It looks like Spielberg will taking a little more interest in Jurassic Park IV. The director states he is looking back at the novels for more source material and for scenes he would like to use in the new movie. One scene he would like to use is the motorcycle/raptor chase scene cut from The Lost World. No cast or start date has been announced at this time
Best Buy has announced a Special Limited Edition Fantastic Four DVD that will be released on Dec 06. This set will be a 4 disc set in a special round case that includes a display stand. The set includes the movie in widescreen, a set of 5 round trading cards, a dvd-rom 44 Years Of FF with 50 FF comic issues, a reprint comic of Ultimate FF #12 and a FF logo sticker. The dvd features include cast commentary, deleted scenes, a music video, Fox Movie's Casting Session and Making A Scene, The Fantastic Tour-a BTS home video hosted by cast and a look inside X-Men 3 with Avi Arad. The set can be preordered now at Bestbuy.com and retails for $34.99.
WOW !!!!!
Comingsoon.com has posted the teaser trailer for Superman Returns. You can check it out here in several different formats.
Just weeks after the announcement that Sylvester Stallone was going to play Rocky again in Rocky Balboa, we now receive news that he will also bring another of characters back to the silver screen. Stallone will once again put on the camos of the ultimate war vet, Rambo in what would be the 4th Rambo installment. The film is set to start filming in Spring 2006 in the US and Mexico. Stallone should be very busy, with Rocky shooting starting this December and then his Poe movie that he would like to direct. I think we should just have a Rocky vs Rambo movie and Stallone can just play all the parts.
Sunday WWE posted that WWE Superstar Eddie Guerrero was found dead in his hotel room in Minneapolis. Eddie was in Minneapolis with the rest of the WWE wrestlers for a joint RAW/Smackdown taping prior to the start of the WWE European Tour. The cause at this time is listed as heart failure. Eddie was 38. Our condolences go out to Eddie's wife Vickie and their 3 daughters.
One of the best fantasy stories of the past years is going to get the movie treatment curtisy of director Matthew Vaughn. Vaughn was one of the many directors attached to X-men 3 before dropping out. After that he went back to a project he had working on for many years, a movie of the Neil Gaiman masterpiece Stardust. Gaiman's story revolves around a young man who lives in a small town that borders the land of faerie. One day the man tells his beloved that he will journey into the magical lands and bring her back a fallen star. Vaughn supposedly has the screenplay done and is shopping the movie to Paramount. The screenplay is said to have the same tone as The Princess Bride.
One of my favorite pieces of art. Francisco de Goya's 1799 El sueno de la razon produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters). I always seem to think of this on those restless nights when I just can't sleep.
This past weekend I finally had the chance to go see The Fog at the local theater. The movie was enjoyable but I have to say that I enjoyed the original Carpenter version more. I was glad to see that the makers of this redo didn't try to over-load it with CGI. yes there are CGI effects but the movie doesn't depend solely on them. They did keep most of the characters and loosely followed the original story. My one major dislike was the creation of the character played by Maggie Grace. They lump a lot of the fact finding onto her character, which was originally done by the priest in the original. There are a lot of loose ends and obvious scenes that are just overlooked or forgotten thru the coarse of the movie. A dock worker finds his dog lying in a steaming heap, no one seems to notice or care. The same dock worker begins to show horrible face wounds that get worse scene by scene, and he talks to several people and no one ever shows concern or asks about his face. There are many more that just make you wonder what the writers were trying to do. But even with all the flaws it was a fun watch. The ghosts were well done and there were moments of suspense. We didn't have Adrienne Barbeau to look at but Selma Blair was not hard on the eyes. But what was the deal with that ending. After the credits rolled we still sat there trying to figure out exactly what just happened. Was she a ghost the whole time? Did the ghost kill her and she was his now? Did the writers suddenly realize they were out of time and wrote a quick ending? I just hope that when it comes out on DVD that we get some deleted scenes that fill in some of the gaping holes. All in all I would still recommend it as a good watch, just don't go in expecting to see a movie as good as the original.
I was always a big X-Files fan and really enjoyed the series (up until a point) and the Fight For The Future movie. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson had a amazing chemistry that you don't find very often in a syndicated show. Well, it looks like after a 7 yr wait we might actually see a new feature length X-Files movie starring the original cast. IGN Filmforce reports that Rob Bowman, who directed the 1st movie, has high hopes that the sequel will soon go into production. Chris Carter has yet to write a screenplay for the new movie, but it has been stated that it will be a stand alone story, not tied to any X-File mythology. It is unknown if it will go into production in 2006, it will all depend on the schedules of Chris Carter and the rest of the cast.
It looks like 1954's classic The Creature From The Black Lagoon is getting the remake job curtsey of Universal Pictures. The new movie will be directed by Breck Eisner (son of ex-Disney mogul Michael Eisner), who also directed Sahara. Universal has been eyeing the Creature for a remake ever since the success of The Mummy in 1999. Gary Ross, who is the son of the original Creature author Arthur Ross has written the screenplay. Special effects are planned to be a mixture of CGI and practical effects to help create a new Gill Man. Shooting is set to start in the summer of 2006 in the States and in locations in Central or possibly South America. No release date has been set at this time.
Watchmen was a comic stories for the ages. When it came out it was hailed as a masterpiece of storytelling and that title still sticks today. The writer Alan Moore has always had a strained relationship with DC Comics who published the book, even to the point of backing out of a recently planned anniversary edition of the book and even nixed a action figure line. Moore also distanced himself from another film adaptation of his other masterpiece V For Vendetta. For years Watchmen lingered in development hell and every once in awhile we would get little tidbits about production or story. Earlier this year Paramount put Watchman into turnaround only months before director Paul Greengrass was set to begin filming. It was also known that work had already been done on sets and costume design. Paramount was leary of spending the projected budget on a dark and gritty comic story and it was deemed not economically viable. Now Entertain Weekly has stated that the films producers Lawrence Gordon and Lloyd Levin are in talks with Warner Bros to take over the project. This could be a very good move on their part. Warner Bros is owned by Time Warner, who also owns DC Comics, and they have a promising stable of comic movies such as Batman Begins, Superman Returns, Constantine and the other Moore title V For Vendetta which is set for release in March. With the recent influx of comic source material in movies, this would be the perfect time for Watchmen to hit the big screen.
Caught up in the sudden wave of video game-to-movie productions, 20th Century Fox is bowling ahead with its adaptation of the Eidos game Hitman. Vin Diesel will play the ever ready and shiny bald Agent 47 and he will also executive produce the movie. Skip woods, who worked on the Logan's Run remake, will write the screenplay. Vin should be pretty good in the tough guy roll, as long as he does not try to pull a Riddick and be the balls-to-the-wall fighter. Agent 47 was a very stealthy hitman and hopefully the movie will stick with that character type.
Frank Miller's Sin City was an awesome movie and it was no surprise when it was announced that Rodriguez and Miller would team up once again for a 2nd Sin City film. The new film will center mainly on the graphic novel A Dame To Kill For. It would seem that after that movie there would probably be enough Miller material to do 1 more multi-story movie. Family Values would make a pretty cool side story. Well, it appears now that we will get even more sin City goodness as the series heads to the small screen. Variety has reported that following the release of the 2nd movie, a new TV series will be started taking place in the Sin City world. The starting date will probably be well into 2007 and it is unknown if it will be live action or animated. I can see them possibly trying a adult animated or CGI series (Roughnecks) due to the massive green screen and effects needed for the live action production. The other unknown is if Miller will present new material for the TV series. If they go for 3 feature movies, that will pretty much eat up all the published material, also the tone of millers work would have to be toned down for network TV unless it gets put onto HBO or FX on cable.
Painkiller Jane, the creation of comic greats Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, heads to the Sci-Fi channel on December 10th for a 2 hr made for TV movie. Jane will be played by Emmanuelle Vaugier who was recently in Saw II and will also appear in House Of The Dead 2. Emmanuelle stated they did not use the signature "bandages" that Jane dons in the comics, but they did give her a special jacket to wear. A jacket?? Come on, the bandages are one of the cool striking features of the comic character, why change something that is so connected to the character.
DC Comics must have had their gay-dar turned up to high when they tracked down a few pieces of art on the web from 37 yr old artist Mark Chamberlain. Mark's art depicts the Caped Crusader in various states of undress (along with a few with just a mask) along with Robin the Boy Wonder. DC attorneys sent a cease-and-desist order to the artist and to Kathleen Cullen Fine Art who has the art on display. The letter also named the owners of the website Artnet.com which has the art posted online. The artist and website owners believe that the art is safe and acceptable under the parody exception of the US Copyright laws. A civil suit like this can be very expensive and it will be interesting to see if DC will follow thru with a suit or just try to rattle cages in hopes that the artist pulls the work himself without further action.
Back when I was living in Chicago (which spanned over 30 yrs) we never thought of the Sox going to the World Series. But now they have gone to the big show against the Houston Astros and have pulled off the first game with a 5-3 win.
This is a great picture of the Tilda Swinton as the White Witch in her battle gear. I love the Lions mane head-dress and the chain mail dress. Tilda has a striking features which really suit the White witch.
here is what I think is the money shot of the whole first trailer. Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson) on top of the mountain giving a mighty roar. I can remember as a kid reading all the books and envisioning this scene in my mind. I am very excited and cannot wait to take my kids to see this movie with me in December.
Craig (37) will play Bond in the upcoming Casino Royale to be directed by Martin Campbell. According to Reuters, "in typically flamboyant 007 style, Craig swept up the River Thames on a power launch to a news conference escorted by Royal Marines." Craig is actually almost a decade older than what the filmmakers had stated they were looking for in a new Bond, since Royale will be about a younger Bond on a early 00 mission.
It looks like Sylvester Stallone is finally going to be able to step back into the shoes of Rocky Balboa. After years of talk and planning the next Rocky film has been green-lit with Stallone in the leading role as well as writing, Directing and Producing the movie. The premise revolves around a older Rocky who has retired but is of coarse drawn back into the ring 1 final time. At this time the title is being listed as "Rocky Balboa" and not Rocky VI as it was first talked about. Stallone states he wants this movie to be set apart from all the past movies in the series. (But you know everyone will just call it Rocky 6) It is rumored that real-life light heavyweight Champ Antonio Tarver will be playing Rockys foe in this film and his name will be Mason Dixon. The film is set to start shooting in early 2006 and no release date has been posted. Stallone has appeared to have kept in shape over the years, but it will be interesting if he can still pull Rocky off and still be convincing in the role. When I first heard about this all I could think about was the "parody" Rocky poster in Total Recall where they have a guy that looks about 100 yrs old in the Rocky roll.
The movie itself can be purchased in widescreen or pan-n-scan(why would anyone want that?) The special features run the gamut of movie, comic and spoofs. it includes the MTV Tankman Begins skit from the movie awards, an interactive comic book, over 10 featurettes on costume and design, a photo gallery and a collectible 72-page comic book containing Detective Comics #27, Batman The Man That Fell and a excerpt from Batman The Long Halloween. This was just a wonderfully done movie that gave us a gritty look and Batman and really fleshed out the Bruce Wayne character. Nolan and Bale did a great job and are already in the works for a sequel.
The 2nd movie this week is George Romero's 4th Zombie film Land Of The Dead. It has been a long time in the works and finally saw the light of day after the release and box office draw of other zombie flicks like the Dawn remake and Shaun Of The Dead. Romero has taken the premise one step further with the zombies now populating the the world and the surviving humans inside walled cities for protection. This time the zombie have also involved and become more intelligent. Also like all Romero movies there is that underlying look at our present social and political issues. The disc is toted as a Unrated Director's Cut, so hopefully a lot of the stuff that Romero says was cut will make it back in. The disc includes commentary by Romero and 6 featurettes. The main feature is entitled Undead Again and gives a great view behind the scenes of the production. Also a very cool featurette called When Shaun met George is included which brings the stars of Shaun Of The Dead on set.
I would recommend both these movies to any genre fan and both are well worth the $19.95 price tag on each. (or cheaper if you try Discountdvd.com). The coming month will be a little tough on the movie collectors pocket with the release of some more great movies like, war Of The Worlds, The Devil's Rejects, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and more. And December looks to be just as full of release.
Warner Bros. has officially announced the release of The Flash TV series on DVD. The DVD set will include all 22 episodes of the series and the 90 minute pilot movie. I am sure there will be some special features, but they have not yet been disclosed. The release date is set for January 10 2006.
I guess when you are rich and famous you get the strange idea to give your kids very unusual names. Well Nic Cage has joined the ranks of Hollywood parents and named his new baby Kal-El Coppela Cage. For those who might not know, Kal-El is the real name of Superman. It was known for a long time that Cage wanted to star in a Superman movie, so I guess if you can't star in the movie you should just saddle your kid with a Superman name for the rest of his life. Ya think maybe his wife would have had a slight objection to that name.
Good old George must be feeling the money pinch like the rest of us, so in a ploy to attempt to get more of our money he is once again reissuing Episodes IV-VI on DVD. This new DVD set will once again feature the 1997 releases and not the original theatrical prints. I sure do wish that the originals would be released on official DVD, for years I have been viewing my DVD copies that were transferred from the old laser discs, real copies would be great. The set will feature new artwork, some very modest and not worth re-buying bonus features and several Easter Eggs scattered throughout the 3 discs. The 3 disc set will be housed in a slipcase like the last release and retail for $49.99. The release date is set for December 6th, only 1 month after the release of Episode III on DVD.
In a big announcement today it has been stated that none other than Peter Jackson of Lord Of The Rings and King Kong fame will be Executive Producing the new video game to movie adaptation of HALO. The rumor had been in the air for the past day or so and was finally confirmed on the Bungie website by Joseph Staten. Jackson will also have his effects workshop WETA handle the CGI and make-up effects. This can only mean good things ahead for the production of this movie. With Jackson's insight and creative thinking, and the amazing work of WETA, this will be a amazing and possibly one of the best game-to-movie adaptations. A crew from Bungie will travel to new Zealand next week to meet with Jackson to begin discussing ideas and plans for the movie
Me and the Mrs, started watching LOST just this year when the DVD set was released. For the beginning of the year we didn't have network channels on our Direct TV, so we missed most of the episodes. So then started our LOST marathon, trying to watch all the episodes before the new season started. We had a ball and it was fun just sitting together watching a show that just kept your attention and at times kept you on the edge of your seat. We finished the last episode the same day as the season premiere. Now a new problem would start. I work every other Weds and she is out every Weds night. The old VCR would come in handy now so we could record the shows and watch them together later. The night of the premier we where able to sit together at about 11 pm to watch the premier and it was a decent episode since we finally were able to see what was in the hatch, but what about the guys on the raft, whats going on with Sawyer and Mike?, wheres the kid?? All in all it was good and leave it to the writers to once again throw another strange twist into the mix with the guy down in the hatch/bunker. Now came the wait until the following weds for the 2nd episode to air. This time we both had to work and then the Mrs went out of town, so we didn't watch it until Sunday night. This was a difficult wait, mostly because we had to avoid people who kept wanting to tell us about the story. we sat and watched and then kinda looked at each other and agreed that the 2nd episode was about the worst one we had seen yet. Sure we got to see the fate of the raft crew (we where laying bets before the show on how long it would take for Mike to blame somebody for what had happened and it took him about 5 minutes to blame Sawyer), but all the hatch scenes where basically rehashes of last weeks story just seen from different angles. We didn't learn anything new about the hatch or its occupant and never once saw any other of the cast who where on the island except for a quick scene in the cave. The end was promising with a look at the others and in the preview for next week we got to see the Michelle Rodriguez character, which proves that people from the tail of the plane did survive. Even after a disappointing episode it is still one of the best broadcast shows on TV and I hope it stays strong.
Do you think those people in the background even know who that is ? NNNNOOOOOOOO!
Maybe this is why Chewbacca never received a medal.
I am not exactly sure where this scene would have fit into the movie timeline. It would appear that it occurs before the rescue of Palpatine during the enisstial assault on the command ship. Obi and Anakin appear to be cutting thru the floor to escape the droids. But if you look at the picture you can see Grievous and his guards in this scene. The original version has Obi and Anakin facing Grievous after they have beaten Dooku and have Palpatine. So this would take some scene rearranging to fit this in. It will be interesting to see if these scenes will be added back into the movie or just as deleted scenes extras.
Here is a scene after the one above. After cutting through the floor , they drop into this large fluid filled chamber. There is one more screen shot of a close up of the characters deep in the fluid. It will be interesting to see where this scene ends and connects back into the movie timeline
This scene is a dialogue between Grievous and Skaak Ti and ends with the death of the Jedi Shaak Ti. Anyone who watched the Animated Clone Wars of Cartoon Network knows of the ongoing battle that Shaak Ti had with Grievous and his guards, especially in the last episode when Palpatine was kidnapped. This scene helps tie the two show together, and we get to see Grievous doing something else besides running away.
Over the past months, Sam Raimi and the crew of Spider-Man 3 have been tight-lipped when asked questions about villains and story lines. Well, leave it to the the ever spacey Kristen Dunst to be the possessor of the loose lips. During an interview this past weekend to promote Elizabethtown she basically confirmed all the rumors flying around.
IGN has posted this peek at the new poster for the movie Aeon Flux starring the very hot Charlize Theron. The movie is based on the animated series created by Peter Chung, that aired on MTV in the mid 1990's. The previews so far make the movie look very impressive, with some very cool special effects and of coarse Charlize in skin-tight spandex. IGN also has posted a special video montage of some of the action scenes and can be viewed here. Also Paramount Pictures has a very nice official website for the film here. Oh yea, and did I mention that Charlize wears lots of skin-tight spandex!!!
Here is a look at Devon Aoki on the set of the new video-game adaptation of Dead Or Alive. Devon, who was Miho in Sin City, plays Kasumi in this movie version of the popular Tecmo fighting game. Not too much has leaked out about this movie, but being a straight fighting game, we can probably expect a movie in the vain of Mortal Combat. The film is directed by Corey Yuen, who directed The Transporter, from a script by J F Lawton and Adam & Seth Gross. The movie also stars white trash queen Jamie Pressly as Tina Armstrong, wrestler Kevin Nash as Bass, Kane Kosugi as Ryu, Natassia Malthe (Typhoid from Elektra) as Ayane and Eric Roberts as Donovan. There is no release date posted at this time.
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