The Tim Burton and Johnny Depp revival / theatrical reinvention of the vampire soap opera Dark Shadows took a step closer to reality this week. Author Seth Grahame-Smith has been hired to write the picture, and the companies involved (Warner Bros., GK Films and Depp’s Infinitum Nihil) tentatively plan to start production in January. Read More »
Posted on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
Blastr has compiled a fun infographic compiling 120 sci-fi events from fiction, television and movies, and placed them chronologically on a real-world timeline. Click this link to see the full infographic now.
Posted on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 by Russ Fischer
What’s going on with David Gordon Green’s proposed remake of the Dario Argento horror classic Suspiria? We first heard about the film almost two years ago, and there were rumors not long ago that the film would shoot this year. But we haven’t heard much about the remake since people hit Green with questions while on the set of his latest film Your Highness.
Turns out the holdup may have been with Argento, who held the rights to his original film. Read More »
Posted on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 by Russ Fischer
Greg Mottola’s follow-up to Adventureland is Paul, which sees a pair of British nerds (played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) on a road trip from Comic Con to Roswell, NM. Along the way they find a real alien named Paul, and adventures ensue.
Comic Con only plays into the first bit of the film, but Mottola’s crew recreated the show floor to shoot those scenes. Invited along to help recreate a big panel at the con were several webmasters, and their reports from set hit today. Along with those reports come new photos from the film — the first we’ve seen other than one promo snap glimpsed at Universal — and some new info about the movie. Read More »
Posted on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
Back in June, it was announced that Peter Jackson’s WETA (Lord of the Rings, District 9) was developing a live-action and animatronics adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s classic book The Wind in the Willows. The story follows four anthropomorphized characters in a classic pastoral English countryside, an yes, it has been adapted to the screen many times before. But this time around they are using WETA to provide a suite of animatronic effects to bring the animal characters to life.
WETA’s Richard Taylor is overseeing the effects. Taylor should be familiar to many as the man behind a lot of the effects in The Lord of the Rings, as well as many other films. Directed by Ray Griggs and written by Bill Marsili (Lightspeed), the $30m production is scheduled to shoot this fall. But there is already some concept art and a promo teaser trailer online. Hit the jump!
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Posted on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 by Russ Fischer
Just like with the report we had yesterday, keep this one filed under rumor. But Moviehole says they’ve been talking to a source at WB who says that the notion of a Jonathan Nolan-directed Superman is well-founded. Read More »
Warner Bros has released the first trailer for the Ben Affleck-directed big screen adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel The Prince of Thieves which is titled The Town. Affleck stars as a career thief who falls in love with the manager of a bank he robbed. I know that might not sound like an interesting concept for a movie, but the trailer presents it as a gripping dramatic thriller.
The film co-stars Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, and Chris Cooper. I, like many others, was extremely impressed by Affleck’s directorial debut Gone Baby Gone, and it looks like he may have stepped up his game with his The Town. And you can’t forget that he also won an academy award for co-writing the screenplay for Good Will Hunting. Affleck worked on the screenplay with Peter Craig and Chuck Hogan.
The trailer will be attached to prints of Christopher Nolan’s Inception, which hits theaters on Friday. But you don’t have to wait until then to see it. Watch it now embedded after the jump, and please leave your thoughts in the comments below.
20th Century Fox’s highly anticipated Alien Anthology Blu-ray set was officially announced this morning and you can officially pre-order the set on Amazon for $97.99, 30% off the $140 list price. The Blu-ray box set will be released on October 26th 2010, the same day Universal Pictures is releasing the Back to the Future Trilogy on Blu-ray. Read the full press release with full disc details after the jump, along with more photos.
Posted on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
David Oyelowo (The Last King of Scotland, A Sound of Thunder, Derailed) has been offered a role in The Escapist helmer Rupert Wyatt’s Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. Bloody Disgusting reports that 20th Century Fox has offered Oyelowo the role of Steve Jacobs, the board of directors who announces phase 2, clinical trials.
As Comic-Con approaches, we’re starting to see more and more of Marvel’s big screen adaptation of Thor. Earlier this week Marvel released the first official photo of Anthony Hopkins as Odin and Tom Hiddleston as Loki, along with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) with hammer in hand. And now another new photo has hit the webs from Kenneth Branagh’s comic book adaptation. The new photo features Odin talking to Thor. Hit the jump to see the full image.
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