Filmstalker: April 2007 Archives

Jodie Foster to play Nazi propaganda director

Jodie Foster is a great actress, but her roles are far too few. However it has just been announced that she is set to play Leni Riefenstahl in a new, and undoubtedly controversial film. Leni Riefenstahl is the woman who became Adolf Hitler's favourite director with her films becoming a...

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Ridley Scott directs Crowe in Robin Hood revised

Interesting news today that Ridley Scott is set to direct Russell Crowe in the latest adaptation of the Robin Hood tale where they're making the Sheriff of Nottingham the good guy. We heard that Crowe was onboard this project a few months back: The story sounds like a modern day...

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Gears of War script treatment online

Just last month we heard that a Gears of War film was in the works, and today it seems that the initial treatment written by Stuart Beattie might just have been leaked online, and what's more is that you can read it too. Gears of War is a videogame that...well...

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Darren Aronofsky to direct Noah's Ark film

Darren Aronofsky's biblical epic film will be one of Noah, the flood, and his building of an Ark to save the animals and his family. When Darren Aronofsky was a mere ten years old he won a United Nations competition for his poem about the flood as seen through Noah's...

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Stalked: Miller confirms two Sin City sequels and Dr Doom's pictured

Frank Miller says there are two Sin City sequels in the pipeline and Dr Doom's picture online shows his new armour. Frank Miller has been talking to the LA Times about some of the upcoming projects of his and he's let slip a few interesting facts. Not only has he...

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Clive Owen's Second Sight to be filmed

Universal is going to film a British TV mini-series called Second Sight in which Clive Owen played a detective trying to solve a crime before he totally loses his eyesight and goes blind. According to the story the Second Sight mini-series showed on PBS in the States and there have...

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Stalked: Old news of Tommy Lee Jones and Crank sequel

Two stories that are repeated from old today. First is the Tommy Lee Jones in In The Electric Mist with Confederate Dead, and then there's the Crank sequel talk. Back in January we heard that Tommy Lee Jones was to star in the film In The Electric Mist with Confederate...

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Madonna produces revenge horror film

Madonna is getting into film production at the moment, hopefully this will put off her rumoured directing role, as she gets set to co-produce a revenge horror film. The film is called Digger and will be directed by John A. Gallagher, who is also one of the guys behind the...

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Tarantino to direct martial arts remake

Quentin Tarantino has been keeping secrets from us, according to a press release from the Weinstein's he has a little film up his sleeve called Come Drink With Me which is a remake of a Hong Kong martial arts film. The original Da zui xia, tells the story of a...

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Dragon's Lair film in development

There's a Dragon's Lair film in development. What's Dragon's Lair you ask? Well it's a videogame that has been going for some time now, and in fact was one of the first laserdisc video games released in 1983. It had Disney style animation and was a major success as when...

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Stalked: Langella confired as Nixon, and Jamelia on film

Frank Langella has been confirmed as Richard Nixon after the rumour a few days ago, and Jamelia is set to enter film, maybe as a Bond girl?. Jamelia is a great British talent, I love her singing and she looks absolutely drop dead gorgeous, so it's no surprise that she's...

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Brit Blog Awards 2007 Winners announced

The Ask.com and Metro Brit Blog awards 2007 were announced the other week and the winner was Hecklerspray with the runner up of The Sessions. Hecklerspray is a gossip type site with multiple writers that has been going since 2005, and The Sessions is a MyMarketingSpace site for a London...

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Dead by Dawn 2007 ends

Well Dead by Dawn 2007 is officially dead for another year. I had a good time this year and came away with a T shirt that doesn't fit me, so perhaps I'll give it away in an upcoming competition. The films this year were very good, there were a lot...

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Bruce Campbell talks Bubba Nosferatu, My Name is Bruce sequel and Hobbit

Bruce Campbell has revealed that although My Name is Bruce isn't even released yet, there's funding in place for the sequel. He also has some comments on Bubba Nosferatu that don't sound that Campbell is as excited as I'd have hoped, and he mentions how he thinks it's a really...

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Bloodrayne II: Deliverance teaser online

There's a teaser out for Uwe Boll's Bloodrayne II: Deliverance, and thankfully in this one he's not trying to anatognise half the audience who he wants to pay for a ticket. The trailer has some cowboy action without much vampire type stuff going on, there is one bloodsucking moment but...

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Superman: Doomsday trailer online

Here's a cool trailer for an animated version of the story that sees Superman die, Superman: Doomsday. The film is adapted from the Death and Return of Superman series in DC Comics, I guess they had to label it with that title in case people thought that he wasn't really...

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Stalked: Scotty in space and Evans as The Night Watchman

Scotty's ashes finally make it to space and Chris Evans joins The Night Watchman (not the Watchmen as the Interwebby titles would have you believe). Chris Evans has joined Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker aboard the film The Night Watchman. According to Evans through IGN, he plays a good cop...

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Dead By Dawn 2007 - The last day

This year the Dead by Dawn Horror Festival has been kinder to me, both with Adele's scheduling, and also with my choice of films. They have allowed me a nice sleep instead of the all nighter and decent breaks between films to get notes written up. Still, when I arrived...

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It Came From the West

From the very opening, and I mean at the logo for the Production Company behind this strange film, the humour was apparent. The flying fish icon is shot, falls behind the title, and then re-emerges as a zombified version of its former self. This, if you didn't know already from...

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Captivity trailer online

The trailer for Captivity has arrived, and it's making the most of the MPAA bother they had recently when they had their posters removed and their rating review delayed. Captivity stars Elisha Cuthbert as a woman kidnapped, held in captivity and tortured, but there's someone else in held captive with...

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Arad persuaded Raimi to film Venom

Apparently Sam Raimi didn't originally want to add Venom and Gwen Stacy to Spider-Man 3, it was actually Avi Arad that turned him around and persuaded him to do it for the fans. Raimi was focused on the idea of having just Sandman and Spidey battle it out, but then...

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Gordon Ramsay's life on film?

Gordon Ramsay, the celebrated michelin star chef and TV personality, recently wrote a book about his life called Humble Pie. Now he's saying that it might be made into a film. He told the Sun newspaper that the deal was being talked about right now, and he seems positive about...

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L'Hotel de L'Abre Mort (The Dead Tree Hotel)

This short was one that hadn't really grabbed me when I read up about it, it sounded like so many other horror films I'd seen before. Couple in the middle of nowhere get lost in the middle of the night, and a lone figure on the road gives them directions...

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La habitación del niño (The Baby's Room)

This was a fascinating film made by an incredibly engaging and funny man, Álex de la Iglesia. He gave the audience a superb stand-up routine before and after the film as he talked about himself and the movie. The film borders on some ideas that would be more suited in...

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Masters of Horror II: Family

I wasn't sure what to think of this to begin with, John Landis takes the reigns in this Masters of Horror episode and so you can expect a fair degree of humour in the film, and that is very much apparent from the opening scenes. This tells the story of...

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Beatty out, Langella in for Frost-Nixon

A little while ago I carried the story that Warren Beatty was being seriously looked at to play Nixon in the Frost-Nixon film adapted from the play. Now news is out that Beatty isn't in the running anymore and that Frank Langella is now in negotiations. Frankly, excuse the pun,...

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Weinstein's confirm Grindhouse UK split

It has to be said the Weinstein's are very kind to us here in the UK, they've now announced that Grindhouse will be split into two separate releases for the UK only, confirming the story from the 14th of April that some people put down as false. So we don't...

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Eragon

Eragon has not long been released on DVD in a double disc offering that promises a raft of extras. The film is adapted from the first in a trilogy of novels from Christopher Paolini called Eragon, the others being Eldest and Empire, which is as yet unwritten. Although the story...

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Are Horror films dead?

A little while ago the horror remakes trickled in, now there are a string of remakes in various stages of production, with the Hollywood machine fixing its eye firmly on 80's horror films. At the same time there are a number of Zombie films being made, and a few horror...

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Kidman in remake of How to Marry a Millionaire

Nicole Kidman has signed up to a remake of How to Marry a Millionaire, How to Marry a Millionairethe original film having been made famous by a host of Hollywood greats and in particular the beautiful women who starred - Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall. Now those names...

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Goyer to direct X-Men's Magneto

Magneto is going to be directed by David Goyer it appears, and to me that indicates two things. It's going to be good, and it's going to be intelligent. Something I was always concerned about when I heard about this project is the subject matter. The film is about the...

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28 Weeks Later, more great clips

There are some new clips online for 28 Weeks Later, six in fact, and for once in a very long time I started out uninterested in a film and finding myself pulled more and more into it by the clips we've seen. I really thought that this sequel was going...

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Infamous Italian politician Giulio Andreotti gets film

The Italian Prime Minister who served seven terms, Giulio Andreotti, is about to get a film made about his life and dealings, something which should cause a split between many people. Director Paolo Sorrentino is to create the film of his life. Sorrentino has been nominated twice for the Cannes...

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Stalked: McDowell in Doomsday,The Possibility of an Island and MPAA back down

A few stories to Stalk together, Malcom McDowell is joining Neil Marshall's Doomsday, novelist Michel Houellebecq to adapt and direct his own novel, and the MPAA changes a rating, except they've lowered it on appeal! Malcolm McDowell has joined Neil Marshall's Doomsday film. He will play a scientist called Kane...

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Blade Runner gets reshoots after 25 years?

There's an interesting story about that there have been some reshoots on Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Yes, I said Blade Runner, a film that was shot twenty five years ago. According to Joanna Cassidy's official website through Sci Fi Wire she's just finished the reshoot, and what's probably more astounding...

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More Dark Knight set photos

The recent spy shots of Heath Ledger as the Joker on The Dark Knight set - no, not the full face ones that looked like The Crow, the ones of him outside the trailer - weren't the only ones taken that day, and the snapster behind them has strung them...

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Beckinsale says no Barbarella

Kate Beckinsale has heard nothing about the rumours of her starring in the Barbarella remake, and in fact she says she hasn't even heard anything in connection with it. Shame really because if you think about it she really would look good in the role, however I think perhaps it...

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Jim Sheridan to remake Brothers (Brødre)

The Danish film Brothers, or Brødre, is being remade, and I had the chance to see the original just the other day. It's a good film, but I think doesn't make enough impact on some key emotional and moral moments for the audience. However today we here that Jim Sheridan...

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LaBeouf wants Y: The Last Man lead

Shia LaBeouf is at it again, and very cleverly too I might add. He's pimping himself for a role in the film version of the highly regarded comic book Y: The Last Man, although unlike the Transformers rumour that he admitted he started, this time he's not even saying he's...

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Free film screenings at 1245 metres!

Britain's highest cinema is about to open it's "doors" for the Aviemore Mountain Film Festival which will feature a film this weekend atop the 1245 metre high Cairngorm mountain. The Festival is about all things extreme, so in the specially constructed cinema tent on top of the mountain films showing...

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Luke Goss talks Hellboy 2

Luke Goss has been talking about his role in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, and although he's not giving much away he is letting out that the role will have some depth to it, not like the standard evil character trying to take over the world. Of...

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Stranded astronauts get film

Too Far From Home is a novel by Chris Jones which tells the story of three astronauts who were stranded on the International Space Station for one hundred days in 2003, and now Universal look set to make it into a film. The novel looks at the astronauts who were...

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Martin's All of Me remake with Latifah?!

All of Me was the comedy with Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin (back when Martin was funny) where the soul of Tomlin's character fell into the body of a man played by Martin, some hilarious moments then followed. Now it's being remade and Queen Latifah is set to star. This...

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CSI star Dourdan as Phil Lynott

While I was searching for the IMDB links for this evenings stories, I found an interesting fact, Gary Dourdan of CSI: Las Vegas fame is set to play Phil Lynott, the legendary lead singer of the group Thin Lizzy. Phil Lynott sang and played guitar with Thin Lizzy, Skid Row,...

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Liu's Rise: Blood Hunter trailer online

The trailer for Rise: Blood Hunter is online, and it's right here for you to see. The film sees Lucy Liu's character turned into a vampire by a rather sexy Carla Gugino, and once she realises she teams up with a cop played by Michael Chiklis to help her kill...

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Dracula sequel to gain Bardem, Bellucci and Hurt?

I forgot there was a Dracula sequel in the works, and according to news today a Director has been cast, not only that but there are rumours about a huge cast for this blood sucking sequel. Now bear in mind that these are rumours from email sources, so it could...

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Jennifer and David Lynch behind Surveillance

David Lynch is producing Surveillance, a film which will be directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch, yes it's his daughter. We already had the news recently that Jennifer Lynch was set to return after Boxing Helena, and in that story all we knew about the Surveillance plot was... ...a supernatural thriller....

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Mandrake the Magician the movie

Now I know the comic character Mandrake by name, and it's a character that I think is a lot stronger than some of the comic characters coming to the cinema, so I wonder why it has taken until now for a film version to be announced? Chuck Russell is set...

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Stalked: Kilmer in Columbus Day and Roberts in Dark Knight

Val Kilmer joins Columbus Day heist film as the semi-bad guy, and Eric Roberts has just joined The Dark Knight. Val Kilmer, Wilmer Valderrama and Marg Helgenberger have joined the film Columbus Day, produced by Kevin Spacey's company Trigger Street Productions. The Hollywood Reporter through Moviehole have the plot outline:...

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Stiles stars in Sylvia Plath film

Julia Stiles is set to play the lead role in the famous poet Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, a story that is widely regarded as her own life story thinly disguised as a fictional story. This could mark a huge role for Stiles, as her character looks set to...

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Autistic autobiography to be film

Daniel Tammet is a brilliant autistic savant and his story is set to make it to the big screen. It has already been told in his autobiography Born on a Blue Day, which describes how his mind works and how he sees colours and numbers around him. At the age...

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Harlin's new and original Brodie's Law

Renny Harlin's latest film sounds really interesting, honestly. Brodie's Law sees a man who injects himself with a chemical that allows him to absorb and take over DNA, in other words to become other people. Jack Brodie, a prison-hardened thief with a short temper and a bad attitude, hopes that...

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Grindhouse UK release halted

The UK distributors for Grindhouse have put the release plans on hold to review both the date and the release plans, trying to make sure that there's not another failure of box office release as there was in the US. Grindhouse was to be released in the UK as a...

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I Am Legend spends fortune on flashback scene

There's an interesting article online that shows how much money is being poured into the Will Smith film I Am Legend, the remake of The Omega Man and/or adapted from the novel The Last Man on Earth. They talk of the Brooklyn Bridge scene where they are reported to have...

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Stalked: Anderson talks British films and McGrath makes A Violent Act

Douglas McGrath is writing and will direct the true crime story A Violent Act by Alec Wilkinson and Gillian Anderson has been talking about appearing in small budget British films such as Straightheads. The Writer and Director of Infamous, Douglas McGrath, has revealed his next project, an adaptation of a...

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Stalked: Radcliffe's new film and Bates in Mendes' new film

December Boys which marks Daniel Radcliffe first film outside of Harry Potter since he joined the wizard's franchise and Kathy Bates is joining Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road. Warner Brothers are to distribute December Boys which marks Daniel Radcliffe's first film outside the Harry Potter franchise. The film, according to Variety,...

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Stalked: Stephen Gately in horror, and Irish Bank funds film

British horror Credo which stars a former Boyzone singer is to be distributed, and Allied Irish Bank help fund a new and rather large Production company. A new British horror called Credo has been bought for distribution by Moviehouse Entertainment. The film is directed by Toni Harman and stars none...

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Infamous director says Sandra Bullock too light

I've held the belief, and said it here many times, that there's a strong actress in Sandra Bullock just screaming to get out. It's something that is more than apparent from two of her roles, 28 Days and Crash. I suspect you could also add Infamous in there, but I...

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Third new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix trailer online

There's a new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix trailer online. Yes, another new one. Not the trailer that was released just the other day, this is another new trailer. I think it's described as the domestic trailerwhich means the one for the US. You can see it...

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Hitman plot revealed, will it work?

The plot is out for the Hitman film, the adaptation of the excellent videogame series from Eidos. The game features a genetically engineered assassin called Agent 47 (from the number tattooed on the back of his neck) who has broken free of his makers and has started to find a...

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Paris je'taime and Balls of Fury trailers

There are a few trailers that I discovered today that are of note. Paris je'taime, Balls of Fury and a featurette for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Paris je'taime is a segmented film featuring a whole raft of directors from Gus Van Saint and Gérard Depardieu to the...

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Braff says no to Fletch Won

I don't think it's a big surprise that Zach Braff isn't going to play Fletch. I remember him talking about it on his own site and it sounded like the deal was there if he wanted it, but from the sounds of it he didn't. His heart seems to be...

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Saw IV plot revealed?

The plot of Saw IV has appeared online, and really it's nothing more than we expected to date. One thing is interesting through, it is a direct continuation, and by direct it looks like it picks up the second the previous one finished. Here's the plot, and remember if you...

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Douglas versus Ford in real life courtroom drama

Michael Douglas is set to play a lawyer once again in Tragic Indifference, but this time it's a story based on real events where an Attorney, Tab Turner, takes on the car giant Ford in the courtroom. In 2000 Turner was hired by Donna Bailey after her Ford Explorer flipped...

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Bacon returns from Iraq in Taking Chance

Kevin Bacon is another actor I love watching, and the news today is that he's signed up for the lead in Taking Chance playing an officer who accompanies the body of a US soldier killed in action being flown home from Iraq for a home funeral. According to Variety, Ross...

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Dead By Dawn Horror Festival 2007 Programme

The Dead by Dawn Horror Festival runs this coming weekend in Edinburgh, and if it's anything like last year it'll be a corker. For those of you who have never attended you are treated to a weekend of horror, early morning finishes and one all nighter mean that you'll be...

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The Golden Age, Elizabeth sequel trailer online

The trailer for The Golden Age is online. For those of you who didn't know this is the sequel to Elizabeth starring the wonderful Cate Blanchett, written by Michael Hirst and directed by Shekhar Kapur. Blanchett heads a stunning cast in that film, a film which gathered a number of...

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Forget Hulk's colour, Norton's the real story

It's interesting when the news that gathered the most attention from the film sites and blogs was the "Hulk is grey" story and not the fact that Ed Norton is set to play Bruce Banner and the Hulk himself. Ed Norton everyone. The story came from a quote that Avi...

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First picture of Joker from The Dark Knight?

The new face of the Joker from The Dark Knight is online. Previously there was a test shot scooped and released which many doubted was actually the Joker himself, and there could even be a question over if this is Heath Ledger or not. Well now there's another shot online,...

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24 film waits till end of series?

The film script for the 24 movie has apparently been completed, that means the film is ready to go doesn't it? Well actually no. It seems that the film might be made after 24 finishes its run on TV, and not just this series but the whole lot. To me...

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Miller replaces Lohan in Dylan Thomas film

Sienna Miller is a rising talent, and once again she's shown this by taking one of the main roles in The Best Time of Our Lives, the film about Dylan Thomas and the friendship he and his wife had with another couple. Lindsay Lohan previously had the role, and so...

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix trailer online

The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix trailer has arrived, although it's not in the best of formats at the moment. Yes, it was out yesterday, but I was having a day off. Well, reviewing over four hours of DVD material rather! The trailer is over at AOL...

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Clooney gets Our Brand is Crisis

These days I'm quite fascinated by George Clooney's projects, and here's news that he's set to tackle another political topic in a feature version of the documentary Our Brand Is Crisis. Our Brand Is Crisis was a 2005 documentary that looked at the Bolivian Presidential election of 2002 where the...

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Kabul Beauty School follows documentary

Here's a strange, but true tale that will make for an interesting film, the story of Kabul Beauty School and the founder Deborah Rodriguez. She had a crazy idea that when the Taliban was removed from power in Afghanistan she would head out and create a beauty school for women....

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Statham in negotiations for Deathrace 3000

More confirmations as we hear that Jason Statham is officially in negotiations to star in the Paul W.S. Anderson remake of Death Race 2000, Deathrace 3000. This comes as confirmation of the rumour last month with the confirmation coming from Yahoo News. The original story tells of a futuristic cross-country...

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X-Files 2 confirmation from series producer

As if we needed anymore confirmation Frank Spotnitz, a former Executive Producer on the series has confirmed the film is in development. On his official blog he's announced the following: "Several people have e-mailed to ask about reports that the second X-Files feature is finally in the works...A script is...

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More Horror remakes

Remakes galore. We heard there was an April Fool remake on the cards, and there seems to be no stopping the remake machine. This is confirmation that Hollywood really does think this is all a big money earner. Shivers, Rabid and Death Weekend are all being looked at for remakes...

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The Hogfather

I've never read any of Terry Prachett's work before, so when I first received The Hogfather for review I had no idea what it was. However I am familiar with Pratchett's work and through friends understood the basic outlines behind some of the characters and the world which they exist....

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British Airways edits competitors out of Casino Royale

Now I hate censorship, but I can accept it for a reason, but British Airways has been showing Casino Royale on their flights with a number of scenes removed. They've removed shots of their competition from the film, both Virgin Atlantic airlines and their boss Sir Richard Branson. Branson was...

April 30, 2007