Archive for February 13th, 2008
There is a small clip available over at the Guardian of the upcoming Jack Black, Mos Def comedy Be Kind Rewind.
Jerry (Black) and Mike (Mos Def), are trying to re-shoot Ghostbusters in rapid-quick time for customer Ms Kimberley (Mia Farrow), who is threatening to expose the fact they have erased all the store’s videos if they don’t deliver the movie she wants to watch (and has, fortunately, never before seen) before 4pm that evening.
Watch the clip »
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The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has announced that the strike is officially over. 3′775 writers turned out in Los Angeles and New York to cast ballots or fax in proxies, with 92.5% voting in favour of ending their 100-day strike that began November 5.
WGA West president Patric M. Verrone commented: ‘The strike is over. Our membership has voted, and writers can go back to work. This was not a strike we wanted, but one we had to conduct in order to win jurisdiction and establish appropriate residuals for writing in new media and on the Internet. Those advances now give us a foothold in the digital age. Rather than being shut out of the future of content creation and delivery, writers will lead the way as TV migrates to the Internet and platforms for new media are developed.’
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Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe told Digital Spy at the BAFTAs that there is no truth to rumours of Steven Spielberg directing the final film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:
‘I have no idea how that rumour started or where it came from. It’s not true. How’s that for a definitive answer? It’s absolute rubbish that Spielberg is directing the final film. It’s not true. There’s absolutely no foundation in that at all.’
Producer David Barron meanwhile told The Daily Telegraph that Deathly Hallows may be split into two films after all: ‘We are still discussing it. The announcement will be made hopefully in the not-too-distant future, with regards to the way seven shapes up.’
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A scan of a call sheet from the set of the film sequel to The X-Files has gone up at Dark Horizons.
The site claims to unlike the bogus werewolf mask photos leaked from the set the other week the call sheet has been confirmed as genuine. The call sheet may not look like much but apparently the “Larry removes disguise” comment is central to the upcoming feature. Follow this link to have a look for yourself.
The film sees David Duchovny reprising his role as Special Agent Fox Mulder, with Gillian Anderson also back on board to play Special Agent Dana Scully. The popular mystery series ran from 1993 to 2002. A first cinematic outing, directed by Rob Bowman, premiered in theaters in June 1998. Fox will release the Chris Carter-directed sequel this July.
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Even though names like Rob Zombie, Xavier Gens and Neil Marshall are being strongly linked to the director’s job on the upcoming Conan film, Lionsgate has definitely not settled on anyone yet.
A scooper told Dark Horizons: ‘The bottom line here is that there isn’t one. The production companies are talking to a host of directors, there is no completed script and there will be no director until they have a script done.’
The source added that people like Rob Zombie were adding their names to the rumour mill themselves in their efforts to try and get the job.
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The SCI FI Channel has announced the return of Battlestar Galactica for its fourth season on March 28 with to back-to-back half-hour specials, with the first new episode airing the following Friday, April 4 at 10pm ET/PT.
The first of the two half-hour specials, Battlestar Galactica: Revisited (10pm), will serve up the essential information on the series’ past three seasons for the uninitiated. Battlestar Galactica: The Phenomenon (10:30pm), the second special, is a celebrity-studded celebration of the show’s impact on pop culture.
Meanwhile, CHUD reports that via an inside source that BSG’s fourth season will not be truncated over the delay caused by the writers strike, meaning fans will be treated to the entirety of the original 22 episodes season order. It’s still possible that the second half of these won’t be aired until 2009, however.
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Transformers director Michael Bay has told RottenTomatoes that he has already finished the sequel story despite the writer’s strike that officially ends today.
‘I’ve been writing Transformers 2,‘ explained Bay. ‘We’ve got our characters all designed. I always write all my scripts, my movies, anyway, so at least I’ve got something to give the writers. It’s like a template. We have a really good outline so I worked on that.‘
Bay added that he will introduce new characters - ‘When you do your first movie, you break the back of it,’ he said. ‘Now we can have a lot more fun. We can actually make the depth of these characters more fun and a lot more interesting characters. To see actually what you can achieve visually, you never know. When you go into a movie, you never know visually. I think I’ve got a lot of fun, interesting, funny characters.’
Transformers 2 is scheduled for a June 2009 release.
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Sam Worthington has been cast in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins reports Variety.
While the movie’s plot has twists and turns that are being kept under tight wraps, Worthington will play the role of Marcus, a central figure in a three-picture arc that begins after Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust. A group of survivors led by John Connor (Christian Bale) struggles to keep the machines from finishing the job.
Sources said that Worthington was recommended to McG by James Cameron, who is in New Zealand working on Avatar.
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Dark Horse have released artwork for the cover of theur upcoming comicbook adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Click here to take a look in our gallery.
This month Dark Horse Comics will publish the first of two Indiana Jones Omnibuses collecting Dark Horse’s previous entries in the saga. Then April sees the release of volume one of Indiana Jones Adventures–a digest-sized graphic novel designed for the enjoyment of young readers as well as adults. The Indiana Jones Adventures volumes and the Omnibuses will continue on a quarterly basis–including Omnibuses for the original Marvel run of Indiana Jones comics.
A comicbook adaptation of the upcoming film will be released simultaneously with the motion picture, followed immediately by an all-new Indiana Jones comics series.
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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. 