Archive for May 7th, 2007
LaineyGossip.com is reporting that Naomi Watts is set to join the cast of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The site writes-
‘None other than Naomi Watts to step into the role of Narcissa Malfoy nee Black? Narcissa is Lucius Malfoy’s wife, Draco’s mother, Bellatrix Lestrange’s sister, both cousins of Sirius Black – needless to say, ‘Cissy’ is a raging bitch with a key scene at the beginning of The Half Blood Prince.’
Watts is a British-Australian actress most famous for her roles in Mulholland Drive, the remakes of The Ring and King Kong, as well as her Academy Award-nominated role in the film 21 Grams.
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British writer-director Chris Smith (Severance) has told Shock Til You Drop that his next project will be called Triangle.
The psychological sc-fi horror is set on a cruise liner in the Bermuda Triangle and is based upon a script that Smith has been working on for four years.
‘it’s a movie that will play in time loops, like a character getting stuck in a glitch. That’s what the Bermuda Triangle is and this character has to combat her way back’ Smith revealed. Smith says the project is a major step up for him in terms of budget and scale and he will direct the movie for Dan Films.
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Posted in Movies •
Contact Music reports that Harrison Ford, who played Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy made somewhat of a faux pas during a recent lunch date in London.
During the launch of the Star Wars Exhibition in London on Friday, Anthony Daniels who played C-3PO in both the original and prequel trilogy, explained that the slip-up happened when he approached the Indiana Jones star at a London restaurant.
‘I was at a London restaurant a few years ago and I noticed Harrison Ford. I went over to speak to him - and he asked me what dish I recommended.’ said Daniels.
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Posted in Movies, Star Wars •
Various UK sources reported yesterday that following the success of SKY television’s Christmas adaptation of The Hogfather, a bigger budget version of The Colour Of Magic is in the works.
With a budget for the television special doubled from the last effort to £12 million, British television star David Jason, who played Albert in The Hogfather, will play the incompetent and cynical wizard Rincewind. Apparently ‘a major US star’ has been signed to play Rincewind’s travelling companion Twoflower.
The Colour of Magic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, beginning the Discworld series which was first published in 1983.
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Posted in Television •
In addition to breaking the opening day and then the opening weekend records at the US box office, Spider-Man 3 has also snatched the top spot at IMAX theatres.
IMAX Corporation and Sony Pictures Entertainment announced today that the movie has shattered multiple box office records at IMAX(R) theatres through its opening weekend, contributing a record-setting $4.8 million of the $148 million that the film grossed at the domestic box office, from May 4, through Sunday, May 6.
Spider-Man 3 was specially captured with the proprietary DMR(R) (Digital Re-mastering) technology at approximately 10000 x 7000 pixels for viewing at 84 North American theatres commercial theatres equipped with the IMAX projection technology.
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Spanish star Antonio Banderas has told SCI FI Wire that despite rumours connecting him to Sin City 2, his friend Robert Rodriguez has not asked him to be a part of the project.
However, it does seem that the Zorro star is interested, saying ‘People keep asking me about this, but I don’t know anything about it, but the way this man works, he will literally call me the night before and say, ‘Let’s do this movie.’ And I will do it. I’ve done six movies with him, and that is the way he works.’
Banderas who has said that he would ‘follow Robert Rodriguez into hell if he asked me to do it’ has appeared in all three of Rodriguez’s Spy Kids films and the Mariachi movies, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Meanwhile, Banderas has his hands full with the Shrek franchise, with the third in the can, a 2007 TV holiday special called Shrek the Halls, a fourth cinematic outing pencilled in for 2010, and a spinoff for the same year entitled Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer.
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Walt Disney Pictures has recruited writer David Benioff to help bring the long-gestating SF action movie Gemini Man to the big screen reports Variety.
Benioff will completely rework the story, which has been tinkered with over a number of years by writers including Jonathan Hensleigh (Armageddon) about an over-the-hill hitman forced to do battle with a younger clone of himself. The American writer, who won recognition for his book, 25th Hour is currently working on a script for the X-Men spin-off, Wolverine.
Jerry Bruckheimer is set to produce.
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Sony’s Spider-Man 3 has broken the opening weekend record at the US box office - and more easily than expected.
According to DarkHorizons, the webslinger’s third outing took in $148 million over the weekend, surpassing the previous record of $135 million set by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man 3 has also landed the biggest worldwide weekend ever, grossing $375 million in the three-day haul.
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The trailer for Michael Bay’s Transformers will be released a full week earlier than the May 25 date recently announced on the director’s blog.
CanMag has confirmed with with Paramount/DreamWorks that the final trailer will appear online on May 17 and debut in theaters on May 18 with Shrek The Third.
In related news, even more new stills from the film (including robot action) can be found on CelebUtopia.net.
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According to Variety, ABC and the producers of Lost have agreed on an expiration date for the hit series in 2010. The show is thus scheduled to run on for three additional seasons.
Showrunners Damon Lindeloff and Carlton Cuse originally wanted the series to conclude after two more seasons, but ABC devised a plan to stretch out the run of their successful show: the 48 episodes left to produce will be divided into three shortened 16-episode seasons instead of two full ones. These 16-episode arcs will run without repeats.
Lindeloff and Cuse made setting a wrap date for the series a condition for staying. ‘I think for story-based shows like ‘Lost,’ as opposed to franchise-based shows like ‘ER’ or ‘CSI,’ the audience wants to know when the story is going to be over,’ Cuse wrote. ‘When J.K. Rowling announced that there would be seven ‘Harry Potter’ books, it gave the readers a clear sense of exactly what their investment would be. We want our audience to do the same.’
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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.