Archive for September 29th, 2006
Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican director who will shortly be premiering his acclaimed fantasy horror Pan’s Labyrinth has been talking to Sci-Fi wire about Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, the sequel to the 2004 movie Hellboy.
Hellboy 2 will feature killer robots and a new character called Johann Kraus, a spectral B.P.R.D. (United States’ Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense) agent. Del Toro told Sci-Fi Wire that the movie will be like Pan’s Labyrinth, and elaborated saying “The idea is, in a strange way, not very different from Pan’s Labyrinth, It’s a clash between the real world and the fantasy world, you know? And how the world of humans is destroying, eroding, imagination.”
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StarsInMyEyes, the web based resource for auditions and opportunities in the entertainment industry has published another casting call for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, confirming that the movie will be shot in both New Zealand and Europe. It reads as follows-
“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian will reunite most of the principal cast from The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Prince Caspian finds the Pevensie siblings pulled back into the land of Narnia, where a thousand years have passed since they left.
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Aint it Cool News is reporting that Robert Downey Jr. will play the role of Tony Stark, the man behind Iron Man.
Iron Man, directed by Jon Favreau (Elf, Zathura), is a billionaire weapons-manufacturer who builds a high-tech suit of armor to save his life and the world.
Iron Man is slated for a May 2, 2008 release.
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Microsoft made a splash on the first day of X06, their annual Xbox event in Barcelona, Spain.
By far the biggest announcement of the day, Academy Award-winning writer, director and producer Peter Jackson, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Fran Walsh, and Microsoft Game Studios will combine forces to create two new interative entertainment series available exclusively for the Xbox 360.
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