New Watchmen Video Journal January 7, 2009 4:19 pm
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Warner Bros. has released the 10th Watchmen Video Journal. You can watch the video Apple.com by clicking the above image.
Official Plot Synopsis:
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, “Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?
Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li January 7, 2009 4:10 pm
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20th Century Fox has released the official domestic trailer for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li. Watch it embedded below.
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Official Plot Synopsis:
Based on the legendary video game by Capcom, STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI brings a new dimension to a world and characters beloved by millions. Devastated by the kidnapping of her father, Chun-Li takes to the streets of Hong Kong, embarking on an epic quest for justice – and hurtling toward a confrontation with a seemingly unstoppable foe.Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li hits theaters on February 27th 2009.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li hits theaters on February 27, 2009.
First Look at Judd Apatow’s Funny People January 7, 2009 4:02 pm
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Universal Pictures has released the first official production photo from Judd Apatow’s upcoming comedy Funny People. Click to enlarge. The film stars Adam Sandler as 42-year old comic George Simmons, who learns he has an incurable blood disorder and has just six months to a year left to live. Seth Rogen also stars in the film as Ira, a 25-year-old deli counter worker and aspiring stand-up comedian.
Judd Apatow’s wife Leslie Mann and Eric Bana also star in the film.
Funny People hits theaters on July 31, 2009.
via /Film
D.J. Caruso Directing Jack the Giant Killer January 7, 2009 3:54 pm
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New Line Cinema has hired D.J. Caruso to direct Jack the Giant Killer, a drama that takes an adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend, Variety reported.
When a princess is kidnapped, a long-standing peace between men and giants becomes threatened, and a young farmer is given an opportunity to lead a dangerous expedition to the giant kingdom to rescue her.
Caruso’s last project was DreamWorks’ Eagle Eye, which went on to gross a respectable $177.2 million worldwide ($101.3 million domestically and $75.9 million foreign).
Broadcast TV Ratings for Tuesday, January 6, 2009 January 7, 2009 3:46 pm
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Shazam Project Officially Dead January 7, 2009 3:37 pm
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Screenwriter John August has posted an article on his blog and announced that a big screen adaptation of Shazam is dead. Here’s some of what he had to say.
“When we turned the new draft in to the studio, we got a reaction that made me wonder if anyone at Warners had actually read previous drafts or the associated notes. The studio felt the movie played too young. They wanted edgier. They wanted Billy to be older. They wanted Black Adam to appear much earlier. (I pointed out that Black Adam appears on page one, but never got a response.)”
August actually places some of the blame on the failure of Speed Racer and success of The Dark Knight. That situation, August says, has pushed Hollywood executives to, incorrectly, believe that in order for a comic book movie to be a success, it has to be dark:
“The first flopped; the second triumphed. Given only those two examples, one can understand why a studio might wish for their movies to be more like the latter. But to do so ignores the success of Iron Man, which spent most of its running time as a comedic origin story, and the even more pertinent example of WB’s own Harry Potter series. I tried to make this case, to no avail.”
via /Film
Japanese Watchmen Trailer January 7, 2009 3:25 pm
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The Japanese Watchmen trailer has been released online. The trailer includes new footage from the film. Watch it below.
Official Plot Synopsis:
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, “Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?
Watchmen is scheduled to hit theaters on March 6, 2009.
via ComicBookMovie
7 Films In the Running for Visual Effects Oscar January 7, 2009 3:12 pm
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As expected, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have narrowed down the field of films in the running for the Visual Effects category to seven for the 81st Academy Awards. These seven films will be further narrowed to just three selections on January 15th. Here is the list of the final seven:
- Australia
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- Iron Man
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Source: Oscars.org
Card’s Ender Game Movie Scrapped January 7, 2009 2:52 pm
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The Los Angeles Times has a new article talking with Orson Scott Card about his new ‘Ender’ novel, Ender in Exile, and the author reveals that Wolfgang Peterson is no longer attached to direct a big screen adaptation of his original novel and that the project was scrapped in early November:
“Ender’s Game” was recently in development with director Wolfgang Petersen (“In the Line of Fire,” “The Perfect Storm,” “Troy”) on board, but Card did not feel comfortable with the movie’s direction. That project was scrapped early in November.
Read the rest of the interview at the Los Angeles Times.
Olivia Wilde Talks Tron 2 January 7, 2009 2:39 pm
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Olivia Wilde, who stars in the Fox drama House, recently talked with SCI FI Wire about her starring role in Disney’s Tron 2.0, which begins shooting in Vancouver in April. While she couldn’t provide details about her character or her character’s name (though she did say that she’ll be playing a new character), she did have some things to say about the project:
SCI FI Wire: Tell us about Tron.
Olivia Wilde: Oh, yes! I’m so excited, I can’t take it! It’s really exciting.Of course, I’m, you know, in a total cone of silence here, so I can’t give you anything interesting. But the film will be just as impressive for our time as it was in 1982 for the original. The technological advances have, of course, been enormous, and the effects that we have access to have been so revolutionary. … We saw an incredible advancement in technology with the use of the face replacement in Benjamin Button, and I think that is marking some of what’s to come, and certainly …. in the direction of Tron. Just as far as people being incredibly innovative and taking huge steps forward as far as using technology to create alternative realities. And I think that it’s really going to please people that it’s going to be just as kind of huge and shocking and just as much of a new movie-watching experience as the first one was.And I think it’s great that Jeff Bridges is going to be in this one, too.
Wilde also confirmed that Bruce Boxleitner will be in the movie, alongside Bridges; that rather than shooting against green screens, director Joseph Kosinksi is building some massive sets for the movie to represent the virtual world; and that the film will use face-replacement computer technology which was last seen in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Source: SCI FI Wire
The Descent 2 Photos January 7, 2009 2:27 pm
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The first production photos from Jon Harris’ feature debut The Descent 2 have been released online. Click to enlarge and check out more at this link.
Official Plot Synopsis:
“Terror mounts and fear runs deeper in the chilling continuation to Neil Marshall’s award-winning and critically acclaimed modern horror classic, The Descent. Distraught, confused and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter (SHAUNA MACDONALD) emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened – or why she’s covered in her friends’ blood – Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions. As the rescue party drives deeper into uncharted caverns, nightmarish visions of the recent past begin to haunt Sarah and she starts to realize the full horror and futility of the mission. Subjected to the suspicion and mistrust of the group and confronted once more by the inbred, feral and savagely ruthless Crawlers, Sarah must draw on all her inner reserves of strength and courage in a desperate final struggle for deliverance and redemption.”
The Descent 2 hasn’t been given a US release date yet. It will hit UK theaters on May 15, 2009.
Source: Ollie Upton (via /Film)
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Cast in Tintin January 7, 2009 2:19 pm
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Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been cast in the roles of bumbling detectives Thompson and Thomson in the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson project Tintin. Frost and Pegg join Andy Serkis, who has already been cast as Captain Haddock. The lead character of Tintin has yet to be cast.
DreamWorks is targeting a 2010 release for the first film, to be directed by Spielberg. Peter Jackson will direct the second, which does not have a date yet.
Source: Ain’t It Cool News
Jimmy Hayward to direct Jonah Hex January 7, 2009 2:10 pm
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Horton Hears a Who! director Jimmy Hayward, has been tapped by Warner Bros. to make his live-action debut with Jonah Hex, the western based on the DC Comics character. Hayward replaces Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who were previously on board as directors. The duo left the project in November over creative differences. They also wrote the script.
Production is expected to begin in March or April. Josh Brolin is still attached to star.
Source: THR
Street Fighter Movie Poster January 7, 2009 2:02 pm
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The poster for 20th Century Fox’s Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is available be viewed online. Click to enlarge.
Official Plot Synopsis:
Based on the legendary video game by Capcom, STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI brings a new dimension to a world and characters beloved by millions. Devastated by the kidnapping of her father, Chun-Li takes to the streets of Hong Kong, embarking on an epic quest for justice – and hurtling toward a confrontation with a seemingly unstoppable foe.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li hits theaters on February 27, 2009.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Monday, January 5, 2009 January 6, 2009 11:04 pm
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Zombie’s H2 Release Set for August 28, 2009 January 6, 2009 3:04 pm
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Dimension Films has set an August 28, 2009 release for writer/director Rob Zombie’s Halloween (2007) follow-up H2. His first film had a similar release (August 31, 2007) and went on to gross a record $58.3 million domestically and $20.2 million overseas. “If you thought Michael was f*cked before, you ain’t seen nothing yet! He is bigger, meaner and more psycho than Dr. Loomis ever thought possible,” Zombie says.
Because of the date, Zombie’s Tyrannosaurus Rex, which was previously scheduled for the same weekend, will be pushed back. And iIn related news, ShockTillYouDrop.com has posted a sneek peek at the Michael Myers master that will be worn by actor Tyler Mane in the film. Click to enlarge.
via ComingSoon.net
New Character Added to Thor Script? January 6, 2009 2:49 pm
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IESB is reporting that the character of Donald Blake has been added to the end of the script to director Kenneth Branagh’s Thor in an effort to tie the film to The Avengers which hits theaters a year after on July 15, 2011:
A reliable source tells the IESB that the character of Donald Blake has been added to the end of the script. Let me reiterate that he wasn’t there before, the script was set entirely in the land of the Norse Gods.
The introduction of the character is essential to how Marvel will tie Thor into the Avengers that is set in contemporary Tony Stark/Hulk timeframe. It explains how the actual Thor film will be set in the ancient time of the Norse Gods and how they will subsequently bring the character into a modern time with Donald Blake discovering the magical Norse hammer Mjolnir and turning into Thor.
They’re also reporting that in addition to directing, Branagh will have an acting part in film..
Thor hits theaters on July 16, 2010.
Monsters vs. Aliens 3D Trailer to Run During Super Bowl January 6, 2009 2:33 pm
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During NBC’s NFL playoff telecast on Saturday night, the network announced–watch the segment embedded below–that they would be broadcasting a 90-second 3D trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s Monsters vs. Aliens during the Super Bowl telecast on February 1st. The 3D trailer will be the first of its kind on broadcast television. The trailer will also been shown later in the month during a 3D episode of Chuck. Paramount released a press release on Sunday. Read it after the jump.
Monsters vs. Aliens hits conventional, In-Tru 3D and IMAX theaters on March 27, 2009.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Sunday, January 4, 2009 January 5, 2009 10:26 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Saturday, January 3, 2009 January 4, 2009 11:05 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Friday, January 2, 2009 January 3, 2009 7:45 pm
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BBC Names 11th Doctor [Update] January 3, 2009 3:12 pm
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Update: BBC has released video of Matt Smith reacting to the news that he’ll be the next Doctor. Watch it below.
The original article follows below.
The 11th Doctor will not be Patterson Joseph, and nor will recently rumored film actor Chiwetel Ejiofor take on the role. Instead, BBC has settled on relative unknown, and now youngest Doctor ever, Matt Smith. The 26-year-old actor will take on the iconic role by the show’s fifth season, which kicks off in 2010 and will likely be in the next Christmas special.
David Tennant, who plays the current Doctor, will still star in the 2009 TV specials.
Source: BBC
New Astro Boy Artwork January 3, 2009 3:02 pm
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Imagi has posted brand new artwork from Summit Entertainment’s big screen adaptation of Astro Boy. Click to enlarge.
Astro Boy hits theaters on October 23, 2009.
via ComingSoon.net
New Images for Public Enemies, Terminator, Where the Wild Things Are, Angels & Demons and More January 3, 2009 2:49 pm
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Entertainment Weekly has published a ton of new photos from several 2009 films, 16 to be exact. They are: Public Enemies; Terminator Salvation; The Ugly Truth, Where the Wild Things Are; Watchmen; The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; Up; Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, Julie & Julia; Up; Obsessed; Year One; Land of the Lost; X-Men Origins: Wolverine; and Angels & Demons. I’ve included some of the photos here, but be sure to head on over to Entertainment Weekly online, or check out the latest issue in newstands now, to see the rest of the images.
Tarantino’s ‘Basterds’ Gets August 2009 Release January 3, 2009 2:05 pm
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The Weinstein Company has announced that Quentin Tarantino’s next film, Inglourious Basterds, will hit theaters on August 21, 2009. The date puts the film up against New Line’s Final Destination: Death Trip 3D and the Jeremy Piven (Entourage) comedy The Goods: The Don Ready Story.
Synopsis
Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” Raine’s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own…
Source: Box Office Mojo
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