Archive for October 9th, 2007
Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings, X-Men) is lending his voice to the computer generated polar bear character Iorek Byrnison in The Golden Compass.
The veteran actor replaces Nonso Anozie, the initial casting choice for Iorek, who’s voice-work for the character was heard in all the promotional video clips for the film thus far.
But IGN has now posted a preview of the upcoming final trailer which confirms McKellen as Iorek’s new speaker. The full trailer is scheduled to debut online later today.
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Three new Beowulf images have appeared online depicting a close-up view of bad guy Grendel, a shot of the Mead Hall and another of the Fire Drake/Dragon in flight.
Click here to take a look in our gallery.
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. Click here to take a look at the official site and watch the trailer.
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Hollywood Gang (300), has optioned the rights to adapt the comic book The Last Christmas says the Hollywood Reporter.
The story follows Santa Claus as he withdraws from normal life and turns his back on Christmas. When he emerges from seclusion, he has to find a way to save the world, and Christmas, from being overrun by demons, zombies and other bad guys.
The comic was written by actor-comedian Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan. The company’s Gianni Nunnari will produce, while Craig J. Flores will executive produce. No writer has been tapped to adapt.
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Matt Keeslar and Natalie Morales are onboard ABC Family’s pilot The Middleman, based on Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s graphic novels for Viper Comics says the Hollywood Reporter.
Mary Pat Gleason has also has been cast in the one-hour project which was ordered to pilot last month.
The Middleman centers on Wendy Watson (Morales), a twentysomething struggling artist recruited by a secret agency to fight comic book-type villains. Keeslar will play the title character, a sci-fi superhero who serves as her guide. Gleason will play Ida, the robotic gatekeeper and veteran assistant to Keeslar.
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During the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland last comic-creator and filmmaker Hans Rodionoff surprised the attendees by revealing footage from a proposed Mnemovore movie.
The ten minute video featured Kristen Bell in the lead role supported by Michael Biehn reports Comic2Film.
Mnemovore was a six-issue comic series published under the Vertigo imprint of DC. The comics were in the horror genre, and ran monthly from April 2005. The plot focuses on an injured, amnesiac athlete who makes a terrifying discovery, and must fight to protect the loved ones she no longer remembers.
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In an interview with MTV, Lord of the Rings star Sean Astin has said that a sequel to sentimental 80’s favourite Goonies is an ‘absolute certainty.’
‘The writing’s on the wall when they’re releasing the [Goonies] DVD in such numbers,’ said Astin.
Earlier, fellow cast member Corey Feldman had said that there were ‘numerous plotlines are floating around’, with his favorite involving the children of the original Goonies embarking on an adventure of their own.
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Following the rumor over at CHUD that McG could be helming Terminator IV for Halcyon, JoBlo have added a juicy tidbit of their own-
The word is that Vin Diesel has been having meetings with the T4 people, presumably to pick up a role as a member of the resistance, or more interestingly to replace Arnie as the relentless cyborg of the title.
Earlier reports suggested that the film will include sequences featuring Schwarzenegger, reprising his role through the magic of digital FX in brief flashback scenes.
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Paz Vega and Jamie King (rumour reported earlier) have now been confirmed as cast members of Will Eisner’s The Spirit reports Variety.
Vega will play the knife-wielding Plaster of Paris, and King will portray Lorelei, a phantom siren.
The duo joins Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson, Gabriel Macht, Sarah Paulson, Dan Lauria, Stana Katic, Johnny Simmons and Louis Lombardi. Principal photography begins today in New Mexico. Lionsgate has U.S. and U.K. rights and plans to release the film on Jan. 16, 2009.
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The Halcyon Co. has signed a three- year first-look deal for all of the unadapted works by sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick reports Variety.
Dick wrote more than 120 short stories and 45 novels, including Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the basis for Blade Runner, but only nine of these stories have been adapted thus far, including: Total Recall, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly. Together these films have grossed more than $1 billion worldwide.
‘Only a tiny, tiny portion of his work has been tapped,’ said Halcyon co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson before mentioning the novel Ubik as a likely candidate for adaptation.
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Erbzine reports that pre-production on the Disney/Pixar John Carter of Mars adaptation is gathering pace.
Apparently the Pixar creative team spent Tuesday morning trawling through the Edgar Rice Burroughs archives at the ERB Inc. in California where Pixar vice president Jim Morris, director Andrew Stanton and script writer Mark Andrews discussed the project. The team were presented with a wealth of resources by Danton Burroughs, including art samples and books.
Disney and Pixar plan to produce a film trilogy faithful to the Burroughs books with a release date sometime before 2012.
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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. 