Archive for January 23rd, 2007
Empire Online have published a set of 12 photos from the upcoming superhero sequel Spider-Man 3. The images include a nice close-up of Harry Osborne in his Goblin costume. Click here to view the images in our gallery.
The movie’s plot revolves around a strange black entity from another world that bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) has announced the nominees for the 79th Annual Academy Awards.
While Dreamgirls bagged the most nominations with 8, the film didn’t make the Best Motion Picture category, where Babel, The Departed, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine and The Queen compete for the main award. Leonardo Di Caprio, Ryan Gosling, Peter O’Toole, Will Smith and Forest Whitaker are up for the Best Actor Oscar, while Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet have been nominated in the Best Actress category. X-Realms favourite Pan’s Labyrinth earned a total of 6 nominations (the third highest amount), including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay.
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Variety reports that Ghost in the Shell may be destined for a live-action Hollywood treatment.
Kodansha published the Ghost in the Shell manga by Masamune Shirow in 1989 which was layer adapted into a hit animated feature in 1995 by toon house Production I.G. This was followed up by the movie Innocence and the animated TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic police thriller dealing with the exploits of Motoko Kusanagi, a member of the covert operations section of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission, Section 9, which specializes in fighting technology-related crime.
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AICN have published a wonderful Japanese poster for the Tarantino/Rodriguez double-header Grindhouse.
Grindhouse consists of two individual films, Planet Terror, directed by Robert Rodriguez, and Deathproof, directed by Quentin 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, Edgar Wright and Rob Zombie. Click here to view the poster in the X-Realms gallery.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Eric Roberts has joined the cast of NBC’s Heroes, the hit superhero drama from writer Tim Kring.
Roberts will play Thompson, a new associate of Claire’s father H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) and joins Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston as a newcomer to the show. Incidentally, Roberts played the Doctor’s arch enemy, The Master, in a 1996 TV adaptation.
The prolific American actor has seven movies in various stages of development and will will be seen next in the miniseries “Pandemic.”
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Posted in Heroes, Television •
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.