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Posted by dominie in Films, News on December 3rd, 2008
The final one-sheet for My Bloody Valentine 3D from Lionsgate debuted today on Shock Till You Drop. The film is a redo of George Mihalka’s 1981 slasher horror and this is the final of three movie posters.
Directed by Patrick Lussier, MBV finds Jensen Ackles (Supernatural) playing Tom Hanniger, a man who returns to his hometown of Harmony haunted by a tragic coal mining accident and the subsequent massacre that occurred courtesy of vengeful survivor Harry Warden. Ten years later, on Valentine’s Day, the killings begin again with a masked killer wielding a pickaxe on the loose. Has Warden returned?
Joining Ackles in this blood-soaked mystery is Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Edi Gathegi and Kevin Tighe. My Bloody Valentine 3D opens in theaters on January 16th.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on December 3rd, 2008
IndieLondon caught sight of Lauren Shuler Donner, the producer of all the past and upcoming X-Men films, to bring us some clues on the happenings of the forthcoming X-Men prequels Wolverine and Magneto.
Donner reveals that Wolverine is very much “in the tone of the first X-Men,” noting she is very happy with the result and that her next task is to get crackin’ on Magneto.
“We have a great script on Magneto,” Donner tells IndieLondon. “I’ll tell you the honest truth… I’ve made four movie[s] this year and I was so busy that I didn’t at all talk to the studio while making Magneto because I couldn’t have done it. And David Goyer, who wrote and is going to direct it, also did another movie. So now, he’s done with his and I’m done with two of mine, so when I get back that’s my first order of business to say: ‘Come on, let’s go and make Magneto.’”
In regards to Wolverine, Empire debuted the first look on Taylor Kitsch as Gambit. Of the character, Hugh Jackson told MTV Splashpage, “I can say it. He’s sexy, right? He’s a little bit like a junior Wolverine in a way. He’s a little bit of a wise guy. He’s an outsider. He’s got some issues himself. He’s mischievous. He’s cheeky. He’s a bit of a badass. We have a really great fight sequence. Physically that guy is an animal. He was chucking himself around on the concrete. He has that passion that I remember having when I first did Wolverine. There was no way a stunt double was doing anything for him.”
Still waiting on the images for Deadpool’s character, played by the hot Ryan Reynolds, who also debuts in Wolverine. X-Men Origins: Wolverine arrives in theaters May 1, 2009.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on December 3rd, 2008
From io9, more in the realm of Battlestar Galactica. The Sci Fi Channel has just updated their You Will Know the Truth website. There is a clip showing Baltar talking with Six about how Baltar will challenge the old gods, followed by another clue—an updated Battlestar Galactica Last Supper picture. The new picture is shown, click here for the previous version. Someone is missing…
The identity of the final cylon is still very hush-hush. There is not much longer to wait, but you’re interested, SyFy Portal has compiled a list of The Final Five On The Final Cylon. Spoiler alert and keep in mind no speculations have been confirmed.
Posted by dominie in Films, Reviews on December 3rd, 2008
We’ve got an early review for you. Timecrimes (official website), the feature directorial debut of Nacho Vigalondo, is the third film from Magnolia/Magnet Releasing’s Six Shooter Film Series. The movie arrives in limited theaters December 12th.
If you are expecting a high tech fast and furious time chase Jet Li fight a la The One or a more sophisticated H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper in Time After Time… this is different.
Don’t get me wrong; different in a good way. In his feature long directorial debut, Nacho Vigalondo doesn’t waste any time on the technology, on the ‘why’ and the ‘how’; the only thing that matters is the people. What an average man would be if he discovered he is part of a twisted time-travel plot that he himself created. What the different ‘instances’ of him are doing at any given time. And how can he fix it? With low budget but high creativity, Vigalondo was able to create not only a believable story but also a compassionate character.
Hector, played by the confused but relentless Karra Eleyade, tries everything in order to bring his life back to some glimce of normalcy, but in doing so he needs to force the events to happen and rely on hope that the result is a positive outcome. The movie soon resignates like a Matrioshka doll, with the same events nested one into each other, forcing the protagonist towards unthinkable decisions and… of course… crimes. The mechanism is twisted and halfway through the story, the plot is artifically forced in order to have all the pieces fit together.
Timecrimes provides for an enjoyable rollercoster ride, however, something that cannot escape the expert eye of a Star Trek fan with an unsurpassed knowledge in temporal anomalies is this movie sheds no new light on the matter of time travel.
–Written by Simone Bartesaghi
Posted by dominie in Comics, Films, News on December 3rd, 2008
Zack Snyder has been fighting Warner Bros.’ studio execs since before Comic-Con to retain the full length of his movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel, Watchmen. The objective: to preserve the “core” of the story. While I’m sure this is still the case, it seems that at the end of the day the business aspect of the picture is still key. Longer movies=less turnaround=less tickets=less money.
According to Sci Fi Wire, the current cut of the film is down to two hours and 35 minutes from the previous length at two hours and 50 minutes. The length still hasn’t been approved however, and it’s likely it will be cut further.
As announced, Snyder has been trying to be as faithful as possible to Moore and Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel, which tells a complex story of superheroes in an alternate-universe 1985 New York. The graphic novel interpolates other comics and book excerpts into its narrative, something Snyder has been really trying to approximate in his film.
It sounds like with each minute more that is cut, we might have to settle for reading Moore and Gibbons’ graphic novel again. Here’s a little bit of comfort, the director’s cut on the DVD will be three hours and 10 minutes long, incorporating even more than the theatrical version as far as the details that bring the film even closer to the graphic novel.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on December 3rd, 2008
The Sci-Fi Channel has officially greenlit Caprica, the hotly anticipated prequel to the Battlestar Galactica series. Production begins in the middle of next year, most likely in Vancouver like is predecessor, and the studio is aiming for an early 2010 bow for the series.
Sci-Fi Channel’s president David Howe tells Variety, “Battlestar Galactica was absolutely our flagship show. It put us on he map and helped transform the perception of the network,” noting that the cabler hopes to draw a broader audience to a series it sees as more compelling family drama than “space opera.”
He continues, “We want people to come to this who have never heard of Battlestar Galacica. I think, because (Galactica’s) backdrop was space and spaceships, there was a barrier to entry for some viewers. Caprica has none of that. It’s an intense family drama set on an Earthlike planet, in the near future [50 years prior to Galactica’s initial attack. Caprica will speak] to a lot of the ethical dilemmas that we as a human race are going to have to face very shortly.”
Caprica will premiere on Sci-Fi Channel as a 2-hour pilot and stars Esai Morales as Joseph Adama, William Adama’s father, Eric Stoltz and Paula Malcolmson as the wealthy capitalist parents of Zoe Graystone’s, and Polly Walker, the headmistress at Zoe Graystone’s school. The image provided is courtesy of eonline.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on December 2nd, 2008
The news is still fact. Russell Crowe is still playing both Robin Hood and the Sheriff in Ridley Scott’s upcoming Nottingham movie. How you might ask? Let me forewarn you, spoiler alert!
The story will be an origin story that tells the love triangle forms between the legendary do-gooder Robin Hood, his Maid Marian and the archer’s arch nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Producer Brian Grazer tells MTV News that “Robin Hood sees Nottingham in battle very early in the movie an Nottingham dies, and Robin Hood takes over the identity of Nottingham. That’s how it plays out.”
Currently Brian Helgeland is in the final rewrite stages of the script and lensing will begin in March 2009.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on December 2nd, 2008
The set of Guy Ritchie’s new Sherlock Holmes has suffered a series of nasty accidents reports The Sun.
Robert Downey Jr. was accidentally knocked out by seven-foot British actor wrestler Robert Maillet after catching a thundering hook to the chin during a fight scene. Downey “went flying” and was “out cold” for “six second” and “drooling blood.” Downey was revived by the medic but didn’t want to go to the hospital. He received six stitches inside his mouth.
In another incident, Jude Law who plays Dr. Watson, had to flee the set with Ritchie when a petrol tanker exploded in a fireball, forcing the set to be closed for two hours.
No serious injuries have been reported, but the source tells The Sun, the crew have started joking about the “Curse of Sherlock Holmes.”
Posted by dominie in Films, News on December 2nd, 2008
Director Guillermo del Toro talked about his upcoming The Hobbit movie during a BD-Live chat for Hellboy II: The Golden Army. So here’s what we know so far, straight from del Toro himself.
Filming for The Hobbit begins in 2010 and will shoot for somewhere in the range of 370 days.There will be a mixture of CGI/puppetry like never before. Del Toro tells BD Live, “I am going to push further than ever on both fronts… [there will be] many many more [cool creatures] and we will be pushing the Goblin Kingdom. We will be pushing Smaug, the Spiders of Mirkwood. We will be pushing them to the edge of technology where we will fuse animatronics and CGI into a seamless new art form in creating creatures, I think.”
Posted by dominie in Films, News on December 2nd, 2008
At the AFM in Santa Monica last month, one of the more interesting potentials came from writer-director Rob Stefaniuk. He is developing Suck, a new Rock’n’roll vampire horror starring rockers Alice Cooper, Moby, Iggy Pop, and Henry Rollins with David Foley (Postal), Malcom McDowell (Halloween) and Jessica Pare and others. You may have guessed it already, but the film will involve a group of rockstar wannabies in search of immortality and a record deal. And this would be a horror unless with have a Van Helsing descendant to hunt down the vampires.
Equinoxe Films has acquired Canadian rights for the film while Insight Film Releasing will handle international rights. For the complete synopsis and the full cast, see the press release below courtesy of B-D. (more…)
The final one-sheet for My Bloody Valentine 3D from Lionsgate debuted today on Shock Till You Drop. The film is a redo of George Mihalka’s 1981 slasher horror and this is the final of three movie posters.
