The Bat news just keeps on coming it seems from avenues all over with several new revelations over the weekend. The most notables came from Batman on Film who indicate that Oscar nominee and "Last Samurai" actor Ken Watanabe has won the role of lead villain Ra's Al-Ghul in the Chris Nolan film. An announcement about his casting is expected to hit the trades shortly. The site also indicates that the role of Harvey Dent does appear in the script and will be played by an actor whose previously...

They are working on another draft with John Singleton, who will direct the comic adaptation about a wrongly imprisoned gang member whose participation in a medical experiment leaves him with super strength and bulletproof skin.

"Superman" Superman-V reports that Mark Mansbridge (Art Director) and Duncan Henderson (Producer) have left the project and Owen Paterson (Production Designer) may have as well. Kym Barrett is still attached as costume designer and McG still director. The departures are due to the project being shut down as it undergoes MAJOR script re-writes. The record highs of the Aussie dollar against the US is also making Warners heavily question the value of shooting in Australia. "Frank Miller's 3...

With principal photography only just having wrapped, no digital effects were complete but, taking that into consideration, things appear to be shaping up nicely. The footage began with Lance Henriksen's industrial billionaire instructing his team of scientists and archaeologists as they make ready to enter the uncovered Aztec dig site deep within the Antarctic circle. Ewan Bremner reveals himself as the token comic relief before we see a montage of panning shots of the temple, with nervous sc...

Sean Michael Breen was sentenced a 50-month jail term in California for selling cracked console and PC software totaling nearly $500,000. Breen was a member of Razor1911, a notorious group of game hackers. Together, these guys cracked games such as Quake and Warcraft III, and sold them in advance of their release dates. They aquired the games by posing as reviewers from a fictional gaming magazine, and having them delivered to a "derelict storefront address in Oakland". They would then sell t...

Near the beginning of the week, news sites all over the place sprung the news that Nintendo was putting their next-generation console plans on hold in order to focus more on the handheld market. Rumors started flying about that the Gamecube's successor wouldn't hit store shelves until 2007, way after Sony and Microsoft would debut their next consoles. In order to quell all the unsubstantiated rumors, Nintendo announced that they will have their new home console (codenamed the "N5") on display...

Forget everything you thought you knew. Game Informer and The-MagixBox have revealed new details on Capcom's GameCube survival horror adventure game Resident Evil 4 / Biohazard 4: Appearance: - The game can be played in first person view and two other view perspectives. - RE4 supports 16:9 widescreen (which is mandatory) and 480 progressive scan. When the game is played on a regular screen, there are black borders on top and bottom. - When the game plays in 3rd person view, the ma...

The superhero genre maybe relatively quiet this year, but in 2005 its coming back with a vengeance as two such films aiming to bow next Summer are about to get underway according to Variety. First up the next "Batman" movie which soon begins filming in Iceland has confirmed two new cast players that have been rumoured for a few weeks now. First up the one and only Liam Neeson is set to play the main villain Ra's Al Ghul, a role many thought that Viggo Mortensen was occupying (no word yet on i...

The WB has announced that Angel will be ending with its current fifth season. Following is a statement, released by the network on its web site: "For the last seven years Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have been cornerstones of our network. The sum total of the work done on those shows has produced some of the proudest moments in our history. Like some of the great series that are leaving the air this year, including Frasier and Friends, the cast, crew, writers and producers of Angel...

All of the unforgettable heroism, villainy and epic adventure of George Lucas's STAR WARS trilogy comes to the ultimate home-entertainment format for the very first time around the world this September from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, ending the wait for the most-anticipated DVD release ever. The four-disc collection will be released on Sept. 21 in the U.S. and Canada, with international release dates following closely. "We know how long fans have waited for t...

Variety reports that Warner Bros. and director Wolfgang Petersen have set scribes Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty to adapt the Orson Scott Card books Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow into a film Petersen will direct. The Hugo Award-winning young adult fantasy series begins on Earth after an alien attack. Gifted children are recruited for war, with a prodigy leading the assault against aliens. Petersen is currently prepping Troy and hasn't locked his next movie yet, says the trade. He's rep...

Sci Fi Channel has greenlit production on the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a new original weekly series. Based on the top-rated December miniseries event of the same name, the one-hour drama is slated to begin production on 13 episodes in Vancouver next month. All principal cast from the mini will reprise their roles for the series, including Edward James Olmos (Commander Adama), Mary McDonnell (President Laura Roslin), Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck), and Tricia Helfer (Number Six), among oth...

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Variety ran an article today with heaps of new details on the upcoming "Batman" movie set to begin shooting at the end of the month in Iceland. First off expect this Bats to be grounded more in reality which is why there's no costumed villains, little focus on gadgets, and a bigger role for Bruce Wayne - Director Chris Nolan says "I felt like doing the origins story of the character, which is a story that's never been told before. The world of Batman is that of grounded reality, ours will be...

Two previews are coming out shortly that are worth taking an early squizz at, and some lucky people got to see them for marketing surveys recently and are more than happy to share their experiences. In regards to "Phantom of the Opera", 'Moviegod' made a list of some cool shots we can expect to see in the teaser trailer: • Sunrise over the city • Man in top hat walking through the city • People holding candles/candles floating in the water • Woman in cemetery in the snow/man reaching ou...