Archive for March 17th, 2008
We can share five new images from Louis Leterrier’s comic adaptation The Incredible Hulk courtesy of Concorde Films.
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The pictures include shots of Betty Ross (played by Liv Tyler), General Ross (William Hurt), Emil Blonsky/The Abomination (Tim Roth) and the Incredible Hulk (Edward Norton) himself. We’d like to point out that these are not screencaps from last week’s trailer but official stills from the film.
The film smashes into theaters June 13.
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Concorde Film has supplied us with the german one-sheet and a couple of new stills from this summer’s Iron Man.
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Based upon Marvel’s iconic superhero, Iron Man tells the story of Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. Upon his return to America, Tony must come to terms with his past. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. The movie opens in cinemas May 2.
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Writer/director Frank Miller (300, Sin City) has updated the production blog of the Will Eisner’s The Spirit movie.
Miller writes about adapting The Spirit’s main love interest Ellen Dolan for the film: “The myth of THE SPIRIT would be incomplete without Ellen [...] The only problem with Ms. Dolan is that she was, with all respect to my beloved menter, a lousy character.”
You can find out how Miller handled this conundrum by reading his post on the blog. Dolan is played by Sarah Paulson in the movie, who stars opposite Gabriel Macht (in the role of The Spirit), Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson and Eva Mendes.
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Universal Pictures and Dark Horse Entertainment have signed a three-year deal that gives the film studio creative access to all Dark Horse characters and properties, as well as any material that Dark Horse might acquire on its own and want to develop as a motion picture.
Universal Pictures is opening Hellboy II: The Golden Army, directed by Guillermo del Toro and based on Mike Mignola’s Dark Horse Comics character, on July 11, 2008.
Other original titles published by Dark Horse Comics include 300, Sin City, The Mask, X, Rex Mundi, Samurai: Heaven and Earth and many more which can be reference via Wikipedia.
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Star Wars creator George Lucas attended the ShoWest convention last week, where he gave a brief update on Red Tails, a WWII-film project about the Tuskegee Airmen he’s been meaning to produce for years.
ComingSoon.net quotes Lucas as saying: “We’re getting towards a script, and probably start shooting before the end of the year, and it should come out next year, maybe. That’s probably going to be the last movie I do, apart from my own movies, but my own movies are going to be more esoteric and probably will come and go in a week and be in one or two arthouses. It’s basically the same as what Francis (Ford Coppola) is doing.”
The movie will tell the story of a group of young pilots as they overcame racism to break the aviation color barrier and become the first African-American fighter pilots in U.S. military history. The unit’s planes were were distinguished by the red-painted tails that give the film its title.
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Last week’s official announcement that the adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is to be split into two films raised a couple of eyebrows: was it a decision based on artistic merit or the prospect of bigger business?
Empire had the chance to put producer David Heyman to the question. Interesting points revealed in the exclusive interview include that the split was decided right after the writers strike, that a single four-and-a-half hour movie might have been too long for younger viewers, that each of the two parts could run between two and two-and-a-half hours, that they’ve got a rough idea of where to end the first part but won’t know for sure until the first script is done, that both parts will be filmed back-to-back in a one year shoot starting in early 2009, and that Warner president Alan Horn left the decision whether to split the story entirely to the filmmakers.
The full interview can be read at this link.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.