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I’ve written 29 news stories in the last 48 hours, yet, believe it or not, wasn’t able to get to everything I’ve wanted to show you. I usually let go of these “missed opportunities”. After all, there are only 24 hours in a day. But I’ve decided to make it a new years resolution (yes, an early one) to compile some these passed over gems in a new “Page 2″ link blog. Basically, Page 2 will contain all the news not fit to print. I’m not sure how often I’ll be doing this, but we’ll see. You are reading the introduction to the first edition. Don’t turn away and don’t underestimate their value, some good links can be found below.

Emmy Rossum (Poseidon), Eriko Tamura (Heroes), and newcomer Joon Park (Speed Racer) have joined the cast of 20th Century Fox’s live-action adaptation of Dragon Ball Z. Meh! [THR]

Principal Photography has wrapped on Punisher: War Zone. More Meh! [SHH]

James Bond star Daniel Craig might have inadvertently given away the title to the upcoming Casino Royale sequel. Rumor has it that the film will be titled “007″ because, as Craig explained “the first movie dealt with him earning his 00 status and now he is 007 for the first time”. [AICN]

Universal has put the Smokin Aces‘ direct-to-DVD prequel on hold until the writers strike is over. Apparently the studio’s budget of the current script draft came in at $17 million, which isn’t too far off from the original theatrical film. When the strike is over, the writers will be brought back in to do some chopping. Joe Carnahan writes: “We’ve already made contact with most of the actors we want to return but we’ve still got a few tricks up our sleeve and some surprises.” [SmokinJoe]

I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but the screenwriters are on strike. Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody has found a way to spend some of her free time. She will now be writing a weekly column in Entertainment Weekly called Binge Thinking (clever). The first column is about Juno’s unexciting press tour. And better yet, you can read it online for free. Hey, it’s better than Stephen King’s column (as if that’s an accomplishment). Congrads to Diablo on the new gig. [EW]

John Singleton
has been confirmed as the director of the big screen adaptation of The A-Team. Just what we need, another bad television adaptation. [cine]

Jessica Simpson
’s latest movie is such a stinker, it’s being released direct to DVD. [Perez]

Wizard Magazine cast Ray Park as Snake Eye in their version of a live-action G.I. Joe movie nearly seven years ago. [TMB]

Did You Know: In the late-1980’s, Pixar was developing a the Oscar winning short film Tin Toy into a christmas special titled “A Tin Toy Christmas.” The project got shelved but later became the inspiration for Toy Story. [Jim Hill]

The X-Files 2 is now in production, and set photos are beginning to leak. Check out this new one of David Duchovny as Fox Mulder. [CS]

The Lost Boys 2 writer Hans Rodionoff is working on a four-issue limited comic book series for Wildstorm on the Frog Bros. Rodionoff says, the series will “bridge the movies together - what Edgar and Alan Frog were doing between the first movie and the second one. We’ll get to play with Haim’s character a little bit.” I’m in. [Shock]


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5 Responses to “Page 2: December 15th 2007”

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    Holy crap! You need to do more of these! I almost missed all of this!?

    On a side note, DAMN it’s about time David Duchovny wore something with the letters “FBI” on it again! Man it feels so right to see that.

    Also! I didn’t realize Stephen Chow was producing the Dragon Ball movie, that excites me, while I was watching both of his other films I just kept thinking “Man. If someone does a live-action Dragon Ball movie, it would be a sin NOT to have this guy involved.” So that gives me a bit more hope for it. I’m sure I’ll see it either way though… *sigh*

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    Oh and by the way, thanks for posting all of this Peter, I get most if not all of my movie news from this site and I know you must be busy with life and what have you, so thanks for filling us all in.

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    Cool idea. But I used to read Film Ick and that guy started doing this and it ended up overtaking his site and all of his time. He ended the whole operation a couple months after. Be careful, hah. Also, I enjoy this site b/c it gives stories some air to breathe and you pad out the info with opinion and pondering. The ADD bulletpoint rundown is very ubiquitous to other sites.

    Frog Brothers Comic Book = best idea. One wonders why The Lost Boys wasn’t turned into a comic book in all this time. Also, it’s a good sign for the sequel, no? If the writer is stoked enough to invest his time on some nifty books. Fingers crossed. Still have a good feelin about this one and this flick means a lot to me (sniff sniff, life goes by) - it’s one of those movies that exists outside the flow of time, you know? Like what happened in your lifetime? Answer: two Lost Boys movies. The end.

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    This probably won’t be a daily thing (who knows). I know I also use to skip Brendon’s daily meta link blogging, and personally am not a fan of it. I think where it goes wrong is when you try to cover EVERYTHING, and not just the things that are interesting (or that I find interesting). The reason why I’m starting this feature is that I’m finding that every week I’m tossing out quite a few interesting news stories, and links I have seen nowhere else. So why not spend an hour, post them, and move on. That’s the theory at least…

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    Dude, you’re out of control. :-D

    Vic

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