Archive for April 25th, 2007
It’s just over a week to go until the anxiously awaited Spider-Man 3 opens in cinemas, and we continue our series of interviews with the film’s main cast. Following Thomas Haden Church (Sandman), Bryce Dallas Howard (Gwen Stacy) and James Franco (Harry Osborn) we today have Topher Grace.
The American actor is perhaps best known for his role in the comedy series That ’70s Show. He was also part of the illustrous cast of films such as Traffic and Mona Lisa Smile and had a starring role opposite Scarlett Johansson and Dennis Quaid in In Good Company in 2004. Grace joins Spider-Man 3 as Eddie Brock, Peter Parker’s rival photographer who succumbs to the black goo and turns into the fierce Venom.
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Rumours suggesting that the Hulk’s body colour will be grey instead of the traditional green in Louis Leterrier’s upcoming franchise restarter The Incredible Hulk have been discredited.
Empire spoke to film producer Avi Arad, who cleared up: ‘It’s a different shade of green. But the colour is not like the old Hulk. And no, there’s no grey Hulk.’
The Incredible Hulk will hit cinemas June 13, 2008. Edward Norton was recently cast in the title role, and Arad hinted that there will be an announcement within the next few days as to who will play Betty, the love interest of Hulk’s alter ego Bruce Banner.
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Timur Bekmambetov’s ‘Night Watch’ (’Nochnoy Dozor’) was the first big-budget Russian fantasy film made after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Becoming the highest-grossing Russian film production ever, it went on to amaze audiences around the globe. Now finally the second part of the trilogy, ‘Day Watch’, makes its theatrical bow.
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Warner Bros. Pictures has now released the full US trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in high-definition quality on Yahoo! Movies.
While it starts similar to the international trailer released a few days ago, the US version focuses more on Harry’s rebellion and features lots of new footage and dialogue. Click here to view the trailer.
Additionally, Warner has also released 16 new film stills from scenes in the new trailer. You can access them by browsing through our movie gallery.
Discuss Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the X-Boards
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The Hollywood Reporter has published some more details about Seth Green and Matthew Senreich’s upcoming Adult Swim special, Robot Chicken: Star Wars which premieres at 10 p.m. on June 17th.
The 30-minute stop-motion animation special which was produced in collaboration with Lucasfilm and features George Lucas providing the voice for the animated version of himself, will spoof key scenes and favorite characters from the saga. Mark Hamill is onboard also, providing the voice of Luke Skywalker alongside a cast that inludes Conan O’Brien, Seth MacFarlane, Robert Smigel, Malcolm McDowell, Hulk Hogan, James Van Der Beek, Donald Faison, Abraham Benrubi, Breckin Meyer and Joey Fatone.
The special was developed with Lucasfilm’s assistance and was produced by Green and Senreich, who also executive produce, write and direct the entire series, now in production on its third season.
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Contact Music reports that a UK theatrical release for the Tarantino/Rodruigez faux exploitation flick Grindhouse could be in doubt after poor performance in its domestic market. With audiences seemingly perplexed by the concept and the extended running time leading to fewer potential screenings, the feature has failed to capture the public imagination or their box office dollars.
Now that the original cinematic release date of June 1st has been withdrawn by producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the site reports that the film could now go straight to DVD. A spokesman for the film’s British distributors, Momentum Pictures, says, ‘We are reviewing the release date and the release plans in the UK. It will definitely be released here, but we don’t know in what form.’
Discuss Grindhouse on the X-Boards
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Spider-Man 3 star Tobey Maguire has been speaking to SCI FI Wire about his work on Isaac Adamson’s Tokyo Suckerpunch.
Maguire will star in and produce the project which is about a Cleveland manga writer who finds himself living out his character’s adventures in Tokyo. ‘It’s something I’m developing with Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher’s company [Red Wagon], and Ed Solomon’s [Charlie's Angels] writing the screenplay right now,’ Maguire said during a news conference to promote Spider-Man 3.
In the original story, Billy Chaka is in Tokyo to cover the Under-19 Handicapped World Martial Arts Championship and meet with his friend Sato Migusho, the renowned director of cult film classics like Sex-Up the Hotrod, Baby!. wHEN Sato never shows, a woman stumbles into a dive bar with tattooed yakuza in hot pursuit. Then Chaka discovers that Sato has been murdered, and the strange and beautiful woman just may have been a witness. As the mystery deepens, Billy start brawls in swanky corporate sex clubs, is offered a golf membership by a secret religious order, meets a dog trained in the Way of the Samurai and races stolen motorcycles through the neon-choked streets of Tokyo.
Discuss Tokyo Suckerpunch on the X-Boards
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Events commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Star Wars saga kicked off on Monday at a sold-out event at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Theater in Beverly Hills, California reports SCI FI Wire. Stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher joined franchise creator George Lucas and about 50 others involved in the making of the original movie to talk about the film’s creation and backstory.
The attendees were joined by Jawas, Stormtroopers and cantina denizens to watch a digital version of the film.
The series of 30th Anniversary events will culminate in the Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles in May and the Star Wars Celebration Europe in London in July.
Discuss Star Wars Celebration IV on the X-Boards
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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.