Coming Soon has gotten their hands on a list of films that the studios are making their pre-strike priorities. These are the movies they want in the can before the actors and directors potentially strike at the end of June 2008; I’m not sure if this list is reflecting current thoughts that the writers will … Continue reading
Hitman, the video game adaptation starring Timothy Olyphant, was looking promising. Jeremy liked the script, and reports that the movie was going to be very violent and hard R were heartening to us sick types who like that kind of thing. Now it’s looking less promising. A lot less promising. Twitchfilm is reporting that director … Continue reading
Warner Bros has scooped up the distribution rights for a whole new Terminator trilogy, the first film of which starts shooting early next year. Just to make sure you’re not confused and to make sure you don’t have to learn to count above three, the new film will not be called Terminator 4 but rather … Continue reading
There was a small group of online journalists who had been invited to the Universal lot to have some lunch and do a meet and greet with The Beard Himself, Steven Spielberg. We had enjoyed the very excellent catering and were getting ready to hop into a van to be taken to the Amblin offices … Continue reading
Wrong Turn 2 is available today on DVD. You can buy it through CHUD by clicking here. This review is just for the film, which I saw at a special screening as part of Screamfest LA, not for the DVD features. Joe Lynch hasn’t reinvented horror with Wrong Turn 2. He hasn’t created some new … Continue reading
I got an email from Will Reynolds at Obsessed With Film that almost made me shit my pants. Here’s what Will said: Thought I’d send this along to you – Matthew Vaughn has written in The Guardian (the newspaper that got Paddy Considine killed!) that his script for the Thor movie initially came in with … Continue reading
John Carter of Mars director Andrew Stanton and screenwriter Mark Andrews came to Tarzana California to visit the Edgar Rice Burroughs archives at the ERB, Inc offices (and yes, Tarzana is in fact named after Tarzan). While there they talked with Burroughs estate reps about how excited they are for the project – which they’re … Continue reading
There’s been a lot of talk about who will play Thor in Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of the Asgardian superhero. This summer I brought you news that he and Marvel were clashing on casting – they wanted wrestler Triple H and he didn’t. After that came word that star of Rome, Kevin McKidd, was in talks … Continue reading
The specter of a strike in Hollywood has been hanging over the world like an impending Category 5 hurricane these last few months. Terror has taken up residence in the hearts of the people as they wonder whether Transformers 2 could possibly be made pre-strike, and if not, does that mean we won’t get to … Continue reading
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor love video games. Crank was essentially an adaptation of a video game that does not (yet) exist, and they’ll be doing a sequel to that. Their next project is even more specifically game-related: it’s actually called Game and it’s set in a near-future where a MMORPG called Slayers is hugely … Continue reading