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Take randy teens, snow and Nazi zombies and you have the gist of Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow, which is currently in limited release.

Now Wirkola tells ShockTillYouDrop that he's got something even better: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, which puts a Buffy spin on the fairy tale.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen doesn't open in the United States until Wednesday, but it's already rolled up about $20 million at 846 locations overseas, according to The Hollywood Reporter; the sequel opened at number one in the United Kingdom ($14.1 million from 517 screens) and Japan ($5.8 million from 329 sites).
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Oscar-winning visual-effects specialist Charles Gibson will make his big-screen directing debut with the Geoff Rodkey-scripted supernatural family comedy The Goblin, Variety reported; the story revolves around a suburban family that moves into its new home only to find a curmudgeonly goblin who doesn't want them there.
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If you thought Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was trippy, wait until you see how Tim Burton has re-interpreted the fantasy classic in the new images that appear in USA Today, after the jump.

The weekend's box office results made clearer the sweet reality that an animated movie about an elderly balloon salesman and the reboot of a beloved sci-fi franchise continue to have legs this summer well beyond expectations.

Every now and then, we find a story that underscores why we do what we do here, and this is one. It's the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old California girl whose last wish was to screen the Disney/Pixar movie Up and the noble people at Pixar who granted it just in time.

The story's been the buzz of the Internet since it broke on the Associated Press (via The Orange County Register) last week. We don't need to go into the details—mainly because they tear our hearts out—but here's the gist: