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Normally a move like this could signal an upcoming bomb, but this might actually be good news for audiences and for Youth In Revolt.

Apparently most remakes are unimaginative and add nothing new to the story. So says Bob Weinstein while failing to prove how the upcoming Children of the Corn remake will add anything new.

From the man that brought you gimmicky mining tools flying at your face comes gimmicky kitchen knives stabbed at your face. It might sound lame, but you don’t see the words “Rob Zombie” anywhere near this do you?

John Landis has sold remake rights for An American Werewolf In London to the Weinsteins. The worst decision he’s ever made (that didn’t involve helicopters).

So it turns out that The Weinstein Company is in a little financial trouble. Maybe. At least that’s what it seems like. Let’s take a quick look and try to make sense of it all.

So it looks like the rights to Sin City 2 are on the market after all. Unless they’re not.

We just got a press release that proudly announces Anne Hathaway will play icon Judy Garland in an upcoming biopic of the singer/actress being produced by The Weinstein Company. Nowhere in the press release is the phrase, “Over the rainbow with excitement” uttered. This is an outrage.

This is where most lower-quality animated films fail – not in the animation, but in the writing. The Pixar and DreamWorks CGI animated films often carry a message, but it is woven decently into the script rather than being delivered with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

We felt the earth move during the Hell Ride press junket in Los Angeles, but weren’t quite sure if that was the earthquake, or the arrival of Vinnie Jones. Seriously, this guy is so kickass that even Chuck Norris doesn’t hold a candle to him.

Jonathan Levine will be delighting audiences with his second film The Wackness soon enough, but what ever happened to his first film, the one with hottie Amber Heard? Oh right… There it is.

You would think that we would send our ninja spies out to get concept art and script pages from Transformers 2 or something, but no, we send them after the holy grail, never-before-seen footage from an upcoming episode of Ask a Ninja.

Back in August of 2006 in Toronto, director Jonathan Levine’s film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane was picked up for distribution. Flash forward to May of 2008, its supposed month of release. Will we see it? It is doubtful, at best…

Blockbuster subsidiary The Weinstein Company has optioned the rights to Rita Marley’s 2004 book, “No Woman, No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley”.