Brendon Connelly

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Stories By Brendon Connelly
  • Stephen Daldry Planning Dumbo: The Musical

    Disney are reported to have at least 20 stage shows in development at the moment, though it seems unlikely that they'll all see opening night. Of those that do, a number will not be Broadway productions, instead touring or being licensed to regional theatre companies. It's only the select few that will see The Great…
  • Video Clip From The US Remake Of Spaced

    Posted online as a showreel piece for the actor Federico Dordei, YouTube is currently hosting a clip reel from the ill-fated US attempt to remake Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright's sitcom Spaced. You can see it embedded below the break in all of its... er... glory. In case you don't recall, the creators…
  • Stephen Lang Offered Conan Villain Role

    Stephen Lang's reward for acing his portrayal of the villainous Colonel Quaritch in Avatar could be another showcase role as the colourful bad guy. There's said to be a deal on the table right now that would see Lang taking the part of Khalar Singh in Marcus Nispel's Conan reboot. Here's how Singh was described…
  • Heaps Of New Toy Story 3 Images, Including Concept Art And Posters

    On a recent trips around Disney's themeparks, WDWNet reporter Banks Lee rattled off a rather interesting series of snapshots. The ones taken around The Magic of Animation reveal not only a couple of new Toy Story 3 poster designs but a whole wealth of concept art, storyboard images and even a few full CG-renderings. I've…
  • Legend Of The Guardians Trailer To Play With Alice In Wonderland

    We've not even had the tiniest glimpse of Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians aka The Guardians of Ga'Hoole yet, and the film is only six months from release. This weekend, though, the computer generated warriors owl will be arriving in a big way as their trailer heads out to cinemas. It's quite exciting to…
  • Disney's Planning More Tron Sequels, TV Show, Theme Park Rides?

    Editor's Note: Disney has released a new photo from the upcoming movie trailer (above, click to enlarge), which will be attached to Alice in Wonderland in theaters on Friday, and will debut online probably sometime next week. The mousemaniacs  at Blue Sky Disney have filed a report on the studio's apparent plans for Tron, Tron…
  • Disney's Tangled Teaser Trailer

    Updated: The actual footage is now viewable in a video embedded after the break, at the bottom of the post. The upcoming The Princess and the Frog Blu-ray from Disney is going to feature the first teaser footage for their upcoming toon Tangled, formerly Rapunzel. Interestingly, the teaser itself features no title at all, which…
  • Joss Whedon And Eliza Dushku Teaming For Feature Film

    Though their recently deceased TV series Dollhouse was not the ratings hit it perhaps should have been, definitely when you consider the heights it ultimately reached in creative terms, the signs are good for an imminent upcoming collaboration between geek god Joss Whedon and his buttock-whupper muse Eliza Dushku. Dushku was stopped last night on…
  • Daniel Radcliffe And Lily Rabe Cast In The Lucky One?

    Update: Killer Films has contacted us and issued the following statement "Christine Vachon of Killer Films is not producing The Lucky One.  To the best of my knowledge neither Daniel Radcliffe or Lily Rabe is attached to star in the project." The original story follows: I think we now know what Daniel Radcliffe is going…
  • Greg Berlanti To Direct The Flash?

    Everwood and Eli Stone writer Greg Berlanti has been named as the front running contender to direct Warner Bros. long awaited The Flash movie. It seems they've been keen to hand him one of their heroes for a while now, as he was signed to direct Green Lantern for a while before Martin Campbell came…
  • Who Will Direct Paranormal Activity 2? Here Are Paramount's Picks

    The quick-turnaround required to get another Paranormal Activity into cinemas this Halloween, and possibly kill the Saw franchise once and for all, will mean that Paramount will have to get production up and running very soon indeed. You probably recall that Saw almuni Kevin Greutert was given the helm before a little contractual black magic…
  • Matthew Goode Has Auditioned For The Role Of Bilbo Baggins

    The rather tremendous Matthew Goode, maybe best known round here as Zack Snyder's Ozymandias, has let slip that he auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. Here's how The Telegraph reported matters: But just before we met, he’d auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in Guillermo del Toro’s two-part film of The Hobbit.…
  • Seann William Scott To Star In Kevin Smith's Hit Somebody

    Kevin Smith has exclusively told NHL.com that Seann William Scott will be taking the lead role in his Ice Hockey picture, Hit Somebody. Here's an exact quote: Seann William Scott, who worked with Smith on Cop Out, will play Buddy, the title character in Hit Somebody. The script, based on a Warren Zevon song with…
  • The 2010 BAFTA Film Awards

    Tonight saw the 2010 awards of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts take place at London's Royal Opera House. The BBC have broadcast the ceremony since, both in the UK and on their BBC America channel though - rather appallingly - this broadcast was purposefully scheduled to not take place live but after…
  • First Footage From Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist

    A new YouTube video gives us the first online look at moving footage from Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, and what we see is simply stunning. The film has premiered this week at the Berlin Film Festival to some wonderfully positive reviews, the most encouraging of which come from those who had doubts about Chomet's previous…
  • Geoff Johns Tweets Confirmation That Mark Strong Will Be Sinestro

    Regular Green Lantern comics scribe Geoff Johns has today tweeted about his trip to "Green Lantern town a.k.a. New Orleans!!". According to his first tweet "Ryan IS Hal. And Mark Strong is going to be a brilliant Sinestro" and according to his second, "Kilowog, the Guardians, Oa...all breathtaking. The age of Green Lantern is upon…
  • Attack The Block Roundup, Including Detailed Synopsis And Sales Art

    Coming out of the European Film Market  is our first piece of Attack the Block sales art - sampled above but revealed in its entirety and complete with tagline below the break - and an expanded synopsis for Joe Cornish's film, "this year's Shaun of the Dead". There's really not much spoiled by the new…
  • Splice Director Vincenzo Natali Digs Tunnels

    Harry Potter publisher Barry Cunningham proudly declared that he had found the next world-shaking smash when he signed up authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams and published their book The Highfield Mole, renaming it Tunnels. It doesn't seem that he was quite right - there's three Tunnels books so far with a fourth to come soon and…