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Bond 22 hires Bourne's action designer 2007-09-04 03:54:00 Ever since the "Bourne
" movies have come on the scene, the makers of James Bond have been in the line of fire for having a dusty, lethargic spy on their hands -- "Casino Royale" notwithstanding. According to Hollywood Reporter, "Bond 22" (working title) director Marc Forster has hired Dan Bradley as second-unit director on the film.Bradley was the stunt coordinator on The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, not to mention he's also second-unit directed Superman Returns, the two Spider-Man sequels and the upcoming Indy IV.
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Rob Zombie's change of heart on remakes 2007-09-03 16:44:00 Halloween is the top movie at the US weekend box office. The 2007 version of John Carpenter’s 1978 classic debuted to $11.1 mil on Friday and $8.6 million on Saturday and $6.9 million on Sunday at 3,472 theaters.However it seems not so long ago, remakes weren't in Zombie's agenda. In an article prior to the release of his first film "House of 1000 Corpses" in 2002, he said that there is no way he'd remake Dawn of the Dead or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre because he'd just look like and idiot.In an interesting part of the article, which has been posted by Icons of Fright, he states the following when asked:“How do you feel about big budget remakes of Dawn of the Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?”“I feel it's the worst thing that any filmmaker can do. I actually got a call from my agent and they asked me if I wanted to be involved with the remake of Chainsaw. I said no fucking way! Those movies are perfect- you're only going to make yourself look like an asshole by remaki
Helena Bonham Carter is cast for 'Half-Blood Prince' 2007-09-03 08:57:00 The Independent reports that actress Helena
Bonham Carter
, who portrays Bellatrix Lestrange in the Potter films, will be back for the upcoming "Harry Potter and the Half-BloodPrince
." Although filming for the next movie begins in just two months' time, in a statement issued yesterday Helena's publicist said she was not due back on set to film her scenes until Spring 2008.The film is scheduled to hit theaters on November 21, 2008.Helena will also play the diabolical meat pie-maker Mrs. Lovett in the upcoming film "Sweeney Todd," directed by Tim Burton, and starring Johnny Depp and Sacha Baron Cohen.
First Shot: Tarantino in ‘Sukiyaki Western Django’ 2007-09-03 06:17:00 Above is the first photo of Quentin Tarantino
in Takashi Miike’s (Ichi The Killer) "Sukiyaki Western
Django," posted by cinempire.com. Set during "The Genpei Wars" at the end of the 1100s, the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off in a town named Yuda, while a deadly gunman (Ito Hideaki) comes to the aid of the townsfolk.Check out the full gallery of images here.
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Justice League movie casting in Canada? 2007-09-03 05:47:00 According to Obsessed With Film, casting directors have been hired in New York, Toronto and Vancouver, which seems to be confirmed in the listings of industry website Showfax. No details of exactly which characters are being cast are given, but the (possible) film is said to include Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern and Aquaman. Warner Bros hasn't announced the movie
, so until official word comes, consider this a possible movie. Previously:Who will play Batman in new JusticeLeague
movie?Justice League
of America film in 2009?
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More For De Niro/Pacino's Righteous 2007-09-03 04:20:00 Brian Dennehy is in negotiations to join newly added cast members John Leguizamo, Dan Futterman, Trilby Glover and professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek in Righteous Kill, the Jon Avnet production which begins filming September 4th in Connecticut and New York.Leguizamo (right), who has appeared with Pacino and De Niro before in "Carlito’s Way" and "The Fan" respectfully, will play an NYPD cop who clashes with Pacino and De Niro’s detectives as they search for a vigilante serial killer.Dennehy (Assault on Precinct 13) takes on the role of their captain. Futterman (A Mighty Heart) and Glover (The Starter Wife) both play attorneys, and Dyrdek (MTV's "Rob and Big") a delinquent, who crosses paths with the detectives during their investigations.This is a great addition to the cast which already includes Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, 50 Cent, Carla Gugino and Donnie Wahlberg.
'Halloween' Could Slash Competition 2007-09-01 08:47:00 Rob Zombie's remake of "Halloween
," which has exploded for an estimated $10.5M on Friday, looks to break the all-time record for an opening over the Labor Day Weekend. Extrapolating early Friday figures, Fantasy Moguls calculate the reboot will take in a whoppping $35 million over four days, 40 percent higher than the current record holder, "Transporter 2." Zombie, whose credits include "The Devil's Rejects" and "House of 1,000 Corpses," might find Halloween's Michael Myers joining the ranks of James Bond and Batman: characters whose film franchises have been rebooted as "Batman Begins" and last year's remake of "Casino Royale" explored the origins of their characters and were widely credited with reviving their tail-dragging franchises.Balls Of Fury (Rogue Releasing) grabbed a decent $3.4M on Friday, bringing its 3-day cume to $6.3M. The poorly-reviewed Christopher Walken comedy is headed for a 3-day of $10.5M and a 4-day of $12.4M. The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) was 4th on Frid
The Brave One featurette online 2007-09-01 04:50:00 There's a featurette for "The Brave
One" featuring Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Neil Jordan and Joel Silver over at Apple Trailers.A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.The film is set to be released on September 14th, 2007
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Michael Moore’s Captain Mike Across America 2007-09-01 03:38:00 Below are a few production photos from MichaelMoore
's documentary "Captain
Mike AcrossAmerica
" about the Slacking Uprising tour of 2004, which is set to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.Captain Mike Across America
takes us back to the 2004 election, when the polling margin between candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry could have tipped either way. Framed like a concert film, it captures Moore’s activities as he set out on a campaign trip almost as rigorous and far-reaching as the candidates’ own. He targeted young people as the demographic that could make the most difference, visiting sixty-two cities in forty-five days, and holding large rallies on college campuses. He dubbed it the Slacker Uprising Tour. This documentary of his journey is made in the feisty spirit of independent media, budgeted at a tiny fraction of Moore’s recent films. It acts like a time machine, returning us to the weeks prior to the November 2, 2004, election, when campuses across the country we Read more:Michael Moore
Transformers IMAX poster 2007-08-31 18:10:00 Above is the poster for Paramount Pictures rerelease of the summer blockbuster Transformers
in IMAX theaters, posted by Superhero Hype. The date is set for September 21 with more footage than you saw in the conventional theatrical version.
Saw 4 Teaser Movie Trailer 2007-08-31 16:34:00 Watch the trailer in High Definition at Yahoo.Previously: Saw 4: Final Theatrical Poster
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Halloween: Alternative Ending 2007-08-31 15:01:00 Rob Zombie talked to MTV about "Halloween
" his remake of the 1978 film of the same name and the alternative ending that could have been.“And the weirdest thing about movies is it’s all planned out, but you just don’t know. Sometimes, things that you really think will work work, and sometimes they’re like ‘eh’,” said Zombie. “We were kind of rushed because, filming in Pasadena, it’s like 11:00 and — boom! — they shut you down…the cops would step in front of the cameras,” Zombie told us. “We were shut down and I thought ‘Well, maybe we have it.’ Then I started editing, and it didn’t feel like I had the end of the movie. Luckily, I had the luxury of going back.”The original ending came after Myers reached into Loomis’ car and pulls out Laurie Strode. Sheriff Brackett and several other policemen pull up in their cars. Loomis attempted to talk to Michael, urging the cops to hold their fire. He blamed himself for Michael’s madness, and convinced Myers Read more:Alternative
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Rob Cohen blogs about The Mummy 2007-08-31 10:19:00 Rob Cohen
(The Fast and the Furious, XXX, Daylight) has started blogging about the production of the next film in the Mummy
franchise, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.""My film stars Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jet Li, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Wong, and new-comers Luke Ford and Isabella Leong......As you can tell, I’m stoked about what I’m creating up here with some of the best collaborators. Beside the cast, Simon Duggan (“Live Free or Die Hard” “I, Robot”) is my director of photography and the production is being designed by Nigel Phelps (“The Island” “ Troy” and “Pearl Harbor”) and, of course, the powerful stunts of Vic Armstrong. Steve Sommers, Bob Ducsay, and Sean Daniel produce.”He states how his contact with people who love movies, or are interested in his films changed his perspective on blogging completely.He also unleashes some unheard of story details on the forthcoming flick."Jet Li plays a despotic Emperor in 50 B.C. whose evil
Run Fatboy Run poster 2007-08-31 08:59:00 Above is the theatrical movie poster for "Run Fatboy
Run" a comedy directed by David Schwimmer (Friends), which stars Simon Pegg (Shaun Of The Dead) along with Hank Azaria, Ameet Chana, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton and Harish Patel.Five years ago Dennis (Simon Pegg) was at the altar about to marry Libby (Thandie Newton), his pregnant fiancée. He got cold feet and ran for the hills and he’s been going in circles ever since. When Dennis discovers Libby’s hooked up with high-flying-go-getter Whit (Hank Azaria), he realizes it’s now or never. He enters a marathon to show he’s more than a quitter but then finds out just how much sweat, strain and tears it takes to run for 26 miles. Nobody gives him a chance but Dennis knows this is his only hope to more than a running joke.
Trailer: One Missed Call 2007-08-31 07:22:00 One Missed Call is the American remake of the Japanese horror "Phone." The thriller, which stars Shannyn Sossamon and Ed Burns is set for a January 2008 release.What will it sound like when you die? In "One Missed Call," a chain of people receive terrifying cell phone messages of their own final fatal moments. Though the messages can be deleted, their number is up. Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) is traumatized when she witnesses the gruesome deaths of two friends just days apart. Even more disturbing, she knows that both of them had received chilling cell phone messages—actual recordings of their own horrifying last moments. Impossibly, the calls were received days before they died, but each death occurred precisely when and how the messages foretold. The police think Beth is delusional—except for Detective Jack Andrews (Edward Burns) whose own sister was killed in a freak accident that bears a strange similarity to the deaths of Beth's friends. Together, Jack and Beth work fever Read more:Trailer
Trailer: Stephen King's The Mist 2007-08-31 07:09:00 The upcoming horror adaptation of Stephen
King’s The Mist is written and directed by three-time Oscar-nominee Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption). It stars Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones, William Sadler, Frances Sternhagen and Jeffrey DeMunn and opens on November 21.After a violent storm attacks a town in Maine, an approaching cloud of mist appears the next morning. As the mist quickly envelops the area, a group of people get trapped in a local grocery store -among them, artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son. The people soon discover that within the mist lives numerous species of horrific, unworldly creatures that entered through an inter-dimensional rift, which may or may not have been caused by a nearby military base. As the world around them manifests into a literal hell-on-earth, the horrified citizens try desperately to survive this apocalyptic disaster.Watch the trailer.
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The Nines audio commentary online 2007-08-30 13:18:00 Screenwriter John August has announced that he is releasing the commentary
track for The Nines on MP3 and has now posted it. But in the age of iPods, there’s really no reason why audio commentary has to be relegated to DVD. That’s why Ryan Reynolds and I recorded one last week for The Nines which is now yours to download.As most will know, Kevin Smith had already recorded an audio commentary for "Clerks II" that was available for download onto iPod and allowed viewers to listen to a director's commentary in the theater. Which, was in itself an ingenious marketing idea that begs me to question why nobody had thought of it beforehand.Download the commentary track here.
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Thornton and Basinger become Informers 2007-08-30 09:45:00 Kim Basinger and Billy Bob Thornton
have become the latest people to join "The Informers," an ensemble drama based on a series of short stories by Bret Easton Ellis, who also wrote the script with Nicholas Jarecki. Gregor Jordan (Buffalo Soldiers) is set to direct.The drama takes place over the course of a week in 1983 in Los Angeles. The lives of seven characters intersect across this week, including movie execs, rock stars and, notably, a vampire.The cast already includes Lou Pucci (Thumbsucker), Austin Nichols (John From Cincinnati), Jon Foster, Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) and Ashley Olsen.
Saw 4: Final Theatrical Poster 2007-08-30 09:40:00 IGN has premiered the new and final theatrical poster (below) for Saw 4, which the MPAA have given a new cut of the film an R-Rating for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture throughout, and for language.
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Jason Reitman’s Juno: website launch & first production still 2007-08-30 09:27:00 The cast for "Juno," Jason
Reitman’s follow-up to "Thank You For Smoking," includes Rainn Wilson, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Allison Janney, JK Simmons and Olivia Thirlby.JUNO stars Ellen Page as the title character, a whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker (Cera). With the help of her hot best friend Leah (Thirlby), Juno finds her unborn child a “perfect” set of parents: an affluent suburban couple, Mark and Vanessa (Bateman and Garner), longing to adopt. Luckily, Juno has the total support of her parents (Simmons and Janney) as she faces some tough decisions, flirts with adulthood and ultimately figures out where she belongs.Check out the official website
here.
Trailer: Grace Is Gone 2007-08-29 17:21:00 Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip.Previously: Clint Eastwood Set To Score 'Grace
Is Gone.'
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The Illustrated Man remake to be directed by Zack Snyder 2007-08-29 04:30:00 Zack Snyder
(300) is set to direct "The Illustrated
Man," based on the Ray Bradbury book of short stories. The screenwriter on his upcoming Watchmen adaptation, Alex Tse, will write the script.The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories that explores the nature of humankind. While none of the stories have a plot or character connection with the next, a recurring theme is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the intimacy of human nature.The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of "the Illustrated Man," a vagrant with a tattooed body who the unnamed narrator meets. The man's tattoos, allegedly created by a woman from the future, are animated and each tell a different tale.The original 1969 film was directed by Jack Smight and starred Rod Steiger.
Owen Wilson drops out of Tropic Thunder 2007-08-29 03:54:00 According to a source close to the production of "TropicThunder
," the Ben Stiller- directed comedy currently filming in Hawaii, Owen Wilson
will no longer be doing the film as reported by EW. He was scheduled to begin a weeklong shoot in two to three weeksWilson was taken to the hospital Sunday in Los Angeles after apparently attempting suicide.The film is about a group of actors forced to become the heroes they are portraying. Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, Robert Downey Jr, Bill Hader, and Steve Coogan already are set to play roles in the film.
Kevin Smith may NOT direct Battlestar Galactica after all 2007-08-29 03:34:00 We previously reported that KevinSmith
would be directing an episode of the final season of Battlestar Galactica
. However, it now seems a scheduling conflict could have gotten in the way of Smith taking on the project. Terry Moore, wife of showrunner Ronald D. Moore, told fans at the official SciFi Channel website that despite what he said during a recent interview with AOL, Smith of "Clerks" and "Dogma" fame will not take the director's chair for "Battlestar Galactica." Read more.There has been no statement about the recent development on any of Smith’s websites, or through any interview sources and we’re still awaiting final confirmation.
Spyglass remaking Cronenberg's Brood 2007-10-02 14:11:00 Spyglass Entertainment has acquired the rights to remake David Cronenberg's horror classic "The Brood," Variety reports.1979's "The Brood," which was written and directed by David Cronenberg, starred Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle. In the film, a man's wife is under the care of an eccentric psychiatrist who uses innovative and theatrical techniques to breach the psychological blocks in his patients. When their daughter comes back from a visit with mom and she's covered with bruises and welts, the father attempts to bar his wife from seeing the daughter, but faces resistance from the secretive psychiatrist. Meanwhile, the wife's mother and father are attacked by deformed children, and the husband begins to suspect a connection with the psychiatrist's methods.
Steven Moffat To Write Tintin 2007-10-02 12:56:00 Steve Moffatt (Doctor Who, Coupling) is writing DreamWorks' "Tintin," the movie trilogy collaboration from Peter Jackson and Steven
Spielberg that adapts the European comic strip created by Herge.The directors will each make one of the films, with a director for the third still to be announced.The film is set to be filmed with motion capture technology and will be simultaneously released in 3D.Source Hollywood Reporter
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Poster: Walk Hard 2007-10-02 12:50:00 (Click image to enlarge)Starring John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Tim Meadows and Kristen WiigThe up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly), whose songs would change a nation. On his rock ‘n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to – and then kicks – every drug known to man… but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman – longtime backup singer Darlene (Jenna Fischer).
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New Wall-E trailer 2007-10-01 16:28:00 The New Wall-E trailer is now online. About half of it is footage you will recognise from the original teaser. However, it's still worth a glance.Watch the new trailer over at french website Allocine.com
American Gangster Featurette 2007-10-01 16:13:00 “River to River” featuring interviews with Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott and Brian Grazer.
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