Archive for May 19th, 2008
Last Friday’s big release The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian took in an estimated $56.5 million at the US Box Office according to boxofficemojo.com.
While the figure represents a strong haul, it falls short of the $65 million opening of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 2005 and is significantly less than the $70-80 million gross initially predicted. The sequel, produced at a higher budget in the region of $200 million, will now face a difficult time matching the massive $745 million worldwide total of part one, especially with the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull around the corner.
Meanwhile, Iron Man continues its strong box office run taking in another $32.1 million (39% drop) over the weekend, which brings its three week total to $222.5 million! Speed Racer is a long way off the finish line with a mere $7.6 million weekend gross, for a total of $29.8 million - and that reads like a catastrophe considering the film’s production budget was in the region of $120 million.
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Zodiac and Wolverine screenwriter James Vanderbilt has apparently submitted a working draft for Spider-Man 4 to Sony Pictures, Cinematical claims.
Particularly of note is the tidbit that the script is said to introduce a story that spreads out over two films, which could leave the door open for Sony to shoot the next two Spider-Man films back-to-back.
None of the trio Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst is currently signed on to participate in any more Spidey films.
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Baz Luhrmann’s new film Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman had its trailer premiere online today. The clip is introduced by Kidman who says the film will open November 13th.
View the trailer on BigPondTV »
The romantic action-adventure is set in northern Australia prior to World War II, about an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits an outback property the size of Belgium. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces.
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Cloverfield producer (and Lost creator) J.J. Abrams told Sci-Fi Wire that he’s not really keen on a sequel, but would rather work with the same people again on a whole new project.
“We’re talking about it. But the truth is there’s another idea that I’d rather do with the same people than do a sequel. It’s a whole new thing.”
Abrams concedes that both writer Drew Godard and director Matt Reeves “separately, have really good ideas for what [Cloverfield 2] could be. So I don’t know. We’ll see. I know the studio wants it.”
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When production wraps on the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica this summer it may not signify the end of the TV favourite.
The Chicago Tribune reports that discussion is currently underway for three BSG TV movies to be made later this year. Like last year’s Battlestar Galactica: Razor, these movies would not interfere with the series’ continuing storyline, but would instead be set before the events of the big series finale.
The proposed films would also depend on what actors are available to work on them. Production could begin as early as July if negotiations go well over the next fortnight.
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IGN has premiered three new TV ads for Marvel Studio’s The Incredible Hulk.
View the quicktime clips »
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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Tyrese Gibson is in the frame to play the role of B.A. Baracus in John Singleton’s movie adaptation of The A-Team according to CHUD.
The Transformers star isn’t officially on board yet, since the script is still being worked on and thus no firm production date can be set yet - which could lead to potential scheduling conflicts as Gibson will be busy working on Transformers 2 and Desert Eagle in the near future. The actor commented that he’s happy to bring the character into the 21st century (no bling?), and that ‘the’ mohawk is not out of the question.
The A-Team was an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces who work as soldiers of fortune while being on the run from the military for a crime they didn’t commit. The show ran for five seasons on the NBC television network, from January 23, 1983 to December 30, 1986 (with one additional, previously unbroadcast episode shown on March 8, 1987), with a total of 98 episodes. The name of the show comes from A-teams, the nickname for Operational Detachments Alpha (ODA).
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The theatrical one-sheet for Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming sequel Hellboy II - The Golden Army has been exclusively unveiled at SuperHeroHype.com. ”From the visionary director of Pan’s Labyrinth” - I’m taking that as a promise!
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The sequel revolves around the breaking of an an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures. Now, it’s up to Hellboy (Ron Perlman) to battle the merciless dictator and his marauders. The film hits cinemas July 11, 2008.
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A new Joker-themed poster for The Dark Knight (pictured) has gone online via Batman-on-film.
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In the sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins, Batman (Christian Bale) sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good, with the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). The triumvirate proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker (Heath Ledger), who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces the Dark Knight ever closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante.
The film hits cinemas July 18.
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The new teaser trailer and poster for Rob Cohen’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor have been released online.
View the trailer in high-definition »
View the poster in our movie gallery »
The story of the third Mummy film (in cinemas Aug 1) begins in 50b.c. in China with Jet Li playing a despotic Emperor whose evil is punished by a terrible curse laid on him by wizardress Michelle Yeoh that turns him and his army into terra cotta for all time. Two thousand years later the Emperor is reawakened and it is left to the O’Connell’s to put a stop to his evil plans.
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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.