MOVIE NEWS FOR FEBRUARY 4: THE CRAZIES, WATCHMEN, THE LAST AIRBENDER & MORE

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SIX NEW ‘ THE CRAZIES’ PHOTOS

David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one of them comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns down his own house…after locking his wife and young son in a closet inside. Within days, the town has transformed into a sickening asylum; people who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives have now become depraved, blood-thirsty killers, hiding in the darkness with guns and knives.

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HARRY POTTER CLASHES WITH TITANS IN PERCY JACKON. SORT OF.

With the last two films in the ginormous Harry Potter franchise wrapping up production soon, industry experts and audiences have taken to wondering what’s going to be the next big kid-friendly book-to-film franchise when Harry’s all but a Hogwarts memory.

If 20th Century Fox has any say, it’s going to be a kid named Percy Jackson.

Based on Rick Riordan’s best-selling fantasy series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is the first in a potential series of five big-screen adventures revolving around an average 16-year-old (played by Logan Lerman) who discovers that he’s actually a demigod, the son of Greek water god Poseidon (Kevin McKidd). Think Clash of the Titans meets Sorcerer’s Stone.

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Source: io9

FIRST REVIEWS OF M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN’S AIRBENDER

The Last Airbender has started test screenings, and the reviews are pouring in. Find out what the people are saying about “M. Night Shyamalan’s Star Wars“.

The Last Airbender is based on the Nickelodeon cartoon, but the film will be all live-action. The film centers around Aang: A boy with special powers who has to save his world, which is caught in the middle of a war with the Fire Nation. The nations of this world are all based on the elements. Plus, some of the people from these lands can control the elements.

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Source: scifiwire

IF YOUR’E STILL HOPING FOR THAT WATCHMEN SEQUEL, YOU CAN STOP

Want to know what happens after Rorschach’s journal lands in the offices of the New Frontiersman in the final scene of Watchmen? Dan DiDio, the executive editor over at DC Comics, may be planning for prequels and spinoffs in comic-book form, but as for another movie—forget about it.

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