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The Spirit
Bedtime Stories
Bride Wars
Smother
Breakfast With Scot
Soul Men
Medea Goes To Jail
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Valkyrie
Pride and Glory
Splinter
Time Crimes (teaser and international)
Time Crimes (US)
Monday, September 29, 2008
Videos
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City of Ember 1 clip
City of Ember 1 clip
Max Payne 1 promo
Valkyrie1 featurette
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 1 audition, 1 set footage
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2 set visits
Splinter 2 podcasts
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Movie News
Court finds in Hari Puttar’s favor.
Nicolas Cage will star in Relativity Media and Dominic Sena's Season of the Witch. Written by Bragi Schut Jr., it "chronicles the journey of 14th-century knights transporting a girl suspected of being the witch responsible for spreading the Black Plague." It'll film in Austria and Hungary in early November.
John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers will star in Pierre Morel’s thriller From Paris with Love. Co-written by Luc Besson and Adi Hasak, the movie is about “a young embassy worker and an American secret agent who cross paths while working on a high-risk mission in Paris.” Currently shooting.
Nick Cassavetes will direct Film Department's The Beautiful and the Damned. Hanna Weg wrote the script about the tumultuous love story of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre, Jazz Age icons who lived big and crashed hard. The title is taken from one of Fitzgerald's books. Keira Knightley is in talks to play Zelda Sayre.
Camilla Belle and Kieran Culkin will star in Three Stories About Joan. Bruce Willis’ directorial debut, it’s about three points in a woman’s life and her lose of reality after family tragedies. Willis will have a supporting role as the father.
Billy Crystal has joined Michael Lembeck’s Tooth Fairy.
Prequels, Sequels & Remakes
Warner Brothers are developing a prequel to I Am Legend. With Francis Lawrence returning to direct, Akiva Goldsman and James Lassiter returning to produce, and Will Smith reprising his role as Robert Neville. It’ll be based on an outline, developed by the four while they were filming I Am Legend, that would follow the days leading up to and through the beginning of the plague.
Matt Reeves will write and direct a remake of Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In, which was an adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel. There’s a production, financing, and distribution pact between Overture and HS Media (parent company of Hammer and Spitfire Films), who are planning to release it next year.
Writer-director Steven Pink has signed on for MGM’s remake of 1988’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (which was a remake of 1964’s Bedtime story) about two polar opposite conmen who run a con on a woman as a way of competing for hunting grounds. Says Pink, "Movies like that, which are so brilliant, the problem with writing them is a) you have to beat those jokes, and it's hard, and b), they're so funny that they defy story logic in a way. So I'm trying to split the difference. Because the cons have to be sophisticated, but you also want their behavior to be totally outrageous and absurd. So I'm trying to find the balance between keeping it massively funny, but then also make the cons credible."
Helen Mirren will star in Miramax’s The Debt as an undercover Mossad agent. Based on a spec script by Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman, it’s a remake of 2007 Israeli movie HaHov.
According to Ain’t It Cool News, Bill Murray says he likes that the writers from The Office are doing Ghostbusters 3, that doing voice work for the game raised his enthusiasm, that "the wounds from GHOSTBUSTERS 2 are healed," and that he’d be into doing another Ghostbusters.
Disney has confirmed that Johnny Depp will be returning for Pirates of the Caribbean 4, but Keira Knightley won’t, "I think it was wonderful and an amazing opportunity and those films were just extraordinary and I was extremely lucky to be a part of them. But no. I think my pirating days may be over."
Jerry Bruckheimer, Nicolas Cage, and Disney's Dick Cook have confirmed that National Treasure 3 is currently in development.
Cars 2 has been moved up from 2012 to 2011. There will also be short film about the characters that will be on TV and before movies in theaters. "You’ll see them everywhere. We’re going to keep this ‘Cars’ thing going." Said Dick Cook.
Rich Gelfond, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO of the IMAX Corporation, on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: "We believe this film will include approximately 25 minutes in IMAX 3-D split between the opening sequence of the film and the finale."
About Crank 2, Jason Statham said, "We've got David Carradine in the film, and he plays a character called 'Puon Dong,' who's this really mad Asian Mafia guy."… "Whatever the first one was, this one's more - just completely rude, offensive and plain mad in every way. It's great, there's no movie like it and they've exceeded all expectations. To go and do that - balls to the wall - with no worries about trying to tone anything down, or to try to make it believable, you know, it's just like a video game. There's nothing more fun to do than to go and make something like that kind of a film, it's pretty unique."
Adaptations
“A judge has barred the estate of “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien from seeking punitive damages against the studio that brought the trilogy to the big screen.”
Summit Entertainment and IMAGI have announced that Astro Boy will open on over 3,000 North American screens on October 23, 2009.
Funimation has the distribution rights to the live action Mushishi movie, and is planning theatrical showings through Funimation Films and a DVD release in 2009.
Disney has announced that Johnny Depp will play the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland [E: Johnny Depp in a Tim Burton movie? Surely you jest!] The movie is in pre-production with a current theater date of March 5, 2010.
Oprah Winfrey will voice the mother in Disney’s hand drawn animation adaptation of The Frog Princess, The Princess and the Frog.
Rachel McAdams will play Irene Adler (a character from the story A Scandal In Bohemia) in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movie. She would also return for any possible sequels.
Timur Bekmambetov has been hired by Universal to direct a reimagining of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Adam Cooper and Bill Collage have written it in a “graphic novel” style that will throw out Ishmael’s perspective in order to show more ships being destroyed by the white whale, and “Ahab will be depicted more as a charismatic leader than a brooding obsessive.” [E: ?!] Says Cooper, "Our vision isn’t your grandfather’s Moby Dick. This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story."
Johnny Depp will play Tonto in the Lone Ranger movie. Dick Cook says that they haven’t chosen anyone for that masked man, but there are several candidates.
Bandai Visual is adapting anime and manga Rescue Wings into a live action movie that will be directed by Masaaki Tezuka. The story will change from focusing on a male pilot to a female one. Yuko Takayama, Tomokazu Miura, Yoshina Kinura, Shuya Isaka, and Dai Watanabe will star, with participation from The Japanese Ministry of Defense, Air Self Defense Force, and Maritime Self Defense Force for real vehicles. The movie will open in Japan December 2009.
Avi Arad has the movie rights to Bioware's scifi action RPG Mass Effect. The game plot goes like this: "As the first humans on the galactic stage, players must uncover the greatest threat to civilization. Their job is complicated by the fact that no one will believe the truth, but the world must be convinced of the grave threat at hand."
Producer John Davis on the Sims movie: “The Sims, as you know, you can control your imaginary world, right? And our movie, a young man, a 16 year old kid of a 14 year old kid and his friend get their hands on this thing called the Sims Infinity Pack, right, which kind of this very strange video game store which was there just for that moment, and seemingly wasn’t all that. But what they realize is that they can scan their world in, because this is the most life like, real Sims game ever. And as they are playing this they are all of a sudden realizing is what they are playing on the game is having an effect on the real world. So in effect, through the game, they are able to control their world. It’s wish fulfillment, and obviously it turns against them.”
Thursday, September 25, 2008
"Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?"
American Psycho heading to Broadway
Marvel Chairman David Maisel says that Spider-Man: The Musical may hit Broadway as soon as 2009.
Rorschach pickets Fox.
Alien's Kane and Dallas action figures. The Face Hugger accessory makes me laugh. Because I'm a sick individual.
The Summer Glau song.
Our 10 Favorite Actors from Geeky Movies & TV This is a pretty solid list! (Submitted by Sitting Duck)
Weakest Deaths In Science Fiction History
The ultimate LEGO Star Wars diorama
A Knitted Dalek. Original post at Yarn Harlot. (Submitted by Sitting Duck)
Space beauty tips
Comics and Books
The dates for the US and UK tour of The Graveyard Book.
An interview with Rockne S. O’Bannon on the comic book version of Farscape.
Eoin Colfer will write the next Hitchhiker's book.
Guillermo del Toro will co-write a vampire trilogy with Chuck Hogan.
Stephen Colbert will team up with Spidey.
'All Star Batman & Robin' #10 to be Destroyed
Star Wars: Luke Skywalker, Last Hope for the Galaxy--From Tatooine to Dark Empire HC
Warren Ellis' latest graphic novel Frankenstein's Womb.
Mushishi
October 28, London's The Barbican performing arts center will hold a double billing of adaptations of Yuki Urushibara's manga Mushishi. It'll start with two episodes of Hiroshi Nagahama and Artland's 2005 anime TV series, and then show Katsuhiro Otomo's live action movie. Helen McCarthy, co-author of The Anime Encyclopedia, will introduce.
"The titular 'Mushishi' (Bug Master) character is a doctor who travels a mystical version of Japan to cure people affected by Mushi, the supernatural creatures that he is investigating."
More info here.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
DVD Releases
Friday the 13th: The Series - September 23
Feast II: Sloppy Seconds – October 7
Chaplin – October 14
Pirates of the Great Salt Lake - December 9
Let the Right One In - March 10, 2009.
Paramount will release Kung Fu Panda on November 9, on a Sunday as opposed to Tuesday, bundled with companion movie Secrets of the Furious Five.
The Dark Knight will hit on DVD and Blu-ray sometime in December.
The rights nightmare that is the '60s Batman series. (Submitted by Sitting Duck)
Night Gallery - Universal Statement: Season 2 DVDs to be Missing 1 Episode, 1 Story “Universal Studios Home Entertainment makes every effort to include every TV episode from a particular season in their season boxed sets. In the case of some older series, certain elements, episodes, or versions of episodes inadvertently get lost over time.Despite a long and extensive search, Universal was not able to locate portions of the 40-year old episode "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and the story "Witches Feast " to include on the upcoming Night Gallery Season 2 DVD set.” (Submitted by Sitting Duck)
TV News...
Tricia Helfer on the first Battlestar Galactica prequel movie: "The movie is called The Plan. It deals with the Cylon perspective on the world of Battlestar Galactica. The Cylons have always said they had a plan, and this elaborates on that."
Stargate: Universe character breakdowns.
January 8, Japan's NHK will premiere the 10 episode adaptation of Motohiro Katou's detective manga Q.E.D. Shomei Shuryo. About a high school girl and a 15 year old MIT graduate genius who solve crimes and mysteries, it'll star Ai Takahashi and Aoi Nakamura.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Trailers
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Inkheart
Fear[s] of the Dark
Quarantine
Role Model red band
Videos
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Bolt 1 clip
Blindness 5 clips
Eagle Eye 7 clips, 5 featurettes
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist 6 clips, 1 featurette
The Office 6 clips, 2 featurettes, 3 interviews
Life on Mars (US) 1 clip (TV)
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Movie News
DreamWorks and Reliance close deal.
Writer-director Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman will make time travel thriller Looper. Set in present day, a group of hitmen are sent targets from the future. They are looking to start 2009.
Sam Rockwell on Gentleman Broncos: "It's more like hillbilly Buck Rogers. It's weird. It's like a cowboy Flash Gordon. His name's Bronco, and he's like a hillbilly spaceman. It's weird. It's out there. It's about a guy stranded on the moon for three years, like a Robinson Crusoe kind of guy. He's mining a product called helium 3 on the surface of the moon for fuel for the Earth, an energy source. Then he meets his clone, and they have to deal with each other. So it's sort of an homage to Silent Running and a little Blade Runner, as far as the replicants and stuff. It's like that, but it's a very simple kind of Robinson Crusoe story. It's this guy pretty much stranded. It's like a Twilight Zone episode." It's waiting for a release date from Fox Searchlight.
Sam Rockwell is still looking for a distributor for independently financed Moon.
Spyglass is working on horror comedy Blood Brothers, starring Owen Wilson. It’s a buddy movie about a man and a vampire.
Fox has action adventure The Eighth Wonder, which will star and be produced by Nicole Kidman. Details are few, but it’ll be written by Simon Kinberg and about an archaeological find that starts an international race.
David Duchovny, Demi Moore, Amber Heard and Gary Cole have been cast in Derrick Borte’s dramedy The Joneses. It’ll be a social commentary about a perfect family that moves into a neighborhood only to turn out to be a fake family used by a marketing company to sell luxury products.
Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, and Faizon Love will star in Couples Retreat. Written by Favreau and directed by Peter Billingsley, it’s a comedy about four couples who go to an island resort and find out that the resort’s couples’ therapy is not optional. Starts production late October in Bora Bora and LA.
Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito in dramedy Solitary Man. Brian Koppelman and David Levien will direct the story about a car dealership chain owner who is destroyed by his business and indescretions.
Prequels, Sequels & Remakes
Louis Feola talks about the plots for upcoming Paramount Famous sequels for Road Trip, Naked Gun, Bad News Bears, and Grease.
Jon Favreau on Iron Man 2.
Frank Miller on Sin City 2: "I can't talk about my projects, because I don't believe a movie is real until I see the title on the screen. There are many things that can go wrong. But I can tell you that I'm very close to begin 'Sin City 2' with Robert Rodriguez. We have to arrange a few things and we'll be back in action."
Robert Orci on Star Trek XI: ”Fans can expect to see that the people who made this movie knew their Star Trek, and if they've been a fan of Star Trek, they're going to see things that pay off for them in a way that will not pay off for a general audience. A general audience is going to see a totally different movie. A general audience is going to see a movie of how these historic characters met and how they all came together. ... If you're a fan, it's a re-introduction to Star Trek, and if you're not, it's an introduction. And the idea of sort of doing two movies in one is tricky, because you don't want to somehow dilute it, but again, since this is not a story that's ever been covered in the Trek canon, in terms of the film or the series, it's an old and a new story."
Sony plans to release Mitch Klebanoff’s Beverly Hills Ninja 2 theatrically, May 2009. It stars Lucas Grabeel, David Hasselhoff, and Lin Chiling
Adaptations
Akira Kurosawa's last script, Masque of the Black Death, will be made into an anime film. Co-written with Masato Ide, the script was based on Edgar Allen Poe's Masque of the Red Death about an extravagant price who holds a masquerade while a plague is devastating the people outside. This version will be set it in early 20th century Russia. It will be jointly produced by Japan's Kurosawa Production and Lotus, America's Lexicon Film Entertainment and Harbor Light Entertainment, and Singapore's Upside Down Entertainment. Planned 2010 release.
Stephen Chow will direct and play Kato in the Seth Rogen starring Green Hornet movie. Now with a June 25, 2010, release date, it’ll be Chow’s American directorial debut.
DJ Caruso on the Y The Last Man movie.
Jude Law is in solid negotiations to play Watson in the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes.
Clark Duke has been cast as best friend Marty in Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass.
Kirsten Dunst will produce and star in A Jealous Ghost, directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego. Based on A.N. Wilson’s novel, Megan Holley adapted the story of an American who goes to London to write a dissertation on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, when life starts reflecting the ghost story. Holley will do one more draft of the script before Paramount Vantage puts it into production.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
"Finish him!"
Win a signed Dave McKean poster.
More Sandman art on Ebay.
DC vs. Mortal Kombat game. Hey, maybe I want to see Superman ripping Sonya's spine out. Ever think of that?
Kaoru Tada's shojo manga Itazura na Kiss's theatrical stage adaptation will run in the Theater Sun Mall in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward from November 27-December 7, starring Asami Abe and Ren Yagami.
The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008
CERN's Large Hadron Collider is now powering up.
Doctor Who Classic Series figures.
Get Darth Vader for a Mere $18K
The real life Dr. Manhattan?
I'm gonna be Dr. Horrible for Halloween
October 31, Los Angeles, Whedonopolis will sponsor a screening of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and Felicia Day's web series The Guild at the Regency Fairfax Theatres, at 9 pm. There will be drawings, prizes, and special appearances. Proceeds will benifit charity Path Venture. Tickets are $15.00 and can be reserved online starting September 24.
More info here.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Anime After Dark
October 18th, 2008, Boston, Resonance Features and The Boston Science Fiction Film Festival will host a 12 hour Anime After Dark starting at 7:00 pm through 7:00 am. It'll be held at the historic Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Sq., Somerville.
Titles include:
Grave of the Fireflies
Project A-Ko
Millenium Actress
Cat Soup
Tekkon Kinkreet
Ghost in the Shell: Innocence
More titles and special events to be announced on the official website.
TV News...
After making a new pilot episode earlier this year, Dollhouse has temporarily stopped production and will resume filming September 25. Fox and Joss Whedon agreed that the fourth episode's script needed work, and Whedon will also use the time to get ahead on further scripts. This will not affect the show's premiere.
Simpsons executive producer Al Jean says that the show will parody Transformers and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for its Halloween special this year. Next year there will be a "post-apocalyptic 28 Days Later/Children of Men thing. Krusty makes his hamburger out of mad cows, and it winds up turning everybody into zombies."
Tim Kring on Heroes season 3: "We've always had kind of a weird philosophy on the show that no question was so precious that we couldn't answer it, because there's always more questions to answer. One of the things we really tried to do in this volume is to take all the core questions of the show, the basic questions that we started off with--Who am I? What's happening to me? How am I connected? Where did these powers come from?--we take every single one of these major questions and turn them on their head in this particular volume. Each one of those gets answered in new ways." SciFi Wire has a spoiler. Heroes premieres this Monday, September 22.
Katee Sackhoff will star in the pilot for Dick Wolf and Chris Levinson's hour long crime drama Lost and Found on NBC. She'll play "an offbeat female LAPD detective who, after butting heads with the higher-ups, is sent as a punishment to the basement to work on John Doe and Jane Doe cases."
David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Preston Bailey, and Daniel Newman have been cast in SciFi Channel and Donald P. Borchers' two-hour TV movie remake of Children of the Corn. Currently filming in Iowa, it should air next year.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Trailers
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Quantum of Solace
The Soloist
Nothing Like the Holidays
Four Christmases
Inhabited Island (Russian)
Videos
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus featurette
The Day the Earth Stood Still Fox sneak peek
Harold 1 clip
The Duchess 4 clips
Quantum of Solace making the game featurette
Saw V blood drive PSA
Movie News
Regal Entertainment Group Offers Eagle Eye: The IMAX Experience at 17 Locations
FEARnet Video On Demand will premiere Midnight Meat Train October 1, with Clive Barker hosting. Then online October 30.
In a report about its lackluster box office performance, 20th Century Fox is considering more X-Men spinoffs, including a young X-Men and a Deadpool (based on the Ryan Reynolds Origins: Wolverine version) movies, and a remake/reboot of Daredevil.
Fox Searchlight Pictures has the US rights to Darren Aronofsky’s drama The Wrestler. It’s schedule for a December 2008 release.
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has the distribution rights to Mamoru Oshii's The Sky Crawlers in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand.
Universal Pictures and Focus Features, along with Korean company CJ Entertainment, will back Park Chan-wook’s in production vampire movie Thirst. Focus will premiere it in North America with CJ handling the remaining international rights. Starring Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, and Kim Ok-bi, it’s about a priest who takes part in a medical experiment with traumatic repercussions. Should be done mid-2009.
Columbia has hired Randall Wallace to write a Will Smith vehicle about the pharaoh Taharqa. The movie will be about Taharqa’s battles with Assyria’s Esarhaddon starting 677 BC.
Ray Harryhausen will work on Kevin Van Hook’s Jason and the Argonauts movie Necronauts. “The hero and his group venture into Hades to collect a group of the dead and bring the fight to the God of War, Ares.” It’s in the very early stages, but Ray Park is in as a “sword master sidekick” and Casper Van Dien maybe, possibly.
David Murphy’s Not Another Not Another Movie will spoof spoof movies by being about “a movie studio that's willing to do anything to make a mint - even if it means ruining their reputation, and running the business into the ground.” Cast includes Chevy Chase, Michael Madsen, Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Sciole, and Richard Tyson. Filming starts the end of the month.
Ray Winstone will replace Robert De Niro in Edge of Darkness.
Tim Blake Nelson's comedic thriller Leaves of Grass will star Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, and Richard Dreyfuss. It's about pair of twins (Norton) -one a professor, one a marijuana dealer-, their eccentric mother (Sarandon), and a local drug lord (Dreyfuss). Films later this month in Louisiana.
Johnny Depp’s voice will star in John Logan and Gore Verbinski’s animated movie Rango. He’ll play a household pet who “goes on an adventure to discover his true self”. Industrial Light & Magic will animate, and Paramount will finance and distribute with a March 2011 release.
Rupert Grint, Bill Nighy, and Helena Bonham Carter will star in Jonathan Lynn’s dark comedy Wild Target. “A middle-aged hitman Victor Meynard go[es] on his last hit job before he retires. He ends up running into a delivery boy, Antoine. Unable to kill the adolescent, Meynard adopts him as his apprentice, in spite of Antoine's evident lack of enthusiasm for his new career. They are hired by a Corsican gangster to kill a con artist Renée Dandrieux. Again, Meynard's luck is against him, and when he fails to kill Renée, with Antoine's help, the Corsican gangster sends another hitman to kill all three of them.”
Julie Andrews has joined Tooth Fairy and will play “Lily, a high-ranking, acerbic supervisor with the Tooth Fairy Department charged with overseeing Derek's stint as a tooth fairy.”
Michael Douglas will star in Steven Soderbergh’s –still far off- Liberace biopic. It’ll be written by Richard LaGravanese and produced by Jerry Weintraub. Soderbergh is in discussions with Matt Damon to play Scott Thorson.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Prequels, Sequels & Remakes
Reportedly, the trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will appear before Star Trek XI.
Warner Brothers and IMAX theaters are in talks to re-release The Dark Knight in January as “a reminder for people” during Oscar season.
Jon Favreau on Iron Man 2 and Avengers.
Harold Ramis on Ghostbusters 3 "yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we'll take it from there."[sic]
Peter Laird on TMNT: ‘'As it stands now, there is no intention of doing another live-action film like the first three, with actors and stuntmen in actual Turtle suits, contrary to what was said by Kevin [Eastman]. We have pretty much decided that the next "TMNT" movie should be what we've been calling a "hybrid" - that is to say, live-action humans and sets combined with very realistic CGI Turtles (and possibly some other CGI characters)."…"Unfortunately, I think [Elias Koteas and Judith Hoag] might be a little too old to play these characters now (even if they wanted to, and I have no idea if they would). However, I think Chris Evans and Sarah Michelle Gellar did wonderful work voicing the Casey and April characters in the recent CGI "TMNT" movie, and I think it would be really cool if we could get them to reprise those roles, but this time "in the flesh." I think that might be the first time something like that has happened."
Adaptations
Maple Pictures has exclusive Canadian distribution rights to George Clooney’s Men Who Stare at Goats.
Dark Tower Fans Will Have To Wait
Director Bruce McDonald on his adaptation of Tony Burgess’ novel Pontypool Changes Everything: "We thought of combining War of the Worlds done by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre in 1938 with some concepts from Tony's novel and make it a radio drama."…"It's a radio drama, and scary movies are often scariest in the moments where you don't see a monster. Sound and imagination are very potent in scary films, and we couldn't afford to go out and see the horrors, so we made the most of it by staying inside. The limitations of setting the story entirely inside a radio station set us free." In it a radio-show host (played by Stephen McHattie) who is stuck in his station while his small town is invaded by an alien human-altering (read: zombie) virus.
The rights to Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi’s serial killer thriller The Monster of Florence has been bought by Tom Cruise and United Artists. Chris McQuarrie will adapt the reconstruction of eight double homicides committed between 1968 and 1985. Cruise will decide if he will also star or only produce after he reads the script.
Jessica Alba will star in Marilyn Agrelo’s modern fable, based on Aimee Bender’s book, An Invisible Sign of My Own. Silverwood Films and iDeal Partnes Film Fund have made a financing deal, with Endeavor handling domestic rights and Kimmel Intl. the foreign.
Warner Brothers has the rights to Shawn Christensen’s scifi thriller Karma Coalition. It’s about “a falsely accused fugitive who embarks on a quest to uncover the truth behind his wife's death before the world comes to an end.”
Stephen J. Cannell confirmed the Greatest American Hero movie, "We've written a screenplay, and we've hired a director, and we're in the midst of putting this together for the future." He also says that original cast members Connie Sellecca, William Katt, and Robert Culpwill have “more than cameos: acting jobs." It “follows a man accused of brutally murdering his wife who is given a chance to save her by going back in time in one-hour increments.”
Universal and Sid and Marty Krofft have a deal for a live action movie based on ‘70s kids’ show Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. The Crofts and Mosaic will produce, and Dana Gould will write the script.
Evil Dead: The Musical in 3D will maybe start filming spring 2009, hopefully with the stage cast. Choreographer Hinto Battle, "There's not much to talk about now--we're still getting things in order--but it will be fun." Battle and co-creator Christopher Bond will co-direct.
Ayumi Tachihara’s comedy yakuza manga Gokudo no Shokutaku (Yakuza’s Dining Table) will be adapted into a movie. Ken Matsudaira will star as Raizo Kuji, a middle aged, divorced yakuza boss who is also a food connoisseur and takes night classes.
Scott Faye and 3D Realms are working on a Duke Nukem movie: “With the two new games coming out based on Duke Nukem, I’m working at establishing a Duke film scenario that will compel a studio to finance a feature version. Certainly, there’s a large audience that knows and loves this character.”
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Silence!
It's time again for... Eunice loves cheesy old TV shows!
Lost in Space's Dr. Smith insults the Robot 133 times:
Books Thugs -N- Virally
The Library of Congress National Book Festival takes place September 27.
Analog and Asimov's changing size, not price
Sandman original art on Ebay
Eagle Eye viral marketing
Twelve page preview of Astroboy manga.
Museum Featuring Manga, Anime Planned for Kobe, Japan
McFarlane Toys Halo Wars action figures
Ray Bradbury and the State of the Public Library
Roald Dahl was a sexy British spy. Who knew?
GTA helps an 11 year old save her family. Of course, why an 11 year old is playing GTA in the first place....
Golden Age Superheroes - In Paper!
How To Eat an Alien "5. They are Kosher meat."
Jim Henson's Fantastic World
Until October 5, the traveling exibit will be at Smithsonian's International Gallery in Washington, DC.
"Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service with The Jim Henson Legacy, Jim Henson's Fantastic World offers audiences a rare peek into the imagination of this brilliant innovator and creator of Kermit, Big Bird, and other beloved characters. The exhibition documents Henson’s process of 'visual thinking' through works of art, photographs, documents, puppets and other 3-D objects, and film and video clips. Museums may create a separate activity center with the educational and interactive resources provided."
Will also be in:
Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA - October 25, 2008-January 18, 2009
Orange County Regional History Center, Orlando - February 7, 2009-May 3, 2009
Experience Music Project | Science Fiction Museum, Seattle - May 23, 2009-August 16, 2009
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA - September 9, 2009-November 29, 2009
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS - December 19, 2009-March 14, 2010
National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA - April 3, 2010-June 27, 2010
Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA - July 17, 2010-October 10, 2010
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago - October 30, 2010-January 23, 2011
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Comics and Books
A one-shot comic book companion to My Name Is Bruce, written by Milton Freewater Jr. and penciled by Cliff Richards, is coming September 24th from Dark Horse Comics.
Bluewater Productions has announced Roger Corman Presents. The first title to debut in 2009? Roger Corman Presents Black Scorpion.
J.K. Rowling has won her copyright suit against the Lexicon.
DVD Releases
Star Trek: Alternate Realities - September 16
The Thing (Blu-ray) - September 30
Beauty and the Beast: The Complete Series - September 30
Forgetting Sarah Marshall - September 30
Psycho: Special Edition (Universal Legacy Series) - October 7
Sweeney Todd (Blu-ray) - October 21
Chungking Express (Criterion Collection) - November 25
Hancock - November 25
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Shop smart, shop S-mart...
My Name Is Bruce will be touring with Bruce Campbell introducing the movie and doing Q&A after.
October 26: Austin, TX - Black Curtain screening/premiere at the Alamo Drafthouse with Harry Knowles
Oct. 31-November 2: New York City - Sunshine Cinema
Nov. 5: Philadelphia, PA
Nov. 7: Boston, MA
Nov. 9: Hartford, CT
Nov. 12: New Haven, CT
Nov. 14: Baltimore, MD
Nov. 15: Washington D.C.
Nov. 19: Columbus, OH
Nov. 20: Toledo, OH
Nov. 21-23: Detroit, MI
Nov. 28-30: Chicago, IL
Dec. 3: Madison, WI
Dec. 5-7: Minneapolis, MN
Dec. 12: Seattle, WA
Dec. 13-14: Portland, OR
Dec. 15: Medford, OR
Dec. 17: San Francisco, CA
Dec. 18: Berkeley, CA
Dec. 19-21: Los Angeles, CA
Specific theaters to be announced.
TV News...
Greg Berlanti and Rene Echevarria, through ABC Studios, are developing The Return. It’s about the effect of an alien landing on the world.
Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Sirico, Steve Schirripa, Richard Griffiths, and Madison Pettis will be in NBC's holiday special Letters to Santa--A Muppets Christmas. Christmas Eve, The Muppets have to grant Christmas wishes to three children when they accidently avert letters to Santa.
While Bill Lawrence has gathered together most of Scrubs' guest stars for its likely finale, Masi Oka and Sarah Lancaster, however, won't be there. Says Lawrence, "They both wanted to do it, but NBC said they weren't allowed to."
Zuleikha Robinson will play Ilana on the fifth season of Lost.
Tom Sizemore has been hired onto Starz's Crash as "Detective Adrian Cooper whose unorthodox measures wreak havoc when he investigates a police-involved shooting."
Monday, September 8, 2008
Trailers
Some of these links may contain mature material, and MRFH is not responsible for their content.
The Wolfman
Gatchaman teaser (click "Our Films", select "Gatchaman," and then "View Teaser Clip”)
Bolt
Surfer, Dude
Labor Pains
Videos
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Use code: AllSpark62609)
Ghost Town 6 clips
Eagle Eye
Lakeview Terrace 5 clips 1 featurette
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Movie News
Guillermo del Toro has work until at least 2017. Post-Hobbit projects for Universal include Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Drood.
Palisades Tartan UK, LLC and Sweden’s Svensk Filmindustri have an agreement to extend the former’s distribution rights to director Ingmar Bergman’s movies. The 30 film library includes The Seventh Seal, Persona, Autumn Sonata, Wild Strawberries, Smiles of a Summer Night, Scenes From a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander.
Phedon Papamichael’s From Within has joined the After Dark Horrorfest III lineup. About “a rash of suicides in the small town of Grovetown, which causes fear and panic among local residents. As those around 18-year-old Lindsay continue to die gruesome deaths, she begins to distrust everyone and suspects she will become the next victim.” It star Elizabeth Rice, Thomas Dekker, Kelly Blatz, Laura Allen, Adam Goldberg, and Rumer Willis.
Computer animated science fiction Delgo has a December 12 release date.
Robert De Niro has left Martin Campbell's Edge of Darkness the same week he showed up, due to “creative differences.” His character will be shot around until a replacement is found.
Denzel Washington will star in Allen and Albert Hughes’ post apocalypse drama Book of Eli. Gary Whitta wrote, and Athany Peckham rewrote, the story of a lone hero who must fight his way across America with the knowledge that could possibly be society’s redemption. Filming starts January.
Ashley Judd will join Dwayne Johnson for Michael Lembeck’s Tooth Fairy. Starts shooting in the fall.
Prequels, Sequels & Remakes
Columbia Pictures has hired Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write a script for a new Ghostbusters movie.
Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi will be return to for Spider-Man 4 using Jamie Vanderbilt's script. Nothing concrete Kirsten Dunst or the new villain.
Kevin Eastman on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: "Although the CGI film did well enough to warrent a sequel, there has been much talk between Imagi and Warners to do a better "re-invention" (newest Hollywood buzzword) of the TMNT's, in a live action film--like what was done with Batman. Back to basics, back to the origin and the intro of the Shredder, etc...there have been talks, trips to Northampton to talk to Mr Laird, and discussions with the original "first" TMNT film director Steve Barron to come back and do it right--but no official word yet...will keep you posted."
Aaron Eckhart on Harvey Dent showing up again in Batman: "I asked Chris if there was a chance of coming back. 'No way,' he said. 'He's toast.'"
Nicholas Cage on a Ghost Rider sequel: “There have been talks and good ones with where to go with the character. It looks like it will take place in Europe and the character will work with the [Catholic] Church. It’ll be a completely new experience. It’s exciting.” … “It hasn’t progressed to [who the next villain will be] yet to be able to say, but I do know it will be shot in Europe and there will be some sort of connection working with different religious figures.”
Also on National Treasure 3: “There’s been talk about doing it in the South, maybe in New Orleans.”
Adaptations
Studio War Involving ‘Watchmen’ Heats Up Judge Gary Allen Feess has set a January 6, 2009, trial date for Fox vs. Warner Brothers over Watchmen. The trial will set the stage for discovery and deposition proceedings during the rest of this year. Even so, Warner Brothers is sticking to a March 6, release.
Jeff Nathanson will write DreamWorks’ first adaptation of Scholastic multiplatform series The 39 Clues, which Steven Spielberg will direct.
Mark Strong (one of my Guys to Keep an Eye On) has been cast in an unknown part in the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movie.
Stephen Sommers is in negotiations to direct, and co-write with Stuart Beattie, a Tarzan movie for Warner Brothers and producer Jerry Weintraub.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Superman's Sing-Along Action Figures
Saving the house where Superman was born
The soundtrack to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is now available on iTunes. Liner notes here.
Transformers action toy not a restricted weapon.
Inventors are sure cars can fly
Japan's Miyazaki keeps computers out of cartoons
U.S. short on tough guy actors?
Kotobukiya's Punisher Bust. I gotta say the face is done rather well, but…
I’m not digging these Half Blood Prince action figures. I'm not a collector so maybe I’m wrong, but I think they have weird proportions (what’s up with casual wear Harry’s neck, and Snape’s head?). I do like the Luna one though.
Helvetica robot t-shirt.
Events and showings
There Will Come Soft Rains extends its New York run.
The Landmark Theatres Varsity in Seattle plans to extend the run of anime movie The Girl Who Leapt Through Time through September 11th. Showtimes for September 5-11 are: Friday-Sunday at 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:20 and Monday-Thurday at 7:10, 9:20.
Anime Masterpieces will premiere on September 27 at the Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.
Death Note Day at NYC Kinokuniya Books on September 14
September 20, New York Anime Festival Charity Pre-Party.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
DVD Releases
The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration Giftset – September 23
Bender's Game - October 7
Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition (Episodes: First Spaceship on Venus, Laserblast, Werewolf, and Future War) - October 7
Wall-E - October 7
Band of Brothers (Blu-ray) - October 7
Young Frankenstein (Blu-ray) - October 7
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius - October 7
Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord - October 7
The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Complete First Season - October 7
Interview With the Vampire (Blu-ray) –October 14
Constantine (Blur-ray) – October 14
Five more classic Disney animated movies are coming to Blu-ray. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Beauty and the Beast, and Fantasia 2000 will follow Sleeping Beauty (October 7), along with unfinished and "lost film" Destino, which was created by Walt Disney and Salvador Dali in 1946. Pinocchio will be out in the spring, Snow White next, then Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 in early 2010, and Beauty and the Beast in the fall.
Trick 'R Treat
October 13:
“FANGORIA will host a free screening of the anthology horror flick TRICK ’R TREAT at New York City’s Two Boots Pioneer Theater on Monday, October 13 at 7 p.m., marking the film’s East Coast premiere and a rare opportunity to see this eagerly awaited movie on the big screen. The film’s writer/director, Michael (X-MEN 2) Doughtery, will introduce the film and take part in a Q&A. The film stars Anna (TRUE BLOOD) Paquin, Brian (MANHUNTER) Cox, Dylan (FIDO) Baker and Leslie (MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN) Bibb.”
More info here.
TV News...
Pleased with the first six episodes of the upcoming second season of Chuck, NBC has picked up the back nine episodes.
"Massive Heroes Spoilers Ahead!"
Ted Raimi will appear in the fourth episode of Legend of the Seeker as Sebastian, a maker of enchanted maps.
SciFi Channel says despite rumors, Battlestar Galatica "is still slated to return January 2009."
Star Wars: The Clone Wars will premiere with an hour long episode on Cartoon Network October 3 9 pm ET/PT.
Mark Steven Johnson on Preacher:"We were budgeting and everything and it was getting really close to going. But the new head of HBO felt it was just too dark and too violent and too controversial. Which, of course, is kind of the point! It was a very faithful adaptation of the first few books, nearly word for word. They offered me the chance to redevelop it but I refused. I've learned my lesson on that front and I won't do it again. So I'm afraid it's dead at HBO. I've heard someone is in the process of getting the rights to turn it into a feature film."
HBO's comedy pilot Bored To Death will be directed by Alan Taylor, written by Jonathan Ames, and star Jason Schwartzman and Ted Danson. It has "Schwartzman as a struggling Brooklyn writer with a drinking problem who pretends to be a private detective in the vein of his heroes from Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett novels. Danson will play Jonathan's friend and quasi-mentor, a pompous but articulate magazine editor."
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