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This week, on a very special episode of Reject Radio, we laugh and cry about the state of independent filmmaking while eating leftover Halloween candy.

We get our Holidays crossed and spend Christmas in October with a bunch of Hellish kids you’ll want to see roasting over an open fire.

The master of producing a movie a year featuring himself in a Grandmama costume has just been hired to adapt the Shange play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.”

From the people that brought you Sneezing Panda, it’s a movie rental concept that will rival Netflix, Redbox, and that guy that comes over sometimes and acts out all the parts to Sleepless in Seattle for you despite the restraining order.

Lionsgate has scooped up Matthew Vaughn’s inventive and sure to be controversial flick, and they might even send it to theaters next year. Doesn’t it make you want to watch the bootleg clips again? Too bad. But maybe a trailer will appear soon…

Normally when you bind a book in human flesh you have the decency to skin the person alive first.

In other news: Fox is working on a Hitman sequel. No word yet on who will have to go bald for it.

Which French thriller could I be talking about? And which Crash director? Haggis or Cronenberg? That title isn’t very clear at all!

A week ago we reported that Lionsgate was in the process of acquiring Lee Daniels’ Sundance Grand Jury and Audience Award winning film Push: Based on a novel by Sapphire. Today Variety has confirmed what we already told you…

News coming down the wire last night about a potential buy-out of Summit Entertainment by Lionsgate has sent shockwaves through the online film community this morning. Namely, everyone seems to want to speculate about what the blood-thirsty Execs. over at Lionsgate might do with Summit’s one and only successful property, Twilight.

Over the course of the past few months we’ve been very critical of Frank Miller’s The Spirit. Beginning with the first teaser trailer and continuing well into our Comic-Con coverage, we’ve been less than excited about the footage that has been shown. And by less excited, I am referring to the way we’ve ripped it apart.

Frank Lloyd Wright doesn’t seem like someone who would be the subject of a romantic film. However, his affair with Chicago society matron Mamah Borthwick Cheney was immortalized in the book “Loving Frank” by Nancy Horan. It’s now been optioned by Lionsgate and is set to hit the big screen.

He’s been called The Chosen One, King James and the best baller since Michael Jordan. Now LeBron James wants to have a Space Jam of his own on the big screen.

Our very own Ashley Demma has a geek-girl-gasm at her Chicago Repo viewing. Her words of advice to us all: If Repo! is coming to a city near you, go. Don’t think, just go.

If you need a little somethin’ somethin’ to numb your brain while you watch human mutilation, why not try this on for size. Like Jigsaw might say: “Would you like to play a drinking game?”

It has become clear that Lionsgate does not want us to think about the terrible dialogue present in the upcoming film Punisher: War Zone. All they’d like us to think about is bullets, lots of bullets.

The latest round of MPAA ratings has come through, and it appears that at least one of the most recent rumors from behind the production of Punisher: War Zone can be put to rest.

Before you get too disturbed (or excited) by the prospect of Mary Norton’s beloved Clock family returning from the dead and tearing into the flesh of normal-sized humans one tiny bite at a time… this isn’t The Borrowers Attack.

Rumors swirl over The Punisher’s rating – but violence junkies rejoice: There Will Be Blood (and an R-Rating).

Another Transporter sequel? Hand me the keys to a BMW… I’m there!