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Judge Dredd

DNA films hope to erase memories of the Sylvester Stallone flop with a new film version of 2000 AD's Judge Dredd. The official press release is below:

Rebellion and 2000 AD are proud to announce that Judge Dredd is coming to a cinema near you soon!

Together with DNA Films, the movie production company behind such great sci-fi movies such as Sunshine and 28 Weeks Later, Judge Dredd will go into production in 2009.

Jason Kingsley, CEO and Creative Director said, ‘We can’t give away too many details at this point, but we’re looking forward to working with DNA Films to bring Judge Dredd back to the big screen.’

We’ll keep you up to date with breaking news as it happens!

Golden Globe Nominations

Little love for The Dark Knight, with only one nomination for Heath Ledger. Entertaining as Tom Cruise's brief Tropic Thunder cameo was, I would also question whether it was award worthy. Anyhow, here's the full list


Best Motion Picture (Drama)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Burn After Reading
In Bruges
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mamma Mia
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Supporting Actor
Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Ralph Fiennes - The Duchess
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Best Director

Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Steven Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Sam Mendes - Revolutionary Road

Best Actor (Drama)

Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Best Actress (Drama)

Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kristin Scott Thomas - I've Loved You So Long
Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road

Best Original Song

"Down to Earth" -- WALL-E
"Gran Torino" - Gran Torino
"I Thought I Lost You" -- Bolt
"Once in a Lifetime" -- Cadillac Records
"The Wrestler" -- The Wrestler

Best Original Score

Defiance
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
Frost/Nixon
Changeling

Best Animated Film

Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Best Foreign Language Film

The Baader Meinhof Complex
Gomorrah
I've Loved You So Long
Waltz with Bashir


Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Javier Bardem -- Vicki Cristina Barcelona
Colin Farrell - In Bruges
James Franco -- Pineapple Express
Brendan Gleeson - In Bruges
Dustin Hoffman - Last Chance Harvey

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Rebecca Hall - Vicki Cristina Barcelona
Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
Frances McDormand - Burn After Reading
Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia
Emma Thompson - Last Chance Harvey

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best Screenplay

Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
David Hare - The Reader
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt

Watchmen

Un francois traileur pur le Watchmen

or something like that. Here's the international Watchmen trailer, currently turning up on French screens and offering new footage not found in previous versions.

Inglourious basterds

New image of Brad Pitt in Tarantino's next.

Source: Cinematical

Terminator Salvation

New image from McG's Terminator sequel, which slowly appears to be winning people around.

Readers in the UK can also pick up this months Total Film, which features articles on both this film and the original Terminator, together with a special 'flashing eyes' Terminator cover, which scared my cat.

Source: Cinematical

The Unborn

International poster for David Goyer's supernatural thriller.

Source : Empire

Watchmen

The three minutes of footage that aired at ComicCon way back in June is now avaiable for download via Itunes.

This is the footage that first got fans excited about the film, and seems to reveal a bit more of the fims design and tone than the previously released trailers.

Source: Chud.com

RIP Forrest J Ackerman

Although his active contribution to cinema was limited to a numerous cameos and the very occasional screenplay, Forrest J Ackerman, who has died aged 92 was one of sci-fi and horrors most revered individuals.

Credited with inviting the term 'sci-fi', Ackerman is best known for his long running magazine 'Famous Monsters of Film Land' which provided inspiration to numerous directors, writers and special effects experts. In his later years Ackerman was famous for giving tours of his 'Ackermansion', his large Hollywood home which housed an almost unparallelled collection of genre movie props and memoraiablia.

Aint it Cool News has a lengthy article on Ackerman's passing, including contributions from those he inspired, including Peter Jackson, Rick Baker and others.

Arthur

The Hollywood Reporter suggests that Russell Brand is setting up a potential remake of 'Arthur' with Warner Brothers. The oscar winning 1981 original saw Dudley Moore play a alcoholic millionaire who must choose between his money and the working class girl he falls in love with.

The role seems a perfect fit for Brand, who currently has a number of other Hollywood projects on the go following his scene stealing appearance in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'.

Friday The 13th

Yahoo! movies has the new trailer for Platinum Dunes new Friday 13th remake / reimagining which seems to combine elements from at least the first three original films.

Terminator Salvation

The new trailer for T4 will hit next week, but Entertainment Tonight in the US had a sneak preview, above.

Source: Cinematical

He's Just Not into You

New trailer. Its a slow week.

He's Just Not That Into You trailer


Source: Cinematical

Steve Guttenberg

Steve Guttenberg has revealed in an interview with The Sun, that he is planning a big sreen comeback with sequels to his two most famous movies.

Firstly an eighth Police Academy int the works. “We are doing a new movie and it is going to be great fun," he said. "A script is being written and so far it is really great, everyone from the original movies who is still around will return.”

Guttenberg suggests that Kim Cattrall and Sharon Stone, two of the more famous alumni may return, saying“I know Kim and Sharon have been asked but they haven’t said yes yet. It would be really great to have them onboard.”

He is also planning a third Three Man and a Baby film, explaining “Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and I are looking to make another Three Men And A Baby movie. It’s called Three Men and A Bride. The script is pretty much written and we are really keen to get that made. We’re very hopeful.”

Before fans of mediocre eighties comedy sequels get too excited, it should be pointed out that Guttenberg gave this interview to promote his exciting new role as
Baron Hardup in Bromley's annual pantomine 'Cinderella', which suggests that his power to greenlight projects may not be what it once was....

Star Trek

Further to our previous comments regarding 'Young Kirk's' appearance in the Star Trek trailer, it seems Bill Shatner feels the same way, at least according to the cleverly edited Youtube clip.

Source: Slashfilm

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

As part of their awards push for David Fincher's tale of a backwards aging Brad Pitt, Warner Brothers have placed the entire score for the film online here .

Despite early reports of some problems with the film (particularly its running time), some early test screening reports are coming through and are almost universally positive. It looks like Button may be one of the frontrunners at the 2009 Academy Awards.

Source: Aint it Cool

Star Trek

First shot of original Spock Leonard Nimoy from JJ Abram's Star Trek reboot. This shot comes from a slightly new version of the trailer, which appends one scene to the end of the previous version. The revised trailer can be seen over at http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39238.

Source: Cinematical

Terminator Salvation

Poster for the new Terminator flick, kind of. The poster will be seen in theatres on flat video screens. A flash version of the effect can be found here.

Source: Chud.com

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Apple.com has the new trailer for the historically dubious (unless you're Sarah Palin) third Ice Age film.

Some more new Star Trek posters, showing lead villian Nero and Uhura.

Although the trailer for the film certainly indicates this will be a more action packed film than previous trek outings, the somewhat cheesy 'Young Kirk' footage has some viewers worried. However, Those who were lucky enough to view the 20 minutes or so of footage that Paramount screened to journalists last week seem confiden the film will be a success
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Source: Cinematical

Arrested Development

Finally some good news, with both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reporting that creator Mitch Hurwitz has finally agreed a deal to write and direct a film version of Arrested Development. Producer Ron Howard is also on board and the main cast has previously indicated they would all return
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Ace Ventura Jr

We may have been a bit cruel about the I Am Legend sequel, but no doubt it will be a master piece of modern cinema next to the forthcoming 'Ace Ventura Jr'. Cinematical has the trailer which is currently been played on a loop to Guantanamo Bay detainees.

The film will be appearing straight to DVD in the near future.

Source: Cinematical

I Am Legend 2 : Electric Boogaloo

When it was announced that Will Smith and director Francis Lawrence were to return for a follow up to I am Legend, everyone assumed we would be talking about a prequel.

According to Aint It Cool News however this isnt the case, and we will be getting a full on sequel.

Given the ending of the original film, this seems a strange way to go, and not one that seems to have a particularly good chance of success.

The Spirit

Final poster courtesy of Cinematical

Little Shop of Horrors

The 1986 usical version of Little Shop of Horrors originally had a much different ending. Unfortunately test audiences deemed the finale too dark, and despite supposedly costing millions of dollars the ending was junked and an unsatisfying 'happy ending' conclusion tacked on.

The original ending was included as part of the special features on the first pressing of the DVD, but that release was rapidly recalled as a result of a disagreement with the producer. As a result the footage has been rarely seen.

However, a copy of the footage has now found its way on to the wonder that is Youtube and can be found (until it is inevitably pulled down by Warner Brothers) in three parts below.

The footage is poor quality, but if better footage exists this is a film crying out for a directors cut.

Source: Cinematical

Wall E

Prior to the film's DVD release, Slashfilm has an interesting selection of early concept art from the film.

Red Sonja

Teaser poster for 2010's Red Sonja remake. Produced by Robert Rodrigue and starring Rose McGowan's breasts.

Source: Cinematical

Alice In Wonderland

A few websites are running this image which purports to show Johnny Depp as the mad hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. The image looks clearly photoshopped, but the question remains as to whether this is fake or concept art. The question also remains as to what Depp is doing with that bunny.

Race to Witch Mountain

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson aims for a family audience with this remake of 1975's Escape from Witch Mountain. A better version of the trailer is now available at Yahoo! Movies.

The Wrestler

Final poster for Darren Aranofsky's drama, starring Mickey Rourke as an aging pro wrestler returning to the ring. The film, which has received universally excellent reviews, opens in the US on December 17th.

Source: Cinematical

Robotech

Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have been hired to pen the screenplay for Warner Bros.' live action anime adaptation Robotech.

Best known to western audiences from the heavily edited and dubbed version that was a mainstay of Saturday morning TV in the eighties, The Hollywood Reporter describes the new Robotech as "a sprawling sci-fi epic,which takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off an alien invasion, with the fate of the human race ending up in the hands of two young pilots."

Star Trek

See Kirk as a petulant teenager in the official Star Trek trailer, which appeared with US prints of Quantum of Solace. A higher quality Quicktime version can be found here

World War Z

Variety reports that Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster wil next direct horror thriller World War Z. The novel is pitched as an historical document telling of a zombie apocalypse, ten years after the fact.

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski is on scripting duty for the Paramount film.

Forster says "the genre always fascinated me, and when they pitched it to me, it reminded me of the paranoid conspiracy films of the '70s like 'All the President's Men."

Source: Cinematical

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Brand new trailer available at moviefone

Source:Cinematical.com

Watchmen

New trailer, courtesy of Yahoo movies

Watchmen

One of a series of new character led posters for the forthcoming graphic novel adaptation.  The others can be found over at Empire Online

Star Trek

This Empire article has a detailed breakdown of the 20 minutes of footage of the new Star Trek film which was shown to journalists in London recently, including details of Leonard Nimoy's appearance.

The whole teenage / rebellious young Kirk idea doesnt sound overly appealing, but apparently the action sequences should win over a more mainstream audiences than previous trek films have been able to.

Source: Aint it Cool News

Oldboy

Please god no...

I'm just going to link to the original story as I don't know what to say about this, save that this is possibly the greatest mismatch between director and material I have heard in a long time.

Book of Blood

Trailer for the forthcoming horror film based on the Clive Barker short story. Apparently this is one of a number of films based on the 'Books of Blood' series that Barker has in the pipeline. The film is supposedly due out in 2008, but given that there is no firm release date expect to see this get pushed ack to next year.

Source: Cinematical

Pink Panther 2

I'm kind of surprised to see this, given that nobody particularly liked the first one, but here's a trailer for the sequel to Steve Martin's Pink Panther remake.

Valkyrie

New trailer for the supposedly troubled Tom Cruise / Bryan Singer WWII trailer.  

Spiderman 4

 David Lindsay-Abaire, who won a pulitzer prize for his 2007 Broadway play Rabbit Hole has signed to write the screenplay for Spider-Man 4.   Abaire was also responsible for the CGI atrocity that was Robots, but lets not hold that against him.

James Vanderbilt, writer of Zodiac was previously reported to be involved in the project, but no word on how far his script progressed.  

Raimi and Tobey Maguire have already signed up for the 2011 sequel, with Kirsten Dunst also expected to return.

Source: Cinematical

Slumdog Millionare

Yahoo movies has the trailer for Danny Boyle's latest, Slumdog Millionare telling the story of a winner of the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

Batman 3

The LA Times has a three part interview with Christopher Nolan in which he talks at length about the reaction to the Dark Knight and his possible ambivalence about taking on a further sequel.

Angels and Demons

First shot of Ron Howard's Da Vinci Code prequel, showing a thankfully mulletless Tom Hanks alongside Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer.

More pictures and an accompanying article can be found at USA Today.

Iron Man 2 / The Avengers

Marvel studios have confirmed that Robert Downey jr is signed up not only for the forthcoming Iron Man sequel, but also for The Avengers team up movie, which is currently set for a July 2011 release. The press release states that "In a movie event, THE AVENGERS will bring together the super hero team of Marvel Comics characters for the first time ever, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk and more, as they are forced to band together to battle the biggest foe they've ever faced."

Jon Favreau, also confirmed as Iron Man 2 director will be a producer on The Avengers.

Source: Cinematical

American Pie 4

After a series of successful straight to DVD spin offs, Moviehole reports that plans are afoot to produce a theatrical sequel to the American Pie series. Few details are available as of yet, but it is presumed that at least some of the original cast will be returning
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Source: Moviehole

Watchmen

New teaser poster from Yahoo Movies. Early test screenings have now taken place and word of mouth is almost universally positive. Despite some rumoured changes to the ending, the film is apparenty extremely faithful to the original graphic novel.

Zack and Miri

Brief clip courtesy of cinemablend

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times is one of the longest serving and respected film critics around. Those who only know him from 'Siskel & Ebert at the Movies' should take time to read the archive of intelligent and funny reviews at www.rogerebert.com.

In addition to his regular website, Ebert has recently become a fervent blogger and his wide ranging thoughts on movies generally should be read by anyone with an interest in film. The blog can be found here

SmodCast 65

The new episode of Kevin smith and Scott Mosiers podcast is now available at www.quickstopentertainment.com

SModcast 65: Captain Kev and Mister Scott - In which our heroes race with the devil, question a non-singing moon-walker, and make contact with the most aloof alien in the galaxy.

Fear(s) of the Dark

Cinematical has a couple of clips from the French animated horror anthology, Fear(s) of the Dark, which is icking up positive reviews around t'internet.

Bolt!

Slashfilm has a four minute clip from the opening section of Disney's next animated fim, which will be released November 21st

Kevin Smith's Next

With the upcoming release of Zack and Miri Kevin Smith has started discussing his next projects. Whilst dark horror 'Red State' is still next up (subject to financing), he also has a science fiction comedy in the pipeline. Here's more details, courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter

Kevin Smith sets space comedy

Indie-film veteran eyes biggest budget yet

By Steven Zeitchik

Writer-director Kevin Smith is developing a futuristic outer space comedy.

The film will reference other sci-fi movies and revolves around a father-son relationship. Smith has nodded to the genre in his earlier work but never made a sci-fi film.

The indie-minded Smith is aiming for a budget in the $45 million-$50 million range, which would be his biggest. He again will produce with partner Scott Mosier via their View Askew banner.

Harvey and Bob Weinstein, with whom Smith has collaborated on most of his movies, could reteam with Smith on the film. Insiders said that TWC execs have read part of the script and are interested in making the movie. Smith has finished a first draft of the script, but the project will not move forward until after his next project, “Red State.” Smith will not be doing that with the Weinsteins but instead is seeking independent financing and a spring start date for his dramatic tale of a domestic terrorist in the Heartland.

The Weinstein Co. this month will release Smith’s Seth Rogen comedy “Zack and Miri Make a Porno.” That film, at about $25 million, had his biggest-budget to date, but Smith knows the sci-fi movie will be pricier.

“The moment someone steps out of the spaceship, it’s going to cost a little more,” he said.

Smith said he’s looking forward to exploring new character dynamics as well as outer space.

“All the relationships in the flicks I’ve done have been done before, have been either a guy falling for a girl or two dudes hanging out in a ‘bromantic’ comedy,” he said. “I wanted to explore a father and son.”

Source: Newsaskew

Inglourious basterds

Tarantino's World War II flick, curious spelling and all, has begun shooting. Today sees the first shot of Brad Pitt in character as the Lt Aldo Raine

Source: Aint It Cool News

Star Trek

Following yesterday's photo, heres another showing the entire cast of the Enterprise.

Entertainment Weekly also has some more detalis on the plot, suggesting the time travel time commences the flick begins when "a Federation starship, the USS Kelvin (pictured right), is attacked by a vicious Romulan (Eric Bana) desperately seeking one of the film's heroes. From there, the film then brings Kirk and Spock center stage and tracks the origins of their friendship and how they became officers aboard the Enterprise. In fact, the movie shows how the whole original series crew came together: McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoë Saldana), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Sulu (John Cho), and Chekov (Anton Yelchin)."

Leonard Nimoy's appearance as Spock is also apparently more substantial than a one scene cameo, but further details are not forthcoing.

Source: Cinematical.com

Saw V

New image fro Saw V, confirming Tobin Bell makes an appearance despite his death in the previous installment. We assume this is some sort of flashback as opposed to zombie Jiigsaw but who knows, or frankly cares?

In other news the UK amusement park Thorpe Park has announced that Saw: The Ride will open in Spring 2009. Incorporating a 100 degree vertical drop the ride promises to recreate the movie experience. Anyone who has visited the Newcastle oppings will know what it is like to have the feeling the ride could collapse and kill you in an extremely unpleasant way at any moment, but we guess this isnt what they are aiming for...


Source: Slashfilm

Star Trek

This weeks Entertainment Weekly has a lengthy article on the upcoming star trek prequel. The cover (above) gives us one of the first shots of Zachary Quinto and Chris pine in character as Spock and Kirk.

Source: Slashfilm

Quantum of Solace

Click here for a brief clip from Bond's next.

Source: MSN Movies

Zack and Miri

Those of you in the South of America may want to head over to chud.com where you can nab tickets for a free screening of Kevin Smith's latest on October 23rd.

Up

New poster for Pixar's next.

Source: www.chud.com

W

New poster art for the film, playing up the satirical aspect. Courtesy of Cinematical

Iron Man 2

Whilst Iron Man 2 is still on course for a Summer 2010 release, with Tropic Thunders Justin Theroux taking on scripting duties, the Hollywood Reporter suggests that Terrance Howard will not be reprising his role of General Rhodes, due to a dispute over salary. Instead Don Cheadle (pictured) will take on the role , and presuming the film follows the proposed storyline, don the iron suit at some point in the film. Rumours that Cheadle wil perform the entire role in the chirpy cockney accent 'perfected' in Oceans 11 and its sequels are unfounded.

Source : Cinematical

UPDATES

Apologies for the lack of updates recently - work and law exams are taking their toll. We will hopefully be back up and running at full speed from Sunday.

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Aliens! Regardless of what you thought of the last Indiana Jones film, the dvd looks like it may have some interesting extras. Those of you interested in such things may enjoy the above sideshow collectibles model which comes with the collectors edition of the dvd.

Source: Cinematical

Zack and Miri

The first of Money shots, a series of shorts from behind the scenes of Zack and Miri is now online at Quickstop Entertainment

2009 Academy Awards

The foreign film nominations have now closed, with each country submitting one film for consideration. Wikipedia has the full list here

I heard You Paint Houses

Scorsese and De Niro are to team up for the first time since 1995's Casino. Their new project will apparently tell the supposedly true tale of the mobster who killed Jimmy Hoffa. Stephen Zallian (Schindlers List) is writing the screenplay.

While De Niro's choices have been somewhat shaky of late, The Departed showed that Scorsese is still on great form, and we can all but hope for one last great film from the pair.

Source: Cinematical

Zack and Miri

New promotional video courtesy of complex.com - probably not safe for work

(Via www.newsaskew.com)

Australia

MSN has the new trailer for Baz Luhrmann's australian epic.  

Nicole Kidman plays a beer swilling ex convict, and Hugh Jackman the Kangaroo she falls in love with. Harold Bishop co stars.  At least that could be the plot from all the sense this trailer makes.  

Bolt

New poster for Disneys November release, in 3d no less.

Source: Cinematical

Ghostbusters 3

In an appearance to promote new fantasy film City of Ember, Bill Murray was asked about Ghostbusters 3. His response was surprisngly positive, according to Aint It Cool News, which paraphrases Murray as stating that:-

"some writers from THE OFFICE" were taking a stab at the script right now (which we already knew) and that he thinks that's a good start. He paused for a few seconds then said that he thinks enough time has passed and that "the wounds from GHOSTBUSTERS 2 are healed" and that he would definitely be into doing another GHOSTBUSTERS movie, stating that the first 40 minutes of the original film is some of the best stuff he's been associated with and the whole shoot was an amazing amount of fun."

Fright Night

Following on from his earlier Childs Play track, director Tom Holland is back with two downloadable commentary tracks for eighties classic Fright Night, this time along with the cast and crew.

The tracks can be found here

Source: Aint It Cool News

Doubt

Trailer for the adaptation of the popular play, Based on the popular play, Doubt follows a nun (Meryl Streep) who accuses a priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of inappropriate actions with a young black student.

Source: Cinematical

W

Behind the scenes photo of Oliver Stones upcoming (satirical?) Bush biopic. The picture comes from a lengthy and interesting interview with Stone in USA Today, which can be found here.

Quantum of Solace

Do you like posters? Do you like James Bond? Then it's your lucky day. Would you like a poster with a sliver of originality that would make Sony's Autumn flagship look like something other than a cheap generic action flick? Not so lucky.

Source: CHUD.com

American Psycho

God help us all. With no further comment, we present the following press release:-

”American Psycho, the controversial social satire from acclaimed novelist Bret Easton Ellis, which was adapted into a feature film in 2000 top-lining “Dark Knight” star Christian Bale, will be adapted for the stage.

The Johnson-Roessler Company, The Collective and XYZ Films have partnered to acquire, develop and produce the live stage version.

American Psycho delves into the designer lifestyle and twisted mind of Patrick Bateman, a wealthy, young and handsome Wall Street investment banker in 1980s Manhattan . Whether applying an herb-mint facial masque during his morning routine, comparing business cards with his colleagues at Pierce & Pierce or attempting to get a reservation at restaurant hot-spot Dorsia, Bateman's obsessively materialistic behavior fills his days. By night, his mask of sanity slips into a world of drugs, prostitution and murder.

The Johnson-Roessler Company’s David Johnson, Craig Roessler and Jesse Singer, who brought the project to the company, are producing alongside The Collective’s Aaron Ray and XYZ Films’ Nate Bolotin. Ellis and Edward R. Pressman will serve as consulting producers. No dramatists have yet been confirmed. Original music will revive the nostalgia of the 80’s alongside celebrated hits from the era.

“American Psycho continues to be a cultural phenomenon,” said David Johnson. “Ellis’ book contains so many memorable lines and musical references that a live musical production is the perfect fit. The character of Patrick Bateman has become an icon for fans of Ellis’ book and the film adaptation, and now we can bring this dark but comical world of greed to the stage in an entertaining and thought-provoking way.”

Ellis’ 1991 satire ignited a major controversy due to its graphic depiction of violence. The book was originally scheduled for publication by Simon & Schuster, but the company balked due to outrage driven by massive publicity in advance of its release. Vintage, an imprint of Random House, bought the rights to the book and published it soon thereafter. The book, which shocked the nation and defined the decade, has sold over 1.6 million copies worldwide.

“This is the perfect storm of creative people to turn American Psycho into an entertaining musical play,” said Ellis. “American Psycho’s essence is the high-flying 80s, the decadence and the music -- together, they are the equivalent of a spectacular train wreck you have to watch.”

There has been a recent influx of successful novel-to-Broadway adaptations. Amanda Brown’s Legally Blonde has become an audience favorite and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked has broken box office records in addition to selling well over 1 million soundtrack units.

“It is clear that there is a resurgence of 1980s music with many of today’s top selling acts as they are turning back to the hits of the time for inspiration on style and sound,” says Nate Bolotin. “Ellis’ musical references to bands like Talking Heads, Genesis and Huey Lewis and The News fill entire chapters of the book, and we believe a live musical rendition will give fans and new audiences a chance to experience the story in a whole new way.”

Source: Aint It Cool News

Zack and Miri

Newsaskew has the first TV spot for Zack and Miri, which aired during this weeks Saturday Night Live.

Quantum of Solace

Here is 'Another Way to Die' the theme tune to the next Bond film, as performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys.




Source: Slashfilm.com

The Spirit

New poster for (increasingly said to be terrible) The Spirit

Source: Slashfilm.com

Bolt!

'Bolt' Extended Clip @ Yahoo! Video

Three and a half minute clip from Disney's next, which has apparently been subject to some extensive reworking at the hand of Disney's new head of animation (and Pixar head honcho) John Lassetter.

Source: Slashfilm

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Taking it's cue from Superman Returns, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince will be debuting in Imax 3D alongside it's regular release, Empire reports. Only certain sections, totalling around 25 minutes, will be in the format, supposedy split between the major action sequences at the beginning and end of the film.

Transformers 2

This may look like a shapeless lump of plastic but apparently this is a first shot of Megatron from Transformers 2, or rather a prototype of a toy of Megatron. It's a slow news day.

Source: Cinematical

Green Hornet

Stephen Chow, of Shaolin Soccer fame, has reportedly signed on to direct and co-star in Seth Rogen's new take on the Green Hornet. Chow is cerainly reminiscent of a young Bruce Lee, who co-starred in the 60's TV version of the character, and has shown his comedic chops which should also fit in with Rogen's vision for the film.

Source: CHUD.com

Green Hornet

IMDB

The Internet Movie Database, WWW.IMDB.COM now has a wide selection of TV shows and movies available for free screenings. At the moment this service is available in the USA only. Those out of the USA wishing to partake may wish to google Hotshield.

Frost / Nixon

Poster for Ron Howard's political drama.
Source: Slashfilm

Syndechone, New York

'Synedoche New York' Theatrical Trailer @ Yahoo! Video

New trailer for harlie Kaufman's next.

Source: Slashfilm

Bedtime Stories

Trailer for Adam Sandler's family comedy Bedtime Stories, also featuring celebrity Jonas botherer Russell Brand.

Source: Cinematical

Repo : A Genetic Opera

Interesting poster for the forthcoming film from the makers of Saw. More info on the unusual film on the official website.

Source: Aint It Cool News

Childs Play

Last week saw the release of a 20th anniversary Childs Play DVD. Whilst the disc is supposedly pretty packed, one voice was missing - that of director Tom Holland. Website Icons of Fright has dealt with this in a pretty cool way by enlisting Holland to provide an unofficial commentary track which can be synced with the DVD. The track is available for free download here.

Men Who Stare at Goats

Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges are set to star opposite already cast star / producer George Clooney in 'Men Who Stare at Goats', which tells of the supposedly real secret Army unit who aimed to creae soldiers with paranormal powers.



Based on a book by Guardian journalist Jon Ronson, the film is set in Iraq and tells of a reporter played by McGregor who meets Lyn Cassady (Clooney). Cassady claims he is a secret U.S. military psychic soldier. Amongst his supposed talents, the ability to kill animals simply by staring at them, hence the title

Bridges will play the founder of the program, Bill Django, while Spacey will play a former paranormal soldier now running a prison camp in Iraq.

Grant Heslov is directing from a script by Peter Straughan.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Fox showed a seven minute montage of clips from their forthcoming sci-fi remake the Day the Earth Stood Still as part of their repeat of the Fringe pilot. The footage is also now online in better qualitynhere

Source: Cinematical

XXX: The Return of Xander Cage

Vin Diesel's once promising career continues to go down the toilet with news that he has signed to return to the XXX franchise in the forthcoming sequel. Original director Rob Cohen will also return.

Source: Variety

The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus

video de The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
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Terry Gilliam talks up his new feature film in this new clip

Source: www.quickstopentertainment.com / chud.com

Synecdoche, New York

Wired magazine undertook a two and a half hour interview with writer/director Charlie Kaufman, covering his entire career up to and including his latest release.

The entire audio of the interview can be found here.

Iron Man 2

Jon Favreau, in a recent interview to promote the DVD release of Iron Man, gave some titbits about the likely direction the forthcoming sequel will take.

War Machine is likely to make an appearance, giving Terrence Howard's Col. Rhodes a chance to wear the suit. Whilst comic book ubervillian Mandarin is likely to have a presence as the overarching, behind-the-scenes villain, liberties will have to be taken in order to fit him in to the more realistic universe depicted in the film. Finally, the famous Demon in a Bottle storyline, featuring Tony Stark's battle with alcoholism, is on it's way (possibly in the third film?)

Source: Chud.com

Terminator Salvation

Teaser trailer, courtesy of Variety

Zack and Miri

In our second Zack and Miri post of today, here's a 16 minute Variety interview with Kevin Smith talking about the film:-




Source: www.newsaskew.com

Zack and Miri

Here's the new american poster for Zack and Miri released following the banning of the original poster.

Whilst the poster is clever and quite stylish, I'm not convinced it does the job of selling the picture to the multiplex crowd. The filmmakers are attempting to go for a more mainstream audience with this film, and the poster doesnt convey this.

Source: Newsaskew.com

Star Trek

In an interview with AMCTV, Star Trek director JJ Abrams apparently confirms that William Shatner will not be appearing in the new film, although it appears discussions were held. Abrams is quoted as saying:-

“We actually had written a scene with him in it that was a flashback kind of thing, but the truth is, it didn’t quite feel right. The bigger thing was that he was very vocal that he didn’t want to do a cameo. We tried desperately to put him in the movie, but he was making it very clear that he wanted the movie to focus on him significantly, which, frankly, he deserves. The truth is, the story that we were telling required a certain adherence to the Trek canon and consistency of storytelling. It’s funny — a lot of the people who were proclaiming that he must be in this movie were the same people saying it must adhere to canon. Well, his character died on screen. Maybe a smarter group of filmmakers could have figured out how to resolve that.”

Of course, how can we not have an appearance from the man reponsible for this:-



Source: Slashfilm

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Cashing in on the success of 'Sex and the City' comes another romantic comedy in which all problems are solved by designer labels. Audiences for this will be pretty divided. Namely, women will swoon over shoes whilst men slowly lose the will to live.

Starring Isla 'Mrs Borat' Fisher, Confessions of a Shopaholic is due for a valentines release.

Source: Cinematical

Quantum of Solace

Yahoo movies has a new trailer for the next Bond film, which gets it world premiere tonight as part of the London Film Festival. Follow this link for some acton packed Bond goodness

Terminator Salvation

More than likely this story comes from a fan with an overactive imagination, but it's also a rumour that's just crazy enough to be true.

Director McG has hinted for some time that Schwarzenneger will have some sort of presence in the fourth terminator film, and his former stunt double is working on the film. The latest suggestion is that CGI will be used to place a digital recreation of Arnie's face over the stunt double, with Schwarzennegger also recording lines of dialogue in post production.

The technology is certainly there and has been used to enhance stunt work for well over a decade now but this still sounds like wishful thinking to me.

Source: Aint It Cool News

Ghostbusters 3

Harold Ramis provided furt;-her detail's of the current status of Ghostbusters 3 in this e-mail to the Chicago Tribune

"yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we'll take it from there."

Source: Cinematical

Watchmen

Video journal 6, courtesy of IGN.com

Spiderman

Various sources are reporting that Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire have both signed to to the next Spider Man movie, currently due for a 2011 release. Kirsten Dunst has yet to put pen to paper, although the character of Mary Jane Watson will appear.

Sony have also tentatively indicated that they wish to shoot parts 4 and 5 back to back in order to save money and take advantage of the director's and casts' availablity.

Whilst the first two Spider Man films are responsible for reinvigorating the genre, Spider Man 3 was showing some signs of creative fatigue that left fans hoping for a change of direction (and possibly personnel) for the next film.

The Wrestler

Clips and behind the scenes footage from Darren Aronofsky's new film the Wrestler, which has just won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and is picking up some Oscar buzz for Mickey Rourke's performance.

Source: Chud.com

Childs Play

Original writer and director of Seed of Chucky, Don Mancini, has provided more details of the forthcoming 'Child's Play' remake. Apparently the idea for a reboot as opposed to a further sequel is to return the series to it's horror roots as opposed to the comedic tone of the last two films). More importantly Mancini has confirmed that Brad Dourif will return as the voice of Chucky and will also have a larger on screen role as Charles Lee Ray prior to his transformation into the doll.

Whilst we don't have a great deal of time for most of the horror remakes doing the rounds at the moment, the fact that the original creative team is behind this film and , at the moment at least, seem to be saying all the right things, make this one to watch. Just as long as there is no CGI Chucky...

Source: Creature Corner

Ghostbusters 3

Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Esisnberg, two of the writers of the American version of The Office, have been hired to pen a third Ghostbusters team. Whilst the film is set to feature some younger acting talent, the hope is that the original team would appear. Previous Ghostbusters sequels have stalled due to Bill Murray's reluctance to sign on to a third movie, but he does provide his voice in the upcoming video game and sources suggest that he may be willing to at least make a cameo appearance.

Source: Aint It Cool News

Slacker Uprising

Michael Moore's new film, Slacker uprising, tells of his 2004 tour to encourage young people to register to vote in the last US election. In an interesting move the film will be available to download free from the website www.slackeruprising.com from 23 September, with a conventional DVD release to follow.

The trailer is available here

Zack and Miri

This is the poster for Zack and Miri, at least for thouse of you outside the United States, where the MPAA has banned the poster.

Source: www.newsaskew.com

My name is Bruce

Whilst the film looks great, this poster.... not so good.

Source: Aint It Cool News

Another (kind of) Break

Apologies for the lack of updates over the last few days, but there has been little of note.

We will be taking a break till Sunday, but will be attempting one or two updates via I phone, more as an experiment than anything. Apologies in advance for the numerous typos that will inevitably ensue as we try to get to grips with the tiny touchscreen keyboard.


Posted with LifeCast

Zack and Miri

Red band trailer.

Source:www.newsaskew.com

RIP Don LaFontaine

Don LaFontaine, the gravelly voice of a thousand trailers has died aged 68, LaFontaine's famous voice made him a cult star in his own right, as his website shows.

Source: Aint It Cool News

Gremlins

From Slashfilm.com:-

"Sacha Feiner created this incredible alternative fan sequence using the Gremlins 2 Film break scene. Created over two months using computer enhanced puppets. Sacha writes: “I made a new mold out of a hard cast of one of the original sculptures from the production. I created a batch of new foam puppets especially for this project. Their performances are enhanced by computer effects, which makes them able to do nearly anything, from running to jumping or facial expressions. The entire shooting takes place in a bluescreen studio, arranged in my basement, in order to superimpose the gremlins in the chosen movies.” … “This is a fan, non profit project. I did everything alone, from the filming to the compositing. I only had assistants for the puppeteering. The overall budget, including the purchasing of the original sculpture, the HD and studio equipment, the molding and painting of the puppets and the editing, was about US $3000.” Thanks to the Movie Blog for the tip."

Quantum of Solace

Well the film is being released next month, so I guess they're sticking with the title. Heres a new image of Daniel Craig s Bond, courtesy of Slashfilm. Follow the link for more images.

Nowhere Boy

Matt Greenhalgh, the writer of Control, the Ian Curtis / Joy Division biopic, is sticking with the genre with a new film centering on John Lennon. Artist Sam Taylor_wood will make her feature debut as director.

The film will concentrate on Lennon's "childhood and subsequent journey to icon status." according to the Hollywood Reporter, and will portray his personal life as "a lonely teenager growing up as his aunt and the mother who gave him up fight for his love. His only escape is music, art, and his fateful friendship with Paul McCartney."

Source: Cinematical

Wright / Reitman Unplugged

Directors Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) and Jason Reitman (Juno) interviewed each other for the Just Comedy festival 2008. Slashfilm has video of the event, which can be found here

Source: slashfilm.com

max Payne

Yahoo movies has the bizarre new trailer for Mark Wahlberg's forthcoming action film, loosely based on the computer game series of the same name. Whilst people were expecting a straight action film, this trailer suggests something slightly more off kilter.

The film is released October 17th

Saw V

The final poster for Saw V is the most disappointing one so far. Whilst the films themselves havent been great, the poster design has always been original and boundary pushin. This one however looks just like a generic horror poster.

Also, despite the tagline this is not the end of the franchise, with Saw VI already in production for release next year. Saw V hits theaters October 31st

Source: Creature Corner

Body of Lies

Source: Cinematical.com

Happiness 2 : Electric Boogaloo

... is probably not the title of Todd Solonz's next film. However the film is intended to be a 'quasi-sequel' to his controversial art house pic, perhaps most famous for Dylan Baker's tour de force turn as a (quasi-sympathetic) paedophile.

Variety has a vague outline for the film, described as revolving around a group of struggling individuals. struggling to find a place for themselves in an unpredictable and volatile world. The narrative is told through a series of intersecting love stories.; the past haunts the present and imperils the future: ghosts circle and loom, trouble and console.

Source: CHUD.com

Righteous Kill

Coming soon has a new clip from the De Niro / Pacino starrer Righteous Kill, which is released (US) on September 12th

Source: Aint It Cool News

Babylon AD

Ouch...

Babylon AD director Mathieu Kassovitz has given a no hold barred interview with AMC in which he discusses the troubled production, which gets an American release Friday. Amongst the choice quotes are Kossovit stating that "I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn't respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience." Of the final film the director believes that "It's pure violence and stupidity [...] instead parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24."

Source: Cinematical

Smodcast 62

Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier are back after a weeks break with the new episode of their podcast, available now at www.quickstopentertainment.com and next week at Itunes*

SMod 62: The Human Quilt - In which our heroes accost a rocker in the cereal aisle, get unruly on a plane, fear the wrath of a pent-up Paul Bunyan, and go to the movies.


*BTW if anyone can figure out a way to download podcasts directly on to the Iphone please let me know.

Extract

Mike Judge hasn't had the best of luck cinematically, wth his first two films, Office Space and Idiocracy, having been essentially dumped by their distributors, before fifinding new life on DVD.

Judge's newest film, 'Extract' sounds like it may attract more attention, with a big(ger) name cast on board. Ben Affleck is the latest actor to sign on, joining Arrested Development's Jason Bateman. Affleck will play the best friend of Bateman’s character, a flower extract factory owner dealing with workplace problems and a streak of bad luck, including his wife’s affair with a gigolo.

Source: Newsaskew.com

The Fast and Furious 4

On the downward pathe of their careers, most of the original cast reunite for the third Fast and the Furious sequel. Here's the trailer, for those who care.

Fast & Furious


Source:Myspace Movies

Frost / Nixon

Yahoo Movies has the full trailer for Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard's adaptation of the award winning stage play about David Frost's famous interviews with the disgraced former president. Michael Sheen and Frank Langella reprise their roles from the original production.

The film is released December 2008 and is already considered a possible frontunner for the academy award nominations.

Source:Slashfilm

The Transporter 3

They may not be art, but the sheer ridiculousness of the Transporter movies makes them somewhat endearing. Heres a teaser trailer for the third in the series, coming briefly to a cinema near you soon.



Source:IGN.com

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

The adaptation of Toby Jones's memoir of his short lived stint as a Vanity Fair journalist hits UK screens October 3rd. Star Simon Pegg is featuring in a series of video diaries for The Granuaid, the first of which can be found here.

Source: The Guardian

Up

A short teaser for Pixar's next is now available here

Source: Cinematical.com

Superman

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Warner Brothers executive Jeff Robinov confirmed that the next Superman will be a Batman Begins / Incredible Hulk style reboot rather than a follow on to Bryan Singers (incredibly dull) Superman Returns.

"Superman [Returns] didn't quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to," says Robinov. "It didn't position the character the way he needed to be positioned. Had Superman worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christmas of this year or 2009. But now the plan is just to reintroduce Superman without regard to a Batman and Superman movie at all."

Rabinov also confirms a third Batman is on the way together with films based on two other (as yet unnamed) DC characters.

Source: Cinematical.com

Friday 13th

/New close up of Jason Vorhees from the Friday 13th reboot. Whilst the overall look isn't too bad, whats with the hair?

Source: Chud.com

It's Alive

Horror remake fever continues apace with the (looonnggg) trailer for the updated version of Larry Cohens 1974 cult classic about rampaging killer mutant babies. Which is a lot better than it sounds



Source: Aint It Cool News

Australia

New poster for Baz Luhrmann's Australia, starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman.

Source: Cinematical

Poltergeist

MGM is moving ahead with its pointless remake of poltergiest, having hired 'Boogeyman' screenwriters Stiles White and Juliet Snowden.


The duo have already endeared themselves to horror fans everywhere by deciding people want a remake of The Birds.

So far The Exorcist is the only movie avoiding the 're-imagining' plague, but surely it's only a matter of time.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

New image from the sixth Harry Potter film, which has just been bumped from it's original November release until Summer 2009. Apparently the film is ready to go, but Warner Brothers are holding the film back due to a lack of other product for next seasons summer blockbuster season (a lingering effect of the writers strike)

Eight more new images can be found here.

Source: Slashfilm.com