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Dominated by one, controlled by a few, watched by all...

Rollerball's Got the Look
Premiere Mag and French Premiere offer new images, plus McTiernan and Klein comment on the production.

Rollerball: Brutal, Ruthless and Online
Official site goes live, plus some comments from star Jean Reno and composer BT.

Still Rolling
Additional Rollerball photography, plus a new picture and a word from Slipknot.

Rollerball's Modified Motorcycles
Pics of a couple bikes that'll take to the figure eight, and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos discusses being cast as Aurora.

Rollerball's Best: The Marauders, the Hawks, the Golden Horde and the Horsemen
Brief look at the game's top teams, plus the teaser poster is released.

Rollerball Stars Meet the Press
McTiernan's droogs ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.

LL Cool J & BT Rap and Rave About Rollerball
Motorcycles and electronic music.

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos Joins the Cast of Rollerball
X-Men's Mystique signs on for McTiernan's Rollerball remake

On the casting front, except for Chris Klein (Election, American Pie) and LL Cool J (Kingdom Come, Any Given Sunday, In Too Deep, Deep Blue Sea) who signed on months ago to star as Rollerball team members, casting for the film is still being finalized. The latest news is Jean Reno (Ronin, The Professional) will step into the picture as the team's villainous owner. Billboard reports Reno is currently in final negotiations.

On the production front, McTiernan has been scouting locations in Canada, the U.S. and Europe for the past couple months, looking for the perfect venue in which to stage the deadly game. And now it appears that instead of using an existing arena, the production will build their own near Montreal. He tells Mr. Showbiz "I want a building where what you're going to see feels illicit, what you're going to see feels immoral and spooky." Offering his thoughts on the original and his plan for the remake, "We thought we were going to see the hockey game from hell, and instead it was science fiction sociology. I just am going back and pulling that stuff out. The studio had a rewrite that had even more nonsense about explaining a world where people get hurt regularly so other people can get money from others watching them get hurt. It's my premise [that] you don't have to go into the future, into this never-never land for that situation." Principal photography for Rollerball is scheduled to start in July in Montreal.

In putting together financing for the production, John McTiernan and MGM executives have been shopping the film at Cannes this week. And it appears their efforts have paid off. MGM has announced they will combine forces with Atlas Entertainment, the company that financed such films as Twelve Monkeys, City of Angels, and Three Kings. Utilizing Atlas Entertainment's alliance with Helkon Media and Toho-Towa, MGM and Atlas will co-finance future motion pictures (Rollerball being the first), with MGM controlling marketing and distribution in North America. Atlas' Chief Operating Office, Charles Roven, comments "It is great to be in business with MGM and we are thrilled to create an alliance with this global template. There are no limits to the opportunities ahead. Toho-Towa, Helkon and Atlas are delighted that the first film from this new relationship is John McTiernan's Rollerball. Atlas President, Allen Shapiro offered "Rollerball is exactly the high concept project aimed at a global audience that we were hoping would come from this venture and we consider ourselves lucky to be working with such an esteemed filmmaker."