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WAYNE
Fillion
Gets Lost
Superman
Returns Again
IESB.net
says that Bryan Singer
has finalized with Warner
Brothers for a sequel. The new film will have a smaller budget,
feature more action and introduce one of the classic villains from the
DC Comics universe. The original
film's budget was approximately $208 million dollars with marketing about
$50 million putting it at around $260. The sequel is expected to to have
a total of around $140-175 million that includes marketing.
Houdini
Legacy
The
Hollywood Reporter tells us that Walden
Media has hired Mark
Waters to develop an adventure film about a 14-year-old boy who
finds out he is a descendant of Harry
Houdini. When he finds this out he embarks on a journey to unravel
the secrets of Houdini's past, uncovering a legacy the famed magician was
trying to protect. Jason
Hoffs, who will be producing, says: "Houdini
has exerted a fascination on people for the last hundred years. The movie
takes place in the present, but our lead character and the audience will
learn some of the secrets of what Houdini was really up to."
No screenwriter has been chosen.
Jesse
Owens
Anthony
Mackie has been signed to play Olympic legend Jesse
Owens in a film to shoot next summer. The script is by James
L. White, and the film will show Owens' rise to international stardom
at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where Adolf Hitler watched him win four gold
medals. The movie should releas in summer 2008.
Fantastic
Mr. Fox
Fox
Animation is filming the Roald
Dahl classic "Fantastic Mr. Fox."
The script will be by Wes
Anderson (who will also direct) and Noah
Baumbach. Mr. Fox uses his wits and cunning to outfox three dimwitted
farmers who try to scare him away. The movie mixes several forms of animation
including stop-motion.
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Scout:
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I
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(Saturday,
Oct. 28, 2006)
Question
#1745:
What superhero group began with
this membership? Sasquatch,
Aurora, Northstar, Shaman and
Guardian.
Answer
#1744:
Name
the Network that premeired the following shows:
1.
The Honeymooners - Dumont
2.
Alien Nation - Fox
3.
The X-Files - Fox
4.
Star Trek - NBC
5.
The Odd Couple - ABC
(Note:
The Jackie Gleason Show w.Honeymooner Skits was on CBS, but The
Honeymooner
Show premiered on Dumont,
then
migrated to CBS as Dumont started to fade out)
Christine
got it first, then Jesse, Michelle, Polly, Luther,
Marlene
& Larry
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Cobalt
60
The
Hollywood Reporter says that Universal
Pictures has picked up the rights to the Vaughn
Bode comic book "Cobalt 60"
with an eye to have Zack Snyder
direct. Cobalt 60 is the masked hero of a post apocalyptic world
inhabited by mutants and fantastical creatures. The title character embarks
on a quest to avenge his parents, who were murdered by the evil Strontium
90. No one has been picked to adapt the script. Created by Vaughn Bode
in 1968 the comic lasted only one story, but Bode's son, Mark, revived
the comic in the 1980's. An animated Cobalt 60 flash film is accessable
here.
The
Dark is Rising
Variety
reports that David Cunningham
will direct "The Dark is Rising,"
based on the five-book series by Susan
Cooper. The story follows a youth who discovers at age 11 that he's
a Sign Seeker, last of a group of immortals who are dedicated to fighting
a growing presence of dark forces. The film looks to an early 2007 start
and a September 28, 2007 release.
Paramount
To Provide Films Through AOL
Paramount
is the fifth major studio to sign a deal with AOL Video, and will be making
its films available for online to be downloaded for $19.99 for newer films
and $9.99 for older ones. Disney is still the only hold-out, because of
its deal with Apple to download at significantly lower prices on Apple's
iTunes Music Store.
Moon
Knight TV
Marvel
Studios has signed with Vancouverproduction company No
Equal Entertainment to make a live-action TV series based on "Moon
Knight." The hero is a soldier of fortune
named Marc Spector who becomes a vigilante after an encounter with the
Egyptian god of vengeance and moon deity.
Inkheart
Production
begins next month in Italy before moving to London on "Inkheart,"
first in Cornelia Funke's
fantasy trilogy. It is the story of a father who brings characters from
books to life by reading stories aloud to his daughter. The Iain
Softley directed film has a cast that includes Brendan
Fraser, Paul Bettany,
Jim Broadbent,
Kathy Bates,
Helen Mirren, Andy
Serkis, Rafi Gavron
and Sienna Guillory.
Mirren plays book collector Elinor Loredan while Serkis will portray villain
Capricorn. The screenplay is by David
Lindsay-Abaire.
The
Met Online
New
York's Metropolitan Opera will relay live broadcasts of its performances
on the Internet as part of its policy to open itself to a wider audience.
The weekly performances start Wednesday and will feature top artists such
as Placido Domingo
and longtime Met conductor James
Levine. The season will consist of Mascagni's "Cavalleria
Rusticana," Rossini's "Barber
of Seville" and Puccini's "Madama
Butterfly" and "La
Boheme." Peter Gelb, the Met's new general
manager, said: "Streaming operas live on
the Internet is the most immediate experience we can provide to opera lovers
all over the world and a new way to introduce opera to the uninitiated.
This is a distribution platform that can reach into homes and generate
an interest in what's happening at the Met."
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#26,
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Night
at the Museum IMAX
"Night
at the Museum" the Shawn
Levy directed Fox
fantasy film will open at IMAX
theaters the day as conventional theaters on Dec. 22. Greg Foster, chairman
and president of filmed entertainment at IMAX Corp., said the film will
be released in a 2-D IMAX version rather than the 3-D version, due to lack
of time to convert the live-action movie, as was done with last summer's
"Superman Returns." Foster
said the company hopes for a 3-D release of "Harry
Potter and The Order of the Phoenix" in July, but there is no deal
as yet in place. In "Night at the Museum"
Ben Stiller plays a good-hearted
dreamer Larry Daley, who takes a job as a graveyard-shift security guard
at a museum of natural history. During Larry's shift Mayans, Roman gladiators
and cowboys emerge from their diorama to wage epic battles; a Neanderthal
burns down his display; Attila the Hun begins to pillage his neighboring
exhibits; and a Tyrannosaurus Rex stalks the halls. Larry turns for advice
to a wax figure of President Teddy Roosevelt (Robin
Williams), together they harness the bedlam, stop a nefarious plot
and save the museum. Also in the cast are Ricky
Gervais, Mickey Rooney,
Paul Rudd, Dick
Van Dyke and Owen
Wilson.
Penguins
& Panda Come To Nick
Variety
is reporting that "Kung Fu
Panda" and the "Madagascar"
penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private will be coming to Nickelodeon
in their own shows. Nick
Studios will work with DreamWorks
Animation (but Nick will carry most of the load). Tom
Martin is writing the pilot for Panda, while Paul
Rugg is adapting the Madagascar spinoff.
SAG
To Raise Dues
The
board of the Screen Actors Guild will ask members to pay higher dues (the
first increase in dues since 1999). The membership initiation fee will
be raised to $2,211 from the current $1,474, while dues will rise to $116
per year versus the current $100.
Halloween
Conan in Skelevision
The
Oct. 31 edition of "Late
Night with Conan O'Brien" will be in "skelevision."
The show will be a reconstructed rerun of a show from last May and
all the featured performers will be appearing as skeleton puppets.
That episode features Larry
King, Omar Epps and
pole dancing workout instructor Sheila Kelley.
Sony
Offers Ultimate Intern Contest
Sony
says: "In Columbia
Pictures' The Pursuit
of Happyness, Will Smith
plays Chris Gardner, a bright and talented guy who is struggling to make
ends meet until he lands a prestigious internship that enables him to pursue
his dreams. Now it's your turn. Columbia Pictures has teamed up with the
companies above to offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Each company
is offering one internship. Sign up now for your chance to win."
The comanies involved are: Yahoo!, NBC,
The Gap, The NFL,
The Hollywood Reporter,
People, Morgan
Stanley and Playstation. To learn
more go here.
EMI
Auditioning Online
Pop
recording label EMI is opening an online portal for aspiring singers and
groups. The group's Parlophone label is now accepting music files online,
as well as in mailbags.Nigel Coxon, head of Parlophone's artist and repertoire
team, said: "One of our top priorities
is to keep our talent spotting process as efficient and up to date as possible.
This new system allows us to do just that, while at the same time helping
us stay committed to giving anyone the opportunity to be heard."
Parlophone tested new software this summer, that tracks which recordings
Parlophone workers have listened to, and allows them to rate tracks and
artists. It also alerts musicians when their tracks have been reviewed.
More from the company itself here.
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Outlaw
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Serkis
on Beowulf
Andy
Serkis spoke with SCI FI
Wire about the Robert
Zemeckis film "Beowulf,"
and it's "motion capture technology,"
saying: "I think that more motion capture
is [being] used in film, and it's becoming part of the mainstream and used
in a mainstream way. It is . . . especially [true] with video games and
the convergence of video games and film. It's actually a really interesting
time for actors. Robert Zemeckis has just made Beowulf with Anthony
Hopkins and John Malkovich,
Ray Winstone and all kinds
of high profile and serious actors creating these characters. They are
creating the movements. They are creating the personalities, and it's the
manifestation of those characters which is being handed over. I do believe
that in five or 10 years' time that actors will come out of drama school,
and they will do theater, and they'll do film, and they'll do TV, and then
they'll be doing video games. I believe that it'll be considered a much,
much more dramatic art. Playing characters in video games and [motion-capture]
stories will be received through video games more than they are now. I
mean, I've never ever drawn a distinction in the process of creating a
character in a CG role and in a conventional role. For me there is no difference."
"Beowulf"
is based on the 12th-century Anglo-Saxon epic poem, and also stars Crispin
Glover, Chris Coppola,
Brendan Gleeson, Angelina
Jolie, Dominic Keating,
Sebastian Roché,
Robin Penn Wright and
Alison Lohman, with a
screenplay by Neil Gaiman
and Roger Avery. The film
will be released on November 17, 2007
The
Time Traveler's Wife
Rachel
McAdams is in talks to star in the New Line film "The
Time Traveler's Wife," based on the Audrey
Niffenegger novel. It is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student,
and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since
Clare was 6 and Henry was 36. The pair were married when Clare was 23 and
Henry was 31. How is that true? Henry has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement
Disorder: his genetic clock resets without warning and he finds himself
misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life,
past and future. Jeremy Leven
penned the screenplay but no director or any other cast has been chosen.
Clive
Barker wrote on his official
Web site that The Weinstein
Co. will be remaking his 1987 horror film "Hellraiser,"
he has agreed to write it but he's not interested in directing it. He said:
"They're going to remake Hellraiser 1 with
a lot more money, and they've invited me to write it - - the invitation
came from Bob Weinstein
- - which I am going to do, on the basis that if I don't do it, it will
be done in some way that I probably won't like! It's only that one that
I really, really, really care about in terms of its remake value - - and
it'll be kind of fun to have the extra money to do the effects and all
that cool stuff. So it puts me in the situation of writing both the beginning
and the end of Pinhead at the same time - - 'In my end is my beginning.'
I'm not in the middle, as it were. I'm leaving out his middle age. I'm
just dealing with his beginning and his end. I'm excited about it - - actually
it'll be kinda cool to revisit it once and see if there are things we can
do to it which will make it significantly better. . . . I wouldn't
wish to direct - - I only want to write and be a part of the producing
team. I wouldn't want to revisit something that I did as a director, something
that I did all those years ago: That would be too, in a way, painful -
- not painful, but weird, difficult, strange. . . . I am very happy
at the idea of having some more money for the cool stuff - - I don't know
how much more money, but it's got to be more than the $900,000 that we
had the first time!"
Soap
Superhero!
Studio
Briefing announced: "Guiding
Light, America's oldest soap opera -- it began on radio in 1937 and
moved to television in 1952 -- will be taking aim at younger viewers next
month when it introduces a Marvel Comics
- created superhero on Nov. 1. Marvel Comics said that it will cross-promote
the storyline with an eight-page insert to appear in several of its comic
books in which the Guiding Light characters will interact with Marvel superheroes."
Ford
Ready To Be Jones
Harrison
Ford told fans of Indiana Jones at the inaugural Rome Film Festival
in Italy, that at 64 he is still fit enough to play the action hero one
more time. Ford said: "We need to move
on for artistic reasons and obvious physical reasons (but) I feel fit to
continue and bring the same physical action."
24
Sneak
If
you just can't wait for the Sunday, Jan. 14 (8/7C.S.T.) debut of the 2
night, 4 hour premiere of the 6th Season of "24,"
then there is a little carrot out there for you. Fox
has announced that on Tuesday, Oct 24th they will broadcast an extended
trailer hosted by Kiefer Sutherland
in a building in Times Square. Can't get to New York? Well, at the same
time they will launch the same trailer at http://www.24trailer.com/
. You heard it here first.
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Exiles
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Sensational
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New
Excalibur #12,
Nextwave,
Agents of H.A.T.E. #9,
Spider-Man
Loves Mary Jane #11,
&
Stan
Lee Meets The Thing
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Previous Posts
Fillion Gets Lost, Superman Returns Again, Houdini Legacy, Nicktoons on iTunes, Jesse Owens, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Mike Fright, Comic Previews
Bonus Features
Cobalt 60, Dark is Rising, Paramount Films On AOL, Moon Knight, Inkheart, Met Online, Mike Fright, Comic Previews
Night at the Museum IMAX, Penguins & Panda on Nick, SAG Raises Dues, Halloween Conan Skelevision, Sony's Ultimate Intern Contest, EMI Auditions Online
Beowulf, The Time Traveler's Wife, Hellraiser Remake, Soap Superhero, Ford Ready To Be Jones, 24 Sneak, Mike Fright, Comic Previews
Possibility of Fireflies, Halo Abandoned, Finding Nemo, Wanted!, Oxford Murders, Big Screen Fraggles, Mike Fright, Comic Previews
The Witches, Harveytoons, Terminator 4, Popcorn Bag Ads, Bucky O'Hare, R.L Stine D.T.V., Mike Fright, Comic Previews
Fido, Near Dark, Disney Non-Fat, Bratz, The Birds Remake, O'Donnell To Do Nip/Tuck Spin Off, Mike Fright, Comic Previews
Dark Knight, Blood on the Tracks, Shrek: The Musical, Who's "Pepper" Potts?, Catching Up, Mike Fright, Comic Previews
Hellboy: The Sword of Storms, Death Sentence, Tonight, He Comes, Jawbreaker, Cohen Joins Todd, CBS on Yahoo, Mike Fright, Comic Previews
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