Thursday, January 31, 2008
*hangs head* SHAME
So they're gonna re-elease MST3K The Movie on May 6! Now I won't have to give my firstborn to that funny little man in the woods (didn't catch his name) to get a copy, huzzah!
But, this has brought something to my attention. While Justin posted on Cinematic Titanic, I never linked straight to the trailer. Whoops.
Cinematic Titanic's trailer:
Time Machines! Gaslights! Brain Tumors! and More!
Are you a little person who would like to maybe be in Star Trek XI?
LEGO "black biomechanical creature/machine" contest.
The Time Machine brought to the stage.
Got about $25,000 burning a hole in your pocket? You too can own a fulled sized Lost in Space robot.
Inspired by graphic novel Gotham by Gaslight: Gaslight Justice League.
The whispered beginnings of a Transformers ride.
Early look at Star Wars Vector.
Now how about something horror related? I never drink… wine (or vodka, energy drinks, whatever).
From the "That's Kinda' Yuck" file: Debbie Rochon will be auctioning off her brain tumor in pieces. Ick.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Braaaii- Wait... That's a different movie....
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February 6 the Museum of Moving Image in New York City will have a one time showing of Diary of the Dead at the AMC Empire 24 on 42nd Street at 7:00 pm. George Romero will be speaking after the movie.
You can get tickets through their website or by calling 718-784-4520.
Diary of the Dead's limited release is on February 15.
Happy Valentine's, Baby. *stab**chomp**die*
Film Comment Selects New York Film Festival will run February 14-28 at Lincoln Center in New York City. Opening night will have Diary of the Dead, and later in the festival will be French horror films Frontiere(s) and Inside, and '70s British serial killer film 10 Rillington Place. There will also be a tribute to Damon Packard and a whole lot of other movies that you'll have to go through their calendar to find out.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
TV News
To rebuild interest in Battlestar Galatica for its April 4 season premiere, SciFi will have two half-hour specials back to back on March 28. One will be a recap on the previous three seasons, Battlestar Galactica: Revisited, the other, Battlestar Galactica: The Phenomenon, covers the fandom and critical reception of the show.
Battlestar Galatica SPOILERS.
SciFi has secured the rerun rights to Jericho's first and second seasons.
Two more have been added to JJ Abrams' pilot Fringe. Lance Reddick as an FBI agent and John Noble as a mad scientist.
You might be interested in the Save Journeyman Newsletter.
Sam Raimi will be producing a live action, hour long, weekly show, based on Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth books, called Wizard's First Rule. It'll start production for 22 episodes in May, with a planned fall release on ABC.
DVD releases
Torchwood: The Complete First Season - January 22
Funky Forest - March 18
Champion Joe (Ashita no Joe) - March 25
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie - May 6 (Submitted by Sitting Duck)
Monday, January 28, 2008
Trailers
Some of these links may contain mature material, and MRFH is not responsible for their content.
Get Smart international trailer
Charlie Bartlett
Never Back Down
Young @ Heart
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Peur[s] du noir (Fear[s] of the Dark)
88 Minutes
wAz
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Images
The Dark Knight(Submitted by Sitting Duck)
Jumper
Hancock
Prince Caspian
Spiderwick Chronicles
Watchmen storyboards
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Movie News
Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ future is shaky now that it has been “indefinitely suspended” after the death of Heath Ledger. The movie was half shot having just finished filming in London and was to start bluescreen work in Vancouver, which would've lasted through March. With the fact that funding depended heavily on Ledger’s being cast, the insurance company will probably be making the decision of whether to go forward or not. There’s been some rumors about having another actor take over the role after the point in the film where the character falls through a mirror, but right now it’s just that – a rumor.
Also, the adaptation of Walter Tevis' The Queen's Gambit, which would have been Heath Ledger's first go at directing, was in preproduction.
David Bowers has replaced Colin Brady in directing the CGI Astro Boy movie. It still has a 2009 release date.
Hoyt Yeatman’s first directing job, G-Force, is about secret agent animals who fight against an evil billionaire who wants to take over the world (dun dun dun). The voice cast has Penelope Cruz, Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi, and Tracy Morgan, and the live action cast has Bill Nighy and Will Arnett.
Ken Watanabe has been cast as barker Mr. Tall in Cirque du Freak. Filming starts February.
With Christine Peters producing and Grant Morrison working on the script, there’s plans to bring video game Blacksite: Area 51 to the big screen:
"The U.S. Army has received a distress signal from Area 51 where a viral outbreak has just shut down the research facility and the automated quarantine procedures have locked all scientific and military personnel inside. A small Special Forces unit led by Specialist Ethan Cole of the HAZMAT (hazardous materials) Division is sent to investigate."
Jess Weixler will be in the Joe Swanberg directed, Jeffrey Brown written Save the Date(working title). "It's a very cool movie, and it will have a kind of comic-book style to it, with a clumsy and awkward style. It just has a sensibility which is, they're comic books, but it's mostly like people who are very sweet but sort of clumsy. Like they have a hard time getting their feelings across, and they are very sensitive and easily hurt; that sort of a bunch." It will also have music from Of Montreal.
Oliver Stone's next project will be about George W. Bush, "It's a behind-the-scenes approach, similar to 'Nixon,' to give a sense of what it's like to be in his skin, but if 'Nixon' was a symphony, this is more like a chamber piece, and not as dark in tone." Stanley Weiser will co-write the script and Josh Brolin will play the president.
JJ Abrams already has Joshua Marston as the director for his next unnamed movie. It’s going to be a supernatural thriller, other than that I got nothing.
Tyler Bates will be composing the score for Watchmen.
Skye Bennett, Noah Huntley and William Hope play the heroes, and Finnish rock band Lordi will be playing the monsters in English language, Finnish made, slasher movie Dark Floors. It'll be in Finnish theaters February 8.
David Zucker will be doing his own take on A Christmas Carol as a comedy, only setting it around Independence Day instead of Christmas.
Revolver Entertainment has acquired the UK rights to the live action Mushi-shi movie (based off Yuki Urushibara's manga). It’ll be released on Region 2 DVD March 3. At the moment it’s unclear if Revolver also has the North American rights.
American Teen, Nanette Burstein's documentary about four teens, has had its worldwide (excepting the UK) distribution rights picked up by Paramount Vantage.
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, was acquired by Anchor Bay.
Fox Searchlight Pictures announced that they have acquired US and most worldwide rights to Choke.
Prequels, Sequels & Remakes
Emily Blunt has been cast alongside Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins in The Wolf Man.
Straight to DVD The Grudge 3 is shooting in Bulgaria. Toby Wilkins is directing and Matthew Knight (who was in 2… apparently?) will be back, Sarah Michelle Gellar is no where near this one. The story: A Japanese woman who can stop the Grudge goes to Chicago and bands together with a family to confront Kayako.
Producers announced Thursday that Bond 22 now has an official title: Quantum of Solace. Which is a lot more trouble to type, darn! It will open in Britain and the US November 7.
Chuck Russell will be directing the movie version of of 1930s comic Mandrake the Magician. Jonathan Rhys Meyers will be starring as Mandrake, and it’ll also have Randy Couture.
To go along with the released of 3-D Toy Story 3, Disney Digital 3-D versions of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 will be released on October 2, 2009, and February 12, 2010, respectively. 3 will be about "the gang from Andy's room" and directed by Lee Unkrich. It should be out June 18, 2010.
Gina Holden has been added to straight to DVD Screamers 2, which is directed by Sheldon Wilson.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
It's only a model.
That Star Trek XI teaser is pretty nifty, huh? I know I'm all aflutter. But December 25? That's eleven months -to the day- to go! *sigh*
I guess we'll all have to make due with silly Youtube clips:
That's better.
Hot Thunderdome fashion - and more!
Shrek - The Musical!
Local man builds Totoro (from the movie My Neighbor Totoro) next to bus stop.
Ebay auction on Harvey Kurtzman's EC comics' Vault of Horror artwork.
Now you can own the fob watch from Doctor Who episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood"! Or at least a replica....
30 Days of Night figures have August release date.
Cloverfield Monster action figure. They don't have a picture yet… I bet it's Godzilla. Or maybe Cthulhu.
Big Finish will finally be offering their radio plays as downloads starting February 1.
John Galliano's Mad Max fashion at Paris' Ready To Wear.
And Balenciaga C3PO fashion has arrived! I can't make this stuff up people.
The city of brotherly love... and death!
Exhumed Films will be showing a double feature of Italian horror with Dario Argento's Tenebre and Sergio Martino's Torso at the International House theater in Phillidelphia, PA, next Friday, February 1 at 8 pm.
Finally, something in Canada
This Friday and Saturday in Montreal, Canada, McGill University is hosting a conference on gender issues in anime and manga called TransculturELLE: How Girls Cross Cultures. The schedule is:
Friday January 25
11:30 – 14:00
BRONFMAN 451
Anne McKnight, "Subcultures and Frenchness"
Brian Bergstrom, "Girliness is Next to Godliness: The Girl as Sacred Criminal in Kurahashi Yumiko's 'Seishōjo'"
Frenchy Lunning, "Under the Ruffles: Shōjo and the Morphology of Abjection"
Session 2
Friday January 25
15:00 -16:30
BRONFMAN 451
Saitō Satomi, "Genre Convergence in the Digital Age: Shōjo manga, sekai-kei, and Shinkai Makoto"
Emily Raine, "Kawaii and Capital in Tol's Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space"
Ian Condry, "Future Anime: Girls and Boys who Leap through Time"
Session 3
Friday January 25
17:00- 18:30
BRONFMAN 451
Livia Monnet, "The Anatomy of Permutational Desire: Perversion and the Artificial Girl in Contemporary Japanese Animation"
Tom Looser, "The Utopic Matter of Women"
Session 4
Saturday January 26
9:30-11:30
3434 McTAVISH Room 302
(East Asian Studies building)
Toshiya Ueno, "Matriarchy and Criticism in Japan"
Yukiko Hanawa, "Camouflage Time"
Tom Lamarre, "Nature Girls and Culture Times"
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Game stuff
Video game music concert Video Games Live has announced their 2008 tour dates.
6 screen shots of the Iron Man game.
Amazon.com has an interview with Nicolas Eypert, the creative director of the Lost video game Lost: Via Domus which will be released February 26.
P2 Entertainment has stopped development for MMO game Star Trek Online.
"An incredibly excellent blog post about the incident and the surrounding, ongoing issues with advertising, game company and game reviewer struggles." (Unknowingly submitted by Justin)
Anime Movie Classics week
The ImaginAsian Center in Los Angeles will be showing three Bandai Entertainment films on good ol' 35mm for its Anime Movie Classics week February 15 - 21:
Escaflowne: The Movie
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Hayao Miyazaki Tribute
Next weekend American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, CA will be showing three Hayao Miyazaki movies:
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - February 1 at 7:00 pm
My Neighbor Totoro - February 2 at 3:00 pm
Spirited Away - February 2 at 7:30 pm
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
TV News
Jericho's executive producer, Carol Barbee, says that they've shot two different endings for the show's seven episode second season, which will focus on Jake Green, Robert Hawkins, and a new character. While either way will complete the season's story, which one'll be used will depend on if the show is picked up for a third season. "The second season is about saving the country and our way of life, our system of government. And then the natural progression is to have that be save the world for the third season." Here for the full interview.
Since the script for the pilot is completed, Sci Fi is taking a second look at Battlestar Galatica prequel Caprica.
Fringe has cast Kirk Acevedo, Tomas Arana, and Mark Valley.
Rick McCallum has confirmed that Boba Fett will be in the upcoming live action Star Wars TV series.
Starting in February, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will have its annual 31 Days of Oscar. Everyday of the week's primetime slot will be devoted to a decade(s): Mondays '20s and '30s, Tuesdays '40s, Wednesdays '50s, Thursdays '60s, Fridays '70s, Saturday '80s, and Sundays '90s to now.
31 Days of Oscar Film Festival
DVD Releases
She’s Gotta Have it – January 15
Weirdsville - February 5
Highlander: The Source - February 26
April Fool's Day (remake) - March 25
If you're in the Washington, DC, area…
Japanese romantic comedy LoveCom will be playing with English subtitles at the Japan Information and Culture Center January 24 (Thursday) at 6:30 pm. It's free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Seating is limited, with a first come, first serve basis.
RSVP: jiccrsvpwinter08@embjapan.org
Here for more details.
"Risa is just too tall and too intimidating for the boys at her school to like her. She longs for the attention of a boy. Atsushi is just too short for a girl to be interested in him. Despite the difference in height, the two share everything from their taste in food to their favorite band and become the best of friends. Can they overcome the inches that separate them and become the perfect couple everyone says they will be? Based on the comic book “Lovely Complex” by Aya Nakahara, LoveCom is a story about two friends who slowly come to realize they are perfect for each other, despite a difference in stature."
I've seen this one and it gets upbeat crazy points.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Trailers
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Star Trek teaser
Coraline
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
Kung Fu Panda
Leatherheads
What Happens In Vegas
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Baby Mama
Paranoid Park
Doomsday
Day of the Dead remake
Shrooms
Wizard of Gore remake
Videos
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Knight Rider featurette
definitely, maybe 7 clips
Funny Games 4 clips
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show 9 clips
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Movie News
Justice League is officially postponed indefinitely. The reasons given are not getting a response on Australian tax breaks and "[Kieran and Michele Mulroney's script] would benefit from a little more work, something that isn't possible because of the writers' strike." Also, Warner Brothers has let the cast (most of whom were already in Australia preparing to film in February) options lapse .
Speaking of back and forth DC Comics movies news, sequel Superman: Man of Steel (its maybe, sorta working title) has been pushed back from 2009 to 2010. With Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris definitely out and the ongoing strike, there's no drafts, not even any ideas pitched. And it's still iffy whether or not Brian Singer is coming back to direct.
Ominous news concerning Kyle Newman's Fanboys. The movie's original plot has a group of friends breaking into Skywalker Ranch in the '90s to get a copy of Star Wars: Episode I for a friend dying of cancer. Well it's been decided that cancer is too touchy a topic for a comedy (*cough*BucketList*cough*), and so they're taking it out. And since there's no writers, they're going to do it with reshooting and improv.
Peter Kwong will be adapting his eco horror comic, Hybrid, into a movie for Myriad Pictures. Filming should start about the middle of 2008 in Thailand.
T.A. Pratt's Marla Mason books (about a wisecracking sorceress that fights supernatural threats) has had their film and television rights optioned by Phoenix Pictures.
Dario Argento's next movie is slasher/thriller/cop movie Giallo (Italian for "yellow"). Ray Liotta is a policeman investigating serial killings of women by psycho Vincent Gallo. Argento's daughter Asia is also cast.
In an interview with Sci Fi Wire, Teeth's Mitchell Lichtenstein talked about his next project, Happy Tears. It's a comedy/drama about a parent with dementia and the effects on the family. Production should start in April.
Willem Dafoe (...Dafoe... Sorry couldn't resist), Scott Speedman, Peter Stormare, and Clea DuVall in Anamorp. The story: "Dafoe and Speedman as detectives tracking a killer who re-creates the perspective-distorting painting technique 'anamorphosis' in a bizarre series of murders." Should be out in November.
How to Rob a Bank, a heist drama about a bank teller and a customer who get caught in the middle of the robbery, will have Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen, David Carradine, Leo Fitzpatrick, and Gavin Rossdale. Also November.
Christopher Judge, Erica Cerra and Ed Wasser cast in small band of human survivors vs. CGI aliens film, Dark Swarm.
Charlize Theron has been cast in a small part (only appearing in flashbacks) in The Road.
Ellen Page will star in Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It! It's about how Texas beauty pageant contestant Bliss comes into her own after joining a female roller derby team.
Hayden Panettiere has been cast as the titlist character in I Love You, Beth Cooper, a movie based on Larry Doyle's novel. Chris Columbus is producing and may direct.
Forest Whitaker will play basketball coach Al Collins in director Tim Story's Patriots. It's about the Marrero, LA, highschool basketball team that won the state championship a year after Katrina.
Mark Wahlberg to star in Peter Berg's movie about drug dealer Jon Roberts.
Cobie Smulders, Morgan Fairchild, Lance Henriksen, and Vivica A. Fox now cast in The Slammin’ Salmon.
Prequels, Sequels & Remakes
The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still has added Kathy Bates and Jaden Smith to its cast.
The still untitled X-Files 2's director Chris Carter, "We want a stand-alone movie, not a mythology conspiracy one." So, none of the alien colonization plot.
Timothy Spall has said he'll be back as Peter Pettigrew in the next two Harry Potter films.
Olivier Megaton will be directing The Transporter 3, and Jason Statham will be returning. It's currently casting in Paris.
Bad Taste has "from a very reliable source" the complete character list for The Dark Knight. Notice the entry for 10.
The Wizard of Gore remake, starring Crispin Glover and Brad Dourif, should finally see theaters later this year. The horror movie is about a magician and his unfortunate assistants, this time with a murder mystery take.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Eh? You need to speak up.
This week's video is a little different. Okay, so this guy took that last scene in Lost In Translation, enhanced and filtered the audio, and here's what he came up with:
Do you like links? Boy, I sure do!
Open Source Audio is hosting BBC's radio serial of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids.
Coming this spring: 18" Alien action figures.
Heroes action figues. (I think they're kinda ugly)
Interested in buying a drive-in theater in West Texas?
IGN is streaming a trailer for the Devil May Cry anime. The first DVD volume (containing 4 of 12 episodes) will be included on February 5 with the super shiny Collector's Edition of the game Devil May Cry 4. Meanwhile, Game Trailers has all kinds of trailers(duh), clips, and TV spots for the game.
Some clips from Star Crash and David Hasselhoff trying to be Mark Hamill.
Ever wonder what it would cost to build a real Gundam? Well these guys figured it out and then it got translated into English over here. Short answer: $725,000,000.
Gotham Knight novel
A novelization of Batman: Gotham Knight will be released April 29 through Berkeley Publishing Group. Using the scripts from Batman: Gotham Knight, a collection of animated short stories covering the time between the movies Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Louise Simonson has adapted the six episodes into one novel.
The DVD is scheduled to release in June, Warner Brothers will include a preview for it on Justice League: The New Frontier which ships February 26. The Dark Knight will hit theaters July 18.
Update: Newtype USA
After inquiring about the end of the Newtype USA magazine subscribers have received the following Email:
"Thank you for your email to Newtype USA!
We will be launching a new magazine that will be on sale in mid-March. Titled PiQ, the magazine will cover anime, manga, video games and other aspects of pop culture of keen interests to you. All existing subscribers will have their remaining issues fulfilled at a two-to-one ratio, meaning you will get double the number of magazines delivered straight to your doorstep! We hope you stick with us and give the new magazine a shot. We're sure you'll love it!
If you're not interested in receiving double the value for your remaining subscription, you can opt out at anytime."
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Cloverfield online comic
Spotted by Cloverfield Clues, the first installment of a four part Cloverfield comic tie in went online January 11. The previous chapter will be taken down as the next one is put up, with the second going online late February. The actual comic is in Japanese, but fan translations are being worked on.
TV News
SciFi has given the official word: Battlestar Galatica will start it's fourth season April 4 with ten of its twenty-two planned episodes.
James Marsters will be in the premiere for Torchwood’s second season on January 26.
Starting February 1, fans of The 4400 will start a coordinated week long mail campaign to save the show using sunflower seeds.
Speaking of trying to bring shows back from the dead… Save Journeyman Streaming campaign.
An edited version of Showtime's Dexter will be on CBS beginning February 17.
In hopes of getting a head start, Fox has given the go ahead for casting on Shaun Cassidy's Inseparable, a Jekyll and Hyde story about a forensic psychiatrist, despite the fact the revised draft is unfinished, having been interrupted by the Writers' strike.
DVD Releases
Dragon Wars – January 9
Swamp Thing: The Series - January 22
Justice League: The New Frontier - February 26
Left for Dead - March 4
Hunting Creatures - March 11
After Dark Horror Fest movies– March 18
The Living And The Dead - March 25
I Am Legend - April 28
Batman: Gotham Knight - June
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
While we're there...
In April, animation director Mamoru Oshii will have a guest faculty position in the Department of Communication Studies – the Media Production Workshop division - at Tokyo Keizai University. The University is in Kokubunji, a neighborhood in western Tokyo, where many anime studios are located.
Also in April (Japan’s school year starts in April) Tokyo National University of Fine Arts will have guest lecturers from anime and manga. It will be the first public university to have a major in anime.
And over in Japan...
After a nine city North American tour (yeah, sorry I missed that one. Oops.), the traveling exhibition Shojo Manga! Girl Power! is being reverse-imported back to Japan, and will be displayed under the new title Shojo Manga Power! One of (if not the) first shows of its kind, the display focuses on the international and native views of shojo manga (girls' comics). This version will have most of the materials assembled by Dr. Masami Toku, which represented works from twenty-three creators, with new titles added.
Kawasaki City Museum: February 16-March 30
Kyoto International Manga Museum: July19-August 31
Meanwhile in Europe...
International Film Festival Rotterdam, January 23 to February 3. They will add more details to their website January 18th.
Official site (English)
Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), February 7-17. Program details will be updated in February. All I can tell you is that live action anthology Shin Onna-Tachiguishi Retsuden (Eat and Run - 6 Beautiful Grifters) from Mamoru Oshii will have its world premiere in the Food and Culture category.
Official site.(Deutsch or English)
Or you could check out the Nippon Connection Festival in Frakfurt which runs from April 2-6.
Official site (Deutsch, English, Japanese)
Moving on to Australia...
In the Sidney Australia area? Then you might be interested in seeing Grindhouse at Chauvel Cinema January 17-23.
“This presentation will be shown on 35mm exactly as the original version was intended, complete with ‘fake’ trailers (by directors such as Eli Roth & Edgar Wright), intentional print scratches and intermission.”
Chauvel Cinema
Starting in the 'States...
If you're in Baltimore January 17-20, Jack Everly will be conducting the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra SuperPops in geek movie music. Along with a vocal ensemble dressed in Starfleet Uniforms, they'll be surrounded by Stormtroopers while performing music from Star Wars, Star Trek, Superman, and E.T. And narrating? George Takei. The audience is encouraged to come in costume. Tickets run $15-$84 through the BSO ticket office.
More here.
Texas Frightmare Weekend will be held in Dallas February 21-24. Guests include cast and crew from Night of the Living Dead, Malcolm McDowell, Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson, and Dee Wallace Stone
Monday, January 14, 2008
Trailers
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Iron Man 2nd trailer
Kit Kittredge an American Girl
Definitely, Maybe
He Was a Quiet Man
Diary of the Dead
Spiral
Amusement
Sunday, January 13, 2008
CORRECTION!
Last week, after a comment from Anne Thompson, the Latino Review reported as confirmed that Brandon Routh would not be coming back for The Man of Steel. It would now seem that it is not only a rumor, but completely wrong. My apologies.
Movie News
The Justice League movie - with the Writers’ strike, the still unknown cast that was supposed to be announced a couple months ago, skyrocketing costs, and the fact it’s not starting filming as planned – is still a go. Sort of? Maybe? Well, the production department heads have told their crews that there will be a decision the middle of this week as to Justice League’s future. This comes right after WETA Workshop officially announced that they are working on the costumes. Buh?
Jennifer's Body, a comedy/thriller about a cheerleader who becomes possessed and starts killing young men in her town, should start filming in March. Written by Diablo Cody, Megan Fox will play the cheerleader, and Karyn Kusama is in talks to direct.
The Edgar Allan Poe movie Sylvestor Stallone has been trying to get made for about ten years is finally moving forward, with Stallone writing and directing.
Doomsday now has a March 14 release date.
Mark Nippe to direct Van Damme vs. Seagal. The story: Spoof comedy about how Jean Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal try to make each others’ lives miserable – until a real nuclear threat forces them to combine their action hero powers. Unknown if they’ll get the actual actors to star. It would seem someone has been taking requests, if they somehow work in Dolph Lungren and Christopher Lambert my action movie wish shall be granted. Oh, and Bolo Yeung. Because it ain’t a party without The Bolo... And I wanted to use that picture.
Fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken has sent a letter to the makers of Kentucky Fried Horror Show threatening a lawsuit. C.L. Gregory plans to continue as scheduled.
Prequels, Sequels & Remakes
After saying that Transformers 2 would film on schedule despite having no locked script, it appears that Michael Bay will have to delay due to the Writer’s strike.
Troll writer and director John Carl Buechler has announced that there will be a remake of his original film. The overall plot remains the same (few details are known at this time), and the leading character's name will still be Harry Potter Jr., whether JK Rowling likes it or not. According to a press release, the name can't be constituted as copyright infringement due to the fact that Movies Plus is in no way affiliated with her books or with Warner Bros and because Mr. Buechler's story came out years before hers did. Casting is currently in progress with only two roles filled so far; Phil Fondacaro as Malcom and Noah Hathaway returns, this time as Turok the troll. (Submitted by theSannie)
The Conan the Barbarian remake written by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer has found a home at Lionsgate and should be filming later this year. The plan is for this to be the first in a series of Conan movies.
On the Stallone front, it looks like he’s going to be writing, directing, and starring in a Death Wish remake.
Leonard Nemoy on Star Trek XI, "I am Spock, and there is another Spock and there is another Spock. There are a total of three Spocks in the movie and that is all I will say about it."
With the working title Bond 22, the latest Bond movie started filming January 8. Returning: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, and Giancarlo Giannini. New: Mathieu Amalric (as the villain), Olga Kurylenko, and Gemma Arterton (as MI6 Agent Fields). "Mathieu in the role of Dominic Greene, a leading member of the villainous organization introduced in CASINO ROYALE, will be a powerful counterpart to Daniel's portrayal of Bond. Olga Kurylenko will play the dangerously alluring Camille, who challenges Bond and helps him come to terms with the emotional consequences of Vesper's betrayal." - Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
Associate producer James Middleton says that Arnold Schwarzenegger will not be in Terminator 4, or any subsequent sequels, as long as he’s governor. “But we know now that he is governor, he's got priorities that are above doing movies.”
James Middleton, consulting producer for The Sarah Connor Chronicles, has said that an animated Terminator is planned for a release after the fourth movie comes out in 2009. With a short story format ala Animatrix, Termination will have contributions from European and Japanese animators.
Mena Suvari, Nick Cannon, and Ving Rhames will be doing a direct to DVD sequel to the remake of Dawn of the Dead, with a release date of April 7.
Cast and crew news
G.I. Joe has now cast Marlon Wayans.... *sigh* (Submitted by Sitting Duck)
Christen Bale to play FBI agent Melvin Purvis, and Johnny Depp as John Dillinger in the Michael Mann directed Public Enemies. Begins production in March.
Kate Winslet replaced Nicole Kidman in The Reader.
Philip Noyce to direct Scarlett Johansson movie Mary, Queen of Scots.
The live action Tekken movie (based off the game series of the same name) will start shooting in Louisiana in February. Dwight Little will direct and it’ll have Jon Fo, Sienna Guillory, Susie Amy, Andy Serkis, Chiaki Kuriyama, Nathan Jones, and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Can’t be any worse than the anime… right?
Alan Arkin in Marley & Me, a David Frankel directed comedy with Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson.
Will Forte has been cast in Kevin Heffernan’s The Slammin’ Salmon. He’ll play a diner at a Miami restaurant who’s owner is in debt to the mob and holds a contest to see which waiter can bring in the most money.
Starting production in New Zealand at the end of January, They Came From Upstairs is about a group of teens who defend their vacation home from aliens. The cast is: Ashley Tisdale, Robert Hoffman, Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler, Ashley Boettcher, and Henri and Regan Young, with John Schultz directing.
Book to movie
Solomon Kane, based on Robert E. Howard’s pulp novels, has rounded out it’s cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Max Von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Alice Krige, and Mackenzie Crook. Michael J. Bassett is directing.
Hayden Christensen to star in, and Joseph Kahn to direct, movie version of William Gibson's Neuromancer.
Salma Hayek has been cast as bearded lady, Madame Truska, in Cirque du Freak, which is based off the children’s book series by Darren Shan. It also has John C. Reilly (who plays a vampire) and will be directed by Paul Weitz.
Matt Damon, Amy Green, Greg Kinnear, and director Paul Greengrass will be working on Green Zone, a movie based off of the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
Imagine Entertainment and Universal are in negotiations with E.E. Smith’s estate for the film rights to the Lensman novels.
Director Kimberly Peirce is trying to sell a draft of Childhood's End, based off of Arthur C. Clarke's SF novel, to Universal.
United Artists has optioned the film rights to The Ranger's Apprentice, John Flanagan's fantasy series (so far seven books) about an orphan boy who becomes an apprentice ranger in the kingdom of Araluen.
