Majel Barrett-Roddenberry to Voice Enterprise’s Computer in Star Trek December 11, 2008 6:14 pm
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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry will be reprising her role as the voice of the Starship Enterprise computer in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming film Star Trek. Roddenberry has voiced the role in four of the six Star Trek television series and three films.
Star Trek hits theaters on May 8, 2009.
Source: Variety
Nine, Not Seven, Seasons of Desperate Housewives? December 11, 2008 2:43 pm
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TVGuide.com has learned that during a cake-cutting ceremony marking the 100th episode of ABC’s Desperate Housewives, series creator Marc Cherry announced his desire to have the show on the air for nine seasons, two more than he previously announced back in February of 2007 when Cherry inked a four-year deal with ABC Studios.
Daniel Craig on the Future of James Bond December 11, 2008 2:29 pm
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Daniel Craig says he’s ready to begin work on another Bond film. In an interview with ComingSoon.net about his next film, Edward Zwick’s Defiance, Craig opened up about the reception to Quantum of Solaceand his plans for another installment. Here are some highlights from the interview:
ComingSoon.net: The critical reaction to “Quantum of Solace” was somewhat different than that for “Casino Royale.” Did that surprise you?
Daniel Craig: No, because “Casino Royale” was based on a novel and we’re always going to have that. When you do a movie like that, where the basis of a story is really strong and also the momentum of it, everyone thought that it was going to be sh*t. So when it wasn’t, they were all just completely surprised. I think that “Quantum of Solace” is as good a movie as “Casino Royale.” I think that the difference is that last time people were surprised by the fact that they enjoyed it. The fact is that we get reviews in newspapers that we’d never had reviews in before. Certainly with the Internet we get seven and a half million reviews, which are all worth looking at, obviously.
CS: Do you think that calls to go to work on the next one will come a little quicker after the huge success of “Quantum?”
Craig: I haven’t heard anything – but then I’m not answering my phone.
CS: What more do you want to do with Bond? What other parts of him would you like to explore?
Craig: Well, I genuinely think we’ve got a blank page now. We’ve finished this story off. “Quantum of Solace” was exactly the right thing to do. We started something with “Casino Royale” and we wrapped it all up with “Quantum of Solace.” We’re ready to begin again and we can do what we want.
Quantum of Solace is performing on-par with Casino Royale and has grossed $510.6 million worldwide ($152.7 million domestically and $357.9 million overseas). Casino Royale grossed $594.2 million worldwide–$167.4 million domestically and $426.8 million overseas–when it was released in 2006.
Shyamalan’s Cast for The Last Airbender December 11, 2008 2:05 pm
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Entertainment Weekly is reporting that M. Night Shyamalan has found his cast for The Last Airbender, his live-action adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon series:
After an open casting call in Texas, Shyamalan discovered karate star Noah Ringer and offered him the part of Airbender’s 12-year old hero, Aang, an Avatar with superpowers who must stop the Fire Nation from destroying the world. Twilight’s Jackson Rathbone has been asked to play Aang’s pal Sokka, while Nicola Peltz (Deck the Halls) will star as his sister Katara. Genial singer Jesse McCartney, meanwhile, is negotiating to play against type in the role of the Fire Nation’s evil prince Zuko.
The Last Airbender hits theaters on July 2, 2010.
New Photo from Kick-Ass December 11, 2008 1:03 pm
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AICN has a report from the London set of Matthew Vaughn’s big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book series Kick-Ass and the report includes the first official photo of Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Red Mist. Click the image for a closer look, and to read AICN’s set report.
Release Date Changes for Universal’s Fast and Furious and Nottingham December 11, 2008 12:56 pm
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In addition to pushing back The Wolfman from April to November (click here for related story), Universal Pictures has announced that they’ve also moved two other upcoming films. Justin Lin’s Fast and Furious will now be moving from its original June 12th release up to The Wolfman’s former date of April 3rd, while the studio has moved Ridley Scott’s Nottingham out of 2009 entirely and into a TBA 2010 slot.
Source: Variety
Broadcast TV Ratings for Tuesday, December 9, 2008 December 10, 2008 6:47 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Monday, December 8, 2008 December 9, 2008 8:59 pm
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The Wolfman Delay Confirmed December 9, 2008 8:38 pm
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Fangoria has received confirmation from Univeral Pictures that The Wolfman has been moved out of its original release date (April 3, 2009) to November 6, 2009. The site had originally reported that the film was on the move a little under three weeks ago.
Possible Grey’s Anatomy Cast Departure December 9, 2008 8:35 pm
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Since some folks treat casting news as a spoiler, I’ll reveal the news about who may be leaving Grey’s Anatomy after the jump. So click more to find out.
‘Transformers 2’ Trailer Coming in February December 9, 2008 8:25 pm
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The trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be released in February, so confirmed director Michael Bay on his message board. Bay says that they haven’t decided if the trailer will be released in movie theaters, or be attached to the Super Bowl (February 1st)
Hey everyone. Back from Egypt and Jordan – we had a wonderful shoot over there. I will miss the crew they were an amazing bunch of people and a lot of fun. I’m stuck in the edit room up to my eye balls – also finished producing Friday the 13th and The Unborn – coming out the after the new year. Our Trailer for Transformer you have been asking about – First there will be a teaser poster soon after the new year, and the teaser trailer will be out either in the theaters early Feb. or on the Superbowl. Cannot decide yet. I’m going to release some set stills on this site in a few weeks. I’ll keep you informed. Going back to do more selects now from my portable avid that I take home from work. It’s late, see you.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen hits theaters on June 26, 2009.
John Stevenson To Direct We3 December 9, 2008 7:53 pm
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Kung Fu Panda co-director John Stevenson has been tapped to direct a big screen adaptation of Grant Morrison’s comic book miniseries We3 and producer Don Murphy confirmed to ShockTillYouDrop that the film will be R-rated and live-action:
“Even though the film is going to be live-action, we brought on the lead director of Kung Fu Panda [John Stevenson]. He’s attached to direct We3. We’re doing it as an R-rating. It’s not going to be cutesy. There’s killer rabbits and stuff. We’re in the process right now of trying to figure out where we’re going to make it.”
For those unfamiliar with the series, here’s the synopsis:
Collecting on of the most talked-about series of the year by superstar creators Grant Morrison (SEVEN SOLDIERS) and Frank Quitely (THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS), who provides a new cover, WE3 tells the unforgettable story of three innocent pets — a dog, a cat and a rabbit — who have been converted into deadly cyborgs by a sinister military weapons program.
With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 have the firepower of a battalion between them. But they are just the program’s prototypes, and now that their testing is complete they’re slated to be permanently “de-commissioned” — until they seize their one chance to make a desperate run for freedom. Relentlessly pursued by their makers, the WE3 team must navigate a frightening and confusing world where their instincts and heightened abilities make them as much a threat as those hunting them — but a world, nonetheless, in which somewhere there is something called “home.”
Academy Reverses Decision on The Dark Knight Score December 9, 2008 7:42 pm
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The Academy has reversed its prior decision (click here to read the original story) that made the score to The Dark Knight ineligible after reviewing information submitted by the affected parties. The Academy’s Music Branch Executive Committe concluded that two, Zimmer and Howard, were responsible for the score.
The score was originally disqualified because five names were listed as composers on the cue sheet.
Source: Variety
Showtime Greenlights Syns from Jericho and Supernatural Producers December 9, 2008 6:32 pm
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Showtime is developing a character-driven sci-fi-themed drama called Syns (formerly Dolls’ Hospital) from Jericho consulting producer John McNamara and Supernatural supervising producer/writer Sera Gamble. According to THR, the Syns centers on a world in which humanlike synthetic organisms, known as Syns, are used for various purposes.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Broadcast TV Ratings for Sunday, December 7, 2008 December 8, 2008 7:27 pm
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Jurassic Park 4 Probably Not Going to Happen December 8, 2008 2:14 am
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Jurrasic Park producer Kathleen Kennedy was asked by ComingSoon.net about the status of a fourth film in the successful Jurassic Park franchise and she revealed that plans for the long-in-development sequel have fallen through:
“No… I don’t know. You know, when Crichton passed away, I sorta felt maybe that’s it. Maybe that’s a sign that we don’t mess with it.”
The three films–releaesed in 1993, 1997 and 2001, respectively–grossed a combined $1.9 billion in worldwide box office ($767,326,501 domestically and $1,134,784,425 overseas). The majority of that, however, came from the first film ($914.7 million). The second grossed $618.6 million and the third $368.8 million.
Next Bourne to be Based on The Parsifal Mosaic December 8, 2008 1:54 am
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Producer Frank Marshall revealed to ComingSoon.net that since they now have access to the entire library of Robert Ludlum, the late-author’s novel The Parsifal Mosaic may be one of the potential sources of material for the next film:
Question: Would you want to do a straight adaptation from one of the novels?
Frank Marshall: Actually, there is. “The Parsifal Mosaic” is one that we like.
Marshall also said that Matt Damon hasn’t signed on yet, and in fact, he and the writer (George Nolfi) are the only two signed on.
Here’s some of the plot summary of The Parsifal Mosaic via Wikipedia:
Michael Havelock, (an anglicized version of Mikhail Havlíček), is an intelligence agent in the United States. At the beginning of the novel he believes he has just witnessed the execution of his partner and the love of his life, Jenna Karas (anglicized version of Jenna Karasova) along an isolated stretch of the Costa Brava. Jenna had been marked for execution because she had been proved to be a KGB double agent.
Forrest Gump Sequel Shelved Due To 9/11 December 8, 2008 1:38 am
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This is fairly interesting. /Film interviewed Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth about his latest film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Roth revealed that he had actually completed a version of his Forrest Gump sequel, but he, Hanks and Zemeckis shelved the project due to 9/11:
“I turned in my version of the Forrest Gump sequel, or Part II, whatever you call it… It’s a continuation really — I want to start the movie literally two minutes after the end of the last one, with him on the bus bench waiting for his son to get home from school. But I turned in the script the night before 9/11. And we sat down, Tom [Hanks] and Bob [Zemeckis] and I, looked at each other and said, we don’t think this is relevant anymore. The world had changed. Now time has obviously passed, but maybe some things should just be one thing and left as they are.”
Author Winston Groom wrote a follow-up novel titled Gump and Co. that was released in 1995 and its content is quite intriguing (via /Film):
[The novel] follows Forrest as he stumbled through important US events in the 1980s and early 1990s. According to Wikipedia, Gump plays football for the New Orleans Saints, sells encyclopedias door-to-door, works on a pig farm, and helps develop the infamous New Coke. He accidentally crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, fights in Operation Desert Storm and meets many celebrities along the way including: Colonel Oliver North, the Ayatollah Khomeini, John Hinckley, Jim Bakker, Ivan Boesky, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Tom Hanks.
Catherine Hardwicke Not Directing New Moon, Summit Searching for New Director December 8, 2008 1:22 am
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Summit Entertainment has announced that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke is leaving the franchise and will not be directing the sequel, New Moon (scheduled for release sometime between the end of 2009 and early 2010).
While the joint press release, read it in full after the jump, reveals that the decision was made due to timing issues with Hardwicke, Nikki Finke of DeadlineHollywoodDaily reports that Hardwicke was “difficult” and “irrational” during the making of the film, with one of her contacts saying:
“Summit didn’t like her. They’re saying the DP [director of photography] Elliot Davis is the one responsible for the film’s sumptuous visual look, that the editor Nancy Richardson had to save the film in post-production, and Summit thought Hardwicke’s [CAA] agent Beth Swofford was alternately ineffectual and hysterical.”
Well, that may have been all true, but I don’t see why they make the announcement now in the middle of the European press tour, a tour in which Hardwicke is–and will continue–participating in.
The full release follows after the jump.
Rosario Dawson Returning for Sin City 2; Mickey Rourke Unsure December 8, 2008 1:10 am
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IGN recently learned that Frank Miller has finished his script for Sin City 2 and plans to re-unite with Robert Rodriquez to shoo the film as early as April 2009, and now IESB has confirmed the start date with Rosario Dawson, who says she’s returning to reprise her role as Gail.
Meanwhile Mickey Rourke, who played Marv in the first film, didn’t seem all that interested in returning to the franchise when ComingSoon.net caught up with the actor at a press junket for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, a film in which Rouke is getting rave reviews:
“No, I’m not interested in that right now. That’s not a reality right now. It’s pissing in the wind,” Rourke admitted. “There’s different factions going different directions there. I don’t know. That’s three hours of make up and I’m claustrophobic, so I’m going to have to work something out.”
With a production budget of just $40 million, Sin City debuted in April 2005 and went on to gross $158.8 million worldwide ($74.1 million domestic and $84.7 million from foreign markets). Sin City 2 will be based on the mini-series A Dame to Kill For.
Will Smith Talks I Am Legend PREQUEL December 8, 2008 12:52 am
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There has been a lot of speculation on the internet over the past several weeks pertaining to whether or not the next I Am Legend film would be a prequel or a sequel. At Comic-Con this past summer, director Francis Lawrence confirmed that they were working on a prequel, but then rumors started coming out about how it would actually be a sequel. The way I Am Legend, a sequel seemed highly unlikely, but now we finally can lay all the rumors to rest. During a press junket for Will Smith’s upcoming film Seven Pounds, Collider talked with Smith, who revealed that the film will be a prequel, and focus on the fall of the last cities: Manhattan and D.C.:
“We’re still trying to work through a couple of bumps in the story,” said Smith. “It’s essentially the fall of the last city – the last stand of Manhattan. The movie would be… within the body of the movie D.C. and then Manhattan would fall as the last city. It’s a really cool idea trying to figure it out… there’s a reason why we have to take a small band and we have to get into D.C. So we have to make our way from New York to D.C. and then back to New York.”
Catherine Hardwick Talks Twilight Sequel, New Moon December 5, 2008 8:12 pm
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Twilight director Catherine Hardwick chatted with ShockTillYouDrop.com about the followup to the successful film, New Moon. Here’s a little bit of what she had to say:
Shock: Is there an element of the second book you’re especially intrigued or excited by, as far as bringing it to life on screen?
Hardwicke: New Moon’s really taking a whole other leap with this new story and there’s really a lot of new characters in it. There’s the werewolves which is pretty crazy. All the wolves. Then there’s also going to Italy in the second book and there’s motorcycle riding and cliff-jumping and diving. I love jumping off of cliffs. So it’s kind of up my alley – into water, yeah.
Twilight’s box office now stands at $125.4 million domestically and $21.3 million overseas for a worldwide cume of $146.7 million, an impressive tally for a film that cost just $37 million to make.
You can read the entire interview here.
Len Wiseman to Direct Atlantis Rising December 5, 2008 8:01 pm
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Underworld and Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman has been tapped by DreamWorks to helm a big screen adaptation of the apocalyptic sci-fi comicbook Atlantis Rising.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci brought the project to DreamWorks back when the company was within the Paramount fold by and will produce, according to Variety.
Atlantis Rising is a five-part miniseries created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. The story kicks off when seismic disturbances at sea force world militaries to investigate the deepest part of the ocean, where an underground civilization emerges to engage in war with planet Earth.
ABC Family Harry Potter Special Weekend Details + New Photo December 5, 2008 7:20 pm
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USA Today has posted an article online discussing a special Harry Potter weekend that will kick off this evening on ABC Family. In addition to airing all four films (including the worldwide premiere of the extended edition–10 extra minutes–of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), other footage related to the franchise will also be shown.
“There were scenes that got cut in the interest of keeping the length down that were really fun and good,” says producer David Heyman.
The deleted scenes include extended segments with Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his buddy Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and their respective flirtations, as well as a scene with Mad Eye Moody (Brendan Gleeson) and Barty Crouch (Sam Hazeldine) following the underwater sequence of the Tri-Wizard Tournament.
Footage from the sixth film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (July 17, 2009) will also be shown, including a look into the tortured past of Lord Voldemort/Tom Riddle–pictured above.
“It’s different than the other films,” says Heyman. “It’s not the non-stop action that some of the others are, although there is some action. It’s more of an emotional film. We follow multiple stories: Harry’s relationship with Ginny Weasley, Ron’s relationship with Lavender Brown. … There also is Hermione’s discomfort with Ron’s relationship with Lavender. There’s Draco Malfoy’s story. And then there’s Harry’s relationship with (Hogwarts headmaster and professor) Dumbledore. We’re following these multiple stories that enrich the canvas.”
Read the rest of the article here.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone airs Friday (7:30 p.m. ET/PT) and Saturday (1:30 p.m. ET/PT). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets airs Saturday (5 p.m. ET/PT) and Sunday (12:30 p.m. ET/PT). Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban airs Saturday (9 p.m ET/PT) and Sunday (4:30 p.m. ET/PT). The extended version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire will have its world television premiere Sunday (7:30 p.m. ET/PT).
Source: USA Today
Sigourney Weaver Talks Ghostbusters December 5, 2008 7:15 pm
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Sigourney Weaver, who played Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters I & II, told MTV that she is well aware of the new Ghostbusters film that is under development and is “supposed to get in touch with Bill [Murray] next week.”
Weaver called Murray’s potential inolvment in the film “great” and added that she wasn’t sure there would be a place for her in the story, but it hopeful that at least one member of the Venkman family would get a spot: “I would hope that my little Oscar would be one of the Ghostbusters even if I’m not in it!”
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