Hey guys! So, it's the eve of the '08 Election, and surprisingly, there is quite a bit of movie news. Here are your headlines!
- It looks like Joaquin Phoenix wasn't lying after all. Thanks to Yahoo! for this information...
The words “Good Bye” were penned on the actor’s knuckles at a premiere Saturday night for his latest film, “Two Lovers,” and Phoenix confirmed a surprise announcement he made last week: He’s giving up movies.
“I think it’s just moving on. It’s rediscovering something else,” said Phoenix, 34, said in an interview with Associated Press Television News before Saturday’s American Film Institute festival, which also premiered “Che,” starring Benicio Del Toro. “Two Lovers” is his last film, he said. His publicist had disclosed Friday that the actor intended to focus on music.
What do you guys think? I'm sad to see him leave film, but the guy does have some musical chops, so who knows, it may work out. Best of wishes...
- Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen has wrapped principal photography...
- The upcoming sequel to Rob Zombies Halloween reboot is getting a theatrical release. The film will not have Rob Zombie at the helm, and actually, Zombie will have nothing to do with this sequel.
- Steven Speilberg and Peter Jackson have obtained financing for TWO Tin Tin Films, instead of the projected three...
- Heroes co writers/producers Jesse Alexander and Jeph Lobe have been fired by NBC...
- Here's an update from a story I wrote about at the end of last week. It looks as though Universal has won the alleged biding war over the EA Games video-game, that has yet to even be announced, tentatively called Dante's Inferno.
- Fox Studios is CONSIDERING rebooting the now dead franchise, Planet of The Apes...
- Finally, Max Allan Collins has been signed on to write two new sequels for the Sam Mendes directed, critic favorite, Road to Perdition. The man behind the original Road to Perdition comics will pen the scripts for the upcoming Road To Purgatory and Road to Paradise...
I lied yesterday when I said I would be seeing Rachel Getting Married, and while that may still happen, it looks like I'll get the pleasure to review Role Models for you all. Now, I said it would never get this money, and it won't, because at Grand Valley State University, they like to give away free tickets for advanced screenings. Expect a review on Thursday night...
Go see something good!
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Monday, November 3, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Some news...
Hey guys...here are your late headlines for this Tuesday, the 26th of August...
- Dragonball Z, despite rumors, is still a go according to the heads over at Fox...thoughts?
- A fourth Riddick film is in the works...
- Halloween 2, the sequel to the reboot film directed by Rob Zombie, will be WITHOUT that very director. Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, both French film directors, were originally set to helm the reboot of the Hellraiser franchise, but now it looks as though they have jumped that ship and jumped on the Halloween boat...
- Earlier this week, I said that due to the director of the film, Babylon A.D. is something to give a chance to...HOWEVER, I have drastically changed my opinion...thanks to The Movie Blog for this info...
Matieu Kassovitz (LA HAINE, GOTHIKA) clearly didn’t have a very good time making the film. As he candidly tells AMC: “I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn’t respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience.”
Not a lot of gray area there, but what Kassovitz dislikes about the cut could be what appeals to the American masses: “It’s pure violence and stupidity,” and “parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24″.
Now, is this really a good thing for a director to do? He joined on the project, working FOR A STUDIO (Fox), and now he has come out and bashed it. The only director in "the studio system" with final cut is Spielberg, so he knew that the final say would be on the studio. Now, I think it's really a bitch move on Kassovitz' part, that said, I can see where he is coming from, and I don't agree with the studio system at all. However, that's the system in place, and I don't think it's right for a film director to throw his film under the bus like that. Maybe it's just a quote that wasn't supposed to be released, but it did get out, and it's a bitch move. That said, I still love Kassovitz and his work, and I would like to hear your thoughts!
- Finally, the Twilight cast has been called back to shoot more scenes...not to RESHOOT, but to simply shoot more...
Alright, so it's a slow day, shoot me...come back tomorrow for a review of The Life Before Her Eyes, and more news and notes...
Go see something good!
- Dragonball Z, despite rumors, is still a go according to the heads over at Fox...thoughts?
- A fourth Riddick film is in the works...
- Halloween 2, the sequel to the reboot film directed by Rob Zombie, will be WITHOUT that very director. Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, both French film directors, were originally set to helm the reboot of the Hellraiser franchise, but now it looks as though they have jumped that ship and jumped on the Halloween boat...
- Earlier this week, I said that due to the director of the film, Babylon A.D. is something to give a chance to...HOWEVER, I have drastically changed my opinion...thanks to The Movie Blog for this info...
Matieu Kassovitz (LA HAINE, GOTHIKA) clearly didn’t have a very good time making the film. As he candidly tells AMC: “I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn’t respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience.”
Not a lot of gray area there, but what Kassovitz dislikes about the cut could be what appeals to the American masses: “It’s pure violence and stupidity,” and “parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24″.
Now, is this really a good thing for a director to do? He joined on the project, working FOR A STUDIO (Fox), and now he has come out and bashed it. The only director in "the studio system" with final cut is Spielberg, so he knew that the final say would be on the studio. Now, I think it's really a bitch move on Kassovitz' part, that said, I can see where he is coming from, and I don't agree with the studio system at all. However, that's the system in place, and I don't think it's right for a film director to throw his film under the bus like that. Maybe it's just a quote that wasn't supposed to be released, but it did get out, and it's a bitch move. That said, I still love Kassovitz and his work, and I would like to hear your thoughts!
- Finally, the Twilight cast has been called back to shoot more scenes...not to RESHOOT, but to simply shoot more...
Alright, so it's a slow day, shoot me...come back tomorrow for a review of The Life Before Her Eyes, and more news and notes...
Go see something good!
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