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.
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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. a href="http://easy-hit-counters.com/stats.php?site=grendeklkhan67" target="_top">
