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ARCHIVES WEEK 45 2004
04/11/04
Bay's The Island details:
Detroit Free Press posted the latest
news about Michael Bay's sci-fi thriller The Island. The movie about a clone-on-the-run, stars Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou and Steve Buscemi.
Bay is shooting on location in Detroit, here's what the paper posted:
The epicenter of shooting is West Fort Street between Washington Boulevard and Griswold Street. On Monday, director Michael Bay ("Pearl Harbor," "Armageddon") and his crew are scheduled to begin filming an elaborate, big-budget car chase there, with plenty of crashes and possibly a few explosions.
But this week, you can see the emergence of a new cityscape. A 14-person crew from Los Angeles has installed the subway entrance, a taxi stand, a giant sign covering the front of the Comerica branch building at Shelby Street and West Fort and an enormous steel truss spanning all six lanes of West Fort that soon will carry signs directing drivers to the Hollywood and Pasadena freeways, among others.
Bet this will be a kick-ass flick! The movie is scheduled for a summer 2005 release.
Well, guys, this is it for the week. I'm planning to work on a screenplay the next few days but I'll be back with a news update this saturday! Enjoy your weekend!
Source: Coming Soon
04/11/04
Alien versus Predator versus Reggy:
Alien versus Predator has finally been released in The Netherlands. Was the wait worth it? Find out and click
on the pic for Reggy's AVP Review!
© fox 2004
03/11/04
Sammo Hung vs. Donnie Yen:
Kung-fu Cinema posted a bunch of action-packed pics of
Sha Po Lang. Donnie Yen (Hero) plays a cop hunting down a hitman but runs into a crime boss played by Sammo Hung (Martial Law), resulting in a battle of screen legends!
Yen is the action-director of the story-driven martial arts film and combines wushu with elements of jujitsu and wrestling. Click on the pic
for more.
© donnieyen.net 2004
03/11/04
Newsflash:
 Training Day screenplaywriter David Ayer will make his directorial debut with Harsh Times. Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez will star in the film that is described as a West Coast version of Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets. Source: Production Weekly
New poster for Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby is online. Director Eastwood also stars in the boxing drama, other castmembers include Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank. Click on the pic for a larger version.
© wb 2004
02/11/04
Alan Silvestri talks The Polar Express!!!:
Filmscore composer Alan Silvestri and multi-Grammy winning producer and songwriter Glen Ballard talked about writing the music for Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express. Alan Silvestri also wrote
the music for Zemeckis' Back To The Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Forest Gump.
"Of course Alan and Robert had worked extensively together," explains Ballard, "which turned out to be a great advantage for me, since I was able to plug right into an existing creative relationship. But the real luxury was being involved in the project almost from the inception."
"I've done eleven films with Bob and this one was unique in that we began thinking about the music even before the script was finished," adds Silvestri. "It was a very fluid process, which mirrored the process of developing a whole film from a very slim children's book. Bob had created almost a stream-of-consciousness story treatment, but if there's one thing I've learned from working with him over the years it's that even when it seems like he's just brainstorming, he's really telling you exactly what he wants. At one point he suggested that maybe we should have a song about hot chocolate, so we went off and wrote 'Hot Chocolate.' The work was very intuitive, but at the same time very focused."
The composers also managed to get the star of the movie to sing. "We wrote two songs, the title track and 'Hot Chocolate' which were sung by Tom Hanks, who stars in the film," explains Ballard, "and Steven Tyler agreed to perform 'Rockin' On Top Of The World'. It just doesn't get any better than that."
Source: WB
02/11/04
Tarantino's goes Hong Kong:
Nope, not Inglorious Bastards or Casino Royale but a "Kung-fu Flick" will be Quentin Tarantino's next project:
"Inglorious Bastards, Not yet, Man. My next movie is gonna be another kung fu that's gonna blow your asses off. Everyone still thinks I'm doing Bastard's next, but before I do that I want to do something much smaller.
The next movie will be in Mandarin! I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill, so much so that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin. If you're not up to watching it with subtitles I really want to do a full-on dubbed version. Maybe shooting two Kill Bill movies has spoiled me but f&*k it - sue me!"
That's awesome, I wonder who will be the fight choreographer, Yuen Woo-Ping perhaps?
Source: Total Film
02/11/04
Fantastic Four concept art:
IESB posted some incredible concept designs
for the upcoming Fantastic Four film. Click on the painting for more!
02/11/04
Pierce Brosnan talks James Bond:
Pierce Brosnan thinks that Irishman Colin Farrell (Tigerland) would be perfect as James Bond:
"He had a presence: Face, body, voice, the eyes. He would make a good one. He'll eat the head off them all."
The actor also revealed that he is discussing a possible collaboration with director Quentin Tarantino. The director considers to
bring the Bond novel Casino Royale to the big screen.
Source: Associated Press
02/11/04
Zack Snyder talks 300!!!:
This is amazing, Dawn of the Dead (2004) director Zack Snyder talked about his next project, 300, which
is based on Frank Miller's comic:
"I'm really excited about 300. I was just on the phone with Frank [Miller] yesterday talking about the script that my partner, Kurt Johnstad, and I wrote. We got his take on it because we are doing a rewrite. The script is based almost exactly on the comic book, and all we did was add a second story with King Leonidas' wife trying to rally the troops to support her husband. We wanted a little more girl-power in the movie. We are about to shoot a test for Warner Bros because they want to see how the comic book comes to life and what it looks like."
Source: UGO
01/11/04
U.S. Box Office Oct 29-31:
Horror flick The Grudge held on to the top spot for a second week, earning $22 million! Jamie Foxx's Ray also did a
wonderful job, debuting at number 2! Here's the rest of the Top Ten:
1. The Grudge - $22,400,000 / $71,267,000 since opening
2. Ray - $20,110,000
3. Saw - $17,400,000
4. Shark Tale - $8,000,000 / $147,357,000
5. Shal We Dance? - $6,285,000 / $33,939,000
6. Friday Night Lights - $4,131,000 / $52,990,000
7. Ladder 49 - $3,330,000 / $66,198,000
8. Team America: World Police - $3,100,000 / $27,261,000
9. Surviving Christmas - $2,600,000 / $8,145,000
10. Taxi - $2,150,000 / $32,744,000
01/11/04
Another Fantastic Four clip:
Another Fantastic Four clip appeared online! This time you get to see some concept art and a glimpse of Julian McMahon as Dr. Doom.
The rest of the cast includes Michael Chiklis, Iaon Gruffudd, Chris Evans and Jessica Alba. Barbershop's Tim Story directs. Hit the
pic to download the clip!
© fox 2004
30/10/04
Seven Swords:
Wu-jing posted a
fantastic report about Tsui Hark's latest swordsplay epic Seven Swords. The Hong Kong director/producer brought us classics like Legend of Zu and the Once Upon a Time in China films.
Tsui Hark intends to make Seven Swords China's answer to Lord of the Rings trilogy. A total of 6 movies will be made because of the scope of the novel. Cast includes Leon Lai, Kim So Yeon and Donnie Yen:
"The fights are very complicated, and that his swordplay would break away from the past mould, would be a breakthrough, is very fast, yet gives a special feeling."
Click on the above link for more production details, click on the photo for more pics.
© Mandarin 2004
30/10/04
Revenge of the Sith teaser poster:
Starwars.com revealed the teaser poster for Star Wars Episode III:
"Like the teaser posters for The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, this one features Anakin Skywalker. Hayden Christensen is depicted as the heroic Jedi warrior, with the encroaching dark cloud of his future represented by his flowing cloak hinting at the Dark Lord to come. It is a darker incarnation of the shadow that followed him as a young boy in the Episode I teaser poster, with the terrifying features of Darth Vader more visible than ever before."
I kinda like it, sort a... but I don't know, what do you think? Click on the pic for a closer look.
© lucasfilms 2004
30/10/04
Casting update:
Here's a quick overview of the latest casting developments:
Thora Birch (American Beauty) will star opposite Harry Connick Jr. in the romantic film Boomerang Deal. Source: Production Weekly
Mark Ruffalo plays the killer Perry Smith in Every Word Is True. Doug McGrath (Nicholas Nickleby) directs, the rest of the cast includes Sandra Bullock and Gwyneth Paltrow. Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup have joined Julianne Moore and David Duchovny in the romantic comedy Trust the Man. Source: Variety
30/10/04
Hannibal returns!!!:
Dino DeLaurentiis Company owns to film rights to the new Hannibal novel; Behind the Mask. The company also
produced Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. All films were based on Thomas Harris' novels about the dangerous maneater. Behind the Mask will
reveal how Dr. Lecter developed his particular appetite for evil. The book is scheduled for release next Fall.
30/10/04
Newsflash:
Crazy trailer for Racing Stripes is now online. Cast includes Frankie Muniz, Dustin Hoffman, Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Pantoliano, Mandy Moore, Patrick Stewart, Steve Harvey, David Spade, Michael Clarke Duncan and Jeff Foxworthy. Love the flies, check it out right here.
Check out the not so funny poster for Adam Sandler's latest comedy Spanglish. I really don't like it, click on the pic for a closer look.
© columbia 2004
23/10/04
Fantastic Four behind the scenes clip:
The hits on the this file are just awesome, so I decided to leave it on the mainpage for another week!
Click on Ben Grimm a.k.a. The Thing to download an incredible Fantastic Four behind the scenes clip including some stuntwork and interviews with the cast.
UPDATED 08/11/04: Sorry, guys, the clip is temporarily offline.
© et 2004 - click right and save target!
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