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Entries from January 2007

And Now, For Some International News

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments

I have only seen a couple of films from South Korean film director Kim Ki-duk, but it has been enough to make me fall in love. So I'm glad to hear he is still working, and at a fast pace . Also, I found this interesting:
Kim, who won director awards from the […]

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Star Wars, Still Making Money After All These Years

January 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I don’t have to tell anyone that one of the big changes brought by the original Star Wars to the movie industry was the realization that you could make a lot of money by producing toys, video games, cereals and all kinds of products using the movie’s images and concepts. Well, it’s been a while […]

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Quick Hits: Brosnan and Topher, Playing Poker And Writing Code

January 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Pierce Brosnan, unhappy with the fact that he didn't get to play poker in Casino Royale, will now produce and start in his own Poker pic. This one is a drama based on a the novel The Big Biazarro (never heard of it either) and it will see him as an older player mentoring […]

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Now This Is Cool

January 18th, 2007 · No Comments

You know Danny Boyle right? The guy who directed the superb Trainspotting and the wicked 28 Days Later? Yeah, him. Well, now he is working on Sunshine. The movie is the story of a small ship with a small crew that gets the very big job of going to the dying sun in order to […]

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The Animated Adventures of John Carter Of Mars

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments

There has been a lot of talk recently about the film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter of Mars going to Disney after failing to come to life for several years in Paramount. What I didn't catch is that this might turn out into an animated movie, overseen by those crazy Pixar folks. […]

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The Foreign Language Oscar Short List?

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Here is something a didn't know. The Academy changed it's rules and now there are two phases for the choice of the nominees for best film in a foreing language. First, the people who used to choose the five nominees make a shortlist of a few of the best films. Then a group of 30 […]

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Its Not TV. Its HBO

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments

And of course, they are great. But they just signed on to one tough project:
There were people who said that The Lord of the Rings couldn’t be filmed. As it turned out, they were dead wrong. That seems to have encouraged other filmmakers to look at big, fat fantasy epics for inspiration, with the result […]

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Iron Man Has A Lady

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard and … Gwyneth Paltrow? Apparently yes, the one time Oscar winner is joining the ever more interesting cast of Iron Man. The question is: are these people signing on to the film because they are interested in the surprisingly deep script, or are they just trying to salvage a […]

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Sequels That Nobody Wants: An Ongoing Series

January 16th, 2007 · No Comments

What? they are making a sequel to Are We There Yet? Why? Remember people, just because the original made some money it doesn't mean you are forced to make a sequel. Sometimes you should just be glad that you dodged the bullet the first time.

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Quick Hits: The Invisible Scariness Of Kevin Li Smith

January 16th, 2007 · No Comments

ComingSoon has some details about The Invisible, a new film directed by David Goyer, which will open April 13. The movie is a remake (aren't all films these days?) of a Swedish "supernatural thriller". Goyer is better known as the writer of Batman Begins and several other comic book movies.
I have to say […]

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