Cut To The Chase: Good movie, easier to digest on the small screen.

Cloverfield arrives on DVD today and I’m sure many will find it easier to sit through on the small screen. I saw it in the theaters and I was one of the many people who started to feel motion sickness about half way into the movie. That shaky camera stuff was just too much to stomach for two hours. And because of that I am not surprised that despite a great opening, it fell fast at the box office. In many ways seeing the movie on DVD is a better fit for this kind of movie. The “reality” vibe and the visual connection to youtube-type video feel natural on television. You do lose the overwhelming panic of having the monster hugely displayed across the movie screen, but at least in your living room you can hit pause and take a break when the shaky stuff gets to be too much. Continue reading →

Source: Variety Virginia Madsen has signed on to co-star in the Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia, reports Variety. Hilary Swank and Richard Gere have already been cast in the Mira Nair-directed film, which chronicles the rocky relationship between the famed aviator (Swank) and publisher-promoter George Putnam (Gere), whom Earhart eventually married. Virginaia Madsen will play Dorothy Binney, Putnam’s first wife. Shooting starts later this month in Canada and South Africa.

Looks like Frank Miller has found a new passion…directing. His directoral debut (he did help on Sin City, but that doesn’t count…) The Spirit is coming out in a few months, and he is already discussing a his next project. At Comic-Con, he explained that he is in talks to get Hard Boiled turned into a film. If you aren’t up on the comic world, Hard Boiled is a three book series published by Dark Horse in 1990. The story centers around Carl Seitz, and insurance investigator who finds out that he is a cyborg, and predictably kills a hell of a lot of people.

What do you think? Do you want Hard Boiled to be adapted? Or should it stay in print.

Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, Poseidon) will no longer be directing the big screen adaption of Ender’s Game, according to io9. The film, which will start filming in early 2009 is in the process of finding a new director. Orson Scott Card, who wrote the novel is hard at work on finalizing the screenplay. Keep in mind the thought of adapting the novel has been around since it’s publication. The last time they thought they had a complete screenplay was when David Bennioff (Troy) was writing. Don’t expect this movie to come out on schedule. Just keep your fingers crossed that it will ever come out.

What do you think, is it possible to create a faithful adaption to Ender’s Game? Or is this movie doomed from the start?

Empire Magazine scored some new shots from The Incredible Hulk. That’s a BIG man. It kind of looks like they’re just hangin’ out, talking about their plans for the weekend. Click here for the rest.
Empire will feature The Hulk on the cover of it’s new issue in a special “3-D” cover, plus a full feature inside.

Empire Magazine is also showing 3 new pics from the upcoming Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated film, due in theaters in August. Click here to see the rest. Empire will have a special section in their next magazine featuring an interview with the film’s director Dave Filoni and Star Wars creator George Lucas, plus a whole bunch of brand new images from the film.

I don’t know if this is a marketing tactic by the Iron man guys, or a leak somehow, but here they are…23 new pics for the up-coming Iron Man movie. I’m not complaining.

Enjoy…

Mood Bloodgood (best know for TV’s Journeyman) is currently in negotiations to play the female lead of the McG helmed Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. She will star alongside Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, and Anton Yelchin. The film is set to begin principal photography, after many delays and questions that it would even materialize.

If the most recent Terminator, or McG’s most last movie is any indication of this movie’s potential quality, this is going to suck. Really badly. But we can hope right?

So what are your thoughts, will this be Christian Bale’s first really bad movie, or will this be a stunner?

Producer Joel Silver has announced that screenwriters Matthew Jenison and Brent Strickland are at work on a script for the upcoming film.  The duo had previously written a draft of the film which was set in the WW2 era, but the draft that they are currently working on has an entirely different story and setting. Silver indicated that this will be more of an origin story, something they had previously dismissed.

Currently the casting hasn’t been announced nor has the director, but it has been hinted at that the Wachowki’s have expressed an interest. We’ll keep you posted.

Writer and Director, Guillermo Del Toro, has recently said that “we’ll know in four or five days whether all the legal stuff on The Hobbit and its sequel has been worked out and if he’ll be moving ahead”. Del Toro has been listed as the lead in heading the next two films in the Lord of The Rings series; however nothing has been signed as yet.

He also added that his next small movie will be called “Saturn and the End of Days” about a young boy watching the end of the world while walking back and forth from the supermarket.

Coming from his previous movies like Pan’s Labyrinth and The Devil’s Backbone, this new project should raise some extreme interest from his fans.