Mark Millar recently interview with Scotland’s Daily Report and discussed some interesting ideas about how he was inspired to write the films. The first film followed Dave Lizewski, an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so. The writer spoke about where some of the second films inspiration came from:...
Actor-producer-director Larry Fessenden is set to direct The Orphanage, New Line’s remake of the Guillermo del Toro-produced Spanish-language horror movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Fessenden also has written the script with del Toro, who is producing the new film with Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson of Contrafilm. The 2007 film was directed by del Toro protege Juan Antonio Bayona and centered on a woman who, upon returning to the orphanage where she grew up, discovers that her son’s imaginary friend is the same person who terrorized her when she was a child....
You can bring home Dustin Hoffmn in his latest critically-acclaimed performance on DVD and Blu-ray this May. Last Chance Harvey will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 5. The DVD will be priced at $29.98 SRP and the Blu-ray will be priced at $39.98 SRP, although we do not have any cover art at this time. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson and James Brolin. New Yorker Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer....
Leslie Mann has just joined Zac Efron’s high school comedy 17. According to Variety, the film is about a dad who wakes up to find himself locked in a seventeen year old’s body. In order to spend more time with his kids, he must enroll in their high school. It is unclear what part Mann will be playing at this time. In other casting new, Jodelle Ferland has come aboard the independent film Wonderful World....
Lifetime Television has greenlit the chilling new original miniseries, The Gathering, from the creative minds of David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) and John Shiban (The X Files), it was announced by Susanne Daniels, President, Entertainment, Lifetime Entertainment Services. The two-part, four-hour drama from Sony Pictures Television follows the story of Michael Foster, a doctor in search of his wife after she vanishes without a trace. Without any logical explanations for her disappearance, Michael’s search leads him to dark and sinister findings, including the existence of a cabal of witches gathering in modern day New York....
It looks like the Battle of the Bastards is going to be put to shame in the forthcoming last season of Game of Thrones. The cast and crew spent 55 consecutive nights filming the epic scene that will be shown during the course of one of the last 6 episodes of the show when it airs next year. The hit HBO series is known for its production value and the final season looks like it’s going to be upping the ante quite a bit....
Last week saw a Blaze on the DVD charts! In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Ghost Rider took the top position on Nielsen VideoScan’s First Alert sales chart and Home Media Magazine’s DVD rental chart. On the sales side, Lionsgate saw a lot of green as Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls came in in the No. 2 position, while Universal Studios Home Video saw Breach come in at No....
Gina Holden, in an interview promoting her latest film, Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem, let SCI FI Wire know that big things are in store for Flash Gordon when the show returns to the air January 4, 2008 with the episode “Thicker Than Blood.” Holden, who plays Dale Arden, Flash’s ex-girlfriend explained that Flash Gordon was not affected by the writer’s strike, since the writers completed enough scripts for a full season....
It’s official: Gossip Girl is getting the reboot treatment. HBO Max, the upcoming streaming service being launched by WarnerMedia, has handed out a straight-to-series order for a new take on the popular series, which originally aired on The CW. The original creators behind the show are involved with the reboot, which will take place in the same universe as the original series, but will center on a new group of teens....
2022 has proven the power of music in streaming releases many times over. Having seen Stranger Things push Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” to the top of music charts around the world, as well as give a huge boost to Metallica’s “Master of Puppets,” and Wednesday breathe new life into The Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck,” Marvel Studios has gone one step further thanks to the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special....
British-Asian director Gurinder Chadha is developing It’s a Wonderful Afterlife, which is described by the director as My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Shaun of the Dead. According to Variety, the story follows a British-Asian mother whose obsession to marry off her daughter comically leads to serial murder. “It’s a comic caper very much in the tradition of classic Ealing comedies,” Chadha said. “It’s a return for me to the characters and setting of ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ but in a different genre, namely horror, although I would say that the gore will be easy on the eye....
Production on the big screen adaptation of the popular video game Halo has stopped, according to director Neill Blomkamp in an interview with Creativity Online: CLICK HERE to read the rest of the interview. We heard you were off the film and it was surprising. How did that happen? The film is entirely dead. In the configuration it was in. Whatever happens with that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a totally different configuration....
Happy Feet came out as the number one film this holiday weekend for the second week in a row. The film, starring the voices of Elijah Wood and Robin Williams (among others), brought in $37.9 million; it just passed the $100 million mark for a two week total of $100.1 million. That equals the production budget, according to Box Office Mojo. Casino Royale made it two weeks at number two; Daniel Craig’s portrayal of the British spy tallied $31 million to bring the total to $94....
As the world prepares to see the finale of the Harry Potter film series, ABC Family gives fans a chance to look back at their favorite wizards and witches with a wicked weekend full of “Harry Potter” films. The weekend starts with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone on Thursday, March 17th and will include airings of each of the first five films through Sunday, March 20th. Faithful Potter fans will also be given a chance to go behind-the scenes with never-before-seen interview footage from the cast and filmmakers which give insights on key scenes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, as well as revisiting important moments from the previous films to prepare for the final battle that takes place in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2....
Making your professional acting debut is a daunting prospect at the best of times, so to do so in a new Marvel TV series on Disney+ must seem mind-blowing. That is exactly the prospect that has fallen at the feet of Alaqua Cox, the deaf actress who not only plays Maya Lopez/Echo in the new series Hawkeye, but has already managed to nab her own spin off series. With Hawkeye having now arrived on Disney+, we are already getting an idea about just why the character has made such an impact on the MCU bosses....
The Oscars are the gold standard for people who care more about gold than standards. Often, Best Picture winners are inferior to other films made that year, enchanting and subtitled international films are disregarded because Academy members can’t read, and box office darlings are dismissed because the point of movies is apparently not for people to like them. In a just world, the Oscars would be selected retroactively after a decade and adjudicated by the first thirty people you find on the street....
A teenage girl waking up in the body of a 30-year-old woman sounds like a crazy concept, but judging by 13 Going on 30, it certainly makes for great entertainment. Once upon a time, Jenna Rink’s biggest problems were boys and being popular, but in an instant, her troubles turned into business and being an adult. Jennifer Garner starred as the lead character in the age-swap rom-com and nearly 20 years later, it’s still appreciated by many....
Gods and beings from a higher plane living among normal humans is a unique movie device. The fish out of water has foreign behaviors and antics due to his displacement. What is normal to us is abnormal to them and vice versa, causing humorous misunderstandings at best and complex conflicts at worst. Marvel’s superheroes and villains upset the natural order of things all the time. Thor, the God of Thunder, discovers his love of coffee and expresses it by throwing his mug of java on the diner floor like he was in the hall of Valhalla....
at Global Green USASixteen year old Q’Orianka Kilcher, star of The New World, was among the celebrity presenters at Global Green USA. This event honored industry leaders for their extraordinary environmental accomplishments, and raised over $300,0000 to benefit global warming initiatives and the rebuilding of New Orleans. Q.Orianka is so environmentally concerned that she arrived for the premiere of her film in a fuel-cell car. She says that she prefers to go camping or kite surfing, rather than watch movies, but that she plans to use her celebrity to make “positive changes in the world”....
The iconic theme song of Game of Thrones can be recognized anywhere in the world. The series changed television forever, especially drama and fantasy shows. So, when the series’ final season aired to the disappointment of many fans, the epic journey in Westeros seemed to have come to an end. That’s where House of the Dragon comes in. Following one of the biggest families of this world, the Targaryens, the audience gets to see them in their prime: 200 years before the original series starts....
