Brendon Connelly Articles on SlashFilm

/Film UK - Minority Report, Philip Ridley Video Interview, Ken Loach's Black Jack

Coming to you from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice. This week’s is a special installment with two big review pieces and some video reports. Fox have released the Blu-ray of Minority Report in the UK and Europe and they've taken a different tack to the Paramount…

Spierig Brothers To Direct Dark Crystal Sequel

Sorry, Samurai Jack fans - Genndy Tartakovsky is no longer attached to direct The Power of the Dark Crystal. Boo? Hiss? I know he was an incredibly popular choice, but for years all I was hearing was that his version of the film was going nowhere. But there's good news. According to a smoking hot…

Secret JJ Abrams Film To Be Unveiled With Trailer Before Iron Man 2

Much of the world has received Iron Man 2 already (I've seen it with a paying crowd, and rather liked it), but the USA and Canada do not. Almost as though compensation for the wait, however, it seems that the film's prints are coming to North American cinemas with a special in-the-can bonus. Pretty much recreating…

/Film UK - Iron Man 2 Mini-Review, Avatar's Stephen Lang, James Bond And Your Chance To See Prince Of Persia This Week

Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice. This week's is a special installment including 90 minutes of audio to stream or download. During last weekend's rollicking Fan Fest event at the London Film Museum, I was honoured to host three on-stage Q&As. The…

Disney Considering Whole Raft Of Film-To-Stage Shows? Toy Story, Alice In Wonderland, Nightmare Before Christmas And Many More

The web-digging sleuths at Stitch Kingdom have uncovered a series of URLs registered recently by Disney. They reveal plans for not one, not two but... oh, loads of new stage shows and musicals to be adapted from big-screen movies. Some of them have already happened, some we've known about for some time, while others are…

Has Adam Shankman Quit Bob: The Musical To Beat Sam Mendes To Oz Job?

We've already discussed that Sam Mendes and Adam Shankman were frontrunners to direct Oz the Great and Powerful, an origin story for the Wonderful Wizard that looks set to star Robert Downey Jr. as the titular warlock. Now, it's looking like Shankman is taking his campaign for the job into the public arena. Shankman's biggest,…

Kevin Smith's Free Comic Book Day Commercial

The first Saturday in May is always Free Comic Book Day, when you can stop by your local comic shop and pick up some FREE strips to enjoy. Of course, you don't need me to tell you this when, embedded below the break, we have Kevin Smith's commercial for the event and he does a…

Sam Rockwell Cast As Batman, Josh Hamilton As Superman, And Leslie Bibb As Wonder Woman...in New James Duffy Short Film

Today's This month's most bizarre casting news has broken: Sam Rockwell is going to play Batman, or at least The Bat-Man. Joining him will be Josh Hamilton as Superman, Leslie Bibb as Wonderwoman, John Hodgeman as The Penguin and Justin Long as Robin. All together now: Wha??? Didn't see this coming? Well, I did... kinda...…

Mad Max: Fury Road To Be A 2D-To-3D Conversion?

Samsung have just last night unveiled their latest size-zero-slim range of LED TVs at a big shindig in the Saatchi Galleries of London. In attendance, as well as the journalists and tech bloggers that Samsung will have been very keen to impress, were a host of celebs with Kevin Spacey, Noel Clarke and newly-ordained Film…

Chris Sanders And Dean DeBlois Have Parallel Sequels Planned For How To Train Your Dragon

The inevitable news of a How to Train Your Dragon sequel broke yesterday, courtesy of a Dreamworks conference call and press release. We learned that the film would be made for cinemas, released in 2013 and... actually, that was it. But what more information about this proposed follow-up is actually out there? There's a quote…

Clash Of The Titans And Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Sequels In The Offing, But Original Directors Won't Be Coming Back

I don't imagine there's going to be much fan loyalty to either Louis Letterier or Eric Brevig for their first films in the Clash of the Titans and Journey to the Centre of the Earth franchises, and it looks like there's going to be no studio loyalty either. As sequels to both films start to…

The Last Airbender And Green Hornet Were Planned And Shot For 3D?

If you've seen the hideous monstrosity that is Clash of the Titans, replete with its horrendous and eye-torturing attempts at 3D imagery, you probably don't have much love at all for post-production dimensionalisation. I've seen the online reaction to two upconvert projects that have been announced in just the last 24 hours, Michel Gondry's Green…