Nelson, the site administrator of Michael Bay’s official website has made a post in the forum announcing that we’re about to get our first official pictures from the sequel to Transformers. This is what he posted on the site’s forum:
Just a little heads up: Emipre and USAToday might have the first official TF2 photos on 12/29/08.
So keep your eyes open.
From now on i will refer in title to the film as TF: ROTF as it’s somewhat of a long title.
Source: Shoot For The Edit
For those of you who don’t know, Zack Snyder ‘Watchmen’ is currently caught up in a legal battle with 20th Century Fox which claims that they actually own the rights to the film which was put into production by Warner Brothers.
The trial date has been pushed back to Jan. 20 making it even closer to the film’s scheduled March 9th.
Judge Gary Allen Feess set the new trial date Monday, noting that he’s required to handle a criminal matter on Jan. 6. He also refused to make a pre-trial summary judgment — as requested by both sides — because, he said, the contracts between Fox and “Watchmen” producer Larry Gordon are so open to interpretation that a trial is required.
Warner Bros. has not backed off a release date of March 6 for “Watchmen,
Soucre: Variety
Here we go with the best in new DVD and Blu-Ray releases, this week’s offerings are rather meager but still noteworthy,
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is available now for $15.99 (which is 47% off the list price). You can also get the two disc deluxe edition for $22.99 ($11.99 off the list price of $34.98). You can also get ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’ on Blu-Ray.
Mama Mia, is available as in full and widescreen starting at $16.99 (43% off the list price of $29.98) over at Amazon, you can also get the two disc special edition for $22.99 (34% off the list price of (34.98) also at Amazon. Both editions are also available on Blu-Ray so you can witness the joyous wedding in HD here
Source: Comming Soon, Amazon
This new poster was spotted over at Coming Soon and released originally by UGO. This thrid outing is a prequel to the previous two installments and stars Rhona Mitra in the lead role while previously Kate Beckinsale played the part.
“Rise of the Lycans” delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement.
Sources: UGO, Coming Soon
Earlier today we posted this weekends numbers from ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’, now lets take a look at how other films faired over the weekend in this first weekly installment of BFBOUD (Behind the Films Box Office Up Dates);
So taking the no. 1 spot this weekend was ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ with $31,000,000 domestic and $39,000,000 worldwide making a grand total of $70,000,000. No big surprises there although the domestic box office was a tad lower then some were expecting.
‘Four Christmases’ took spot no. 2 this weekend adding $13,270,000 domestic giving it a grand total of $97,891,794 worldwide.
‘Twilight’ sits at no. 3 raking in $8,013,000 domestic to give it a massive grand total of $184,686,536 worldwide. (Sequel time!)
‘Bolt’ took in a decent $7,506,000 domestically, giving it $108,469,438 overall.
And for the fifth and final item on our list of 5 we have, ‘Australia’ garnering $4,285,000 domestic giving it a grand total of $52,783,000 worldwide.
For full chart and analysis check out Boxofficemojo
Source: Boxofficemojo
Thanks to MTV’s movie site we now have this awesome full Trek cast banner. According to the site, the movie is now done being edited. The interview touches on points from how J.J. came aboard to this project, the humor level in the film, bridging the previous Star Trek material with the new and much more. You can read the full article at the link below!
From director J.J. Abrams and screenwriters Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci (“Transformers,” “MI: III”) comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, “Star Trek,” featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before. Star Trek explores the early Starfleet careers of future Enterprise officers Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Amanda Grayson (Winona Ryder), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), McCoy (Karl Urban), Sulu (John Cho), and Chekhov (Anton Yelchin). A Romulan, Nero (Eric Bana), and a much older Spock (Leonard Nimoy) are influences, as well as Captain Pike (Bruce Greenwood), the first captain of the USS Enterprise.
Source: MTV Movies
The great SuperHeroHype have released the beast in all it’s glory and you can enjoy it below:
Source: SuperHeroHype
In keeping the trend with the previous news, here’s another series that will get an overhaul/update by the same studio that was behind two other remakes. Of course i’m talking about Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes company:
Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form’s production company, Platinum Dunes, is all about remaking classic horror films with hot young teens and all kinds of flash cuts in order to appeal to hot young teens who love all kinds of flash cuts.
Source: Joblo
It seems the popular thing to do since Batman Begins started the reboot/restart trend of movies, is now to remake films that were popular from the 90’s and below. The Crow is the next on the list but then again the source is a comic book so there’s always exceptions to what is excused to be restarted.
Stephen Norrington has signed on to write and direct a reinvention of The Crow, based on the comic created by James O’Barr, says Variety. Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media is negotiating with producer Ed Pressman to acquire the film franchise and finance the film.
The Crow is a 1994 American action-thriller film adaptation of the 1989 comic book of the same name by James O’Barr. The film was adapted by David J. Schow and John Shirley, and directed by Alex Proyas.
The Crow stars Brandon Lee, in his final film, as Eric Draven, a rock musician who comes back from the dead to avenge his own murder, as well as that of his fiancée. While filming in the closing weeks of production, Lee was killed when a dummy bullet, which had become lodged in one of the guns, was fired into his abdomen.
Source: Coming Soon
I guess it’s not too soon to start planning ahead:
Halcyon Co. executives Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek are developing a fifth installment of the “Terminator” franchise with Terminator Salvation director McG, reports Variety. The trade says the news came out of the Dubai International Film Festival. McG was in Dubai for the announcement. No decision has been made as to where to film the next “Terminator,” although the Middle East was mentioned as a locale. Christian Bale has signed on in the role of John Connor for all three films in the newly planned trilogy. The next installment, after Terminator Salvation, is tentatively scheduled for a 2011 release.
Source: Coming Soon
