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ARCHIVES WEEK 09 2004
26/02/04
Newsflash:
Some nice headlines in today's Newsflash to end this week:
 Robert Rodriguez wants to bring Frank Miller's black-and-white comic Sin City to the big screen. He already shot a nine-minutes-opening sequence to get Frank Miller's attention and attract other cast members. Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton are already on board! This is great news, my friends! Source: Variety
The new Scooby Doo 2 poster is now online, click on Scooby for a larger version.
Check out the great new trailer for Denzel Washington's thriller Man on Fire!
Latino Review posted an international poster for the Thunderbirds. The cast includes Bill Paxton, Brady Corbet, Ben Kingsley, Anthony Edwards and is directed by Jonathan Frakes. Click on the pic for a larger version.
25/02/04
Kill Bill Vol. II and Harry Potter pics:
Empire Movies posted a second
wave of great Kill Bill Vol. II pics! Coming Soon
presented a bunch of new pics for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The third movie of
the young wizard is directed by Alfonso Cuaron (Y tu mamá también) and received a very positive review over at
AICN. Click on the pics to see more!
25/02/04
Underworld 2 coming up!:
Selene will continue her war against the Werewolves in the sequel to Underworld! Kate Beckinsale
and Scott Speedman will be back on board with Len Wiseman returning as director. Danny Mcbride will have the
script ready by April.
Source: Variety
24/02/04
Goyer talks Blade III and Batman:
Seems like this is the Week of The Bat, got some more great stuff about Batman but first some info about Blade: Trinity.
AICN was invited to a Blade III set visit
and talked to writer/director David Goyer who revealed some amazing stuff:
"Digital Dimension is doing a lot. They're doing a lot of the "ashings", which are way, way more sophisticated than they were on the second film. And there's different kinds of "ashings", too, because there's different kinds of weapons. So, they're doing a bunch. There's probably, like, a hundred ashings. Giant Killer Robot... they're doing a bunch of stuff. They're doing CG stuff, and transformation stuff, because the main villain turns into a sort of beast creature at the end. They're doing some vampire dogs. Who else are we using? Amalgamated Pixels. I don't know… about nine different vendors."
David Goyer also talked about Batman! As you already knew, Goyer wrote the script with Chris Nolan as director and Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader. Here's what Goyer had to say about the movie and about Christian Bale:
The SUPERMAN stuff hasn't affected you guys at all?
"I think it affected us positively. That was such a disaster that they're approach was, "Let's get a filmmaker's filmmaker, and, then, let's get a writer who has sort of more credibility in his stuff." The movie that they're making, and I think they started shooting in Iceland today, is basically my first draft. They said, "Okay, SUPERMAN got all fucked up; let's let you guys do what you do," and they did. When we met with them, we said, "Is there anything that you don't want to see, or that you can't see?" And they said, "Okay, it's got to be PG-13." That wasn't really difficult. And they said, "It's got to be romantic," which we didn't have a problem with."
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What did you think of Bale? Had you met him before?
"We were torn between Bale and Jake Gyllenhaal, because we wanted to go in a different direction. But I think Bale at the end… I loved Jake, but Bale just seemed the right way. Knowing the story that we're telling… it's hard for everyone else because they don't know the story that we're telling, but it ultimately was the right way to go. And Michael Caine… I was just freaking out when we got Michael Caine. And all of the other casting has been… you know, I had a very schizophrenic experience on the project, because I was a professional doing a job crafting, sort of reinventing Batman with Chris, being very aware of how fucked up the previous movies were. And being very conscious of the fact that we didn't want to let the fans down. But at the same time, I was like a fan going, "Holy shit, I can't believe they're going to let us do this."
Other Batman news (which will begin filming as we speak), Ken Watanabe will play
the villainous Ra's Al Ghul (not Liam Neeson), an immortal strategic mastermind who wants to bring his own
brand of order to the world, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Watanabe joins Michael Caine as
Wayne's trusted butler Alfred; Katie Holmes as a childhood friend of Wayne's; Liam Neeson as Wayne's mentor
Henri Ducard; and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, a former board member and sidelined employee of Wayne Enterprises.
The Japanese actor is nominated for best supporting role for The Last Samurai.
And finally, Christian Bale talked about his role as The Batman!!!:
"I think Batman is probably more aggresive than most everybody I've ever played, you know. I wanted to take it, because, firstly, when I heard that there was a consideration of doing more of the movies, I just felt like I hadn't been quite satisfied with what I'd seen in the other movies. Certainly in the last two.
It seemed as though there was actually a real character here, that it wasn't just a bland kind of superhero, one-dimensional. With him there really was an interesting character to be played. I loved the kind of fantastical notion of the superhero, but at the same time being able to bring a psychologically interesting element to that.
Then Chris Nolan is directing who, you know, is not a director I would have expected to do this movie. So that was ideal to me, I liked the fact that the people hiring Chris, hiring myself, were going with people who did want to reinvent the story and have it not just be a continuation."
Source: Coming Soon
Amazing Batman news and the week has just begun, I'm still dying to see a glimpse of The Batsuit though... I'll keep you posted, my friends.
24/02/04
Peter Jackson talks King Kong:
Peter Jackson talked to Reuters about his King Kong flick:
"It's too early to say about cast, apart from Naomi Watts, who's now confirmed. We need to write for a few more weeks to establish exactly what type of other characters we are looking for. I'm hoping there will be suitable roles for one or two "LOTR" actors. As far as crew go, "LOTR" veterans include Jan Blenkin and Caro Cunningham, both of whom are producing "Kong" with me; Andrew Lesnie is on board as (director of photography); Grant Major is production designer; Dan Hennah is supervising art director. Both Weta Workshop, led by Richard Taylor, and Weta Digital have been at work on "Kong" for some months now. Howard Shore is doing the music. We are talking to all other crew at the moment and imagine the majority will be "LOTR" veterans."
23/02/04
Amazing Batman update:
Cinescape received the latest news on
Chris Nolan's Batman project!:
Dennis Quaid is "close" to being signed for the part of Jim Gordon, the Gotham City beat cop that will one day become police Commissioner. Gordon has an important role to play in the picture. One might even say that fate will deal him -- and subsequently the Dark Knight -- a card that sets the course for their future and that of Gotham City.
Cillian Murphy is playing The Scarecrow, but you already know that.
At present, the concept for this film's Batmobile is unlike the looks of Batman's wheels from the four earlier films. Instead, this incarnation of the Batmobile -- at least at this stage of development -- might look like it has more in common with the behemoth depicted in Frank Miller's legendary THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS comic book series. As our source tells us, "the Batmobile will be big and bulky, like an urban tank."
There is talk about changing the working title of the project to BATMAN BEGINS.
One of the film's major action scenes will take place inside a Tibetan palace and will not involve Batman -- but a pre-Batman Bruce Wayne. Much ass-kicking will take place inside that palace, and it will be upon the film's main villain, or more specifically, his henchmen.
How cool is that! Hope we'll get to see the Batsuit soon...
23/02/04
U.S. Box Office Feb 20-22:
Adam Sandler's and Drew Barrymore's 50 First Dates is the hottest movie for the second week
at the U.S. Box office! The movie earned another $21 million over the weekend bringing its total to $72 million.
Other newcomers Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Welcome to Mooseport,
Eurotrip did so-so business with Meg Ryan's Against the Ropes being the biggest
flop entering number 8 of the top ten:
1. 50 First Dates - $21,000,000 / $72,311,000 since opening
2. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen - $9,217,000
3. Miracle - $8,000,000 / $50,549,000
4. Welcome to Mooseport - $7,000,000
5. Eurotrip - $6,600,000
6. Barbershop 2 - $6,300,000 / $53,236,000
7. Mystic River - $3,120,000 / $79,152,000
8. Against the Ropes - $3,000,000 / $3,000,000
9. The Butterfly Effect - $2,875,000 / $53,107,000
10. The Return of the King - $2,800,000 / $361,068,000
23/02/04
Exorcist: The Beginning update:
Variety posted an update on the latest developments for the
troubled Exorcist: The Beginning movie. Original director Paul Schrader left the project due
to creative differences, Renny "Cliffhanger" Harlin took over the job and wrapped filming February 22. The word
is that not a single frame of the footage shot by Paul Schrader will be included in the prequel's new cut. Schrader's
footage was too tame, the new footage contains more gore like revolving eyeballs, spinning heads and loads of projectile
vomit...
There ya go, some good ol' puke is always a crowdpleaser!
23/02/04
New Pics 'n' Posters:
The Rock's Walking Tall website is now online with new pics and other goodies. Check out the
new poster for Hidalgo starring Viggo Mortensen and directed by Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III).
Another international poster for Kill Bill vol. II hits the web, this one looks amazing. Click
on The Rock to enter the site and click on the posters for larger versions!
21/02/04
First The Punisher Review and Trailer!!! :
AICN has seen The Punisher!!!
Here's a clip of the very positive review:
"THE PUNISHER has more in common with the work of Don Seigel and John Frankenheimer than it does with the work of Michael Bay or Simon West. To Hensleigh's credit, what he's done here is make a character-driven revenge drama that resolutely refuses to fit into the easy current definition of the "comic-book" movie. This isn't like any of the other recent Marvel movies, so before you start screaming at me about BLADE 2 or DAREDEVIL or HULK, save yourself the hassle. This is nothing like those films, whatever you think of them."
Thomas Janes stars as the comic character opposite John Travolta as the movie's villain. Jonathan Hensleigh who
wrote Armageddon made his directorial debut with The Punisher. I can't wait to see this flick...
This just came in, check out the new trailer right here!
21/02/04
Upcoming Favreau, McG and Malick projects:
Jon Favreau is in talks to direct Zathura, the follow-up to Jumanji! The studio is trying to get
the sequel off the ground for a few years now, different directors were attached to the project but the perfect
script wasn't written. Veteran writer David Koep managed to write the final draft now, let's see if Favreau is
able to bring it to the big screen.
Charlie's Angels director McG is attached to an Evel Knievel biopic, Pure Evel. Screenwriter
Andrew Walker (Seven) is writing the script of the stuntmaster. "Knievel," McG said, "was one of the characters
he fantasized about in his "Walter Mitty childhood."
The film will follow a part of Knievel's life ending with his failed rocket jump across the Snake River Canyon.
Well, let's see if he'll direct Superman first...
Terence Malick (The Thin Red Line) will direct Che, a biopic of the Cuban revolutionary.
Benicio Del Toro will star and Javier Bardem will play a supporting role.
Source: Variety
21/02/04
Alien vs Predator footage:
Empire online saw some footage of the
Alien vs. Predator action spectacle. Here's a clip:
"The footage began with Lance Henriksen's industrial billionaire instructing his team of scientists and archaeologists as they make ready to enter the uncovered Aztec dig site deep within the Antarctic circle. Ewan Bremner reveals himself as the token comic relief before we see a montage of panning shots of the temple, with nervous scientists exploring the ruins. The team discover a series of bodies with ruptured ribcages and are, in true shock-jump fashion, surprised by the desiccated body of a facehugger. And that's when things get interesting."
Check out the rest here!
21/02/04
The Whole Ten Yards trailer:
The trailer for The Whole Ten Yards is now online. Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry star in
this sequel to... The Whole Nine yards. Click on the pic to download the trailer.
© wb 2004
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The Big Bounce
Matchstick Men
The Missing
Pieces of April
Spy Kids 3-D
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City By The Sea
The Good Thief
Iron Monkey
24 season 2
El Cid
Far From Heaven
Bulletproof Monk
Dracula II
The Sin Eater
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Russian Ark
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