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ARCHIVES WEEK 08 2004
19/02/04
Newsflash:
And the second Newsflash for this week, great news about Batman to start the weekend, enjoy!:
 Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman are confirmed to be in the cast for Christopher Nolan's Batman film according to Variety. Liam Neeson will probably play one of the villains Ra's al Ghul (see pic). Freeman will take on the role of Lucius Fox, who is the CEO of Wayne Enterprises.
Director Rob Bowman (Reign of Fire, The X-Files: Fight the Future) is in talks to helm the Daredevil spin-off Elektra! Jennifer Garner will reprise here role as the comicbook character with Mark Steven Johnson and Gary Foster as producers. Source: Variety
The international Troy trailer is now online! Check out Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom and Eric Bana in Wolfgang Petersen's epic, right here, right now!
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19/02/04
Pics Gallore!:
Joblo scored great pics of movies to be released this spring. The pics include Uma in Kill Bill Vol. II, Denzel in Man on Fire, The Rock in Walking Tall and the new Pixar flick The Incredibles. Click on the pic to enter the site.
18/02/04
New Posters!:
I've found some great new posters on the internet! Check out the international poster for Kill Bill Vol. II, the new poster for the delayed The Alamo and the fantastic poster for Dawn of the Dead.
18/02/04
Newsflash:
Check out some interesting newsbits in today's newsflash:
The official Spider-man 2 site has been updated with cool pics! Click on Doc Ock to enter the site.
Michael Patrick King, director and executive producer of Sex and the City, will write a script for a big screen feature! Deals are being made for Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and Kim Cattrall to reprise their roles in the film. King will also direct the movie.
Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy) will write and direct The Green Hornet! Smith wants to shoot the remake about the masked superhero and his sidekick Kato at the end of the summer: "I dig the fact that he kicked off a run of billionaire playboys who decided to put on a mask and fight crime, and that he was Batman before there was a Batman."
Peter Segal will re-team with Adam Sandler after working with the comedian on Anger Management and 50 First Dates. The director will helm the remake of The Longest Yard. The original version starred Burt Reynolds as a football quaterback sent to prison who then leads a team of inmates against a team of guards. Sandler will star in the remake and the rest of the cast includes Chris Rock and Snoop Dogg.
Source: Variety
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18/02/04
Riddick update!:
Scifi Wire talked to
Alexa Davalos, who plays Kyra in de Vin Diesel flick The Chronicles of Riddick. She plays a grown up
version of Jack, the girl who was disguised as a boy in Pitch Black:
"I think she's grown up and really come to fight for herself and understand herself a bit more," Davalos said in an interview. "I think she's evolved quite a bit, and yet has a lot of Jack inside of her."
Here's what she had to say about the action:
"Lots of stunt work. Lots of fighting. Lots of weapons. ... Kyra actually carries a very small knife in her mouth, which has been a large part of my training process, actually being able to maneuver this very sharp object in my mouth."
16/02/04
The End of Superman?:
This project is cursed! Superman V received some very bad news about the Superman movie:
"A few weeks ago we told you how WB had booked the Fox Studios in Sydney. The project would move full speed ahead and relocate to Australia. S-V now have the latest update and it isn't looking good.
Mark Mansbridge (Art Director) has left the project. More worryingly, Duncan Henderson (Producer) is gone and Owen Paterson (Production Designer) may have as well. Word is Paterson has left the production in LA and gone home to Australia. We hope to bring you confirmation on Paterson soon. We can tell you that Kym Barrett, who worked with Paterson on The Matrix hasn't gone and is still Costume Designer.
These departures are due to the project being shut down. The script is also going to undergo yet more rewrites and these rewrites are said to be MAJOR. WB are also debating whether to move the whole production to Australia."
Other sites confirmed that McG is still involved but I'm having a bad feeling about this flick. Let's hope Batman: Intimidation
will be a great success so WB will greenlight the Batman vs. Superman movie!
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16/02/04
Scooby-Doo 2 update:
Writer/producer James Gunn talked to Moviehole about Scooby-Doo 2!:
"It [Scooby Doo 2] is sleeker, faster, and furrier. The cast were much more comfortable with their roles, and have all upped their game. Raja was much more confidant, which shows up on screen. The movie is a lot more character-oriented, actually. The studio was a little freaked out when they first saw it - in a good way...it is a lot different from the first movie. The mystery is much more of a mystery - in the last movie we had one real suspect, and then a couple of faux suspects. In this movie we have at least four real suspects.
Oh yeah, and the action - there are many bigger, more fun action sequences in this movie. We have a great sequence with Scooby and Shaggy dirt-boarding down the side of a mountain on trash can lids, followed by a couple of skeleton men with eyeballs for heads. We also have a great sequence with the Pterodactyl Ghost chasing the Mystery Machine through the city streets of Coolsville."
Zoinks! Sounds like fun! Doesn't matter how bad the movie will be, it's always fun to watch Scooby, right?
16/02/04
Mel Gibson talks The Passion of Christ!:
ABC News
posted an interview with Mel Gibson who talked about his fight against his alcohol and drug problems with the help
of... the Bible. This event inspired him to make the controversial movie The Passion of Christ.
Here are some clips:
At "the height of spiritual bankruptcy" more than a decade ago, abusing alcohol and drugs, the actor Mel Gibson said he once contemplated hurling himself out a window.
But instead, he turned to the Bible, which ultimately inspired him to direct his new movie, The Passion of the Christ.
"I think I just hit my knees," Gibson told Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview on ABCNEWS' Primetime. "I just said, 'Help.' You know? And then, I began to meditate on it, and that's in the Gospel. I read all those again. I remember reading bits of them when I was younger."
"Pain is the precursor to change, which is great," Gibson said. "That's the good news."
"Critics who have a problem with me don't really have a problem with me in this film," Gibson said. "They have a problem with the four Gospels. That's where their problem is."
The Passion of Christ opens later this month.
16/02/04
Frank Darabont talks rejected Indiana IV script!:
Frank Darabont, director of The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption, worked on the script for the new Indiana Jones
movie but it was rejected by George Lucas last week. Lucas wasn't satisfied and will hire new writers to change
the script. Frank Darabont explained why his script did not get the green light:
"The short and simple version of the Indiana Jones 4 situation is that after more than a year of working closely with Steven Spielberg developing the story, I had completed a screenplay that Steven loved and was hoping to shoot in July of this year. However, George Lucas had issues with the script and slammed on the brakes in order to rework the material himself. There is talk of enlisting another writer. Given that George is the producer, but even moreso because of their long and close friendship, Steven is deferring to George in this situation.
It is now up to them to try to find a common ground regarding the film. I wish them luck and hope their efforts result in something they're both excited about shooting. What, if anything, might remain of my work at the end of the process is anybody's guess, assuming the film even gets made at this point. As for me, I'm disappointed, but I'm putting the experience behind me and moving on with my life and my own projects."
Too bad, Frank, I think we'll Superman sooner than another Indy movie...
Source: AICN
16/02/04
Shrek 2 Trailer:
The very funny Shrek 2 trailer is now online! Eddie Murphy and
Mike Myers provided their voices again for the main characters, click on the pic to download the trailer.
© dreamworks 2004
16/02/04
Star Wars Episode III cool update!!!:
Dreamwatch magazine has published an interview with fight co-ordinator Nick Gillard who
worked on the Star Wars prequels. He told Dreamwatch a bit more about the swordfights in Episode III:
"Episode III has got everything the other films had and more! The movie is 60 to 70 per cent fighting. Ewan [McGregor, Obi-Wan Kenobi] had 1,000 moves to learn, as opposed to the three pages he had to learn in The Phantom Menace. There's tons of fighting in this one".
Here's what he had to say about the end fight:
"It's a monster of a sequence, I had a couple of years to think about it and think about what George [Lucas, writer/director] had told me about it, and it was daunting because I knew how important that sequence is. I spent probably a year deconstructing the Jedi style of fighting to make it work. I had Hayden with me eight weeks before we started shooting it and I had Ewan six weeks, which wasn't really enough time, so we often had to rehearse at weekends during the filming.
Episode III also ties in beautifully with all the other movies. And when I read the script, I was really surprised by how emotional it is." "Everyone working on the film took so much care with it," he states. "Nobody wants to get it wrong."
16/02/04
Dawn of the Dead and Van Helsing pics:
Cinescape received great new pics for the horror remake Dawn of the Dead
and the vampire hunter flick Van Helsing! Dawn of the Dead stars Ving Rhames, Sarah Polley,
Mekhi Phifer and is directed by Zack Snyder. Mummy director Stephen Sommers helmed Van Helsing with
Hugh Jackman as the vampire hunter. Click on the pics for more!
16/02/04
U.S. Box Office Feb 13-15:
Adam Sandler ruled at the box office with the comedy 50 First Dates, earning a kick-ass $41 million!!!
Barbershop 2 also doing great at number two. Here's the rest of the Top Ten:
1. 50 First Dates - $41,000,000
2. Barbershop 2 - $15,600,000 / $44,074,000 since opening
3. Miracle - $14,021,000 / $37,061,000
4. The Butterfly Effect - $5,700,000 / $50,045,000
5. You Got Served - $5,100,000 / $32,083,000
6. Along Came Polly - $5,077,000 / $81,634,000
7. Catch That Kid - $4,350,000 / $10,850,000
8. The Return of the King - $4,150,000 / $357,203,000
9. Cold Mountain - $3,726,000 / $87,547,000
10. Mystic River - $3,545,000 / $74,506,000
14/02/04
King Arthur poster!:
Latino Review
posted the poster for King Arhtur! Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) directed the epic and the film stars Clive Owen,
Stellan Skarsgård and Keira Knightley. King Arthur will be realesed this summer. Click on the sword for a larger
version.
© touchstone 2004
14/02/04
Scorcese directs Infernal Affairs?:
Variety reports that Martin Scorcese is interested in directing
a remake of the Hong Kong police thriller Infernal Affairs. The movie tells the story of two moles,
one infiltrated a mob gang, the other the police force. Brad Pitt considers to play one of the leading roles.
I love the original Chinese version and I think it'll hard to make a better "American" version.
14/02/04
No Lethal Weapon 5 and Mad Max 4?:
Mel Gibson revealed to Movie Hole that he's not
interested in doing another Lethal Weapon and Mad Max movie:
He laughs when asked how much money he still gets offered for a new "Lethal Weapon". "Ah, good question. I'm too old and I can't deal with the action stuff anymore."
That also tends to rule out the much delayed Mad Max 4. "It's getting to the point where they'll start calling it Fat Max," but hopes, at the very least, to work again with Weir and Miller. "Those guys are masters so of course I'd love to work with them again. The trouble is, will they want me?"
14/02/04
Pink Panther plot details:
Dark Horizons received plot details
for Steve Martin's take on Inspector Clouseau:
The title of the film is officially "The Mask of The Pink Panther" and it is not a prequel or a remake. This is the tenth film in the franchise and it has a contemporary setting.
Here's the plot: Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin) is a brilliant detective. He's also arrogant, disastrously clumsy, and very lucky that the mayhem he creates never harms himself. His late father's claim to fame was having recovered the treasured Pink Panther diamond several times during his career but, thus far, the current Inspector Clouseau has never been able to distinguish himself in a similar fashion.
The site also reports that Steve Martin's hair will be dyed black and he will wear le moustache!
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DVD releases R1
Blow Up
Death in Venice
Runaway Jury
Under Pressure
DVD releases R2
Dragon Lord
Iron Monkey
Gettysburg
High Sierra
The In-laws
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The Lizzie McGuire Movie
Bad Boys II
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