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ARCHIVES WEEK 12 2004
18/03/04
Batman Begins update!:
Woohoo, another Batman Begins update! AICN
received more info on the Batmobile, Chris Nolan getting inspired by The French Connection(!) and David Goyer's involvement,
go check it out:
The only view we got was a production design drawing(god knows how much that'll change) and it looked very much like a cross between the 'armadillo' from 'Armageddon' (except a LOT more low to the ground - like a Lamborghini) and the angular black paneling of a stealth bomber. (I'm sorry that i'm unable to provide the illustration but i only saw this promo reel once!) The wheels (there were 4) were positioned with 2 side by side in front of the grill and two larger wheels at the back.
Nolan said that 'the car chases will be very real and very much in the vein of 'The French Connection' and less in the studio bound style that we have come to expect'
David Goyer mentioned that for the first time in his career, he had penned HUGE action sequences and 'was told by Warner Bros. to 'make it bigger!'...sounds cool. He also said that in this story: 'fans will learn where the Batmobile comes from, where the Bat signal comes from, where the Bat costume comes from and where Batman's skills come from & who taught him'
18/03/04
Newsflash:
 Kevin Smith had a very positive chat with Donnie Darko's Jake Gyllenhaal about The Green Hornet. Smith wants him to play the crime-fighting superhero! No official confirmations have been made though, but I'll keep you posted on this one.
CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: Miami and coming soon CSI: New York! Yep, and the team of crime investigators will be lead by Gary Sinise! The characters from CSI: New York will be introduced in an episode of CSI: Miami, while Lt. Horatio Cane (David Caruso) will go to the Big Apple as part of a murder investigation. My favorite character of both series is Caruso as H. but I bet Sinise will kick ass too in CSI: New York. What's next? CSI: Amsterdam?
Director Robert Rodriguez has big plans for his movie version of Frank Miller's comic Sin City. A list of possible cast members appeared online. Some of them already signed, some are in talks, check it out: Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Mickey Rourke, Brittany Murphy, Kate Bosworth and Jaime King! How cool is that!
Source: The Hollywood Reporter.
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17/03/04
Thunderbirds and Shark Tale posters:
Great new posters today, check out another look at the Thunderbirds which by the may received a
very negative review last week. The movie is directed by Jonathan Frakes and stars Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards,
Sophia Myles, Brady Corbet, Soren Fulton, Vanessa Hudgens and Ben Kingsley.
The second poster is for Dreamworks' Shark Tale. Will Smith voices Oscar, who is a fast-talking
little fish who dreams big. But his big dreams land him in hot water when a great white lie turns him into an
unlikely hero. The rest of the cast includes Robert de Niro, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black and
Martin Scorsese!
Click on the posters for larger versions.
17/03/04
Zack Snyder talks Dawn of the Dead:
Director Zack Snyder talked about his remake of the zombie classic Dawn of the Dead that opens
at the end of this week. He talks about the use of old school special effects, Sci-fi Wire
posted this great report:
Zack Snyder, director of the updated Dawn of the Dead movie, told reporters that his remake of the 1979 George Romero classic would feature many of the same kinds of effects as the original film. "I think the great thing about the movie is that it really is a makeup-effects movie," Snyder said in a news conference. "It's not a movie that relies on [computer graphics] or, you know, cutting-edge, state-of-the-art visual effects to render it."
Snyder said that some digital effects work was necessary to create the zombie throngs that gather around the protagonists' shopping-mall refuge. But overall, few scenes benefited from the use of computers. "There are scenes in the movie with a multitude of zombies, if you will, and that had to be done using a computer," he said. "But other than that, it was really just sort of using the makeup effects and appliances to kind of go old school with the zombies."
17/03/04
Spielberg, Cruise and The War of the Worlds!:
Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise join forces to bring The War of the Worlds to the big screen!
Spielberg will helm the sci-fi flick with Cruise likely to star in the H.G. wells classic story. Cruise's production
company started working on the project two years ago. David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Spider-man) will rewrite the
script. I wonder if Spielberg will start on this flick before Indy IV...
Source: Variety.
17/03/04
Clooney is Magnum P.I.?!:
Seems that George Clooney is close to sign a deal to star in Magnum P.I. according to Yahoo! Movies.
LL Cool J could take on the role of the helicopter pilot T.C. No word on who might play Rick and Higgins, I'll keep
you posted.
15/03/04
New Punisher website:
A new Punisher website opened with lots of cool stuff, pics, wallpapers and some detailed information about
the main character Frank Castle a.k.a The Punisher (played by Thomas Jane):
"Abilites: The Punisher possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise. The Punisher is a thoroughly seasoned combat veteran of exceptional skills. A former U.S. Marine Captain with a distinguished combat record who has undergone SEAL (Sea Air Land) training, UDT (Underwater Demolition Team) training, and LRPA (Long Range Patrol) training, Frank Castle is well versed in the arts of warfare and hand-to-hand combat. Armed solely with conventional weapons and motivated by a fanatical hatred for criminals like those who murdered his family, the Punisher has single-handedly incapacitated up to a dozen well-armed and experienced opponents in a single encounter and escaped uninjured."
Click on the pic to enter the site.
© lionsgate 2004
15/03/04
U.S. Box Office Mar 12-14:
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is the still the number one movie in the U.S.! Johnny Depp's
thriller Secret Window also opened strong with $19 million. Here's the rest of the top ten:
1. The Passion of the Christ - $31.7m / $264.0m since opening
2. Secret Window - $19.0m
3. Starsky & Hutch - $16.0m / $51.5m
4. Hidalgo - $11.7m / $35.5m
5. Agent Cody Banks 2 - $8.0m
6. 50 First Dates - $5.3m / $106.6m
7. Twisted - $3.1m / $21.1m
8. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen - $2.4m / $24.9m
9. LOTR: Return of the King - $2.1m / $371.2m
10. Spartan - $2.0m
15/03/04
Newsflash:
Great new poster for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban popped up online, click on the young wizard for a larger version.
New Line is developing Money Talks 2 and Rush Hour 3 for Chris Tucker. The original movies were directed by Brett Ratner but it has not been confirmed if he'll also direct the sequels. Charlie Sheen will be approached to return as Tucker's co-star in Money Talks 2. Source: Variety.
Gabriel Byrne and Brian Dennehy have joined the cast of the remake for Assault on Precinct 13. The rest of the cast includes Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Maria Bello and John Leguizamo. Jean-Francois Richet directs the flick which starts production in April. Source: The Hollywood Reporter.
The third Daywalker movie Blade: Trinity has been pushed back for a December 10th release. I wonder why they did this...
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© wb 2004
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13/03/04
I, Robot Trailer:
Wow, check out this beauty! The I, Robot trailer hits the web and it looks pretty impressive.
The story is set in the year 2035, a techno-phobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
The movie stars Will Smith and is directed by Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City). Hit the pic to download the trailer.
© Fox 2004
13/03/04
Star Wars Episode III update:
Producer Rick McCallum gives an update on Episode III via the Official Site.
Some re-shoots are scheduled within a few months and Rick also talks about the movie's new villain General Grievous.
Here's what the site posted:
By now, the public has been introduced to General Grievous, the deadly leader of the Separatist army. Though he makes his cartoon debut next month in the Star Wars: Clone Wars micro-series, he still has a long way to go for his film incarnation. "The wireframe model has been built and approved, and now we are starting modeling and animating him," says McCallum.
Grievous has yet to be placed into any shots, and who will provide the voice of the menacing General has yet to be determined. "We haven't even looked for him yet," says McCallum. "There's still a long way to go. Voice-work for Grievous and other characters isn't likely to begin until August or November."
Click here for more details!
13/03/04
David Twohy talks The Chronicles of Riddick!!!:
Finally the director of the Pitch Black prequel The Chronicles of Riddick starring Vin Diesel talked about this
sci-fi epic:
Where do the origins of "The Chronicles of Riddick" come from?
I did not like the sequel idea the studio offered to me. I said to them: "If you want to develop his story, you have to make it more ambitious." So I offered them the idea to develop a trilogy around Riddick, Vin Diesel's character, so this way TCOR would be the first part. In case of success, we will do C-2 and C-3 (the code name for the two sequels after TCOR), just like Peter Jackson did LOTR, doing the two movies during one shooting. The idea was if I spent a certain part of my life on a project, it had to be the richest and most ambitious as possible. When Universal saw the success of LOTR, they happily accepted my idea.
Riddick is a bad man, a murderer. How can you build a gigantic movie around such a troublemaker character?
Exactly that's what I love in this movie. Riddick is an anti-hero. He is not the glorious type who confronts the difficulties with positivity. He carries a very negative vision on the world and the people with himself. I don't want to glorify him, and exactly that's what was hard to make the studio understand. In reality, we see the other Star Wars, TCOR won't be manichean with the Good against the Bad. This movie is less schematic. The hero is a murderer, but within the negative dimension, you will realise, there's good within him. Also, this movie follows the path of Pitch Black, where all the characters had a double edge. This movie is too controversial, too cool for an expensive film.
It seems like Riddick has "primitive powers", so they say?
This movie will uncover the origins of Riddick, and the viewers will realise that he is not a normal man. You will better understand how is he changing. Riddick is much more than you can believe. You will explore the new powers and forces within him. The movie will follow him towards countless universes, battling with the enemies. But TCOR is also about spiritualism. There will many theological references, even if I am agonistic. But religion and the way they practice it, interest me a lot.
In sci-films, it's obligatory to shoot a space ship battle scene?
So we have one. But ours is set in the sky, in the night. If you want a reference what you can see, imagine the aero battles during the war in Iraq,but in the future.
Source: VinXperience, Score Magazine
13/03/04
Johnny Depp talks Willy Wonka:
Johnny Depp talked to MTV about his next movie, the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Tim Burton
attached as director:
"It's Tim's version of Roald Dahl's classic book and it's gonna be a wild ride. Tim and I have had a couple of meetings, sat down and had some talks about where he wants to go, where we need to go. And I think it's gonna be great, you know? Big shoes [to fill], though. Gene Wilder did such an awesome job in that film in the early '70s, so I mean, taking that character of Willy Wonka and going somewhere completely different is ... he sort of made the job infinitely more difficult for me".
Source: Dark Horizons
13/03/04
First Man-Thing pic!:
Comixfan received the first exclusive pic
of Man-Thing. "Directed by effects pioneer Brett Leonard (The Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity), Man-Thing was adapted by screenwriter Hans Rodionoff from the cult comic book series that was first published by Marvel in 1971. The film was shot completely on location in Sydney, Australia.
The Man-Thing character is described as a vengeful creature born from the evil and injustices perpetrated against both man and nature."
Click on Man-Thing for an extreme close up!
© artisan 2004
13/03/04
Bale to beefy for the Batsuit!:
Regular readers know how I love a good ol' Batman Begins gossip! Seems that Christian Bale
is getting to big for his suit! Here's what the BBC posted:
"It looks like Batman needs a new tailor after Christian Bale ripped his skin-tight caped crusader suit.
The Welsh actor beefed up for the role in 'Batman Begins', but it looks like he bulked up too much - stories from the set say he ripped the first rubber costume and it took three crew members and a bottle of talcum powder to squeeze him into a second one."
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DVD releases R1
21 Grams
The Commitments
The Running Man
Veronica Guerin
DVD releases R2
Reservoir Dogs
True Romance
Bringing Down The House
It Runs In The Family
Matchstick Men
Beethoven's 5th
Dogville
Intolerable Cruelty
Medallion
Phileine Zegt Sorry
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