Archive for December, 2006
According to Dark Horizons, Casino Royale is now officially the highest grossing James Bond film ever.
While the film has a domestic revenue of $146.3 million, it’s its international take of more than twice that much - $305.4 million - that catapulted it to the top of the list. The $451.8 million (and growing!) worldwide tally easily puts Casino Royale ahead of Die Another Day’s $431 million in 2002 and 2003. The movie is currently tenth in the 2006 box office list domestically, and sixth internationally, and still climbing.
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Posted in James Bond, Movies •
Members of the French Star Wars fanclub are currently receiving the newest issue of the Lucasfilm Magazine and their annual membership packs. This includes the membership cards plus a letter from Star Wars creator George Lucas himself, which Sithclan.net have a scan of online. In it, Lucas addresses what’s in store for the franchise. We’ve translated the part that pertains to the eagerly anticipated television series:
“Concerning the future of Star Wars, we are currently working on our first internally created animated series, which is set during the Clone Wars. I am very happy with how the series, which you will be able to discover in 2008, is shaping up. We are also starting the development of the ‘live-action’ Star Wars series which will be set between Episodes III and IV.”
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Posted in Movies, Star Wars •
George Lucas revealed on Friday that Indiana Jones will return to the big screen in May 2008. It appears that he and Steven Spielberg have now finalized the script and filming is set to begin next year with Harrison Ford once again returning to play the adventurous archaeologist. Although locations have yet to be chosen, the Star Wars creator said that at least part of the movie will be shot in Los Angeles.
“It’s going to be fantastic. It’s going to be the best one yet,” said Lucas who is in preparation for his role as grand marshal of Monday’s Rose Parade, adding that the picture will be a “character piece” that will include “very interesting mysteries.”
Indiana Jones IV, which has been in development hell for over a decade follows Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
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Source: The Associated Press
Posted in Indiana Jones, Movies •
The US version of the Rogue Picture’s Hot Fuzz website has now gone live. The site, which includes an official synopsis, character profiles, trailers and an opportunity to ‘join the Fuzz’ (mailing list) can be accessed here.
Hot Fuzz is British cop thriller written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced fame starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The plot, paying homage to the cop movie genre, revolves around London policeman Nicholas Angel (Pegg), who is so good at his job he’s making his colleagues look bad. He’s transferred to the village of Sandford in Somerset, where he’s partnered with the oafish but well-meaning Constable Danny Butterman (Frost), who dreams of being Mel Gibson. Grisly events begin to take place in the rural village, and it’s up to Angel and Butterman to sort it out. Hot Fuzz is scheduled for release February 16th 2007.
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Posted in Movies •
After the recent torrent of images from the Tarantino/Rodriguez double-header Grindhouse we now finally have the onesheet poster courtesy of comingsoon. The beautifully distressed poster features the now familiar imagery for both Death Proof and Planet Terror with the Grindhouse banner and the tagline “The Gruesome Twosome Returns!”.
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Grindhouse will consist of two individual films, Planet Terror, directed by Rodriguez, and Deathproof, directed by Tarantino, and is scheduled for release 6 April 2007. Inspired by late 70s and early 80s slasher films, Deathproof is about a serial killer who uses his car to mutilate his victims. Planet Terror is a zombie movie with ‘infected people menacing’ a town. The features are set to be conjoined by grind house style trailers by Eli Roth and Edgar Wright amongst others.
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Posted in Movies •
Geekmonthly.com is running an exclusive report in which the site claims that Universal Home Video is considering greenlighting a two hour Battlestar Galactica movie that would be released directly on DVD. If the SCI-FI Channel approves a fourth season for the critically acclaimed television series, the telefilm would start shooting in March 2007, just prior to the beginning of production on the new season.
The site’s informant mentions that there is no story outline available yet for the film, but that an idea is to reuse existing sets and tie in the story with the still-to-be-greenlit prequel spin-off show Caprica. More details are available here - but none of this has been officially confirmed as of yet.
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Posted in Battlestar Galactica, Television •
Sofia Coppola, the immensely gifted daughter of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola, has at her young age already won a fair share of accolades for her first two films, The Virgin Suicides and Lost In Translation. In her third movie Marie Antoinette, she stays true to her pattern of focusing on complex young women, but sets her story in 18th century France.
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Posted in Movies, Reviews •
French website DVD Rama has an interview with Christophe Gans, in which the director of Brotherhood of the Wolf and Silent Hill reveals that Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Silent Hill) and fantasy author Neil Gaiman will jointly pen a Silent Hill 2 script.
Avary will join the project right after he concludes his Driver script, while Gans indicated he may not return to the director’s chair because he is busy prepping Onimusha, another video game adaptation.
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Posted in Movies •
Director Chris Nolan will commence principal photography on his Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, this spring, with the role of district attorney Harvey Dent a.k.a. Two Face confirmed but currently uncast.
One actor who was rumoured to be in contention for the role has now denied any involvement. Hugh Jackman, who starred in Nolan’s previous film The Prestige, told the Sydney Morning Herald: “Same thing [as Superman Returns]. I think because I’d worked with Chris Nolan. I think it was just fanboy stuff.” The Superman reference has the background that Jackman was said to have bagged to role of Pa Kent, a false rumour that originated from the fact that Jackman had worked with Superman Returns director Bryan Singer on the X-Men films.
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Posted in Batman, Movies •
When I heard the news that James Brown, the ‘godfather of soul’, had died Christmas day, my first (and admitedly very cynical) reaction was: how long will it take Hollywood to produce a film about his life? According to Variety, the answer is: about two years.
It appears that none other than Spike Lee (Malcolm X, Inside Man) will bring the life of James Brown to the big screen, rewriting a script that has passed from Steve Baigelman to Jezz and John Henry Butterworth and has seen several drafts already.
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Posted in Movies •
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. 