Archive for January 4th, 2008
No surprises here: The first trailer for the J.J. Abrams’ directed new Star Trek film will debut in cinemas two weeks from now in front of screenings of the J.J. Abrams’ produced monster movie Cloverfield.
Cloverfield director Matt Reeves confirmed this to MTV, saying he has seen the trailer already and calling it ‘amazing’ and looking ‘pretty incredible’. Reeves added: ‘I thought ‘Well, this does look completely different and new.’ But while having all the stuff that will make fans of Star Trek still feel fulfilled.’
Reeves has even seen bits of the movie itself: ‘[Abrams is] doing an amazing job. It’s very exciting. It’s not your grandfather’s Star Trek, that’s for sure.’ The film opens in theaters December 25.
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The new TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles premieres Sunday, January 13, but Warner Bros. is offering you the chance to see the pilot online a week early.
Streaming for free on Yahoo! the episode will be available for a 24-hour period beginning today (Jan 4) at 9 PM PT/Midnight ET - and featuring an exclusive introduction by Sarah Connor actress Lena Headey.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles represents an exciting reinvention of the Terminator franchise, in which the strong and intrepid Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) discovers that protecting her 15-year-old son, John (Thomas Dekker), and stopping the rise of the machines is more difficult than she had ever imagined. Sarah and John are joined by Cameron (Summer Glau), an enigmatic and otherworldly high school student, who proves to be much more than a friend and James Ellison (Richard T. Jones) an FBI agent hot on their trail who soon becomes a powerful ally.
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Guillermo del Toro spoke to MTV News about his plans regarding a “definitive take” on Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein novel.
The Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy II director maintained that his version (still in the earliest stages of pre-production) would not be a literal one: ‘The only way to do the Shelley novel is to actually do a four-hour miniseries. But I think there permutations in which you can tell the myth in a different way.’
The most recent big budget adaptation is the Kenneth Branagh-directed Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (starring himself and Robert De Niro) from 1994. Del Toro’s take could be several years away, as the busy director currently has plenty of other projects lined up, including adaptations of HP Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan and Roald Dahl’s The Witches.
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South Korean monster movie The Host was one of the surprise hits in 2007 and rumours have been suggesting for a while now that there may be a sequel on the horizon.
Twitchfilm has now revealed that the sequel is in fact a prequel, based on a script written by Korean comic artist Kang Full. The story is said to take place three years prior to the original film and to revolve around the excavation of the Cheonggye Stream, an ancient waterway running through Seoul that was recently reclaimed and restored after years of being covered by a highway.
Apparently, multiple monsters are slated to feature in the film. Director Bong Joon-Ho is not expected to return.
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New Line Cinema has pushed back the release of Inkheart from March 19 to an undetermined date further in the future, reports Dark Horizons.
Inkheart centers on Meggie, a young girl whose father has a secret ability to bring characters from books to life when he reads them aloud. But when a power-hungry villain from a rare children’s fable kidnaps Meggie’s father to bring others out of the boundaries of fiction, she and a disparate group of friends both real and magic embark on the kind of adventure she has only read about in books to save him and set things right.
The Ian Softley-directed film is based on Cornelia Funke’s book and stars Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis and Eliza Hope Bennett.
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Iron Man director Jon Favreau has told MTV not only that he’d like to direct a big screen outing for Marvel’s superhero team The Avengers, but he expects a certain amount of continuity between the existing and potential franchises -
‘I wonder if the tone of The Incredible Hulk is going to be similar or different than Iron Man,’ pondered Favreau…
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Following Variety’s recent revelation that Bryan Singer is unlikely to pick up the directorial reins for the Superman Returns sequel The Man of Steel, Latino Review has revealed that there is more bad news for expectant fans.
According the site, Brandon Routh will definitely not be returning in the lead role and will instead be replaced by the actor cast as Supes in George Miller’s Justice League movie.
At this point there has been no confirmation of this news from Warner Bros.
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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. 