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Frank Miller Gives Update on 300 Prequel, Now Entitled Xerxes
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Last year, Steve was able to confirm that there were plans to make a prequel to 300 when he interviewed the film’s producers. Since then the only thing we’ve really known about the project is that Frank Miller was working on it and that if everyone liked what they saw when it was done, then they would move ahead with a film adaptation.
Now, a year and a half later ,we finally have an update on the project from Frank Miller thanks to an interview he did with L.A. Times’ Hero Complex Blog. Miller, who has already finished the plot and is now getting started on the artwork says that the project is now titled Xerxes and will be set 10 years before the events of 300. According to the report, the story will center around the Battle of Marathon, although it is unknown if there’s an opportunity to squeeze in the line,
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- Ramses Flores
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Entertainment Tonight Gives a Sneak Peek at the Iron Man 2 Trailer
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In their typical fashion, Entertainment Tonight promo’d a look at the upcoming trailer for Iron Man 2 and made sure to talk all over it. They’ll have a full report on Wednesday and I can’t wait for them to talk all over that as well. Why enjoy the actual footage when you can sit back and relax to the soothing sound of Mary Hart chirping all over it.
Hit the jump to check out the 25-second peek for the sneak peek at the trailer for Iron Man 2. The trailer itself will be attached to Sherlock Holmes, and yes, I am aware at the ridiculousness of previews of previews of previews.
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- Matt Goldberg
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Trailer for The Lord Of The Rings Blu-ray Box Set Reminds Us All Why We Loved Our Journey Throught Middle-Earth
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I haven’t watched any of The Lord of the Rings films since 2004 but I’ll definitely be sitting down with them again when they hit Blu-ray on April 6, 2010. Warner Bros. Home Video just released a two-minute trailer showcasing all the films together again and it was a reminder of why we fell in love with Peter Jackson’s masterful adaptation in the first place.
As we reported yesterday, Wbhv is releasing the theatrical versions of the films in a nine-disc box set which will include the Blu-ray versions of the films, mostly the features from the original DVDs, and a digital copy of each film. The set will retail for $99.98 but since that’s the Msrp, you’ll probably be able to buy it for slightly less (my guess is somewhere around $75-80, at least when it first goes on sale). There’s currently no word when we’ll
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- Matt Goldberg
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Tobey Maguire Busts Hobbit Casting Rumor
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Causing some excitement yesterday was the news that Maguire’s people were talking to the producers of Guillermo Del Toro’s The Hobbit about possibly getting the actor to play the lead role of Bilbo Baggins. Sadly, Maguire has shot down that rumor. Speaking to Heat Vision, Maguire said:
“I have not met with del Toro. We don’t have any near future plans. I don’t know if something got misconstrued or miscommunicated but the source was not accurate at all.”
Maguire believed the rumor of James McAvoy’s getting cast as Bilbo so he didn’t even consider the role. However, the actor says he would love to have a part in the film, but he hasn’t read a script or talked to anyone about it at this point. But hey, at least the ball is rolling!
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- Matt Goldberg
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First Poster from Christopher Nolan’s Inception Starring Leonardo DiCaprio
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Like it did for The Dark Knight, the viral campaign for Christopher Nolan’s Inception is clearly going to count for something, because today the game began and the reward for beating the first stage was the teaser poster for the film. As Steve reported on Sunday, the spinning top on the film’s official website, which had been spinning since August 21st when the website first launched on August 21st, began to wobble. Well now the top has toppled over and users are now directed to a new website: yourmindisthesceneofthecrime.com. Solve the puzzle and you get to see the teaser poster…or you could just hit the jump to see it now.
Inception is slated to hit theaters on July 16, 2010.
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- Matt Goldberg
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First Image of the Cast from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
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I forgot how good it felt to report on Edgar Wright’s upcoming film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Yes, Jason Reitman did rave on Twitter last October over seeing twenty minutes of the movie, but this is some real material and it looks real good. It really does look like the comic come to life with (from left to right), Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Johnny Simmons, Ellen Wong, Alison Pill, and Mark Webber all in character. I’m not sure what they’re all looking at but I don’t mind. I just hope that Wright is going to start giving us more goods like this on the film. I do love to report on it since it’s my must-see film of 2010.
Hit the jump to check out the full image.
The image comes from Wright’s official blog where he posts a new photo, sometimes Sp-related and other times not,
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- Matt Goldberg
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Golden Globe Nominations Announced, Up In The Air Leads with Six Noms
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Hfpa) announced their nominees for the 67th Annual Golden Globes and before I comment on the nominees, I first have to explain something about the Globes. The Globes are not really an indiciator of the Oscars. Critics lists and awards from various guilds are far better predictors because the Globes are ultimately bought and paid for by the studios. The Oscars are as well to some extent, but the Globes are just ridiculous. However, it doesn’t mean they’re not a lot of fun and that they’ll take chances Oscar won’t.
But the big movie nominee was a safe choice with Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air grabbing six nods followed by Rob Marshall’s Nine, which racked up five. But looking through the nominees, there are some absolutely bizarre inclusions: Julia Roberts for Duplicity (this one makes sense when you
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- Matt Goldberg
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San Francisco Film Critics Circle Helps The Hurt Locker Continue Its Winning Streak
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Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker won best picture and best director again today at the San Francisco Film Critics Circle (Sffcc) awards. The film has already been awarded with both honors by critics in New York, Los Angeles, and Boston. Meanwhile, the Southeastern Film Critics Association did not give the film best picture, but did award best director to Bigelow. I really hope that these are all signs that Bigelow will be the first female to win best director come Oscar time.
Other Sffcc winners included Colin Firth for best actor in A Single Man, Meryl Streep for best actress in Julie & Julia, Mo’Nique for best supporting actress in Precious, Christian McKay pulling a surprise win for best supporting actor in Me and Orson Welles, and Quentin Tarantino winning best original screenplay for Inglourious Basterds while Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach received the award for best adapted screenplay for Fantastic Mr. Fox.
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- Ramses Flores
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John Waters Lists His Top 10 Films of 2009
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Yesterday, we brought you Quentin Tarantino’s Top 8 Films of 2009 and today we have John Waters, another film buff/director, listing his best of the year. I always find anything that Waters writes or says to be entertaining and his thoughts on these ten films are no different. Here’s what he thought were the Top 10 Films of 2009:
1. Import Export (Ulrich Seidl)
2. Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
3. In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
4. World’s Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait)
5. Brüno (Larry Charles)
6. Lorna’s Silence (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
7. Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar)
8. The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel)
9. Whatever Works (Woody Allen)
10. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
To read Waters’ thoughts on each film, head over to ArtForum.
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- Ramses Flores
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Thor Writers to Adapt Futuristic Vampire Comic Book Damn Nation
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It looks like Hollywood’s love for all-things-vampire isn’t going to die anytime soon. THR’s Heat Vision Blog reports that writing partners Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz (who penned Marvel’s upcoming superhero flick Thor) have now come on board to adapt the Dark Horse comic book Damn Nation for Paramount. The 2005 comic, written by Andrew Cosby (creator of the show Eureka), tells the story of “a United States shut off from the world by concrete barricades and barbed wire - not because of what might get in, but what might get out. A vampire plague has spread from sea to shining sea, and when a small holdout of scientists trapped outside of Buffalo, N.Y. discover a cure, it’s up to a Special Ops team from the President’s current offices in London to go in and get it. Yet, not everyone in the world
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- Ramses Flores
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Mel Gibson to Tell Audiences How I Spent My Summer Vacation
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Variety reports that Mel Gibson will next star in the action drama How I Spent My Summer Vacation, which is based off a screenplay he wrote. The film, “centers on a career criminal who gets caught by Mexican authorities and is sent to a drug- and crime-filled prison, where he learns how to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.” The secret to survival? Never drop the soap and no cookies in bed.
Gibson has only written two other screenplays in his career and they’re both films he directed: Apocalypto and The Passion of the Christ. However, he has no plans to direct Summer Vacation, but will direct Leonardo DiCaprio in a Viking movie we reported on yesterday. Adrian Grunberg, Gibson’s First Assistant Director on Apocalypto, will take the helm on Summer Vacation with Stacy Perskie, Apocalypto’s Second Ad, producing.
I’m really happy that another
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- Matt Goldberg
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Kenny Ortega to Direct In The Heights
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Variety is reporting that director/choreographer Kenny Ortega (High School Musical, This is It) will now helm the big screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, In the Heights, after leaving the planned Footloose remake earlier this year. The musical covers three days in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, “where a bodega owner who inherited his grandfather’s lottery windfall plots his retirement to a Dominican Republic beach. As he bids farewell to his customers on the block, he becomes conflicted about leaving behind a group that has become family.” Lin-Manuel Miranda will reprise his starring role (he also wrote the lyrics and music) and Quiara Alegria Hudes, who wrote the show, will be adapting the script to the screen.
Universal will be producing the film and I have to give them some credit for not deciding to replace Miranda with a big name star. The film
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- Ramses Flores
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Director Carl Rinsch to Swim with The Creature From The Black Lagoon
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He may have lost his chance to direct the fifth Alien movie, but director Carl Rinsch is doing pretty well for himself. Last month, we told you that Rinsch would be behind the camera on 47 Ronin, the film adaptation of the Japanese Chūshingura legend. Now it looks like Rinsch has lined up an even higher profile film with Hero Complex reporting that Rinsch is in talks to direct the remake of The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The 1954 original involved a scientific expedition encountering a dangerous amphibious humanoid who may or may not be from a darkly colored body of water.
Multiple directors over the past three decades have tried to revive Creature, from John Landis to Peter Jackson to the most recent director to depart, Brick Eisner. Eisner, who recently remade George Romero’s 1973 horror film The Crazies, has now moved on to remake David Cronenberg’s 1979 horror film,
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- Matt Goldberg
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Writers Guild of America Announces TV Nominations
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It’s mid-December and that can only mean one thing: awards season. Today, the WGA announced their TV nominations (feature nominations will be announced Jan. 11th) and it’s the usual suspects for the most part with a couple of surprises. Mad Men, 30 Rock, The Office, and newcomer Modern Family earned 3 nominations each. Meanwhile, popular fan favorite Glee received two. There are a lot of categories and nominees so I’m just going to mention the two big awards before the jump.
The nominees for Best Drama Series are: Breaking Bad, Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Lost, and Mad Men. The nominees for Best Comedy Series are: 30 Rock, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Glee, Modern Family, and The Office.
The WGA will announce the winners on Feb. 20th. Hit the jump to see the full list of nominees.
Drama Series
“Breaking Bad” - Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, George Mastras,
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- Ramses Flores
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First Trailer and New Images from Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood Starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett
17 hours ago
The first trailer for Ridley Scott Robin Hood has come online and it looks like Universal is going to sell the film as Gladiator in medieval times. I would say it looks like Kingdom of Heaven in England instead of Jerusalem. Either way, you can’t sell a period action movie without rock music and the teaser rocks hard. In all honesty, it’s not a bad trailer and I do like that it has almost no dialogue.
Some new images have landed online as well and they look a lot like what you would expect a “Robin Hood” movie to look like. There’s horses, and corsets, and swords, and leather clothing, but in the context of a medieval time period and not a kinky sex club. The images also give us the first real look at Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian and again, no surprised. My big anxiety
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- Matt Goldberg
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Apparition to Release The Runaways, Starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning, on March 19, 2010
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According to EW, New York-based Apparition will distribute Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways to Us theaters on March 19, 2010. Making its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Runaways focuses on the eponymous all-female rock goup led by Joan Jett (played by Kristen Stewart) and Cherie Currie (played by Dakota Fanning) and their rise under their abusive manager (played by Oscar-nominee Michael Shannon).
When asked by Risky Buisness about what he found appealing about the film, Apparition chief Bob Berney said the following:
Floria made a film that is really about the relationship, so there’s more to it than just a typical rock bio. It’s really a story of the two girls, Joan and Cherie. She did it really stylized, and it’s done in a real indie spirit, which I think is the spirit of the original group and Joan’s group.
Hopefully, we’ll be hearing a lot
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- Matt Goldberg
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New Promo for the Final Season of Lost
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ABC just released a new promo spot for the sixth and final season of Lost. Set to Willie Nelson’s cover of “Amazing Grace”, the promo doesn’t show any new footage but it is cool to see how far we’ve come in the story in the past 103 episodes. While this new promo isn’t bad, it isn’t anywhere close to as good as the Spanish promo that ran on Cuatro. It didn’t feature any new footage either, but it’s set to Radiohead’s “Everything in Its Right Place” and uses a chessboard motif combined with a well-written and well-narrated voiceover. The effect is pretty impressive, although everyone knows that backgammon is the important black-white game in Lost, not chess.
Hit the jump to check out both promos. Lost returns for its final season on February 2, 2010 at 8/7c on ABC.
Amazing Grace Promo:
Cuatro Promo:
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- Matt Goldberg
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Southeastern Film Critics Awards Declare Up In The Air as the Best Film of 2009
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The Southeastern Film Critics Association (Sefca) has chosen Up in the Air as their choice for the Best Picture of 2009. I’ve twice applied for membership in Sefca but because I’ve only been a professional film critic for three years instead of five and only ascended to the managing editor of a major movie website, I don’t get to participate. That being said, I don’t take much offense to their choices and I’m happy that they’re helping to build the momentum towards Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman in history to win the Best Director Oscar. However, I wouldn’t give a single award to (500) Days of Summer, which landed on the Association’s Top 10 list and got the award for Original Screenplay (which is the film’s most boring aspect).
Anyway, hit the jump to move past my bitterness and see the full list of winners.
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- Matt Goldberg
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First Legion Clip
23 hours ago
A few weeks ago I got to see about twenty minutes from Screen Gems upcoming movie Legion. While I didn’t see enough footage to say if the final film is going to be worth our time, one of the clips they showed us was great, and it just so happens Screen Gems released a clip from the scene today. Since I’d rather not spoil it, hit the jump and check it out. But I will say it involves a grandma named Gladys…
If you enjoy the clip, watch the trailer further down the page as it has a bit more from the scene.
If you’re not familiar with Legion, it’s a supernatural action thriller where an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse.
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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Quentin Tarantino Picks His Top 8 Films of 2009
23 hours ago
Quentin Tarantino recently did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter and he told them his favorite films of 2009. But he did his list with an asterisk, as he admitted to not having seen Avatar, Invictus, or The Lovely Bones. As of right now, his top eight films are:
1. Star Trek (Jj Abrams)
2. Drag Me To Hell (Sam Raimi)
3. Funny People (Judd Apatow)
4. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
5. Chocolate (Prachya Pinkaew)
6. Observe and Report (Jody Hill)
7. Precious (Lee Daniels)
8. An Education (Lone Scherfig)
If you’d like to watch him say his list and explain how things might change, hit the jump:
Of course when anyone makes a best of the year list, you will always wonder why certain great films never made the cut. Quickly looking over his top eight, you immediately wonder where is Pixar’s Up. But, at the same time, how many are going to say
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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