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New writer hired to join Bryan Singer on X-Men: First Class
18 December 2009 5:17 PM, PST
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There have been further developments in the news that Bryan Singer is returning to 20th Century Fox for another X-Men movie.
Singer yesterday sealed a deal to helm origin flick X-Men: First Class, which had a screenplay by Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz and takes its title from the First Class comic books depicting the mutant team in their teenage years.
There were behind-the-scenes whispers about bringing in new writing talent and it's now been revealed that Fox has hired scribe Jamie Moss to work with Singer on the project.
Moss worked on Ghost in the Shell for DreamWorks and wrote Street Kings, the crime drama directed by David Ayer.
Singer told Variety: "This is the formative years of Xavier and Magneto, and the formation of the school and where their relationship took a wrong turn.
"There is a romantic element, and some of the mutants from X-Men will figure into the plot,
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Singer Talks More "X-Men: First Class"
18 December 2009 7:25 AM, PST
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Following his news at the "Avatar" premiere the other day that he's returning to the "X-Men" filled, director Bryan Singer tells Variety that the decision was one he thought long and hard about, ultimately agreeing when he found a storyline that interested him enough.
"This is the formative years of Xavier and Magneto, and the formation of the school and where there relationship took a wrong turn. There is a romantic element, and some of the mutants from 'X-Men' will figure into the plot, though I don't want to say which ones. There will be a lot of new mutants and a great villain" says Singer of the project entitled "X-Men: First Class".
Xavier and Magneto in the film are likely to be played by younger actors portraying the characters in their 20's/30's, which means many of the mutants from the "X-Men" films will simply be too young to appear.
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Fox Confirms Bryan Singer's 'X-Men' Return, Hires New Writer For 'First Class'
18 December 2009 6:01 AM, PST
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Following the unexpected announcement earlier this week, Fox has confirmed that Bryan Singer will return to direct “X-Men: First Class.”
According to Variety, the previous draft of “X-Men: First Class” has been discarded in favor of a new treatment by Singer. Jamie Moss (“Ghost in The Shell”) has been hired to write the script and Fox is reportedly moving “aggressively” with the development.
"This is the formative years of Xavier and Magneto, and the formation of the school and where their relationship took a wrong turn," Singer told Variety. "There is a romantic element, and some of the mutants from 'X-Men' will figure into the plot, though I don't want to say which ones. There will be a lot of new mutants and a great villain."
"Whether it's 'Batman,' 'Lord of the Rings' or 'Star Trek,' if the characters are good, you want to see
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X-Men: First Class Writer Announced
18 December 2009 5:50 AM, PST
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Just yesterday it was announced Bryan Singer was to return to the films that everybody loves him for. He isn’t going to do the world a favour and re-make X-Men 3, but he’s signed up for an X-Men Origins movie centring on the early years of Professor X. Whilst fans rejoiced over the world at this great, great news, a writer has been announced, too.
The Hollywood Reporter have it that Jamie Moss is set to pen Singer’s glorious return to the franchise. He’s not very well known…but this only a) shows he can make a name for himself b) he’s clearly respected by the studio c) he’s not Brett Ratner.
Moss scripted the Keanu Reeves flick Street Kings and he’s currently writing Ghost in the Shell for Dreamworks. He has replaced Oc writer Josh Schwartz. A story centring on Professor X’s
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Bryan Singer To Direct 'X-Men' Prequel
17 December 2009 9:30 PM, PST
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Fans of the 'X-Men' movies have a reason to feel hopeful: Bryan Singer, who helped launch the franchise with its first two installments, is set to return to the fold with X-Men: First Class.
Apparently, Twentieth Century Fox moved on a deal after Singer wrote a treatment for the film, which will explore the origin of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, as well as the relationship between Professor Charles Xavier and the villain Magneto.
Singer said he had long considered returning to the franchise, but only recently found a storyline that would stand on its own. "This is the formative years of Xavier and Magneto, and the formation of the school and where there relationship took a wrong turn," Singer said, according to Variety, "There is a romantic element, and some of the mutants from 'X-Men' will figure into the plot, though I don't want to say which ones.
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New Screenwriter Hired for Bryan Singer’s X-Men Origins: First Class
17 December 2009 2:18 PM, PST
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Last night, Bryan Singer finally confirmed that he has signed on to direct the X-Men spin-off/prequel film X-Men Origins: First Class. THR is now reporting that Fox has hired a new screenwriter to work with Singer on developing the project: Jamie Moss, writer of the 2008 Fox Searchlight film Street Kings. Moss also worked on a live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell for DreamWorks.
First Class is based on a Marvel Comics limited series written by Jeff Parker. The Oc creator Josh Schwartz wrote an earlier draft of the script. Producer Lauren Shuler Donner has said “the movie focuses on the first class at Xavier’s school of the gifted, so only those mutants will be featured in the first movie,” by which she evidently means that we’ll see the early days of the original X-Men team. In April of this year, she described it like so: "So it’s young Scott,
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Dante’s Inferno: The Animated Epic – Trailer
25 November 2009 10:34 AM, PST
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You might remember that earlier in the year two projects were announced, both of which would bring Dante Alighieri’s epic poem – The Divine Comedy – to the big screen. Yes not one, but two projects bringing Dante’s Inferno and the nine circles of hell to life, the difference? One is live action, to be penned by “X2: X-Men United” writer Dan Harris and the other, an animated feature.
While we’re quite a way off from seeing any progress at all on the live action movie, a trailer has been released for the animated film, which is based on the Electronic Arts game.
Produced by Joe Goyette and directed by Victor Cook, Dante’s Inferno: The Animated Epic will feature nine vignettes, created by six leading animation studios, including the talents behind “Blood the Last Vampire” (animated) and “Ghost in the Shell.” Check out the fantastic results below:
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This Week on DVD: Funny People, Angels & Demons, Gomorrah
24 November 2009 9:48 AM, PST
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Tom Hanks is back as the almighty all-knowing symbologist Robert Langdon this week as Ron Howard's Angels & Demons hits DVD and Blu-ray, along with Judd Apatow's underperforming Funny People and the Robert Rodriguez family adventure flick Shorts. Also this week, Criterion releases the acclaimed mafia film Gomorrah, Uwe Boll's Far Cry video game adaptation goes direct to DVD, and Spike Lee's Kobe Bryant doc Kobe: Doin' Work finally hits stores. On Blu-ray we have Fred Dekker's The Monster Squad, Jackie Chan's New Police Story, and the first season of The Sopranos. What will you be renting or buying this week?
Angels & Demons [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2])
Four Christmases [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4])
Funny People [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6])
Shorts [7] (DVD, Blu-ray [8])
Gomorrah: Criterion Collection [9] (DVD, Blu-ray [10])
The Golden Age of Television: Criterion Collection [11]
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [12]
Far Cry [13]
Three Monkeys [14]
Santa Buddies [15] (DVD, Blu-ray [16])
Taking Chances [17]
National
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Vactor’s Blu-ray Bulletin for November 24, 2009
24 November 2009 7:56 AM, PST
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November 24, 2009
Air America (Lionsgate)
Angel Heart (Lionsgate)
Angels & Demons (Sony)
Angels & Demons Gift Set (Sony)
Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) (Manga)
Cujo: 25th Anniversary Edition (Lionsgate)
Four Christmases (New Line Cinema)
Frailty (Lionsgate)
Funny People (Universal)
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (Manga)
Gomorrah (Criterion Collection)
Megafault (The Asylum)
The Monster Squad: 20th Anniversary Edition (Lionsgate)
My Bloody Valentine: Special Edition (Lionsgate)
My Brilliant Career (Blue Underground)
New Police Story (Lionsgate)
Santa Buddies (Walt Disney)
Shorts (Warner Brothers)
The Sopranos: The Complete First Season (HBO)
The Way of the Gun (Lionsgate)
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This Weeks DVD/Blu-Ray/Cinema Releases
22 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST
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Here’s a brief look at this week’s big DVD, Blu-Ray and Cinema releases, on both sides of the pond. All information is correct to the best of my knowledge (and research skills). From the looks of it, Christmas is well on it’s way…
UK Releases
DVD (23rd November)
Terminator: Salvation
Land of the Lost
My Sister’s Keeper
Coco Before Chanel
Crossing Over
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Scrooge (1951)
Nothing like the Holidays
Crossing Over
Orphan
Greys Anatomy season 4
Blu-Ray (23rd November)
Terminator: Salvation
Land of the Lost
My Sister’s Keeper
Coco Before Chanel
Crossing Over
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Fight Club
The Sopranos Season 1
Cinema (27th November)
Law Abiding Citizen
Nativity
Seraphine
Bunny and the Bull
De Dana Dan
Mr Right
Us Releases
DVD (24th November)
Funny People
Angels and Demons
Four Christmases
Santa Buddies
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EA, Starz Premieres Dante's Inferno Trailer
14 November 2009
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Dramatically over the top yet visually cool, here's the trailer for the upcoming animated feature Dante's Inferno from Starz. Like last year's Dead Space: Downfall , this film serves as a companion piece to Electronic Arts' upcoming video game, itself inspired by Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy." Packed with carnage and brimming with bloodshed, Dante's Inferno follows one man's descent into hell.
Apparently, Starz has enlisted a series of directors (behind other animated films like Ghost in the Shell and Blood: The Last Vampire ) to helm different segments as the film's protagonist ventures from one circle of hell to the next.
Look for the DVD and Blu-Ray in February.
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Taking Woodstock and cinema's love of trippy scenes | Anne Billson
12 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST
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There are plenty of trippy movie scenes – but watching them sober makes you feel like the designated driver in a roomful of drunks
Thirty-six years ago, I dropped a tab of Lsd. It was Ok, but I never felt the urge to do it again, and never thought much about it – until the other day, when I was watching Taking Woodstock. To the sound of Love's The Red Telephone, Ang Lee serves up an acid trip so uncannily spot-on, I swear it gave me my first ever flashback.
It's not as though there's ever been a shortage of trippy scenes in films. It's just they always seemed to chime more with the experiences of the film-makers than with my own. Indeed, watching them sober, you often feel like the designated driver in a roomful of babbling drunks. In the aptly-named The Trip, Peter Fonda has a psychedelic experience in which,
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- Anne Billson
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‘Halo Legends’ Animated Feature Coming in 2010
6 November 2009 1:37 PM, PST
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The Halo franchise is going the Animatrix route by releasing a series of anime short films in a collected anthology entitled Halo Legends. The collection will feature seven stories told across eight episodes, all serving to expand the mythology of the Halo universe, much in the same way that the recently-released Halo 3: Odst sought to do.
For those of you still waiting on your live-action Halo movie, it seems as though you’ll have to make due with Legends for now, so, if “universe expansion films” like The Animatrix or Batman: Gotham Knight haven’t turned you off completely to this sort of thing, check out these highlights from the Halo Legends official press release:
Go deeper into the Halo universe than
ever before with Halo Legends, an all-new, CG and traditional anime
PG-13 experience that presents enthralling new stories from one of the
world’s most popular video game franchises.
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- Kofi Outlaw
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Halo Movie is Coming; It Will Just Be Animated
5 November 2009 9:06 AM, PST
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Exactly what you've all been waiting for... Sort of. Warner Home Video has announced today that they will release Halo: Legends, a series of seven animated short films. It will hit DVD and Blu-ray on February 9, 2010.
For your amusement, please see the official press release below:
Go deeper into the Halo universe than ever before with Halo Legends, an all-new, CG and traditional anime PG-13 experience that presents enthralling new stories from one of the world’s most popular video game franchises. Produced by 343 Industries, a part of Microsoft Game Studios, the exciting tales-beyond-the-games will be distributed February 9, 2010 by Warner Home Video as a Special Edition 2-disc version on DVD and Blu-Ray for $29.98 (Srp) and $34.99 (Srp), respectively, as well as single disc DVD for $19.98 (Srp) due date for all versions is January 5, 2010. The chapters will also be available On Demand and Digital Download.
Halo Legends is a seven-story anthology – told across eight spectacular episodes – that explores the
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Weekly Poll Results: Best Anime Film
5 November 2009 6:29 AM, PST
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Last week we asked you what the best anime film of all time was, and the results were pretty interesting. It's not so much that the winners were unexpected per se, but the top 3 choices were more closely matched in votes than probably any other poll we've had previously. Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke ended up on top with 21% of the votes, while another Miyazaki film, Spirited Away, was #2 at just shy of 20%. (Clearly we're going to have to do a showdown between all of Miyazaki's films at some point in the future.) Akira followed immediately after that, with Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll rounding out the top 5. I was a bit surprised to see Rintaro's Metropolis relegated to last place, but I suppose given the competition it's understandable. Do you concur with these results?
1. Princess Mononoke -- 21.4%
2. Spirited Away -- 19.9%
3. Akira -- 19.6%
4. Ghost in the Shell
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‘Ghost In The Shell’ Snags ‘Shutter Island’ Screenwriter [Updated]
27 October 2009 2:42 PM, PDT
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Update: Laeta Kalogridis is female Not male. I apologize. Changes have been noted.
Dreamworks’ adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s manga/anime classic Ghost In The Shell has snagged Laeta Kalogridis to adapt Shirow’s futuristic vision into a live-action 3D blockbuster. Kalogridis has penned such past gems as Oliver Stone’s Alexander and the American alt-history epic, Pathfinder, but is poised to be a breakout name for Her work adapting author Dennis Lehane’s novel Shutter Island into a Martin Scorsese film, which will be hitting theaters early next year.
Jamie Moss (Street Kings) had been tapped to draft an earlier version of Ghost In The Shell - guess his take on the story didn’t go over so well with the studio…
The Ghost In Shell universe created by Shirow was a vision of the future where technology is everywhere and human beings have been augmented with cybernetic bodies down to their very brains,
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New Writer Attached To Ghost In The Shell
27 October 2009 6:29 AM, PDT
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Dreamworks have signed “Shutter Island” writer Laeta Kalogridis to adapt their big screen adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell. Dreamworks bought the rights to the popular Manga property late last year and intend for the film to be made as a 3D, live action spectacle.
Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul have been attached to produce the picture and are originally responsible for bringing it to Dreamworks in the first place, according to Variety:
Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce and originally brought the project to DreamWorks.
Created by Masamune Shirow, “Ghost in the Shell” was first published in 1989. It went on to generate two more manga editions, three anime film adaptations and an anime TV series. The second anime film, “Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence,” was released in the U.S. by DreamWorks in 2004.
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Shutter Island Writer Adapting Ghost in the Shell
27 October 2009 6:07 AM, PDT
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DreamWorks has had its eye on the popular Japanese cyberpunk property Ghost in the Shell for some time now. Created by Masamune Shirow and first published as a manga (Japanese for "comic book") in 1989, Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic thriller that details the exploits of sexy cyborg Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9, the elite covert crime unit she leads. The original spawned two additional manga editions, three animated movie adaptations, three video games, and a long-running TV series.
DreamWorks' connection to the film began in 2004 when it released the second film, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. DreamWorks acquired the rights to adapt the property for an American audience in April 2008 and announced plans to produce a 3-D live-action movie. DreamWorks founder Steven Spielberg has admitted his love of the property and was instrumental in acquiring the rights.
Ghost in the Shell is one of my favorite stories. It's a genre that has arrived,
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New Writer For Ghost In The Shell
27 October 2009 12:57 AM, PDT
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In a brief flurry of publicity last year, Dreamworks picked up the rights to Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell. Steven Spielberg gushed about its wonderfulness (he's right) and Jamie Moss (Street Kings) was put to work on the screenplay. The rest was silence, but now it emerges that a new draft is being prepared by Laeta Kalogridis, hot from adapting Dennis Lehane's novel Shutter Island for Martin Scorsese. Avi and Ari Arad are still attached as producers on what's destined to be a live-action 3D (natch) action epic.No director or explicit story details yet, but we'd guess that, like the 1995 anime, the new Ghost in the Shell will home in on the mindbending Puppetmaster plot thread, about, more or less, a government-created super-ai gone rogue.Mad action, cyborg-enhanced cops and spider-like mecha-tanks (and lots and lots of boobs) ought to make for massive, jawdropping spectacle. But
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Discuss: Who Should Direct the Live Action Ghost In The Shell?
26 October 2009 11:04 AM, PDT
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Recently Variety reported that Laeta Kalogridis was hired to adapt the famous manga/anime Ghost In The Shell (Gits) for DreamWorks Pictures. Kalogridis certainly understands the idea of a mechanically altered agent, since she was one of the producers and writers on the short lived remake of The Bionic Woman for Universal/NBC. Her grasp of female heroines is strong as seen with her writing for The WB’s Birds Of Prey. Her biggest job to date was the upcoming Shutter Island. She’s taking over the job of writer on this project from Jamie Moss, who originally was pulled on to write.
The live action feature is going to be produced by Avi Arad and shot in 3D. No director has been hired yet, but in a back and forth twitter conversation with Duncan Jones, I discovered he has a love for the characters and material. Jones stated “If
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