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James Purefoy has been cast as the lead in Robert E Howard’s Solomon Kane reports Variety.
Samuel Hadida announced the news today, confirming that the Rome star has been cast as the eponymous Puritan swordsman in the Davis Films production which is due to start shooting later this year and intended to be the first of a trilogy.
Posted in Movies •
Disney have released the poster for National Treasure: Book of Secrets.
Click here to observe Nic Cage’s marvelous hairpiece in our gallery.
The movie, which is a sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure, has been written by Gregory Poirier, directed by Jon Turteltaub and sees the return of Nicolas Cage as treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates. Originally there were no plans to make the property into a franchise but after the first installment earned $347.5 million worldwide, this sequel was given the go-ahead in 2005. The film opens in theaters December 21st and if anyone knows who went to see the first one, please let us know.
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Posted in Movies •
IGN reports that 20th Century Fox have hired the services of Skip Woods (Swordfish) to rewrite David Benioff’s Wolverine screenplay.
Apparently Fox executives are so impressed with Woods’ work on the upcoming video game adapatation Hitman that they’ve hired him to undertake ‘more than a polish’ of the existing screenplay.
Filming on Wolverine commences in November in Australia with Hugh Jackman once again sporting the sideburns and claws.
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Posted in Movies •
Hollywood strikes have been looming for some time, prompting studios to push back their schedules to accomodate the impending action. However, it now seems that the expected June 2008 action could come sooner than expected.
The New York Times is reporting that the Writers Guild of America could strike as soon as October 31st which would seriously hamper the development of many projects, most notably Justice League. The paper writes that movies such as JLA ‘are now being seen as high-value targets by those at the writers guild who advocate an immediate walkout should no deal be reached.’ adding ‘The question at hand is whether writers, in the event no deal is reached, can inflict maximum damage on their bargaining opponents by striking immediately rather than continuing to work and letting the studios add those films to their strike stockpile.’
A History of the Hobbit, the three-volume collector’s boxed set released to mark the 70th anniversary of the book’s publication is now on sale.
The set includes for the first time the complete text of the original manuscript of The Hobbit alongside the definitive hardback edition of the book. Like its successor, The Lord of the Rings, this is a story that ‘grew in the telling’, and many characters and story threads present in the published text were completely different when Tolkien first read his story aloud to his young sons as part of their fireside reads.
Posted in Books & Comics, The Hobbit / LOTR •
SCI FI Wire has managed to tease a few season 4 plot details fom Lost executive producer and co-creator Damon Lindelof and executive producer Carlton Cuse.
‘Season four is going to be a whole new show in a lot of ways.’ Lindelof told the site ‘We’re really excited with what we’re doing and hope that it’ll offer as many surprises as the finale did.’
He then went on to reveal the following plot points: *** SPOILER ALERT ***
Posted in Lost, Television •
AICN published some interesting news last week that emerged during a special screening of Disney’s Enchanted hosted by Dick Cook, the Chairman of Walt Disney Pictures. In addition to a 2D version of The Frog Princess, it seems that the House of Mouse is also prepping a new stop motion animated feature ‘helmed by the creative mastermind behind the majority of stop-motion pictures in the last decade’.
An anonymous tipster has informed the site today that the project will be a remake of Tim Burton’s 1984 short movie Frankenweenie.
Posted in Movies •
The death of longtime Highlander producer William Panzer has left the future of the franchise in doubts reports SCI FI Wire.
‘Bill died this year, and so I don’t know what [Panzer's partner] Peter Davis is going to do with the franchise.’ said Adrian Paul, who played Duncan MacLeod in the TV show. ‘I have heard, kind of through the industry, people say, ‘Oh, it’s a great franchise. It should be revamped. Somebody should buy it, blah, blah, blah.’ I have no idea. I don’t know what’s going to happen with that. Peter and Bill had two different parts of the franchise. Bill was the creative guy, if you like, and Peter was the financier, in a sense. So they had two [different] strengths, and I don’t know now what Peter will do with the franchise itself.’
Paul added that his future involvement in the franchise is also uncertain due to other commitments but mentioned that a new animated Highlander series is in the works, aimed at a younger audience.
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Posted in Movies, Television •
David Reynolds (A Bug’s Life) has been recruited to adapt Nightmare Academy, Universal’s adaptation of the children’s book series by Dean Lorey says the Hollywood Reporter.
The film is based upon a planned book trilogy set in an academy that trains young adults who are responsible for policing nightmares. Stephen Sommers and Bob Ducsay will produce.
Reynolds shared an Oscar nomination with Andrew Stanton and Bob Peterson for writing Finding Nemo.
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Posted in Movies •
Transformers visual FX supervisor and second unit director Scott Farrar has told SCI FI Wire that the recently announced sequel will be visually more amitious.
‘We want to improve on some of the processes that we did.’ said Farrar. ‘I think what we’re going to do is get faster and know our problems sooner and quicker. And then, of course, I know Michael’s always thinking about new, crazy actions. And we’re open to that. It’s a circus, and they’re going to raise the tight-wire walker a little bit higher next time. But it’s all going to be dramatic. I think the commitment is not to just chuck out a sequel. The commitment is—and this makes us really happy here—that it’s a deep story. There are lots of layers to the story of all these Decepticons, everybody. And so they want to really keep the characters rich.’
Transformers is released on DVD and HD DVD October 16th.
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With more creatures than the Star Wars cantina, Hellboy and his cohorts set about trying to stop an Elf prince from destroying the human race. Hey, it’s all in a day’s work for Big Red.
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2008 U.S. Presidential election
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.
- Cam
