Archive for December 14th, 2006
Appearing online today are the first three production stills from Jay Russell’s The Waterhorse, next year’s other Christmas fantasy epic (it’s set for release on December 7, 2007, the same date as The Golden Compass). And they’ve leaked onto… TheOneRing.net, of all places! I’m assuming some of the site’s excellent industry contacts that worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy must now be lending their craft to The Waterhorse. See the images of the water creature here.
Based on the children’s fantasy novel by British author Dick King-Smith, The Waterhorse tells the story of a lonely boy in Scotland who finds a mysterious egg from which hatches a water horse - a mythical sea monster of Scottish legend. The film stars Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin.
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20th Century Fox has unveiled the teaser trailer for Live Free or Die Hard from director Len Wiseman, starring Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Timothy Olyphant and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Use these links to load the clip in various sizes: high resolution, medium resolution, low resolution (Quicktime) or in Window Media format.
The fourth film of the Die Hard action franchise will feature John McClane (Willis) attempting to stop a techno-terrorist from shutting down the nation’s computer systems on the Fourth of July. The story takes place around Washington, D.C.
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Entertainment Weekly are running an exclusive early peek at one of next year’s most anticipated films: Grindhouse, the double feature by directors Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) Robert Rodriguez (Sin City).
Most notably, the site’s first look gallery features the very first impressions of Tarantino’s half of the feature, titled Death Proof. And the shots show part of the enticing cast the director has lined up: there’s Kurt Russell as the psycho driver with his killer car, Rose McGowan as the scantily clad babe, and Lost’s Naveen Andrews as a zombie slayer. You can view the images here.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced the nominees for the 64th Golden Globe Awards for motion pictures and television series released in the year 2006.
Unexpectedly (because unexpected) heading the list is Babel by director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) with seven nominations: Best Drama Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt), Best Supporting Actress (Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi), Best Screenplay and Best Score. Trailing close behind are Martin Scorsese’s The Departed with six nominations, Dreamgirls with five and The Queen with four. While Clint Eastwood was nominated twice as Best Director (Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima), and Leonardo Di Caprio twice as Best Actor (The Departed and The Blood Diamond), Sascha Baron Cohen managed to get his film Borat nominated as Best Comedy and himself as Best Actor in a Comedy! Meanwhile, Grey’s Anatomy leads the TV nominations with four, while Lost managed to grab two.
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Moviehole has been chatting to director George Miller about who’ll be replacing Mel Gibson in the next outing for the long dormant Mad Max franchise, Mad Max IV: Fury Road.
“I’ve had a number of young well-known actors express a lot of interest”, said Miller, “They have to want to push the limits – they have to be lean and hungry”. During the interview the name of Paul Walker who is reportedly interested in the role was discussed. The Australian helmer goes on to confirm that Mad Max IV won’t be a sequel and therefore the role of Max will not be rewritten for a younger actor.
Although Warner Bros have not yet greenlit the project, apparently there have been enquiries from more than one studio. Mad Max IV: Fury Road was set to film in 2002, but the project was aborted when the dollar collapsed and took the budget with it.
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In an interveiw with Variety, J.J. Abrams has confirmed that Star Trek XI is scheduled for release by Paramount Pictures in 2008 rather than a year later as some earlier reports suggested.
Although Abrams has yet to be confirmed as director, being presently recruited in a production role, it shouldn’t be too long before we know who is filling the director’s chair. Joining Abrams for production duties is Damon Lindelof with writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman penning the screenplay. Bryan Burk will executive produce.
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Two high-resolution images from Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End have gone online at ComingSoon.net. The first is the same image (albeit in much better quality) featuring Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) and Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) that was posted on a Russian filmsite two weeks ago, the second is entirely new and depicts Chow Yun Fat’s character Captain Sao Fang alongside Barbossa and Sparrow.
You can view the images in our movie gallery: picture one, picture two. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End is scheduled for release May 25, 2007.
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The first official movie still from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (the Fantasticar picture was more of a promotional shot) has been published in Ciné Live, a french movie magazine. It shows the four fantastics - The Thing, The Human Torch, Invisible Woman and Mr. Fantastic - walking towards a room somewhere indoors (though I must admit the characters look somewhat photoshopped onto the set).
You can view a scan of the picture at Flickr.com or in our movie gallery, where you’ll also find the image of the Fantasticar.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last night that one of the greatest film composers of all time will be awarded an Honorary Oscar at the 79th Academy Awards presentation on February 25, 2007, “for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music.”
In his career which has spanned over 45 years so far, Ennio Morricone has composed over 300 motion picture scores and received Oscar nominations for Days of Heaven (1978), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991) and Malèna (2000). He was eligible for the Honorary award because he hasn’t previously won an Oscar. Morricone is also the composer of such renowned Italian films as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once upon a Time in America and Cinema Paradiso.
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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. 