Finally we are here, The Best Film of the Decade has been decided upon by you, the reader. I can fairly say I have not voted once in this entire feature run.
Since before Xmas I've been putting features on-line listing what I considered to be the Best Films of each year and then allowing you to vote on your favourites. Of course if your favourite wasn't there you were allowed to add it in and vote for it, and all votes were counted.
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To be honest the thought of a 24 film doesn't work for me, the whole idea is that 24 is more or less real time and delivers 24 hours of excitement, a film will be 1 hour 40 minutes let's say, and that title really isn't as catchy, nor is the idea.
However plans are pressing forward, and while a film version still may not be started until after the show completes, there is now a pitch and both 20th Century Fox and Keifer Sutherland are keen on it. So is it a go?
Steven Soderbergh has begun casting his next film, and it's a film called Contagion written by Scott Z. Burns, and pushed to the front of his queue for a start this year. Word is that the thriller is a multi plot threaded one which is terrifying, the exact word used to describe the story.
It's moving ahead so quickly that we're hearing about the closing casting deals already, and the strong casting seems to have come out of nowhere.
The auction is complete, the Terminator franchise rights are sold, and neither of the studios that were involved have won it. In fact the company who are the victors, as long as the bankruptcy court agrees the deal, is the very company that Halycon owed all the money to in the first place and who effectively forced them into bankruptcy in the first place.
There's more to the deal that makes you think this could all be some sort of conspiracy on a Wall Street insider deal plot line, but it's not, it's real life.
I've been desperate for a Formula One film for a long time, a modern day racing film to match the likes of the James Garner led Grand Prix or the Steve McQueen led Le Mans, even though that's not an F1 film, it did capture a lot of the essence of racing.
That may move a little bit further towards fruition as we hear that there's going to be a Formula One documentary, one that looks to the past of the sport, before the days of money, courts and rule bending.
It's interesting that when we think of Hollywood making bad choices about projects we tend to bundle everyone together, yet we forget that the writers, directors, actors, etc are people and have their own values, their own beliefs, and tend to know when a film idea is right or wrong just as much as we do.
So is it a great surprise to find that directors are turning down the chance to bring the Planet of the Apes franchise back to life? I actually think it is for many of us, myself included, because I am surely guilty of lumping everyone in Hollywood into the one pot on occasion.
First of all let's put this reboot rubbish to bed. There is no reboot of a single film, it's a remake, a prequel or a sequel, you can't reboot a franchise that never happened, that never got beyond one film. So the idea of a Mr. & Mrs. Smith reboot is rubbish, it's a remake, or as the story tells us, a prequel.
It would seem that there's a new Mr. & Mrs. Smith in the works, but without the acting couple who made the roles and the film what it was.
I really thought this idea was dead, but Steve Coogan has been talking about an Alan Partridge film, and that there's still an active move to see the character on the big screen.
In fact he's revealed that we'll know within a month if the film is going to happen or not, and that sounds rather final. Not if it's going to happen this month or year, but ever.
You'll remember that a little while ago Sigourney Weaver revealed in an interview what would be happening to Bill Murray's character, Dr. Peter Venkman, in the next Ghostbusters script, I say script because we're still a while off filming yet. Well now Murray himself has been talking about the film and his role and he's confirmed the same thing.
Mind you, with a script revision happening right now who knows if the writers are reworking this since it's been released on the Internet?
Pierce Brosnan has been out promoting Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and while he was doing that he was asked about the much talked about sequel to The Thomas Crown Affair, a sequel that has never really seen much of the light of day after the stories began.
Still now he's talking about the possible film as though it's going to happen, and reveals that they are on their fourth script looking for the perfect film for him to return.
I've always been voicing my concerns about how Captain America would work in the international world we live in today, but the news about the Captain America film that has been leaking out of late is giving me hope that maybe there's something to be had in the film.
There has been talk of the costume and how that's going to work, as well as casting, filming location, shooting style - please no 3D! - and confirmation of more than just one hero in the film.
There's some interesting rumours coming in from New Regency and the film Medieval that Rob Cohen was getting ready to film. Not only has he spent a huge amount of money on the production already, but the studio have been switching goal posts on the production and it's become so bad that they've shut the film down.
I can't say I entirely understand all the reasons behind what has happened, but the rumour is that it's the studio's fault, not the fault of Rob Cohen – although if it's true that he spent US $12 million on the film already, then perhaps there's a little to be held responsible for.
I've already posted the Super Bowl teaser trailers for The Last Airbender as well as Shutter Island, Brooklyn's Finest and Robin Hood, but now the remaining film teasers have been placed online, including a second Robin Hood teaser.
The teasers generally are good, despite everyone saying that this is the worst ever year for the teasers.
There are two more Super Bowl teasers live on the Internet, and the videos are really here (I'm not just saying that) for both Shutter Island, Brooklyn's Finest and Robin Hood, and they are both looking very powerful.
Shutter Island is the Martin Scorsese film led by Leonardo DiCaprio and Brooklyn's Finest is from Antoine Fuqua and stars Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, and Robin Hood is Ridley Scott's version of the story with Russell Crowe in the lead.
Since news of Neil Jordan's Ondine film came out in June of 2008 I've not written anything about it, I've not heard anything about it really, until now. Back then we heard that Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachledaw were set to star as an Irish fisherman who catches a mythical sea nymph in his nets and takes her home to look after her. Well, that's what he wants to believe.
Now there's a trailer for the film and we get to see the two potential sides of the story, the mythical one, and the one based in reality. What's more is that the trailer does intrigue and offer some interesting set-ups for the film.
Prince looks like an action film set to out do some of the biggest Hollywood films, well if we're going by the trailer that is. The set pieces, action sequences, and the premise of the film all look great, and a few moments had me surprised they were even happening.
However there's a bigger surprise here, despite the inspiration of Matrix and Wanted, it's not a Hollywood film.
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