From the monthly archives:

April 2007

Brits to get split Grindhouse

April 30, 2007

Not long ago The Weinstein Co. announced that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s double feature Grindhouse with be released as two separate movies in several countries around the world. Instead of showing the two films in the way it was originally intended to resemble double features they would break they into two separate films [...]

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Aronofsky considers a darker Noah

April 30, 2007

The British Guardian newspaper has revealed that the director of the like-it-or-hate-it The Fountain is considering a biblical epic film will be a version of the story of Noah and the flood.
When the writer-director was 13, he won a United Nations competition at his school in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn; it was for his first poem, [...]

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Scotty’s ashes launched into space

April 30, 2007

The ashes of late Star Trek actor James Doohan, who played Scotty, have been rocketed into space after the first attempt failed due to weather conditions last year.
His remains were shot into orbit from Spaceport America in New Mexico. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s ashes are already in space.
It was the first launch of [...]

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Kirkpatrick to direct NowhereLand

April 27, 2007

Karey Kirkpatrick who previously directed Over the Hedge has been brought in by Paramount to direct a comedy starring Eddie Murphy.
The movie comedy NowhereLand stars Murphy as a successful financial executive who finds his career going down the drain and discovers the answers to his problems within his daughter’s imaginary world.
NowhereLand was penned [...]

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Malcolm McDowell Joins Doomsday

April 27, 2007

Malcolm McDowell who has recently played the corrupt Linderman in NBC’s Heroes has joined the cast of Pictures’ action thriller Doomsday.
In Doomsday, McDowell will play Kane, the brilliant scientist who is the only true expert on the lethal Reaper virus and helps a group of specialists to find a cure to the virus that has [...]

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Goyer to direct Magneto

April 27, 2007

David S. Goyer will be directing Fox’ Magneto which revolves around a young mutant from the marvel universe before he eventually turns into a villain.
Goyer is well known for his work on Super Hero films having worked on Batman Begins and Blade.
Not only will we see a young Magneto but there [...]

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Eric Roberts to join Dark Knight

April 26, 2007

Eric Roberts who has been playing a recurring role on NBC’s Heroes, is to join the cast of latest batman movie, The Dark Knight.
In the film which is to be directed by Christopher Nolan, Roberts will play the part of a notorious Mafia kingpin.
Eric Roberts will join the production in June which stars Christian Bale [...]

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Should Sci Fi Green Light Outer Space Astronauts?

April 24, 2007

Sci Fi.com and Sci Fi Magazine are asking Internet users if they should pick up a new sci-fi comedy called Outer Space Astronauts.
Visitors are given access to 5 vignettes from the show on the SCI FI Pulse Broadband Network and asked to fill out a survey explaining what they think. Sci Fi says it will [...]

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Bay to direct Prince of Persia

April 16, 2007

Michael Bay director of films such as Bad Boys 1 and 2, The Rock and Pearl Harbor, is reported to be taking on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time after finishing the Transformers movie.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a film based on a popular video game and it will be made [...]

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Edward Norton to be Hulk

April 16, 2007

Edward Norton as the Hulk? How on earth did the casting director pull that one off? I think that that piece of genius casting will make the newest Hulk movie worth watching.
The first film received mixed reviews and starred Eric Bana as Bruce Banner the scientist who finds himself turning into [...]

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