Andrew Lau Wai-kung (Infernal Affairs) and leading Hong Kong studio Media Asia are prepping big-budget Chinese-language $250 million action trilogy Water Margin reports Variety.

The movie is an adaptation of one of China’s four classic novels and sees 108 outlaws form a resistance movement to oppose the feudal king. The story was previously made as a movie by Shaw Bros. and helmer Chang Cheh and had been adapted for TV and as a comicbook.

‘This is a story that everyone in China knows well,’ Lau said. ‘We (see) this as a three-part franchise with me directing the first movie and Johnnie To doing the second and me acting as producer.’

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Yet another teaser poster has emerged from Comingsoon.

This time around it’s from Millennium’s upcoming Conan move.  Click here to take a look.

Back in August Millennium Films acquired the rights to make a new movie series based on Robert E. Howard’s mythical conqueror Conan the Barbarian.  Paradox Entertainment prexy-CEO Fredrik Malmberg will produce the new potential franchise starter with Millennium’s Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Joe Gatta and George Furla.  The aim is to start production by spring 2008.

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Comingsoon has come up trumps again with a preview of the teaser poster for big screen video game adaptation Tekken.

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Tekken tells the story of two childhood friends enter the world’s largest fighting tournament where they have to battle deadly opponents using every form of martial arts known to man. As they fight both friend and foe, their journey takes them deep into the heart of the notorious Tekken Corporation, where they uncover a secret project that could change the world.

The movie is being directed by Dwight H. Little (Prison Break, Bones, 24) from a story by Michael Colleary (Face Off, Firehouse Dog) and Alan B. McElroy (Spawn, Wrong Turn) for a planned 2009 release.

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Comingsoon have delivered the poster for upcoming sci-fi thriller Game starring Gerard Butler (300).

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Game is the brainchild of Crank writers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor and is being produced by Lakeshore.   It’s set in a future where people control other human beings via nano-devices with Butler playing a character called Kable, a world-wide sensation and top ranked warrior in a game called Slayers. In a Running Man type-scenario, Kable tries to regain his humanity and topple the system, all while being watched by millions of viewers.

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Twentieth Century Fox have announced that the long-awaited follow-up to the 1998 X-Files movie will be released theatrically July 25th 2008.

Filming will begin on X-Files 2 December 10th in Vancouver with series creator Chris Carter directing from a script co-written by Frank Spotnitz.

The movie is a sequel to the aforementioned feature based on the television series of the same name with David Duchovny returning as Special Agent Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson reprising the role of Special Agent Dana Scully.  Carter has described the project as ‘a really scary horror, like a stand-alone episode’. 

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The first images from Wanted have been published by Empireonline.  Click here to take a look in our gallery.

Wanted is a film adaptation of the comic book miniseries of the same name by Mark Millar.  The story revolves around a 25-year-old office worker  who is offered the opportunity to seek revenge for the murder of his father, who was a super-villainous assassin.  Director Timur Bekmambetov has said that the film would keep the same characters from the miniseries, though the director would take liberty in adapting the comic book’s world.

Wanted, which  stars James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp and rap artist Common is scheduled to open in the UK March 28th 2008.

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Paul Giamatti will play sci-fi author Philip K. Dick in an off-kilter feature that blends fact with fantasy reports MTV.

Work is afoot to pen the script for The Owl in Daylight,  a book that was left unfinished before Dick’s premature death in 1982.   The spin is that the author will be inserted into the screenplay in a Charlie Kauffman-like exercise in blurred reality.

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Variety reports that Lord of the Rings producer Barrie Osborne has his sights set firmly on a new fantasy property.

The New Yorker will return to New Zealand next month to produce Laundry Warrior.
 
The English-language heroic tale begins lensing November 12th in Auckland with a cast headed by Geoffrey Rush, Kate Bosworth and Korean star Jang Dong-gun.

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With the Watchmen film project well underway for a March 9, 2009 release, it already seems as if there will be a tie-in film to go along with Watchmen’s eventual DVD release. Moviehole is reporting that Tales of the Black Freighter, the “comic-within-a-comic” (within a comic?) that takes place in the world of, and is a foil for the plot of, Watchmen, will be adapted to film as well. The story takes place within a comic book read by a young boy (who lives in the world of the Watchmen) at a news stand. The project, which has already been confirmed by Warner Bros., will appear as a special feature on the DVD release of Watchmen, which we can surmise will be sometime in 3rd or 4th quarter 2009.

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The new teaser website ‘Why So Serious’ is now live to promote the release of The Dark Knight. You can visit the site here: http://www.whysoserious.com/

There are a number of small, puzzling  images you can click on which give cryptic clues. For each of the clues a city is named as well. For example, one clue says:

Austin
Start at the market at 6th and Lamar. Find the Amtrack sign by the tracks. Walk west along the tracks to the second light pole and peer through the trees until you see red.

Visitors are then asked to upload a photo of what they see.

** UPDATE **

Now that the puzzle has been solved a new photo of Heath Ledger as the Joker has been revealed.  Click here to check it out in our galleries.  Another site has also emerged here with another puzzle.

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