Archive for May 3rd, 2007
New Line Cinema has now officially unveiled the teaser poster of The Golden Compass (opening December 7).
The artwork shows the film’s young heroine, Lyra (played by newcomer Dakota Blue Richards), holding the title-giving alethiometer, with the ice bear Iorek Byrnison protectively looming over her. The text above the scene reads ‘There are worlds beyond our own - The compass will show the way’ (if you’re familiar with the books, you’ll notice that statement as a whole is not entirely true). Click here to view the high-resolution poster, which starts going on display in theaters tomorrow.
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David Yates, the director of the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (opening July 13), has confirmed to SciFi.com that he will resume his post on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
The BAFTA award winning director said in an interview: ‘I am doing Half-Blood Prince, and I’m doing it because I love the world, I love the characters. I think I have more business with this world and these characters.’
This news seems to indicate that WarnerBros. is happy with Yates’ work on Order of the Phoenix. Official confirmation from the studio on Yates’ appointment is expected shortly.
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According to USA Today, the first trailer for The Golden Compass will debut May 25, attached to copies of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End in the United States.
This is shortly after the fifteen minutes of footage from the smart fantasy epic is premiered at the Cannes film festival, which kicks off May 16. That is the same buzz-generating strategy New Line Cinema followed for The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001, as the studio’s goal is to emulate the success of the Lord of the Rings films with the His Dark Materials trilogy, of which The Golden Compass is the first installment.
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The first ten film images from the Mathieu Kassovitz directed Babylon A.D. have appeared online on VinDieselGallery.net.
Starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Gerard Depardieu and Charlotte Rampling, the film is scheduled to be released in cinemas February 29, 2008.
Babylon A.D. tells the story of a veteran-turned-mercenary (Diesel) who agrees to escort a woman from Russia to Germany, not realizing that she’s the host for an organism that a cult wants to harvest into a genetically-modified Messiah.
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Walt Disney Pictures has released two new TV spots for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End online.
While the clips, titled ’Are You Prepared?’ and ‘Stand Together’, reuse footage already seen in the trailers there are also a handful of new scenes on offer. Visit Yahoo! Movies to view the two thirty-second ads in high-resolution Quicktime format .
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End opens in cinemas Friday, May 25. You can expect our review of the anticipated film online on Tuesday, May 22.
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Michael Mann (Heat, Miami Vice) has put before studios what he hopes will be his next directing effort, an as of yet untitled noir drama written by John Logan (The Aviator), reports Variety.
The untitled project is intended as a star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio, who would play a 1930s private detective employed to clean up the scandals created by stars on the old MGM lot. The plot would focus on DiCaprio’s character investigating whether a starlet murdered her husband.
New Line put in a bid of $100 million, but that amount falls short of the projected price tag of $120 million. Sources in the trade have indicated that the script is strong and evokes a period feel remiscent of L.A. Confidential. The film is scheduled to start shooting in February 2008.
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According to Variety, Columbia Pictures and Original Film’s Neil Moritz will bring The Ark to the big screen.
The project is based on the Dark Horse comic by Mark Verheiden, which combines the story of Noah’s Ark with a UFO crash and was first published in the anthology series Dark Horse Presents, the comicbook that launched Frank Miller’s Sin City.
Verheiden, who’s also written for Smallville and Battlestar Galactica, has been tapped to adapt his material for the big screen himself. Moritz (currently developing the The Green Hornet adaptation for Columbia) will produce together with Dark Horse Entertainment president Mike Richardson.
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Spider-Man 3 opened early in sixteen countries across Europe and Asia, where it shattered opening day records in ten of those markets where the film was released on 1 May.
Variety reports that the comic book film broke the all-time opening day records in Italy, France, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Taiwan, and grossed almost as successfully in Germany. Spider-Man 3 alone took in $29.2 million across these first sixteen territories, while the first two Spider-Man films together ‘only’ reached $26.2 million.
The film is set to continue its successful run in the UK and the US, where it opens tomorrow, May 4.
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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.