Summit Entertainment has announced it is offering a free music download with online movie ticket purchases for The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Summit Entertainment has teamed up with leading online movie ticketing sites, Fandango and MovieTickets.com, to offer consumers who purchase advance tickets by December 7, 2009 for THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON a free, [...]

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Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland are set to co-star opposite Jason Statham in the remake of The Mechanic , reports Variety . The film is being directed by Simon West and is set to go into production in the coming weeks in New Orleans. In the film, Foster will play Steve McKenna, the young man [...]

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Variety reports that The Gotham Group is partnering with Italian publisher Atlantyca Entertainment on the film version of Edizioni Piemme’s book series “Century.” Recently launched in the U.S. by Random House, “Century” follows the challenges of four teens and their families as they search for four ancient objects of power each connected to fire, earth, [...]

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Summit Entertainment has bought a pitch from screenwriter Alan Yang titled We Love You , a bromantic comedy. The story revolves around two close friends who discover they’re dating the same woman and the comedic and relationship consequences that ensue when they try to disentangle the situation. Yang’s credits include “South Park” and “Parks and [...]

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Clive Owen and Catherine Keener will star in director David Schwimmer’s Trust , a dark drama about the damaging effects an online sexual predator has on a family, reports Variety Schwimmer (Run Fat Boy Run, HBO’s “Little Britain USA”) wrote the story for the drama, and Andy Bellin wrote the script. Millennium Films will produce [...]

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Columbia Pictures has acquired rights to remake the U.K. miniseries “Red Riding,” and is negotiating with Steve Zaillian to write the script and Ridley Scott to direct, says Variety . The project, based on four David Peace novels, will be distributed in the U.S. this fall by IFC. The studio has bought rights to the [...]

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Warner Bros. Pictures has revealed the trailer and poster for director Martin Campbell’s Edge of Darkness , starring Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, Bojana Novakovic, Frank Grillo and Gbenga Akinnagbe.

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Designer Giorgio Armani has signed actress Megan “Jennifer’s Body” Fox to feature in the upcoming Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans campaigns.

Fox will replace Victoria Beckham.

The new Megan Fox campaign will start January 2010.

Fox was shot by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott in Los Angeles, for Armani print and billboard ads…

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Tekken 6 is the latest installment of Namco Bandai’s Tekken video game series, available October 27.

Both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game will include an online versus multiplayer mode for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.

…Following his victory in the previous tournament, ‘Jin Kazama’ has taken charge of the ‘Mishima Zaibatsu’ and now possesses tyrannical ambitions. Using his resources within the organization to become a global superpower, he severs the Mishima Zaibatsu’s national ties and openly declares war against all nations. This action plunges the world into a chaotic spiral, with war erupting around the globe and even amidst the space colonies orbiting the planet.

Jin’s biological father, ‘Kazuya Mishima’, is aware of this and finds Jin’s interference in his own plans for global domination to be a nuisance. Now in charge of ‘G Corporation’, Kazuya is seen as the only force who could oppose Jin and places a bounty on Jin’s head for anyone who can capture him…”

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek a new clip from Tekken 6…

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The recent Jamieson’s Raspberry Ale campaign, launched by The Foundry, has apparently pissed off Disney’s product licensing divisions after the Australian agency pictured ‘Ho White’ in bed with 7 drunken dwarfs, including ‘Ugly’, ‘Filthy’, ‘Smarmy’ and ‘Randy’.

The ad’s creators said the campaign was designed to convince Australian drinkers the fruit-flavoured beer was “anything but sweet”.

Although fruit-based beers are popular in Europe, The Foundry said there was a misperception in Australia that such beers are ‘sweet and sickly’.

The ill-advised campaign was apparently designed to challenge this assumption, according to agency strategist Simon Burrett, creative director Annie Price, creatives Melinda Pritchard, Doug Bray, Nathan Burley and Jon Mahney, designer Dave Budd, digital strategist Tony Burrett and senior account manager Michael McConville…

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