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Writer-director Jim Abrahams, who co-wrote and co-directed some of the most iconic comedy films of the 1980s including “The Naked Gun” and “Airplane!” (aka. “Flying High”), has died. He was 80. Abrahams died of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica according to his son Joseph in a statement issued to THR. Together with […]

“The Scarlet Drop,” a work of legendary six-time Oscar-winning American filmmaker John Ford, has been found nearly in its entirety after being lost for over a century reports The National News.

The 1918 film follows Harry ‘Kaintuck’ Ridge (Harry Carey) who skips out on the American Civil War to join a gang of marauders and at the end of the war finds himself a fugitive.

Going west, he becomes a bandit and ends up winning the love of a woman he has taken captive after holding up a stage coach.

It was one of 26 westerns Ford made with Carey, the most prolific partnership of Ford’s career even as his work with John Wayne remains his most famous partnership. Ford’s career ultimately spanned over 130 films and more than 50 years from 1917-1970.

Until this discovery, only about 30 minutes of footage from the film existed in the Getty Archive with no full cut thought to remain intact.

The movie was rediscovered by the owner of a warehouse in Santiago, Chile just one day before it was set to be demolished. Going through the building’s contents, the owner discovered a trove of films once owned by a local collector and left untouched for forty years after his death.

The owner contacted a film academic and film festival director who rescued the films from being discarded. It was digitised but is still in need of a full restoration and there are still some “missing partial aspects of the film”.

Plans for a wider release of the film have not been announced.

Stahelski says:

“We’re bringing it forward from the early 1500s in the highlands to the beyond present-day New York and Hong Kong, and seeing how it goes. There’s big opportunity for action.

There’s a chance to play a character that not a lot of people get to play. And it’s a bit of a love story, but not how you think. On ‘John Wick,’ I learned a lot on how to bend the storytelling a little… another kind of myth.”

Stahelski then goes on to explain how he pitched the project to Cavill and the uniqueness of the role being one of its draws:

“My selling point was, to [Henry Cavill], look, you’ve got a guy that’s been alive for over 500 years. He’s the last person in the world that wanted to be in this situation. So you get to cover quite a broad spread of a character arc there. And you get to experience someone that’s trained over 500 years and sort of played [with many types of] martial arts.”

Why?

A sneak peek behind the scenes of The Minecraft Movie.

New trailer tomorrow.

Dogma 2 could be on the way as the filmmaker has found a way back in to follow up the late '90s smash hit movie.

Kevin Smith is reportedly planning a sequel to one of his biggest movies. Dogma was released all of the way back in 1999 with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck among its cast. Well, it looks like Smith is ready for a follow-up after finding a way in for a new movie.

Deadline reports that Smith is indeed working on a sequel and was speaking over the weekend at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles. “Some people will be like, ‘Don’t f—ing touch it. You’ll ruin it,’” said Smith. “And I’m here to tell you: I will. I’m f—ing tickled. I found a way in.”

What’s more, Smith hopes that Damon and Affleck will also return for Dogma 2, or whatever Smith chooses to call it, as their characters Bartleby and Loki. He added:

“Expect a cameo from them — more than a f—ing cameo. The only way we get a Dogma sequel made is if they’re there. So count on those guys being there.”

Why create original films when you can plunder expired copyright works, eh?

I completely forgot they're doing a live action How To Train Your Dragon and still wonder why they're doing one.

Wow! Winning the lottery wouldn't be enough, you'd have to be one of the lucky ten that's picked!

If you didn't read, they're building ten life sized Tumblers, officially sanctioned by Warner Bros., at a cost of $2.9m. They're picking ten people who apply to be a customer.