Archive for January 9th, 2007
Following our earlier report, AICN has revealed that Jason Bateman has now signed to play opposite Will Smith in Tonight, He Comes.
Jason Bateman began his acting career in 1981 playing James Cooper Ingalls in the television drama, Little House on the Prairie and starred in a succession of 80s TV shows before experiencing a revival with the Emmy Award-winning Arrested Development. Bateman is currently filming 2007’s The Kingdom and has roles in three films in post-production.
Tonight he Comes is a drama about a hard-living superhero (Will Smith) who has fallen out of favor with the public and enters into a questionable relationship with the wife (Charlize Theron) of the public relations professional (Bateman) who’s trying to repair his image. The movie is scheduled for release in 2008.
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Doug Jones recently wrapped his scenes as the Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and is now preparing to reprise his role as Abe Sapien in Hellboy: The Golden Army. iFMagazine caught up with the actor and asked him the question on everyone’s lips: will planet-consumer Galactus make an appearance alongside the Silver Surfer in the Fantastic Four sequel?
Jones answered: “What about Galactus? Again, no one has briefed me on what I can and can’t say, but I’m going to play it safe and say that it would be difficult to introduce the Silver Surfer without Galactus having some kind of presence in the film.”
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Peter Cullen and Frank Welker made a name for themselves in the mid-eighties, voicing Optimus Prime and Megatron in the original Transformers cartoon series. While film director Michael Bay had never planned on asking them to voice their old characters in his live-action film adaptation, the fan demand especially for Cullen but also for Welker has been so big that it couldn’t be disregarded. Cullen was officially brought on board a few months ago, but there have only been rumours surrounding a possible involvement of Welker.
Now IESB.net has posted a story in which their source indicates that Welker is only “days away from signing on for Megatron”. Curiously enough, the site updated their post soon after with word from a second studio source who claims that “as of two weeks ago, Hugo Weaving was also a leading contender for the role of Megatron”. Weaving is best known for his roles as Mr. Smith in The Matrix trilogy and Elrond in the Lord of the Rings films.
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No sooner does James Cameron’s long coming Avatar film get a production starting date do we learn that there’s a second Avatar project in the works. Apart from the title though, the two projects have nothing in common.
According to Variety, The Sixth Sense and Lady in the Water director M. Night Shyamalan has made a deal with Paramount to adapt the animated Nickelodeon TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender for the big screen. Shyamalan will write, direct and produce the potential franchise starter, which will be a live-action film.
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Paramount Vantage has launched the official website for Craig Brewer’s (Hustle & Flow) new film Black Snake Moan. In addition to that, the film’s trailer can now be viewed on the Black Snake Moan MySpace page.
Black Snake Moan stars Samuel L. Jackson as the bitter and broken Lazarus who finds the half-naked Rae (played by Christina Ricci) lying unconscious on the street. Putting her on a chain after he finds out the girl has a nymphomania issue, he tries to cure her of her wicked ways. The film opens in theaters February 23.
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Fox Filmed Entertainment Chairmen Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman have announced that James Cameron will begin principal photography on his sci-fi epic Avatar in April 2007 with an anticipated Summer 2009 release date.
The project is the result of years of R&D to create the proprietary Fusion digital 3-D camera system that can create a hybrid of live action and animation to create an unprecedented level of visual realism. The real-time virtual camera system can integrate an actors’ performances and CG performances with real sets, miniatures and CG environments with a virtual camera eyepiece allowing the director to see the characters in their virtual world. The film will also incorporate new performance capture techniques to digitally reproduce the actor’s facial expressions. Cameron anticipates that Avatar will be 60% CG and 40% live action.
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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. 