In Cave of Forgotten Dreams Herzog couldn’t resist commenting on the cinematic dimensions he perceived in the 32,000 year old Chauvet cave paintings. He noted that some of the animals portrayed had 8 legs, suggesting that even at this early stage in human development, we wanted to represent movement: the cinematic impulse was there. Michel [...]
When I arrived at my hotel in Berlin to cover this festival, I was surprised to discover a default image of a fireplace quietly crackling away on the flat screen TV on the wall of my room. I wondered what our caveman relatives would have made of a civilization that has come to this point: [...]
Producer, Mark Burg, already has a new project lined up as an encore to his work on “Saw” as the long-running horror franchise draws to a close. According to Bloody Disgusting he’ll be teaming up with Carl Mazzocone to bring a sequel to Tobe Hooper’s cult favorite, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” to the big screen. Lionsgate [...]
November 1, 2010 | Published in
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Billionaire entrepreneur, Richard Branson, who recently launched the Virgin Produced banner with Relativity Media, is talks to acquire “Columbus,” a “300″-style film about Italian explorer Christopher Colubmus written by T.S. Nowlin to be directed by McG (“Terminator Salvation”). Deadline reports that negotiations began soon after the script went out last week and that McG, who’s [...]
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Rhys Ifans has been cast as Dr. Curt Connors, whose alter-ego is the notorious villian, The Lizard, in Marc Webb’s “Spider-Man” reboot for Sony. The Wrap squashed the growing Internet rumor that Sony was considering resurrecting Venom for the franchise reboot with the news that The Lizard, a fan favorite in the comics and animated [...]
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Despite James Cameron’s impassioned attempts to legitimize a 1950s gimmick employed by cinema hucksters to serve cheap thrills to audiences willing shell out a couple of extra bucks, 3D has yet to prove its usefulness beyond a fleeting novelty. It is a dire time for movies. Television, once the mass media marked by pandering to [...]
September 13, 2010 | Published in
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In an interview with Market Saw yesterday, James Cameron opened up about his plans to re-release his environmentally-conscious alien epic “Avatar” with an additional nine minutes of pure CG footage, the upcoming novelization of the film he’s currently working on, the status of “Avatar 2,” the future of 3D and a host of other juicy [...]
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Speculation has been at a fever pitch about what he’ll do next since Guillermo del Toro backed out of directing “The Hobbit.” Now Deadline is reporting that del Toro’s next project will be to direct “At The Mountains Of Madness,” a 3D adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story for Universal Pictures. Sounds like a match [...]
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“Avatar,” the most profitable film ever made having raked in a staggering $2.7 billion during its theatrical run and selling more Blu-Rays than any other movie, has decided that being #1 just isn’t enough. Those environmentally conscious giant blue aliens are coming back for seconds. Below is 20th Century Fox’s official press release announcing James [...]
July 8, 2010 | Published in
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Dear Mr. Burton: What happened to you? You used to be so creative, have such imagination. You were strange, unknowable but always managed to imbue your films with such heart and feeling. From “Ed Wood” to “Edward Scissorhands” to “Beetlejuice” your films have always entertained and inspired us. But when you undertook to usurp the [...]
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