Archive for July 9th, 2007
Michael Bay’s live-action blockbuster Transformers easily took the number one spot at the box office over the prolonged holiday weekend, scoring the best seven-day figures for a non-sequel in history.
According to Variety, the film took in an estimated $152.5 million at the US box office over six-and-a-half days, a figure that matches the estimated production budget of the movie. The internatinal box office of $93.6 million from 29 markets amounts to a worldwide cumulative gross of $246.1 million so far.
But Michael Bay’s robots will face stiff competition when Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix opens in cinemas this Wednesday.
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The official Star Wars website has finally revealed the full programming schedule for Celebration Europe, the big convention taking place this weekend (July 13-15) in London’s ExCeL convention center.
Among the highlights are Ian McDiarmid’s (Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars films) appearance at the opening ceremony on Friday, Mark Hammil’s (Luke Skywalker) availability for autographs, special screenings of a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming animated TV series The Clone Wars, and presentations by Steve Sansweet and Rick McCallum.
You will find printable PDF files of the programming schedule for each day of the convention at this link.
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Returning to Hogwarts for his fifth year, Harry Potter discovers that the wizarding world isn’t as fun as it used to be. Director David Yates’ film adaptation instills the series with a somber tone.
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Contrary to recent remours, it appears that The Man of Steel is still scheduled to start production in early 2008.
A source in the Bryan Singer camp has responded to earlier claims from the producers on the Harvey Milk biopic who suggested that The Mayor of Castro Street will be the director’s next project. ‘That’s total horse shit’ the source told IESB , ‘I would say the same thing if I was producing that film but don’t you realize that most of the Superman producers are working with Bryan on Valkyrie? Gil Adler and Chris Lee both are in Germany with Bryan and I can guarantee you that there is some work being done with Superman right now.’
The Man of Steel is based upon a story and screenplay by Michael Dougherty and will hit cinemas in 2009.
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Casino Royale screenwriter Paul Haggis and director Marc Forster have been speaking to MI6 about the upcoming 22nd outing for the world’s favourite super-spy.
Haggis, who is currently busy working on In the Valley of Elah, said that he was scheduled to work on the Bond 22 script as soon as the Los Angeles Film Festival wrapped. When asked if the story would be a direct continution of events from the last movie, Haggis said ‘I wouldn’t describe it as such. I think it’s going to stand on its own although it does follow right on the heels of Casino Royale’.
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SCI FI Channel executive VP Mark Stern has told reporters that the producers of the upcoming series Flash Gordon are working on incorporating a cameo appearance by Sam Jones, who played the title hero in a 1980 feature-film version.
‘We are talking about getting Sam Jones in to do a stunt role, because it’s just too delicious not to,’ Stern said in a press conference on the set in Vancouver, Canada.
SCI FI’s original series is based on the venerable SF franchise that began with a newspaper comic strip in the 1930s and has since spawned radio serials, TV shows and movies, including Jones’ campy film that is best known for its Queen soundtrack. Flash Gordon is currently filming its first season of 22 episodes and will premiere on SCI FI Channel in August.
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Just Jared has published some images of Will Smith on the set of offbeat superhero drama John Hancock (working title: Tonight He Comes).
Click here to see the images.
John Hancock is about a hard-living superhero (Smith) who has fallen out of favor with the public and enters into a questionable relationship with the wife (Charlize Theron) of the public relations professional (Jason Bateman) who’s trying to repair his image.
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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.