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11/09/03
Quote of the Day:
Seems that Jango Fett is back in Episode III. Actor Temuera Morrison (go see Once Were Warriors) told Stuff how they resurrected him:
"I know in episode two I died, but they cloned me. Of all the people in the world, they cloned a sheep and me."
11/09/03
Bruckheimer talks King Arthur!:
Latino Review had a nice chat with uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer. He talked about the upcoming Veronica Guerin, a sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean and revealed some great stuff about King Arthur:
"It's King Arthur, a retelling of the tale the legends came from. We've hired a number of historians that are working with us. They've spent much of their lives researching the Arthur legend. The first written word was written by a monk that called him the Duke of Battles, a Roman named Arturius. There was a very famous battle at the end of the fifth century where a Roman led the Britons and the Roman legions against the Saxons, who were trying to invade Britain. He beat them and kept beating them. He kept them pinned on the coast. That's why they became the Anglo-Saxon race and not just the Saxon race. The Saxon's were considered barbarian invaders, but the Romans had conquered the world and had their legions everywhere. We are basing it on the fact that he was a Roman commander. The knights were Saramathean's (sp?). There were all these Saramathean communities in Britain at the time. They had the great cavalry. They developed the stirrup. They had much more control of their horses."
10/09/03
New Posters:
Finally some new posters today to decorate the page. Check the out new Timeline and School of Rock poster below!
10/09/03
Banderas and Once Upon A Time In Mexico!:
Latino Review had the chance to talk to El Mariachi himself, Antonio Banderas, about the upcoming Once Upon A Time in Mexico. Antonio Banderas has worked with director Robert Rodriguez on several projects now, here's what he thinks of the director and if he's interested in another Desperado movie: "Like I said before, with Robert Rodriguez, I would follow him to hell. I don't care what part he offers me, I'm fine working for him, so I could do another film, but I don't think he wants to do any more sequels to Desperado. I think this film finishes the cycle. But you never know. If we open up with $60 million dollars, someone will say to him, "Please do another one!" I don't know what's going to happen but I think this is it."
Check out the rest of the interview here.
10/09/03
Indy IV Update:
Empire Online talked to producer Frank Marshall about Indiana Jones IV. He reveals that the new movie will rely more on practical effects than CGI: "One of the things I enjoy about these movies is that they do recall the old cliffhanger serials of the thirties and forties. We didn't have computer effects in those days, we couldn't easily erase things and I think one of the unfortunate by-products of the computer age is that it makes filmmakers lazy... In Raiders, that's a real ball rolling behind him so Harrison really is in some danger running in front of that; these are real situations and that adds to the excitement and the creative energy on the set. We're not done with the script on Indy 4 but I think we're going to try and rely, like the first two movies, on realism and not try to do too many things with the computer...When you start getting into computers you get fantastical situations like in the Matrix or movies like that. We don't want that, we want exciting heroism, we want seat-of-your-pants, skin-of-your-teeth action. We didn't have all the money in the world on the first films and we want to keep that B-Movie feel. We want to make Indy 4 like we made the first three."
10/09/03
Gothika Trailer:
Check out Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz and Robert Downey Jr. in the creepy Gothika trailer! Click here to enter the download site.
10/09/03
Cruise back in cockpit:
Tom Cruise is ready to fly again as a fighter pilot. It's not a Top Gun sequel but a movie written by Last Samurai screenwriter John Logan. The Few revolves around a RAF fighter pilot during World War II. Michael Mann will direct the movie for Paramount Pictures.
Source: Variety
09/09/03
Doc Ock Screen Captures:
Superhero Hype posted some screen captures from a Doc Ock scene in Spider-man 2! Click on the pic to see more!
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09/09/03
Casting news:
Some interesting casting developments today:
Val Kilmer joins the Alexander the Great project. Kilmer
will play King Philip, the father of Colin Farrell's Alexander and husband to Angelina Jolie's Queen Olympias.
Val Kilmer also worked with Alexander director Oliver Stone on The Doors movie. Saturday Night Live and Old School star Will Ferrell has joined the cast of
Woody Allen's untitled project. Dominic Purcell (John Doe TV series) will play opposite Wesley Snipes in
Goyer's Blade: Trinity (no, it's not Matrix related).
08/09/03
Robert Rodriguez interview:
Robert Rodriguez wanted to talk to me about his upcoming action epic Once Upon A Time In Mexico but I was to busy...but my compadres over at Latino Review had a nice long chat with the fantastic filmmaker! He talked about Johnny Depp's performance:
"Johnny just brings, you know, the thing about Johnny I guess this would say it all, we'd be on the set and he'd do a scene and I would be constantly checking the script and it's like, 'is that the line in the script?' It is the line in the script, but just the way he would say it I didn't recognise my own words. He would just make everything sound like it was flowing out and then he would paraphrase things or change a line or paraphrase it to make it sound more like the character he was building up which he wanted to be much whimpier sort of character."
Rodriguez had to concentrate on Spy Kids 3 after he shot Once Upon A Time In Mexico. He was able to finish the third El Mariachi movie a year and a half later: "It was wild. What was so cool about it though was that-I'm going to do that from now on 'cause it's so cool. It gives you a lot of distance from it, and you came back and the first thing I remembered is 'When did we shoot all this stuff?' I don't remember we shot it in seven weeks. Johnny Depp was on the set eight days that's how fast we shot this movie."
Check out the full amazing interview right here!
08/09/03
New Police Story:
I heard about this news a couple of weeks ago but it wasn't confirmed...until now! Man, I still remember when I bought my first imported Jackie Chan video Police Story and it made me a die hard Chan fan! He changed Hong Kong cinema with this masterpiece and set a new style. The third Police Story movie was released world wide as Supercop (introducing Michelle Yeoh) right after Chan's Box Office smash Rumble in the Bronx. And now Jackie Chan is going back to his roots with New Police Story. Director Benny Chan talked to Nanfang Daily: "It's a pretty simple story - like the other instalments - of good and bad. Nicholas Tse has been cast as a cop and Charlene Choi will play his girlfriend. The bad guys will be portrayed by Daniel Wu, Wang Chieh, Terence Yin and Andy On. The film will have little to no CGI effects, and be largely an hour and a half of hand to hand physical fights."
I can't wait to see this movie!
08/09/03
Alien DVD BOX:
DVD Answers got the details on the Alien Quadrilogy DVD box set! Four kick ass movies and lots of extras, check it out!
08/09/03
US Box Office Sept 5-7:
The Movie Summer Season is over, the top movies grossed under $10 million (too bad The Order arrived at number 6) but next week Once Upon a Time in Mexico will kick off the fall season!
The Top Ten:
1. Dickie Roberts - $7.0M
2. Jeepers Creepers 2 - $6.7M / $27.4M since opening
3. Pirates of the Caribbean - $5.5M / $282.0M
4. Freaky Friday - $5.1M / $97.2M
5. S.W.A.T. - $4.6M / $108.8M
6. The Order - $4.3M
7. Open Range - $4.0M / $49.1M
8. Seabiscuit - $3.7M / $109.6M
9. Freddy vs. Jason - $3.2M / $78.3M
10. Uptown Girls - $2.5M / $33.6M
06/09/03
Big Fish Poster:
The poster for Tim Burton's new flick Big Fish is now online. Click on the preview to see a bigger version!
06/09/03
The Aviator pic:
Check out the first pic of Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator. The cast also includes Alex Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale and Cate Blanchett. DiCaprio re-teams with Gangs of New York director Martin Scorsese.
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Bulletproof Monk
Chinese Box
Leon Superbit
Hook Superbit
Russian Ark
View From The Top
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28 Days Later
Little Buddha
Rage
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Death To Smoochy
Full Frontal
Juwanna Mann
Young Guns II
Adaptation
Feardotcom
Maid In Manhattan
The Ring
