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 So we kind of already know the plot for the new Ghostbusters film that is or isn’t already close to being in development.  All the original Ghostbusters run mini-Ghostbuster camps and train new Ghostbusters ala basic training in the Army.  Well rumor has it that Eliza Dushku is one of those trainees.

I am just going to squash this rumor now.  According to Eliza herself, it’s a rumor.  As is the Allysa Milano rumor too.  Here it is straight from Eliza’s mouth via Twitter:

Ghost-rumor-buster in a big way @Alyssa_milano (hey girlene) it’s nuthin’ I know of.

So there you have it.  Is there a chance this rumor could actually have some water down the line?  Maybe.  But for right now, this Eliza Dushku Ghostbuster rumor is busted.

And my girlfriend and every female I know goes wild…..  God did Twilight suck… Ugh.

 Yeah the title of this article says it all.  I cannot wait for this flick to hit theatres.  Check out the trailer and tell me what you think.  Me thinks Robert Downey Jr. has another hit on his hands.

Sorry I know this news is sort of old, but I have been away on road trippy goodness the past few days.  Plus, I kind of want to give up on this site because I was averaging over 1500 hits a day and all of a sudden some of the pictures that have been drawing in the hits all of a sudden aren’t drawing them in.. Conspiracy I tells ya.  Anywho….

Chris Hemsworth (The new Star Trek movie)  has been cast as Thor

And Tom Hiddleston is Loki

I don’t know how I feel on this casting just yet.  I was kind of hoping Marvel would have went with an unknown body builder ala Conan in the 80’s.  But beggars can’t be choosers.

Universal Pictures and Mandalay Pictures have signed Marin Scorsese to direct the upcoming biopic based on the life of Frank Sinatra.  I cannot think of a better director to take on this film.  I simply cannot.

Phil Alden Robinson is writing the screenplay. You may remember another one of his screenplays…..Field of Dreams.

Also, Frank’s youngest daughter Tina will be an executive producer and all the music rights have been secured.   Tina has told journalists in the past that she would “trust Scorsese implicitly” to “present the truth” about her father.

Man oh man.  A Scorsese Sinatra picture.  I simply cannot wait.  It will be incredible.  Now, who to cast as Frank?  DiCaprio?  They have a long past…..who do you think should play Frankie?

So I am hoping to start a new weekly column here as long as I keep a constant flow of money coming in so stay tuned on Wednesdays for a new Blu-Ray review each week.  This week though, I am starting off with a flick that will surprise everyone who has not seen it.  Taken.

And the end of the year when I do my Top Ten Movies of the Year list, you can fully anticipate that Taken will be in the top ten, if not number one.  I am a complete sucker for a good action flick.  It seems we are teased with four or five a year and they just don’t follow through on the promise.  If you can recall, I put Rambo on my list last year just because it delivered on the promise of hell raising.  Taken starring Liam Neeson and directed by Pierre Morel also delivers ten fold.

Taken starts off with a little back story just like any action flick, but the second Neeson starts punching throats, the action rarely ceases. (And my God does he punch throats)  I found myself cringing and laughing and swearing throughout the movie with the great ways Neeson punishes those who kidnapped his daughter.  Liam Neeson delivers a fantasticly believable performance as a father who is hell bent on justice.  Maggie Grace plays said daughter and while annoying, she rarely gets screen time so it’s just enough not to bother you completely.  This movie is about Liam Neeson punching throats.  That’s it.

The Blu-Ray looks fantastic.  The disc contains both the theatrical cut (and seriously who will watch it?) and the unrated cut.  It has 1080p picture with a 2.35:1 Aspect ratio.  The sound is brilliant in its  DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio.   The Blu-Ray also comes with a digital copy for your i-Pod so that is yet another bonus.

Taken on Blu-Ray is a must have for an action junky.  If you don’t pick this up, you probably deserve to get punched in the throat.

This is great news in my opinion.  I know Jumper had its flaws, but I really found it one of the most entertaining movies of last year.  Nos, Steven Gould, author of “Jumper” , tells io9 that there might be a movie sequel. ”[Director] Doug Liman has expressed a particular interest in an unspecified moment in the sequel Reflex, and I suspect it’s this twinning thing that Davy does, where he’s jumping to a place and back and forth to the point where he’s in both places at once, and a hole opens connecting the two places. So when he’s chained to a wall, he jumps back and forth to the ocean and all this water floods out of the hole. If ever there was a cinematic moment, that’s it. And then there’s this thing from Reflex where you have a very shadow-y Illuminati sort of government agency and they very much want to control jumpers. And that organization showed up in the scripts, but they ended up having to cut it because of budget. So that thread might show up.”

Sounds good.  I went out after Jumper and picked up the books and can say that the Jumper story line is definitely made for the big screen.  I hope they follow more closely to the books than they did with Jumper.  Also, any movie with Rachel Bilson in it should be seen by the masses.

The second best part of the new Wolverine movie (the first being the District 9 trailer) was Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool…..before the onslaught of ridiculousness.  So it comes as no surprise that the big turds at 20th Century Fox have already commissioned a spinoff.  Lauren Shuler Donner will produce with Marvel Entertainment. No screenwriter has yet been hired.

While it’s still a mystery if the movie is indeed an X-Men Origins movie or just a spin-off sequel, it begs the question that if it is indeed a sequel, where do they go from the end of Wolverine?  Discuss?

Christina Aguilera has signed on to make her live-action big screen debut in a contemporary musical written by Steven Antin and produced by Screen Gems.  Antin wrote the script, which was later revised by Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant.

Aguilera will play “an ambitious small-town girl with a big voice” who tries to escape a hollow past by performing in a neo-burlesque club in Los Angeles. The film hopes to be Moulin Rouge meets Cabaret, with established songs that will be updated and worked into dance numbers.

Burlesque is aiming to begin production in January 2010.

Aint it Cool has provided your first look at the teaser poster for Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” featuring Brad Pitt in what can only be described as a bad ass stance. Head on over to Harry’s place to check out the full one-sheet.  Warning:  It’s gigantic.