at the tail end of World War II...

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Nuclear bombs have gone off in Texas, igniting World War III across the globe. The United States passes totalitarian measures to keep its citizens in check through Orwellian surveillance. And somewhere in there, a figure arrives who may very well be the Antichrist...

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Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog returns to direct his first feature since 2001's Invincible with this dramatic action film inspired by his own 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly and detailing the escape efforts of a German-American pilot who was taken as a prisoner-of-war after being shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) escaped death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles ......

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An old-fashioned cop emerges to foil a hi-tech attack on the country's computer infrastructure as Bruce Willis brings back one of the biggest action franchises in screen history. It's been over a decade since audiences last saw with New York cop John McClane (Willis), but now, as the world's greatest criminal mastermind (Timothy Olyphant) attempts to cripple the entire country with an innovative act of technological terrorism, only one cop can insure that the integrity of the system stays in tact. .......

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Paramount Pictures has provided us with these hi-res versions of the Mark III armor and a new shot of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in Marvel Studios' Iron Man , opening May 2, 2008.

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Escape Artists has acquired the rights to a first-person essay published in January in the New York Times as a producing and potential starring vehicle for Denzel Washington. Jonathan Burnham Schwartz will write the script.

The project, Journal for Jordan, is based on Dana Canedy's essay, which describes a 200-page journal penned by her fiance, 1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, for their son. The 48-year-old soldier was killed in Baghdad in October, one month shy of finishing his tour of duty. He had left for the Middle East before his son was born. Read the rest of this entry »

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Miramax Films is developing Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the story of a German family living in the town of Auschwitz based on John Boyne's novel, and set it up with David Heyman's Heyday Films to produce. Vera Farmiga (The Departed) will star.

Filmmaker Mark Herman (Little Voices) is set to begin shooting in Budapest at the end of April, with Miramax's Daniel Battsek eyeing an end-of-the-year awards run. Herman wrote the adapted screenplay.

It's only the second inhouse production solely owned by Miramax that Battsek has greenlit after Gone, Baby, Gone, Ben Affleck's directorial debut.
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New Line Cinema, which had a sleeper hit with "The Notebook," has snapped up screen rights to another Nicholas Sparks bestseller, Dear John, and attached Channing Tatum to star.

While home on leave, a soldier falls hard for a gorgeous but conservative college student. Though they plan to wed, time and distance take a toll on their commitment to each other.

Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow are getting under way on an adaptation of the Sparks novel Nights in Rodanthe, which stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane.

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Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins and Michael Pena will star in The Return, which Neil Burger (The Illusionist) will direct. Lionsgate will distribute and is eyeing a December release. Filming starts in May.

Burger co-wrote the screenplay with Dirk Wittenborn. The story follows three soldiers returning from Iraq who become companions on an unexpected road trip across the U.S. Bill Block, whose QED Intl. is financially backing the project, will executive produce with Paul Hanson and Adam Merims.

Ocean's Thirteen writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien are producing with Rick Schwartz (The Departed) and Burger.

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Joe Connor has come to teach in Rwanda because he believes he can make a difference. When the school becomes a haven for thousands of Rwandans fleeing the genocide, Joe promises his brightest pupil, Marie, that the UN soldiers will protect her from the hordes of extremist militia baying for blood outside the school. But when the UN abandon the refugees, Joe and the school's headmaster, Father Christopher, face an agonizing dilemma: should they leave or should they stand firm with the Rwandans. As the UN trucks force their way through the terrified refugees, Joe stares at the tear-stained face of Marie: what should he do? 
 
Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release 
Genres: Art/Foreign, Drama, Politics/Religion and War 
Running Time: 1 hr. 55 min. 
Release Date: March 9th, 2007 (limited)

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Sony is bringing Konami's hit videogame franchise Metal Gear Solid to the big screen.

Metal Gear Solid has sold more than 20 million units since 1998, but its roots date back even further; the first "Metal Gear" game came out in 1987. The stealth action title became one of the industry's biggest hits and has four sequels, the last three of which came out under the "Metal Gear Solid" moniker. Another sequel is set for release this year.

Michael De Luca will produce the adaptation, with videogame creator Hideo Kojima as executive producer.

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The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of two good friends serving in the Japanese forces, who watch helplessly throughout various battles as their comrades are killed.

Academy Award nominee Ken Watanabe (“The Last Samurai,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Batman Begins”) stars as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the American-educated general who courageously led the Japanese resistance to the massive American onslaught of the island of Iwo Jima.

Genres:              Drama, Adaptation and War
Release Date:   December 20th, 2006 (limited)
MPAA Rating:  R for graphic war violence.
Distributors:      Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures International ....more click on heading

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