Archive for December 13th, 2006
Great news for comic fans!
Starting today, Sundang the Slay-Bot, illustrated and written by the X-Realms very own professional artist Mitch Watley, is now available to read in your web browser on our dedicated site. In our mission to provide you with quality entertainment, the images are presented in a higher resolution than usual, so dial-up users beware.
Included as part of this is the latest chapter in the Sundang story, as well as an archive of the previous issues in higher resolution for your reading enjoyment.
Click here to visit the new site
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Warner Bros. Pictures has just supplied the X-Realms with six brand new shots from The Golden Compass. We reported last week that the official website for the movie had gone live, and that it featured lots of new images. However, those shots are mostly cropped and built into the site’s layout, making them pretty to look at but less easy to save and/or print.
The six new images today are actual film stills, and the first of their kind from the anticipated adaptation of Philip Pullman’s first His Dark Materials novel by director Chris Weitz. They offer a good look at the film’s main characters: Mrs. Coulter (played by Nicole Kidman), Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), and the story’s heroine Lyra Belacqua (newcomer Dakota Blue Richards).
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Posted in Movies •
Little Miss Sunshine is one of the most talked about indie films of the year. It won the World Cinema Audience award at the Sydney Film Festival, and got a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival, prompting Fox Searchlight to secure the film’s distribution rights for a staggering $10 million, one of the biggest deals in the latter festival’s history. Remarkably, Little Miss Sunshine is the first venture into the cinema film business of the husband-and-wife director team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who have long made their claim to fame directing some of the most stunning music videos of the last fifteen years for bands like R.E.M., the Smashing Pumpkins and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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There’s an interview in the LA Times with Tobey Maguire in which the Spiderman actor discusses the upcoming Spiderman 3 and the origin of the black goo: “Basically, there’s the goo, right? The symbiote which has, like, a dark energy, like the goo from the thing that creates Venom.”
Realizing how confusing that might sound to someone less familiar with the comic, Maguire continued: “(Venom is) a very, very popular character from the later Spider-Man comics. He has the same kind of attributes that Spider-Man has, but he’s just stronger, faster and more vicious than Spider-Man. And it comes from this goo that comes from outer space, so first the goo comes and gets hold of me.”
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The BBC reports that the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood has been commissioned for a second season. The series starring the time-travelling Captain Jack (John Barrowman) was so successful it broke BBC Three’s ratings record, it also drew the largest audience for a non-sport programme on digital TV. The second season of the sci-fi thriller will be aired on BBC Two.
Created by the writer of the new Doctor Who Russell T Davies, Torchwood (an anagram of Doctor Who) is produced by BBC Wales in Cardiff, where the series is set. The storyline follows a team of modern day investigators as they use alien technology to solve crime, both alien and human.
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Superhero Hype! reports that Sam Raimi will be presenting an exclusive extended cut of Spider-Man 2 on FX channel in the US along with a new clip of Spider-Man 3 in the new year. The transmission date has been advertised as Jan 2 at 7pm.
Spider-Man 3 is the third outing for the film franchise that was launched in 2002 and is based on the fictional Marvel Comics character created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. Sam Raimi, who lensed the first two movies returns to the Director’s chair and once again Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, and J. K. Simmons return to acting duties. Spider-Man 3 is scheduled to be released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on May 4, 2007.
Click here to discuss Spider-Man 3 in the Realm of Superheroes on the X-Boards.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.