Archive for August 12th, 2007
Variety reports that New Line and Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour 3, despite poor reviews, has performed well over the weekend making an estimated $50.2 million from 3,778 playdates beating The Bourne Ultimatum, The Simpsons movie and Stardust.
In its second weekend, Universal’s third outing for the Jason Bourne franchise grossed a respectable $33 million from 3,686 runs for a total of $131.7 million. In third place The Simpsons Movie grossed $11.1 million from 3,552 runs.
The most disappointing figure were generate by Paramount’s Stardust, which trailed in fourth place making only $9 million from 2,540 runs.
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Following on from our earlier report about a possible thawing in relations between New Line Cinema and Peter Jackson, a new juicy tidbit has surfaced regarding The Hobbit movie adaptation.
A source at IESB is now claiming that the project may well go ahead with Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy) holding the directorial reigns and Jackson acting as producer.
This would mean that Raimi may well pass on the Clash of the Titans remake to venture to Middle Earth. Exciting no?
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SCI FI Wire reports that HBO has picked up the vampire series True Blood from Six Feet Under’s Alan Ball.
The show is based upon Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire novel series and will go into production in the fall. Ball will executive-produce and act as show runner and has written and directed the pilot plus several more episodes.
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Following a charity auction at Comic-Con last month in which attendees placed bids to win a dinner with Joss Whedon, details have emerged about a potential Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff show.
According to the winning bidder, novelist Suzanne Brockmann, there’s a ’solid chance’ that Whedon will produce a 90-minute TV special featuring the character of Rupert ‘Ripper’ Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) for the BBC.
In other news, Brockmann has also said that Whedon is developing a horror movie called Cabin in the Woods with former Buffy writer Drew Goddard.
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Posted in Television •
The official movie MySpace page has published the first images from George A Romero’s upcoming zombie movie Diary of the Dead.
In his first independently produced zombie film in over two decades, George A. Romero returns to ground zero in the history of the living dead. When a group of film students making a horror movie in the woods discovers that the dead have begun to revive, they turn their cameras on the real-life horrors that suddenly confront them, creating a first person diary of their bloody encounters and the disintegration of everything they hold dear.
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Wizarduniverse have returned from Wizard World Chicago with a report on new footage from The Dark Knight.
On hand for the Q & A session that accompanied the screening were actors Christian Bale, Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart plus Director Christopher Nolan, screenwriters Jonah Nolan and David Goyer plus DC Publisher Paul Levitz.
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Posted in Batman, Movies •
ShockTillYouDrop.com has revealed that original cast members will return to reprise their roles for The Lost Boys 2.
Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander will both return alongside Corey Haim, who will reprise his role as Sam Emerson. Angus Sutherland who is Keifer’s half-brother (and son of Donald Sutherland and Francine Racette) will star as movie’s vampire. Tad Hilgenbrink (Amusement) and Autumn Reeser (The O.C.) have been cast as the leads.
Filming begins on the straight-to-DVD project a week on Monday with P.J. Pesce (From Dusk Till Dawn 3) at the helm.
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IESB reports that The Mummy helmer Stephen Sommers has been asked by Paramount to direct the movie adaptation of G.I. Joe.
The site also suggests that rather than sticking with either the Skip Woods origin story or Elliot/Lovett’s more straight out adaptation they will be focuisng on a mash-up of the two.
The original G.I. Joe comic strip was created by David Breger for United States military magazines during World War II and in 1964 became a series of military-themed 12″ articulated action figures produced by the Hasbro toy company. Mark Wahlberg has been rumoured to take the lead role in the movie version.
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According to /Film George Lucas and Lucasfilm are apparently eyeing six titles for the upcoming fourth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise.
The titles include:
- Indiana Jones and the City of Gods
- Indiana Jones and the Destroyer of Worlds
- Indiana Jones and the Fourth Corner of the Earth
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Gold
- Indiana Jones and the Quest for the Covenant
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Posted in Indiana Jones, Movies •
I am a little leary of the situation. The truth will come out when, and if the US economy, and the dollar begins to strengthen. If prices remain high, you’ll know someone is lying. Either OPEC doesn’t have the supply they claim they have, or Analysts are incorrect when they say demand has decreased. Personally, I don’t buy the claim that demand has decreased. Population is ever increasing, so, the the demand should always be increasing. 