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10 October 2008 8:18 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

If you enjoy and follow genre films then you've most likely seen David Goyer's work. He wrote all three Blade films, Dark City, Batman Begins, Jean-Claude Van Damme's Death Warrant, and many more. He's also dabbled in directing with Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, and the in-development (and unnecessary) ...

Rob Hunter

8 September 2008 1:46 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Summit Entertainment recently released a brand new movie trailer from the upcoming film “Knowing” by director Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City) and starring and starring Nicolas Cage (The Ghost), Rose Byrne (28 Weeks Later), Ben Mendelsohn and Chandler Canterbury. Synopsis: A teacher (Cage) opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son’s elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions — some that have already occurred and others that are about to — that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold. Stay tuned to Toxic Shock TV for the latest “Knowing” movie trailers and posters.

Brian Corder

7 September 2008 6:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

This week, the eyes have it. We're looking at films for which vision is key.

Knowing

Nicolas Cage has the only new film going into wide release this week with Bangkok Dangerous, but frankly this tale of prophetic doom better grabs my attention. Cage plays a school teacher who digs up a time capsule and finds several pages of hand written numbers. He finds dates within those numbers, each of which corresponds to a major disaster that has occurred since the capsule was buried. More importantly the numbers apparently list disasters which have yet to occur. I'd be a little more enthusiastic if Cage's record hadn't been so hit and miss lately. (Ghost Rider? Puh-leeze.) Still the premise sounds kind of cool, despite reminding me of the lackluster The Number 23, and there's a disaster in the trailer that's pretty chilling, especially if you've ever been to Logan Airport in Boston.

Matt Bradshaw

5 September 2008 4:20 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

The Pang brothers Oxide and Danny Pang co-helm the remake of the 1999 actioner "Bangkok Dangerous." Truly versatile, hard-working Nicolas Cage stars in the new version written by Jason Richman ("Bad Company," "Swing Vote"). The film debuts on September 5th in over 2,500+ cinemas and tries it's luck against "Tropic Thunder" which has a three weekend top spot run. The busy Cage is up next in Alex Proyas'"Knowing" sci-fi thriller and frontlines a strong cast including Penelope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Bill Nighy and Kelly Garner in "G-Force." "Knowing" helmer Proyas is known for "Dark City," "The Crow" and "I, Robot."

1 September 2008 11:27 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Jeez-Louise, 20th Century Fox, you are not doing so hot these days. First comes word that you had the lowest box office totals for summer 2008; next furious fanboys worldwide want to rip you a new one over your Watchmen lawsuit; and now some acclaimed directors are beginning to speak out about what a soul-crushing, creatively stifling cabal of evil your company truly is.

Babylon A.D. director Mathieu Kassovitz had no qualms about pointing the finger at executive meddling as the reason his film sucks. And now acclaimed director Alex Proyas is throwing up the finger (so to speak) in Fox’s face–and his displeasure is a veritable death sentence for what might have been one of the coolest comic book movie adaptations of all: The Silver Surfer.

Alex Proyas (Dark City, which if you haven’t seen, run, don’t walk and get the DVD) tried to play coy at first,

Kofi Outlaw

31 August 2008 2:43 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

We know a few things about Alex Proyas now that we didn't know a few months ago. To begin with, his director's cut edition of Dark City is damn near perfect (Ok, I could've guessed that a few months back). This past week, we learned that Proyas would be making a bloody Dracula movie, and good for him. We also know, thanks to \film, who was clearly paying attention last month at Comic Con, that he won't be directing a Silver Surfer movie. What we didn't know until late this past week is the reason why Silver Surfer is out of the question.

Let's back up: The talk that Proyas would make Silver Surfer was just that, and the director never had a deal in place and doesn't even know where the rumor started. And after he revealed last month that he would not take the project, MTV asked him

Colin Boyd

28 August 2008 7:29 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Last week we announced that Dark City director Alex Proyas would be helming an adaptation of Robert Heinlein's "Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag", but one film we forgotten to mention was Dracula: Year Zero. Proyas is still set to direct Dracula: Year Zero and recently chatted with MTV about some of the finer details of another new vampire film. As we all know, there are some elements of vampire mythology that must be included - the teeth at least - and Proyas answers some questions regarding what we can expect with this origin story, which thankfully isn't just another dark interpretation inspired by The Dark Knight. Proyas seems to be a bit more excited to take this one to different heights. Like Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One", Dracula: Year Zero retells the origin of the dark vampire lord known as Dracula. As Proyas describes, it's "sort of the

Alex Billington

28 August 2008 12:25 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

I sure do like the upper end of Alex Proyas' imagination. After all, he gave us the film version of The Crow, which I humbly submit has a lot of influence on today's darker comic book fare. And he gave us Dark City, one of the best out-of-nowhere sci-fi movies of the past 20 years.

The big budget I, Robot is fine, I guess, and I don't think Knowing looks like it could stop you in your tracks, but when he's at his peak, Alex Proyas can be very good.

He's a perfect director for a vampire project, because of the stark point of view of his best work, which is so clearly influenced by German expressionism, so I'm holding out hope for Dracula: Year Zero. The title is awful, but Proyas told MTV recently that his movie, currently in pre-production will have "lots and lots of blood."

Describing

Colin Boyd

27 August 2008 1:18 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Alex Proyas (Dark City) had many of us wondering just what he was going to do with the Dracula name when he spoke briefly about the project at Sdcc 08. Indeed Mr. Proyas has great vision, but what could he bring to the vampire world that we haven't already seen before?

According to a recent interview with MTV, Proyas is going for realism. Realism with undead creatures who suck blood, turn into beasts, and have various other supernatural powers? Okay! Let's see what the filmmaker has to say.

According to the man at the helm, Dracula: Year Zero will be "sort of the origin tale that mixes [the historical] Prince Vlad of Transylvania with sort of [the fictionalized] Bram Stoker [take]." Proyas goes on to state that certain things like blood drinking and the pointy teeth will remain intact while other bits of vampire lore will probably get chucked out the window (i.e., garlic

Kryten Syxx

27 August 2008 10:15 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

After delivering such fine films at The Crow and Dark City, it's hard not to be excited for Alex Proyas' next venture, Dracula: Year Zero, which he has no begun work as he waits for his latest film, Knowing, to arrive in theaters next March from Summit Entertainment. This morning we came across a new interview with the director, who talks about what kind of mythology we'll find in this new Dracula tale. One of the main questions that always arises when a new vampire or Dracula film is announce is, will he be able to transform into bats, will garlic hurt him, will he appear in mirrors and most importantly, will he have giant fangs? Find out inside.

20 August 2008 2:36 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Alex Proyas is set to direct the big-screen adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's sci-fi novel "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" for Phoenix Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

Phoenix execs call the project a "complex psychological thriller with plenty of action as well as some love interest."

The book, originally published in 1942, focuses on a man who has no memories of his daily activities. To uncover the mystery and find out what he spends his time doing, he hires a pair of detectives, who eventually stumble across series of secrets no one could ever have imagined.

Proyas wrote the screenplay himself and will likely head into pre-production for the flick once he is done with the Nicolas Cage vehicle "Knowing," which opens March 20, 2009.

This is not the first Heinlein novel to make the transition to the big screen. His "Starship Troopers" debuted in theaters in 1997 and became a worldwide hit.

Franck Tabouring

20 August 2008 9:48 AM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dark City director Alex Proyas plans on bringing Heinlein's 1942 novella, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag to the big screen. I like Heinlein. He's not one of my favorite scifi authors by a long way but this particularly strange tale of his sounds almost like Dark City meets Philip K Dick so I'm intrigued.The offbeat tale centers on a man who becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes he cannot account for his activities during the day or even what he does for a living. He divulges his problem to the husband-and-wife partners of a private detective agency, and their investigation leads to a series of revelations they could never have fathomed. Producers Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer, and Brad Fischer describe the flick as "a complex psychological thriller with plenty of action, and a love interest." Just don't expect the mouthful of a title to stick.

20 August 2008 7:49 AM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Juliet Snowden and Stiles White have been hired to pen the screenplay for MGM's upcoming Poltergeist remake, (based on the classic horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, and co-written/produced by Steven Spielberg) according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Snowden and White wrote the (absolutely terrible) 2005 movie Boogeyman, and have also worked on a draft of The Birds remake (coming from who else, Platinum Dunes) and the upcoming Knowing directed by Alex Proyas (I, Robot, Dark City, The Crow).

The article says, "The original "Poltergeist," miraculously skirted an R rating despite its children-in-constant-peril, toy clown-strangling, face-peeling, skeleton-swimming medley of horrors. The MGM/Ua release grossed $122 million worldwide and earned Oscar nominations for its Ilm-designed visual effects, sound effects and score. The story of a suburban home built over an Indian burial ground and thus inhabited by a nasty spook earned further cult status when two of the child actors in the

20 August 2008 6:36 AM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

Alex Proyas. The man does sci-fi and he does it well, there is no doubt about that. Any misgivings aside about I, Robot, his other film, Dark City, stands out as one of the genre’s great offerings. And news has come forth that Alex Proyas is setting himself up to write and direct an adaptation of The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag by author Robert A. Heinlein. Just reading the plot summary for it gets me all excited and tittering like a little school girl. This sounds like excellent material for someone with Proyas’ visual strengths.

Originally published in 1942, the offbeat tale centers on a man who becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes he cannot account for his activities during the day, or even what he does for a living. He divulges his problem to the husband-and-wife partners of a private detective agency, and their investigation leads to a

Mack

20 August 2008 5:45 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Filmmaker Alex Proyas has directed an adaptation of an Isaac Asimov story before, but now he's tackling sci-fi author Robert Heinlein. Proyas will write and direct an adaptation of Heinlein's novella "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" for Phoenix Pictures. The story centers on a man who becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes he cannot account for his activities during the day or even what he does for a living. He explains his problem to a private detective agency and their investigation leads to a series of revelations they could never have fathomed. Sounds an awful lot like Dark City, which was Proyas' own creation from 1998, and a huge cult sci-fi hit itself. The film is described as a complex psychological thriller with plenty of action and is expected to start production in 2010. "I read this story as a kid, and it really stayed with me," Proyas explains. "It's ...

Alex Billington

15 August 2008 8:16 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Alex Proyas is a respected maestro in the sci-fi genre weaving in a huge fan base with cult favorites like "Dark City" (Now available in a Blu-ray Director's cut) and, one of the most beloved, original films ever, "The Crow" starring Brandon Lee. His last film was the Will Smith sci-fi actioner "I, Robot."

So what's knowing about?

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one of the students, a mysterious girl who seems to hear whispered voices, fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead.

Fast forward 50 years to the present: A new generation of students examines the contents of the time capsule and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Myles. But it is Caleb’s father,

10 August 2008 9:22 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Welcome to another fun filled installment of Screen Rant’s Weekend Movie News Wrap Up.

This week:

We see who is penning Flash Gordon, we learn some details about Alex Proyas’ Dracula Year Zero, discover what David Goyer is working on, Channing Tatum lines up something for after GI Joe and The Conversation goes to television.

1. The Flash Gordon Remake/ adaptation has now grabbed Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to pen the script. The Neil Moritiz produced, Breck Eisner (Sahara) directed film is in production at Columbia.

I just hope the film is more like the 1980’s movie and less like the Si-Fi channel show.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

2. Speaking of Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, their script for Dracula Year Zero is to be directed by Robot and Dark City director Alex Proyas. Proyas recently gave some details about the Dracula prequel/origin story:

“You could see it as a

Niall Browne

8 August 2008 11:25 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

I believe this is our final San Diego Comic Con piece (thank God), so sit back and enjoy our chat with director Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City), who was out and about promoting his latest project, Knowing, which is the story of a man (Nicolas Cage) who unearths a time capsule with children's drawings predicting the future that was buried in the 1950s. One child's drawings predicted several horrible events that already have come true; however, one of those events has not yet occurred, and the man sets out to prevent it from happening. The film hits theaters March 20th, 2009.

31 July 2008 1:01 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

The Dark City director's cut is a vast improvement over the original taking the high concept film and placing much more responsibility on the audience rather than piecing it together every step of the way, something that was obviously intended by writer/director Alex Proyas from the start and on Blu-ray high-definition there really is no comparison to what this film once was and what it has now become. To prepare for reviewing this new cut of Dark City, which runs a full 11 minutes longer than the original was to grab my standard definition DVD copy and watch the theatrical release before watching the director's cut. The Blu-ray disc does include both the theatrical and director's cut, but I also wanted to use the opportunity to compare the audio and visual differences when bouncing from Sd to HD and I can tell you now it is astonishing. Dark City tells

Brad Brevet

29 July 2008 3:48 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

DVD Links: Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed Paramount Blu-ray Extravaganza! Thanks to Comic Con my Blu-ray watching abilities were basically destroyed. I came home to several new Blu-ray discs that arrived in the time I was away and out of all of them eight of them hit the shelves today. Six of them I am going to detail here as they are catalog titles. The others I will get to in a second. The first one was Top Gun of which I reviewed on HD DVD (review here) and was not very kind to considering the HD DVD edition contained none of the features from the 2-Disc Special Edition DVD. Well, I am happy to say the Blu-ray comes with all the goodies (documentaries, music videos, commentaries, etc.) that I loved from the DVD. On top of that... included is a DTS soundtrack, a Huge step up from the HD DVD Dolby DigitalPlus.

Brad Brevet

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