Archive for November 3rd, 2006
We’ll be featuring a series of interviews with important cast and crew members from Casino Royale upto its release on November 17. I feel it is important to note that we at the X-Realms did not physically conduct these Q&As ourselves, as we’re not important enough to be invited to any such press junkets. Sony Pictures, however, indulged us with these interviews and have given us the greenlight to post them, so do that we shall.
To start off the set (which also includes Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench, Mads Mikkelsen, director Martin Campbell and more), we have Chris Corbould, the Special Effects and Miniature effects supervisor on Casino Royale. Corbould has been on board the production team of many previous Bond films, among them The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. His impressive CV also includes Superman II and Superman III, Willow, Alien, Shadowlands, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Batman Begins.
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According to Dark Horizons, Access Hollywood reported that Michael Hoffman is currently in talks to direct the film adaptation of the sixth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Hoffman, who was born on Hawai, has previously directed films such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Emperor’s Club, Soapdish and Game 6, released last year.
We’ll treat this as a rumour for now - there have also been suggestions that either Chris Columbus (gasp) or Alfonso Cuaron could make a return for the sixth film - but an official announcement is expected before Christmas.
Posted in Harry Potter, Movies •
Edgar Ramirez has been cast as an assassin in Paul Greengrass’ The Bourne Ultimatum, the third an last film in the Bourne series based on the book trilogy by Robert Ludlum, reports Empire Online.
The role of the assassin who hunts down the titular Jason Bourne (played by Matt Damon) was previously thought to have gone to Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Motorcycle Diaries), but the actor had to turn down due to a conflict of commitments (he’s directing his own movie).
Greengrass has now replaced Bernal with Edgar Ramirez, who played a bounty hunter opposite Keira Knightley in Domino.
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According to ComingSoon.net, Walt Disney has officially scheduled a release date of May 16, 2008 for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the sequel to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which was released in late 2005 to considerable financial success.
Prince Caspian is actually the fourth Narnia book going by the sequence in which author C.S. Lewis wrote them. Principal photography on director Andrew Adamson’s film adaptation will commence in January 2007.
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J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter book series, has updated her official website talking about her progress on writing the seventh and final book and mentioning that she’s deciding between three possible titles for it:
I’ve just had a great writing week. There are few feelings more joyous than reading back over the week’s work and thinking ‘that’s not bad at all’, as opposed to the all-too-frequent, ‘it’s rubbish, I’ve wasted a week and I’ll have to re-write the lot.’ And if you think that’s an exaggeration or false modesty, you are very, very wrong. It’s perfectly possible to put in eight hour days and have nothing to show for them but a single idea that, if reworked completely, might be passable.
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ComingSoon.net has published the official synopsis of Mark Millar’s Wanted, the graphic novel movie adaptation starring James McAvoy.
“Based upon Mark Millar’s explosive graphic novel series and helmed by the stunning visualist director Timur Bekmambetov–creator of the most successful Russian film franchise in history, the “Night Watch” series–”Wanted” tells the story of one invisible drone’s transformation into a dark avenger. In 2008, the world will be introduced to a superhero for a new millennium: Wesley Gibson.
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Variety reports that Rogue Pictures has purchased the domestic and limited international distribution rights to Castlevania, the $50 million video game adaptation from Paul W.S. Anderson.
Castlevania, created and developed by Konami is about a war between the enchanted family bloodline of the Belmonts and Dracula. Almost every hundred years, Dracula is resurrected and it is up to the Belmonts to defeat him before he unleashes his wrath on the entire world. Anderson says that the film will span “hundreds of years”, and recent news has revealed the main setting to be 15th-Century Transylvania with the focus on the Dracula legend’s genesis in the form of Romanian prince Vlad the Impaler.
Shooting is slated to begin next Spring with Jonathan Frakes rumored to be cast as a character called Grandfather. A 2007 release date is pencilled in.
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I am a little leary of the situation. The truth will come out when, and if the US economy, and the dollar begins to strengthen. If prices remain high, you’ll know someone is lying. Either OPEC doesn’t have the supply they claim they have, or Analysts are incorrect when they say demand has decreased. Personally, I don’t buy the claim that demand has decreased. Population is ever increasing, so, the the demand should always be increasing. 