Archive for August 30th, 2007
It’s exactly 20 years since Samus Aran first faced the Motherbrain and the Metroid menace (In English anyway, Metroid appeared on Nintendos FDS a year earlier in Japan). She spans the growth of video games and the lasting poularity of the series is due entirely to the sheer playability of the games… no hype or hard core fan base is necessary when you have a gameplay model as close to perfect as this.
Indeed, there is a Metroid game for every Nintendo system ever released with the exception of the Gameboy Color and DS… (But more on that later). Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has been released for Nintendo’s Wii to coincide with this anniversary and they’ve put the benchmark Super Metroid out on the Virtual Console too. Corruption is the 3rd and last in the Prime games, the sub series that took Samus from 2 to 3 dimensions and into the popular realm of the FPS.
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Warner Bros. Pictures has provided the X-Realms with five brand-new stills from The Golden Compass.
The images are amongst the first from the film to feature finished CGI elements, including a first good impression of the evil panserbjorne Ragnar Sturlusson, more shots of Iorek, a picture of Daniel Craig’s Lord Asriel set against the northern lights, and a breathtaking view of Lyra and Roger (and their daemons) on the Oxford rooftops.
Click here to view the stills in our movie gallery. The anticipated adaptation of the first novel in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy opens in cinemas December 7.
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Universal has sent out a press release detailing the DVD and HD-DVD release of the unrated extended edition of Battlestar Galactica: Razor on December 4:
In a groundbreaking first, fans of Battlestar Galactica will be able to vote for their favorite DVD packaging of the Battlestar Galactica: Razor Unrated Extended Edition, which will be released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment on December 4, 2007. The website http://www.scifi.com/battlestar will display a selection of three choices for fans to cast their votes starting tomorrow and continuing to 12 AM midnight Pacific Standard Time on September 7, 2007. The final selection will be posted on the site on September 14.
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Only a few days after the news of Kevin Smith directing an episode of Battlestar Galactica comes word that the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back helmer had to pull out.
The wife of show producer Ron Moore visited the official Galactica message board on the SciFi website and posted the following brief message: ‘No he’ not. Scheduling conflict.’
The series returns for its fourth and final season in early 2008, preceded by the two-hour special TV movie Razor on November 24.
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David Goyer gave a small update on his upcoming Magneto movie at Wizard World Chicago.
WizardUniverse.com quotes the writer-director as saying: ‘We’re scouting and budgeting now. It’s the origins of the X-Men with Magneto and Charles Xavier. We’ve done some scouts and it mostly takes place in Europe and Argentina. We’re doing budgets and we’re sort of halfway crewed up, and so that’ll be the big question: whether we can bring it in for a price. But that’s all I can say.’
A release sometime in 2009 is currently being mooted for the X-Men spinoff.
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Zack Snyder (300) will direct a remake of The Illustrated Man for Warner Bros., says Variety.
Currently preparing Watchmen for the studio, Snyder is attached to direct and produce the remake based on Ray Bradbury’s collection of short stories by the same name. Watchmen screenwriter Alex Tse will pen the screenplay.
The collection, first published in 1951, is narrated by a mysterious man with living tattoos that predict the future. Rod Steiger starred in the title role for the 1969 big screen adaptation.
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According to ComingSoon.net, Lionsgate has set a new title for the Lexi Alexander-directed Punisher film starring Ray Stevenson - Punisher: War Zone.
In the original Marvel comic books the Punisher is a vigilante who considers killing, kidnapping, extortion, coercion, threats of violence and torture as acceptable crime-fighting tactics. Driven by the deaths of his wife and children, who were killed by the mob when they witnessed a Mafia gangland execution in New York City’s Central Park, Frank Castle wages a one-man war on the mob and all criminals in general by using all manner of weaponry. A war veteran, Castle is a master of martial arts, stealth tactics, hand-to-hand combat, spatial planning and a wide variety of weapons.
Alexander’s film marks the third screen incarnation for The Punisher. The property was turned into a 1989 film that starred Dolph Lundgren and then into a 2004 pic that starred Thomas Jane.
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Transformers ($308.7 million) has now officially surpassed Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($308.1m) at the US box office, according to Box Office Mojo.
Michael Bay’s blockbuster, budgeted at around $150m (without marketing costs), is now the third biggest movie of the summer, trailing only behind Spider-Man 3 ($336.5m) and Shrek the Third ($321m).
An additional $367.1m from overseas markets amounts to a total worldwide gross of $675.8m, the fifth-highest of the year.
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Alice Braga has been cast opposite Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in Universal’s futuristic thriller Repossession Mambo says The Hollywood Reporter.
Miguel Sapochnik is directing from a script by Eric Garcia and Garrett Lerner. Based on Garcia’s novel, the story follows Remy (Law), a repo man made up of artificial organs, who receives a heart transplant. When he struggles to make the payments, he must go on the run from his former partner.
Braga will play Beth, who married but lost touch with Remy while he was serving in the Army. Ten years later, Beth—down on her luck and retrofitted with artificial organs—is reunited with Remy as they seek to run. Braga next will be seen in Warner Bros. Pictures’ I Am Legend, which opens Dec. 14.
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DreamWorks and Paramount have opted for a wide release of Sweeney Todd on December 21, reports Variety.
The Tim Burton-directed adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical was originally scheduled to go wide on January 11, 2008, following a limited release on December 21. With the movie being less immediately accessible than most musicals because of its dark storyline, the thought behind this ‘platform opening’ was to give the film a chance to build buzz.
But after seeing the first clips from the film, DreamWorks executives have realized that Johnny Depp’s revenge-seeking barber could be another signature role similar to that of Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates trilogy, giving Sweeney Todd a much broader appeal. Nevertheless, the movie is still expected to receive an R rating.
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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. 