Day: August 20, 2008

Originally Published: March 7, 2005 The Wachowski Brothers and Joel Silver, the creators and producer of the smash hit Matrix trilogy, have launched production on the action thriller V For Vendetta, starring Natalie Portman (Star Wars: Episodes I-III, Closer, Garden State), James Purefoy (Vanity Fair, Resident Evil) and Stephen Rea (Interview With the Vampire, The ….

Originally Published: March 19, 2005 Skill-Based Player vs. Player Tournament to Culminate in $1,000,000 Grand Prize Planetwide Games announced that RYL: Path of the Emperor will be the first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game to offer a $1,000,000 Grand Prize to the winner of a Player vs. Player Skill-Based Tournament. Players who purchase the ….

Originally Published: March 16, 2005 We have an update to news we announced earlier this week, regarding some technology news from George Lucas and James Cameron, at the ShoWest conference taking place on Las Vegas. Theatrical exhibitors will experience premiere viewing of 3D Clips from 20th Century Fox’s Star Wars: Episode IV and Disney’s Aliens ….

Originally Published: March 21, 2005 High Tension is a French laguange horror film that Lions Gate (Saw), becoming ever the horror specialty house, puchased the U.S. distribution rights to last year. The film was originally produced by Europa, the company run by La Femme Nikita and The Professional director Luc Besson. The plot revolves around ….

Originally Published: March 10, 2005 There is even more movement towards a united gaming and film front, as gamers are becoming the toast of hollywood. An example of this is American McGee working on a script for his original take on the game concept Oz, which Jerry Bruckheimer has optioned for a trilogy of films. ….

Originally Published: March 6, 2005 Founder and Creator of Beverly Hills Film Studios, Producer/Director BJ Davis, is departing Beverly Hills Film Studios to take the helm of a newly created company, Pear Mound Pictures, that will produce bigger budgeted films and television product for the market. Davis is currently preparing a feature film for Hoboken ….

Originally Published: March 14, 2005 The web site BlueTights.net will be the official Blog for Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns with production diaries from Sydney, Australia. I just took a peek, and while the design leaves much to be desired, it’s filled with Quicktime videos, words from the crew, fan created posters and more. The current ….

Originally Published: February 25, 2005 The DVD has become in some ways more important to film studios than a film’s theatrical run. Even if a film fails at the box office, it can have a second life on disc. Here is our list for the tops of last year, and some gems you may have ….

Originally Published: March 6, 2005 Sony has sent us links to the trailer for the upcoming film Lords of Dogtown. The movie is the true story of a group of teenage surfers from a tough neighborhood known as Dogtown in Venice, California pioneered a revolutionary new style of skateboarding. Riding the waves at the Pacific ….

Originally Published: March 6, 2005 The critically acclaimed documentary Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster has won the award for Best Documentary at the Independent Spirit Awards, which took place last weekend in Los Angeles. The film, directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost), offers a revealing behind-the-scenes look at Metallica as ….

Originally Published: February 11, 2005 After months of reviewing submissions, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival is proud to announce the lineup of feature films for this year’s event. The lineup includes over 40 world and U.S. premieres, set to be unveiled March 11-19, 2005 in venues throughout Austin, Texas. Recent additions to the ….

Originally Published: March 3, 2005 20th Century Fox will release Robots: The IMAX Experience in select IMAX theatres around the world beginning Friday, March 11th. From the makers of Ice Age, Robots has been digitally re-mastered (IMAX DMR(R)) into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience(R). Audiences will watch Robots presented on ….

Originally Published: July 26, 2005 We’re mere months away from the time when you can feast your eyes on all six Star Wars films in your own home. On October 31, Revenge of the Sith is coming to DVD, completing the saga that started thirty years ago. The DVD, as you’d expect, is headed our ….

Originally Published: March 14, 2005 Here is the new poster from the upcoming blockbuster gauranteed Fantastic 4 movie. The storyline of the film revolves around the origins of the quartet, and their nemisis, Doctor Doom. When an experimental space voyage goes awry, four people are changed by cosmic rays. Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), inventor and ….

Originally Published: March 21, 2005 Variety reports that Eddie Murphy will star in the film Johnny Blaze, an action comedy that DreamWorks and Imagine have contracted with Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle screenwriters Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg to pen. Brian Grazer will produce the movie. In the movie, Murphy would play an ….