Archive for July 1st, 2007
Shia LaBeouf, who plays Sam Witwicky in Michael Bay’s Transformers, appeared on David Letterman Friday night to speak about the movie, which premieres in cinemas next week.
During the course of the show, a new clip from the film was aired showing a full scene of Sam and Megatron on the roof of a building that takes place during the movie’s climax. The sequence included dialogue between the two characters and offered the first impression of Hugo Weaving voicing the Decepticon leader.
The clip is now available online on Youtube.
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Reports and pictures Indiana Jones IV Connecticut Yale shoot have popped up all over the net since filming began last Thursday.
Just Jared has the first good quality impressions of Shia LaBeouf’s very 50s character giving Indy a ride on his motorbike, and IESB.net has spy video footage from the set.
The New Haven Register reveals that Ford and LaBeouf were shooting a chase scene that was rehearsed by stunt drivers the previous day, while an extra spoke to News Channel 8 about his experience on the set of the film.
Furthermore, the official Indiana Jones website updated their video blog with the first day of shooting, showing George Lucas and Steven Spielberg at work together with Harrison Ford.
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Focus Features has released the trailer for David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises (one of the X-Realms’ most anticipated film releases of the year) online on Yahoo! Movies.
The new thriller from director David Cronenberg reteams him with his A History of Violence leading man Viggo Mortensen. The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai (Mortensen), who is tied to one of London’s most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna (Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts), an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally uncovers potential evidence against the family. Now Nikolai must put into motion a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution.
The film is released September 14.
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During a recent press conference for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, producer David Heyman addressed a rumour that JK Rowling had advised the film crew not to cut a certain character from the film adaptation.
MuggleNet quotes him as saying: ‘Jo reads each draft. She reads each screenplay, and she said, ‘You know, I wouldn’t do that if I were you. Or you can, but if you get to make a seventh film, you’ll be tied in knots.”
Heyman was reluctant to divulge at the press conference which character it was that had been preserved at Rowling’s behest, but MTV News caught up with the producer shortly after and wrung the spoiler information out of him.
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