Polytechnique, the controversial Denis Villeneuve film about the 1989 Montreal massacre, has earned a leading 11 nominations for the Genie Awards, Canada’s top honour for film.

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The Associated Press reports that Charles Pellegrino’s book “The Last Train from Hiroshima,” which James Cameron had optioned for a possible film ( see original story ), has been pulled by publisher Henry Holt and Company.

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Last week, it was reported that Ben Stiller is working together with Tropic Thunder and Iron Man 2 writer Justin Theroux on a sequel to Zoolander at Paramount Pictures. Jonah Hill was said to be in negotiations to play the villain.

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Last week, it was reported by New York Magazine’s Vulture that Angelina Jolie had dropped out of the planned sequel Wanted 2 and that without the star on board, Universal Pictures were unwilling to go ahead with the project and had pulled the plug. Those reports were unconfirmed by anyone at Universal at the time. Last week, Scotland’s television channel STV had a chance to talk with Wanted co-creator Mark Millar and they asked him to elaborate on the reports about the movie being scrapped after Angelina Jolie dropped out

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ShockTillYouDrop.com has posted the UK trailer for horror thriller Shelter , starring Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

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Fox 2000 has acquired the film rights for British author Catherine Fisher’s young-adult novel “Incarceron.” John Palermo will produce via Seed Productions, Palermo and Hugh Jackman’s Fox-based company. The studio is going out to directors and writers right away to get the project going.

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ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at a Red Band clip from director Antoine Fuqua’s crime drama Brooklyn’s Finest , starring Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Jesse Williams, Ellen Barkin, Wesley Snipes, Lili Taylor, Brian F. O’Byrne, Shannon Kane, Will Patton and Vincent D’Onofrio.

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New York City’s annual Tribeca Film Festival has announced that it will be kicking-off its ninth year on April 21 with the premiere of the fourth installment of DreamWorks Animation’s beloved animated series Shrek Forever After . Said to be the final chapter of the story, it will also be the first one to be screened in 3D.

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The Visual Effects Society announced the winners of the 8th Annual VES Awards on Sunday night at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The annual event recognizes outstanding visual effects in more than twenty categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games.

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Noted U.S. film critic Roger Ebert says computer programmers have captured his voice from movie commentary tracks so he can type what he wants to say and listeners hear a voice that sounds like him.

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