Archive for May 18th, 2007
Following the news that Thomas Jane will not be reprising his role as Frank Castle in The Punisher 2, FreezeDriedMovies reports that the project may have found a director.
‘John Dahl is in major talks to helm the sequel’ reports the site. Dahl, an American film director and screenwriter, is best known for the neo-noir films Kill Me Again, Red Rock West, and The Last Seduction.
In addition to this, AICN claim that Hooligans helmer Lexi Alexander is also in the running for the job. The Punisher is a fictional vigilante and anti-hero in the Marvel Comics Universe, created by writer Gerry Conway and artists John Romita, Sr. and Ross Andru. The original 2004 movie was written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh.
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IGN have published three video clips from the upcoming Terminator franchise TV spin-off show The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Click here to watch the videos.
Written by Josh Friedman, the TV show is set after the events depicted in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and tells the story of Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) and her son John (Thomas Dekker). Their mission is to stay under-the-radar from the government as they plot to destroy the computer network Skynet in hopes of preventing Armageddon.
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TFN reports that the much anticipated Kyle Newman road trip comedy Fanboys has been delayed until January 2008. In a open letter to the site, Newman wrote:
‘Fanboys has been delayed. As a Star Wars fan, I am devastated. Fanboys is the love letter to the greatest movie franchise of all time. And this year marks the 30th Anniversary. I wanted the film to be my gift back to Star Wars and to the fan community. But ultimately the shift in release will be a good thing for the movie.’
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Heroes executive producer Tim Kring has told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming season finale will introduce new characters that will become central to the story in the second season.
‘There are several new characters coming in the immediate future,’ said Kring ‘The idea of the show from the start was always to basically honor the origin story of the first sort of blush and discovery of these powers. And so, in order to do that, new characters will have to be cycled into the show. And by extension, older characters will cycle out of the show.’
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Following our earlier report that a conglomerate of Mexican directors led by Pan’s Labyrinth helmer Guillermo del Toro was trying to sell a multiple movie deal to various Hollywood studios, Variety has revealed that they have struck a deal with Universal’s specialty arm Focus Features.
The new venture will be called ‘cha cha cha’ and the five projects, some in Spanish and some in English, will include directorial efforts from each of the three partners (Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu), as well as movies from writer-directors Carlos Cuaron and Rodrigo Garcia. Creative control of the projects will remain with the filmmakers.
Universal has agreed to fully finance the deal with a combined budget of around $100 million.
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Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to star in The Spirit, Frank Miller’s adaptation of the Will Eisner graphic novel, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The story centers on Denny Colt, an ambitious young cop murdered in the line of duty who under mysterious circumstances is reborn as the masked mystery man known as the Spirit.
Jackson would play the Spirit’s nemesis, the Octopus, a meek lab assistant who reinvents himself as a psychotic nightmare that kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face. The Octopus’ tentacles reach into every aspect of crime in fictitious Central City, a city he plans to wipe out.
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Whether you’ve grown tired of yesterday’s domestic (US) and international trailers from repeat viewings or not, there seems to be a third version available that’s different again.
According to FirstShowing.net, the trailer playing in US cinemas in front of Shrek the Third is an entirely different cut that features lots of new footage not seen in yesterday’s pair. Details are available at this link.
Whether this third version will be released online aswell remains to be seen.
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StarWars.com has unveiled the first poster for The Clone Wars, the CG animated Star Wars TV show currently in development at Lucasfilm Animation.
Apart from that one Yoda image released a couple of months ago, this poster is the first image to give a good idea of the visual style that is being developed for the series, depicting characters like Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu, Yoda, two Clonetroopers and a mystery Jedi crouching in the shadows.
The poster was created as a limited edition give-away to fans attending the The Clone Wars behind-the-scenes presentation at Celebration IV (LA Convention Center, May 24-28). Click here to view it in our image gallery.
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We’ve made a big update to our popular Transformers image gallery.
27 pictures have been added, encompassing film stills and promo shots of both the main human cast and the robots, including the effects images of Jazz that were recently published in Maxim magazine.
We found the shots scattered across sites like CelebUtopia.com and TFW2005.com and have organized them in our movie gallery for your convenience.
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Paramount has released the theatrical poster for Matthew Vaughn’s Stardust, the film adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel starring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Sienna Miller, Rupert Everett, Peter O’Toole, Ricky Gervais and the voice of Ian McKellen. Click here to view it in our movie gallery.
Stardust takes audiences on an adventure that begins in a village in England and ends up in places that exist in an imaginary world. A young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of Victoria (Sienna Miller), the beautiful but cold object of his desire, by going on a quest to retrieve a fallen star. His journey takes him to a mysterious and forbidden land beyond the walls of his village. On his odyssey, Tristan finds the star, which has transformed into a striking girl named Yvaine (Claire Danes).
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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.