Month: March 2009

Warner Bros. opens world’s largest film vault with launch of the Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, today announced the debut of the Warner Archive Collection, a selection of movies spanning more than 60 years of filmmaking never before available on DVD. The world’s largest film and television vault is finally open to consumers who can now purchase authentic DVD and digital downloads of more than 150 classic ….

3D horror film coming from The Pang brothers

The first-ever Asian digital 3D horror film is coming to theaters courtesy of Universe Films and directing brothers Danny and Oxide Pang (The Messengers, The Eye), according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, titled The Child’s Eye in 3D, will begin shooting this June in Thailand. The directing duo are currently overseeing post-production on their ….

Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman grab Important Artifacts

Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman are attached to star in a Paramount Pictures film based on a new Leanne Shapton book titled Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, according to Variety. The book looks like a Sotheby’s estate auction catalog, with ….

Zombie Studios and Fox developing military action epic into film, game and comic property

Independent game developer Zombie Studios has reached an agreement with Fox Atomic and production company Union Entertainment to develop its military action franchise Blacklight, into a feature film, comic series and video game. The announcement was made jointly by Zombie CEO Mark Long, Fox Atomic chief Debbie Liebling, and Union president Richard Leibowitz. Blacklight is ….

Star Trek director J.J. Abrams to tell story of world’s biggest diamond heist

Paramount recently nabbed film rights to a Wired Magazine article titled The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist, written by Joshua Davis, and Star Trek director J.J. Abrams will take on the project as a producer and, possibly, as a director, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The as-yet-unpublished article, describes the true story ….

The Kite Runner Blu-ray review

Marc Forster’s visceral adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s bestseller The Kite Runner, succeeds at tracing massive political and social changes in the country of Afghanistan, while remaining tightly focused on a group of people whose lives are forever altered by the tumultuous changes. The film follows the life of Amir, a spoiled young Afghani from a ….