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Harold Prince Talks Phantom's Lasting Emotional Power to Las Vegas Review Journal
28 November 2009 3:06 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular hosted the first annual Phantom Fans Week through Sunday, September 16th through 20th. This unprecedented gathering of all things Phantom gave fans from around the globe insider access to the show like never before. The culmination of Phantom Fans Week was a keynote address from Tony Award-winning director of Phantom, Hal Prince. Prince talked about his life in theatre, his work with Andrew Lloyd Webber and his reasons for revisiting his classic Phantom 20 years later and adapting it for Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Journal Review chatted with the famed director as he shared his thoughts about the event.
"I'd forgotten how much I'd changed it," he remarked to the Journal/Review, to read the full article click here.
Having directed and produced over 50 Broadway productions, Hal Prince has left an indelible mark in the New York theatre history books. He set foot on »
Check Out The Wolf Pack – New Moon Stills
24 November 2009 11:57 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
For those of you who have yet to see this year’s most talked about film – The Twilight Saga: New Moon, how about a few new film stills to beat those Winter blues? Courtesy of MTV, the new images feature a much closer look at Taylor Lautner and the rest of The Wolf Pack in canine form.
As well as the new VFX shots below, MTV were also lucky enough to talk to the man responsible for our furry friends, along with some of the industry’s most groundbreaking films including “Star Wars” and “Jurassic Park,” visual-effects maestro Phil Tippett:
MTV: You worked on Chris Weitz’s “The Golden Compass.” So, did he just call you up and ask you to do “New Moon” as well?
Tippett: No, actually we didn’t deal with Chris that much. We were involved in “The Golden Compass,” then everything came our way »
- Craig Sharp
First Full Scene From Avatar Released
23 November 2009 8:10 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Previous Avatar trailers have elicited baffingly mixed responses, but this new two-and-a-half minute clip posted at IGN shows us exactly what we needed to see-- a congruent action sequence with a lot of time for us to get a really good look at the movement of the Na.vi. And predictably, there.s more jumping off of really high cliffs. Up until now all we.ve seen are two minutes of epilepsy-inducing trailer footage cut so fast you can barely tell one blue streak from the next. While this scene is still nothing but action, you get a really good look at Sam Worthington.s avatar battling (read: running the hell away from) a really pissed off Thanador, which sounds strikingly like a Jurassic Park T-Rex. Not only does the movement as a whole look great, but the finer motions, like that of the mouths, really get showcased here in »
'New Moon' Wolf Pack: How The Characters Came To Life
23 November 2009 12:49 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'It gets a lot more tricky to make them digital, yet photographically representational,' visual-effects master Phil Tippett says.
Photo: Summit Entertainment
From "Star Wars" to "Indiana Jones" to "Jurassic Park," visual-effects maestro Phil Tippett has had a hand in some of the greatest movies of the past 30 years. This past weekend, if the wolves of the record-setting blockbuster "New Moon" thrilled you, then you have him to thank.
In an exclusive interview with MTV, the owner of Tippett Studio was eager to chat about making the wolf pack come to life, the intensive research that had his computer artists hanging out with the real thing, and why trips to the "New Moon" set often became a hairy proposition.
Brand-New Special Effects Shots From "New Moon"
MTV: Congratulations, Phil, the fans seem pretty pleased with the movie so far.
Phil Tippett: I suppose so; I'm not quite one of that ilk. »
The Sunday Movie Quiz – The Answers
22 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Here are the answers to yesterday’s weekly Sunday Movie Quiz. If you missed the quiz yesterday, go here and give it a try before you look at the answers. Hope you had fun, and will come back for another quiz next Sunday.
Movie Quotes – Name the films
1 I’ll probably piss blood tonight – The Usual Suspects
2 Dodson! Dodson! We got Dodson here! Nobody cares. – Jurassic Park
3 You get the series 4 de-atomizer and I get the midget cricket? – Men in Black
4 They sucked out his brain – Starship Troopers
5 You have twenty seconds to comply – Robocop
6 Could you please repeat the destination? – Total Recall
7 Put me back in, put me back in! – Look Who’s Talking
8 I’m your worst nightmare, an eight year old with a badge – Cop and a Half
9 Ohh, you would’nt be interested in that – Batman Begins
10 I have a bad feeling about this – Star Wars. »
- Barry Steele
Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla Blu-ray Review
21 November 2009 8:01 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Recently, I reviewed Waterworld. Now I’m talking about 1998’s disaster opus Godzilla. These are two of the biggest flops of the 1990’s. Overhyped and overproduced, and expensive as all get out, perhaps they’re hitting Blu-ray in the hopes of eeking out profits. Someone thought they might have had something here, but when Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin came off of Independence Day, this was going to be the next big thing, but instead they misfired. My review of 1998’s Godzilla after the jump.
Mathew Broderick stars as Dr. Niko Tatopoulos, a scientist who studies the effects of nuclear mutations. He’s brought in by the American government when Godzilla begins fucking things up. At first, Godzilla is outside of Tokyo, but then he comes to New York. Long swim. Emmerich stages everything like ID4, so there’s some moments, but the destruction doesn’t take your breath away. »
- Andre Dellamorte
Daybreakers: First TV Spot and Quad Poster
18 November 2009 3:39 PM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
A brand new TV spot and quad poster for Lionsgates “Daybreakers” have been released.
Two-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out.
However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.
The film is directed by Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig (Undead), also stars Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Perfect Strangers), Isabel Lucas (Transformers 2), Christopher Kirby, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo and will hit theaters on January 8th, 2010.
Check out our “Daybreakers” Photo Gallery
Click below to take a look at this unusual Public Service Announcement (PSA) TV spot from the new vampire film.
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- Allan Ford
Zack Snyder's Guardians of Ga'hoole Movie Rounds Up a Cast
18 November 2009 1:50 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
It's been quite awhile since we heard about Zack Snyder's forthcoming adaptation of the children's book series Guardians of Ga'hoole. After the project was announced in early 2008, there was some minor casting news way back at the beginning of this year, but development has been pretty mute since then. Now THR's Heat Vision adds a whole bunch of new cast members who will lend their voice to the 3D animated feature including Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean), Hugo Weaving (The Matrix Trilogy) and David Wenham (300) as well as a handful of even more actors after the jump. Also voicing characters will be Aussie actors Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Emilie de Ravin, and Jay Laga'aia, as well as English actors Miriam Margolyes, Helen Mirren and Jim Sturgess. This rather impressive voice cast will bring characters to life in the story of Soren (Sturgess), a young »
- Ethan Anderton
HBO’s ‘The Pacific’ Trailer
18 November 2009 11:43 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
HBO is bringing us The Pacific, a WWII story of what went down in the Pacific while the men from Band of Brothers were fighting in Europe.
The series is based on the memoirs of Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie, both of whom were Marines that served in the Pacific Theater of Operations. It was produced by (you guessed it) Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks (both of whom produced BoB) and Gary Goetzman (producer of Charlie Wilson’s War).
Joseph Mazzello and James Badge Dale have tackled the roles of Sledge and Leckie, respectively. John Seda rounds out the lead parts playing Sergeant John Basilone. Mazzello played the little boy in Jurassic Park (!) all those years ago, Dale popped up in The Departed and The Black Donnellys and Seda’s a former boxer who appeared in Twelve Monkeys and more recently, Bad Boys II.
Here’s the trailer for The Pacific. »
- Scott Miller
Top Editors Brought In to Re-Cut The Wolfman
18 November 2009 9:47 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Of all the big films on the docket for next year, the one I’m most concerned about is The Wolfman. The second trailer for the film looked pretty badass, I’ll admit – but this movie has suffered a plagued production from the get-go. A change in directors, callbacks for reshoots and re-designs in the creature effects… It all points to a studio trying to turn lead into gold through the usual movie alchemy.
Well, the guys over at Slash Film must have magnifying glass eyes, because they spotted something deep-six buried in an article over at Variety, which names editors Mark Goldblatt and Walter Murch as the two guys hired to do a recut of The Wolfman!
This revelation comes without the usual fanfare from the blogosphere that goes with every little development on a major movie – suggesting that the studio is trying to keep the continuing problems with »
- Kofi Outlaw
Movie Tie-ins: a Look at 'Star Trek: The Art of the Film'
16 November 2009 7:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
I was obsessed with Jurassic Park when I was a kid. I can pinpoint it as the sole film that was responsible for not only my love of film, but my love of how films were made. Obviously seeing realistic dinosaurs on the big screen was the reason for the former, but the reason for the latter was a book my parents bought me called The Making of Jurassic Park, which included pages and pages of behind-the-scenes photos and sketches detailing how many of the film's major sequences were done, as well as showcasing ideas that never made it into the final film. I'm sure at that young age (I was eight when the film came out), I didn't understand what was actually being explained in the book, but even then I knew it was showing me a side of movie magic I'd never seen before.
Despite that book being »
- Peter Hall
Iconic Shots: Empire Captures 50 Picture Perfect Film Moments
16 November 2009 5:39 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
It may be an advertising grab if there ever was one, but that doesn't make Empire's Picture Perfect: Iconic Movie Stills feature any less impressive. The popular British film magazine's online arm has assembled 50 of the most memorable scenes from the history of film and delivered them in a glorious high resolution gallery. After browsing through much of the gallery, I clipped one of my personal favorites -- from the opening T-Rex scene in Jurassic Park -- to share with all of you above. Other great moments include one of the more beautiful shots from Hitchcock's The Birds, Al Pacino sitting in his throne-like arm chair in The Godfather Part 2 and the savage Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) heading out toward the fringes of life in The Searchers. Just to name a few. Head over to Empire and see the entire gallery for yourself, then come back and let me know which pics are your favorites in »
- Neil Miller
Nikki Kruex ('Dead Reckoning', 'The Story of Annie Kellister')
14 November 2009 1:34 PM, PST | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
Interview by Nic Brown
What can you say about someone whose list of interests include horror movies, anime, video games, guns and bows, serial killers, and kung fu movies? Well if you’re talking about Nikki Kruex, you can say that you’re just scratching the surface of this actress, model, musician, paranormal investigator and artistic Jill-of-all-trades...
In fact if you visit her website, www.nikkihomicidek.ws, you’ll find a page for just about every aspect of the entertainment industry. Somehow Nikki still manages to find time for fun and when she does you may find her doing anything from shooting a crossbow to playing Grand Theft Auto. Of course with multiple film projects, a new album coming out soon and a paranormal investigation show just waiting to take off, you won’t find her relaxing much. Fortunately, Nic Brown managed to pin down this creative tornado long enough »
- Superheidi
TV Recap: ‘Flash Forward: Playing Cards With Coyote’
13 November 2009 12:15 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Whoops, somehow my DVR didn’t record last week’s episode and I missed it. But Agent Al Gough (Lee Thompson Young) kills himself to stop his particular future from happening. His future being he kills a single mother in an accident and he also wants to prove that you can change things by choosing to do so.
Regardless, this week’s episode has Simon (Dominic Monaghan) and Lloyd Simcoe (Jack Davenport) play a poker game, and whatever-his-name is Benford’s Sponsor finds his formerly dead daughter still alive.
While on vacation for their anniversary the Benfords (Joseph Fiennes and the wax model known as Sonya Walger) are playing around in some house on the beach, before Fiennes gets a call asking him to come in. The reason being is someone caught some video footage of a mugging and the people doing the mugging had a triple star tattoo that »
- David Press
2012
13 November 2009 4:08 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
2012
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson
Running Time: 2 hrs 38 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Plot: The world is about to end. Turns out the Mayans were right. A select few people are in on the ground work of saving the human race, while others, like Jackson Curtis (Cusack), are trying to desperately save their families from the mass destruction of the entire planet.
Who’S It For? This film doesn’t even allow you to turn off your brain. Just like 10,000 BC and The Day After Tomorrow there are enough head-scratching moments, if you want to laugh at the film. But If all you live for is special effects, I can’t stop you from seeing this.
Expectations: Who doesn’t love John Cusack? Not me. I don’t not love Cusack. Plus, I’m a »
- Jeff Bayer
Emmerich's Thinking Two 'Independence Day' Sequels
12 November 2009 6:37 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
A lot about a future Independence Day movie (or two) depends on this weekend. Director Roland Emmerich might have a hit with 2012, and if it does well enough, he might be able to jump-start the long-dormant ID4 franchise. I'm surprised there was no sequel three or four years after the original; it was, after all, the second biggest movie of all time when it was released (behind Jurassic Park).
Of course, if Will Smith is involved, the decision is much simpler for Fox, and Emmerich says that if there is more to come, it will be part of the Willennium. But here's something we haven't heard before: Multiple sequels. Emmerich tells MTV, "What we want to do in the next - it's actually two movies - we want to do a bigger arc."
He even has a title in mind, which you're free to despise: "ID4-Ever, Part I and II, »
- Colin Boyd
Bicycle Messengering Gets Intense With David Koepp's 'Premium Rush'
12 November 2009 3:03 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
When was the last time you recall seeing an actual bicycle messenger? Unless you live in a densely populated, car-hating metropolis, chances are rather slim that you ever see someone on a bike with a package under their arm, ducking and diving all manner of obstacles before screeching to a halt in front of a skyscraper and racing inside to drop off said package just in the nick of time. Which is why it is simultaneously bizarre and fascinating to me that David Koepp would pick the high-stakes world of two-wheeled courier services as the frame for his next directorial project.
What's even more fascinating is the scale Premium Rush, which I am 99% positive is the name of a Capri Sun flavor I used to drink in the '90s, is set up to be. Sony is bankrolling the production, which Variety says they see as "a big-budget actioner, much »
- Peter Hall
Cool movie T-shirts
12 November 2009 2:36 PM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Want to wrap your torso in something associated with your favorite movies, but don't want to be too obvious or common? Check out these groovy retro designs from Dark Bunny Tees. In addition to the classic flicks below, they've also got faux-aged shirts from Robocop, Dawn Of The Dead and Jurassic Park. They're all available for a limited time at the official site -- get 'em while they're hot! »
- Dave Davis
David Koepp Speeds Towards a Premium Rush
12 November 2009 10:24 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Apparently, David Koepp likes the directing chair. Although this year’s Ghost Town broke a four-year hiatus from directing, Koepp is getting behind the camera again, this time for Premium Rush. Unfortunately for music fans, it will not be a behind-the-music look at everyone’s favorite Canadian rockers. Instead, Premium Rush will tell the story of a twentysomething bike messenger who innocently picks up an envelope from Columbia University. Of course, a dirty cop wants the envelope and will stop at nothing to get it. Though Koepp has written fantastic movies like Jurassic Park and Spiderman he has directed bad films like Stir of Echoes and Secret Window. Which will Premium Rush be? It’s too soon to tell but Variety is reporting that it will be a big-budget action flick so at the least it will have things that go boom.
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- David Corbin
David Koepp to Direct Bike Messenger Action Film Premium Rush
11 November 2009 9:06 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
David Koepp is best known as one of Hollywood's highest paid screenwriters (and one of Spielberg's scribes). His screenwriting credits include everything from Toy Soldiers, Jurassic Park, and Carlito's Way, to Panic Room, Spider-Man, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. For the last decade he's been trying to make the transition into feature film directing. He made his debut with the promising Stir of Echoes, but has since followed up with some lackluster efforts, the 2004 Stephen King adaptation Secret Window and the 2008 Ricky Gervais supernatural romantic comedy Ghost Town. Honestly, I think Koepp is a much better screenwriter than he is a filmmaker, and that's not saying much considering the abundance of lackluster screenplays he's been involved with in the last 10-12 years. With that kind of intro, you must be really interested in his next directorial effort (yes, that was ... »
- Peter Sciretta
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