Archive for December 6th, 2007
Melbourne hosted the Australian Film Institute Awards last night and Richard Roxburgh’s Romulus, My Father came out on top with wins in the Best Lead Actor (Eric Bana), Best Supporting Actor (Martin Csokas) and Best Film categories. Bana said that the film was “a real thrill. It’s been a real labour of love.”
The Best Direction Award went to Tony Ayres for The Home Song Stories, a dramatisation of his glamorous mother’s struggles after moving from China to Australia.
See the complete list of winners
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Jamie Chung has joined Justin Chatwin and James Marsters in Fox’s Dragonball, the live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese comic writes the Hollywood Reporter.
James Wong is directing the science fiction action-adventure, which centers on an adult humanoid alien named Goku (Chatwin) who, after discovering he was sent to Earth to destroy the population, tries to fulfill the wish of his dying grandfather and collect all seven of the world’s mystical Dragon Balls to keep them out of the hands of the evil aliens.
Chung will play Chi Chi, the love interest of Goku when he’s growing up.
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, rapper Xzibit (xXx: State of the Union), Amanda Peet (Syriana) and Scots stand-up comedian Billy Connolly (Mrs. Brown) have signed on for director Chris Carter’s X-Files 2.
Sources said Xzibit and Peet will play fellow FBI agents to David Duchovny’s Mulder and Gillian Anderson’s Scully in the supernatural thriller with a stand-alone story, not a sequel or continuation of the hit 1998 feature adaptation. Citing a policy of secrecy surrounding the plot line, Fox would not confirm any details regarding the three actors’ roles.
Carter and Frank Spotnitz wrote the screenplay, and production is expected to begin this month in Vancouver. The film is set to hit theaters in July.
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In conversation with Comingsoon, producer Frank Marshall has given a couple of updates on the next installments in the Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park series.
‘You’re going to see a teaser poster later this month’ he said when asked when we might be seeing some more from the highly anticipated Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
When quizzed about a potential fourth outing for the Jurassic Park franchise, he said that he believed it would still shoot for a planned summer 2009, but the WGA strike had postponed the script, adding ‘There’s an idea and we just have to see if it shakes out.’
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USA Today has published the first official images from the Wachowski’s (The Matrix trilogy, V for Vendetta) automotive green screen extravaganza Speed Racer.
Click here to take a look in our movie gallery.
Based on the 1960s Japanese cartoon series, Speed Racer follows the adventures of the youthful Speed (Hirsch) as he tries to obtain victory in his tricked-out Mach 5 racecar, built by his father. Speed is often bailed out of danger by Racer X, a rival with a mysterious connection to Speed.
The movie is scheduled for a May 9, 2008 opening.
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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. 