You could argue that, even with three previous films (including one reboot), that we have yet to see a comic book accurate “Hellboy” film. That doesn’t mean the previous ones are terrible–there is serious love for Guillermo del Toro’s first two–but it looks like “Hellboy: The Crooked Man” might be our first attempt at what a comic book-accurate ‘Hellboy’ film would look like.

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As seen in the trailer, “Hellboy: The Crooked Man” takes place in the ‘50s and follows the story of the BPRD as they’re tasked with taking on a supernatural evil known as the Crooked Man.

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Hollywood has tried a couple of different paths for the ‘Hellboy’ franchise. When Guillermo del Toro was involved, the franchise was less horror and more fantasy, showing off del Toro’s penchant for creating memorable creatures. Then, back in 2019, with Neil Marshall behind the camera and David Harbour in the lead role, the film became an R-rated spectacle with huge effects and lots of lore.

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Neil Marshall‘s 2019 “Hellboy” reboot with David Harbour was an unmitigated disaster on every level. So where does the franchise go from here? Apparently, with Millennium Media‘s fast and cheap approach to filmmaking. And Millennium has their new Hellboy for their upcoming reboot, “The Crooked Man,” and no, it’s not a name like Harbour or Ron Perlman.  

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Recently, it was revealed that Brian Taylor was hired by Millennium Media to work on yet another reboot of “Hellboy.” Yes, it’s only less than three years since the last reboot. And no, the 2019 reboot didn’t do well at all with critics or fans. But here we are, with yet another reboot. And according to the filmmaker behind the new version, this reboot is going to follow a very specific tone and style which sets it apart from the previous iterations of the character on the big screen.

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” ‘Crank 3‘ is going to happen. The studios are really excited about it — it’s just all about timing,” director Mark Neveldine proclaimed in 2011, but seven years later there has been absolutely no movement on that front. The sad fact is that while “Crank” and “Crank: High Voltage” occupied a weird part of the pop culture conversation between 2006 and 2009, by time the second movie rolled out, the allure of Jason Statham essentially killing himself to stay alive started to wear out.

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You just can’t see it all at any festival, and while the chatter about the bonkers “Mom and Dad” circulated around TIFF, I just couldn’t fit the Midnight Madness movie into my schedule. But the horror comedy will ready to watch in the comfort of your own home in just a few weeks.

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Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair star in the first solo outing by Brian Taylor, better known for his work with Mark Neveldine (the “Crank” movies), and the premise for this one is pretty straightforward: mass hysteria has turned parents into raving psychopaths who want to kill their own children.

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The “Highlander” himself, Christopher Lambert, is reportedly in talks to join the film in a role that’s yet to be specified.

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The campy, already cult-classic ready plotline will follow “Johnny Blaze, aka Ghost Rider (Nicolas Cage), hiding out in remote Eastern Europe and struggling to repress his curse.

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CinemaBlend have dug up a story over at Romanian news site Hot News that reveals the film will be shot in 3D.

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Eva Mendes wisely has better things to do with her time than reprise her role as Roxanne Simpson, Johnny Blaze’s long lost love. Speaking at a junket for the forthcoming comedy “The Other Guys,” when asked if she would be appearing in the gestating sequel, she replied “No, unfortunately.”

Anyway, the sequel will apparently have a bit more of a horror edge to it, and is based on a draft that David Goyer wrote years ago.

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The duo were originally hired way back in 2007 to write and direct “Jonah Hex,” but left in 2008 over “creative differences.” The team were replaced by the left-field choice of animation director Jimmy Hayward (“Horton Hears A Who!”) and their script was chopped, ripped, screwed and basically bears little resemblance to what ended up on screen thanks to countless revisions and changes at the hands of the film’s producers.

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Gerard Butler stars in “Gamer” as Kable, a death row prisoner participating in a massive online game where users control prisoners as avatars through mind control and send them into battle against each other.

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Simon Pegg & Nick Frost have been cast as Thomson & Thompson in the Steven Spielberg-helmed, Peter Jackson-produced 3D motion capture adaptation of the French comic strip, “Tintin”. Andy Serkis has also been cast as Captain Haddock. The budget’s on the low end ($135 million) of what you’d expect from a Spielberg/Jackson production. Expect ‘Tintin’ sometime next year, with a Jackson-directed sequel a couple of years after that.

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