Archive for October 3rd, 2007
Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown) will direct Twilight, an adaptation of the novel by Stephenie Meyer for Summit Entertainment reports Variety.
Twilight is the book that launched Meyer’s bestselling young adult fantasy series and tells the story of 17-year-old Bella, who moves to a small town to live with her father, and is drawn to a pale mysterious classmate who comes from a family of vampires. Summit production president Erik Feig called the series a ‘publishing phenomenon’.
Melissa Rosenberg (Step Up) will write the script with Maverick Films’ Mark Morgan producing with Greg Mooradian.
Discuss Twilight on the X-Boards
Posted in Movies •
In an interview with the Guardian, BBC controller of fiction, Jane Tranter has refused to rule out the possibity of a Doctor Who movie.
Ms Tranter told MediaGuardian.co.uk that the move of the BBC films department from central London to a new base inside BBC Television Centre was designed to ‘cross-fertilise’ film production with the expertise from the comedy, natural history and news and current affairs departments’. When asked about a big screen outing for the money-spinning franchise, Tranter said ‘I would not rule out a film version of Doctor Who, no‘
Tranter also hinted that David Tennant, was likely to return to the role for a fifth series, even though he has agreed to play Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company next year. Doctor Who’s last series ended in July with 8 million viewers, a 39% share of the audience.
Discuss Doctor Who on the X-Boards
Posted in Doctor Who, Movies, Television •
Producer James Wong (The X-Files, Final Destination 3) is being lined up to write and direct the live action version of Dragon Ball reports CHUD. The news was delivered by a long-trusted site scooper called Tailgunner Joe.
Dragon Ball is a Japanese manga created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. It involves a young monkey-tailed martial artist named Son Goku who embarks on a lifelong quest to find magical orbs called Dragon Balls and become the greatest warrior in the universe.
Dragon Ball has been adapted into the popular anime series Dragon Ball Z which has been broadcast globally. The movie is scheduled to go into production in Canada next month.
Discuss Dragon Ball on the X-Boards
Posted in Movies •
You will recall that a blabbing extra recently gave Steven Spielberg fits by leaking plot details from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Well, now the legendary helmer has another reason to be pissed off because a light-fingered individual has made off with 2000 production stills, production budget breakdowns and other sensitive material from his office. It is also understood that the complete script and multiple computers were also taken during the raid.
Shortly afterwards the thief started contacting various entertainment websites including TMZ.com to sell the stolen material for the measley sum of $2000.00. IESB reports that TMZ.com may had obtained some of the stolen property and were on the verge of running the story on its TV division before Paramount lawyers stepped in.
Fortunately for everyone working on the new Indy movie the alleged thief was apprehended today during a sting at the Standard Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. around 4:00pm PST .
Discuss Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on the X-Boards
Posted in Movies •
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the streets, The Hollywood Reporter has found out that Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are in negotiations to return for the fourth installment of the rev-head franchise. Justin Lin and Chris Morgan who were behind ‘Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift’ are also returning to directing and writing duties.
The pair haven’t teamed up since the original Furious movie and it is expected that shooting will start early next year.
Discuss The Fast and The Furious 4 on the X-Boards
Posted in Movies •
Rob Cohen has updated his The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor blog with a new entry plus three new photos.
Jet Li has finally joined the shoot in Montreal with Cohen shooting the ‘trekking through the Himalayas’ sequence where O’Connell and team are searching for Shangri-la. Also in development is the climactic Emperor/Rick O’Connell fight with stunt co-ordinators Ku Huen Chzu and Mark Southworth. Apparently there’s a real contrast in styles, with Li’s highly balletic, powerful Wushu vs. the brutal directness of Brendan Fraser’s Krav Maga. This scene is elaborated upon by magic and shape-shifting creatures leading to the the climax aided by Luke Ford and the clash of armies overhead.
Cohen adds that he is putting pipelines in place to create 700 visual FX shots including the Terracotta Army, the Yeti and ‘much, much more’. Click here to take a look at the new photos in our gallery.
Discuss The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor on the X-Boards
Posted in Movies •
Latino Review reports that next up for Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) is At the Mountains of Madness.
The Mexican director will adapt the H P Lovecraft tale, a longtime passion project, backed by Universal Pictures before his mooted Tarzan picture which is still locked in the scripting phase.
The original novella on which the film will be based was written in 1931 and serialized in the pulp magazine Astounding Stories. The plot revolves around a geologist who discovers the remains of an ancient city and its inhabitants in Antarctica and in doing so resurrects a creature called the Shoggoth.
Discuss At the Mountains of Madness on the X-Boards
Posted in 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. 