Posts Tagged ‘Warner Bros.’
Posted by dominie in Comics, Films, News on November 11th, 2008
Warner Bros. released six teaser posters for the Zack Snyder’s (300) Watchmen today. The posters introduce the six primary characters in this dystopian unorthodox superhero film based on DC Comics 1986 limited series created by Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons.
The posters were scattered across the web via various websites. Click on each image for a closer look and read on for character bios of each superhero.
Character Bios courtesy of Wikipedia. (more…)
Posted by dominie in Films, News on November 10th, 2008
In an interview with LA Times, popstar Beyonce Knowles revealed she met with Warner Bros. and DC Comics reps to express her interest in playing their superhero princess, Wonder Woman. My fingers quiver at the possibility of this becoming true. I am a huge fan of Beyonce and her music, however the interview speaks for itself. She does not fit the role, only the costume. Read on for excerpts from her interview.
The recent success of sophisticated comic-book adaptations is the main reason for Beyoncé’s interest, she said, but her focus on Wonder Woman was intensified earlier this year when she saw Lynda Carter’s costume from the 1970s television show on display at the Costume Institute’s “Superhero” show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Wonder Woman costume is an “unforgiving one” she tells LA Times. “I would definitely have to keep it right for that costume. The way that Lynda Carter wore it, she was sooo fine. She was amazing. I saw her costume at the Met. Her waist was unbelievable. It was pretty crazy, actually, her proportions. But I love Wonder Woman and it’d be a dream come true to be that character. It sure would be handy to have that lasso. To make everybody tell the truth? I need that. It would come in very handy.” (more…)
Posted by dominie in Films, News on November 2nd, 2008
The Hollywood Reporter announced that Warner Bros. has tapped J. Michael Straczynski, the scribe who wrote Clint Eastwood’s Changeling and is best known for creating Babylon 5, to pen a remake of the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet.
The original film, directed by Fred Wilcox was released in 1956, tell the “tale of an expedition sent from Earth to check on a colony of scientists on a far-off planet. They find two members, a man who has found alien technology that doubled his intellect, Dr. Morbius, and his daughter, both of whom have managed to survive an unseen monster roaming the planet.”
Posted by dominie in Films, News on October 31st, 2008
Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight) joins Denzel Washington in the film Book of Eli from Warner Bros. reports Variety.
The post-apocalyptic action story, to be directed by Allen and Albert Hughes, “revolves around a lone warrior (Washington) who must fight to bring society the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption. Oldman has been set to portray the despot of a small makeshift town who’s determined to take possession of the book Eli’s guarding.”
Warner Bros. will handle domestic distribution deals while Summit controls the international sales.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on October 30th, 2008
Dominic Sena’s (Swordfish, Gone in Sixty Seconds) adaptation of Whiteout has finally received a release date! The Kate Beckinsale (Underworld) and Gabriel Macht (The Spirit) starrer film arrives in theaters September 11, 2009.
Bloody Disgusting supplies the following synopsis.
The ticking-clock Whiteout follows U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko as she uncovers the first murder ever in the Antarctic just as the sun is about to set for six months. She must catch the killer before he leaves the ice or be stuck there with him in the dark for six months.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on October 24th, 2008
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that McG (Terminator Salvation) will direct the upcoming spy film, Dead Spy Running, based on the novel by British author Jon Stock for Warner Bros. The studio hopes to launch a new franchise with this film, which aims to reinvent the spy genre. Dead Spy Running, describes Patrick Janson-Smith is a cross between John le Carré meets Jason Bourne. The first novel of the trilogy is due in July 2009 from HarperCollins.
McG will begin work on the project after Terminator Salvation is completed.
Posted by dominie in Comics, Films, News on October 23rd, 2008
The official trailer for Sony Screen Gems’ Underworld: Rise of the Lycans can now be viewed at Apple.com. Directed by FX specialist Patrick Tatopoulos (Angel Hair) and starring Michael Sheen, Rhona Mitra, Bill Nighy, Shane Brolly, Steven MacKintosh, and Kevin Grievoux, the third installment is a prequel to the previous films. Set in the Dark Ages, the story will trace the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires led by Viktor and the werewolf slaves known as the Lycans. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans debuts in theaters January 23, 2009.
Marvel’s search for Thor is still in the works. The studio is rumored to only have a short list of potentials. IESB caught up with Daniel Craig at the press day for Quantum of Solace and managed to sneak in a few questions about another known hero, the upcoming Thor Marvel adaptation. Craig reveals that “[Marvel] did approach him but he turned it down.” He jokes, “It would have bent too much of a power trip, both Bond and Thor, and running around with long hair and a hammer.”
Warner Bros. released a new teaser poster for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen today. The new extended trailer that premiered at the 2008 Scream Awards can also be viewed online here.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on October 14th, 2008
Early in October, Lethal Weapon 5 was rumored to be ready to begin production. IGN reported that Warner Bros. had plans to put the movie on the fast track as soon as Mel Gibson gave the go-ahead. Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), who wrote Lethal Weapon 1-3 and the characters for ‘4′, wrote the screenplay for ‘5′ and was hoping to direct.
This week however, The Los Angeles Times caught up with director Richard Donner, the man who directed and produced the Lethal Weapon series, only to discover that Mel Gibson has turned down the project. This didn’t come as a surprise to Donner when he found himself excluded from any Lethal sequel discussions. The director tells The Los Angeles Times, “Mel turned it down. I would like to think that Mel turned it down because I wasn’t involved. Knowing Mel, I would like to think that. Would that be the kind of thing he does? It sure would be.”
LA Times queried Gibson’s camp on the matter and concluded, “While [Gibson’s camp was] reluctant to make any official comment, I left the conversation with no doubt in my mind that Donner’s account is accurate.”
Donner went on, “It’s too bad, actually, because Channing Gibson, who wrote the fourth one, and Mike Riva, a designer on three of them, and myself and Derek [Hofman, an associate at The Donner Company] had an incredibly strong story for the fifth movie. But we weren’t given the opportunity and I think maybe I could have convinced Mel to do it. But Warners chose to go with Joel Silver.”
Posted by dominie in Films, News on October 10th, 2008
Not exactly a monster or horror film, but depending on how you view the subject matter, this potential Oscar contender is worthy of mention. While doing a press for The Changeling, Clint Eastwood spoke briefly about his upcoming film, Gran Torino, a potentially very controversial piece that addresses, directly, the issues of racism and political correctness. Eastwood will direct and also star in Gran Torino, as Walt Kowalski, a racist Korean War veteran who finds himself reluctantly bonding with his neighbor, an Asian immigrant, over his classic 1972 Gran Torino.
At 78 years old, Clint Eastwood calls it like it is. This is a man I would love to sit down with for a cup of tea and listen to him talk endlessly. His films deviate from the norm, always addressing themes others are too afraid to discuss. Gran Torino will be Eastwood’s first return in front of the camera since Million Dollar Baby, which took home the Oscar for Best-Picture.
Eastwood describes his character is “unflattering and potentially controversial,” telling USA Today, “I’m a weirdo in it. I play a real racist. … It’s a great time in life (to do that) because, you know, what can they do to you once you’re past 70? There’s nothing they can do. But it also has redemption. This Hmong family moves in next door, and he has been in the Korean War, in the infantry, and looks down on Asian people and lumps everybody together. But finally they befriend him in his time of need because he has no relationship with his family.”
Warner Bros. plans to release Eastwood’s Gran Torino December 2008.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on October 6th, 2008
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jesse Eisenberg (Cursed, The Village, Adventureland) is rumored to be joining Woody Harrelson in Columbia Pictures’ Zombieland, a horror comedy to be directed by newcomer Ruben Fleischer. The screenplay, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (The Joe Schmo Show) is “about a mismatched pair of survivors who find friendship and redemption in a world overrun by zombies.” Eisenberg will play Flagstaff, “a terrified shut-in whose cowardice makes him an expert at surviving the zombies but who is forced out of his shell to join the band of survivors.” Produced by Gavin Polone of Pariah Films, we’re looking at a 2012 release.
Bloody-Disgusting reported that The Factory has assembled its full cast. John Cusack (1408), Sonya Walger (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Mae Whitman (Boogeyman 2), Katherine Waterston, Mageina Tovah, Cindy Sampson, Conrad Pla, Michael Trevino, and Cas Anvar will star in the project, produced by Dark Castle and to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Morgan O’Neill (Project Greenlight) co-wrote and will direct the screenplay, a psychological thriller in which Cusack “will play an obsessed cop who, with his partner, is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. When his teenage daughter disappears, the cop drops any professional restraint and goes all out to get the killer.”
