The Taking of Pelham 123

Poster for Tony Scott's seemingly pointless remake of the 1974 thriller.


Source: Joblo.com

Sex and the City 2

For those of you who enjoy this sort of thing, Various sources report that the entire female cast and director have signed on for a sequel to last years hit TV adaptation. A script has yet to be written, but that didn't stop last years film making money.

Land of the Lost

Official final trailer for the Will Ferrell summer comedy

Source: Cinematical

Youth in Revolt

Michael Cera takes a dig at Christian Bale's recent on set outburst in this viral video for his next film, Youth In Revolt, due out late 2009.

Inglourious basterds

Teaser for the new trailer (!), which hits with this weeks new Friday 13th movie, and can be seen on Entertainment Weekly in the USA tonight.


Source: Cinematical

BAFTA Winners

Slumdog Millionaire takes the big awards, with the other Oscar front runner Benjamin Button winning only in technical categories.

Best film

Slumdog Millionaire

Director

Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle

Leading Actor

Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Leading Actress

Kate Winslet - The Reader

Supporting Actor

Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Supporting Actress

Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Original Screenplay

In Bruges - Martin McDonagh

Adapted Screenplay

Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy

Academy fellowship

Terry Gilliam

Outstanding British contribution to cinema

Pinewood Studios/ Shepperton Studios

Outstanding British Film

Man on Wire

The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer for their First Feature Film

Steve McQueen

Director/Writer – Hunger

Film not in the English language

I've Loved You So Long

Animated Film

WALL•E

Music

Slumdog Millionaire - A. R. Rahman

Cinematography

Slumdog Millionaire - Anthony Dod Mantle

Editing

Slumdog Millionaire - Chris Dickens

Production Design

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Donald Graham Burt / Victor J. Zolfo

Costume Design

The Duchess - Michael O'Conno

Make Up & Hair

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Jean Black / Colleen Callaghan

Sound

Slumdog Millionaire - Glenn Freemantle / Resul Pookutty / Richard Pryke / Tom Sayers / Ian Tapp

Special Visual Effects

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Barba / Craig Barron / Nathan McGuinness / Edson Williams

Short Animation

Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death - Steve Pegram / Nick Park / Bob Baker

Short Film

September - Stewart le Maréchal / Esther May Campbell

The Orange Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

Noel Clarke

Transformers 2

Slashfilm has the superbowl trailer for Transformers 2 online here. Enjoy it while it lasts.

The Damn United

Leeds United may have fallen on hard times of late, but they are still the greatest team in the history of football. Which is why everyone will rush to see 'The Damn United' a fictionalised account of Brian Clough turbulent 44 day stint as mananger of the Yorkshire Club. Here's the trailer.

GI Joe

Superbowl spot.

Year One

We're working on the big superbowl trailers, but the likes of Transformers 2 and Star Trek are being pulled from websites as fast as they're appearing. In the meantime here's the spot for 'Year One' the prehistoric comedy directed by Harold Ramis and produced by Judd Apatow



Source: Cinematical

Silence

Variety reports that Martin Scorsese will be returning to pet project 'Silence' as his next project Shutter Island. Scorsese has had the rights to the novel for years, writing a draft of the screenplay over a decade ago. The film nearly went into production in 2007.

Based on the Japanese novel, the film will follow a few Jesuit priests who head to Japan in the name of Christianity, only to discover that converts are being persecuted in defiance of Western influence. Daniel Day Lewis and Benicio Del Toro are set to star, with Gael Garcia Bernal in a supporting role.

Avatar

A somewhat blurry (possibly photographed from a computer screen?) first look at the Na'Vi, the all-CGI aliens from James Cameron forthcoming Avatar.

Considering the hype and money surrounding the film, we're hoping for something slightly more impressive when it finally hits screens.

Source: Chud.com

Terminator Salvation

Wired Online has a new article containing some pretty interesting concept art for Terminator 4, together with some quotes from director McG. He's saying all the right things, but this is still a PG-13 Terminator flick from the maker of the Charlies Angels movies, so time will tell.

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Tin Tin

Casting news aplenty on Steven Spielberg's / Peter Jackson's motion capture Tin Tin trilogy.  Spielberg will direct the first of the films and has just announced that Tin Tin will be played by Jamie Bell, of Billy Elliott fame.  Bell will be reunited with his King Kong co-star Andy Serkis, who takes on the Captain Haddock role.

Daniel Craig is taking on lead villain duties as Red Rackham.

Somewhat bizzarely, the Thompson Twins will be played by Shaun of The Dead / Hot Fuzz duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Mary and Max

Trailer for Mary and Max, the claymation film which opened this years Sundance festival.

Source: Cinematical

Watchmen

Now the legal shennanigans seem to have been sorted, here's the presumably final poster for Watchmen.  Whilst this photoshopped job lacks the imagination of earlier designs, anything that can drag a mainstream audience into a three hour R rated comic book movie is fine by me.

Source: Chud.com

GI Joe

One of a series of new 'character' posters for the summer action film, which don't seem to tell us a great deal. Head on over to Aint It Cool News for the other four.

Coraline

New trailer for Henry Selick's CGI film, based on a story by Neil Gaiman.

Oscar Nominees

Better than expected for Benjamin Button, but little love beyond Heath Ledger and the technical categories for The Dark Knight, heres the full list of oscar nominees.

Best picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Gus van Sant, Milk
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

Best supporting actress
Amy Adams, Doubt
Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Taraji P Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Best actress
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Kate Winslet, The Reader
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Meryl Streep, Doubt

Best supporting actor
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Jr, Tropic Thunder
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt

Best actor
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best original screenplay
Frozen River
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Milk
WALL-E

Best adapted screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best cinematography
Tom Stern, Changeling
Claudio Miranda, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
Chris Menges, Roger Deakins, The Reader
Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire

Achievement in art design
James J Murakami, Gary Fettis, Changeling
Donald Graham Burt, Victor J Zolfo, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando, The Dark Knight
Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway, The Duchess
Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt, Revolutionary Road

Achievement in visual effects
Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin, The Dark Knight
John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan, Iron Man

Achievement in editing
Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Lee Smith, The Dark Knight
Mike Hill, Dan Hanley, Frost/Nixon
Elliot Graham, Milk
Chris Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire

Achievement in costume design
Catherine Martin, Australia
Jacqueline West, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Michael O'Connor, The Duchess
Danny Glicker, Milk
Albert Wolsky, Revolutionary Road

Achievement in makeup
Greg Cannom, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Caglione, Jr, Conor O'Sullivan, The Dark Knight
Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz, Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Best foreign-language film
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

Best documentary feature
Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser, Encounters at the End of the World
Scott Hamilton Kennedy, The Garden
James Marsh, Simon Chinn, Man On Wire
Tia Lessin, Carl Deal, Trouble the Water

Best animation
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E

Best original song
Down to Earth, WALL-E
Jai Ho, Slumdog Millionaire
O Saya, Slumdog Millionaire

The Man who KIlled Don Quixote

Fans of Terry Gilliam will no doubt be aware of the saga of The Man who Killed Don Quixote.  The film was abandoned part way through after a multitude of misfortunes beset the crew.  The story is told in the excellent documentary Lost in La Mancha.

NOw Empire reports that Gilliam has started rewriting the script for the film, after finally getting the rights back following protracted discussions with the rights holders. 

Writing partner Tony Grisoni stated: "I re-read the greatest script ever written and realize we gotta get rewriting! I really wanna knock that one out in the next month or so." B

Gilliam says that he has "some very different ideas" for the film from the original incarnation, and that "[I'm] starting to think I was lucky, because maybe the film will be better seven years later. It will have matured a bit longer."

RIP Patrick McGahoon

Patrick McGahoon, best known for his roles in TV series The Prisoner and Danger Man has died aged 80. McGoohan also co-starred in numerous films, including a memorable turn in David Cronenerg's Scanners.

Karate Kid

Variety reports that Jackie Chan will take over from Pat Morita as Mr Miyagi in the Karate Kid remake.

The remake stars Jaden 'son of Will' Smith and in a change from the original will be set in Asia.

Whoopee.

Golden Globe Winners

Best Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet, “The Reader”
Best Original Song: Bruce Springsteen, “The Wrestler”
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Movie: Tom Wilkinson, “John Adams”
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Movie: Laura Dern, “Recount”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama: Gabriel Byrne, “In Treatment”
Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama: Anna Paquin, “True Blood”
Outstanding Animated Feature: “WALL-E”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Sally Hawkins, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: “John Adams”
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
Best Foreign Language Film: “Waltz With Bashir”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Laura Linney, “John Adams”
Best Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy: Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Paul Giamatti, “John Adams”
Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy: “30 Rock”
Best Original Score, A.R. Rahman: “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy: Tina Fey, “30 Rock”
Cecil B. DeMille Award: Steven Spielberg
Best Director - Motion Picture: Danny Boyle “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Colin Farrell, “In Bruges”
Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture -Drama: Kate Winslet, “Revolutionary Road”
Best Television Series - Drama: “Mad Men”
Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama: Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”
Best Motion Picture - Drama: “Slumdog Millionaire”

Watchmen

This Japanese trailer contains quite a bit of new footage.

The Expendables

Mickey Rourke has signed on as the latest member of Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables. 

Rourke will join Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren, Forest Whitaker and Ben Kingsley in a story about an “expendable” team, hired to do jobs that no one else can or will.  Sounds like as cross between the Dirty Dozen and the A Team.

The team is sent to infiltrate a South American country to overthrow the ruthless dictator and liberate the country and is set to begin filming in Brazil and Louisiana in March.

Source - Variety

Street Fighter - The Legend of Chun Li

Official American trailer, courtesy of IGN.com

A Christmas Carol

First pic of Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge in Robert Zemeckis' performance captured Christmas Carol.

Source - Slashfilm.com

Valkyrie

Slashfilm has the first five minutes of Tom Cruise's Nazi flick Valkyrie, in which he plots to assassinate Hitler.

The Slammin' Salmon

The Broken Lizard comedy troupe can be hit or miss to say the least, but this trailer for their latest effort 'The Slammin' Salmon', indicates at least a partial return to form after the execrable 'Beerfest'

Source - Collider.com

Transformers 2

Teaser poster for the giant robot sequel, which pissed off fans of eighties cartoons everywhere.

Source - Aint It Cool News

Last House on The Left

As the original finally gets an uncut release in the UK, Apple have the trailer for the forthcoming remake of Wes Craven's 1974 horror film.  The film looks reasonably close to the original (with one major exception), and the trailer pretty much gives away the entire plot, so those who don't want their viewing spoiled should exercise caution before clicking on the play button.

Follow this link for a HD version

Watchmen

Fox and Warner may be getting closer to settling the legal dispute which threatened to delay the March release of Zack Snyder's superhero movie.

A court had previously ruled that Fox owned distribution rights to the movie as a result of a previous development deal.  Now  Variety report that -

"Attorneys for the studios agreed Friday to delay a federal court hearing until Monday in order to continue settlement talks.

The hearing had been set to take place Friday before the US District Court to rule on Warner's request for an expedited hearing on the key issue -- whether to grant Fox's demand to block Warner's plans to release "Watchmen" on March 6."

We're back!

Following an extended christmas break, we are back and raring to go with all the latest film news for 2009.

As always, if anyone has any stories to contribute, please do so using our usual contact details.

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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
.

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
.

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

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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