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Cinema Confidential: Honey
Coming Soon: set pics from The Aviator, Secret Window, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Constantine; Alien vs. Predator posters
Empire Movies: Barbershop 2 poster
Latino Review: Troy poster
Lights Out Entertainment: Honey, Master and Commander, Kill Bill Vol. 2 poster
Moviehole: Hellraiser: Hellworld
Spider-Man 2: get the new poster at the official site
Superhero Hype: Constantine (more pictures)
The Z Review: Code 46, I’m Not Scared, Noi Albino, The Human Stain, Blind Shaft, Thirteen, Dead End, Triggermen, One Last Chance, Alien: Director’s Cut, Touching the Void, Bad Santa
Trailers and multimedia
Apple: Alien vs. Predator; Master and Commander featurettes, The Alamo, Bad Santa, Paycheck, 21 Grams, The Cat in the Hat, The Perfect Score, The Butterfly Effect
Cinemovies: clips (“extraits”) for Matrix Revolutions, Elf
Coming Soon: exclusive Shattered Glass clip
Empire Movies: Alien vs. Predator, The Missing, Master and Commander featurettes, Bad Santa, The Alamo, Matrix Revolutions clips, Paycheck, 21 Grams, The Cat in the Hat, The Perfect Score, The Butterfly Effect, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Love Actually, Shattered Glass, Brother Bear clips
The Movie Box: Alien vs. Predator, Shattered Glass clips, Matrix Revolutions clips, Love Actually TV spot and clip, Peter Pan (Quicktime), Timeline featurette, 50 First Dates
Zap2It: Die Mommie Die
Trailer Park: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Peter Pan (#2), The Missing (full trailer), Alien vs. Predator (teaser and featurette), Bad Santa, Return of the King (featurettes), Paycheck
Casting calls and future films
Release dates:
The Alamo: April 2004 (Cinescape)
Ghost Rider: 2005 at the earliest (Dark Horizons)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse: September 24, 2004 (Dark Horizons)
Quick casting
Batman: Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins (as Alfred?) (AICN)
Cold Shelter: dir. Alexander Witt. Premise: A "character-based saga [which] tells the story of an American special forces operative who is sent to 1983 Cold War East Germany to infiltrate a terrorist ring. Once there, he begins to question the values he has always fought to uphold." (Cinema Confidential)
Dance Lessons: Jennifer Lopez producing… and starring? (Jo Blo)
Dead Fish: Gary Oldman, Robert Carlyle, Terence Stamp, Billy Zane (Jo Blo)
Dramarama: Lindsay Lohan (Jo Blo) http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=2779
Flight of the Phoenix: Miranda Otto, Tyrese (Dark Horizons)
I Dream of Jeannie: Turns out Jessica Simpson isn’t the only one up for the part after all (Coming Soon)
Kingdom of Heaven: Orlando Bloom after all, not Paul Bettany. Dir. Ridley Scott (Jo Blo)
Little Fish: Cate Blanchett, Martin Henderson (Cate Blanchett News)
Mission: Impossible 3: Film Jerk has a casting call description up
Papa: Anthony Hopkins as Ernest Hemingway; Meg Ryan is in talks (Coming Soon)
Son of the Mask: Traylor Howard (Cinema Confidential)
Synergy: Topher Grace, Dennis Quaid (Dark Horizons)
Traces: Cedric the Entertainer is in talks to play “an amnesiac janitor” (Dark Horizons)
Where the Wild Things Are: dir. Spike Jonze? (CHUD)
Screenwriters
End of Eternity: Keith Gordon (The Singing Detective) from the Asimov story. Premise: “The film will tell the story of a technician who finds that the woman he loves will soon be eliminated due to a ‘time change’ due to a group known as the Eternals.” (Cinema Confidential)
In the Pink: Simon Beaufoy. Premise: “A man [Tim Allen] teams with a group of women to sell cosmetics door-to-door after he loses his cushy corporate job.” (Dark Horizons)
Star Trek: David Gerrold (“The Trouble with Tribbles”) says he’d like to resurrect Kirk: “I'd yank him in out of an alternate timeline in which TNG and everything afterward just didn't happen. The TNG and post-TNG universes are so screwed up they need someone to help straighten things out. So they grab Admiral Kirk out of retirement from a parallel universe. I'd reunite him with any of the original actors who still wanted to play, but my first choice of course would be Spock.”
Wonder Woman: Laeta Kalogridis (current draft)
More films
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: Coming Soon has a set visit.
The Aviator: Filming has halted due to the California wildfires. (Dark Horizons)
The Bourne Supremacy: …will start filming in Berlin “in the coming weeks.” (Coming Soon)
Cellular: CHUD has a three-part set visit.
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo: Disney has rejected the idea of an R-rated gigolo, so Rob Schneider is shopping the idea around. (Dark Horizons)
Faith Buffalo: Andrew Fleming (The In-Laws) will direct this “story of a New York City party planner whose life is put in danger when she witnesses a crime. She is then temporarily relocated to a small town in Montana, where she has trouble adjusting to local culture but ultimately finds herself attracted to the sheriff.” (Coming Soon)
Glory Road: Proving that he can, in fact, still get work after Gigli, Ben Affleck will play “Don Haskins[,] who became the first NCAA coach to introduce an all-black lineup of basketball players.” (Cinema Confidential)
House of Wax: I don’t care if you’re Lord and Master Joel Silver—don’t you touch my favorite Vincent Price movie. (Sci Fi Wire)
Mantra: Shekhar Kapur will produce the Hindi-language family fantasy. (Dark Horizons)
My Brother’s Keeper: Well, this is sort of nifty: “Aaron Ashmore, identical twin brother of X-Men's Shawn Ashmore looks to be playing identical twins in a feature for Toronto actor/director Jordan Barker. The film is about twins growing up and apart in an industrialized small town, and it seems Shawn may have actually acted as Aaron's double for the scenes where both brothers were in frame.” Question: Why didn’t they just hire... both the Ashmores? (Dark Horizons)
The Pool Guy: Quoth Dark Horizons, “MGM and producer Dylan Sellers are diving into a comic spec by Vince McKewin which mixes Cyrano de Bergerac with pool care.” Pool care. Pool care. (Dark Horizons)
The Psycho: Dan Brereton’s comic has been picked up by Universal. Premise (deep breath): “the story takes place on an alternate timeline where the US focused on creating a super-serum rather than developing the bombs that ultimately helped end WWII. Our superpowered soldiers killed Hitler in 1941 and proliferated ever since then. Known as F.C.O.s (Freelance Costumed Operatives), these ‘Psychos’ now keep the country strong by dealing with enemies. Jake Riley is an unvercover intelligence agent assigned to collect data on these superbeings, but his cover is blown and his only chance of survival is to undergo the dangerous XDL treatment, which can result in painful death as easily as giving superhuman abilities. Jake survives the process and uses his newfound powers to uncover a conspiracy that goes (as they're known to do) ‘all the way to the top.’” (CHUD)
Reviews (Here be spoilers!)
AICN: Alien vs. Predator (script)
Coming Soon: Brother Bear, In the Cut
Dark Horizons: A Foreign Affair, Shattered Glass, Matrix Revolutions, Love Actually (2), Pieces of April
Film Jerk: The Human Stain, Pieces of April
Jam Showbiz: Alien: The Director’s Cut
Jo Blo: Die Mommie Die, In the Cut, Alien: Director’s Cut
Latino Review: Shattered Glass
Upcoming DVDs
CHUD: Millennium Actress
Dark Horizons: The Hulk, Pirates of the Caribbean, Terminator 3
DVDeNZ: “It is now unlawful to offer movies on dvd for sale in New Zealand until 9 months after the date of their international cinema release.” Uh…
DVD Fanatic: Married with Children (season one), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Finding Nemo, The Lion King: SE, Micki & Maude
DVD File: Dumb and Dumberer, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, Terminator 3
DVD Savant: The Man Who Laughs, Platinum Blonde, Black Sunday
Empire Movies: George of the Jungle 2, 28 Days Later
IGN DVD: Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Finding Nemo, Terminator 3, The Office
Interviews and profiles
CHUD: Charles Busch (Die Mommie Die)
Cinema Confidential: Ed Asner (Elf)
Coming Soon: Nicole Kidman (The Human Stain), Meg Ryan (In the Cut), Matrix Revolutions press conference, Halle Berry (Catwoman)
Dark Horizons: Colin Firth (Love Actually)
IGN: Richard Donner (The Omen), Criss Angel, Hayden Christensen (Shattered Glass)
Latino Review: Hayden Christensen (Shattered Glass)
Lights Out Entertainment: George Romero on the Dead Reckoning hold up
Sci Fi Wire: Keanu Reeves (Matrix Revolutions), Angelina Jolie on doing more Lara Croft, the women of Matrix Revolutions, Elijah Wood (Happy Feet)
USAToday: Wentworth Miller (The Human Stain)
Other news
Ananova: Connery drops End Game lawsuit; Douglas gets Zeta Jones in on Nobel Prize ceremony; Film star in hospital after fans throw him in the air; Annie Lennox to sing Lord of the Rings theme song; Finding Nemo stays at top of UK box office; Frost set to be granted divorce
IMDB: Polanski's Video-Link Ruled Out in Libel Case; Courtney Love Charged with Drug Possession; Ryan Hits Back at "Aggressive" Interviewer; Frost: Jude Made Me Sick; Schwarzenegger Heads to Washington for California Aid; Gwyneth Stands Up for Ted Hughes; Diandra Douglas: "I'd Never Badmouth Michael"; Diddy Hopes To Alter Image with Marathon Run; Smith & Seymour in the Line of Fire; Ali G Gets Another Season in America
Jam Showbiz: J.Lo taking on 'Dance Lessons'; Former ER star lines up new film; Connery ends fight over 'End Game'; Kitaen cleared of abuse charges; 'Rings' actor cast in Crusades epic; Witherspoon, Phillippe have baby boy; Actor Tommy Chong to stay in jail; Priestley ponders return to racing
USAToday: Matrix: All good things must come to an end
Yahoo: “Potter Books Blamed for ‘Hogwarts Headaches’”
Zap2It: Zeta-Jones, Douglas Host Nobel Concert; Keanu Blames 'Matrix' Difficulties on the Rain; Funny Brothers Give Comedy Lecture; Lopez Takes on 'Dance Lessons'; Affleck Exalted in 'Glory'; Judge Refuses to Release Chong from Prison; Remember 'The Alamo' Next Year
Fun and games
CHUD: Halloween (themed) DVDs
DVD File: Terminator 3, Looney Tunes, Batman, Space Jam, and Sopranos giveaways
Fametracker: Arise, Ye Creatives, Arise: A One-Act Play Based on Entertainment Weekly's "The Power Issue"
Retro Crush: The 100 Scariest Movie Moments of All Time. Caution: graphic screenshots (Seven, The Ring, Eraserhead, various zombies, and so on). All the way to the top now!
X-Entertainment: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Zap2It: Visit their special Matrix section
Short Attention Span Theater: Cleo threatens to boycott a Gough-less Batman; new eps of Weebl & Bob; daily Decipher dose; get your very own official Chicago dolls; the Victorian Sex Cry Generator ("Strike me sharply, Emil, afore I think you effeminate!"); Passions update; a new ROTK poster?; hottest play in town: "I'm Going to Kill the President"; Cleo has bad Samara dreams; "Lord of the Rings Naked"; have a refreshing glass of Pimp Juice
Parting shot
Empire Online: “ ‘Useless’ Film Redeemed: Brown Bunny gets a second chance”
** Empire thought it ‘hugely self-indulgent’. ‘There isn't a worthwhile moment in two hours,’ declared The Observer. However the critics at this year’s Vienna International Film Festival have declared Vincent Gallo's Brown Bunny their favourite film of the season. The re-edited version of the film that US critic Roger Ebert described as ‘90 minutes of uneventful banality’ won the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) Prize. That’ll please director Vincent Gallo who's been busy recently slagging off other people’s films. In the December issue of Empire Gallo says; ‘That film with Cameron Diaz, The Sweetest Thing, was more shocking to me that filming the blow-job scene in Brown Bunny, because it was so fucking awful.’ Gallo goes on to confirm that the sex scene in point was unquestionably real, ‘I really orgasm, I really am erect and I am really crying,’ he tells Empire. ‘When I look at Chloe now, she stands out from everyone. I don't know if I fell in love, but I was definitely shaken up.’ **
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