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Last September Tobey Maguire announced that he was developing a live-action film based on the 80’s anime classic Robotech through his Maguire Pictures and Warner Bros. Since then there’s been no details to speak of other than some unknown writer named Craig Zahler was working on the script. Well apparently he wasn’t delivering the goods because Lawrence Kasdan has been hired to take over writing duties on the film.

Kiefer Sutherland stars as a downtrodden mall security guard that discovers the mirrors sold at a particular department store have some nightmarishly supernatural properties. The trailer falls strictly in the how not to cut a trailer camp as it’s a disjointed mess.

The seminal anime classic Ghost in the Shell will be rereleased on July 12 in Japan completely remastered to bring it more inline with the 2004 sequel Innocence. Famed director Mamorou Oshii supervised the update, aptly titled Ghost in the Shell 2.0, through Production I.G.

IFC Films – who’s company slogan should be “There’s no movie we won’t buy!” – has again opened up their coffers, this time for the...

British outfit Icon Film Distribution has picked up the UK home and theatre rights to acclaimed director Ken Loach’s latest Looking for Eric, currently in production in Manchester. The film is being repped by the fine folks at Wild Bunch with Sixteen Films, Canto Bros., and Why Not Productions adding to the British/French co-production.