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We’re getting into summer blockbuster season - Hancock, The Incredible Hulk, WALL-E, Get Smart (which I am so excited for), The Love Guru, The Dark Knight - there are definitely a lot of options. But none of them even come close to making the top 10 priciest movies list. This list does consider inflation.

1. War and Peace - 1968 - $560,000,000
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End - 2007 - $300,000,000
3. Cleopatra - 1963 - $295,000,000
4. Spider-Man 3 - 2007 - $258,000,000

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Bros frontman Matt Goss has revealed that they could be the next boy band to reform, and go on tour. Together with twin brother Luke who played the drums and bassist Craig Logan ,they enjoyed huge success in the late 1980s with hits which included “I Owe You Nothing” and “When Will I Be Famous”.

Speaking at the film premiere of his twin brother’s latest film Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Matt Goss said:

“If we can make the numbers work and the venues work, then we’re all up for it. Being in a band is like being a politician, you’ve got to make sure everyone is happy,”

“But Luke, Craig and definitely myself - we’re all up for it.

Craig Logan was the first of the three to leave the band in1989 and went on to become managing director of Sony BMG-owned RCA Records. The two brothers then decided that enough was enough in 1992. (more…)

Made famous by Hollywood hit film “The Sound of Music” the former home of the von Trapp family is being turned into a hotel. The hotel is to be named “The Villa Trapp hotel” and visitors to the hotel will be able to sleep in the family’s former bedrooms or get married in the chapel. The hotel and surrounding park just outside Salzburg, Austria, will open to the public in July and will cost around 100 euros (£80) a night.

The von Trapp family lived in the house from 1923 before fleeing the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938. In 1956 the true story of Maria, the aspiring Nun who sang her way into the hearts of Baron von Trapp and his seven children was made into a movie based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, it starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

At least it is going to be made into something that people can use for years to come that fans of the film can visit, unlike quite a lot of the set used in the movie “Dirty Dancing” which was flattened to make way for a golf course apparently.

Oh My God!! I loved the film “Lost Boys” which was made in 1987 and starred Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, and Corey Feldman, and now they have finally made a sequel “Lost Boys 2: The Tribe”, directed by P.J. Pesce and featuring……yes, you guessed it……Corey Feldman, Corey Haim. I love it when films keep the same actors. Lets hope it’s as good as the original.

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Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson has co-written a horror film, which is to be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Supernatural thriller Chemical Wedding will then be released in British cinemas in the summer. The film stars Simon Callow as Professor Haddo, the reincarnation of occultist Aleister Crowley, once described as Britain’s most evil man.

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Actor Sylvester Stallone, 61, was accompanied by his wife Jennifer Flavin, 39, and daughters Sophia Rose, 11, Sistine Rose, 9, and Scarlet Rose, 5, for the world premiere of his new film Rambo at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Thursday, January 24th.

The plot of ‘Rambo’ follows a group of Christian aid workers who recruit John Rambo to guide them up Southeast Asia’s Salween River to deliver medical supplies to the oppressed Karen tribe. When the missionaries fail to return from Burma, the aging Vietnam vet leads a team of mercenaries back into the war-torn border region to rescue them.

Whilst making the film Sylvester and the crew also recieved death threats.

They were filming on the Thai-Burmese border, when he and the crew received a series of chilling warnings.

Speaking at the film’s UK premiere, he said:

“Yes, (we) got them all the time - it’s a very dangerous part of the world. A lot of people do disappear and you know they didn’t want this film to be made.
The civil wars have been going on for 60 years and no one knows about it because they pay a fortune to keep it quiet.”

Below is a video of Sylvester at the premiere of Rambo at Planet Hollywood.

The very sexy Paul Walker and Vin Diesel are said to be in negotiations to reunite for the fourth installment of the “Fast and the Furious”
Universal have yet to name the new film and the storyline is been kept under wraps, but whatever the name or storyline may be……I don’t really care as it will be great to see them both on the big screen together again…….Oh! and the fast cars too!!!

Filming is said to be starting in the Spring in Los Angeles, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

The first “Furious,” released in 2001, was a surprise hit, grossing more than $144 million and making stars our of Diesel and Walker. Only Walker returned for the 2003 sequel, “2 Fast 2 Furious,” and he sat out the third installment, 2005’s “Tokyo Drift.”I can’t wait!!!

Here is a short video of the very sexy Dwayne Johnson, or WWE star The Rock at the premiere of his latest movie “The Game Plan”

He is looking very hot as he chats on the red carpet about fatherhood and his gorgeous young co-star Madison Pettis.

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There have been so many brilliant musical films produced over the years, it is really hard to pick out My Top 5 favourite ones.

Where do you start! How do you pick from favourites like “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, “Grease” or “Annie”. Well after hours of deliberation, I finally narrowed it down. So here they are:

1. South Pacific
2. The Wizard Of Oz
3. West Side Story
4. The Sound Of Music
5. Grease

I love to watch all kinds of movies, some of them I can watch over and over.

I am not particularly keen on Horror movies, although I do watch a few of them.

A few good men and Dirty Dancing are impossible to watch unless I am alone, as I really annoy everyone by saying the next lines before they are said in the film…….I can’t see the problem with that!!!

Here are My Top 5 Favourite movies:

1. A Few Good Men
2. Dancin’ Thru The Dark
3. Dirty Dancing
4. Stand By Me
5. Beaches