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ARCHIVES WEEK 18 2005
05/05/05
Newsflash:
Hi guys, was a slow newsday yesterday but got lots of interesting headlines for today's update! I'll be back with the
latest movie news this weekend, enjoy:
 Lets start with sad news first, Fox Film Co-Chairman Tom Rothman announced that an AVP sequel is in the works; "We will do another one of those for sure. It was a big success. In the new Alien vs. Predator they will finally actually really come to our world." The previous Alien and Predator films were set in the future and the disappointing AVP film took place on a remote Antarctic location. The sequel will take place in our present world. I hope they'll make this one R-rated. Source: Sci-fi Wire
Fantastic new Superman Returns video journal is now up! The clip explains the effects for the flying sequences... man, I can't wait to see this film!
Fellow Dutchman Paul Verhoeven will bring Lawrence Taylor's novel A Trial of Generals to the big screen. The film will be titled Beast of Bataan and follows the war crimes trial of Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma at the end of WWII. Source: Variety
Chris Tucker is expected to sign a two-picture, $40 million contract at New Line. His next picture will be... yep, another Rush Hour flick! Rush Hour 3 is put on track for a late fall start in Los Angeles and Paris. Jackie Chan will also receive a $20 million paycheck for reprising the role of Chief Inspector Lee. Source: Variety
Nice looking new trailer for Rob Zombie's horror-road-flick The Devil's Rejects hit the web. Click here to go to the download page.
First trailer for Chan-Wook Park's third revenge film Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is now online! The Korean director previously made Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and last year's hit and my all time favorite flick Old Boy. Check out the trailer asap cause it will be online temporarily.
Former soccer star Vinnie Jones confirms that he will play villain Juggernaut in X-Men 3: "I have X-Men 3 to film and that will take six months or so, so I think I might be a bit busy. What's interesting about Juggernaut is that he's the brother of Professor X, and that's why I thought it would be interesting having an English thug opposite Patrick Stewart." Source: Coming Soon
Samuel L. Jackson will voice and produce the highly anticipated animated action-adventure Afro Samurai for Spike TV. The series revolves around a black samurai who is on a mission to avenge the death of his father. Source: Spike TV
The website for the action comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith starring Brad Pitt and girlfriend Angelina Jolie is now online. The Bourne Identity's Doug Liman directs, so this should be a cool flick. New pics also hit the web, click for more!
© fox 2005
05/05/05
Faces of Death film?!:
AICN received some juicy news about a Faces of Death film!
The film is based on the cult video tapes back in the 80's, which captured horrible death sequences.
"Yes, we're in the process of putting together a commercial horror film based on the videotapes FACES OF DEATH," says producer Don Murphy, "Our model will be what they did with the new Chainsaw, only with an original plot, since the tapes didn't really have any. A young, sexy group of kids have to figure out why all these strange deaths are happening in their small town, and they link them back to the original tapes. We'll redo some of the sequences from the original - electrocutions, autopsies, on air suicide, alligators tearing folks apart - scary stuff."
05/05/05
Zorro Returns!!!:
Fantastic new trailer for The Legend of Zorro is online right here.
Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are back with Martin Campbell in the director's chair.
Two character posters are also available, click for larger versions!
05/05/05
Superhero film update!:
Marvel chief Avi Arad confirmed that the next superhero flick after Fantastic Four will be The Silver Surfer; "We're just starting, and we are very excited. We are finishing Fantastic Four, and the next thing we'll go on our way to Silver Surfer."
"I think the tricky thing on Silver Surfer, which hasn't been resolved yet," adds Fox Co-Chairman Tom Rothman, "Is the nature of the Surfer and to what extent digital work is used and to what extent it isn't. The digital component is the fundamental component that needs to be resolved, but it's a project that we're very very high on."
Spider-Man director Sam Raimi reveals that Sony Pictures plans to make six Spider-man films!
Source: Sci-fi Wire
05/05/05
John Carpenter talks The Fog remake!:
Hehe, I love this interview. John Carpenter talked to Coming Soon about the remake of his classic horror film The Fog.
Tom Welling, Maggie Grace and Selma Blair stars, John Carpenter will only act as producer. Here's what he had to say about remaking his film:
"If everybody else is making remakes and they want to pay me money to make a remake of an old movie of mine why not? It's a good idea. Seriously that's part of the answer, but my ex-partner, Debra Hill, who just recently died, had been trying to get this off the ground. We hooked up with David Foster here who did finally get it off the ground and it was kind of nice for her to see this being made.
The styles are different. The actors are different. The director is different. It's essentially the same story with some basic changes in it. Its fog, ghosts.
I'm just a producer on this. I just sit home and watch basketball games on TV. These guys go out and make this movie. It's designed to be a PG-13 film. Horror has really changed a lot. It used to be a lot much more hard core. Today it's drifting towards PG-13 and you know getting girls in and girls don't like yucky stuff, you know what I mean."
Well, you can't blame him for being honest! Check out the link above for the rest of the interview.
05/05/05
MTV Movie Awards 2005:
The 2005 MTV Movie Awards, hosted by Jimmy Fallon will air on Thursday, June 9! Click here for
the entire list of categories and nominees. Below my favorite catagories:
BEST ACTION SEQUENCE
Destruction of Los Angeles - The Day After Tomorrow
The Subway Battle - Spider-Man 2
Beverly Hills Plane Crash - The Aviator
The Moscow Car Chase - The Bourne Supremacy
The Desert Terrorist Assault - Team America: World Police
BEST FIGHT
The Battle of the News Teams - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Daryl Hannah vs. Uma Thurman - Kill Bill Vol. 2
Brad Pitt vs. Eric Bana - Troy
Ziyi Zhang vs. The Emperor's Guards - House of Flying Daggers
03/05/05
Matthew Vaughn on X-Men 3:
Director Matthew Vaughn caught up with About.com and talked about his take on the third X-Men film.
Vaughn plans to put his stamp on the second sequel:
"I think fantasy should all be based in reality, and then it becomes believable. You have to be able to relate to the characters. X-men was pretty good because you saw the flaws and the conflict that they're going through, but I think that conflict needs to be expanded on. I wanted the villains to be less cartoony. At the moment, I think a lot of moustache twirling happened in the last films. I want to get rid of that and make the villains really scary and more realistic."
The director wants to give the film a gritty look and avoid CGI as much as possible: "Gritty doesn't mean violent. I liked how Joss Whedon dealt with everything. That's more of my sentiment. I hate CGI. I'm trying to do everything in camera. Listen, there are times you have to use CGI, but I want to do as much in camera as possible."
He also reveals his thoughts on the comic's fans critique of X-Men 3: "Fine, let them hate it. As long as I don't have to sit down in a room with them, it doesn't bother me. You can't please everyone. If you start making a movie thinking, 'Well, I've got to please this…' If you make a good movie, that's all that matters. The comic book fans can read the comics and be happy with the comics. If they don't like it, don't go watch it. Veto the movie. But if you like it, support it."
Ouch, Matt, you have to be careful with this stuff, handle the fans with care, cause they can make or break the film.
03/05/05
Legolas talks Pirates Of The Caribbean sequels:
Orlando Bloom talked about his role as Will Turner in the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean sequels:
"Going back to it has been just a lot of fun. I'm trying to recapture the same character and let him develop in ways that are interesting. We're not just trying to rehash the same old thing.
Obviously at the end of the first movie you see him in the clutches of Elizabeth. But the course of true love never runs smooth in love in life, does it? So a few things come up and he goes off on another journey to save Elizabeth and the lives of everybody else. But I think he's going to assume more of the pirate's role and and by the end of the third movie there's a few dark twists to the character of Will Turner and I think people are going to wonder what his motives are and what he's all about."
Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley are also back for the sequels, new cast members include Stellan Skarsgard and Keith Richards as Jack Sparrow's dad. Gore Verbinski directs the Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 and 3.
Source: Empire online
02/05/05
Casting update:
Justin Timberlake joins Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas and Eddie Murphy in Shrek 3. Timberlake will voice a young King Arthur. Source: USA Today
Meryl Streep has signed on to star in the comedy The Devil Wears Prada. David Frankel is directing the film that is based on Lauren Weisberger's bestselling novel. Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Crispin Glover and Michael Paloma will star in the independent horror film Simon Says. Harry and the Hendersons' William Dear will direct the story that revolves around a group of beautiful teenagers who are isolated and killed off one by one. Source: Variety
02/05/05
U.S. Box Office Apr 29 - May 1:
Sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy entered the top spot, earning $21 million! Other newcomer
XXX: State of the Union, debuting at number 3, did less then expected. Here's the rest of the Top Ten:
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - $21,707,000
2. The Interpreter - $14,248,000 / $43,567,000
3. XXX: State of the Union - $13,700,000
4. The Amityville Horror - $8,100,000 / $55,055,000
5. Sahara - $6,000,000 / $57,177,000
6. A Lot Like Love - $5,221,000 / $14,698,000
7. Kung Fu Hustle - $3,837,000 / $13,173,000
8. Fever Pitch - $3,750,000 / $36,535,000
9. Robots - $2,650,000 / $123,680,000
10. Guess Who - $2,200,000 / $65,483,000
02/05/05
Peter Jackson talks King Kong!!!:
Peter Jackson spills the beans during an interview with Three Monkeys Online about his upcoming King Kong remake! Here's what he
says about his first contact with the giant ape and how he approaches the material for the remake:
"When I saw King Kong, when I was nine years old, it did make me want to become a film maker. I think the original Kong is a wonderful blend - possibly the most perfect blend - of escapism and adventure and mystery and romance. It transports you and takes you places that you are never going to see and experiences that you are never going to have and it has that wonderful mixture of emotion and fantasy. I want to try to do a version of Kong that basically catches the wonderful, mysterious adventure. With modern technology and computers you can obviously do an incredibly photo-realistic gorilla. Take all the elements of the story...Kong fighting dinosaurs on the island, Kong taking Ann up the Empire State Building and the biplanes and all that stuff...and imagine it being very realistic! It's exciting just to think about that. So that's a reason to do it."
Jackson made some changes for his version and developed a whole slew of new characters:
"We wanted to develop more of the ship's crew and the filming crew who are on the island to make a movie, so that we got to meet more people. It's always a good idea if you are going to kill them off too. We realised that we had a lot of dino fodder to deal with here. We are going to have a lot of these people get eaten and die horrible deaths during the course of the event and it's always more powerful if you get to know somebody before you bump them off. "
Here's what he said about creating the new Kong:
"We are really taking a bull gorilla, a Silverback, and making him look very ancient. I wanted Kong to look old because he has been around for a while. I wanted him to look pretty battle scarred, so we are giving him some very distinctive scarring where Tyrannosauruses have raked their claws across him.
I wanted him to be very frightening. think that's a much more interesting thing to do with the character. When you start with the most terrifying, vicious looking gorilla you can imagine and then you start to reveal his heart, you start to peel the layers away and you start to see his soul and his heart. He is the furthest thing away from cute that you could imagine and I think that's the more interesting approach to take. So he's frightening."
Click on the above link to read the rest of the interview!
02/05/05
Newsflash:
Incredible Revenge of the Sith music video, entitled A Hero Falls, including new footage combined with John Williams' score is now online! Click on the link to download!
Nice looking poster for Jodie Foster's thriller Flightplan also hit the web, click for a larger version.
© touchstone 2005
30/04/05
Newsflash:
Mos Def joins Bruce Willis in Richard Donner's cop thriller 16 Blocks. Source: Variety
New Ghost Rider set pics are online at Superhero Hype! The site received exclusive images of the Hell Cycle. The movie stars Nicolas Cage and is directed by Mark Steven Johnson. Click on the link to check out the pics.
Moviefone posted exclusive clips for Will Ferrell's comedy Kicking and Screaming, Monster in Law with Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez and the've also got the first trailer of Robert Rodriguez' 3-D kids flick The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl!
Other Robert Rodriguez news, The Arnoldfans.com confirms that the director will replace John Milius to helm a new Conan film: "We also learned Milius and company were clearing out there desks! They are leaving WB once and for all. John Milius had a 5 year contract to be on the WB lot, however, after WB gave Conan away to Rodriguez, they decided they did not need Milius and kicked him off the lot without renewing his contract." Sad but true, folks....
IESB.net received some more details about the Transformers film! Michael Bay confirms he'll direct Transformers and that it's on fast pace with plenty of prep work currently being done. Shooting will start in December, the script hasn't been finished yet.
30/04/05
New posters!:
Two new posters hit the web today! First, Steve Martin's Shopgirl, also starring Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman. The film is based on
Steve Martin's best-selling novella.
Second cool poster is for Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning and Tim Robbins. Click on the pics for larger versions.
30/04/05
George Lucas talks Indy IV!!!:
George Lucas talked to Hollywood.com about his upcoming projects.
One of them will be a WWII flick:
"I'm producing a film that I've been sort of working on for 15 years, and it's time I finished it. It's about African-American fighter pilots during World War II. I'll be producing, and hopefully we're going to do it sooner than later. As I said, it's been going for a long, long time. I've still got to get a script out of it."
So what about Indiana Jones IV? Here's what he had to say:
"I talked to Steven while I was in Hawaii, and he said the script is done and he was going to send it to me when I got back, which was yesterday. It isn't on my desk today and he's coming up tomorrow to see Star Wars, so I assume he'll bring it with him.
I came up with this idea doing Young Indy, which has got to be about seven or eight years ago, and we've been through a number of scripts--six or eight scripts. Six scripts, two rewrites. So it's been down the path. There were certain aspects of it that Steven and Harrison [Ford] didn't like, and so we changed those, and then we laid out a version and it didn't come out the way it was supposed to, and then we did another version and it didn't come out, so we've just been going through this development hell, which happens once in a while. We'll see. When it comes out, it'll be different. Different, but the same."
There are rumours that a younger person will be introduced to replace Indy. "It's possible, not really to take over," Lucas explains, "No, it wasn't meant to be that way. But I guess that's a possibility. It's really to wrap it up. Just desperately trying to put things together that work. You need characters to make the film work. It's not just an adventure story. There's actually got to be human relationships in it."
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