Actor Brad Pitt has signed on for the big-screen adaptation of the popular video-game “The Dark Void” Variety reports.
“Dark Void” follows a pilot who crash lands in the Bermuda Triangle following a routine mission and finds himself in an alternate world resembling a primitive Earth where aliens with superior technology are planning to take over civilization.
If you loved this summer’s reboot of “Star Trek” and were, like many of us, left panting for more, it looks like you’ll have to be satisfied with watching it again and again on DVD or Blu Ray.
During the promotional tour for the recently released to home theater movie, director J.J. Abrams said that it’s looking more and more like the next installment won’t hit screens until 2012.
Meyer Changed Ending of “New Moon”
November 17, 2009 || Category: Book News, Film News | 10 Comments
If you liked the ending of Stephenie Meyer’s “New Moon,” you can thank the author’s movie.
Meyer tells Oprah Winfrey that she orginally planned the ending of the second installment in the series to be a bit more cerebral and to take place inside Bella’s head.
Actress Rachel McAdams says that if she’s been cast as Felicia Hardy, aka The Black Cat, for the upcoming “Spider-Man 4,” it’s news to her.
McAdams denied rumors that she’s been cast for the upcoming movie.
“That’s a total rumor, I have to say,” she tells Entertainment Weekly “I was hanging out in Toronto the other day [...]
It wasn’t the end of the world for “2012″ at the box office this weekend.
The new destruction thriller from director Roland Emmerich raked in $65 million for its opening weekend. That total was $5 million more than predicted by Hollywood box office experts. It continues a solid winning streak of box-0ffice debuts for the director.
The special effects team that brought the world of “300″ to life has joined the upcoming “Conan” movie, reports MTV News.
Shaun Smith has signed on as a creature designer on “Conan” and Scott Wheeler will head up the makeup department
Despite the fact that it didn’t top the box office with its sixth installment, the latest version of “Saw” turned a profit for Lionsgate Studios. And we all know what that means–we’ll get more “Saw” next Halloween.
The Hollywood Reporter indicates that Lionsgate wants a new installment to hit theaters for late October next year.
And the contenders for the Best Animated Picture Oscar are:
Emmerich Says “2012″ Will Be His Last Disaster Movie
November 12, 2009 || Category: Film News | 4 Comments
Director Roland Emmerich has carved out quite a niche for himself in Hollywood when it comes to directing disaster films. He’s given us “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow” and this week’s big opening of “2012.”
But now that he’s done destroying the world in “2012,” Emmerich thinks its time to hang up his armageddon directing ways.
Scalzi Gives Four Reason “Avatar” Can’t Fail
November 12, 2009 || Category: Film News, The Biz In Show Business | 2 Comments
In his weekly column for AMC’s SciFi Scanner blog, best-selling and Hugo-nominated author John Scalzi discusses why the half-billion dollar “Avatar” can’t fail.
Theater Groups Unhappy About “Meatballs” Window
November 11, 2009 || Category: Film News, The Biz In Show Business | 1 Comment
Yesterday we brought you news that Sony’s hit animated movie, “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” would hit home theater via streaming video download in early December.
As news broke, exhibitors expressed their displeasure, citing the home-theater release of the film would be less than three months after “Cloudy” debuted on the big-screen. Exhibitors were upset at Paramount earlier this year for the studio’s decision to rush “G.I. Joe” to DVD and Blu-Ray in a shorter than usual time.
Curious to see what the reimagined “Clash of the Titans” will look like when it hits theater?
You can check out the teaser trailer at Yahoo! movies.
“Cloudy” Will Hit Internet TV First
November 11, 2009 || Category: Film News, The Biz In Show Business | Leave a Comment
In a move that could signal the future of the home theater industry, Sony Pictures will offer consumers the animated hit “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” first on streaming Blu-Ray players and Internet TV, reports the New York Times.
Priced at $24.99, the move is hoped to spark a renewed interest and model for home [...]
Acclaimed comedy director Amy Heckerling will write and direct the upcoming vampire romantic comedy “Vamps” according to Screen Daily.
The movie, which is set to begin production in March of next year, will be a modern-day tale of two young female vampires living the good life in New York until love enters the picture and each [...]
Actress Christian Serratos has joined a long line of celebrities to bare it all for PETA.
Santos, who stars in the “Twilight” movies recently posed for a photo shoot for a promotional poster for the activist group. The poster states the actress would rather go naked than wear fur and features Santos outside in a [...]
In the past couple of weeks, we’ve heard rumblings that the main villain for “Spider-Man 4″ could be Mysterio or the Lizard.
As the production inches closer, director Sam Raimi is keeping the identity of Spidey’s adversary a closely guarded secret, but that doesn’t mean that rumors aren’t beginning to spring up all across the Internet [...]
Gyllenhaal Could Replace Grace in “Source Code”
November 10, 2009 || Category: Film News | Leave a Comment
Variety reports that actor Jake Gyllenhaal is in discussions to replace Topher Grace as the lead in the upcoming movie, “Source Code.”
“Code” is the next project from “Moon” director Duncan Jones
and centers on a soldier who wakes up in another person’s body before a bombing.
Gyllenhaal has featured in a variety of genre films before [...]
The last time director James Cameron gave us a holiday release movie, it was one of the most expensive films in history. That movie was “Titanic” and it went on to win several Oscars as well as become one the biggest grossing film in history.
With his new movie “Avatar,” 20th Century Fox may be hoping [...]
On this week’s episode of Slice of SciFi, we mentioned the upcoming live-action CGI animated movie based on the popular Hanna Barbara cartoon, “Yogi Bear.”
Before this weekend, it’d been a while since we’d heard much about the movi e other than it was happening.
Now comes news that Dan Ackroyd, Justin Timberlake and Anna Faris are [...]
Ready for more “Doctor Horrible?”
If you are, then we’ve got good news for you. A comic prequel written by the co-creator and co-writer of the original Emmy winning web series, Zach Whedon, is headed to a comic store near you.
Hitting stands later this month is a prequel comic that will give us more of [...]
While Christmas is still a long way off, movie going audiences were looking for a little early holiday cheer this weekend according to the box office results.
The new 3-D version of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas story, “A Christmas Carol” took the top slot at the box office. The film, which uses 3-D motion capture [...]
When “Ghost Rider” hit theaters last year and wrangled up a huge pile of cash at the box-office, you knew a sequel was inevitable.
As the sequel began to slowly move towards become a reality, some fans were hoping that the series might reboot itself instead of just being a follow-up to the original film.
It appears [...]
Visionary director Wes Anderson wants to not only direct a movie about “the final frontier” but in the final frontier.
Access Hollywood reports that Anderson would like to see a movie filmed in space in his future.
“I’d like to do a movie in space,” Wes told AccessHollywood.com at the Hollywood premiere of his latest film, the [...]
Fillion Knows Title for “Doctor Horrible” Sequel
November 3, 2009 || Category: Film News | 6 Comments
Actor Nathan Fillion says that he’s heard the title for the upcoming “Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along Blog” sequel…but he’s not telling.
Fillion tells MTV News that he’s seen a script for the sequel as well as the score for several musical numbers. He says that everything is coming together for the sequel to the award-winning first [...]
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Academy Award winning actor Anthony Hopkins has signed on for the upcoming big-screen treatement for Thor, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Hopkins will play Odin, the king of Asgard and the father of Thor and Loki reports Mike Fleming.
Chris Hemsworth will play Thor, and Tom Hiddelston plays Loki. The movie will be directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Natalie [...]
A new trailer for James Cameron’s highly anticipated movie, “Avatar” has been released.
If you’d like to check it out, you can at Yahoo Movies.
Or, you can check it out below:
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The Michael Jackson concert movie, “This Is It” topped the box office over the weekend, taking in $21.3 million. The film opened last Wednesday and has already taken in $32.5 million domestically.
Sony Pictures, which released the film and initially said the movie would play for two weeks, announced Sunday that it would play through the [...]
For several months now, we’ve brought you news that director Peter Berg has committed to making a new big-screen version of Frank Herbert’s “Dune.”
For those of you keeping track at home, this would be the third adaptation of the popular novel for the screen–one movie and one mini-series.
Now, it appears that Berg may have left [...]
A couple of weeks ago, we brought you news about the fan project “Star Wars Uncut.”
The project broke down the orginal entry in the saga of “a galaxy far, far away” into 15 second segments and asked fans to claim and recreate that section of the film anyway they wanted. The results would then be [...]
