Archive for January 16th, 2007
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Doctor Who, Howl’s Moving Castle and Batman Begins have managed to make the Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards.
The Nebula Awards® are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Founded as the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1965 by Damon Knight, the organization began with a charter membership of 78 writers; it now has over 1,400 members, among them most of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy. The final ballot will be mailed in early March and the Awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards® Banquet to be held at the New York Marriott Financial Center May 11-13, 2007.
The complete list is as follows:
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Pan’s Labyrinth, by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has won two awards at the 18th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. The dark fantasy tale claimed the FIPRESCI Award for best foreign-language film by a jury of international critics and the fest’s International Filmmaker Award.
The fest, which began Jan. 4, screened 255 films from 73 countries, including 79 premieres and 55 of the 61 foreign-language film entries for this year’s Academy Awards. A record 120,000 attendees are estimated to have taken part in the event.
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American actress Eva Mendes has been speaking to lad’s mag Maxim about her role in Ghost Rider. In the movie, Mendes plays Roxanne Simpson, girlfried of Johnny Blaze played by Nicolas Cage.
“I wanted to make comic book fans happy.” said Mendes, “The original Roxanne was blonde and blue-eyed, but she also had huge bajoongas. If I gain weight it goes to my boobs and my butt. I figured since I can’t be blonde and blue-eyed, I’ll at least have her bra size. So the bajoongas got big. They were out of control.”
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Reed Hastings, the Chief Executive of Online DVD rental company Netflix Inc will today unveil the organisation’s long-awaited online movie delivery service which allows subscribers to view around 1,000 movies and television shows on their personal computers free of charge.
“For consumers under 30, they are doing so much with online video this is a natural extension of their usage paradigm on a laptop,” Hastings said, “Eventually we want to be on every Internet-connected screen from cell phones to computers to big screen plasma TVs but the starting place is the PC.”
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The Latino Review have dropped an interesting casting rumor from James Cameron’s Avatar via a source from FX outfit Gentle Giant Studios.
Although Cameron has already picked Australian Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana for the lead roles, it seems that Michael Biehn, who the director worked with on Terminator 2: Judgement Day might be set to join the production. Biehn will be seen next as Sheriff Hague in the Planet Terror segment of Grindhouse and has two further films in production: Psych 9 and Thats’ Amore!
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AICN have acquired the first image from upcominhg sci-fi actioner The Mutant Chronicles in the form of an early teaser poster.
The film is set in the 23 century when the earth perilously balances on the brink of devastation as war, famine, and plague grip the age of man. As a menacing threat is uncovered that could destroy our world forever, soldier Major Mitch Hunter leads a fight against an army of underworld NecroMutants.
The Mutant Chronicles starts Thomas Jane, John Malkovich, Ron Perlman, Ron Perlman, Sean Pertwee and Devon Aoki. The movie is directed by Simon Hunter and is presently in post-production.
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The first still has emerged from Aliens Vs. Predator 2: Survival of the Fittest, courtesy of the German site movie-info.
AVP2 is the upcoming sequel to 2004’s Alien vs. Predator film. With a script by Shane Salerno and commercial and music video directors the Strause Brothers in the chair, the story revolves around warring alien and predator races that descend on a small town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.
AVP2 stars John Ortiz, Steven Pasquale and Johnny Lewis and is scheduled for release in late 2007.
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During an interview with Times2, British actress Imelda Staunton spoke briefly about her role in the fifth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Staunton plays Dolores Umbridge, a Senior Undersecretary to Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge, who is installed at Hogwarts as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. “Dolores is a vision in pink taffeta but a nasty piece of work,” Staunton says. “At first I thought, ‘Ooh, a Harry Potter, that’ll be fun’. But at the film’s heart is real tragedy, and I found myself having four months of intense acting, followed by occasional wand-waving for the next six.”
Staunton will be playing opposite her old friend Emma Thompson, who plays Professor Sybil Trelawney. The two actresses have appeared together numerous times on television in film in projects that include Sense and Sensibility, the comedy show Fry and Laurie and the Kenneth Branagh film Peter’s Friends.
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The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival is putting out a call to filmmakers who would like to submit their best “grindhouse trailer,” in honor of the April release from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, Grindhouse. A sample of the best submissions will be judged by Rodriguez himself, and presented during SXSW, on March 11, 2007.
Filmmakers have a deadline of February 12 to submit their “grindhouse trailer” (no longer than two minutes in length) to SXSW. The trailer should be made for a fictional feature-film, just like those being made by celebrity directors Eli Roth and Rob Zombie for Grindhouse. From those submissions, Rodriguez will determine the best of the bunch, and it will screen during a special presentation entitled “Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse 101” on Sunday, March 11. During the presentation, Rodriguez will share stories and footage from the making of the upcoming Dimension Films release.
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Here’s a little snippet of information that appeared to slip through the net following the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade at the beginning of the month-
In an interview with an unidentified source, George Lucas said that he’s seen both the new “Battlestar Galaticia,” as well as Joss Whedon’s “Firefly,” both live-action television dramas set in the intergalactic world.
“Ours will be very different,” said Lucas. “It’s very Star Wars, but it doesn’t involve the Skywalkers.” The characters come from the same universe, Lucas added, but the stories are, “a little bit more adult.” Hopefully, he added, “it will be something most people have never seen on television before.”
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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. 