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Internet users are invited to speak with The Hobbit producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro in a live internet chat.
Fans anticipating the release of the Lord of the Rings prequel will have the chance to ask their questions about the latest adventure in Middle-Earth in the one-hour chat taking place May 24 on the WETA website (registration required).
The exact starting time of the chat by timezone is as follows: Los Angeles 1pm, New York 4pm, London 9pm, Paris, Berlin, Rome 10pm, Sydney (May 25) 6am, Wellington 8am.
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Jan De Bont (Speed, Twister) will direct the sequel to 1991 action-classic Point Break, The Hollywood Reporter writes.
RGM Entertainment and Essential Entertainment will exec produce Point Break: Indo, the Asia-based follow-up to director Kathryn Bigelow’s original, which starred Keanu Reeves as an FBI agent casing a gang of surfer bank robbers. The new film will take place 20 years after the disappearance of one of the criminal surfers (Patrick Swayze).
Both the original and sequel are written by W. Peter Iliff. Plot details and possible character reprises have not been disclosed, but the film will shoot in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
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Jonah Hill, the star from Superbad who recently missed out on a role in Transformers 2, is set to write and executive produce Sony’s big screen version of 80’s teen series 21 Jump Street according to Entertainment Weekly.
The original TV series ran from 1987 to 1990 on Fox and starred Johnny Depp in what was one of his first major roles. Depp played officer Tom Hanson who was assigned to an elite squad of young undercover cops - Judy Hoffs (Holly Robinson Peete), Doug Penhall (Peter DeLuise) and Harry Truman Ioki (Dustin Nguyen) - to infiltrate high schools and fight crime.
Whether Hill himself will also star in the movie is still up in the air, but it’s been confirmed that series co-creator Stephen J. Cannell will produce.
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Director David Cronenberg (A History of Violence, Eastern Promises) is one of the leading candidates to direct a remake of Nacho Vigalondo’s Timecrimes, BlogDeCine reports.
The Spanish original Los Cronocrimenes is a noir-thriller about a man who travels back in time half an hour to prevent a serious crime.
Timothy J. Sexton penned the screenplay for the new version. Apparently, Vigalondo would like to see Adam Brody (The Pianist, The Darjeeling Limited) in the lead role.
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Isobel Lucas was rumoured to be up for a role in Transformers 2 a couple of days ago, but amid successive denials of other names (Jonah Hill, Teresa Palmer) the validity of this information was always very much in doubt.
Director Michael Bay however has come forth himself to confirm the casting of Lucas on his official message board. The Australian actress, best known for her involvement in the TV show Home and Away, will play the role of “Alice”.
Meanwhile, Rachael Taylor (who played signal analyst Maggie in last summer’s Transformers) has confirmed to Moviehole that she will not reprise her role in the sequel, which is scheduled for release in summer 2009.
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Another Marvel character set to get his own movie before joining up with other superheroes (Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America) in The Avengers in 2011 is Thor.
Latino Review claims that Marvel’s actor of choice for the leading role is none other than Brad Pitt, although no formal offer has been made as of yet. Pitt’s superstar status, his acting credibility and his physical appearance (which bears significant resemblance to the character in Marvel’s original comics) make this preference a no-brainer, really.
A first script draft written by Mark Petrosevich is currently being trimmed down for budgetary reasons.
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Two new thirty-second commercials for The Dark Knight are currently available on Youtube via the following links: TV Spot 1, TV Spot 2. Warners apparently doesn’t want these to be seen so there’s no telling for how long the clips will remain online.
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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It’s been only a week since Paramount premiered the full trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but another new one is already available now.
View the new trailer in high-definition »
The third trailer for the film is available in various sizes, in high-definition quality and even for your iPod at the link above.
The anticipated film opens in theaters May 22.
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The first trailer for The X-Files: I Want To Believe has premiered over at IGN.
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The movie sees David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprising the roles made famous in the popular mystery series that ran between 1993 and 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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The Wachowski’s big-budget flick Speed Racer came in a distant third at the US box office this weekend with a disappointing $18.5 million haul.
Not only did the film fail to dislodge the previous week’s number 1, Iron Man, from the top spot, it even ranked behind the Ashton Kutcher/Cameron Diaz rom-com What Happens in Vegas ($20.2 million).
Iron Man, meanwhile, continues to perform strong, taking in $51.2 million on its second week of release. This amounts to a very respectable 48.1% drop from last week and brings the movie’s total domestic gross up to $177.8 million.
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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. 