Archive for July 12th, 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix could be set for a huge opening weekend gross, according to ComingSoon.net.
The fifth Potter movie earned an impressive $12 million from the Tuesday going on Wednesday midnight screenings at the US box office. This figure competes with the $13.2 million that Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and the $8.8 million that Transformers recently took in on their first night with screenings that started at 8pm.
Click here to read our four-star review of the film.
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Warner Bros. has released the teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich’s (The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day) upcoming blockbuster 10,000 B.C. online. It is available in high-definition quality at Yahoo! Movies.
The film is set in a time when man and beast were untamed and the mighty mammoth roamed the earth. A time when ideas and beliefs were born that forever shaped mankind. 10,000 B.C. follows a young hunter (Steven Strait) on his quest to lead an army across a vast desert, battling saber tooth tigers and prehistoric predators as he unearths a lost civilization and attempts to rescue the woman he loves (Camilla Belle) from an evil warlord determined to possess her.
The film is scheduled for release March 7, 2008.
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Alex Proyas (I, Robot, Dark City) is set to direct Dracula Year Zero, Universal Pictures’ original tale about Vlad the Impaler, says Variety.
The film is one of several in works about the Romanian royal who inspired Bram Stoker’s vampire tale. Proyas was attracted to the script by by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless because of their ‘fresh take on the legend’. He said the project manages to play off the horror and the sympathy you have for a character that ’sells his soul to the Devil to save his kingdom and family.’
According to the writers, the goal was to show Vlad when he was still vital and to explore the fact that he’s considered a hero in Romania for fending off the Turks. ‘Usually when you see him, he’s past his prime and 100 years old,’ Sazama said. ‘In our movie, he’s at the height of his powers,’ Sharpless added.
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Kevin Spacey will reprise his role as Lex Luthor in the Superman Returns sequel, Superman: Man of Steel.
According to Variety, director Bryan Singer met with Spacey in New York when he was about to pitch the sequel to Warner Bros. Superman Returns screenwriter Michael Dougherty is now writing the screenplay.
Singer plans to direct Superman: Man of Steel next year after he completes Valkyrie and The Mayor of Castro Street, for a 2009 release. Meanwhile, Spacey hopes he’ll be able to shoot his Luthor scenes in a six-week block again, after he completes his run in David Mamet’s Speed the Plow in April 2008.
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A new James Bond novel entitled Devil May Care will hit bookshelves in 2008, reports The Associated Press.
Written by British author Sebastian Faulks (Birdsong, Charlotte Grey) and authorized by the estate of the late Ian Fleming, Devil May Care is set during the Cold War and, like so many Bond adventures, moves about a variety of scenic locales. ‘My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming’s own books, where the story is everything,’ Faulks said in a statement.
Ian Fleming, the original creator of James Bond and author of favourites such as Goldfinger, Dr. No and From Russia with Love, died in 1964.
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The Hollywood Reporter has published an insightful article that discusses the future of some of the big superhero franchises such as Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Superman.
According to the report, the top brass of Sony Pictures will sit down sometime within the next two weeks to discuss more Spider-Man films. ‘It would be great to have everybody back,’ says producer Laura Ziskin. ‘But no one is going to sign on the dotted line until we have a script. These are the questions being discussed now. The one thing we have answered definitively is: There will be more Spider-Man’ movies. We just haven’t answered what shape they will come in and (Sony) hasn’t given us a release date.’
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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.