There has been so much news in the last few days that we just haven’t been able to get to all of it. Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2!
Yahoo Movies has the first character photo featuring Eva Mendes as Sand Saref from Frank Miller’s The Spirit.
The first internet teaser trailer for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno will hit the web on April 28th. A second teaser trailer will be released a month later. [newsaskew]
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will start shooting in October. Producer Mark Johnson said that they have “no plans” at the moment to continue on past Voyage of the Dawn Treader. [firstshowing]
Friday the 13th will be R-Rated. Thank God. [BloodyDisgusting]
Universal Studios Orlando and Hollywood have both set dates for the grand openings of “The Simpsons Ride” next month. May 15 and 16 in Orlando, May 17th in Hollywood. [UGO]
Who is going to pay $24,000 for the Sex and the City Fantasy Tour? [trendhunter]
Associated Press has a look at the Hollywood studio and theme park companies’ efforts in Dubai.
A new trailer for the new Iron Man video game was released at the NYCC. [fanboy.com]
The WALL-E soundtrack is available for preorder on Amazon.
Joel Silver tells IESB that Matthew Jennison and Brent Strickland are working n a new Wonder Woman script, which may explore a story involving Paradise Island.
MTV is holding a “2008 Movie Spoof Contest,” with the winner eligible for a free trip to Los Angeles for the MTV Movie Awards on June 1 and their very own Golden Popcorn.
Universal Studios has finally revealed their Blu-ray plans. It’s about damn time. [Cinema Blend]
There have been a bunch of new release date changes announced in the last 24 hours, let’s take a look.
DreamWorks has announced that they are moving Monsters vs. Aliens 3D from May 15th 2009 to March 27th 2009. The monster film was originally scheduled to go head to head with James Cameron’s Avatar in what was being called the first head to head 3D battle. Now that the film is opening a while 2 months earlier that Cameron’s epic sci-fi tale, both films might have a chance at finding an audience, and filling up more of the available 3D digital screen space. Monsters vs. Aliens, which reinvents the classic ’50s monster movie
into an irreverent modern day action comedy.
Disney has decided to push back The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader from May 1, 2009 to May 7, 2010. The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced live-action/CGI family film G-Force will now play on the original date.
Universal has moved Mark Romanek’s The Wolfman, which stars Benicio Del toro, from November 12, 2008 to a new to be announced date in the spring of 2009.
Rumor has it that The Illusionist director Neil Burger has been approached to helm the third installment of the Chronicles of Narnia series.
Andrew Adamson, who directed the first two films, won’t be able to return because of the shortened release schedule .
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was originally published in 1952. It’s the third book in the series but the fifth in chronological order. The book follows Lucy, Edmund, and their dreadful cousin Eustace on a magical sea journey aboard the Dawn Trader. The children are pulled into a painting of a ship at sea. On board is Caspian, King of Narnia and his companions, who are in search for seven lost lords of Narnia. The voyage will take them to the edge of the world (sound familiar? Yeah, Pirates stole this idea).
Dawn Treader is currently scheduled for release in 2009/2010.
There has been so much news in the last few days that we just haven’t been able to get to all of it. Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2!
