Comic-Con 2008: “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” Extended Trailer July 25, 2008 11:55 pm
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The 4-minute clip of Star Wars: The Clone Wars was that screened at Comic-Con today is now available to view online. Watch it in HD at this link.
Comic-Con 2008: “The Spirit” Panel July 25, 2008 11:34 pm
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At the panel today for The Spirit, director Frank Miller opened the proceedings, recalling the story of his long-running friendship with Will Eisner. Highlights from the panel follow below courtesy ComingSoon.net:
- Miller was joined by producer Deborah Del Prete, who talked about Miller’s vision of the project, saying The Spirit captured Eisner’s original intent if not matching the look exactly.
- A trailer, the one already released, was screened for the audience.
- Jackson joked with the audience about playing Nick Fury: “You know, when I was a kid,” he said, deadpan serious, “Nick Fury was a white man. I’m so glad he evolved into something that finally made sense to me.” “But don’t worry!” he promised, “You, too, can grow up to be a black man!”
Jaime King and Gabriel Macht joined the stage and the first bit of all-new footage was screened. Here’s the summary:
This bit showed Eva Mendes as Sand Saref in a skin-tight wetsuit. She battles with the Octopus on the edge of the water and then dives underneath where she and a diver are trying to retrieve a sunken chest. They dodge bullets from the Octopus’ gun, though the diver is clipped in the arm. With the Octopus jumping in the water after them, the two swim and come to the surface inside some kind of darkened building. The diver says to Mendes, “It’s the Octopus. You know what he can do.”
She replies, “Shut up and bleed.”
Back to the panel highlights:
- After the clip, Miller explained to the crowd that the scene was shot with a new kind of camera that allows for enough frames per-second to simulate the floating-effect of hair in water. Miller told Mendes to “act like the Flash” so that her movements could be slowed down later.
- Miller, speaking about the basic plot of the film as summarized by CS: Miller talked a bit about the basic plot of the film; Police officer Denny Colt is nearly killed by a bullet wound but awakens to find himself in “a new reality,” able to do things he couldn’t before. In addition to incredible endurance, Colt’s pheromones have been altered, causing mutual attraction between himself and any woman he meets. “A major part of the story is how tough he is and why’s he’s so tough,” offered Miller.
New clip:
Miller showed a clip of The Spirit with Sarah Paulson’s Ellen Dolan in an office. She comes on to him, telling him, “Keep the mask on. Something tells me it might be better that way.”
Ellen tells the Spirit, “But we don’t even know your real name.”
To that he responds, “I’ll tell you my real name,” just as a Detective shows up with an new assignment and a heavily Baltimore-accented sexy assistant. After they all leave together, Dolan furiously throws a scalpel into their exit door.
And one last clip:
The final clip features the Octopus battling the Spirit in sewage. Jackson hits him with a severed head, a cinderblock and then a giant wrench. The Spirit seems to get the upper for the moment, beating the Octopus into the brown water when the villain pops up again from out of nowhere and slams a toilet down on his foe. With the ring of the seat, stuck around the Spirit, the Octopus laughs uproariously.
Comic-Con 2008: CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory” Panel July 25, 2008 11:13 pm
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At the panel for the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory, Chuck Lorre, co-creator Bill Prady and the entire cast (Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar) were in attendance. Here are the highlights courtesy TV Squad:
- Lorre says that he never intended to make a show about nerds and geeks, but that his main intention was to air a show about remarkable people.
- All the backgrounds of the major characters will be explored more fully in the upcoming season.
- There will be some form of resolution in the Leonard and Penny situation that took place at the end of the first season.
- Sara Gilbert will be returning for several episodes.
- The cast said that they all receive complaints if they get something scientifically wrong, however they have a consultant that fact checks for them.
- The characters on the show are all based on people Bill used to work with when he was a computer programmer.
- There was a previous pilot for the show created for CBS, but according to Lorne “it sucked.” Because of the strong chemistry between Johnny and Jim, CBS gave them blessings for a re-shoot.
More from the panel, including what if anything makes the cast and crew a geek, can be read at TV Squad.
Comic-Con 2008: Joss Whedon and “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” July 25, 2008 11:02 pm
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Joss Whedon had a panel today at Comic-Con discussing his upcoming and current projects, including Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Here are the highlights courtesy TV Squad:
- Joss mentioned that more Serenity comics are on the way
- He was joined on stage by ‘Dr. Horrible‘ writers: Jed and Zach Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen. Then the cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day and Simon Helberg.
- It was revealed that there will be another part to Dr. Horrible. No specific details were revealed though.
- Fillion revealed that the remote control shown on the iPhone that Dr. Horrible uses is just a website: www.thesoftwire.com/horrible_remote.
Much more, which I haven’t included due to spoilers, at this link.
And here’s a bit more from /Film‘s report:
About the upcomining DVD release, Whedon said:
There is some excitement about a DVD possibility…You’ve probably heard about “Commentary: The Musical”…there are songs written for it. We are also going to have a little contest. We are going to take video submissions for the Evil League of Evil. No longer than 3 minutes, like you’re applying to be on Survivor of something. We’ll put the 10 best ones on the DVD. That’s something we’re going to do after the soundtrack etc.
Comic-Con 2008: “The Wolfman” Panel July 25, 2008 10:59 pm
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Universal had their panel today for The Wolfman and the studio had Rick Baker and surprise guests Benicio Del Toro and Emily Booth on hand. Here are the highlights from the panel courtesy ShockTillYouDrop.com:
- They showed the trailer, STYD calls it “INCREDIBLE”, “Beautiful”: Very much in keeping with the old school Universal classic monster aesthetic. This puppy looks rated-R! There’s no shortage of torn throats, biting and exposed entrails! The teaser trailer is thick with atmosphere featuring a silhouette of the Wolfman running through a misty forest. We don’t get any close-ups of the hirsute beast, but we get shots of his legs (think The Howling) and clawed hands. He runs with a hunch, hands at his side.
- Baker says that they haven’t filmed a transformation so it will likely be CGI. He added that the film fully embraces practical FX and the trailer is indicative of that.
Here’s /Film’s summary of the trailer:
The footage began with the Universal Logo. Cut to a guy walking through the woods. He comes across something, scared, he drops his lantern and runs away. Voice over states “25 years ago my father found him”.
“He was tore to pieces and half eaten. Whatever did it was big, had claws” Village people see something and run away. We see a bottom shot of the Wolfman transforming in the dark woods, just a little back light. People are chasing after him with guns. “and we couldn’t kill it.” Shots of someone casting silver bullets. “He only came out during a full moon from then on.”
Lawrence Talbot, played by Benicio Del Toro returns home to his father Sir John, played by Anthony Hopkins. “Hello father…” A lot of quick cuts. Title credits showing Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving’s characters. Blunt runs away from a house on fire. Someone gets pulled into a pit by the wolf man and is torn apart, blood spraying everywhere. Del Toro finds himself in ripped and bloodied clothes. Hopkins says to him, “You’ve done terrible things… Be strong.” Another bunch of quick cuts, the Wolfman throws someone through a window. A bunch of footage of The Wolfman running around. “I am what they say I am, I’m a monster.” And the trailer ended with Weaving declaring “God Help Us!
Comic-Con 2008: “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” July 25, 2008 10:51 pm
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Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner spoke to Con-goers today in San Diego about the movie based on the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time game. Here are the highlights courtesy ComingSoon.net:
- Mechner told CS that at a time he was mulling over an animated feature film of the property, but when Disney/Bruckheimer expressed interest in a big budget summer film, the offer was “too hard to resist”.
- Mechner, who wrote the screenplay and is an executive producer for the film said that character development was a key for the movie: “You want to be taken on an emotional journey,” he said. “You want to care about the characters.”
- He said it wasn’t practical for the film for the Prince to remain nameless. His name, Dastan, was chosen because it is the Persian word for ‘trickster’.
- The script is based soley on the Sands of Time game.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time hits theaters on June 19, 2009.
Comic-Con 2008: “Resident Evil: Degeneration” Trailer July 25, 2008 10:44 pm
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Sony Pictures has unveiled the full trailer for their upcoming CG-animated Resident Evil: Degeneration DVD. Watch it in HD at this link, or watch it embedded after the jump.
Comic-Con 2008: NBC’s Videos of the “Knight Rider” and “Kings” Panels July 25, 2008 10:39 pm
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NBC has put up videos of today’s panels for Kings and Knight Rider. Check them out at the links below.
They’ve also put up a new video preview for Knight Rider, which you can check out at this link.
Comic-Con 2008: “Watchmen” Panel July 25, 2008 10:33 pm
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Warner Bros. panel for Watchmen was moderated by Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly. In attendance were Malin Ackerman (Silk Spectre), , Billy Crudup (Dr. Manhattan), Matthew Goode (Ozymandias), Carla Gugino (Sally Jupiter), Jackie Earle Haley (Rorschach), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Comedian), Patrick Wilson (Night Owl). Co-creator of the graphic novel Dave Gibbons was also in attendance as was director Zack Snyder. Here are the panel highlights courtesy. Here are the panel highlights courtesy SuperHeroHype.com:
- Before the panel starts, SHH notes that they were told by Carla Gugino that Zack Snyder created a special title sequence for the start of the movie that’s not in the original Moore-Gibbons graphic novel. It was created to show the passage of time fromthe early days of the Minutemen to where they are in the film.
- Snyder recapped how the project came to be. He was contacted by WB. He felt that if he didn’t say yes, the project would ahve been done poorly by someone else.
- He says the cast and crew have all remained as consistent to the book and characters as possible.
- Gibbons talked about being on the set and was excited: It was like “being a kid at Christmas”.
- Asked about Alan Moore (who is notoriously against any of his material being translated to the big screen), Gibons said: “I wish that Alan could have the same sort of excitement and experience that I have.”
They screened a few clips, here are SHH’s summary of what was shown:
Okay, no full frontal nudity, but it starts with Manhattan blowing up guys in Vietnam as promised, really blowing them up into atoms. That’s followed by an image of the Comedian’s smiley face with a drop of blood splattered on it like the classic image from the comics. We see Rorschach walking into a room, which is the Comedian’s lair and we get to see the first images of the ink on his mask changing shapes. Next image is of Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg (aka Night Owl but out of costume) sitting down with a lot of angst on his face (probably after finding out about the first deaths?) There is a scene with the Minutemen from the ’50s with the Comedian and Sally Jupiter in their early guises.
We see the formation of the palace on Mars which looks pretty amazing since it’s extended from the trailer, as well as an image of a watch as we see the early stages of Dr. Manhattan’s transformation. Another shot of the modern Silk Spectre unveiling the Owl Ship, pulling the covering from it. Lots more images of clocks and watches and more of Dr. Manhattan’s transformation, again from the trailer.
The next image was really cool, showing Nite Owl and Silk Spectre kissing from the dream sequence with the nuclear mushroom in the background… very cool, as well as a shot of President Nixon, The Comedian being slashed by his Vietnamese girlfriend/wife. A little bit of Matthew Goode’s Ozymandias, and some of Silk Spectre and Night Owl fighting crime. At this point, there are a lot of images that went by very fast, but essentially, it’s all stuff that’s in the comics with little bits of each of the characters. Rorshach looks very cool, though we never see him unmasked. There was no actual dialogue or narration in the clip reel as well as no titles, just some great scoring presumably by Tyler Bates and it all ends with the sequence of the Comedian being thrown out the window with the blood-splattered smiley face button following him, which looks amazing, just like the graphic novel. It looks great and hopefully they’ll shot it again!! (We love Zack for doing that for 300 a couple years ago.
Back to panel highlights:
- Asked about whether the movie will be as dark as the book, Snyder said that is a reflection on “all of us” and that the movie is about “what is darkness?”.
- Snyder said that they tried to incorporate all the supplemental material with no images into the movie.
- Here’s what Jeffrey Dean Morgan had to say about playing the Comdian:”There were days that I got home from work and I’d be in a daze. He does some particular things that I wouldn’t naturally do as a person, but like Dan’s character, we all pull for the Comedian.” (big laugh) “Every day was a challenge. I found getting into the costume and putting a cigar in my mouth helped get me into the mood to kill people.”
- The Smashing Pumpkins song used over the clip reel was chosen because tonally it made sense but also that it had irony. It doesn’t think it’ll be included the movie’s soundtrack though.
ComingSoon.net/SuperHeroHype.com also had a chance to talk to several of the cast and crew from the film and have provided the interviews for download. I’ve included the direct links below.
Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino & Malin Akerman
Jackie Earle Haley & Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Click here for another report from the panel (via /Film).
Comic-Con 2008: Marvel Panel July 25, 2008 10:10 pm
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Marvel’s panel today at Comic-Con featured Kevin Feige From Marvel Studios, Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada and Dan Buckley from Marvel Publishing and Craig Kyle from Marvel Animation. Here are the highlights courtesy ComingSoon.net:
- Kevin Feige said that the goal is to hire filmakers and get scripts in before casting their upcoming movies.
- Feige also said that The Incredible Hulk lived up to their expectations and that the Hulk will make a return.
- Marvel doesn’t believe they’ll ever get certain other characters back due to specific contractual obligations (i.e. it’s not likely Sony and Fox would let go of Spider-Man or X-Men).
- Thor and Ant-Man are their two highest priorities over the coming year.
- Feige wasn’t able to comment about whether Jon Favreau was officially signed on to direct Iron Man 2.
- Dr. Doom won’t be in the Avengers movie because he’s part of the 20th Century Fox contract with Marvel. He wouldn’t comment about whether he’d be apart of a future sequel.
- He confirmed that a script exists for a Silver Surfer movie, but Feige said he believes Fox is going to wait and see how X-Men Origins: Wolverine does before commiting.
- Marvel has no plans to license out any other characters that haven’t already been licensed out.
“Flashpoint” Premieres In New Timeslot With Solid Results July 25, 2008 3:53 pm
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Flashpoint, the CBS series which switched timeslots with Swingtown, premiered in its new timeslot last night and drew okay ratings, improving upon its last Friday episode by 13% among the key A18-49 demographic. The series drew the following ratings: 4.5/8 HH rating/share, 6.73M viewers and a 1.7/5 A18-49 rating/share.
It was off slightly among households and viewers from its last episode (-2% among HH, -5% among viewers), but the growth among A18-49 is a key improvement, and is just 11% off from its series premiere rating in the demo (1.9).
It also was strong enough to post a first place finish in the timeslot across all three categories and improved upon last week’s timeslot occupant Swingtown by 15% among households, 27% among viewers and 6% among adults 18-49. Additionally, its retention from its lead-in was much stronger at 92% among households, 91% among viewers and 106% (or +6%) among adults 18-49 (compared to 65/60/84 for Swingtown last week), indicating that its a much better fit out of CSI, than was Swingtown. Though, that’s not all that surprising really.
Swingtown premieres in its new timeslot this evening. Be sure to check back in the future for my analysis of its ratings (Update: My post analysing Swingtown’s first Friday night ratings has been posted. Read it at this link).
DVD Giveaway: Win “Girlfriends: Season Four” on DVD! July 25, 2008 3:03 pm
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The hit, award-winning comedy series GIRLFRIENDS returns to DVD on July 29th in a 3-disc set of THE FOURTH SEASON. This DVD includes all 23 smart and sexy fourth season episodes featuring the intertwining lives of four young, sophisticated African American women living and working in Los Angeles. Pick It Up Now. I’ll be giving away several copies of the set, so click through the jump for the dtails on how to enter the contest.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Thursday, July 24, 2008 July 25, 2008 2:52 pm
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Comic-Con 2008: “Mirrors” Red-Band Featurette + MPAA Rejected Posters July 25, 2008 2:12 pm
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20th Century Fox has released a new red-band featurette for Alex Aja’s Mirrors which has the director talking about the making of the “signature” jaw-rip scene. Check it out at this link. Also, ShockTillYouDrop.com got their hands on three posters that were rejected by the MPAA (one of them teased at the right). Check them out after the jump.
Legendary Pictures To Co-Finance “Gears of War” Movie July 25, 2008 2:03 pm
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Variety is reporting that Legendary Pictures has come on board to co-finance and co-produce the videogame adapation of Gears of War, from Microsoft and Epic Games. The film will be directed by Len Wiseman, and Chris Morgan is writing the script. The film’s being targeted for a 2009 release.
Source: Variety
Third “Harold & Kumar” On The Way July 25, 2008 2:00 pm
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Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (writers of both Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, which they also directed) have been set to return to write and direct a third installment in the comedy film franchise. Both John Cho (Harold) and Kal Penn (Kumar) will reprise their roles.
Combined, the prior two films have grossed just $64.38M worldwide (23.94M for the first, $40.44M for the second), but were both made on very small budgets ($9 and $12 Million, respectively).
Source: Variety
DiCaprio Teaming With Warner Bros. on “Twilight Zone” Movie July 25, 2008 1:54 pm
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THR is reporting that Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way are in the early stages of developing material for a feature film take on one ore more episodes from the classic TV series The Twilight Zone. THR adds that the companies are not looking to remake an episodic movie like the big-screen version of the movie 25 years ago did, but instead they want to build a storyline from one ore more of the episodes.
Source: THR
Singer Developing Live-Action “Freedom Formula” Feature Film July 25, 2008 1:51 pm
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Bryan Singer’s Bad Hat Harry Productions studio has teamed with Radical Pictures to develop a live-action feature film from the five-issue comic book series Freedom Formula, created by Edmund Shern. The comic book will be introduced at Comic-Con and be released in August. “This is a timeless story about young people struggling to break free of authority. That’s what ultimately appealed to me,” Singer said.
Source: Variety
Lucy Liu and Mark Hamil Voicing “Afro Samurai: Resurrection” + Trailer Released July 25, 2008 1:48 pm
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Spike TV has announced that Lucy Liu and Mark Hamil will be voicing characters in the original movie Afro Samurai: Resurrection, which debuts on the network in January 2009. The network has also released a trailer for the movie, check it out at this link.
Comic-Con 2008: “RocknRolla” Panel + New Trailer Released July 25, 2008 1:38 pm
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The folks at the panel for RocknRolla premiered a new trailer for the movie (check it out at this link or embedded after the jump). Here are some highlights from the panel courtesy /Film:
- The panel included actors Gerard Butler, Chris Bridges, Jeremy Piven, and Idris Elba.
- Guy Ritchie was asked if there was pressure from the studio to do a movie that resembled his earlier, more successful, efforts to which Ritchie replied with an enthusiastic, “Yup!”.
- Piven revealed that he approached Ritchie for a part in the film with the intention of pursuing a role that would be distinguished from his Entourage role. Previously the only Americans in the script were two black men.
Synopsis
Guy Ritchie returns to his roots with RocknRolla, a crime comedy in the spirit of his early films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
RocknRolla hits theaters on October 3, 2008.
Orci and Kurtzman Talk “Transformers 2” July 25, 2008 1:26 pm
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman told MTV not to expect the Transformers going up against Dinosaurs (Dinobots) in the sequel: “We couldn’t quite figure out how to justify a robot that would pretend to be a dinosaur,” Orci said.
The duo also shot down a re-appearance of Megatron: “Didn’t he get thrown into the bottom of the ocean?” Kurtzman laughed, with Orci adding, “That would be silly” in regards to the characters return.
Lastly, Orci revealed that while the first film was about a boy and his car, this one is “about being away from home. It’s a few years later and Sam is going to finally go to college and he’s going to face being away from home just as the autobots are having to deal with being away from Cybertron.”
Comic-Con 2008: “Bitch Slap” Posters July 25, 2008 1:17 pm
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Three posters from the 2009 grindhouse movie, Bitch Slap were released at Comic-Con. Check them out after the jump.
Synopsis
“Bitch Slap” is a post-modern, thinking man’s throwback to the “B” Movie/Exploitation films of the 1950’s – 70’s as well as a loving, sly parody of same. Inspired by the likes of “Dragstrip Girls,” “Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill,” “Kung Fu Nun” and the pantheon of Blacksploitation films, “Bitch Slap” mixes hot girls, fast cars, big guns, nasty tongues, outrageous action and jaw-dropping eye candy with a message… don’t be naughty!
At its core, “Bitch Slap” follows three bad girls (a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker) as they arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort massive booty from a ruthless underworld kingpin. Things quickly spin out of control as allegiances change, truths are revealed, other criminals arrive for the score, the fate of the world hangs in the balance and they are forced to confront a villain much worse than they ever expected… themselves. It’s the ultimate morality tale as, one by one, they realize the whole “she-bang” was a set-up and one of the film’s characters may not even be human…
What makes “Bitch Slap” different is a “B” Story device that runs throughout the film to illuminate character, backstory and relationship histories not previously revealed. Like the movie “Momento,” these scene flashbacks take place in reverse; so by the end of the film, the audience has a wholly different take on who these women are and why they are behaving so badly. “Bitch Slap” also employs a mysterious Female Narrator who comments periodically on the folly of humanity, the plight of the human condition and the vagaries of life and love through quoting the likes of Dostoevsky, T.S. Eliot, Sun Tzu and even Buddha. Bet you never heard THAT in “Jailbait Babysitter!”
So grab your popcorn and fasten your crotch restraint. With “Cult Classic” written all over it, “Bitch Slap” is the cat-fighting, girl-banging, pile-driving, go-go dancing, bronco-busting, bumping & grinding, philosophy-touting, breast-augmenting, femme-tastic f%@#-fest-fight-fantasy of epic proportions you’ve been waiting for.
Bitch Slap hits theaters in 2009.
Comic-Con 2008: Justin Marks Writing New “Children of Men”-Style SF Film July 25, 2008 12:55 pm
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After the panel for Devil’s Due, where writer Justin Marks discussed the comic book Hack/Slash coming to the big screen, /Film had the opportunity to speak with the writer and he revealed that he is penning a new SF film in the style of Children of Men.
It deals with man’s exploration of the universe. I grew up on 2001, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 even, are movies that I kind of love, but they have kind of steered science fiction towards horror. I want to bring the genre of space travel back to contemporary science fiction. The movie starts with a murder in zero gravity and goes from there.
Comic-Con 2008: ABC Family’s “The Middleman” Panel + Season Shortened to 12 Episodes July 25, 2008 12:43 pm
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ABC Family’s panel at Comic-Con 2008 for The Middleman featured Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Matt Kesslar. Natalie Morales offered a recorded message that she couldn’t attend. Here are the highlights courtesy TV Squad.
- Some scenes from upcoming episodes were screened.
- The season finale is filled with the Middleman screaming profanity, complete with blackout-out bleeps.
- Asked by an audience member why the odd 10pm timeslot, Javier responded that ABC Family doesn’t believe the show jives with the rest of the programming, and that it’s a better fit later in the evening.
According to TV Squad, that’s pretty much all that was presented at the panel. Pretty disappointing.
In other news, TV Squad is reporting that the first season has been shortened from 13 episodes to 12.
Javier posted on his Live Journal site Radio Free Javi that the reason for the reduction in episodes is that though critical response has been strong and the network loves it, the ratings haven’t been all that great, adding that the decision to drop the 13th episode was a joint one between him and the network.
The Middleman airs Monday night’s at 10pm on ABC Family.
Comic-Con 2008: “Saw V” Panel + Teaser Trailer Released July 25, 2008 12:10 pm
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The teaser trailer that Lionsgate debuted at Comic-Con 2008 has now been uploaded online. Watch it below.
Click here to read SuperHeroHype’s report from the panel.
Synopsis
Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) might be dead, but his traps live on in this fifth Saw entry, which finds the series’ production designer David Hackl at the helm for his debut directing gig. Saw IV scribes Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan return for more mind-bending fun. Dexter’s Julie Benz co-stars in this Twisted Pictures production for Lionsgate Films.
Saw V hits theaters on October 24, 2008.
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