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Joe Johnston Talks Captain America

Joe Johnston Talks Captain America That "next job" is the much-anticipated The First Avenger: Captain America, featuring the Marvel Comics superhero created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in 1940 for Marvel's forerunner, Timely Comics. We're in prep," Johnston says. "Rick Heinrichs is production-designing and we're set up down in Manhattan Beach [California]. It's the part of the process that I love the most," he enthuses. "We have eight or ten really talented artists, and we all just sit around all day and draw pictures and say, 'Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we could do this?' It's that phase of the production where money doesn't matter: ‘Let's put all the greatest stuff up on the wall and [then later] see what we can afford.'" The film, he says at this early stage, will begin "in 1942, 1943" during World War II. "The stuff in the ’60s and ’70s [comic books] we're sort of avoiding. We're

Syfy Updates Fairy Tales

Syfy Updates Fairy Tales Syfy is reinventing fairy tales and pop culture characters as part of its Saturday night TV movie franchise. The network is airing five titles that give a contemporary twist on a classic story, from Hansel & Gretel (years after escaping the witch in the haunted forest, Hansel returns seeking revenge) to Little Red Riding Hood (a descendant of Little Red discovers her family secretly hunts werewolves). "It's exciting to take a treasured brand and put our own sideways spin on it," said Thomas Vitale, executive vp programming and original movies at Syfy. "By turning familiar timeless stories inside out, we're creating an entertaining new genre for our popular Saturday night movie franchise." The series is partly inspired by the network's mandate to find projects with broader appeal that began in earnest last year with the network's rebranding from Sci Fi to Syfy. Syfy's Saturday movies continue to be one of the last bast

Mel Gibson In Wiggly Piggly: The Jimmy Kimmel Story

Mel Gibson In Wiggly Piggly: The Jimmy Kimmel Story On Friday night Mel Gibson showed off the latest trailer to the biopic of late night host Jimmy Kimmel called Wiggly Piggly: The Jimmy Kimmel Story. The film was written and Directed by Mel himself.I think you'll get a kick out of it. This was one of the funnier bits I have seen on the show and it also shows Gibson funnier side. Please Leave A Comment-

Book Of Eli Movie Review #2 By:Windy

Book Of Eli Movie Review #2 By:Windy Windy had a busy week and took the time to give us another great review. Looks like we didn't differ much on our separate reviews of this film. Please stop by her site and let her know how much u enjoy her reviews. In seeing the previews, one might call The Book of Eli “The Road, with Action”. After reading Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic book, “The Road”, there was no doubt this film would have a similar backdrop. Eli, terrifically played by Denzel Washington, is a loner in a wild west inspired post natural-disaster world where one must be tough mentally and physically to survive. Washington displays the perfect calm yet bad-ass attitude that we’ve come to expect from his action roles. Without skipping a beat, he rids derelicts of their appendages, lives and pride at the same time. You’re not quite sure where he is going or what his mission is in the beginning of the film, but you quickly understand his resolve to accomplish his missio

Daniel Craig To Star In Cowboys and Aliens

Daniel Craig To Star In Cowboys and Aliens As we wrote before that Dainel Craig may star in the upcoming film. It has been confirmed he will star in the movie. Daniel Craig has closed his deal to star in Cowboys and Aliens for DreamWorks and Universal, as I predicted. Craig will star in an adaptation of Fred Van Lente's graphic novel that was published by Platinum Studios and revolves around cowboys and Native Americans who put aside their Old West differences to battle invading aliens. Craig will play the lead cowboy Zeke Jackson, replacing Robert Downey Jr who exited to jump right back to the Sherlock Holmes sequel. While he likely won't identify himself as "Jackson, Zeke Jackson," Craig has put himself in an enviable position: Cowboys and Aliens has franchise potential. And it will keep him busy while the James Bond/MGM situation plays out. Brian Grazer is producing with Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and Platinum Studios' Scott

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo UK Trailer

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo UK Trailer I Reported about a week ago about about the film being released in the UK, and now we know that Sony Pictures is developing a US version of the Novel and film. the original Swedish version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO a.k.a Män som hatar kvinnor (strangely enough translated into ‘Men Who Hate Women’), will hit our theaters in select cities this Spring. Here is the UK Trailer for the film. The story, for those of you who don't read, focuses on two characters. Investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) has been convicted of libel and, his career in ruins, accepts an offer from a wealthy recluse to write a family history. Researcher and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) agrees to help him - but her troubled past means that she has more serious problems than merely sorting through family records. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is out on March 12 here in the UK, followed by The Girl Who Played With Fire on

M. Night Shyamalan Talks Avatar: The Last Airbender

M. Night Shyamalan Talks Avatar: The Last Airbender And now for that other "Avatar" movie... For M. Night Shyamalan, it was his then 7-year old daughter who hooked him on the Nickelodeon series “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” “She made us watch as a family and all four of us were hooked, “ Shyamalan said. “I was like, 'This would make a killer movie. And my wife who really has been kind of in neutral about my career was insane about it. Insane about it: ‘You have to do it. This is it. This is the one.' ” M Night Shyamalan by Jennifer S Altman Ever since he shot to stardom with his film “The Sixth Sense” in 1999, Hollywood has tempted Shyamalan with franchise offers including, he says, an overture about directing the first “Harry Potter” film. He turned down all the other offers, but “Airbender,” with its fusion of Eastern philosophies and martial arts grabbed him. The series is set in a world where the four ancient elements -- fire, earth, water and air -- can be mani

Star Trek's Zachary Quinto Clears The Air About Star Trek 2

Star Trek's Zachary Quinto Clears The Air About Star Trek 2 Star Trek's Zachary Quinto is clarifying remarks he made to Wired that he was taking a break from the franchise for two years. Here's what he said: "I'm stepping away from Star Trek for at least two years—no movies, no conventions, no anything for a while," Quinto told Wired.com in a telephone interview. His planned absence from geekdom was a major motivation for doing the new game. "I did this game to make an investment in the fan base," the actor said. But on his Twitter feed Thursday, Quinto elaborated on what he meant: to clarify: i've been inundated w/questions/confusion about a comment i made during an interview w/ @wired re: atari star trek online game in which i said i'm stepping away from trek for next 2 yrs. obviously, i'll be a part of any upcoming films, reprising my role as spock. what i meant was that in the meantime i won't be making appearances related

Maria Bello And Russell Crowe Have "Emergency Sex," For HBO

Maria Bello And Russell Crowe Have "Emergency Sex," For HBO Maria Bello has teamed with Oscar winners Simon Beaufoy and Russell Crowe for a series project in the works at HBO. Bello is set to star in the drama "Emergency Sex," which is being written by "Slumdog Millionaire" scribe Beaufoy and executive produced by Bello, Beaufoy and Crowe. Inspired by the book "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story From Hell on Earth," by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson, the project revolves around the larger-than-life exploits of expatriate nongovernment-organization workers who find their sanity tested in the face of atrocities, loneliness and primal desires. The book chronicles the real-life experiences of Cain, Postlewait and Thomson, who met in Cambodia during the 1990s as members of a UN peacekeeping mission. In addition to Crowe -- who purchased rights to the book for a screen adaptation -- Bello and Beaufoy

Miramax Is No More. Shut Down

Miramax Is No More. Shut Down But a lot of other people around the movie business mourned the impending loss of a label that once set the bar for taste and artistry. (Update Thursday: A Disney spokeswoman called to protest that Miramax is not 'dead.' "Miramax will consoldiate its operations within Walt Disney Studios, and will be releasing a smaller number of films than in previous years. But it will continue to operate within the Walt Disney Studios," she said.) Over 31 years, the movie company that for most of its existence was led by founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein brought the public enduring stories that plumbed the depths of human emotion (“My Left Foot”) and pushed the boundaries of cultural barriers (“Reservoir Dogs”). When we think of the movies that defined the latter part of the 20th century -- the movies that mattered, that stories that hit pop culture like a hammer and left a dent -- more often than not they came from Miramax. “The Piano.” “Pulp Ficti