Archive for March 16th, 2007
We reported a couple of weeks ago that the release of Danny Boyle’s (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) new film Sunshine got pushed back to December, but it seems this delay only concerns the United States.
The UK and many other countries are still on track to get the film this April, and 20th Century Fox has now released the international poster to promote the film. It is infinitely superior to the US one and can be viewed here in our gallery (where you’ll also find a neat new image of Cillian Murphy’s character reaching towards the light).
Meanwhile, an early review of the film has popped up over at Dark Horizons, and it is very favourable: ‘[...] the best science fiction film for a very long time. As realistic as it is thrilling, awe-inspiring and psychological, Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have taken some very accepted space movie conventions and breathed fresh life into every one.’
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Sony Pictures has released the new international Spider-Man 3 one sheet that will grace theater walls outside of the United States. The image continues the black vs. red and blue Spider-Man mirror motiv and can be viewed here in our gallery.
The third installment in the blockbusting franchise is about 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. The film opens May 4.
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TMZ.com is running an exclusive report which claims that Transformers director Michael Bay will produce (and possibly direct) Whitley Strieber’s forthcoming novel 2012: The War for Souls together with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the Transformers and Star Trek XI scribes), who might pen the script.
The site relays that ‘2012 will be a big year for planet Earth, at least according to many folk traditions: 2012 is suppossedly to be a year of either great spiritual transformation — or apocalypse. The Mayan calendar held that it would be a time when the existing world order would be reversed. Nostradamus forecasted that a rather large comet would rudely arrive on Earth’s doorstep no later than 2012. The Roman Catholic Saint Malachy predicted that in 2012, the last Pope would arrive, triggering Judgment Day. And in both “The X Files” and amongst certain UFO theorists, 2012 is the year aliens invade Earth. Even regular, non-nutty scientists also speculate that in 2012 a polar reversal will take place on carth, and that once the earth starts rotating in the opposite direction, natural disasters of unknown proportions may occur.’
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Kirsten Dunst picked up the Female Star of the Year award at the ShoWest convention and addressed questions on whether or not the Spider-Man franchise would go on beyond part three at the preceding press conference:
‘Well, I think [director] Sam [Raimi] has dedicated so much of his life, like more than ten years, to the Spider-Man franchise with so much passion and love, the man is burnt out at this time. I think he needs a long vacation to put his creativity towards something else and then maybe we’ll revisit it.’
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Vin Diesel actioner Babylon AD is back on track reports Variety. The project has resumed shooting in the Czech Republic after a two-week hiatus caused by uncooperative weather, set construction problems and injuries brought the production to a halt.
‘When you make a small film, the problems are small. When you make a costly, ambitious film, it is always more complicated‘ said producer Ilan Goldman, ‘We took a two-week break to sort these things out, and we are back on track now‘.
In the picture, Diesel plays a mercenary hired to escort a young woman (Melanie Thierry) who has been genetically tampered with, containing a virus that could destroy the human race.
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Some of the attendees of this year’s ShoWest motion picture industry convention were privy to a 20 minute presentation of nearly completed footage (i.e. with some SFX work still left to be done) from Michael Bay’s Transformers film adaptation.
The three scenes shown were Blackout’s destruction of the Qatar military base, Sam and the Autobots trying to find an important map, and Skorponok attacking Tyrese Gibson’s Sgt. Epps character in the desert. Harry Knowles’ gushing description of the sequences can be read on Aint-it-cool-news (’this sequence with BLACKOUT… is Giant Robot Geekgasm material’), while a more informative but equally enthusiastic breakdown is available on IGN (’Paramount must be breathing a sigh of relief because the theater owners and exhibitors went crazy for what we can only classify as some of the most brutal, visceral, uncompromising Bayness this side of Bad Boys 2′).
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Variety reports that Warner Bros are aiming to adapt Lionel Wigram’s upcoming comic book Sherlock Holmes in the form of an edgy reimagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters.
Michael Johnson is scripting the project with Wilgram producing. Neil Marshall is tipped to take the director’s chair.
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devised by British author and doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his prowess at using logic and astute observation to solve cases. He is perhaps the most famous fictional detective, and indeed one of the best known and most universally recognisable literary characters.
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, Australian star Cate Blanchett has joined the cast of the as yet untitled Indiana Jones IV.
Sources indicate that the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actress has scored a major role, although at this stage David Koepp’s screenplay is being kept under wraps.
Shooting on Indy IV will commence in June in Los Angeles and at undisclosed locations around the world. The film is scheduled for release May 22nd 2008.
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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.