Archive for October 2nd, 2007
To disprove the theory that the X-Staff spend every day lounging around in our palacial headquarters sipping fruity cocktails and whistling along to Peter, Bjorn and John, we’ve been hard at work spring-cleaning our world famous movie galleries and adding in new categories and images.
In case you’re not au fait with our capacious and shiny receptical of cinematic imagery, it’s a place where we’ve uploaded thousands of high quality images from past, present and future movies for you to browse and enjoy.
Take a look for yourselves.
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IESB reports that Zack Snyder has enrolled the services of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Transformers, Star Trek) to polish Alex Tse’s Watchmen script.
Apparently there are significant differences between Tse’s original draft and the shooting version with Snyder himself even making some minor tweaks to Orci and Kurtzman’s take.
The offbeat superhero ensemble movie based upon the DC comics limited series commenced shooting in Vancouver in September and will open in March 2009.
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Elle Magazine reports that Robert Rodriguez has definitely cast his girlfriend Rose McGowan in the lead role of Barbarella.
The Grindhouse star was used in test footage for the remake of the 1968 kitsch sci-fi classic but now a source has said ‘Rose McGowan is slipping into a fur bikini and major bouffant to take on the title role‘.
The project, which will reportedly be more faithful to the original comic than the psychedelic sixties version, goes into production before year’s end for a release sometime in 2008.
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Posted in Movies •
A source at IESB has managed to get their hands on a May 2007 copy of The Incredible Hulk script and has spilt the beans with a number of spoilers.
Firstly, the source claims that the movie is paced faster than Ang Lee’s 2003 take and plunges into the action right from the opening sequence. Secondly, the Hulk is the real star of the movie and appears throughout.
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Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is teaming with Disturbia director D.J. Caruso and writer J.H. Wyman to mount an ambitious comicbook-style drama that will use the same greenscreen technology utilized in the hit pic 300 reports Variety.
The group are putting together a feature based on Johnny Dynamite, the graphic novel character from Road to Perdition creator Max Allan Collins. The TV show will focus on ex-cop Dynamite who travels to Las Vegas in search of his missing girlfriend, only to discover that Satan is living there, buying and selling souls.
‘It’s kind of a twisted procedural, but it’s also sort of like ‘Highway to Heaven’ on acid,’ said a source involved with the project. Caruso is attached to direct the pilot, with Wyman (Keen Eddie) writing the script.
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Posted in Television •
MI6 reports that location scouts for the 22nd James Bond film have selected locations in Panama to film the upcoming movie.
Precise locales have yet to be decided but it is understood that the Provincia de Colón region is under consideration due to its picturesque coastline. If the production comes to an agreement with official, shooting should commence in early November with 300 to 400 crew members arriving later this month.
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A brand new Beowulf international trailer has appeared online including brand new footage.
Click here to take a look.
Beowulf, which will hit cinemas in digital 3D in November is an ambitious performance-captured epic from director Robert Zemeckis, based upon an old English poem which tells the story of a warrior who travels to Denmark to save a Kingdom from the nightly attacks of a hideous monster.
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Critically acclaimed British writer Steven Moffat has been signed up to write DreamWorks’ Tintin, the movie trilogy collaboration from Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg.
Moffat, who has written for the relaunched Doctor Who and BBC drama Jekyll will adapt the European comic strip created by Herge which centres around a young Belgian reporter and world traveler who is aided in his adventures by his faithful dog Snowy.
Kathleen Kennedy is serving as producer on the three feature films, which will be made using performance-capture technology and produced in digital 3-D. Jackson and Spielberg are each directing an installment, with the helmer of the third movie to be determined.
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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. 