Archive for June 28th, 2007
The New Haven Register reports that Harrison Ford arrived in town last night to begin shooting scenes for Indiana Jones IV. Director Steven Spielberg is due to arrive today.
The Yale University campus will play a prominent role as fictional Marshall College circa 1957 in the yet to be named film. Producer Frank Marshall said that the decision to look at Yale was based on brief exterior scenes shot for Raiders of the Lost Ark at the University of the Pacific in California, a school often chosen for its resemblance to Ivy League schools.
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SCI FI channel/USA Network boss Bonnie Hammer has told reporters that 4400 star Billy Campbell begged her for a role in the final season of Battlestar Galactica.
‘He literally assaulted me trying to do whatever he possibly could to bribe me to have me bribe [executive producers] Ron [Moore] and David [Eick] to create a character arc inside Battlestar Galactica,’ Hammer said at a press conference in Canada, on June 26. ‘That is the only show he ever wanted to be in. That is the only show he would do for free. Billy Campbell, literally, saying, ‘Give me an arc, any kind of arc, in Battlestar Galactica, please.’ And it was very hard to get away from.’
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Starpluse reports that Willem Dafoe has been cast opposite Ethan Hawke in the futuristic vampire movie Daybreakers.
Dafoe is no stranger to the realm of the undead, having played Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (1999), a fantasy about the filming of Nosferatu (1921).
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Attendees at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam were treated to a world exclusive of 15 minutes of unedited Beowulf this week reports Variety.
The clip from the Robert Zemeckis pic, which will be released in November, closed tantalizingly with the titular warrior, played by Ray Winstone, preparing to do battle with Grendel’s mother, the demon temptress, played by Angelina Jolie.
Beowulf, which is brought to the screen via performance-captured 3D computer generated imagery, stars Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins and Robin Wright Penn, opens in US theaters in November.
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Melinda McGraw (The West Wing) and Nathan Gamble (Babel) have joined the cast of Warner Bros The Dark Knight, reports Variety.
McGraw will play the wife of Gary Oldman’s character, Lt. James Gordon, while Gamble will play their son.
Christopher Nolan, director of Batman Begins, has once again taken the reins as director of the project, which stars Christian Bale again as Batman and Heath Ledger as his arch enemy the Joker. The Dark Knight has a release date of July 18th, 2008 in the United States and July 25th in the United Kingdom.
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Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson) will star opposite Rachel Weisz in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones reports Variety.
Gosling will play the father of a young girl who is abducted and is feared to have been murdered in a story adapted from Alice Sebold’s best-selling novel by Jackson’s Lord of the Rings writing partners, Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh.
DreamWorks begins production on the film in October, and Paramount Pictures will distribute worldwide. Carolynne Cunningham, Jackson, Walsh and Aimee Peyronnet will produce, while Film 4’s Tessa Ross will executive produce with Ken Kamins and Jim Wilson. The film will shoot in Pennsylvania and New Zealand.
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Just weeks after Warner Bros. lost the rights to adapt Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, New Line has moved into prime position to make a movie based on the mythical conqueror reports Variety.
Interest in Conan was attributed to the strong showing of the macho sandal saga 300 and at auction, New Line posted an eighteen month bid for the rights with one extension. The property also drew the interest of several studios and monied producers including Hollywood Gang’s Gianni Nunnari and Millennium Films.
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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.