Adventure

Originally Published: May 10, 2005 Moviefone is hosting the exclusive first look trailer for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, based on the C.S. Lewis classic. They also have 5 reasons why this film will fill the void left by the end of the Star Wars saga, and The Lord ….

Originally Published: March 6, 2005 Christian Slater has signed on to lend his voice for the title character Igor in Exodus Film Group’s CGI-animated short film Igor: Unholy Frijoles which will precede the feature length theatrical version Igor, due out in 2007. Igor is an irreverent comedy with a new twist on the classic mad ….

Originally Published: February 27, 2005 Blockbuster director Roland Emmerich is getting ready to leave his popcorn image by making “more difficult, socially relevant” films. He stated this recently during a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival. He also introduced his new production/financing company Reel Machine, during the fest, which will be backing his more ….

Originally Published: May 15, 2005 I have posted a preview page for the new Laurence Fishburne movie, Akeelah and the Bee. The film centers on a precocious eleven-year-old girl named Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer), from south Los Angeles, who is discovered to have a talent for words. In spite of the objections of her mother ….

Originally Published: January 5, 2005 We’ve posted some great new photos from Robert De Niro’s new thriller Hide and Seek. the film is about a man who moves his daughter Emily upstate New York, in order to escape the memories of her recently deceased mother. Soon thereafter, Emily develops a friendship with the imaginary friend ….

Originally Published: January 5, 2005 I have seen this around too much not to at least mention it. Natalie Portman is very close to inking a deal to star in the Wachowski Brothers next major project, V For Vendetta. The Brothers wrote this script about two and a half years ago, in between developing the ….

Originally Published: June 23, 2005 Columbia Pictures is negotiating with Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Brendan Gleeson and Robin Wright Penn to star in director Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf, based on the classic Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Variety reported. The performance-capture film, about a knight who slays a monster and becomes king, is being financed by Steve Bing’s ….

Originally Published: June 23, 2005 The Sci Fi Channel has announced that it will air reruns of Fox’s canceled sci-fi series Firefly, including three episodes that never aired. Sci Fi will air all 14 hours of the show, from creator Joss Whedon, starting July 22, at 7 pm. It will be followed by new episodes ….

Originally Published: March 7, 2005 Variety reports that Warner Bros. Pictures will produce the film version of Blood Father, a drama based on the novel by Peter Craig. Anonymous Content is attached to produce and Andrea Berloff will adapt the screenplay. The novel begins three years after 17 year old Lydia Carson ran away from ….

Originally Published: March 7, 2005 British singer Jamelia is being lined up to become a Bond girl, according to the Daily Star, a British tabloid. Jamelia is rumoured to be starring in Casino Royale, the 21st movie in the Bond series, due in 2006, after impressing the film’s producers. She has apparently beat off competition ….

Originally Published: June 23, 2005 Japanese director Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge) is interested in helming a film version of Tim Curran’s H.P. Lovecraft-inspired book The Hive, Bloody-Disgusting.com reported.

Originally Published: June 23, 2005 Sci Fi Wire reports that Steven Spielberg was evasive when asked about the plot for the upcoming Indiana Jones sequel at the Tokyo debut of War of the Worlds. “If I did that, my really good friend and collaborator would have me on a silver platter,” Spielberg apparently told the ….

Originally Published: June 23, 2005 The film hasn’t even hit theaters yet, and their already talking sequel? Well George A. Romero, told SCI FI Wire that Land of the Dead may mark the beginning of a new round of Dead films. “I mean, if this opens strong, I might be in a situation where I ….

Originally Published: June 23, 2005 Keri Russell has joined the cast of the upcoming Mission: Impossible 3, reuniting the actor with the film’s director J.J. Abrams (creator of Alias and Lost), whose Felicity TV show first brought Russell widespread acclaim, Variety reported. Russell will portray a trainee agent mentored by Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt character ….

Originally Published: March 1, 2005 IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Batman Begins will be simultaneously released to IMAX(R) and conventional 35mm theatres on June 17th, 2005. The film, which explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight’s emergence as a force for good in Gotham, will be digitally ….