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Classic western The Magnificent Seven, itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, is getting its own remake this 2016! The first trailer for Antoine Fuqua's cowboy movie has Denzel Washington stepping in Yul Brynner's shoes! Read More »
Katrina Law is undoubtedly great at being a tough woman on TV. After all, she plays the League of Assassins warrior Nyssa al Ghul in the CW series Arrow. Now it looks like Law will be gearing up for more action in the upcoming CBS pilot for Training Day with Bill Paxton! Read More »
Talk about a knockout! It has been reported that Jake Gyllenhaal really makes a transformation as his character, Billy Hope, in his new movie Southpaw. We learned this week that he had absolutely no body double for his boxing scenes in the film, even when his back is shown. Director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Shooter and Equalizer) was right alongside of Gyllenhaal, training as well. Gyllenhaal tells ABC News that he trained for 5 months and that he needed to be available for all of the scenes, at all angles because there weren't any doubles or stand-ins hired for shots like that. Training was something Gyllenhaal had never gone through before and he talks about getting extremely into character as Hope and how the physicality of not only getting into shape for the role, but getting into "boxing shape" was a particular challenge. Read More »
Since the announcement in mid -2010 of a movie on the legendary East Harlem emcee, Tupac Shakur, the film plans have undergone major changes and a series of delays. The directors linked to the project, John Singleton and Antoine Fuqua dropped out of it after a year. But now Fuqua has asserted that the movie is still on and he is waiting for the script to be ready so that he can go into production. Read More »
