Dude, why don’t we have nifty commercials like this to promote reading? Nope we got ALA posters.*
And a making of:
*Neighborhood Librarian also scores points for “Give me Seagal beating someone to death with a copy of Eat, Pray, Love .”
Thursday, May 29, 2008
The Year of Reading
The sexiest musical about kaiju red spots!
Peter Cuneo says the Spider-man Musical is still on track, they're just waiting for a theater to run it, and could open as early as late 2009. Julie Taymor is directing and Bono and The Edge have completed the score.
Via Red Planet Media, FUNimation will start distributing shows as digital downloads on video-capable cellular phones.
Reanimedia, a Russian anime licensing and distribution company, says acquisition plans for XL Media have been cancelled due to “irreconcilable differences.”
Stephen Colbert for Marvel President.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Sexiest governor alive.
So how’s NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander doing?
A new red spot on Jupiter.
Dark Knight toys from Hong Kong’s Hot Toys.
Shirts from Retropolis
Kaiju icons. So. Cute.
Everything I Always Wanted to Know About Space Travel I Learned From Walt Disney
Darth Vader and Lost cupcakes!
Comics and books
Hasbro and IDW have signed an agreement for a line of new monthly G.I. Joe vs. Cobra comic books, and deluxe reprints of G.I. Joe’s comic library. Also IDW has the rights for trade paperbacks and graphic novels. An introductory debut issue will be out in October, and in 2009 they’ll produce a series based on and inspired by the movie.
To celebrate Ian Fleming’s 100th birthday, May 28 saw the release of Devil May Care, the 36th James Bond novel, by Sebastian Faulks. “The novel is set in the Cold War in 1967 (and in Ian Fleming's original continuity, following The Man With The Golden Gun) and the action is played out ‘across two continents, exotic locations and some of the world's most thrilling cities.’ U.S. publisher Doubleday confirmed one of the locations will be Paris.”
Tokyopop's Manga Pilot Pact Signs Away Legal Rights
U.K. based manga publisher Fanfare, and their partner company Ponent Mon, have signed an agreement with AtlasBooks Distribution to outsource the distribution of their titles in America.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
"vanguard anime director"
June 27-July 1, the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City will be screening Satoshi Kon’s movies Paprika, Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Perfect Blue. Kon will to New York for the event.
TV News
Tony Todd, Eric Lively, Gil Bellows, and Robert Carlyle will be in the 24 TV movie.
CCH Pounder has been cast in Sci Fi's paranormal drama pilot about “a pair of FBI agents who investigate artifacts in a mysterious South Dakota facility,” Warehouse 13.
Bandai Entertainment has confirmed that Sci Fi will run, two episodes a week, anime Gurren Lagann starting July 28 through October.
Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada will distribute Durham County on DVD in Canada some time late summer.
James D’Arcy will play the lead in Ronald D. Moore and Peter Berg’s science fiction backdoor pilot Virtuality for Fox.
Robert Rodriguez is developing a prison drama for Rose McGowan called Women in Chains! Based women’s prison explotation movies from the ‘70s it’ll have "Sadistic Guards, Cafeteria Hosedowns, Mud Wrestling, and Violent Vendettas."
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Trailers
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Space Chimps
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
The Accidental Husband
The Promotion
The Rocker
Miss Conception
The Love Guru
Shaolin Girl
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
My Winnipeg
Trumbo
August
Quid Pro Quo
Wanted international trailer
TV:
Fringe
Heroes
Venture Bros (Thanks to Storm Rider)
Videos
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Incredible Hulk
Incredible Hulk
Incredible Hulk
Wanted
Che
Monday, May 26, 2008
Movie News
Marvel executive Peter Cuneo: "We will not be doing any R-rated films in our studio."…”Today, it would be very hard for us to partner with another studio, unless it was an R-rated film, and then I think that's pretty self-obvious because we are not interested in making R-rated films [at Marvel Studios]."
Tartan Films USA (whose titles include Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) has admitted to having financial problems. Palisades Media Asset Fund announced a “public foreclosure sale” of the assets of Tartan Films USA and Tartan Video USA, including a film library of 101 titles.
George Romero’s 1978 Dawn of the Dead will be 3-D-ed for a planned theatrical release. 3-D company In-Three expects to finish the "dimensionalization" (achieved with a software that moves objects forward or backward in relation to each other frame by frame) this year for New Amsterdam Entertainment.
Instead of premiering in Sydney Australia, on June 10th, Hancock will premiere a week later in Paris, France. The reason is that the final print will not be ready in time.
Bandai Entertainment has the North American theatrical and DVD rights to Masahiro Ando’s Sword of the Stranger. The latest from animation studio Bones, it will have a theatrical release on July 18.
The WMA/Hannaywood Ltd.'s Beverly Bridge Fund will pay $200,000 to complete funding on Patrick Read Johnson's 77. Formally titled 5/25/77, John Francis Daley stars in Johnson’s “autobiographical indie” about him and Star Wars: A New Hope.
Quentin Tarantino says that “if all goes well” Inglorious Bastards could be in theaters next year. The long gestating war movie is about a group of US soldiers who have a chance to save themselves from a firing squad by taking a suicide mission in Nazi occupied France.
TLA Releasing has the North American rights to ‘80s style slasher Gutterballs to be released through their Danger After Dark label. Directed by Ryan Nicholson, the night before a bowling tournament, a member of the local team is gang raped on her way home. Later during the tournament players from the other teams have gruesome deaths dealt out by a masked killer wearing bowling gloves.
Joe Dante will direct horror film The Hole, about two brothers in a new house who find a hole in the basement with, seemingly, no bottom. Producer David Lancaster says it represents "the fear of the kids." Preproduction has already started.
After Dark Films has added Sean Ellis’s The Broken to its 8 Films to Die For series. The psychological thriller about a radiologist who discovers a mystery after seeing her own double stars Lena Headey, Richard Jenkins, Asier Newman, and Melvil Poupaud.
Ray Winstone and Stephen Curry will star in Simon Wincer’s The Cup playing horse trainer Dermot Weld and jockey Damien Oliver, respectively. Based on a true story, a jockey, haunted by the racing deaths of his father and brother and going through discouraging defeats, teams with a trainer to go on and win at the Australian Melbourne Cup. Shooting starts September.
Oliver Stone has asked Richard Dreyfuss to play Dick Cheney in W.
Prequels, Sequels & Remakes
MGM studio heads Harry Sloan and Mary Parent revealed at Cannes that 1984’s Red Dawn and 1987’s Robocop were both being considered for remakes. That’s the extent of information. *sigh*
Summit Entertainment is developing a “reboot” or “reimagining” of 1986’s Highlander, with Art Marcum and Matt Molloway writing the script and Peter Davis, who was a producer on the original, producing. *siiiiigh*
Columbia is in talks for film rights to update and reboot Flash Gordon, with Breck Eisner to direct and Neal Moritz to produce.
Pre-production is about to start on the two Lord of the Rings prequels. Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens are expected to write the scripts under Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro's direction. Along with Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis, Viggo Mortenson has been contacted to reprise the role of Aragorn. A transcript of Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro’s live chat, An Unexpected Party Chat. Also, Christopher Tolkien, son of JRR Tolkien, in what he calls “one last crusade,” will try to get a judge to back his claim that he can “terminate” the film rights for The Hobbit and the other unnamed prequel in a hearing on June the 6th.
Christian Bale, who has already started shooting on the first, has signed on for all three Terminator movies to play John Connor. Also Warner Brothers has released the plot for the fourth installment: “The future that Connor was raised to believe is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.”
X-Men Origins: Wolverine has finished principal photography.
Big surprise, George Lucas is thinking of a fifth Indy: "I haven't even told Steven [Spielberg] or Harrison this, but I have an idea to make Shia the lead character next time and have Harrison come back, like Sean Connery did in the last movie. I can see it working out." Plus, Russian Communist Party members want to ban Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. (Submitted by Sitting Duck)
Screenwriter Roberto Orci on Transformers 2: “But for fans, I guess I'll address this more for the fans, because I think if you didn't know Transformers at all and you came in and you liked the first movie, you'll like the second one. However, some of the die hard fans, which we were a member of that group, felt, well, maybe it's a little light. Maybe it wasn't science fictiony enough. And I think the second one will deliver on a true Transformers story. You know, the first one, we had a limited budget for what it was. Every second of Transformer time is a million dollars or whatever the heck it is, so this time, because we were able to prove through the whole thing that it's a viable live-action movie, we have a little more freedom this time to actually learn about the Transformers, see them, hear them. It's a better balance between the humans and the Transformers.” Also that it will have Soundwave.
TrekMovie.com has some spoilers about Star Trek XI’s villains.
Jack Black on the possibility of a School of Rock sequel: “I’d really like to do it, the last one was great. We are seriously thinking about it, there’s already a script. In a few weeks we have to decide if we go through with the project or not.”
Marvel Vice Chairman Peter Cuneo says that Sony has renewed their film rights to Spiderman. There’re also rumors that James Vanderbilt has written a script that will cover two movies to be shot back to back.
Tony Todd is in talks to star in a sequel to the George Romero Dawn of the Dead.
Synopsis for The Cell 2: “The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life...over and over again until they beg to die. Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp's first victim. Now the Cusp Killer is back and Maya has little time to do what she has never done before: Go into the mind of a killer unprotected, and save his latest victim.”
Director Oliver Parker and star Rupert Everett will return for a St. Trinians sequel, St. Trinians: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold. “The next installment of the Brit schoolgirl romp finds the mischief-making heroines set off on a treasure hunt after they discover headmistress Miss Fritton, played by Everett, is related to pirates.”
Adaptations
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has confirmed that The First Avenger: Captain America will be a World War II period piece, they plan to remain faithful to the source material and be traditional. That it will help set up an eventual Avengers movie. Yes, that is his shield in Tony Stark’s workshop, but it’s just an easter egg and won’t influence the story. Also Matthew McConaughey will not play Captain America.
Feige says that the Thor movie will take place mostly in Asgard, not the contemporary world. Mark Protosevich is drafting a script and there should be an announcement about a director “later this summer”.
Marvel Comics’ Runaways, created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, will be turned into a movie by Marvel Studios. Vaughan will adapt the series about a group of teenagers who become superheroes to make up for their supervillain parents’ evils. There’s no official release date but production is expected to start after 2011.
Steven Spielberg on Tintin: "We are going to make three Tintin movies back-to-back. I'll direct the first one, Peter [Jackson] will direct the second one. We'll probably co-direct the third one."
Latino Review takes a look at Green Arrow script Supermax.
South Korea’s United Pictures has sold theatrical rights to the live action adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga’s manga Antique Bakery to SPO Entertainment for Japan, and Innoform Media for Singapore.
Celluloid Dreams has the rights to Philip K. Dick's scifi novel Ubik. The film, which is scheduled for production early next year, will be produced by Dreams’ Hengameh Panahi and Isa Dick Hackett of Electric Shepherd Productions, who is also Dick’s daughter.
Robert Charles Wilson’s novel Spin, a scifi thriller, the first of a trilogy, about a scientist trying to save the Earth from an apocalypse caused by a “spin” with the discovery of life on Mars, has been picked up by Olympus Pictures and Bits & Pieces Picture Co.
Sascha Penn will adapt The Last Equation, Stuart Gibbs’ debut novel, for Lionsgate. The story is the government hires a fugitive criminal and a mathematical genius to find Albert Einstein’s last equation, The Pandora, which simplifies atomic energy to the point where it could either solve Earth’s energy problems or make atomic weaponry available to anyone, before it falls into the wrong hands.
New York City based Little Magic Films has signed a deal to represent the works of Japanese novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi to U.S. producers for potential live action films and television series. The titles they’re focusing on especially are A Wind Named Amnesia, Demon City Shinjuku, Dark Side Blues, and Dark Wars: Meiji Dracula. The deal does not include Vampire Hunter D, which Davis Films has optioned, and Wicked City, whose remake rights belong to Mark Dippe.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton will star in Disney’s Mike Newell directed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie, written by Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard, Jordan Mechner and Boaz Yakin. Production starts July.
Filming has started on Disney’s Hannah Montana: The Movie. Directed by Peter Chelsom, and starring Miley Cyrus a “music-filled comedy adventure” “the film follows Miley Stewart as Hannah Montana’s soaring popularity threatens to take over her life. With a little urging from her father, the teenager travels back to her hometown of Crowley Corners, Tenn., to rediscover what’s really important.”
Thursday, May 22, 2008
"Bye, bye."
Gremlins still sell in the U.K.? Cool.
And they have “making of” featurettes for commercials!
Bruce Lee, aliens, robots, cube figures, and kitties!
The Weinstein Company has started its Be an Igor campaign.
Andre Norton's Time Traders series is now online as free e-books.
A musical about the life of Bruce Lee, titled, surprisingly enough, Bruce Lee: The Musical, is being developed for the 2010-2011 season. That’s all there is right now, but if there’s more I’ll let you know.
Joss Whedon says he’s almost finished the forty minute musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, "We're literally just finishing it. And then we're going to show it to my people at CAA and a bunch of other people and discuss 'How do we go about this? Where is the venue for this?'" He’s thinking internet then iTunes and DVD.
A new vs. game arcade fighting game, Tatsunoko vs. CAPCOM: Cross Generation of Heroes, is being developed for this winter in Japan.
Missing scene from Battlestar Galatica.
On Monday, the Japanese government appointed Hello Kitty as its tourism ambassador to China and Hong Kong. This makes the Sanrio mascot the first fictional character to be given the title.
The robot invasion will begin with caramel colored fizzy beverages.
Cubeecraft paper cube figures. Characters include Mario, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and ‘60s Batman.
A 7 foot Optimus Prime made out of old car parts.
The E.T. Collection. I like the Hungry, Hungry Hippos one too.
Classic ‘50s Spanish scifi covers.
DVD releases
Tobor the Great - May 13
Vexille - May 20
Futurama: Beast With A Billion Backs - June 24
Long Dream – June 24
Charlie Bartlett – June 24
The Last Winter - July 22
Brutal Massacre: A Comedy – July 22
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
NYAFF & JC:FNJF
June 20-July 6, the New York Asian Film Festival:
"The New York Asian Film Festival is back like a bad dream, ready to cleanse the dirt from your soul with a barrage of sparkling, super-powered movies straight out of Asia. It's a seventeen day orgy of new films from Takashi Miike, Johnnie To, Hur Jin-Ho, Koji Wakamatsu and Shinji Aoyama. Plus, our first-ever documentary (YASUKUNI) and our first movies from Indonesia (KALA)and Vietnam (THE REBEL).
"We'll spend the first fourteen days at the IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, between 3rd and 4th Streets) and the final four days up at the posh Japan Society (333 East 47th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues) where we'll be co-presenting several films as part of their JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Films (which runs from July 2 – July 13)."
Titles include:
Accuracy of Death
Adrift in Tokyo
Always 2: Sunset on Third Street
Assembly
The Butcher
Dainipponjin
Dog in a Sidecar
Fine, Totally Fine
Happiness
Kala
King Naresuan 1 & 2
L: Change!
M
Mad Detective
Mise en Scene
The Rebel
Sad Vacation
Sparrow
Sukiyaki Western Django
This World of Ours
United Red Army
Yasukuni
More titles and a guest list will be added. You can go here for more about the NYAFF or visit here for Japan Society's JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film.
TV News
As part of Fox’s new "Remote-Free TV" strategy, both Fringe and Dollhouse will have fewer commercials and less promotional spots for other Fox shows. The idea, says Fox entertainment chairman Peter Liguori, is to have “Less reason for viewers to use the remote.” Fringe will have a two hour premiere August 26, and show on Tuesdays at 9 pm (ET/PT) after House. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will be back this fall Mondays at 8 pm (ET/PT), with Dollhouse taking over the timeslot early 2009.
On Battlestar Galactica: There will be a set of webisodes to connect the beginning of the fourth season to the second half during the hiatus. Also three TV movies are in “early development” to see how feasible the budgets would be. If they are made they will all be about incidents that happen before the finale episode and have no impact on the show’s finale.
Moonlight fans have started a postcard and advertisement campaign to get the show back on the air.
Craig Horner and Bridget Regan will star in Sam Raimi's Wizard's First Rule, scheduled to premiere this fall. Horner will play woodsman turned magical leader Richard Cypher, and Regan will be Kahlan, a mysterious woman who joins him to stop a tyrant.
Allison Mack and Smallville have worked things out and she's signed through the eighth season. However, Laura Vandervoort who plays Kara will not be back as a regular, and, if she comes back at all, will probably be for only one or two episodes.
Cameron Daddo will play the Vice President on the upcoming season of 24.
Rob Estes has joined the CW's 90210. Along with Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling is the only cast member from the first show that is locked in, though Ian Ziering and Shannen Doherty have expressed interest in coming on board.
On Stargate: Atlantis, Robert Picardo and Jewel Staite will be made regulars, Paul McGillion will be returning, and Tori Higginson will not be returning.
Yūji Nishi and Terry Yamamoto’s pastry baking manga, Ando Natsu, will be turned into a live action drama series. Shihori Kanja, Jun Kunimura, Toshinori Omi, and Jun Fubuki will star.
Dean Devlin and John Harrison's TV movie Blank Slate, starring Eric Stoltz, Lisa Brenner, and Clancy Brown, will springboard a series pilot for TNT. It's about "an amnesiac, sentenced to Death Row for a murder she can’t remember committing, who is given a second chance at freedom by the FBI. Recruited as part of the secret experimental unit of the FBI’s unsolved crimes division, Huston is implanted with the final memories of murder victims. But while she pursues the leads of other peoples’ memories, she is haunted by the distant echoes of her own life ... A life she can’t remember."
Brian Levant will direct a TV movie prequel to the Scooby Doo movies. In it Daphne is a mystery writer, Fred's a football player who likes jigsaw puzzles, Shaggy is flunking school, and Velma is a teen U.S. ambassador for World Hunger, who sign on to work for the school paper and have to solve their first mystery. Filming starts August in Vancouver.
Fear Itself
Premiering June 5, NBC’s horror anthology Fear Itself has released information on the first three episodes:
“’The Sacrifice,’ by Garris from a story by Del Howison, is directed by Breck Eisner (Creature From the Black Lagoon). When four criminals find themselves stranded in an old, snow-covered fort, they slowly discover that both the fort and the seductive trio of sirens who reside there are filled with deadly secrets. Jeffrey Pierce, Jesse Plemons, Stephen Martines, Rachel Miner and Mircea Monroe star.
”Airing June 12, ‘Spooked’ is directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist) and written by Matt Venne (White Noise 2: The Light). While on a stakeout in a haunted house, a private eye (Eric Roberts) is made to confront the demons of his past. Jack Noseworthy, Cynthia Watros and Larry Gilliard Jr. also star.
”Debuting June 19, ‘Family Man’ is directed by Ronny Yu (Freddy vs. Jason) and written by Dan Knauf (Supernatural). The action-charged psychological thriller focuses on a likable family man (Eureka's Colin Ferguson) who switches bodies with a serial killer (Clifton Collins Jr.) after a near-death experience. Now he must fight from behind bars to keep the murderer from adding his wife (Josie Davis), son (Gig Morton) and daughter (Nicole Leduc) to the long list of victims.”
Monday, May 19, 2008
Trailers
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
City of Ember
Iron Sky
Igor
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Elsa and Fred
Australia
Monster Camp
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Mother of Tears
The Happening
TV:
Dollhouse
Videos
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Wanted
Twilight
The Strangers
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Movie News
Less than two months ‘til release, Hancock is still filming additional scenes, and is rumored to be having a hard time getting the MPAA to knock it down from an R to PG13.
The big spoiler about Wall-E.
Director Alex Stapleton is working on a documentary about Roger Corman called King of the B’s: The Independent Life of Roger Corman. It’ll look at his impact on cult films, the starts for young directors and actors, and the more than fifty movies he’s directed and the over three hundred he’s produced in five decades. Stick 'N Stone Productions is financing.
From the people behind Star Wreck, Finnish fan made indie Iron Sky, Johanna Sinisalo’s script tells of an alternate history with Nazis having left for the Moon in 1945 and to come back in 2018 to assassinate the president. Using the same technique as Star Wreck you can work collaboratively by going to wreckamovie.com.
Fable Works, LLC announced animated feature Cereal Heroes. David Meinstein’s script, about cereal box mascots who accidentally get brought to life in an attempt to bring comic book heroes to life, will be produced at Sparx Animation Studios.
Nia Vardalos and John Corbett will team up again for Vardalos written and directed romantic comedy Valentine’s Day. A “comedy for the romantically challenged,” it’s about a florist who gets a commitment fearing restaurant owner to try her relationship-less dating theory.
Joe Dante will direct Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan’s script for indie horror Bat Out of Hell. The movie, about hijackers on a red-eye flight who find monstrous cargo, should start filming later this year.
CBS Films has bought a pitch by writer Chris Hauty called The Eternals. The “romantic supernatural thriller set on a college campus” will be directed by Jeff Wadlow.
According to his website, Murali K. Thalluri’s next movie Jewel “revolves around a friendship that grows between two young boys forced to work in a slave labour camp. One night after being forced to work a shift through the night, the two boys overhear their master talking about selling them. Terrified of being split up, the young boys steal quite a valuable Jewel and attempt an unlikely escape. From here the two boys travel over the life and color of India, riding the rails, lost in the jungle and so on, as they try to find their favourite movie star whom they innocently believe will save them. Meanwhile, their master who has discovered the Jewel missing is intent on recovering his valuable possession and gives chase.”
Anchor Bay has picked up S.R. Bindler’s Surfer, Dude, to release it theatrically late this summer and then on DVD. The movie about a surfer having an existential crisis stars Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson, Scott Glenn, Alexie Gilmore, Nathan Phillips, Ramon Rodriguez, Sarah Wright, Zachary Knighton, and Jeffrey Nordling.
Steven Seagal will be in Jeff King’s Ruslan, about a former Russian mobster turned crime novelist whose family is threatened when his past comes back to haunt him.
Seagal will also be in Richard Crudo’s futuristic vampire movie Last Night, where he’ll be a commander with a group of soldiers sent to clear out vampires in a hospital.
Corey Feldman has been cast in German set Lucky Fritz. He says, “The movie is a family type comedy about a guy who (unluckily) keeps getting struck by lightning. Until he gets struck a third time and it causes a strange reaction which gives him a magnetic personality, to which no human can resist.”
Martin Henderson, Les Chantery, Rachel Taylor, Daniel Amalm, Jake Wall, and Bren Foster are cast in Serhat Caradee’s Cedar Boys, which starts filming next month.
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer will be making Disaster Movie.
Prequels, Sequels & Remakes
J.J. Abrams on Star Trek XI: “It looks at the formation of the core characters from Star Trek, so it serves as a prequel, but it’s also more than that.”
Beast will be in the Magneto movie.
IESB has a set report for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
Transformers 2: Teresa Palmer out, Isabel Lucas in. Jon Voight and Tyrese Gibson will reprise their roles. Michael Bay has confirmed that the sequel will be a 3-D.
J.J. Abrams on a Cloverfield 2: "We're talking about it. But the truth is there's another idea that I'd rather do with the same people than do a sequel. It's a whole new thing.”…” So my dream is to work with [Goddard and Reeves] again, but do something that's [new]. Having said that, Drew and Matt both, separately, have really good ideas for what [Cloverfield 2] could be. So I don't know. We'll see. I know the studio wants it."
DreamWorks and IMAX have signed a deal for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa’s worldwide IMAX theaters release on November 7, 2008.
Jan de Bont will direct the Point Break sequel, titled Point Break Indo, that’ll film in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Says IESB: “When Billy Dalton, military special ops and star surfer, is disqualified from the pro-surfing tour, he takes off for the coast of Bali looking for the perfect wave. While there he’s recruited by a private security force who are trying to find a gang known as The Bush Administration, surfing outlaws and modern day pirates who work like ‘The Ex-Presidents,’ a bank robbing crew from Malibu twenty years ago.” No word on casting yet.
Tyrese Gibson will be making a cameo in Fast and the Furious 4.
Richard Kelly says about S. Darko: "To set the record straight, here's a few facts I'd like to share with you all. I haven't read this script. I have absolutely no involvement with this production, nor will I ever be involved." Also, the cast is set as Daveigh Chase, Corey Richardson, and Randy Holt.
Laura Vandervoort, Chris Carmack, Audrina Patridge, Marsha Thomason, and David Anders will star in a Charles Winkler directed Into the Blue sequel. Diving couple Sebastion and Dani find out that the employers who hired them to look for treasure have a darker agenda.
BenderSpink, FilmEngine, and After Dark Films will be producing the third Butterfly Effect movie, which will be released as part of After Dark’s 8 Films to Die For series. The Holly Brix script is about a guy who, having inherited the ability to go back and change the past, tries to solve his girlfriend’s death accidentally unleashing a serial killer. Oops. Filming starts in Vacouver in September; no cast has been announced yet.
George Romero on Diary of the Dead 2: “Yeah, I’m definitely attached to it. If the producers want to make the sequel, I will make it. But who knows, I could be written out of it. As far as the project being greenlit, the answer is no. I haven’t gotten a check yet. (laughs)”
Producer Brad Fuller on Friday the 13th: “In this movie you will see a feral, brutal Jason who is hell-bent on killing in astonishing ways. And tonight our director, Marcus Nispel, constructed a shot of Jason as he is about to strike - that is when I got scared. The shot is iconic in its construction. It’s our Batman or Spiderman shot and when you see the movie you will know exactly what I am talking about. It is the single shot that tells you everything you need to know about Jason."
Kevin Tighe, Kerr Smith, and Megan Boone will be in My Bloody Valentine.
George Romero on Crazies: “Well they’re still talking about remaking The Crazies. I don’t know if it’s going to happen. But look, look at Creepshow 3….dreadful. Day of the Dead 2:Contagium…dreadful. They like remaking them, but they don’t exactly put as much thought into them. (laughs)”
Werner Herzog will direct Nicholas Cage in a remake of Bad Lieutenant. Billy Finkelstein will write the new version of the 1992 NC-17 movie that starred Harvey Keitel about a corrupt New York police officer wrapped up in gambling, sex, drugs, and theft.
Adaptations
Platinum Studios, Top Cow Productions, and Arclight Films are working on a live action Witchblade movie, based on the comics about a gauntlet that gives powers to a woman specially chosen in each generation. Right now, they’re looking at Australia for shooting.
Joel Silver says that the Sgt. Rock comic based movie will be made “very soon” with Guy Ritchie as a favorite to direct.
A live action movie based on Jiro Taniguchi’s two volume manga Harukana Machi e (Distant Neighborhood) will be made by Belgian company Entre Chien et Loup. Sam Garbarski will direct the film, changing the setting from Kurayoshi to 1968 Paris, about a 48 year old “salaryman” who gets transported back to his youth when he visits his hometown. It’s scheduled to be completed sometime next year.
Columbia Pictures has the rights to Scholastic’s Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine, and both companys are looking at it as a potential franchise. Co-producer Neal Moritz says they’ll try to follow Harry Potter’s example in getting unknown child actors and big names in supporting roles. (I was always more of a Fear Street girl m’self. Shadyside must have had the worst property values ever!)
George Clooney will star in Grant Heslov's Men Who Stare at Goats, using Brit Peter Straughan's script based on Jon Ronson's book. It's about the U.S. Army's First Earth Battalion, a unit that was to use paranormal powers. The title comes from the idea that you can kill a goat by staring at it, but I can't be the only one who thought of Aberforth Dumbledore when they first read the title right?
Jason and Ivan Reitman will make a movie version of Walter Kirn’s novel Up in the Air. A ruthless human resources executive’s life apart because he’s a workaholic.
The Jim Henson Co. will produce, with The Weinstein Co. distributing, a Corey Edwards directed movie adaptation of show Fraggle Rock. Tony Leech will write the script for the live action musical that will take core characters Gogo, Wembley, Mokey Boober, and Red (woot!) outside of Fraggle Rock and show their interactions with humans, who think they’re aliens.
Sony says that Jonah Hill writing the script for a 21 Jump Street movie, and is in negotiations to develop it.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Robotic insects! Catholic aliens! Soviet illustrations!
Captain America easter egg in Iron Man?
Jericho fans vs. Nielsen ratings.
Canada’s Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite will keep an eye out for meteors. It’s no Bruce Willis, but okay.
BAE Systems is making military insect, bug, and snake inspired robots. Here’s a promotional video of the little guys.
The Vatican gives aliens the OK.
So whatever happened to that Darth Vader with the trash bag cape guy who beat up on the Church of Jedi members?
In Hiroshima, August 7-26, the International Gundam Society will take a “socioeconomic view into the future” with Mobile Suit Gundam as its theme.
Now you can have Wikipedia (the Keeper of All Knowledge) right in your pocket.
Arthur C. Clarke reads 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Translation for the Cloverfield manga.
Wall-E making-of picture book.
Reynolds and Washburne in 2008!
Bob Kane’s personal copies of Batman #1-3. Even if you can’t afford the almost $70,000 price tag, their history makes for an interesting read.
Star Wars mixology.
Soviet black and white illustrations to Alexander Kazantsev books.
DVD releases
Honey & Clover - May 13
Lars and the Real Girl - April 15
The Incredible Hulk Returns & The Trial of the Incredible Hulk - May 13
Sidekick – June 10
The Tattooist - June 24
Doomsday – July 29
Masters of Horror: Season Two - July 29
WarGames (25th Anniversary Edition) - July 29
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Star Wars weekends
June 6-29, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Lucasfilm will have the Star Wars Weekend event at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida. Features include: a behind the scenes look at the The Clone Wars called "Behind the Force – Experience The Clone Wars," meet a Lucasfilm rep, and see an eclusive clip from the movie. Also children oriented activities "Padawan Mind Challenge," "Legends of the Force," and "Jedi Training Academy."
Warwick Davis will be at all four weekends acting as emcee. Here's the line up of guests scheduled to appear (subject to change):
June 6-8: Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett) and Daniel Logan (young Boba Fett)
June 13-15: Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) and David Prowse (Darth Vader)
June 20-22: Amy Allen (Aayla Secura) and Matthew Wood (General Grievous and voice artist in The Clone Wars)
June 27-29: Dave Filoni
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
...Keeps the doctor away?
May 14 (Wednesday), at 7 pm, the Theater Under St. Mark's (94 St. Mark's Place), will be playing The Apple.
"It's Xanadu meets George Orwell in this flamboyant Adam and Eve story set in the nightmarish future of 1994 (as imagined in 1980.) Expect to see Catherine Mary Stewart mutate into a drug-fueled glam pop superstar (Hubba-hubba). If you like Phantom of the Paradise, but wished it had been made in Berlin by one-half of Golan-Globus, this is the movie for you!
"The show will be hosted by The SciFi Department's Kevin Maher and Raven Snook, providing trivia, prizes, drinking games, free glitter and a sing-a-long.
"After the movie, the evening continues with Atomic X @ Beauty Bar (231 E. 14th Street.) Expect the DJ to be playing plenty of David Bowie, New York Dolls, and selections from The Apple soundtrack."
TV News
Bruce Boxleitner has joined Heroes.
Michael Ausiello at TV Guide :
"I'm jumping back on the House scoopwagon in a big way this week with news that Fox, in collaboration with producer NBC Universal, is quietly developing a House spin-off for next season. As I understand it, producers are introducing a new male character for a multi-episode arc and, assuming the actor they find really pops in the role, he may be spun off into his own show. But there's a twist, and it's a big one: Per multiple sources, this newbie is not a doctor, but rather a private investigator! And no, his name isn't Twitter. I'll have more details as they become available, but for now, head over to the Ask Ausiello Discussion Thread to post your thoughts on a possible House 2.0.''
The 2009 and 2010 seasons of Lost will be 17 hours each instead of the original 16.
Fox has ordered seven episodes for Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, which should start midseason. They have also given a series order for J.J. Abrams' Fringe for the fall. Finally, they've canceled New Amsterdam.
Michael Rapaport will play an agent on the fourth season of Prison Break.
Peter Berg will direct and exec-produce two hour pilot Virtuality for Fox.
ABC has picked up David E. Kelley’s American version of Life on Mars. Based off the British show, the time traveling drama is about an officer who is transported back to the ‘70s.
CBS has shutdown vampire show Moonlight.
CBS has ordered series for The Ex List (based on an Israeli about a woman who finds out from a Tarot reader that she's already met the man she was destined to be with), Eleventh Hour (based on a British show about a government investigator an scientific anomalies), and The Mentalist (about a man who uses his powers of deduction to help the police).
Sci Fi Channel has the off-net cable rights CBS' Ghost Whisperer.
Esai Morales, Eric Stoltz , and Alessandra Toressani have joined Caprica.
Peter Fonda is on board for Sci Fi Channel's upcoming pilot Revolution.
The CW has given Reaper, about a slacker who has to work for the Devil because of a deal his parents made, a 13 episode midseason renewal.
Allison Mack, Smallville's Chloe Sullivan, might be leaving the show over financial issues. It's like rats from a sinking ship!
Monday, May 12, 2008
Trailers
Some of these links may contain mature material, and MRFH is not responsible for their content.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Twilight
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Hamlet 2
Noise
Baghead
Repo: The Genetic Opera (Thanks to Thumbscrews McGee
Frontiers
Heroes (TV)
Videos
Some of these links may contain mature material, and MRFH is not responsible for their content.
Watchmen journal 2
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
X-Files: I Want to Believe
X-Files: I Want to Believe
Sex & the City
The Foot Fist Way
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Marvel release schedules
Marvel's release dates (as of May 6,2008):
Iron Man 2: Released April 30, 2010
Thor: Released June 4, 2010
Captain America: Released May 6, 2011
The Avengers: Release July 2011
Remember, these are only announced Marvel Studios titles, so it doesn't include The Punisher: War Zone or Wolverine, unscheduled projects like Ant-Man, or as yet unannounced sequels.
Movie News
David Chase has signed a deal with Paramount to write, direct, and produce his first feature, an original drama.
As part of their 8 Films to Die For series, After Dark Films will produce and distribute Faithless and Perkins, which will shoot consecutively in Romania in May. With Faithless, Stewart Hopewell will direct a script co-written with Tim Long about a woman who goes to her family’s farm to leave an abusive relationship, to discover an even crueler form of abuse. Perkins 14, Jeremy Donaldson’s winning idea of Dark’s Ghost in the Machine promotion, about a suspected murderer, his arrest and bloodshed, will be written by Lane Shadgett and directed by Craig Singer.
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has distribution rights in all English-speaking territories for Duncan Jones' scifi thriller Moon. Starring Sam Rockwell, it's about a man who mines precious gas that can reverse Earth's energy crisis.
Daniel Myrick, co-director of The Blair Witch Project, is looking for a distributor for his first person filmed thriller, The Objective, about a CIA officer and special forces crew who are threatened by the supernatural while on a mission in the Afghan mountains.
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have been hired to rewrite Greg Pace's screenplay Hours of Fun. Walt Disney and Scott Rudin Productions are developing, the tentatively titled, Fun about two childhood friends who have to save their town when, thirty years later, all the novelty stuff they ordered from the back of comic books (Sea Monkeys, X-ray glasses, etc.) as kids start actually doing what they claim.
Adam Torchia and Justin Stanley's supernatural spec The Knights Templar has been picked by Universal Pictures. In it, the Knights Templar fight vampires who are trying to destroy the Holy Grail.
Warner Brothers has Sascha Penn's scifi action spec script The Ditch. In the future, in a maximum security prison on one of Jupiter's moons, a prison guard is coerced into helping a terrorist on death row escape in order to save his family.
Gregor Jordan will direct Unthinkable, an action thriller starring a Samuel L. Jackson. Filming starts September.
James McTeigue will direct scifi thriller Revelation, written by John Salvati. It’s about a journalist who discovers that victims in a series of strange murders were all being treating in research about alien abductions.
Ron Perlman, Shun Sugata, Gackt have joined Bunraku’s cast. Perlman will be the bad guy.
James Brolin will replace James Caan as a politician who chokes to death on a cookie in David O’ Russell's political satire Nailed.
Eva Mendes, Josh Hartnett, and Ben Kingsley will star in Queen of the South. The Jonathan Jakubowicz directed drama is about a Mexican woman who becomes a Spanish drug lord (lady?) to avenge her murdered boyfriend.
Prequels, Sequels & Remakes
Darren Lynn Bousman will direct the Hellraiser remake. If you're confused, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury were on it, but left.
Tom Atkins has been cast in the My Bloody Valentine remake.
Breck Eisner will be remaking George Romiro’s 1973 antiwar movie Crazies, about a small town that is quarantined and comes under military control when the town goes insane after being exposed to a bioweapon. Eisner says that the military will be more subtle in this one, and play up the individual soldier and the psychosis of the townspeople. "Some of it is violent. Some of it is sexual. Some of it's self-inflicted violence. For me, the scariest movie for me as a kid was John Carpenter's The Thing, and the idea was not knowing who to trust. ... Can you trust your wife? Can you trust your mother? Your brother? That is the fear."
After he finishes on Crazies, Breck Eisner will be remaking Universal’s 1954 Creature from the Black Lagoon. He wants to shoot in The Forest of Mirrors in the Amazon, "I want it to be authentic; I want it to be a sea of green rather than CG."
Even though it hasn't hit theaters yet, Fox has already hired Wanted writers Derek Haas and Michael Brandt for a sequel.
Director Rob Cohen says that The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporor's marketing machine won't really start until the first trailer's release in June. About the movie he says. "The whole approach is different. The sets are bigger, and they are less digital. It builds on the legacy, but it's a very different movie."
High School Musical 3 will have a U.S. theatrical release October 24, 2008.
Terminator 4 rundown: It's been knocked down from an 'R' to 'PG13,' it'll be the first in the series without the R; Common has been cast as Daniel Dyson, son of Miles Dyson from Terminator 2; according to a Polish newspaper, Polish World Strongman Champion Mariusz 'Pudzian' Pudzianowski is the "next front runner for a Terminator role in the new Terminator movie."
North American rights to the Chris Fisher directed Donnie Darko sequel, S. Darko, have already been picked up by Fox. Seven years after the first Donnie’s sister Samantha (Daviegh Chase reprising her role) and her best friend have visions while on a roadtrip to Los Angeles. The $10 million budgeted movie will start shooting May 18. *sigh* (Thanks to The Oogieboogieman)
Jason Segel says in the new Muppet movie he's writing, “I have a cameo for Charles Grodin in it. It’s a really brilliant cameo, I must say. I’m really proud of it.” If you'll remember, Charles Grodin was the villain, and Kermit's rival, Nicky Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper.
Adam McKay on an Anchorman sequel: "I'm looking to do another movie, I might do this other movie called Channel 3 Billion which is kind of this science fiction/Brazil type comedy. Then after that, Will and I are like let's do Anchorman 2…so you're talking like 2 years maybe we'll do it. But we're going to do it, for sure. We're dying to do it. Unless we can't get the cast together, which is always kind of a tricky thing. But, I think, with that cast we're all friends, so yeah, we want to do it."
Andrew Adamson, while he'll still produce, won't write or direct The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. "So I am taking a long break, actually, about a year off to develop things and do something quite different. First I'm going to just do nothing for a little while. And then there are some things I have on the back burner that I will start writing and some longer term-things that I will probably start, too."
Dances with Wolves sequel The Holy Road is on track to start filming next year… but not with Kevin Coster, he turned it down. It’ll take place eleven years after the first, with Dances with Wolves, Stands With Fist, their children, and the Sioux facing the coming of the railroad.
Tabloid The Sun has, if it's true, a big spoiler for Dirty Harry 6.
Adelaide Clemens and Tim Pocock are cast in the Wolverine movie. It seems Pocock is listed to play young Scott Summers.
Josh Schwartz says he’s working on a script for an X-Men prequel that will focus on a teen (who will be an already established character) going to the Xavier Institute. "I'm very well aware that I'll be bludgeoned by purists, but I love its mythology, and it comes with a pretty hefty paycheck."
Adaptations
Lionsgate has moved up the release date of The Spirit to Dec. 25, 2008, from Jan. 16, 2009,
Brandon Routh will play a private investigator who gets mixed up with the undead in Dead of Night. Kevin Monroe will direct the movie based on Tiziano Sclavi’s Italian comic book Dylan Dog from a script by Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly.
Chris Wedge will direct John Logan’s adaptation of Brian Selznick’s children’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, about an orphan who lives in the walls and looks after the clocks of a Parisian train station, who finds mystery and adventure when he tries to fix a mechanical man.
After development fell through with Bruckheimer Films, the rights to Buck Rogers have reverted back to the Dille Family Trust. Now Flint Dille will write and produce a movie, with Frank Miller directing. The story of an astronaut (originally a military pilot in the ‘50s) who goes into a coma and wakes up in the 25th century, has been done a few times as comics and TV shows. Current word is it’s budgeted at $40 million and “the cheapness of the low-budget effects will be a running joke in the movie, which will retain the campiness of the 1980s TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century starring Gil Gerard.” (No lie, I actually own a VHS copy of the movie/backdoor pilot from the ‘80s. It so cheesy, it’s great!)
Series creator and rights holder David Zlotoff says ‘80s show MacGyver is being reworked for a movie version. For those who don’t remember: Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, was a taxi driver turned agent who refused to use a gun, but could build a bomb out of anything.
From Variety:
“Beyond that, [Seth] MacFarlane said he'd like to continue expanding his Fuzzy Door shingle to include multiple skeins and feature projects. And that includes a long-rumored "Family Guy" movie, which MacFarlane would like to produce in the next few years. There's no firm plan yet, although any feature will likely center on homicidal toddler Stewie, he said.”
Gore Verbinski will be directing the Bioshock movie.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
*drool*
R2-D2 Digital Audio and Video Projector. How cool is this thing? About $3,000.00, that’s how much! Ouch! The commercial is still pretty groovy though.
Look upon it and weep:
Music, Fashion, Theater, and Science!
Saturday, May 10, starting at 7:00pm PST, 97.1 Free FM’s Leo Quinones, "The Film Freak," will interview Jon Favreau. You can listen by radio, if you’re in the Southern California area, or online.
Get in your Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge entry by May 27th.
May 6-June 20, 2009, a musical version of Coraline, based off of Neil Gaiman’s novel, will play at the MCC Theater in New York. Read the write up here (bottom of page).
Roger Ebert talks Arthur C. Clarke on his blog.
This spring’s hottest fashions? "Superhero is the new floral."
Toynami Resurrects the Classic VF-1.
You can pre-order the Star Trek bottle opener. Oooh, shiny.
The science of Iron Man’s technology.
Cloverfield's bad biology. (Bad, Biology! No treats for you!)
What Can Movies Teach Us About Space Travel?
Mannequin 3: The Zombie Farm
Singing & Grooving in SciFi Movies
Comics and books
You can check out Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother with a free download.
Comic book creator Will Eisner's estate is now a client of Creative Artists Agency. They plan to take Eisner's library and package them as movies, TV shows, and other media properties. This won't affect the movie The Spirit being released this December.
"Dark Horse plans to republish the first 21 issues of Tales of the Beanworld, possibly in deluxe hardcover editions, then deliver Marder's new adventures sometime in early 2009. Diana Schutz will edit." More on Larry Marder’s blog.
23 years after being vaporized to save the universe, DC is bringing Barry Allen/The Flash back from the dead. Geoff Johns and Grant Morrison will resurrect the character. Says Morrison, "We can do anything with them, and we can make them come back and make them defy death."
Manga to help bridge the gap between the U.S. Navy and Japan?
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
DVD releases
Serial Mom – May 6, 2008
Teeth – May 6
I’m Not There – May 6
The Muppet Show: The Complete Third Season - May 20
Transformers (Blu-ray) - May 20
Face/Off (Blu-ray) - May 20
Next (Blu-ray) - May 20
Bee Movie (Blu-ray) - May 20
Grizzly Park - May 27
Rescue Me: The Complete Third Season - June 3
Cloverfield (Blu-ray) - June 3
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) - June 3
Jericho: The Complete Second Season - June 17
Spiderwick Chronicles - June 24
Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Fourth Season - July 8
Spaced: The Complete Series - July 22
Dexter: The Complete Second Season - August 19
While there's no date yet, you can pre-order the Blu-ray Firefly.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Mamoru Hosoda's anime film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time will play in Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. Los Angeles and Seattle will have the English subtitled version, while the New York showing will be dubbed in English. Based on Tsutsui Yasutaka's novel, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo or TokiKake (A Girl Who Runs Through Time), a modern Japanese girl discovers she can go back in time.
June 13-19, in Los Angeles - ImaginAsian theater
June 13-19, in New York - ImaginAsian theater
August 29-September 4, in Seattle - Landmark Theatres' Varsity Theatre
Bandai Entertainment has announced that more venues in other cities and DVD plans will be revealed later.
TV News
Fox has put the two unaired episodes of Drive, “The Extra Mile” and “Rearview,” up on Amazon and iTunes. A year later. Huh.
Paula Malcomson will play surgeon/double agent Amanda in Battlestar Galatica prequel Caprica.
Series writer Melissa Rosenburg on the third season of Dexter, which premieres on Showtime in October: "I think we've come up with something that's going to be hopefully as good (as season two). I can't even hope to surpass it, but I can hope to do as well. It's going to be tough. But it's a challenge. ... We're kind of starting over, but it's not starting from scratch. The character of Dexter has evolved, and you want to be careful with that. I mean, his journey is sort of toward becoming human, but the minute he becomes human, the series is over."
With Michael Rosenbaum leaving Smallville, the show will bring in two new villains to replace Lex Luthor. Doomsday, and a female villain who is "intelligent, brilliantly manipulative and dangerously sinister, our gorgeous new villain has one more weapon in her arsenal: Her mutual attraction with Clark may prove to be as deadly as kryptonite for him."
Latest announced directors for NBC's Fear Itself: John Dahl, Larry Fessenden, and Rupert Wainwright.
ABC Family will bring back Kyle XY in January.
ABC Family has ordered 13 episodes of Javier Grillo-Marxuach's The Middleman to debut on June 16. Starring Natalie Morales, and based on a series of graphic novels, the show is about "a twentysomething woman who's recruited to fight criminals."
Also on ABC Family, six hour "event miniseries" Samurai Girl will air in one weekend, September 5-7.
Haruo Mizino's Hitchcock inspired cult suspense Siberia Chotokkkyu (Siberian Express) film series, will be turned into an anime series. Animated by Madhouse, it's planned to be an anthology that will work with several directors.
Warner Brothers will launch http://thewb.com/ which will stream original content and full episodes of shows including: Friends, Smallville, One Tree Hill, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, All of Us, The O.C., Gilmore Girls, The Wayans Bros., Veronica Mars, Everwood, and Roswell.
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