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Set against the backdrop of London’s changing culture, Anthony Minghella shows that that thievery doesn’t always equal a loss, because sometimes, a break can fix something. Jude Law, Juliette Binoche and Robin Wright Penn star in a social drama about the consequences of criminal and emotional robbery.
The Latino Review claims that the leading contender for the role of Harvey Dent in Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight is Thank You For Smoking’s Aaron Eckhart. The Golden Globe nominated American actor was last seen in The Wicker Man remake and as Sgt. Lee Blanchard in The Black Dahlia.
Another name thrown into the mix for the role of Bruce Wayne’s love interest Rachel Dawes is Maggie Gyllenhaal. If recent reports are to be believed, Gyllenhaal will be duking it out with Emily Blunt to snag the role.
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The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier has been answering questions at the Superhero Hype! message boards and has revealed a few tidbits about the movie that is scheduled for release June 27, 2008 -
Leterrier says that the role of scientist Bruce Banner is close to being filled, General Thaddeus E. “Thunderbolt” Ross is the main villain with KGB agent Emil Blonsky (the Abomination) not far behind. The Hulk will be CGI with prosthetics used in certain scenes where needed.
Leterrier said earlier that The Incredible Hulk will be Marvel’s horror movie, describing it as “Frankenstein meets Jekyll and Hyde with a little bit of Edward Scissorhands” and that the lead will be portayed as more of a hero this time around. The film will also be truer to the original comic book that Ang Lee’s 2003 take.
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Ever since work has begun on the movie adaptation of author Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, there’s always been the question of whether or not the books’ controversial anti-religious themes would be omitted or weakened, in order to attract an audience as large as possible and to minimize the studio’s risks.
A couple of quotes from New Line Cinema’s senior VP European Production Ileen Maisel that appeared on HisDarkMaterials.org may shed some light on how this aspect will be handled in the first film, The Golden Compass, which debuts in cinemas this December. Maisel argues: “For Philip [Pullman], and he said it in a number of talks that he gave at the National Theatre, Philip is against any kind of totalitarianism. So from our point of view the Magisterium is a totalitarian government. It’s not about religion, it’s not about God, it’s about totalitarianism.”
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Film ick reports that Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Power of the Dark Crystal has been canned. The project, which is already two years into development has been placed on ‘hiatus’. Jim Henson fans still something to look forward to though however, because in addition to Ahmet Zappa’s version of Fraggle Rock, the Jim Henson Company has three more interesting projects in development:
First there will be an adaptation of Edward Gorey’s The Doubtful Guest, the story of a creature known only as ‘It’ who appears late one “wild winter night” at an ordinary family’s home, and will not go away.
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Director Roman Polanski’s (Chinatown, The Pianist) next film is set to be his biggest undertaking yet in terms of scale and budget. With a projected budget of $130 million, Polanski’s dramatic thriller Pompeii will be set against the backdrop of Mt. Vesuvius before and during its eruption, which destroyed and buried the city of Pompeii.
Variety describes the plot centering around a young engineer who has to repair an enormous aqueduct whose destruction threatens the Roman Empire. He finds himself enmeshed in politics and romance. The film takes place over three days and the final act is the volcanic eruption and the destruction of the aqueduct, which stretched 60 miles and served hundreds of thousands of people.
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Warner Bros. Pictures and Silver Pictures are quietly in the process of buying a Wonder Woman spec script from first time writers Matthew Jennison and Brent Strickland, Hollywood Reporter sources have revealed.
This will come as a surprise to many, as Warner Bros and Joel Silver already have a Wonder Woman project in development with Joss Whedon writing the script and attached to direct. Sources have claimed that the deal has been struck to take the spec off the open market to ensure that any similarities between the scripts could be used for future legal action. According to reports, the Jennison-Strickland script is set during World War II, while Whedon’s script is set in the present day.
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The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that New Line Cinema and Walden Media’s Journey 3-D, an adaptation of the classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne will be released on Real D’s 3-D screens in summer 2008. The film marks the first live-action production to be projected on Real D’s digital 3-D screens, which by summer 2008 should total more than 1,500 in the US.
Journey 3-D, from director Eric Brevig, stars Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson and Anita Briem. Brevig and cinematographer Chuck Shuman are using the same 3-D technology that was developed for Walden’s large-format 3-D films from director James Cameron: “Ghosts of the Abyss” and “Aliens of the Deep.” The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the center of the Earth. The book has been adapted twice before: for the classic 1959 version starring Pat Boone and James Mason, and again in 2004.
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With more creatures than the Star Wars cantina, Hellboy and his cohorts set about trying to stop an Elf prince from destroying the human race. Hey, it’s all in a day’s work for Big Red.
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2008 U.S. Presidential election
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.
- Cam
