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Production for the animated sci-fi feature film, Technotise: Edit and I, has been going on for eight years now and will finally premiere in November this year. The film is the first Serbian animated feature to be created. Writer-director Aleksa Gajic first developed it as a sequel to his Technotise graphic novel. “The plot is… [Continue Reading]
One of the great films FM covered when it first opened in 1963 was Ray Harryhausen’s Jason and the Argonauts. Although remade in the past, nothing quite captured the charm of the original. That has not stopped Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk) from writing a new big screen version of the same Greek story. This… [Continue Reading]
Russian bodybuilder turned action star/producer Alexander Nevsky has announced his intention to revisit the lion of Olympus in Hercules: The Beginning. According to Variety, Nevsky is mounting this through his production company, Hollywood Storm, and will have $12 million to produce the feature. Interesting, after years of not being seen since the Kevin Sorbo television… [Continue Reading]
With all the hoopla over last Saturday’s release of Stephenie Meyer’s concluding novel in the Twilight quartet, Main Street’s Amanda Beals took a look at the best selling series for tweens and teens. Not surprisingly, most of them are within the genre including: The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy) – Jonathan Stroud, Nathaniel, a… [Continue Reading]
De fortabte sjaeles o is a Danish thriller from director Nikolaj Arcel that was released last year but has been snapped up by Universal for an English-language remake. Arcel is already on board to helm the adaptation, to be written by Jennifer O’Kieffe. The title translates to Island of Lost Souls but is not related… [Continue Reading]
Disney announced that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has been shifted from 2009 to May 28, 2010. The video game adaptation is being directed by Mike Newell, the movie stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Alfred Molina, Ben Kingsley and Gemma Arterton. As the summer 2010 calendar currently lays out, that puts it a week after… [Continue Reading]
Johnny Depp has apparently agreed to play the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland. Last week, he finally settled on Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska as his Alice. John Savage (Carnivàle), Michael Biehn (Terminator), Art Hindle (Paradise Falls), Spencer List (Law & Order: SVU), Pollyanna McIntosh (Bats: Human Harvest) and Tommy Nelson… [Continue Reading]
Lots of interesting bits and pieces of news was overheard or revealed on the Comic-con show floor or at panels. Greg McLean, director of the forthcoming Rogue, said he was on the west coast firming up plans for his next horror project. Terry Goodkind’s Wizard’s First Rule, soon to be a syndicated televisions series produced… [Continue Reading]
Details of the recently announced Red Sonja film were revealed at Comic-Con International yesterday. Director will be Douglas Aarniokoski assured fans that the film will be an origin story drawing heavily from both Robert E. Howard’s prose and Marvel’s lengthy run with the character, largely written by Roy Thomas. It was described to the crowd… [Continue Reading]
Empire On Line reports that Sir Ian McKellen will return as Gandalf the Gray in Guillermo del Toro’s two-film Hobbit project. “Well, I haven’t had the contract yet but it’s everyone’s intention that I play Gandalf so yes, I will be returning to the role. Although it’s not until 2010, I’m very much excited about… [Continue Reading]
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