Not all actors that look alike are in the 'separated at birth' category - a resemblance can be a very fleeting thing, and many of the comparisons here span decades…

75: Al Pacino / David Naughton	74: Anthony Hopkins / Mikhail Baryshnikov
Before Pacino II (round about the time of Scarface), there was a pretty strong resemblance between the sweary thesp and the unlucky lead of American Werewolf in London (1981). Naughton was born 11 years after Pacino.	Best known in recent years for a 9-episode stint as Aleksandr Petrovsky in the 2003-04 season of Sex And The City, the legendary dancer has turned into Sir Anthony only in recent years. No more fava beans for him.
73: Ben Gazzara / Robert Desiderio	72: Charlie Sheen / Balthazar Getty
A TV regular on shows like The Sopranos and Ugly Betty, Desiderio's longest stint was as Ted Melcher at the shank end of Knots Landing.  A high forehead and compact chin gains him easy admittance to Jackie Treehorn's exclusive locales.	His name's straight out of Dickens but Getty's DNA seems to be sleeping in Martin Sheen's guest-house, even if those Dan Dare eyebrows and formidable chin have brought him slightly less personal-life turbulence than his face-sake. Honourable mention:Liev Schreiber
71: Alan Rickman / Tom Green	70: Alexandra Bastedo / Deborah Harry
Canadian rapper/actor Green has humped his last moose in his search for mainstream acceptability with Jay Leno and as a contestant on The Apprentice, but - by Grabthar's hammer! - he won't shake off the Sheriff of Nottingham so easily.	Bastedo, star of The Champions, and Videodrome actress Harry share an exquisite 'jawness' and mesmerising eyes that have seen both top the charts as 'most beautiful woman in the world' in their time. Did you spot Bastedo in Batman Begins…?
69: James Franco / James Dean	68: Jessica Alba / Arielle Kebbel
Compared at various times to Hayden Christenson and Heath Ledger, Spiderman and Pineapple Express heartthrob Franco wins the Martin Sheen gold star for a credible comparison with the poster-legend from Rebel Without A Cause. Honourable mention: Jeff Buckley	With more combined cheek than an elephant's arse, these wide-faced wonders have both graced the pages of Maxim, with Grudge 2/Uninvited actress Kebbel doing a shoot in 2004. Alba also did a photoshoot for the pages of GQ. Honourable mention:Vanessa Minnillo
67: Nicolas Cage / Michael McDonald	66: Alan Cumming / Paul Reubens
McDonald left Fox's MADtv after 10 years as longest-serving cast member, but since Nic Cage dumped the carbs for the likes of Ghost Rider he has had to share his face as well as his name (with the ex-singer of The Doobie Brothers).	Can Paul Reubens really shake off the problematic press since 1991 and come back with Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Movie (2009)? In any case, if he gets into any more trouble, GoldenEye/X2 actor Cumming is a dead on doppelganger.
65: Ben Browder / Michael Shanks	64: Gwen Stefani / Brittany Murphy
It's hard when a show casts similar-looking actors in different roles but hunks Browder and Shanks have both adorned Stargate SG1, as Cameron Mitchell and Daniel Jackson, respectively. From the evidence of this pic, they're great mates too.	A gaunt aspect and certain 'Cruella De Ville' sharpness to the chin defines the similarity here. This 'Reese Witherspoon special' doesn't suit everyone; but Brittany (or Britney, if you haven't got the energy for that extra syllable) and Gwen carry it off.
63: Adam Sandler / Jason Biggs	62: Sandra Bullock / Rosalyn Sanchez
Sandler's biopic is at least partly cast: American Pie actor Biggs - currently in Lower Learning - causes confusion worldwide: "Hey, that guy looks a bit like Adam Sandler. No, hang on, he's not Sandler but he is famous. Does…not…compute…"	Rush Hour 2's Sanchez, a one-time 'Miss Puerto Rico Petite', shares a large but soft jawline with the 14th-richest female celebrity of 2007, though she has a more refined nose and lower lip. Bullock's next release is All About Steve (2009).
61: Bruce Campbell / Matt Dillon	60: David Bowie / Billy Drago
It was a bit less obvious around the time of Rumblefish and the original Evil Dead, but these manliest of chin-meisters are beginning to resemble eachother with the years. Campbell has less deep-set eyes, though time's passage shows less on Dillon.	Compared also to Jack Palance and Airwolf's Jan Michael Vincent, Hills Have Eyes and X-Files actor Drago shares a predilection for sci-fi and horror with the man who fell to Earth, who played a mad scientist in The Prestige. Honourable mention:Ricky Gervais
59: Geoffrey Palmer / Geoffrey Lewis	58: Christian Bale / James Brolin
Lewis - Eastwood crony and father of Juliette Lewis - shares a lugubrious, jowl-based face with Doctor Who and UK TV regular Palmer. If they weren't on opposite sides of the atlantic it could have been a disaster on the scale of #22.	There's a certain generic uniformity to the Dark Knight actor's face that finds him compared to more other actors than we can list here, but 70s hunk Brolin - father of Josh - could comfortably be BatDad. Honourable mention:Adam Levine
57: Robert DeNiro / Elias Koteas	56: Chuck Norris / Tim Allen-
De Niro gets compared to some absurdly un-like names by teenagers who think all 'old people' look the same, but Curious Case Of Benjamin Button actor Koteas has got the chops for lookalike status. Honourable mention: Christopher Meloni	Slated for Toy Story 3, comedian and Galaxy Quest star Allen is heading to be a dead ringer for the semi-retired 80s action hero, though 13 years his junior. We need to see it with the beard though.
55: Uma Thurman / Sybil Danning	54: Alec Baldwin / Fess Parker
The slimmed-down and narrower-faced Thurman of the Kill Bill movies bears a striking resemblance to 80s slasher/horror/sci-fi pin-up Danning, as did the flexible-faced Marley Shelton (who we'll meet again later) in Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror.	Famous for playing Daniel Boone and Disney's Davy Crockett in the 50s and 60s, 84 year-old Parker's last non-documentary contribution to a movie was on the soundtrack of Back To The Future singing The Ballad Of Davy Crockett.
53: Vera Miles / Jena Malone	52: Gary Sinise / DeForest Kelly
Malone, who recently featured in The Ruins and Law & Order, shares a certain nervous edge and the narrow-but-soft features of the Psycho actress, who reprised her original role as Lila Loomis in Pyscho II (1983).	The original Dr McCoy has a very distinctive assembly of facial features that rarely crops up in Hollywood. Karl Urban is a good face-sake for the new Star Trek movie, but Sinise has the latter section of any Kelly biopic to himself.
51: Hayden Panettiere / Portia de Rossi	50: Hugh Jackman / Goran Visnjic
A strawberry-shaped jawline defines the essence of the similarity between Panettierre - who plays Claire Bennet in Heroes - and Arrested Development's de Rossi, the Aussie actress also slated to feature in the new AD film.	Croatian-born Visnjic caused many a heart-murmur as Dr. Luka Kovač in ER, though he's not in the Jackman knicker-throwing league yet. This is one of those resemblances which is created rather than destroyed by the smile.
49: Javier Bardem / Jeffrey Dean Morgan	48: Jennifer Connolly / Mia Kirshner
Hat-trick success in Supernatural, Weeds and Grey's Anatomy in 2006 shot jobbing actor Morgan to fame just as Bardem reached Oscar-winning prominence in No Country For Old Men. Both share the menacing and smouldering stare of Oliver Reed. Dean Morgan is Bardem's doppelganger, no doubt.	Oscar-winning actress Connolly shares a sultry, semi-Latin quality with Kirshner, a very soft and retro openness of face and lack of guile. Post-Oscar Connolly isn't doing TV right now, so no intriguing L-Word appearance for her…
47: Brad Pitt / Duncan James	46: Jennifer Garner / Rachel Mcadams
30 year-old Brit TV presenter/actor/singer James has the same tousled blond hair, compressed eyelids and roughly-hewn, lopsided jawline as the intense and unpredictable heart-throb Pitt. It must be admitted that he's lacking in menace, though.	Currently playing opposite Robert Downey Jr's. Sherlock Holmes (2009) for Guy Ritchie, mean girl Mcadams is another Witherspoon-esque chinette (see #64). But since no woman in Hollywood has more chin than Witherspoon, she gets compared to Garner instead.
45: Kevin Spacey / Currie Graham	44: Rita Hayworth / Maureen O'Hara
Spacey-alikes aren't thick on the ground, but NYPD Blue's Lt. Thomas Bale captures something of the actor's off-beat physiognomy. Narrow eyes, a high forehead and a dimple-ridden smile are the key to the resemblance.	With only two years between them, Ireland's O'Hara and New York's Hayworth presented similarly beautiful faces on the silver screen (and occasionally airbrushed onto bombers) in their hayday. Make-up of the period was very stylised, but the bone structure seems similar.
43: Jerry Seinfeld / Sacha Baron Cohen	42: Vincent D'Onofrio / Mark Ruffalo
Looking at the above picture, I'm actually seeing a bit more Hugh Jackman than Jerry Seinfeld in the moody visage of Borat's creator. But Cohen is only a big smile away from resembling the richest comedian on the planet.	D'Onofrio was a visually passable Orson Welles in Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1995). Ruffalo is a much closer match, although he shares some lineaments with a younger Chris Sarandon. D'Onofrio has the most mutable face in showbiz, and not just in MiB2.
41: Jessica Harper / Frances O'Connor	40: Nick Nolte / Gary Busey
A very soft but to-fore lower facial area defines the often astonishing resemblance between the Suspiria/Shock Treatment actress Harper - a ubiquitous face in the 70s - and O'Connor, whose biggest film-role of recent years was in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001).	Together these two could kick shit for Kansas. It was hard to find a pic of wild-man Busey, once a stick-insect with little Nolte about him - where he doesn't look like a lion who is about to eat you.
39: Jimmy Fallon / Chris Kattan	38: Matthew Broderick / John Cryer
Kattan shares not only an actual but a career profile with SNL stable-mate Fallon - both are writers and comedians delving into acting. Kattan is the darker-looking of the two, crossing over into Brad Dourif country around the eyes.	What a couple of cheeky, chippy chaps. Cryer's resemblance to eternal teenager Broderick was far more evident in the early days hallmarked by Pretty In Pink, but you'll often see a glimmer of it in Two And A Half Men.
37: John Heard / Garwin Sanford	36: Johnny Depp / Skeet Ulrich
A familiar face in film and TV for decades, John Heard was most visible on the small screen as Governor Frank Tancredi in Prison Break. Sanford, a Stargate SG1 actor who frequently appears in sci-fi TV, shares that 'John Goodman' brand of lugubriousness with him.	Jericho's Ulrich is a classic Depp lookalike where the resemblance is beginning to fade. The thing that most tied the actors together was a predilection for under-developed beards, and Ulrich lacks the intense gaze of Captain Jack.
35: Keir Dullea / Joshua Cox	34: Julian MacMahon / Kerr Smith
Cox recently completed work on the 2009-scheduled remake of Last House On The Left, and has been a long-standing presence in Strong Medicine and Babylon 5. The unearthly eyes he shares with the 2001 actor could get him typecast though.	Famous for Dawson's Creek, Justice and Final Destination, Smith has the same brooding ambiguity of mood that makes MacMahon so compelling as an actor. Those saturnine eyebrows are straight out of 1950s adventure comics.
33: Eva Longoria / Kim Kardashian	32: Kim Novak / Gail O'Grady
Desperate Housewife Longoria has little in common with Disaster Movie (2008) actress and gadabout socialite Kardashian, besides a few cloned lineaments and stylings., but the lower facial area and eyes area  good match. Honourable mention: Nicole Scherzinger	Three episodes of Desperate Housewives and 7 of Boston Legal are only part of Grady's considerable TV resume, and she's a pretty good pass for the 'Hitchcock blonde' who most famously deceived James Stewart in Vertigo (1958).
31: Raquel Welch / Laura Harring	30: Jane Fonda / Sigourney Weaver
There's more Latin bone-structure than charm in most of Raquel's prickly roles, but Harring - who received her biggest plaudits for David Lynch's bewildering Mulholland Drive (2001) has the rare face and body combination to recall Welch's early work. Honourable mention: Eva Mendes	From her first screen-test for Alien, the Fox secretaries were drawing comparisons between Weaver and Fonda, although Ripley is a much more savvy astronaut than Barbarella. A common fineness of features and penetrating gaze, but the mouth is the most obviously cloned section.
29: Leonardo Di Caprio / Emile Hirsch	28: Linda Evans / Bo Derek
The roughly-drawn eyebrows and the distinctive smile are where the Alpha Dog and Speed Racer actor meets up with the King of the World himself, who has just finished filming his third Scorsese, Shutter Island (2009).	Say what you like of the one-time matinee idol and latterday smut-peddler, but John Derek knew what he liked in women. His marriages included face-alikes Ursula Andress, Linda Evans and Bo Derek. I bet he always ordered the same thing at the Chinese too.
27: Felicity Kendal / Zoe Wanamaker	26: Kirstie Alley / Meg Foster
Two regulars of British TV who have only fallen under the spell of similarity in recent years. Kendall was a huge sex-symbol in 1970s Britain, and you always got plenty of face per pound in The Good Life.	The unearthly Meg Foster was the second 'Cagney' in Cagney And Lacey after Loretta Swit in the 1980s, though shortly replaced by Sharon Gless. Meantime the equally clear-eyed Alley was the first Saavik in Wrath Of Khan, going on to Cheers.
25: Jennifer Carpenter / Victoria Maurette	24: Malcolm McDowell / Sting
Maurette is an Argentine actress with only one English-language film to date, but slated for Tales of the Ancient Empire (2010) with Kevin Sorbo. Someone appears to have Photoshopped the mouth of Carpenter (Dexter, Quarantine) onto her. Oddly enough, either could play Karen Carpenter.	As our faces turn into the play-dough of advancing years, it's hard to tell who we'll end up looking like, but I would never have put money on the original Droog morphing into preachy popster Sting.
23: Virginia Madsen / Bitty Schram	22: Tom Bosley / David Doyle
A huge-eyed, quadruple-X chromosome visage joins together Oscar-nominated Madsen and Golden Globe nominated Schram. With hair from the Carol Kane school of seventies frizz, there was already a lot of similarity between them facially.	The resemblance is superficial, but the confusion enormous at the time, as Doyle played a character called 'Bosley' in the original Charlie's Angels just as Happy Days' popularity exploded. Tom went on to solve cases even dafter than Diagnosis Murder's as Father Dowling. Or was it Doyle?
21: Matthew McConaughey / Josh Lucas	20: Tim Robbins / Michael J. Pollard
In a pre-PC Hollywood, Stealth and Poseidon actor Lucas would have been a Marlboro Man at some point in his career. Both he and McConaughey look - in the words of City Slickers - like saddlebags with eyes. Rugged stuff.	Most famous for his disingenuous role in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Pollard went on to work in a wide range of film and TV, most recently in House of 1000 Corpses (2003). I wonder if he avoids Republicans for fear of injury?
19: Michael Madsen / Tom Sizemore	18: Bette Midler / Joy Behar
Big, tough Steppenwolf vet (and brother of #23) Madsen off-sets his tough-guy image with poetry, while troubled Sizemore is doing likewise by getting up for work in the morning - he headlines Shadows in Paradise (2008) with Armand Assante.	Stand-up comedian and actress Behar smiles her way into Midler's fizzog, but even in repose and without any parity of style or hair-colour, it's an amazing resemblance. There are only two years between Behar and one-time Hollywood certainty Midler.
17: Paris Hilton / Nicole Richie	16: Mary Steenburgen / Kate Bush
Resemblance by osmosis? Richie and Hilton are best friends and enjoyers/producers of The Simple Life. Richie makes more TV and film appearances as someone other than herself, though, appearing in Chuck, 8 Simple Rules and American Dreams.	Celebrity resemblances can be very fleeting, and it's really only in Goin' South (1978) that Mrs. Ted Danson bore a truly uncanny resemblance to the winsome and eccentric UK singer (and later, actor), who had just come into the public eye.
15: Kurt Russell / David Keith	14: Shawn Ashmore / Neil Patrick Harris
Can't you just see these two strapping a deer's carcass to the hood? Keith has always been reliable support, appearing in films such as Daredevil, U-571, and bailing out in An Officer And A Gentleman.	There was something distinctly 'Doogie Howser' about Bobby Drake in the last two X-Men films, but he's outgrowing it with new work like The Ruins (2008). Harris as a hard-nosed scientist in Starship Troopers (1997) was a bit of a reach, though.
13: Jude Law / Rufus Sewell	12: Pam Grier / Salli Richardson
Law and Sewell shared screentime in 2006's rom-com The Holiday. With fine features and intense eyes, their energy is pretty androgynous, something put to good use in Spielberg's Kubrick collaboration A.I., where Law played a robot gigolo with a plastic aspect.	TV veteran Richardson interrupted her regular stint on Eureka to play in I Am Legend, and if she's any legend, she's Pam Grier - the badass superchick of 70s blaxploitation (also an L-Word veteran and star of 2009's The Invited).
11: Lisa Kudrow / Teri Garr	10: Blake Lively / Sarah Roemer
Teri Garr had the market on kooky blonde nutcases sewn up in films such as Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and After Hours, before passing the mantle on to face-sake Lisa Kudrow in the epic run of Friends and - later - Analyse This.	Shia LaBeouf's love interest in Disturbia is a pretty good face-match for Gossip Girl's Lively, who recently finished shooting the Brad Pitt-produced The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009). Honourable mention:Kristin Cavalleri
9: Amy Smart / Peta Wilson	8: Robert Picardo / David Lee Roth
Crank 2's Amy Smart is 5 years younger than La Femme Nikita's markedly non-French assassin Wilson, who also cameoed in Superman Returns (2006). Not quite close enough for identical twins, too close for siblings, so don't expect a team-up. Wilson could easily be Smart's doppelganger. Honourable mention: Natalie Dormer	Picardo earned his geek credibility as the psychopathic werewolf in The Howling (1981), the holo-doctor in Star Trek: Voyager and a hideous swamp-wraith in Legend (1985). David Lee Roth has played cards in The Sopranos, but he's a late starter.
7: Vin Diesel / Dorian Gregory	6: Zooey Deschanel / many others
The last host of Soul Train and Darryl Morris on Charmed, Gregory has that unmistakeable Diesel-power to his smile, though what that's getting to be worth in the wake of Babylon A.D. is anyone's guess. Honourable mention:Chris Daughtry	The star of The Happening gets her own category for the number of comparisons she inspires, including Cloverfield's Lizzy Caplan, Chloë Sevigny, Anna Friel and Fairuza Balk, but the most striking resemblance is currently to singer Katey Perry.
5: Heather Graham / Marley Shelton	4: Keira Knightley / Natalie Portman
As well as doing a pretty good Sybil Danning in 2007's Planet Terror (see #55), Marley Shelton - currently featured in 'W' - does an amazing Heather Graham from the lads-mag days. The original is currently filming Son of Mourning.	What made The Phantom Menace so confusing (let's not talk about what made it bad) was the use of such a striking lookalike for Portman as Knightley. Under the make-up, it's just impossible to say who's who - and it's still a notable resemblance.
3: Tobey Maguire / Jake Gyllenhaal	2: Helen Hunt / Leelee Sobieski
For a long time many of us suspected that Gyllenhaal was the insurance policy in case Maguire got greedy over the Spiderman franchise. Hardly anyone would notice a substitution. As it turns out, he'd probably be the 'luxury' option now.	A thinness of the lips, alabaster skin and almost lidless eyes defines the striking similarity between the reluctant love-interest from As Good As It Gets (1997) and the co-star of 88 Minutes (2007). Sobieski co-stared with Danny Glover in Night Train (2009).
1: Thomas Jane / Christopher Lambert
There can be only one. Apparently not. Of all these resemblances, the Jane/Lambert combination is the most striking and persistent. If they both came up to you at a party, you'd give your drink a suspicious look. Honourable mention: James Purefoy
DON'T QUALIFY: Charlize Theron / Natalie Maines Dr. Phil / Jeffrey Tambor Ernest Borgnine / everyone Harrison Ford / Nick Faldo Rachel Perry / Amy Acker Tina Fey / Sarah Palin Robert Patrick / Don Henley (Would you tell the T1000 himself that you hate the ****ing Eagles?) CAN'T QUITE SEE IT:Here are some frequently-flagged matches where you wouldn't need a Voigt-Kampf test, in my opinion... Alexander Siddig / James Callis Amy Winehouse / Lindsay Lohan / Britney Spears Ann Margaret / Lindsay Lohan Antoni Corone / Brian Krause Billy Campbell / Thomas Gibson Christopher Cazenove / Jeffrey Nordling Clancy Brown / Brendan Fraser Clint Eastwood  / Matthew Settle Dana Delany / Patricia Heaton Dana Plato / Lindsay Lohan David Strathairn / David Garrison Debi Mazar / Fairuza Balk / Ione Skye Diana Quick / Sue Holderness Dominic Purcell / Eric Bana Ed Norton / James McAvoy Eric Idle / David Threlfall Eva Longoria / Marisa Tomei Famke Janssen / Amy Jo Johnson (Power Rangers V1) Jeri Ryan / Denise Richards John Goodman / Paul Rae Judi Bowker / Callista Flockhart Keri Russell / Michelle Pfeiffer Lance Henriksen / Clint Eastwood Lena Headey / Brooke Langton Megan Fox / Angelina Jolie Melinda Clarke / Musetta Vander Mena Suvari / Kate Bosworth Monica Bellucci / Rachel Wiecz Parker Posey / Rachel Mcadams Robert Englund / Steven Spielberg Rosalind Russell / Susan Hayward Rose MacGowan / Ann Margret Ryan Reynolds /Jason Lee Salma Hayek / Penelope Cruz Samantha Mathis / Asia Argento Sophia Myles / Monica Keener Susan Sarandon / Lesley Ann Warren Tippi Hedren / Penelope Ann Miller Tom Hanks / John Delancie Tom Selleck / Lee Horsley Tony Lo Bianco / Gregory Harrison William Shatner / Orson Welles

Around the time when the Mortal Kombat franchise saved itself from falling into obscurity thanks to its successful reboot sequel game, they also found a new audience with Mortal Kombat: Legacy, a live-action web series taking place within all facets of the game's mythology. Garnering millions of YouTube hits, of course there would have to be some kind of response from a rival game. In 2010, a fan-film was created called Street Fighter: Legacy and it has since been optioned into its own web series under the name Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist.

Now we have ourselves a trailer to go with it.

While there has yet to be a release date announced, the live-action web series will be shown exclusively on ever-popular YouTube channel Machinima.

The story appears to be based on the tense rivalry between Akuma and his brother Gouken (or Gōken, as they appear to be spelling it here), as well as how it relates to the more loving rivalry between Gouken's prize pupils Ryu and Ken. Ryu's story is the backbone of the Street Fighter franchise, so it's nice to see emphasis on it. After all, in the last twenty years, we've had two major attempts at showing off the Street Fighter mythos in live action with one being a campy misfire and the other being... well, perhaps the less said about Legend of Chun-Li the better. Among their many problems, one of the biggest criticisms is how neither film truly embodied the game's spirit. Ryu, the main hero of the games, was relegated to an off-model supporting character in the first movie and a verbal Easter egg in the second.

As we're now one step closer to a live-action Clay Fighter series, I'm pleased. Here's some funky fresh press release action for you fine folks.

The live-action series, which is distributed by Content Media, is the brainchild of Ansah (The Bourne Ultimatum, Snow White and the Huntsman), a member of the creative team behind the hugely successful fan film Street Fighter: Legacy—which has received almost 5,000,000 views to date. Ansah, who also stars in the series (Akuma), wrote the script with Christian Howard, who reprises his role as Ken Masters from the original fan film. The series also stars Mike Moh as Ryu, Togo Igawa (47 Ronin, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Samurai) as Gōtetsu, Akira Koieyama as Gōken, Gaku Space as Gōki, Mark Killeen (300: Rise of an Empire, The Dark Knight Rises) as Mr. Masters, and Hal Yamanouchi as Senzo.

Through the coming of age story of Ken & Ryu, we are shown the back story of some of the game’s most iconic characters, and over the course of the series we will see how the past, present, and future of all of those characters are intertwined, as the battle to become Ansatsuken Master threatens to tear apart another generation of brothers.

“This series was meant for Machinima,” said Allen DeBevoise, Chairman, Co-Founder and CEO of Machinima. “We have successfully launched popular game-inspired web series in the past, and Street Fighter is about as iconic as they come. We couldn’t be more excited about working with the incredible production team behind the series and the folks over at Capcom to launch not only a compelling and action-packed series in its own right, but also one that stays true to the Street Fighter lore.” DeBevoise continued, “After the success of Mortal Kombat: Legacy 2, we will once again provide all of the episodes on the day of launch to our fans to ensure they get exactly what they want—the entire series from start to finish!”

“We can’t wait for our fans to get the opportunity to experience Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist,” said Matt Dahlgren, Senior Product Manager at Capcom. “Working with filmmakers who are so passionate about the brand was an extremely rewarding process and we couldn’t be more pleased with the results. Their work embodies the heart and soul of what Street Fighter is and we’re thrilled that Machinima will be able to deliver the epic series to those who care about the celebrated franchise as much as we do.”

Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist is Machinima’s latest live-action series based on one of the world’s best-selling video game franchises, and is one which will very much stay true to the game, featuring fight moves and action performed by the cast with stunning attention to detail. It follows on the heels of last year’s highly successful airing of Mortal Kombat: Legacy 2, the successor to, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, as well as Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn. Combined, the three series have garnered more than 130,000,000 views on Machinima.

A thrilling, multilayered series, Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist takes the audience back to the formative years of iconic characters Ryu and Ken as they live a traditional warrior’s life in secluded Japan. The boys are, unknowingly, the last practitioners of the ancient fighting style known as “Ansatsuken” (Assassin’s Fist). The series follows them as they learn about the mysterious past of their master, Gōken, and the tragic, dark legacy of the Ansatsuken style. Can their destiny be changed, or will history repeat itself?

“Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist is what a live-action Street Fighter should be,” said Ansah when he announced the project at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con. “This takes the story right back to the start: the origins and motivations of Ryu, Ken, Gōken and Akuma. This will become the definitive back-story from which further epic adventures will follow.”

“Our priority is to stay true to the appearance, fighting techniques, and canon of the Street Fighter game,” Quella added. “At the same time, we’ve managed to make this an emotion-and-character-driven story, which will surprise viewers who might just be expecting a super-faithful fight fest!”

The series is produced by Assassin’s Fist Limited (a UK based company) in association with Lonely Rock Productions, Gloucester Place Films, Capcom U.S.A., Inc. and Evropa Film.

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It’s St. Patrick’s Day and Irish kids everywhere are scamming smooches and sporting something green. In city schools across America, Italian kids are wearing something orange, regardless of how stupid it looks, just to fuck with them.

As we saw in the fourth season of Boardwalk Empire, Frankie Yale ordered an arrangement from Dean O’Banion at his own flower shop just to fuck with the Irish. Dean got it, he was always in on the joke. O’Banion had a street rep as a funny guy. Irish mobsters were some of the most fun gangsters of the Roaring Twenties. Owney Madden set the pattern. James Cagney carved it forever in celluloid.  In The Public Enemy, Cagney based his Tommy Powers character on Chicago's Dean O’Banion and Hymie Weiss. It was one of the most powerful on-screen breakthroughs in movie history and helped build the foundation of all gangster films.

The Dean O’Banion killing ignited a turf war between Chicago’s Irish and Italian mobs that ended on Valentine’s Day 1929. This was the stuff of legends and motion pictures. Warner Brothers became the gritty crime studio. They made the gangster pictures and usually couched them in social terms. Warner Brothers didn’t want people to go out and be gangsters, especially when they knew that those gangsters could come knocking on their doors. They didn’t know about horse heads and casting calls yet, but they had other tastes. The picture business survives on unions and gangsters and unions can get mighty cozy.

When The Public Enemy first came out, there was a theater showing it non-stop, 24/7 in Times Square. The Public Enemy was the 9th highest grossing film of 1931. The Public Enemywas nominated for a Best Story Oscar at the 4th Academy Awards. The Public Enemy was listed as the eighth best gangster picture. Tommy Powers is in AFI's top 10 onscreen villains of all time.

The Public Enemywas directed by William A. Wellman. The screenplay was written by Harvey F. Thew. It was based on a novel that never got published called Beer and Blood by John Bright and Kubec Glasmon, who were in Chicago during Dean O’Banion’s problems with Al Capone. It was shot in January and February 1931. Live ammunition was still being used in movie shoots. The scene where Tom Powers ducks around the corner, that wall gets hit by real machine gun fire. Cagney’s machine gun delivery was only possible because of new sound technology. Conductor David Mendoza led the Vitaphone Orchestra through "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles,""Hesitation Blues,""Toot Toot Tootsie (Goodbye),""Maple Leaf Rag,""Brighten the Corner Where You Are,""Smiles" and "I Surrender Dear."

The Public Enemy, Scarface, and Little Caesar set the code before The Code for mob movies. Paul Muni was a more fun gangster in Angel on My Shoulderthan in Scarface. He was too mannered, he was acting too much. George Raft comes off like a Stanislavski grad actor compared to Muni. Edward G. Robinson’s Rico was the only actor who looked remotely natural in Little Caesar. Sure he was hamming it up, but compared to the other actors on that screen, Robinson’s sneer comes from real concrete, not Yiddish Theater. James Cagney, who also spoke Yiddish from when he was a kid growing up in the east 80s, threw his whole dancer trained body into it. Cagney shot from bit-part player to major Hollywood star with this one film.

When I say Cagney explodes in this movie, I mean he burns up the screen. Just look at him next to the other actors. They could be made of wood and they’re actually not wooden actors at all. These guys have heart and humor. Even in black and white Cagney’s tousled red hair torches everything around him like the sulfur on a match.  This is also true of Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar, but it’s not same energy. In Robinson, it’s a cruelty that he would hone to perfection in Sea Wolf. But Cagney, who gave a show stopping second banana role with Robinson in Smart Money, is on fire. He’ll take that to its ultimate conclusion in the other mama’s boy gangster pic White Heat, where he’s a true sociopath on top of the world.

In The Public Enemy it looks like there’s nothing Cagney can’t do. Just like the real Earl "Hymie" Weiss, Cagney dodges Tommy Gun fire. He rises to the top of Chicago’s streets. Cagney’s Tommy Powers, who maintains that women are a waste of time, goes through three of the dishiest dolls of the period. He’s so sexy and virile the tailors have a stone blast with his inseam, where he needs more room. Cagney gets to manhandle, mangle, machine-gun, maim and murder. James Cagney is not just an actor, he’s a force. He even gets to play a zombie in this picture.

Cagney wasn’t even supposed to play Tommy Powers. He was originally cast as Matt Doyle, the nice guy, but he burned through the screen all over Edward Woods. The producers switched the parts mid production, but they didn’t re-shoot the flashback scenes. That’s a major flaw in the picture, there’s not many, but when you’re going for full immersion, it’s a big one. It can be confusing to see, it kind of looks like they swapped bodies between 1909 and 1915. It’s a shame too because Frankie Darro, who plays the young Matt, made a career out of playing baby face Cagney.

Darro’s parents were the Flying Johnsons, no it wasn’t a porn act, they were circus performers. Darro started acting when he was eight and played with Cagney in The Mayor of Hell, which would be later remade as Crime School starring Humphrey Bogart and the Dead End Kids. Darro would one day be part of the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys, the Leo Gorcey-led spinoffs of the Dead End Kids. Frankie Darro was also the voice of Robbie the Robot in Forbidden Planet. There’s nothing wrong with Frank “Junior” Coghlan’s performance. He’s great. His “you want it up or down” taunt when his old man, played by Purnell Pratt,  is whacking his ass is a full on frontal assault. You can see that he’s adding up all those whacks in his head so he can unload them on someone else later. The shame is that we don’t get to see Darro play it. The way nature meant it to be.

Of course Tom’s father is a cop. Where else would he learn that swagger, that’s something you only get from sassing your old man, a policeman no less. Tom’s mother (Beryl Mercer) is the coddling type. She’s also the best enabler this side of Marge Simpson. Sure, her little boy is knocking off half the South Side, but look at the head on this beer. Ma Powers is long-suffering personified, but she used to dance as a young girl. Mike can only glower darkly and petulantly. Matt wipes him off the side of his mouth. Matt and Tommy are friendly sparring partners, but they are tight as thieves. Oh wait, they are thieves.

Tommy panics on his first big job, shooting at a bear in a fur shop. It gets the Larry the Limp killed and Tommy swears to get Putty Nose the first chance he gets for lamming on him. Check how Tommy and Matt sneak a peak into Larry’s casket, their first taste of someone their own age getting it. Their not too distant future laid out pretty.

Robert Emmett O'Connor is a blast of shamrock in a frosted glass. Paddy is the kind of gangster who would grow into an Owney Madden, you could just tell. “You gotta have friends,” he says. Better friends than that two timing Puddy Nose, those guys are dangerous. Tommy and Matt get to play Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, siphoning an intoxicating mix into a diesel drum. Paddy's willing to give up the rackets for his boy Tommy, that's a pal. Leslie Fenton as Nails Nathan is brilliant blarney personified. He's got the greatest gangster grin. “Cash or his heart,” he says and Cagney promises both. Nails Nathan is loosely based on Samuel J. "Nails" Morton of the O'Banion mob, he was whacked by his horse in 1923. Louis "Two-Gun" Alterie and some of the other North Side gang offed a horse in Chicago after it kicked Nails in the head, killing him. Let that be a lesson to you. Glue doesn’t grow on trees, you know. Screwy horse.

The Public Enemyopens with the tacked-on Warner Bros warning not to be a gangster because hoodlums and terrorists of the underworld shouldn’t be glamorized. The film then cuts through the playbill and onto the streets of 1909, stock footage of horse-drawn carriages and Model As. Push carts and factories. It is broken up into 1917 and 1920 segments as Tommy and Matt rise through the ranks and get their buttons, six of them for Matt.  There was a lot of homoeroticism in gangster and horror movies in the early thirties. Rico throws around some loving looks in Little Caesar. The gay tailor marveling over Tommy’s inseam provides the delicate touch in Public Enemy, what a muscle. Him and his number crunching partner.

When Mike Powers punches his brother before going off to war, he really connects. The director William Wellman told Donald Cook to do it without warning Cagney first. He wanted to get that look of surprise when knuckle hits chin. Donald Cook got into it, who knows, maybe he knew where his career was going next to Cagney’s and harbored more than sibling rivalry. Cook broke one of Cagney's teeth, but Cagney finished out the scene.

Don’t be too hard on Tommy’s brother Mike, “He’s learning how to be poor.” He was always a sucker, going off to fight for strangers somewhere. There's a little SNL-era Lorraine Newman in his performance and it irks the naturalistic Cagney. Look at the way Cagney gets all street on his brother when he mentions somebody opening their big yaps around town. The closeups on Cagney as he calls his brother a nickel snatcher. Every single word individually wrapped with its own special hatred. Every one getting a raised eyebrow or a sneer, but just for an instant and not a second of it looking forced, all natural. I don’t know why Tommy doesn’t knock Mike on his ass. You know he could do it. Cagney always had to fight people who towered over him. It was the only way you could believe he could be beat. Not that it wasn’t easy to find Goliaths to his rusty Davy, Cagney wasn’t a tall guy. You still didn’t want to fuck with him.

Who did want to fuck with him were Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell and Mae Clarke. These three women actors represent the twenties female on the town, the best cross-section of glamour in Tommy’s time. Blonde, brunette, slim or curvy, these are the dolls of the roaring twenties. Well, white roaring twenties anyway. Scarface was set in an Italian neighborhood where Ann Dvorak’s sultry dark looks held sway. And she could shake it too. The Public Enemy was made before the decency codes, so Tommy can get blasted and wake up gun-shy after sex and we can see Matt and Mamie about to get down in bed, I guess all that rolling around was thirties foreplay. Hey it works for me.

In Public Enemy, Tommy has more fun with blondes. There’s a reason Cagney busted an effervescent dance move after meeting Gwen Allen. Jean Harlow was Hollywood's "Original Blond Bombshell." The writers give her a lot to say and it looks like she’s having a hard time getting through it all until she gets to the line “The men I’ve known” and pauses, with this perfect upwards glance and says “and I’ve known dozens of them.” You can hear her clicking off how many in her head. And they’re all too nice, these dozens of polished men. It’s a great payoff and you just know Tommy held out long enough. He’s going to snatch the gold ring on that merry go round. Well, if it wasn’t for that fucking horse. You can feel Gwen’s exasperation at coitus interruptus.

Mr. and Mrs. Doyle, indeed. Joan Blondell and Cagney make up some of Warner Brothers earliest chemical X pairings. They had “It” together. Cagney should have danced with her at the speakeasy, the way nature intended. Instead he gets to whisper not-so-sweet nothings into Kitty’s (Mae Clarke) ear. Mae Clarke would later star with Cagney in Great Guy.

Most people know The Public Enemy for the famous grapefruit scene, Cagney wishing for that wishing well and squeezing Mae Clarke’s juice with relish. There are a lot of stories surrounding that scene. Rumors that James Cagney didn’t warn Mae Clark that he was going to do it, that the writer wrote it out as a kind of wish-fulfilling fantasy to curb his own, very real, citrusy urges, that it was just a joke for the cameramen. All half-true and none of them lies. William Wellman told TCM that he added the grapefruit to the scene because always wanted to do that to his wife just to get a reaction out of her. Cagney said that Clarke's ex-husband used to show up to see the movie just for the grapefruit scene. He had it timed, he’d go in to the theater, watch her get it on the cheek and leave. Sometimes a few times a day. Cagney's character was an amalgamation of Dean O’Banion and Earl "Hymie" Weiss. According to the papers of the day, Hymie smashed an omelet into his moll’s mush.

The piano scene always creeped me out. Before I knew what a child molester was, that scene just struck me as something much darker than just some back pay for a bad deal. Maybe it was the way Putty Nose (Murray Kinnell) stuck his ass in Cagney’s face while he was shooting pool. And the way Cagney just accepts it, like he’s seen that ass before, maybe he’s a little too acquainted with that ass. There’s something not right about that, especially as it comes just two scenes after they show Tommy, getting his ass whooped by his old man. This goes past even Charles Dickens’s Fagin. You get the idea that it ain’t just the nose that’s made of putty and even Nails coulda told you there was no Jane in his apartment. He knew that Putty had an unnatural hold on Tommy. Cagney relishes that kill, grinning in encouragement, shooting in rhythm.

Watch out for midgets in phone booths. And watch out for Paddy Ryan’s girl. She’s on the make and it’s enough to send Tommy and Matt out to a firing squad. After a good slap that is. After Tommy sees Matt get gunned down, Cagney gives him this sad grin. He’s counting the bodies he needs to plug holes into. Stuck without a gun on account of he’s been holed up on Paddy’s orders, Cagney performs high comedy. Playing patsy to a gun store owner until he’s all locked and loaded and then robbing the place. No good drama works without comedy.

Cagney knows how to end a movie. Whether he goes out kicking and screaming in the electric chair, rolling down the steps of a church or dancing down the White House stairs, there are no endings like Cagney endings. When Cagney goes blazing straight on down the throat of the enemy he could be the young Cody Jarrett at the end of White Heat screaming “Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” while his mother is forever blowing bubbles. First, it’s Tommy’s fault Matt gets killed. Then Cagney goes off on the gang that killed his best friend, he only grabs one gun and comes out riddled with so many bullets, from the sound of it, he’s Swiss cheese by the time he hits the gutter with  “I ain’t so tough.” Just when you think it can’t get worse for Tommy Powers, it rains.

You think it’s curtains for Cagney, but he’s in the hospital, bandaged up from head to toe. Although it never made sense to me why his head was bandaged, he didn't have a head wound when he came out of the gang's hangout. Whenever I see Malcom McDowell in the hospital scene in A Clockwork Orange, I think of Tommy, good-naturedly socking his mom on the jaw and telling her he’s gonna be all right. It’s sad but almost fun, like Alex eating his eggiweggs, smacking his lips and puckering up for the next bite. Unlike Alex's tauntingly plaintive "very lonely place it is, sir, when I wake up in the middle of the night with my pain" routine, Tommy isn't piling on the guilt. When Tommy tells Ma "you always liked Mike more than me," he's not being a bratty younger brother, he's genuinely trying to take some of the pain out of his death. To Tommy, it is better that he dies than Mike. Cagney looks like he’s on the mend in more ways than just physically. He’s made a decision and even his brother Mike sees it. Everything’s going to be just swell in the Powers house.

Tommy’s even going to get out of the hospital early. This is going to be great. Beryl Mercer as Tom's mother shows a wretched-soul-with-its-heart-ripped-out on leave. Fluff the pillows, get the room ready, Tommy’s coming home. Put on the music. Apartment buildings and record players, it’s the age old story. No matter what’s going down on the street, it’s happening to a happy soundtrack. You could be roller skating on a broken sidewalk past a guy getting shot and some kids up the block are going to be skipping rope to a transistor radio. Or a boombox. Or drowned out by your Beats headphones. Some things will never change. Regardless of the technology, there will be music on the streets.

So, for St. Patrick's Day, let's "solve the problem of Tommy Powers." Namely, that we need one.

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It may still be another week before 20^th Century Fox drops the X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer on us in all its glory, but they are definitely going to make the most of it, as demonstrated in their new multi-image teaser released this morning on Instagram. While much of it includes footage we have already seen, there are snippets of treasured images yet unveiled.

X-Men: Days of Future Past opens on May 23, 2014. Directed by Bryan Singer, the man who launched the cinematic X-franchise, it will not only reunite the all-important X-Men trinity of Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen, but it will also team them up with their younger X-Men: First Class counterparts like Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, and James McAvoy. And that's just the start! Plenty of old X-Men favorites, including Shawn Ashmore's Iceman and Ellen Page’s Kitty Pryde, are also back for this one too. Whatever X-Men: Days of Future Past may turn out to be, it probably won't be dull!

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Disney’s newest legacy trailer (heralding another later in the week) for the upcoming summer blockbuster Maleficent makes no bones about it: Maleficent is their greatest villain, and the movie seeks to tell her story in an entirely new light (like live-action). Summoning dark forces—and the triumphant return of a trailer voice—the image of Sleeping Beauty is cast in the more haunting visage of star Angelina Jolie’s sharp cheek bones.

Maleficent refocuses the narrative of the 1959 Walt Disney Animation Studios classic, Sleeping Beauty, as the journey of their greatest villain, who is in fact an even greater anti-hero. Once her homeland is ravaged by an invading kingdom, Maleficent (Jolie) grows up with revenge in her heart, and she will have it when she damns the king’s infant daughter to an eternal slumber when she reaches adulthood. Yet, as little Aurora (Elle Fanning) grows, Maleficent sees something of herself in the child, but vengeance must be tasted.

And if you like the looks of this film (or not), here is our list of 6 more Disney Villains who could use their own movie.

Maleficent opens May 30, 2014.

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More than most studios, Disney has enjoyed the ability to rerelease many of their timeless classics catalogue into theaters with the advent of popular 3D cinema over the last four years. From The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast to Pixar’s Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc., the larger studio has a seemingly endless pool to draw from. Yet, early last year, reports manifested that the practice may be coming to an end after several 3D ventures were supposedly scuttled.

Now, it seems that reports of the 3D rerelease market’s imminent demise were greatly exaggerated, as Josh Hollander, director of 3D production at Pixar, has confirmed that 3D rereleases of beloved Pixar films The Incredibles and Ratatouille are in the works.

“Right now we’re working on The Incredibles, which is a lot of fun in 3D,” Hollander said, according to Screen Daily while at the 3D Creative Summit. “I’m not sure what the release strategy for it will be.”

At first glance, this could indicate simply a 3D release on Blu-ray, however, Screen Daily says Hollander was talking directly about re-releases.

“We have a version of Ratatouille, which works really well in 3D and we’re trying to figure out exactly what the release strategy for that will be,” Hollander said.

For Pixar aficionados, particularly those with their own new young demographic from the last 10 years, this may be happy news indeed.

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Avengers: Age of Ultron is still over a year away, but the movie that’s well into production has many buzzing with excitement, including Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige.

While speaking with Movies.com about the event film, Feige was very complimentary about what Spader is doing with the iconic comic book baddie, as well as the challenges inherent with adapting the always-shifting team dynamics of the comics for the big screen.

“Introducing the new characters is going to be a lot of fun for the movie,” Feige said. “That ever-changing roster is very important in the Avengers comics, and so how do we start to play with that [on the big screen]? Also our bad guy is great. I think people are going to be very, very excited to see what we’re doing with the voice that Joss [Whedon] is bringing to life with James Spader for Ultron. We love Ultron from the comics, and have always loved Ultron, and at no point do we want him to just be a robot. We want him to have an extreme personality and attitude, and James Spader is doing an unbelievable job. Again, for us, it’s always about subverting expectations.”

The Age of Ultron begins in May 2015.

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Dominic Cooper, who’s riding high in the new movie Need for Speed with Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pinkman, was cast in another video game adaptation, Duncan Jones's Azeroth derived from the world of Warcraft.

Dominic Cooper broke through in the role of Howard Stark, Tony Stark's father, in the comic book classic, Captain America: The First Avenger. As Dino Brewster in the Need for Speed movie, he played a much darker, treacherous character.

Speaking to Collider, the actor has high praise for the attention to detail that Jones put into Azeroth. He said "The world is very specific. What's been wonderful is seeing these guys who have this world in their heads for so many years. The creators of that game are suddenly on these sets, where the ideas that they had so many years ago have come to life, and it's been really exciting just to see that."

Cooper talked about the traps of getting caught up in the video game world "They have been so accurate and responsible to the game and to the people who play the game, love the game and want to see those characters in that world shown on the big screen. There is a huge responsibility for those people. They are the fans, and they are the ones who sit for hours, in that world. It's scary, but it's great. It's a huge lot of fun."

Cooper says he came to the part because of the script and the director and admitted "I knew very little of the game, so the storyline within the script was just completely crazy, but exciting. Coincidentally, it was another big idea of a game, but I knew very little of the game."

Warcraft is shooting right now and stars Ben Foster, Travis Flimmel, Paula Patton, Toby Kebbell, Rob Kazinsky and Clancy Brown.

Warcraft hits movie theaters on March 11, 2016.

SOURCE: IGN

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DreamWorks Animation’s holidays 2014 film, Home, may not come out until November, but we already have a glimpse of the sci-fi opus that is to come thanks to the newest short film, “Almost Home.” Directed by Tom Wilderman, DreamWorks Animation and 20^th Century Fox’s “Almost Home” tells the preamble saga of a race of aliens known as Boov while they traverse the stars and leave one hostile planet after another in their search for a new home. And when their Captain Smek is voiced by Steve Martin, of course there is more than a touch of comedy to expect.

An adaptation of Adam Rex’s children’s book, The True Meaning of Smekday and directed by Tim Johnson of Antz, Home follows the animated critter of choice these days: aliens. While being chased by an even bigger, badder alien, Captain Smek (voiced by Steve Martin) takes his alien race of Boov to Earth, however there is the problem of the current indigenous species on the planet. Thus, Smek kindly rounds up all humans for relocation, save for a resourceful young girl named Tip (Rihanna) who teams up with a bumbling invading alien named Oh (Jim Parsons). Also including the voice of Jennifer Lopez, the vocal cast is full of heavy-hitters.

Home opens on November 26, 2014.

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Worried about the prospects of a CG Peanutsmovie? Don't be! This teaser trailer looks wonderful. I'll admit to a fair amount of skepticism at the prospect of a 3D computer-rendered version of the Peanutsgang. Clearly, I was barking up the wrong kite-eating tree.

This brief bit of footage sure does make it look like Blue Sky got this one right...

I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something both physical and appropriately Schulz-like about the way these characters are rendered. Particularly in the backgrounds and the stray bits of fur on Snoopy's head. 

Peanutsis produced by Craig Schulz, son of Peanutscreator Charles M. Schulz, who told USA Today, "It's long overdue. The fans have been asking for a long time, but we held off until the time was right." Peanuts boasts a screenplay by Bryan Schulz (Charles' grandson). ""With my father's work this is three generation of Shulzes on this film," Craig said.

Peanutsis directed by Steve Martino (who also directed Ice Age: Continental Drift), who promises, "We're going to fly with Snoopy in his fantasy world. We have a bigger canvas. Bill Melendez got Snoopy off the ground in the TV specials. We're going to take it a step further." Alright, fine. We're sold.

Here's the (brief) official description:

For the first time ever, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang we know and love from Charles Schulz's timeless Peanutscomic strip will be making their big-screen debut; like they've never been seen before in a CG-Animated Feature film in 3D.

Peanutsis currently slated for a November 6, 2015 release date. Suddenly, I'm really looking forward to it.

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What if Superman wore a Go-Pro camera while flying around the skies of Metropolis? What would that be like? Fortunately, some filmmakers created a simulated version of what this flight would be like. Along with that, a Star Wars fashion show has just been announced for this year's Comic-Con, snakes have overrun the State of Florida, and find out about Hollywood's worst nightmare...the hottest new software to watch pirated movies. 

Links. We got them. You click them. Then read. 

Unnecessarily Censored Version of Disney Pixar’s Up

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Popcorn Time Is Hollywood’s Unstoppable Worst Nightmare A piece of software appeared last week called Popcorn Time. It makes watching pirated movies as easy as firing up Netflix. Everything is free.  

Florida Has Been Completely Overrun By Pythons, Crocodiles, and Others…. The state is being overrun by animals, insects and plants that should not be there, costing Floridians half a billion dollars each year.  

Comic-Con Will Feature Geek Couture Fashion Show

Star Wars couture showed up at L.A. Fashion Week on Friday, accompanying a major fashion announcement for San Diego Comic-Con  

Superman With A GoPro The Man of Steel’s POV as he flies through the air. Corridor Digital used a drone to create a video from the Superman perspective.     

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Warner Brothers and director Joe Wright have finally found their titular hero for next year’s Pan, and it’s in the young face of Levi Miller, who Wright cast after extensive casting calls in the UK.

Miller, previously best known for an episode of Terra Nova, will play the titular character in a film that is bursting with star wattage (and attention) with Hugh Jackman as the villainous Blackbeard, Garrett Hedlund as a young James Hook, and the most scrutinized casting of Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily. Despite having an Oscar nomination to her name for playing Lisbeth Salander in the American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there has been some vocal backlash to her casting as the famed “Indian Princess” of J.M. Barrie’s original Peter Pan play.

Pan is being directed by Wright (Atonement, Hanna) and is scripted by Jason Fuchs and Greg Berlanti. In this version, the story is relocated to World War II where Pan is an orphan kidnapped by Blackbeard’s pirates and whisked off to Neverland. WB has slated the picture for release on July 17, 2015.

SOURCE: Variety

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It's not all about capes in the summertime, you know. Gareth Edwards' new Godzillamovie looks like it just might be the non-superpowered film to beat this year. Bryan Cranston will probably never be hotter than he is right now, basking in the afterglow of Breaking Bad, and that immediately recognizable voice is front and center in the new international trailer for Godzilla, which you can watch right here.

We love Mr. Cranston, but he's not the star of this one, he's several stories too short to be the leading man in a film like this one. He'll be the first to admit, that, at best, he's the Best Supporting Actor to the Lifetime Achievement Kaiju that is Godzilla. And while they've been careful to only reveal Godzilla in bits and pieces so far, there's no questioning the scope of Godzilla's ambition.

So...IS that another kaiju we spy at about 1:18?

Godzillais directed by Gareth Edwards. It stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, and Ken Watanabe. Godzillawill be destroying a theater near you on May 16th.

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The trend of fairy tales becoming part of our world through live-action continues as Universal Pictures seems intent on adapting the Hans Christian Andersen classic “The Little Mermaid” to the big screen. According to Deadline, Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, The Bling Ring) is in talks with the studio to helm the project, which would return to the more complex and tragic roots of the Danish children’s story.

The film has long been in development with drafts turned in by Abi Morgan (Shame) and Kelly Marcel (Fifty Shades of Grey), and at one point Joe Wright was close to signing on the project before choosing instead to fly off to Neverland with Warner Brothers’ Pan. The current script is being penned by Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands), as Universal and Working Title are looking to fast-track the project. On paper, it would appear to be Coppola’s most commercial picture to date if she signs.

The story of Andersen’s original is far different from Disney’s famed The Little Mermaid. Besides not being named “Ariel,” the titular mermaid’s bargain for legs costs her more than a voice—it costs her the tongue that made it. She also cannot walk without feeling as if her feet are bleeding. Not to mention, the story doesn’t end as happily as some might believe.

The possibility of Coppola taking the helm would add to this.

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Real, genuine, Star Wars: Episode VII news has been hard to come by. Sure, there are daily rumors, some more credible than others, but in terms of actual information related to the production of Star Wars: Episode VII...it's been rough. Finally, Disney and Lucasfilm decided to throw the fans (and us poor, beleaguered writers) a bone with some actual information about Star Wars: Episode VII. Don't get too excited, but at least it's something.

Star Wars: Episode VIIwill officially begin principal photography in May, and we already know that sets are being built. We can only hope that this means we'll see official casting announcements in the next couple of weeks, because, frankly, the endless speculation is a little exhausting. As far as casting goes, the official statement on StarWars.com offered only a tantalizing:

It has also been confirmed that Star Wars: Episode VIIis set about 30 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, and will star a trio of new young leads along with some very familiar faces. No further details on casting or plot are available at this time.

Alright, so it's a TRIO of young leads. Take from that what you will. Is one of these "new young leads"Adam Driver's supposed Sith Lord? What about John Boyega and Ed Speelers? And then there are those recent Lupita Nyong'o rumors to consider. And let's not forget Jesse Plemmons...

The Star Wars: Episode VII release date is still scheduled for December 18, 2015, although we wouldn't be surprised if they move this one to more traditional Star Wars release haunts in May of 2016. It doesn't matter. We're going to see it whenever they decide to put it out.

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