Archive for March 13th, 2008
The trailer for Marvel Studios’ The Incredible Hulk has premiered on MTV.com. Starting tomorrow, the trailer will also play in front of Doomsday in US cinemas.
The Louis Leterrier-directed film stars the likes of Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Christina Cabot and Lou Ferrigno.
The Incredible Hulk smashes into theaters June 13.
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Warner Bros. has released the final US trailer for the Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer via Movies! Yahoo. The international versions premiered last weekend.
Based on the 1960s Japanese cartoon series, Speed Racer follows the adventures of the youthful Speed (Hirsch) as he tries to obtain victory in his tricked-out racecar, built by his father. Speed is often bailed out of danger by Racer X, a rival with a mysterious connection to Speed.
Directed by The Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski, the film debuts in conventional and IMAX cinemas May 9.
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Variety reports that actor/screenwriter Jason Stegel and helmer Nick Stoller will write the new Muppet movie for Disney. Stoller will perform the directing duties.
Puppets also feature prominently in Segel and Stoller’s upcoming Judd Apatow-produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Universal is set to release the pic, on April 18.
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Ratatouille director Brad Bird is to make his feature directorial debut with 1906, a co-production between Warner Bros. and Disney/Pixar.
The story of 1906 centers on a college student who begins to investigate the murder of his father, uncovering a web of deceit that has left the city vulnerable to the sort of fire that breaks out when the Great Earthquake of 1906 hits San Francisco.
Bird is rewriting the original John Logan script.
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The news has surfaced again that the final Harry Potter installment will indeed be split into two movies as rumoured.
Empire Magazine was thought to have debunked this myth in January, but today Variety has confirmed that Warner Bros. will “split the last Harry Potter tome into a two-part film, with the installments unspooling six months apart.”
David Yates will direct and Steve Kloves will write both parts, which will be filmed back to back. Part one of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will debut November 2010, with the second to follow in May 2011.
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