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- Batman director, Christopher Nolan admitted that he’s been thinking of a third Batman film. He has been jotting down ideas that haven’t quite worked out yet and he’s wary of the curse of the third film. “I wouldn’t want to do one if it weren’t going to be as good as the first or second. That’s not respectful to the fans.”
- In Bill Willingham’s comic book epic Fables, Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Prince Charming, and scores of other characters from folklore are forced to live together in exile in Manhattan. Now ABC has ordered a pilot based on the trials and tribulations of these legendary characters living in our modern world.
- The “difficult and irrational” Twilight director, Catherine Hardwicke has been let go after making Summit Pictures $160 million. This means she will not be working on the sequel, “Daywalker Vampires go to a Tanning Salon.”
- Forrest Ackerman, creator of Famous Monsters magazine and Ray Bradbury’s former literary agent, has died at age 91.
- Beverly Garland, whose long and varied acting career ranged from B-movie cult stardom in movies such as “Not of This Earth” and “It Conquered the World” to the sitcom “My Three Sons,” has died. She was 82.
- While we wait for the DVD release of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, you can vist Joss Whedon’s world of super-villainy – and discover the secret origin of sidekick Moist – in a brand new webcomic written by Fringe’s Zack Whedon. Moist:Humidity Rising can be found on MySpace.
- Battlestar Galactica‘s auctioning frackloads of stuff- bloody outfits from late night Cylon torture sessions, President Roslin’s crazy pills, just about everything that ever sat on Adama’s desk, and just in time for the holiday’s Cylon resurrection tubs and life-size Cylon raiders, priced at a mere $30,000 to $40,000.
- NBC has shortened Knight Rider’s season from 21 episodes to 17. Ruh-ro…
- Tank Girl now has a coffee table sized book of artwork now available. Besides all of the Tank Girl covers for Deadline magazine, where she got her start, the book includes tons of design sketches, and one rejected script for a Tank Girl adventure. There’s also a previously unpublished comic book, the 16s, and a ton of other random Tank Girl art, mostly but not entirely by original artist Jamie Hewlett.
- CNN just laid off its entire Space/Tech/Environment reporting unit. That means that one of the United States’ biggest TV news sources thinks that space and the environment just aren’t worth reporting on in any depth or with any consistency.
- The Atari Ghostbusters game, which has seen it’s shares of troubles, now has a brand new trailer and an actual release date of June 2009. It looks awesome, and should be viewed for sheer nostalgia and quality of animation factors alone.
- The Music Branch Executive Committee of the Academy has reversed its decision declaring their score for “The Dark Knight” ineligible for the 2008 Academy Awards. The score was disqualified due to five names being listed as composers on the music cue sheet.
- Punisher: War Zone, had a pitiful start, grossing $4.3 million on around 2,700 screens at 2,508 theaters. It was the smallest opening ever for a Marvel Comics adaptation by far, even lower than Howard the Duck, and was a quarter of the previous Punisher movie’s opening in terms of attendance.
- Vin Diesel is hoping to replicate the success of Gibson’s Aramaic-language film The Passion of the Christ and to a lesser extent the Yucatec Maya-scripted Apocalypto by starting production of his own adaptation of the life of Hannibal Barca in the original Punic.
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