Archive for January 3rd, 2008
Transformers director Michael Bay briefly mentioned the anticipated sequel in a Happy New Year’s message on his official website:
For the millions of viewers that logged on this year I want to thank you for the support. Transformers 2 will be coming soon. The new robots are really really unique and there are a lot of them this time.
Paramount and DreamWorks has currently scheduled a June 26, 2009 release for Transformers 2. The first film grossed a total of $706.5 million at the worldwide box-office.
Discuss Transformers 2 on the X-Boards
Posted in Movies, Transformers •
P.S., I Love You is based upon Irish writer Cecelia Ahern’s bestselling debut novel, first published in 2004. The movie version has been adapted by Director Richard LaGravenese whose screenwriting credits include: The Fisher King, The Bridges of Madison County, The Horse Whisperer and Freedom Writers.
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Posted in Movies, Reviews •
Jeffrey Wright, who played CIA agent Felix Leiter in Casino Royale, will reprise his role in the next James Bond film according to Variety.
Wright joins Mathieu Almaric, Giancarlo Giannini and Anatole Taubmann on board the film, in which Daniel Craig returns into the role of James Bond.
The 007 pic directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, The Kite Runner) starts shooting today at London’s Pinewood Studios. Sony and MGM are targeting a November 7 release later this year.
Discuss Bond 22 on the X-Boards
Posted in James Bond, Movies •
Dark Horizons has posted a neat summary of the 2007 box office, revealing the ten films that grossed the highest amount of money (US figures only):
1. Spider-Man 3 - $336.5m
2. Shrek the Third - $321.0m
3. Transformers - $319.1m
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End - $309.4m
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - $292.0m
6. The Bourne Ultimatum - $227.5m
7. 300 - $210.6m
8. Ratatouille - $206.4m
9. I Am Legend - $205.1m
10. The Simpsons Movie - 183.1m
The overall box office haul clocked in at $9.7 billion. While that figure represents a 4% increase on last year, adjusting it for inflation amounts to 1.42 billion sold tickets - roughly the same as in 2006. 2002 remains the benchmark with 1.61 billion tickets sold and over $10 billion in revenue.
Posted in Movies •
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has hinted for the first time that she may pick up the series again after all reports the BBC.
In an interview with Time Magazine she said: ‘There have been times since finishing, weak moments, when I’ve said ‘Yeah, all right’ to the eighth novel. If - and it’s a big if - I ever write an eighth book, I doubt that Harry would be the central character. I feel I’ve already told his story. But these are big ifs. Let’s give it ten years.’
Rowling also mentioned that her 14-year-old daughter Jessica has started pressuring her to revisit the character. The Potter series was concluded earlier this year with the seventh and final novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Discuss the Harry Potter books on the X-Boards
Posted in Books & Comics, Harry Potter •
A franchise as big as Indiana Jones will naturally see a host of tie-ins accompany the release of its next installment, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (out May 22).
Among the products set to hit shelves a couple of weeks prior to the film’s premier are LEGO toy sets. Dark Horizons has managed to find pictures of three such Indy IV LEGO sets, which give us a decent look at some of the movie’s big set pieces.
The first shows a river/jungle chase involving Indy and Marion, the second has soldiers, tanks and tarantulas at a temple entrance, while the third features the Temple of the Crystal Skull itself, full of strange and possibly otherwordly elements.
Discuss Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skull on the X-Boards
Posted in Movies •
One of our ten most anticipated films coming out this year, the J.J. Abrams-produced Cloverfield premieres in cinemas in just over two weeks time.
The film has already generated considerable talk on the internet, and now the first ads are being broadcasted on television aswell. Seven such clips have been put on Youtube:
Spot 1 / Spot 2 / Spot 3 / Spot 4 / Spot 5 / Spot 6 / Spot 7
Directed by Matt Reeves, Cloverfield is a monster-movie shown from the point of view of a small group of people and their video camera.
Discuss Cloverfield on the X-Boards
Posted in Movies •
Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old men is topping many a critic’s chart of last year’s best films and is expected to launch into the Oscar race from pole position.
But it seems that the writer/director duo is already preparing for the future. We already know that their next film, Burn After Reading, stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt, but apparently the Coen brothers are also planning a gritty period western.
They told Cinema Blend that they’ve ‘written a western with a lot of violence in it. There’s scalping and hanging … it’s good. Indians torturing people with ants, cutting their eyelids off… It’s a proper western, a real western, set in the 1870s. It’s got a scene that no one will ever forget because of one particular chicken.’
Discuss the untitled Coens Western 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. 