Absolute Angels Picked up by Time Warner
Warner Brothers has picked up the spec teenage horror-comedy script Absolute Angels, written by Genevieve Jolliffe and Andrew Zinnes, for Jolliffe to helm in her U.S. directorial debut, Variety reported. The film concerns a lonely goth girl who gets invited to join the high school cheerleading team only to learn the cheerleaders are actually a ….
Guardians of Ga’Hoole Series to be Animated
Warner Brothers has acquired film rights to Kathryn Lasky’s children’s fantasy series Guardians of Ga’Hoole and set it up as a computer-animated film, with Donald De Line producing, Variety reported. Lasky’s seven-book series revolves around a parallel universe featuring a cast of owls and magic transformations. The first book begins with a young barn owl ….
Live Action Star Wars TV Show Coming
George Lucas confirmed today that fan-favorite villain Boba Fett may be included in his live-action Star Wars TV series, which is in the works, according to USA Today.
Saw 2 cast and film synopsis
While investigating the bloody aftermath of a grizzly murder, Detective Eric Mason (Donnie Wahlberg) has the feeling that it is the work of Jigsaw, the notorious killer who disappeared leaving a trail of bodies – and parts – behind. And Mason is right. Jigsaw is at work again. But instead of two people locked in ….
Seven Swords update – it’s seven films
Director Tsui Hark recently confirmed an ambitious plan to make Seven Swords a seven-party series during an interview with the Beijing-based web site Sina.com. The first film, titled Seven Swords, which will get an Asian release starting July 29, was only based on the first chapter of the original book, Seven Swordsmen Leave Heaven Mountains, ….
X-Men 3 director-less again
The Hollywood Reporter wrote recently that X-Men 3, the sequel to 20th Century Fox’s two X-Men features, is once again without a director. The studio said Tuesday that Matthew Vaughn, citing personal reasons, is stepping down as director. Vaughn produced Guy Ritchie’s crime movies Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, and made his ….
Poseidon Adventure Remake Comes Together
The Hollywood Reporter wrote recently that Warner Bros. Pictures finally has its cast together for Wolfgang Petersen’s big-budget remake of The Poseidon Adventure. Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum and Mike Vogel have boarded the picture, while Andre Braugher is in negotiations to join the cast. Like the 1972 original, the story follows the survivors ….
2004 Film List With Directors and Aspect Ratios – Part One
Here is a list of 2004 Movies, with information on their country and directors. After The Sunset / United States / 2.39:1 / 99 min. / Brett Ratner Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London / United States / 2.39:1 / 99 min. / Kevin Allen Against The Ropes / United States / 2.39:1 / 110 ….
2004 Film List With Directors and Aspect Ratios – Part Two
The Machinist / United States / 2.39:1 / 102 min. / Brad Anderson Machuca / Chile / 1.85:1 / 121 min. / Andreas Wood The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam / Canada / 1.33:1 / 91 min. / Anne Marie Fleming The Manchrurian Candidate / United States / 1.85:1 / 130 min. / Jonathan ….
The reasons you should watch Schizo
A bleakly and intriguing first feature from Kazakhstan by Guka Omarova, who attempts to sketch a kind of updated Billy the Kid legend around a juvenile delinquent nicknamed Schizo, drawn into the criminal orbit of his mother’s boyfriend. Presumably, the intentions are sardonic, but a bare-bones scenario and the remote setting leave a lot of ….
More about the Dust to Glory documentary
A new sports documentary from Dana Brown, who produced the wonderful surfing panorama Step into Liquid. His subject now is the annual Baja 1000 road races in Ensenada, Mexico, where contestants compete in half a dozen automotive divisions, from motorcycles and dune buggies to 800 horsepower trucks.
Bride and Prejudice synopsis and yes it features Aishwarya Rai
A sumptuous and rollicking musical comedy update of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The film comes from the same bright spirits that bought us “Bend It Like Beckham.” An exotic English-language entertainment, it’s an a world spanning film, ranging from India to London to Beverly Hills and back while revamping the Austen characters among affluent ….
Documentary called Inside Deep Throat coming soon
A documentary feature that recalls how the porn quickie Deep Throat became a box-office and cultural phenomenon in 1972. Interview subjects include Carl Bernstein, Helen Gurley Brown, Larry Flynt, Hugh Hefner and a raft of ’70s cultural types.
Luke de Woolfson playing Mick Jagger
John Mathieson (The Phantom of the Opera) is cinematographer on Stephen Woolley’s The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones, in which Luke de Woolfson stars as Mick Jagger.
The Marine coming from WWE
The plot of The Marine revolves around (duh) a marine (John Cena) who returns from battle to find that his girlfriend (Kelly Carlson) is ensnared in a kidnapping plot. It’s being helmed by first-time feature film director John Bonito.