Archive for January 31st, 2008
Carla Gugino (Sin City) has been speaking to MTV about her role as Silk Spectre in the Watchmen movie.
‘It was really one of the craziest, most fun roles I’ve ever gotten to play,’ explains Gugino, who has been cast as the frizzy haired red head waitress and burlesque dancer Sally Jupiter.
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A collection of posters for the martial arts fantasy epic The Forbidden Kindom starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li have appeared online.
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The story revolves around an American teenager who discovers the king’s legendary stick weapon in a pawn shop and is transported back in time to ancient China, where he joins a crew of warriors fighting to free the imprisoned king. Li will play two roles: the Monkey King and the silent monk, with Chan playing the monk T’sa-Ho. The Forbidden Kingdom has a US theatrical release date of April 18th 2008.
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Australian actress Anna Torv has been cast as the lead in Fringe, Fox’s high-profile sci-fi drama from Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orc writes the Hollywood Reporter. Veteran TV and stage actress Blair Brown and Jasika Nicole also have joined the cast.
The two-hour pilot, being directed by Alex Graves, centers on Olivia Warren (Torv), a young, tough FBI agent who is forced to confront the spread of unexplained phenomena and work with Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble), an institutionalized scientist whose work might be at the center of a coming storm.
On the Warner Bros. TV/Bad Robot drama, Brown will play the brilliant Nina Cord, a 16-year veteran at Prometheus Corp., a cutting-edge research facility. Nicole will play the recurring role of Astrid, a stunning federal assistant.
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Sci Fi Channel has greenlit Sanctuary writes the Hollywood Reporter, the first television series to use live-action actors against virtual sets in the style of 300 and Sin City.
The Sci Fi channel has ordered a full 13-episode season of the drama series, which originated online as the first high-definition sci-fi Web series from Stargate SG-1 trio Amanda Tapping, writer-producer Damian Kindler and producer-director Martin Wood.
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Matt Reeves is in early talks with Paramount to direct a Cloverfield sequel reports Variety.
It’s likely that Cloverfield 2 will be Reeves’ next project before he begins work on The Invisible Woman, a Hitchcock-style thriller that probes the mind of a former beauty queen who turns to a life of crime to protect her family.
With a $25 million budget, a strong concept and cast of unknowns, Cloverfield scored a $46 million opening frame, which was a record for a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Paramount gave away almost no first-dollar gross, making the film a bargain for the studio.
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