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Published on
December 9, 2008 in
News.
- 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 There’s also a previously unpublished comic book, the 16s, and a ton of other random Tank Girl art, mostly but not entirely by original artist Jamie Hewlett.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.
Published on
December 3, 2008 in
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- According to Electronic Arts, China will be getting an exclusive Dungeon Keeper MMO. Chinese studio NetDragon Websoft has made a deal for the license in China, and will develop the game. No other info was made available at the announcement.
- CBS has ordered the “back 5″ episodes for the new show the Eleventh Hour, giving it a full season of 18 shows, instead of the normal 22. The speculated reason for the odd number is the networks unhappiness at the show’s lack of retention of the CSI lead in audience, however Eleventh Hour still remains the 2nd most viewed new show. The Mentalist is number 1.
- Guillermo Del Toro is going to direct the stop-motion feature adaptation of Roald Dahl’s fantastic novel The Witches, where a small boy gets trapped in a hotel while the annual convention of witches is taking place.
- The new movie Suck follows the misadventures of an optimistically named rock band, The Winners, seemingly doomed to obscurity. Their fortunes change thanks to a meeting with a vampire (played by Dimitri Coats of Burning Brides), and they find themselves enjoying their newfound fame, at least until the bloodlust kicks in. Called “Spinal Tap meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” it’s really the cast that makes this one to watch. The Kids in the Hall alum Dave Foley plays The Winners’ manager, and Malcolm McDowell appears as a vampire hunter who’s afraid of the dark. Moby plays on his vegan reputation as the lead singer of a rival band called the Secretaries of Steak (the meat not the wood). Iggy Pop takes on the role of a music producer, and Alice Cooper is a sinister, bloodsucking bartender.
- STOP THE PRESSES STOP THE WORLD. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com, the dvd itself is due out Dec 19, go now to our website and order it through our amazon link.
- Fox is ending its long tradition of saturday morning cartoons and is instead going to be running infomercials in the time slot. But not really infomercials Fox Networks Group chairman Tony Vinciquerra said “These will be longform programs that highlights their product. In that regard, it will have a little better quality.” So….infomercials.
- Alien Western, a sci-fi television film about giant, vicious, alien bugs that come to earth to gorge themselves on the uranium deposits found in the ground of an Old West town, began principal photography this week in Romania starring James Marsters as Sam Danville, an outlaw who is about to be hanged when the aliens land.
- Hey you guys! Corey Feldman has claimed that The Goonies 2 is “just not to be” but to cover his bases, immediately followed with “Course now that I’ve said that they’ll do it.” No word on Lost Boys 3.
- George Lucas’s senior thesis film from USC has been found. A Man and His Car, focused solely on Peter Brock and his Lotus 23 race car. Also knows as 1:42:08, the short is essentially a quickly edited representation of a racecar driver testing his vehicle. You can find it online.
- ABC has scheduled crime drama “Castle,” starring Nathan Fillion, to air Monday nights at 10 p.m. starting March 9.
- Director and former world karate and kickboxing champion, Lexi Alexander has just finished her new film Punisher: War Zone and now has her eyes set on Jonah Hex, a Western comic book anti-hero created by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga and published by DC Comics.
Published on
November 17, 2008 in
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- Original series Sanctuary, starring Stargate‘s Amanda Tapping has been renewed for another season on the Sci Fi Channel.
- Josh Schwartz, creator of Gossip Girl, Chuck, and The O.C., has been signed by Fox to reboot their X-Men movie franchise in a new project called X-Men: First Class. Iceman, Rogue, Angel, Colossus, Jubilee and Shadowcat, who have appeared prominently or made cameos in prior pics are likely to star.
- Kung Fu Panda director John Stevenson is reportedly vying for the directors chair for a new He-Man movie. Given that so many others have passed on the project Warner Bros killed it, it should be no great difficulty to prove that he’s the only man for the job.
- Hollywood rumors report that Universal Studios is considering making Tremors: The Thunder From Down Under. Either the movie will be set in Australia, or the Ass-Blasters from Tremors 2 are back.
- Real Life News Easily Adapted to Sci Fi Story #7564-b: One of the spiders sent up to the International Space Station is missing. Kirk Shireman, deputy shuttle program manager, says ‘We don’t believe he has escaped the payload. I am sure we will find him spinning a web somewhere in the next few days.”
- “India’s scariest movie ever” called Agyaat (The Unknown), features a group of people trapped in the jungle with an invisible alien killer who’s picking them off one by one. Ram Gopal Varma, director of breakout horror hit Phoonk, says the real star of Agyaat, filming next year, will be the first-of-their-kind special effects. No word yet on if the Governator has given his blessing to the project.
- Disney is rebooting the Witch Mountain franchise, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, explosions, shiny lights, and preteens than can stop an SUV with their body and levitate a macbook air with their mind. Oh and there’s a green armored thing chasing them that we shall call Master Fett or Bobba Chief.
- Simon Pegg’s new movie, Paul, will have him and Hot Fuzz co-star Nick Frost taking a space alien to San Diego Comic-Con, It has also been revealed that the alien in question is going to have a Cloverfield-esque pedigree. Says Pegg “I think it’s a bigger film than probably Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz put together… We’re figuring [the logistics of the alien] out at the moment and having real fun, working closely with Double Negative who did Shaun and Hot Fuzz and Cloverfield and Hellboy II.” Paul starts shooting next April with Superbad‘s Greg Mottola directing.
- Excelsior! ShowTime and Stan Lee are working on a project together – an adaptation of Perry Moore’s award-winning 2007 young adult novel Hero, which tells the story of the world’s first gay superhero dealing with his ex-superhero father, his sexuality, and a superhero serial killer. Moore,will work on the new series as a writer and executive producer, alongside Lee, whose production company Pow! Entertainment, is behind the show.
- Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski, and David Fincher have all signed on to work with Blur Studio on the new Heavy Metal movie. No movie studio backing yet but with powerhouses like that, its much closer to reality. Blur is known for their work on the Warhammer Online games, Harry Potter, and more.
- Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster has been tapped to helm the zombie epic, World War Z. The movie is based on Max Brooks’ novel which is a fictional collection of accounts from survivors after the zombies infested the world and mass panic took over. The action packed underwater walking zombie extravaganza is being produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B production company. J. Michael Straczynski is penning the screenplay, which is still not finished.
Published on
November 12, 2008 in
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- The captain may wish to cover his ears for this one. Red Eagle Entertainment is readying not only big-screen adaptations of the Wheel of Time novels, but video games as well. They’ve just launched Red Eagle Games, a video game publishing company that will oversee the release of video games to coincide with the launch of the movies.
- Reboot ze reboot! NBC’s Knight Rider is getting a makeover. “It’s a reboot,” “Knight” executive producer/showrunner Gary Scott Thompson said. “We’re moving away from the terrorist-of-the-week formula and closer to the original, making it a show about a man and his car going out and helping more regular people, everymen.”
- Engineers at the University of Washington have developed contact lenses with integrated circuitry. This achievement could lay the groundwork for the “bionic eye,” and another element of science fiction will join the ranks of simply science.
- The new Ghostbusters video game will be backed by Atari. This is not a repeat from 1984. With much of the original cast signed on for voice acting, developed by Sierra and then bounced through Activision Blizzard, the project has found its new home with Atari now owned by Infogrames, it should be published in 2009.
- The Army wants to use Eve Online and WoW to test AI sending in virtual soldiers to see if human players can tell the difference. Finally. after billions of dollars in funding, the US military has caught up with the Chinese gold farmers. The army is also trying to use hands free tech to have soldiers in constant, silent communication with each other, with the ability to silently activate and control machines just by thinking about it.
- A new game is in development by veteran game designer Richard Berg that will feature Godzilla, along with some of his friends. Confirmed monsters include Rodan, King Ghidorah and Gigan. There will likely be miniatures representing the monsters, but no word on the scale or design of the pieces. A 2009 release is anticipated and more details and development can be found at boardgamegeek.com
- The mayor of the Turkish town of Batman is suing Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. blaming the highly successful movie franchise of the same name for the town’s high rate of murders and teen suicides. Legal experts have this to say about the case “bwahahahahaha.”
- Will Smith’s son Jaden is a near lock for the Karate Kid remake. No word yet if Ralph Macchio’s work on Ugly Betty and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead will allow for a cameo or not.
- Warner Bros. is in talks with Sam Worthington to play the role of Perseus in the Louis Leterrier-directed “Clash of the Titans.” Leterrier also directed Unleashed and The Incredible Hulk reboot.
- Ridley Scott has officially moved onto Park Avenue. Scott will direct Universal Pictures’ bigscreen version of Hasbro’s Monopoly board game from a script by Pamela Pettler (Corpse Bride).
- “Professor Cline’s Dinosaur Kingdom,” imagines a lost chapter from Civil War history. It supposes that in 1863, a group of paleontologists inadvertently stumbled upon a valley of live dinosaurs. The discovery comes to the attention of the Union Army, who decide to capture them and unleash them on the Confederate Army. Where can you find this story? A new movie? No. A new web series? No. A book? No…Dinosaur Kingdom is a detailed fiberglass roadside attraction in Natural Bridge, Virginia, just across the street from Foamhenge.
Published on
November 5, 2008 in
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- Grant Morrison, writer of Batman RIP and Final Crisis storylines, may be tapped to write the Flash movie.
- Elder God for two? German game designer Reiner Knizia has published a new game, Cthulhu Rising, a mathematics based puzzle game published by Twilight Creations, who also published Zombies!!!
- Social Conservative group, “Focus on the Family,” has begun spreading a short story called, “Letters from Obama’s America,” written y a person living in 2012 and suffering under the horrors of the Obama regime. Pronography is proudly displayed in gas stations, and private ownership of guns has been outlawed. Homosexuality will be legalized as a constitutional right, the Boy Scouts will disband when they refuse to let homosexual tent masters sleep in young boy’s tents, the far Left will control the Supreme Court, a few U.S. cities will be attacked by terrorists and Israel will be nuked, Russia will invade Europe, and the Bible will be classified as hate speech. “Letter” is more frightening in that Conservatives are turning to sci-fi as a weapon. Expect to see a lot of right-wing sci-fi protest literature in the future as the right remakes itself.
- Despite internet rumors, Megan Fox will not be playing Wonder Woman.
- CNN has holograms, kind of. Using 35 HD cameras in a special ring, they beamed images of the correspondents to the studio and choreographed the movements of the studio cameras with images from the rig. The anchors then talked to a hidden monitor, giving the appearance of a 3d image in the studio.
- It’s dead, it’s not dead, it’s dead, it’s not dead. Preacher the movie has risen from the grave again. Columbia Pictures has picked up the rights to the 90′s series, for an adaptation to be directed by Sam Mendes.
- Researchers said Tuesday that it is possible to protect spacecrafts with a portable system known as a magnetosphere that could keep space environmental threats, such as solar wind and flares, away.
- Babylon 5 creator, J. Michael Straczynski, is writing an update of the classic Forbidden Planet for WB.
- The current leader for the next Dr Who may be Billie Piper, however Steven Moffat says he should be 40-plus and weird looking.
- Heroes execs Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander have been fired, because of Peacock exec’s frustration with the creative direction of the show. The show is also said to have been grappling with hefty budge overruns this season, going well beyond its already sizable 4million/seg pricetag.
- Michael Crichton died at 66 of cancer.