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LINK: New Sherlock Holmes Posters
Empire Magazine has new one-sheets for the upcoming Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.
Three Rings Veterans to Return for The Hobbit
For those of you into such things — which is probably just about everyone reading this — The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro has announced three cast members from the Lord of the Rings trilogy will be returning for the new prequels: Sir Ian McKellen will be back as Gandalf, Hugo Weaving will return as [...]
Pixar’s Stanton to Adapt John Carter of Mars
Now it’s official: Finding Nemo and WALL-E director Andrew Stanton will be helming his first live-action movie, John Carter of Mars. The movie, based on the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, will be released under the Disney banner and not the Pixar banner, as was originally rumored/hypothesized, and will be hitting theatres sometime in 2012. [...]
News Roundup for January 5, 2006
» In a move that genuinely brought a smile to our faces, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that Jon Stewart will be hosting this year’s Academy Award ceremonies. That move alone should make the telecast much more watchable than usual. (Reminder: Oscar nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 31, [...]
Good Deal
As I’ve been predicting since early in the negotiations, Disney and Pixar are nearing a deal to re-up their distribution deal, which was set to expire after the release of Cars next year. I can’t honestly see how anyone might have believed this deal wasn’t going to happen–both companies stood to lose way, way too [...]
Less like a phoenix, more like a dodo
In general I haven’t felt the need to post much in the way of news on here lately–been trying to stick mostly with the reviews (1), but a piece of news that has sickened me to my very core has crossed my virtual desk and I needed to rant to you, my fine readers. All [...]
Batman Begins…to get me hyped for this movie.
Hot on the heels of the grandeur of the Serenity trailer, Apple now has the final trailer for Batman Begins and it’s got me pretty geeked. While there are certainly a couple of goofy moments in it, the many, many bits of utter kewlness thoroughly trumped them. What we can see of the overall look [...]
“Let’s go be bad guys.”
The official trailer for Serenity came out about an hour ago and man, does it look good. The effects look sharp and the dialogue is typically Whedon-y. I feel pretty confident in saying that anyone who dug Firefly, the TV series from which the movie spawns, is probably going to like this movie. It honestly [...]
First Official Pic of Routh as Superman
Warner Brothers has released the first official picture of Brandon Routh in the new Superman getup from Superman Returns. Two things to discuss here: one, the suit; and two, Routh himself. The costume I like. It’s not necessarily the way I would have gone with it, but I like it. I especially like the fact [...]
Doc Ock, Gandalf Sign On For “DaVinci Code”
The cast for Ron Howard’s adaptation of The DaVinci Code just keeps getting better and better. This movie was going to be an absolute smash no matter who they got to star in it, but man, they’re certainly not going for “movie stars” with the casting…they’re getting Actors. In addition to the already-cast Tom Hanks [...]
Teaser: “Superman Returns” one-sheet
Via Movieweb.com: Seems like we have the first official teaser poster for Superman Returns. Take a gander for yourself… The image itself doesn’t necessarily get me excited, though I guess it’s OK as a teaser image…but the fact that the poster exists at all does. June 30, 2006 can’t get here fast enough. UPDATE: Just [...]
Affleck To Direct Lehane’s Gone, Baby, Gone
Just to prove that I have an interest in movies that aren’t based on comic books, I now give you a bit of info about an upcoming movie based on a crime novel, instead. Variety reports that Ben Affleck will apparently make his directorial debut by helming an adaptation of Dennis Lehane‘s Gone, Baby, Gone, [...]
“Spider-Man 3″ Has Its Villain…Kinda
Thomas Haden Church has been cast as the Big Bad in Spider-Man 3. “Well, that could be cool,” I hear you say. “Just which of Spidey’s cruel and curious coterie of villainy will the one-time sitcom star and recent Oscar nominee be portaying? Electro? The Shocker? The Scorpion? The Rhino? The Lizard? Kraven the Hunter? [...]
Link: Inside Pixar
Ain’t-It-Cool News’ Moriarty got to live out one of my life’s ambitions when we he took a tour of the Pixar campus. I’ve seen the main building a couple of times on the special features of the last couple of DVDs but I always, always want to see more. The “cottages” that the animators work [...]
X-Men 3, Toy Story 3 Get Directors
The guys over at The Movie Blog have posted some news indicating that the third installments of a couple of my favorite movie franchies ever both now have directors attached. According to Ain’t-It-Cool News, Matthew Vaughn has been picked to direct X-Men 3. I don’t honestly have much of an opinion about this one yet [...]
The End (of Eisner) Is Nigh
Michael Eisner, nemesis of animation lovers everywhere, is leaving his gig as CEO of Disney a year early. My first thought, as I’m sure it was for many others: “What does this mean for the Pixar-Disney partnership?” The IMDb has this to say on the subject: The selection of Robert Iger to become CEO of [...]
Link: New Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trailer
Second trailer for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is up, this one using the concept of the guide itself to make fun of movie trailers in general. Felt true to the spirit of the books to me, and what new footage there is looks pretty sharp. My expectations for this movie are growing. Two [...]
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