Comic-Con 2008: Fox’s “Fringe” Panel July 28, 2008 11:35 pm
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J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Burke, Jeff Pinkner, Roberto Orci, Anna Torv, Josh Jackson and John Noble were in attendance for Fox’s Fringe panel. Here are some highlights courtesy TV Squad:
- The presentation began with a screening of the show’s trailer.
- Abrams told the audience that the goal of Fringe is to create an series that doesn’t have the complex mythology of Lost or Alias. Shows like The Twilight Zone and The X-Files inspired him to write Fringe.
- You can hope into the series at any point and not worry about getting lost in what’s happening.
- There won’t be a continous storyline, though there will be “something” there.
- Someone asked if the pilot for the show was purposely leaked or marketing to drum up interest. Abrams was very serious in saying that the leak was definitely not intentional.
- Abrams said yes to a possible comic book.
- Asked about how much of the show he has “fleshed out”, Abrams said that he has what he calls an “internal ending” to the show (just an overall direction, not necessarily a way a show will end). Nor does he have a set amount of years he’d like to see the show run.
- Pinkner said he found feedback from online groups helpful and necessary.
Other topics, not related to Fringe, touched on included a Cloverfield sequel and Star Trek. You can read the panel’s thoughts on those two topics in a prior post I wrote on the site at this link.
Two New “Righteous Kill” Photos July 28, 2008 11:20 pm
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ComingSoon.net got their hands on two new photos from Jon Avnet’s Righteous Kill (starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino). Click the above image to see the photos in high resolution.
Synopsis
Jon Avnet’s thriller Righteous Kill stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as a pair of Big Apple police officers investigating a series of murders committed by a serial killer. Carla Gugino co-stars as a crime-scene investigator who has romantic ties to De Niro. 50 Cent, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, and John Leguizamo co-star.
Righteous Kill hits theaters on September 12, 2008.
“Star Wars: The Clone Wars” TV Clips July 28, 2008 11:15 pm
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Two new TV clips for Star Wars: The Clone Wars have been released. Check them out below.
Comic-Con 2008: David Goyer On “The Invisible Man” July 28, 2008 11:13 pm
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While at Comic-Con, ShockTillYouDrop.com got the opportunity to talk with writer/director David Goyer, and Goyer provided the site with an update on his The Invisible Man project, his sequel to H.G. Wells novel and 1933 film.
“I’m writing it right now,” Goyer told STYD. “I got Universal to hire some conceptual artists for me so they’re working tandem with me writing. The main guy is Jamie Rama, Aaron Sims did some pieces too. Rama is a great conceptual artist who worked on Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, he’s one of the primary conceptual artists who worked on the Bat suits.”
Goyer added that the film would pick up months after the events of Wells’ novel (it’s a period piece) and that his take is loaded with historical figures, including WIlliam Melville, head of Scotland Yard and founder of MI6: “He instituted fingerprinting and was friends with Harry Houdini. He’s were the ‘M’ comes from in MI6. In my story, he’s the one who captures the Invisible Man in my story and says, ‘Listen, we want to turn you into a secret agent and send you into Imperial Russia.'”
Click here for the rest of the interview.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Sunday, July 27, 2008 July 28, 2008 3:27 pm
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A complete breakdown of the night’s ratings follows after the jump.
George Lucas on “Indy 5” July 28, 2008 2:40 pm
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has taken in an impressive $743.7M worldwide. To that end, talk of another installment is a given. George Lucas was asked if he, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford would be up for a fifth film. Here’s what he told The Sunday Times:
“We were hoping for box-office figures like that, which is, ultimately, with inflation, what the others have done, within 10%,” Lucas explains. “So, we squeaked up there. Really, though, it was a challenge getting the story together and getting everybody to agree on it. Indiana Jones only becomes complicated when you have another two people saying ‘I want it this way’ and ‘I want it that way’, whereas, when I first did Jones, I just said, ‘We’ll do it this way’ — and that was much easier. But now I have to accommodate everybody, because they are all big, successful guys, too, so it’s a little hard on a practical level.
“If I can come up with another idea that they like, we’ll do another. Really, with the last one, Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the issues about the direction we’d like to take. I’m in the future; Steven’s in the past. He’s trying to drag it back to the way they were, I’m trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that. It’s kind of a hybrid of our own two ideas, so we’ll see where we are able to take the next one.”
Source: The Sunday Times
Comic-Con 2008: “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” Trailer Leaked Online July 28, 2008 2:40 pm
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UPDATED on July 28 at 11:15pm: Added two new links to the videos after the jump.
The trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine that was surprisingly screened at Fox’s panel for the film at this year’s Comic-Con has been leaked online. You can check it out, courtesy TrailerAddict, in two parts: Click here for part one, and click here for part two.
Comic-Con 2008: SCI FI’s “Eureka” Panel July 28, 2008 2:31 pm
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The panel for the SCI FI Channel show Eureka took place on Saturday night. Here are some highlights courtesy TV Squad.
- Two new characters will be introduced this season. One will be Eva Thorne (Frances Fisher) who is known as “The Fixer”. The other characters will be Jack’s sister, named Lexxie.
- Colin Ferguson (who plays Jack Carter) said that Lexxie will turn Jack, and the town of Eureka, upside down. She does this by becoming friendly with everyone in the town, which took Jack much longer to do: “It’s like reliving my childhood,” Ferguson said.
- He added that it’s great to have some new blood in the series and that the actress playing her sister is very much like his real sister.
- The Artifact mythology has been wrapped up and the introduction of Eva Thorne will start a new arc.
- Sara will be Twittering online about the goings-on around the house and Eureka. If you write she’ll respond back.
- A new site, Eureka Unscripted, has been created to give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the writers putting the episodes together.
- A podcast will be released one to two days after the last original episode airs.
- Beverly, the psychologist, will not be returning this season.
- Jim Taggert (played by Matt Frewer) will, however. He’ll have a recurring role during the second half of the season.
- Both Sally and Joe will be directing episodes of the series this season.
- Fargo and Henry may be getting love interests.
- More of Deputy Jo Lupo’s background will be revealed this season. Also, she will be the focus of one episode.
Comic-Con 2008: Eight “Watchmen” Character Posters July 28, 2008 2:20 pm
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Warner Bros. released eight new character posters for Watchmen at Comic-Con. Check them out below. For higher resolution images head over to Omelete.
“The Dark Knight” Adds $65.6M From Overseas Markets July 28, 2008 2:06 pm
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Over the weekend, The Dark Knight not only dominated the domestic box office, but it dominated the international box office as well. Variety reports that the blockbuster took in $65.6M from 7,143 theaters in 43 markets, pushing its overseas cume to $126.3M.
Added on its domestic receipts, the film has a worldwide gross of $440.5M in 12 days. This all while still not opening in several key markets including France, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Spain (August openings).
Comic-Con 2008: Videos from NBC’s Panels for “Heroes”, “The Office” and “Chuck” July 28, 2008 12:12 pm
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NBC has put up videos for their panels on Heroes, The Office and Chuck. Check them out at the following links:
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