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ARCHIVES WEEK 18 2004
29/04/04
New Spider-man 2 pics!:
Absolutely wonderful Spider-man 2 pics popped up online on the official site. The pics will be used as posters
for the Spider-man 2 marketing campaign. Click on the pic for a closer look!
© sony 2004
29/04/04
Newsflash:
 Burt Reynolds will join the remake of The Longest Yard. He'll play the coach of the inmates (including Adam Sandler and Chris Rock) who are forced to play against the guards. Reynolds played the lead in the original. Source: Variety
Another name has been added to the cast of Sin City. Nick Stahl will join Bruce Willis, Josh Hartnett and Mickey Rourke in the Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller film. Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Lost in Translation star Scarlett Johansson has joined the cast of Mission: Impossible 3. Source: Variety
Great new webdoc for AVP is now online! Click here for a nice clip that takes you behind the scenes of the Alien meets Predator flick.
Latino Review scored some nice set shots for the Get Shorty sequel Be Cool! The comedy stars John Travolta as Chili Palmer and reunites him with his Pulp Fiction co-star Uma "Killed Bill" Thurman! The rest of cast includes James "Tony Soprano" Gandolfini, Vince Vaughn, The Rock and is directed by F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job). Click on the pic for more.
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27/04/04
Editor's note:
movieXplosion.com will be offline for a few hours tonight between 23.00 and 09.00 CET due to
site upgrade.
27/04/04
Peter Jackson talks King Kong:
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson talked to Entertainment Weekly about the structure of his King Kong remake:
"We are not reinventing it, our story follows the same structure. It starts in New York, goes to Skull Island, and there's dinosaurs on the island. Then it comes back to New York and there's the Empire State Building and the biplanes and the whole thing."
He says that one thing they're trying to do that the original didn't is to make it more "emotionally truthful. I put that ahead of anything else, including technology and the realism of the effects.
Everybody's image of 'King Kong' is that it's this amazing beauty-and-the-beast love story. And when you look at the original film, there is as sense that Kong is feeling an attraction toward Ann-probably the first empathy he's felt in his life toward another living creature. But Ann is not giving him a thing. She just looks at him as an object of horror the entire time. She screams at him, she's terrified. Her relationship with Kong doesn't go beyond that. We're having a lot of fun making it more psychologically real."
The cast includes Naomi Watts as Kong's love object, Adrien Brody and Jack Black.
27/04/04
Newsflash:
Kenneth Branagh has joined Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames and Carrie-Anne Moss in Mission: Impossible 3. Narc director Joe Carnahan is helming the action flick, the script is being written by Frank Darabont. Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Check out the very creepy trailer for M. Night Shayamalan's new thriller The Village right here.
Dark Angel star (nope, not Dolph Lundgren) Jessica Alba joins Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller's Sin City. The rest of the cast includes Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Johnny Depp and Brittany Murphy. Source: The Hollywood Reporter
The new Catwoman poster is now online, though the tone of the sheet is okay, the costume still sucks... Click on Halle for a closer look.
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27/04/04
Producer talks Spider-man 2:
Spider-man 2 producer Laura Ziskin tried to make the sequel better, giving it more heart, drama and of
course action:"We were just trying to build on the first one. The great thing about 'Spider-Man' is the characters: What we tried to do is, every character has a continuing drama in their life -- an evolution and a crisis they're dealing with -- so it was fun to explore. In the first movie, we had the fun of the original story, and that was great -- but in some ways, the benefit of the second movie is that the audience knows these characters and loves them and cares about them."
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
26/04/04
Newsflash:
ER star Goran Visnjic will join Jennifer Garner in the Daredevil spin-off Elektra. Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) will helm Jarhead. The war drama is based on Anthony Swofford's Persian Gulf War memoir. "This is equal parts black humor, honesty, rage, lyricism, profanity and the mixture of machismo jarhead culture. With the exception of 'Three Kings,' this is a war that has been overlooked but which has a burning relevance to what is happening right now in the Middle East," Mendes said. Source: Variety
Moviebox got their hands on the new poster for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. The movie stars Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie. Click on the pic for a larger version.
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© paramount 2004
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26/04/04
U.S. Box Office Apr 23-25:
Denzel Washington fired up the Box Office with his latest thriller Man on Fire. He kicked his way all up
to number one with an impressive $23 million. Jennifer Garner's comedy 13 going 30 also did
great with $22 million. Here's the rest of the Top Ten:
1. Man on Fire - $23,000,000
2. 13 Going on 30 - $22,000,000
3. Kill Bill Vol. 2 - $10,411,156 / $42,962,801 since opening
4. The Punisher - $6,100,000 / $24,000,000
5. Home on the Range - $3,470,000 / $42,455,000
6. Johnson Family Vacation - $3,150,000 / $25,095,162
7. Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed - $3,135,000 / $76,513,000
8. Hellboy - $3,000,000 / $54,691,000
9. Ella Enchanted - $2,709,487 / $17,220,887
10. Walking Tall - $2,650,000 / $40,520,000
25/04/04
The Day After Tomorrow pics:
Dark Horizons posted a bunch of
photos for the uber-disaster-flick The Day After Tomorrow. The movie stars Dennis Quaid, Jake "Donnie Darko" Gyllenhaal and is
directed by Roland "ID4" Emmerich. Click on the twister to see more.
© fox 2004
25/04/04
Bale talks Batman Begins!:
Christian Bale talks about Batman Begins! Here's what he had to say about the tone of the film:
"We're making a film based on a much loved graphic novel. I think to use the term 'comic book' really under values the source material!
It is a cross between Serpico and The French Connection mixed with a really fucking cool samurai, kung fu movie, and there's like some really strong 70s conspiracy movie vibes in their too! It is definitely not a Batman that you've seen on screen before."
Source: Filmrot
25/04/04
Man-Thing update:
Ian Bliss, one of the stars of the upcoming Man-Thing talked a bit about the Marvel movie:
"It sticks pretty close to the Marvel comic which was a rather cult comic. It's essentially about a swamp creature and stays quite true to the darkness of how it was drawn in the comic. I play an alligator hunter who patrols this big swamp with his brother. Jack Thompson is involved and he would be the highest profile actor in the piece. What they've done is not attach any name actors and filled it predominantly with Australians in an attempt to let the film work on it's own merit, to allow the film to be a bit darker and riskier than the bubble-gum comic book adaptations we've seen recently. They hope it works for the film but it could also work against it."
Yep, only time will tell but I think this could be a nice dark and scary flick. The movie stars Matthew Le Nevez, Rachel Taylor and
is directed by Brett Leonard (The Lawnmower man).
Source: Moviehole
23/04/04
Reggy's Kill Bill Volume 2 Review!!!:
I got the chance to visit the Kill Bill Marathon a couple a days ago in Utrecht's finest movie
theatre Rembrandt. It was an awesome night, the theatre was packed with fans and you can check out my review
for the wonderful Kill Bill Volume 2 by clicking on Uma!
© miramax
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DVD releases R1
Big Fish
The Cooler
Ghosts of the Abyss
Love Actually
DVD releases R2
Kill Bill
Master & Commander
Dark Blue
Love Actually
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