Archive for December 14th, 2007
Is this the start of a new trend? Two more opening film sequences have been released online to drum up attention for upcoming releases.
Warner Bros. has unveiled the first couple of minutes of I Am Legend on Yahoo! Movies, while the opening scene of Paramount’s J.J. Abrams-produced monster movie Cloverfield can be watched on Clearspring.com.
The Will Smith-fronted I Am Legend opens in cinemas today; Cloverfield follows January 18, 2008.
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French film site Mad Movies have published a confusing scoop on the new Conan film, which is rumoured to star Gerard Butler (very much a rumour at this stage).
An insider at Nu Image has told them that John McTiernan (Die Hard, Predator, The Thomas Crown Affair) has been approached to direct the $80m film based on Robert E. Howard’s mythical conqueror.
This all sounds a little fishy because it was only last year that McTiernan was charged in federal court with lying to the FBI during an interview in the wiretapping investigation involving Anthony Pellicano. The case is still hanging over his head and he has been ordered to surrender by January 15th, 2008 for sentencing.
Maybe he knows something that we don’t?
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Twentieth Century Fox have told IESB that they’ve found a director for the long rumoured A-Team movie.
John Singleton (Shaft, 2 Fast 2 Furious) will helm the project which will centre around a group of Gulf War veterans as opposed to the Vietnam vets of the original TV series.
The A-Team was an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces who work as soldiers of fortune while being on the run from the military for a crime they didn’t commit. The show ran for five seasons on the NBC television network, from January 23, 1983 to December 30, 1986 (with one additional, previously unbroadcast episode shown on March 8, 1987), with a total of 98 episodes. The name of the show comes from A-teams, the nickname for Operational Detachments Alpha (ODA).
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According to figures released by Walt Disney Studios, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, the third installment in the swashbuckling franchise starring Johnny Depp, has easily topped the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert DVD sales chart in its first week in stores, selling more than twice as many copies as Spider-Man 3 and significantly more DVDs than Shrek the Third in their respective first weeks. The title also topped the Blu-ray chart.
On Home Media Magazine’s rental chart for the week ending Dec. 9th, Superbad came in at No. 1 with estimated rental earnings of $14 million with At World’s End debuting at No. 2 with $9.5 million.
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Steve Norrington, who hasn’t been in the director’s chair since the 2003 disaster League of Extraordinary Gentlemen will helm the Clash of the Titans remake reports Variety.
The Empire Strikes Back writer Lawrence Kasdan has rewritten a script by Travis Beacham for Warner Bros. and Legendary with production scheduled to commence next year.
The original 1981 movie, famous for its stop motion animation FX by Ray Harryhausen was loosely based upon the Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda and featured classic mythological creatures like the winged horse Pegasus and the deadly Medusa whose glance turns people to stone.
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Omelete have delivered the new international teaser poster for The Dark Knight.
Click here to see the image in our movie gallery (click through for larger version).
In the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman Begins sequel Batman (Christian Bale) raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker (Heath Ledger).
The film opens in cinemas July 18, 2008.
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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.