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Hellboy
2
Ron
Perlman spoke to About.com
and confirmed the sequel is on. "Monday morning (April 5, 2004) I awoke
to the news that 'Hellboy 2' was going to be greenlit," Perlman said, "Mike
Mignola has provided us with chapters and chapters of possibilities
in the comic book. I'll be the first one online to find out [what's next].
Guillermo is key. I don't
know anything beyond that. Selma,
I would love to see. I would love to see everybody back. I'd love to see
John Hurt back. They still
have to write it so it's going to be a while."
Sony Is "Against All
Enemies"
Richard
Clarke's best-selling book, about the counter-terrorism experts battles
with the West Wing, may soon be a movie. Sony
Pictures Entertainment bought the film rights to "Against
All Enemies," Amy Pascal (Sony vice chairwoman) told The
New York Times Saturday. In the best-selling book, Clarke, who worked
as counterterrorism adviser to the past three administrations, alleges
that the Bush administration prioritized attacking Iraq above threats from
al-Qaida before and after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The movie will be
produced by John Calley,
who worked on the 1976 Watergate drama "All
the President's Men" at Warner Brothers. "You could shoot the first
56 pages and have an extraordinary half of a movie, then it goes on to
more enthralling stuff," Calley is quoted as saying in the Times. "If we
were able to do `All the President's Men' with people meeting in garages
and whispering in parks, then certainly with someone sitting at a table
in the White House we could have a remarkable event."
New Trailers
Online
Apple/com
has added Love
Me If You Dare, Noi
& New York
Minute. Rotten Tomatoes
has clips of I'm
Not Scared, A
Slipping Down Life & The
Notebook. Comingsoon.com
has Love Me If You Dare,
Time of the
Wolf & The Manchurian
Candidate, plus clips from Shade
& Callas
Forever
How Will Alamo Go Down
In Santa Ana's Country?
Mexican audiences are
understandingly
bracing for "The Alamo,"
which depicts that country's most hated traitor & one that proun
nation's
most humiliating defeats. These were events that ultimately cost Mexico
half its territory. They do not look to be comforted in the fact that
Mexican
forces won the 1836 battle of the Alamo: "The Alamo" closes with the Battle
of San Jacinto one month later, which Mexico lost and in losing, lost Texas.
Within a decade, Mexico went on to lose Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
An audience at the Mexico City premiere on Wednesday gasped at the final
scenes of the Mexican army defeat at the hands of Texans -- "in 18 minutes,"
according to the film. "It was very much filmed from an American point
of view. It didn't have very much good to say about the Mexican side,"
reported Felix Boucham, 63, a Mexico City retiree and history buff. "I
frankly expected the audience to boo some scenes."
Iron Man And The Black
Widow
That's not a film title, just
a convenient grouping for the story. IGN's
Filmforce tells us that X-Men
screenwriter David Hayter
is going to put a "polish" on Alfred
Gough and Miles
Millar's
draft of the armored Avenger's adventures. Production should star late
this year. Hayter is also
in talks to both write and direct "Black Widow" with Lions Gate
Entertainment.
Hayter's representatives are quick to say that the spy saga is "pretty
far off."
U.S. Debut of Hi-Def
DVD?
High-definition DVD may be
coming soon.The Blu-ray Disc Founders
group has put out the word that its HD DVD players will hit the United
States markets in late 2005 or early 2006. Columbia
TriStar Home Entertainment has already planned the release of the first
Blu-ray discs. Though Blu-ray is now competing with other HD standards
from Toshiba/NEC
and Pixonics, the 13-member
Blu-ray group is confident that the studios will endorse Blu-ray. "We have
had very good conversations with the studios," said Benjamin Feingold,
president of Columbia TriStar. "It will be love at first sight when they
see it. People will be stunned with how fast Blu-ray will be adopted. DVD
sell-through is driving revenues, but we need to raise the bar of
excitement,"
he notes. "HD movies are the expectation." Blu-ray's discs are said to
have five times the storage capacity of a regular DVD and have more
bandwidth
than their competitors. They also have built-in copy protection and other
innovations, such as anti-fingerprint technology. "This will be the format
for the next 20 years," says Erin Sullivan, the director of planning for
Panasonic Hollywood
Laboratory.
"That's why we are working together on the specifications." A Blu-ray player
is now on the market in Japan for approximately $3,500. It has not been
anounced how much the U.S. players will cost.
Question
#820:
It was Directed by Peter
Bogdanovich,
the cast included Marilu
Henner,
Carol Burnett, Michael Caine,
Denholm
Elliot, Julie Hagerty, Mark
Linn-Baker,
Christopher Reeve, John
Ritter
& Nicolette Sheridan. What
was
the film?
Answer
#819:
This
first episode of a classic
series
of pulp novels began thus:
"THERE
was death afoot in the darkness.
It
crept furtively along a steel girder.
Hundreds
of feet below yawned
glass-and-brick-walled
cracks - New York
streets.
Down there, late workers scurried
homeward.
Most of them carried umbrellas,
and
did not glance upward. Even had they
looked,
they probably would have noticed
nothing.
The night was black as a cave bat.
Rain
threshed down monotonously The
clammy
sky was like an oppressive shroud
wrapped
around the tops of the tall buildings.
One
skyscraper was under construction. It had
been
completed to the eightieth floor. Some
offices
were in use. Above the eightieth floor,
an
ornamental observation tower jutted up a full
hundred
and fifty feet more. The metal work of
this
was in place, but no masonry had been laid.
Girders
lifted a gigantic steel skeleton. The naked
beams
were a sinister forest. It was in this forest
that
Death prowled. Death was a man."
Who
was the star of this hugely successful series?
Doc
Savage. It is
the opening of the first Doc Savage
novel:
"The Man Of Bronze."
Here's
that original Cover Art
Duane
got it first, then Scott & Max
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--posted by Wayne
Saturday, April 10, 2004
--posted by Wayne Saturday, April 10, 2004
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