LOTR: Return of the King (DVD): Peter Jackson confirmed on Friday to the IESB that the 'extended cut' will be 250 mins, exactly 50 mins longer than the theatrical version. No date is yet set, but the 'regular' edition will hit sooner - around May or June according to USA Today.
Producer Mario Kassar recently spoke to a Lebanese film magazine regarding production for Terminator 4 and TheArnoldFans transcribed a copy of the key elements of the article: "T4 is in the works. The screenplay will be ready in 8 or 9 months. Once we have that, we will proceed with the production. The question that has never been answered in all the Terminator films is time travel. You can come from the future to change the present. But we never see how they go back to the future, which is a...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After almost four years of development, Sci Fi Channel has given the green light to "Anonymous Rex," a two-hour movie based on Eric Garcia's series of comedic mystery novels. The books center on Vincent Rubio, a high-tech private investigator who, along with hundreds of others on Earth, is in fact a dinosaur (in his case, Velociraptor). They never became extinct. Instead, they have evolved to be 6 feet tall and have integrated themselves into modern society...
"The A-Team" "A feature film version of The A-team will be headed to theaters if Stephen's plan comes together. However, in order to modernize the plot, instead of four Vietnam vets on the run for a crime they did not commit the characters will be comprised of four Desert Storm vets. It's genre will also shift towards a more serious action-oriented Die Hard style film. Cannell promises the characters to be much better at aiming than their predecessors, yes people will die with this A-Team. No m...
Robert Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios is rumoured to be working on a film adaptation of Frank Miller's comic which Robert himself might direct. Cinematography wise there's apparently going to be a unique tri-colour/high contrast method to filming whilst casting wise Josh Hartnett may have already tested.
Rumors have been circulating that Warner Bros. may split up Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire into two films, due to the size of the book. Not so, Mike Newell tells Empire magazine. "As far as I'm concerned it's absolutely possible to do it in one. I think it would be slightly embarrassing to do it in two." The director said he'll also be taking the franchise in yet another new direction. "It's a classic paranoid thriller in a way. I've spent Christmas watching things like The Parallax View...
Pixar today said that it is ending its discussions with The Walt Disney Company to extend their existing five-picture deal, and will begin discussions with other studios to distribute its films beginning in 2006. After completing the final two films under the current agreement with Disney, The Incredibles in 2004 and Cars in 2005, Pixar intends to retain full ownership of its future productions. "After ten months of trying to strike a deal with Disney, we're moving on," said Pixar CEO Steve J...
January 27, 2004 - According to The Nikkei Weekly, Japanese electronics retailers are not ecstatic about sales of the PSX, Sony's new all-in-one gaming/DVR/DVD recorder device. In a survey of chief managers of retail stores in Japan, 40% said that sales of the PSX were below expectations. Analysts have been buys pointing fingers at a number of possible problems with poor marketing and a lack of features in the PSX. Beyond being disappointed in the sales figures, those surveyed also said t...
January 29, 2004 - Headed for Japan next month and scheduled for our shores in May, Onimusha 3 is in for plenty of changes when it comes stateside in only a couple of months. Set to receive a slight title change to Onimusha 3 Demon Siege (why there isn't a hyphen, we'll never know), the latest and greatest from Keiji Inafune is being billed by officials as Capcom's premier title for the PlayStation 2 in 2004. "Onimusha 3 Demon Siege will surpass its predecessors in all areas: gameplay, ar...
Yesterday FilmForce published an exclusive report stating that producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is turning Hasbro's G.I. JOE toy franchise into a live-action movie. FilmForce also reports that the script will be done by writer Michael Gordon and that while deals for both men are complete, an announcement may be published in the movie trade magazines sometime in February. Also mentioned was that the movie will utilize characters from the popular 1980s cartoon series and not so much the modern ...
Despite those mixed "Highlander: Endgame" reviews, it looks like the producers have finally taken notice of what the fans have wanted by returning the immortal franchise to TV (rather than the big screen) late in 2004. UK magazine Impact just ran an interview with David Abramowitz, the man who was a guiding hand for many of the "Highlander" TV series' best seasons and reveals that he has been asked to write a four-hour mini-series which looks set to start filming in April - with a set of i...
Yesterday's gossip of Beyonce Knowles as Lois Lane and Johny Depp as Lex Luthor has sent quite a few repercussions across the Globe, and already follow-up talk on both however has rendered it moot: AICN reports that "Seems that McG had decided he wanted to go with Beyonce, nothing official had been signed at that point, HOWEVER, agents of other actresses that were up for the part, their agencies, a few secretaries and assistants here and there all heard that the part was no longer available a...
"The filming begins at the end of next month in Iceland and will continue until mid March before moving to the U.K. Iceland shooting-don't worry, it's not Batman on ice skates-more like all terrain vehicles, with Christian Bale not arriving till around March 1st. One of the cardington hangers being used for the film has large sets of a old train station of some sort, as well as housing the MASSIVE batcave. Casting. First of all, Morgan Freeman is no longer up for Lucious Fox, but is up for G...
BEST PICTURE "Lost in Translation" (Focus) "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line) "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" (Fox) "Mystic River" (WB/Roadshow) "Seabiscuit" (Universal/DreamWorks) BEST ACTOR Ben Kingsley, "House of Sand and Fog" Bill Murray, "Lost in Translation" Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" Jude Law, "Cold Mountain" Sean Penn, "Mystic River" BEST ACTRESS Keisha Castle-Hughes, "Whale Rider" Dian...
Network - ABC "THE CATCH": J.J. Abrams' bounty hunter drama has been given the green light to produce a pilot. Stars Greg Grunberg ("Alias"). "LOST": - Drama which follows a group of people stuck on a Pacific island and are forced to build a new society after surviving a plane crash. From J.J. Abrams ("Alias") and Damon Lindelof ("Crossing Jordan"). The project is actually a revamped take on "Nowhere," a drama from executive producer Aaron Spelling and writer Jeff Lieber, which ultimately d...