"I feel really excited about the film. It is in the place I hoped which is a kind of netherworld between a harsh reality and the beautiful stylistic artwork of Ben Templesmith," says director DavidSlade of the '30 Days of Night' filming. "It has great dr...
"Brian Nelson's writing the script [for '30 Days of Night'], so that means we have a very original take on the genre," says DavidSlade, who has been tapped to direct the movie. "Indeed, I don't believe there's much of the genre left in what we've written...
DavidSlade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy) has signed on to direct the thriller Unthinkable. The trade says that Sidney Kimmel Entertainment is in charge of production and Peter Woodward & Oren Moverman penned the screenplay. The project is still...
This should please fans of author Neil Gaiman even a day after STARDUST opened to less then stellar box office numbers. Gaiman has revealed that director DavidSlade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy) will helm the next adaptation of his work, NEVERWHERE...
"There is a degree of responsibility to Ben Templesmith's artwork, which will be reflected in the production design, absolutely," Director DavidSlade says of his plans to film '30 Days of Night'. "There were three drafts written before I came to this pro...
Hollywood Reporter turns the spotlight on '30 Days of Night' director DavidSlade, creator/screenwriter Steve Niles and producer Sam Raimi. The pair talks about why vampires have lost their teeth and how they aim to sharpen those fangs again.
"They jus...
DavidSlade has signed on to direct horror film "30 Days of Night" for Columbia Pictures. The film, based on the Steve Niles graphic novel, is the latest production from Ghost House Pictures, the production company launched by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. Ra...
Columbia Pictures has hired DavidSlade to direct 30 DAYS OF NIGHT.The story, adapted from Steven Niles' comic book, is set in Alaska, during the middle of winter when the sun does not rise for 30 days, and an evil force strikes terror into the residents ...
The official video blog for '30 Days of Night' has been updated once more with a clip of director DavidSlade expressing his happiness to have editor Art Jones on their team.
... on. Once DavidSlade came on, they had all these screenplays and they wanted to amalgamate them into one because they wanted to use stuff from mine and stuff from Stu's. And most importantly, they wanted to make sure it reflected the graphic novel. So...
From a press release:
Culver City, CA (12/17/07) – From producers Sam Raimi (director, Spider-Man trilogy, producer, The Grudge) and Robert Tapert (producer, The Evil Dead series) and director DavidSlade (Hard Candy), comes '30 Days of Night', ava...
...rected by DavidSlade (Hard Candy), the film brings Niles and Templesmith’s story to the screen with fangs bared and an R-rating. I had a chance to talk to Steve about his experience making 30 Days of Night, along with the state of both hor...
... director DavidSlade, producer Rob Tapert, creators Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, and stars Josh Hartnett (Sin City) and Danny Huston (Children of Men).Superbad—Producer Judd Apatow follows his hit comedy Knocked Up with this highly anticipat...
...rector in DavidSlade, early positive buzz, and a shocking early critics’ screening – shocking for a horror movie, these days – it seemed that assured that the film would experience a meteoric rise to the status of horror classic.&nbs...
One doesn’t need to see every episode to follow the adventures of David Banner (Bill Bixby). The opening credits alone give you all that you need to know what is going on with David Banner and his alter ego the Hulk (Lou Ferrigno). David Banner as t...
... director DavidSlade. In the interview, he mentioned that he had no overbearing studio suit looking over his shoulder, the fact that they kept the mythology from the Steve Niles comic as accurate as possible (Which should please fans of the comic.)&nb...
... director DavidSlade and his team to maintain the look and feel of the comic book. Slade refers to the look as a “metallic coldness” which is a great description of Ben Templesmith’s unusual sketchy art style. The darkness ...
...rected by DavidSlade (Hard Candy) and stars Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston and Ben Foster.
About Ghost House Pictures
With a keen desire to continue bringing scares and thrills to moviegoers, Ghost House Pictures was formed back...
... director DavidSlade got to a certain point in the story, realized they didn't have a clue what to do next and just went into free-fall, or else, more probably, they intended to reach the third act all along without detecting either how badly it fits ...
Josh Hartnett, who once starred in '40 Days and 40 Nights', is now in final talks to topline '30 Days of Night' for Columbia Pictures.
The film is based on the Steve Niles graphic novel, illustrated by Ben Templesmith and published by IDW. DavidSlade ...
From his myspace blog, comics creator Steve Niles showed off the movie poster for '30 Days of Night'.
The film, directed by DavidSlade is due out in October.
Click for a full-sized view of the poster
...rected by DavidSlade and written by Brian Nelson.The film has screened at this year's Sundance Film Festival and that's where the Lions Gate deal came about.Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it to us!
...am bow by DavidSlade, director of attention-getting indie 'Hard Candy,' excels at bloodthirsty action, though dialogue and human-interest aspects are a tad anemic. Result is a mixed bag but has a catchy premise and quite enough splatter to satisfy gor...
"I don't know if any of you guys picked this up, but there's '30 Days of Night' article inside with a first time interview with Director DavidSlade and the first picture of Eben and Stella from the film," writes Steve Niles in his MySpace blog.
He als...
DavidSlade, who directed the upcoming vampire film 30 Days of Night, told SCI FI Wire that he wanted the look of the film to closely match the look of the graphic novel by writer Steve Niles and artist Ben Templesmith.
"I loved Ben's illustrations," S...
...rected by DavidSlade ('Hard Candy') and starring Josh Hartnett and Melissa George, '30 Days of Night' is bringing back the vampire genre.
The story takes place in the town of Barrow, Alaska, that is thrust into 30 days of complete darkness as win...
...rected by DavidSlade, written by Brian Nelson, produced by David Higgins, Richard Hutton & Michael Caldwell, and executive produced by Jody Patton, Rosanne Korenberg & Paul G. Allen. Here are links to the HARD CANDY trailer: lionsgate/hard_can...
...aking It: DavidSlade (Director), Steve Niles (Comic), Stuart Beattie (Screenplay), Brian Nelson (Screenplay), Sam Raimi (Producer), Robert G. Tapert (Producer)Release Date: October 19, 2007Premise: Based on a Steve Niles graphic novel, the story is se...
... Director DavidSlade has done an extremely good job of recreating the look and feel of graphic novel artwork without going into Sin City-like replication. 30 Days of Night is cool (pardon the pun) to look at and somewhat fun to watch. On the other han...
DavidSlade, director of the upcoming vampire movie 30 Days of Night, told reporters at a special preview screening that the movie appealed to him because it made bloodsuckers scary again. The movie, based on Steve Niles' graphic novel of the same name, t...
...ship with DavidSlade (maybe that's all illusion, i don't know)
Templesmith: No, they didn't sadly. I probably could have asked but at the time I wouldn't have known what for and I guess, fundamentally I was more concerned and still am with doing co...
A new clip has been posted on the official production blog for '30 Days Night' and Director DavidSlade brings us news from the Snow Farm and begs for spare change.
Fango has learned that Academy Award-winning Kiwi FX workshop Weta ('Lord of the Rings', 'King Kong') has aligned with director DavidSlade to provide '30 Days of Night' its array of ferocious bloodsuckers.
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...rected by DavidSlade based on a screenplay by Stuart Beattie, Niles and Brian Nelson.
A new redband clip for the film has showed up over at Sony's site. You can check it out here.
Plot Concept: Set in the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska, in the ext...
Season 3 of the Incredible Hulk went out with a whimper. David Banner (Bill Bixby) got mixed up with some forest fire fighters and a crazy fire bug. The plot was mundane and your standard throw away episode of the series. The ideas of cliffhanger season f...
I got into the indy comics scene late, so I never heard of David Hine until a few years ago when he began working for the stateside offices of Marvel Comics. In a short space of time there were a few Marvel miniseries: Daredevil Redemption, Son of M., th...
Sony Pictures sent along a couple of exclusive shots from their upcoming vampire epic '30 Days of Night'. The first is one of the bloodsuckers who descend on the town of Barrow, Alaska for a month-long feeding frenzy as the place is plunged into nonstop d...
As a political statement, THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE is a lot murkier than seems intended, while as drama, it veers between being almost wrenching in places and borderline silly in others. As a mystery, though, it winds up being pretty decent. However, the ma...
Interviewer: Way Jeng
There aren't many shows that I give an unqualified recommendation. A show might be great, but there's almost always something that has to be noted. There might be a small but significant flaw that the audience will have to tolerate....
Thanks again, everyone for a week of interesting comments. Let's jump in...Williams, David nominatedThe first one of the week comes from Allan S in Long Beach, who responds to Travis Clarke's claim from last week that David Gemmell is "probably the best f...
Marvel usually draws on the same stable of screenwriters for its projects, such as David Goyer, Zak Penn, Simon Kinberg and David Hayter. Another of these Marvel veterans is the scribe writing Captain America: David Self.
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Welcome to a special
edition of the DCG Artist Spotlight!
Our very own David José
Zamarripa Moran (aka Marrow2000) has recently made the big leagues! David is the
colorist for DC's top-ten selling Supergirl series. To celebrate a DCG
veteran's recent...
It would be difficult to imagine Buffy-creator Joss Whedon finding a more suitable creative partner than David Greenwalt. Having served as co-executive producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer since its first season, it seemed only natural that Greenwalt woul...
After he completes scoring the new James Bond film, CASINO ROYALE, for director Martin Campbell, David Arnold (who perfectly replicated and expanded the classic John Barry 007 sound for TOMORROW NEVER DIES, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, and DIE ANOTHER DAY), w...
From the Del Rey Internet Newsletter #126:
As Del Rey will be publishing the official novelization for SPIDER-MAN 2, we have signed on acclaimed science fiction writer Peter David. A New York Times bestselling author for his multiple Star Trek: The Next ...
Last November Fox TV announced that had ordered a series pilot based on Michael Oeming's original graphic novel 'Six'. The series, retitled 'Them', is currently targeted for midseason 2008.
Recently I spoke with David Engel, Manager and Co-Executive ...
On his his
own website, comic scribe, novelist and columnist Peter David recently
revealed his involvement with the recently announced Teen Titans
animated show. David writes a number of titles for Marvel and DC, including the
popular teen team book...
`They left me out of the picture!` David Fury says of the October 1, 1999 issue of ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY that listed the BUFFY episodes to date and featured a photo of and a discussion with the principal BUFFY writers. `I was a freelancer last year,` he ex...
It's ironic that 2001 would be the year of release for one of Stanley Kubrick's most eagerly awaited and controversial motion pictures. With Steven Spielberg writing and directing what was to be the late master's greatest sci-fi epic, A.I. is a film to be...
Comics2film's
Rhonda Hearon recently had a chance to chat with up and coming new artist David Morán, also know as the Digital Concept Gallery artist
Marrow2000. David
is a twenty year old art student currently living in Santa Ana, California, but
he'...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Matoh SanamiTranslated by:Rie HagiharaAdapted by:What They SayWho would have thought that there was anything worse than changing into a woman on nights of the full moon? Marlo certainly didn't.
But now his engagement to David...
Composer David Kitay has scored DARWIN AWARDS for writer/director Finn Taylor. The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this Wednesday, January 25 at 6pm at the Eccles Theatre. In addition, Kitay will take part in Music & Film: The Creativ...
You'd think that getting slimed by rapidly evolving alien creatures would make a performer a bit apprehensive. Well, that's just not the case for David Duchovny. The actor who has made a name for himself investigating aliens for the past eight years on TV...
Today during the press day for The Invisible, the IESB was able to pry some information out of David Goyer about The Dark Knight, Super-Max/Green Arrow, Blade and what really happen with The Flash.
From his blog on the internet's worst website, David Goyer writes about the just announced 'Super Max'
"Is it real? The answer is "YES", it's a real project. It's just in the early stages of development, but amongst the tidal wave of super-hero movies ...
If your not a comic book fan, you may not have heard of David Johnson. Maybe you've heard of a little show he's worked on...'Justice League'. In this interview, Johnson hints to working on a new WB show called 'Legion' and "a Bruce Timm new project".
IGN has confirmed that David Koepp, who scripted the first Spider-Man movie, will not be back to script Spider-Man 4 after all. The Indy IV and Jurassic Park screenwriter was in talks for the job earlier this year.
Koepp, who is gearing up to direct th...
"It's a terrific film. The most extraordinary thing about it for me was seeing scenes that I'd worked on and crafted for maximum effect in the book translated to film with the same degree of care and effect," says 'V for Vendetta' co-creator David Lloyd. ...
"Yes, I'm a bad guy again. He's a very bad vampire," said actor David Palffy, who recently played Anubis in Stargate SG-1.
"I'm the one who hunts Blade down. And, as usual, you have a life expectancy where it could end at any time."
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David Hayter is moving beyond the world of screenwriting and preparing for his directorial debut in Crystal Sky's Werewolf, reports the horror fans at Bloody-Disgusting. Hayter, who's known for co-writing X-Men, X2 and Watchmen and voicing Snake in Sony's...
Comic writer and
novelist Peter David
confirms that he'll be penning the scripts for new comics based on the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles.
"Yes. It's
true. I've been approached by Dreamwave about doing a new...
A friend of a scooper of a spy supposedly heard Marvel's Peter Cuneo in a radio interview say that David Duchovny will take over the role of Bruce Banner in the 'Hulk' sequel, which will be a direct-to-video affair.
The Hollywood Insider at EW.com reports that Paramount Pictures have gotten cold feet about the prospect of a David Fincher produced 'Heavy Metal' update:
[Fincher] has been spearheading an edgy remake of the 1981 R-rated animated flick inspired by the...
On the official website for the most kick-ass horror/humor comic being published today, Eric Powell has announced that 'The Goon' has been optioned for film by acclaimed director and producer David Fincher and Academy-Award nominated Blur Studio to develo...
Peter David has announced on his official website that he'll be writing the novelization for Iron Man:
"The major project at the moment is one that I've not announced before this: I'm writing the novelization for the upcoming 'Iron Man' movie which wil...
Famed producer David Zucker sat down with USA Today and discussed a brief bit about the upcoming Superhero Movie, a spoof on the latest batch of superhero movies we've seen in theaters as of late. A new photo featuring stars Drake Bell and Christopher McD...
Dark Horse Entertainment, David Fincher and animation house Blur Studios are teaming up to bring cult comic The Goon to the big screen as a CG-animated film. While no studio is yet attached to distribute the new comic film, Universal has a first-look deal...
According to Variety, David Goyer has signed on to direct the upcoming X-Men spinoff, Magneto.In the film, a young Magneto seeks revenge on the Nazis who killed his family while befriending a young Charles Xavier."It's the story of Magneto's life, an...
According to Variety, David Mamet will direct the upcoming feature film, Redbelt, based on his own original screenplay.The film, which will be fully financed by Sony Pictures Classics, is an American samurai film set in an underworld inhabited by bo...
David Goyer has revealed on his Blog that he is no longer writing and directing the upcoming film, The Flash, for Warner Bros. Pictures.Goyer writes:Well, I've been waiting a few months to relate this news -- but I am sad to say that my version of The Fla...
"My whole life, all I wanted to do was write a Batman movie," David Goyer told Cinescape magazine. "It was excruciating for me because here I was being offered to work with an amazing director, but time-wise there was no way I could do it." More...
"Batman Begins" co-writer David Goyer has partnered with Bently Tittle and Pascale Faubert to option "The Fall," a graphic novel by Ed Brubaker and Jason Lutes.
Written by Brubaker and illustrated by Lutes, "The Fall" is a modern-noir story of a luckle...
On his blog, comic scribe Peter David writes, "As for the [Fantastic Four] film, I can tell you with authority that it is not at all the goofball comedy as first reported, but instead faithful in tone and style to the Lee/Kirby comics. There's some major ...
"It was no influence whatsoever. It's only because of the strange circumstances that I didn't really know that the script was based on a graphic novel," says 'A History of Violence' director David Cronenberg. "It didn't say it on the front page, and I got...
"I didn't know what to think of [actor Viggo Mortensen]. When I met him at a 'Lord of the Rings' party, he had shoulder-length hair and he was wearing some big coat," says 'A History of Violence' director David Cronenberg of his leading man. "It was in a ...
Legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg started his career close to four decades ago and has established himself as a true auteur. There is no doubt that when you look at his films you can say, that is his work, his vision and his very distinctive style.
David Fincher is carving out room in his schedule for "Torso," a thriller based on a graphic novel written by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andrey-ko, which he will direct for Paramount Pictures. Ehren Kruger is writing the adaptation, which will be produ...
"Behind the mask, V is an idea. V is a sort of concept," 'V for Vendetta' artist David Lloyd recently explained in a panel at Comic-Con in San Diego. "Real terrorism is something that's important, and we should know more about it and what motivates people...
Fan reports hearing interview with 'Seinfeld' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' mastermind Larry David in which the comic allegedly said he's been approached about appearing in 'Spider-Man 3'.
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"I think it's going to go on for quite a long time, and I think the movie and the DVD will be like the book, which has had a fantastic life since we created the character and the story in 1981," says artist David Lloyd of the 'V for Vendetta' movie. "And ...
According to Variety, Warner Bros. TV has hired David Nutter to direct the pilot for the upcoming show THE SARAH CONNER CHRONICLES. Fox has officially greenlit production on the show.The show is a TERMINATOR themed show, revolving around Connor and her s...
Listen to This Week in Geek's podcast where writer X-Men and X2 David Hayter reveals amongst other thats he will get final screen credit for his work on the upcoming 'Watchmen' movie.(Starts 31 mins)
With its July 4 release date looming, voice casting on the live-action Transformers movie is shaping up. Hot on the heels of the news that Hugo Weaving will voice Megatron comes word that Keith David (The Thing) will voice the Decepticon police cruiser Ba...
"Since it's now listed (albeit without a great deal of information) on Amazon, I can now announce that I'll be writing the TRANSFORMERS PREQUEL NOVEL," writes author David Cain on the Don Murphy message boards. "In short, this will be the story of some of...
When asked if his work remains in 'Spider-man 2', screenwriter David Koepp said, "I don't know. I haven't read their final script. I just wrote one draft. I don't think so. I think it's mostly Alvin Sargent's stuff. I wrote one draft but then I had to go ...
"We're talking about doing a TV show that would be a prequel taking place when (Blade) is twenty years old and Whistler is in his forties," says Director David Goyer about the potential for "Blade" Spin-Offs
David Lloyd saw "V for Vendetta" on November the fifth, at a special well-timed screening and makes a favourable report. He states there are indeed changes, but that fans of the comic should really enjoy the movie.
Screenwriter David Benioff talks about 'Wolverine'...sort of: "I'm not allowed to talk about it. Fox is pretty careful about that. It's not even totally finalized what story we are doing. What I can say is that in the 'X-Men' movies we've seen a lot of th...
"One aspect of the first 'Blade' that I liked more than the second 'Blade' was that the second one became so underground and insular, that we barely had any humans in it. I thought some of the fun moments in the first Blade were the times where Blade inte...
Women In Film, a local organization dedicated to promoting and helping filmmakers (men AND women, oddly enough), held a three-hour workshop with David S. Goyer yesterday (scribe of the 'Blade' trilogy and 'Batman Begins'). The theme of the workshop was Ad...
Screenwriter David Benioff chatted with ComingSoon.net about his work on the 'Wolverine' movie. The writer says he hasn't been in the loop recently, having turned his last draft in back in September.
"It will be interesting, because I know that chan...
David Hemmings, the British actor who attained international stardom as the existential fashion photographer in the 1966 film 'Blow Up,' has died at age 62, his agent said Thursday.
C2F readers saw him most recently in 'The League of Extraordinary Gentle...
Wizard Magazine spoke with David Goyer about the upcoming 'Blade: Trinity'.
"I just wanted to make sure that this was going to be the best script," Goyer told Wizard magazine. "And I wanted to make sure that New Line would commit enough money to the budg...
On the official Hellboy message boards, director Guillermo del Toro writes, "As of this morning, Abe's performance is being voiced by Mr. David Hyde-Pierce."
Hyde-Pierce is best known for playing Niles Crane on the hit TV series 'Fraser.'
ABC are set to launch a strong companion to "Lost" with a new concept called "Flash Forward." After heated bidding, the spec script by filmmaker David S. Goyer and "Star Trek" veteran Brannon Braga is close to landing at ABC ...
David Goyer talks about the comedy of "Blade: Trinity," the behind-the-scenes drama of star Wesley Snipes and what fans can expect from the action-packed sequel:
"We had a lot of big stunts, more than the other films. We blew things up, smashed a lot of ...
According to Wizard, David Goyer has is developing a script based on the Green Arrow at Warner Brothers.The film, titled Super Max, is a take on take on supervillain incarceration in the DCU. It revolves around a wrongly convicted Green Arrow who has been...
New Line's FINAL DESTINATION 2 project now has a director. David Ellis, a second unit director and stunr coordinator has signed on to direct the coming film, which has a script by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. The project is eyeing a late fall producti...
With good buzz washing over his latest feature titled PANIC ROOM, director David Fincher is looking towards his next project. While he has several things on his plate, genre fans are probably most tantalized by the potential of his directing RENDEZVOUS WI...
Making films is an organic process. Particularly if you work with a director like Bryan Singer, who constantly refines scenes until the day they`re shot. And while it`s normal for scripts to be revised numerous times, the X-Men feature film went through n...
He`s the X-Man you never knew. Shortly before X-Men finally opened on July 14, many fans were surprised to learn that an unknown screenwriter named David Hayter was receiving sole `Screenplay` credit. Director Bryan Singer and executive producer Tom DeSan...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another skull-burning installment of Comicscape. Last week, I asked for readers to submit their Marvel jokes for the chance to replace Al Brown, the column’s joke writer and a future federal inmate. ...
Stephen David Brooks (Heads N TailZ) will direct the upcoming horror film BREW for The Ilya Salkind Company, according to ComingSoon.net.BREW is the story of a self-styled loser who inherits a family brewery drowning in debt. His girlfriend convinces him ...
HIGHLANDER creative consultant/showrunner David Abramowitz gets his second Q&A off to a bracing start by acknowledging that the series had a political philosophy: "I've always been a relatively liberal Democrat and that's the political bent of HIGHLANDER....
According to Variety, David Paymer has been added to the all-star cast of OCEAN's 13. He will join George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin and Don Cheadle to name a few.The film will follow the continuing criminal exploits of Danny Ocean and ...
The executive producer of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, David Eick, sat down with Now Playing Magazine to talk about the upcoming third season of the show.Eick confirmed that 20 episodes have been ordered and will be run continuously except for a break over the C...
Joss Whedon the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated writer/director responsible for the worldwide television phenomena of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ANGEL now applies his trademark compassion and wit to a small band of galactic outcasts 500 years in the future ...
David Arnold (TOMORROW NEVER DIES, GODZILLA, INDEPENDENCE DAY, STARGATE) will compose an original score for Stephen Woolley's THE WILD AND WYCKED WORLD OF BRIAN JONES, the film about Rolling Stones guitarist and co-founder. Arnold will also score the new ...
I’ve known Roger Ebert for years, though I’m not sure if he’d remember me. We’ve never talked much at press screenings and such, mainly because I agree with his working habits – we don’t want to discuss a film until we have a chance to review it, thereby ...
Spider-Man's 3 official novelization, written by Peter David, will be released on March 27 by Pocket Star. David also wrote the novelizations for Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.
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Ian Ebright sat down for a telephone interview last week with David Arquette. The actor is busy plugging his latest movie project, a wrestling comedy called READY TO RUMBLE, but he`s known to horror fans for starring as Officer Dewey in the mega-successfu...
In 1990, the world was enthralled with an original new television show called TWIN PEAKS that was co-created by offbeat filmmaker David Lynch (ERASERHEAD, DUNE, BLUE VELVET) and which introduced the mystery of "Who Killed Laura Palmer." Of course, Lynch m...
David Koepp is one of Hollywood’s Billion Dollar Screenwriters—which is to say, the combined box office grosses from the various films scripted by him exceed $1-billion. These include a fair number of science fiction, fantasy, and horror blockbusters, suc...
The name "Grant Morrison" has the same sort of transformative power that names like Todd McFarlane, Kevin Smith, and Peter David have: drop them into a conversation about comics, and the mood can either turn ecstatic or sour in an instant. Their fans are ...
David Julyan's orchestral score for the British horror hit THE DESCENT, directed by Neil Marshall, will be released on CD by Cooking Vinyl next Monday, March 27. The critically acclaimed film is expected to premiere in the USA later this year. Recently, J...
Composer David Newman has been elected President of The Film Music Society, a nonprofit organization formed by entertainment industry professionals to preserve and restore motion picture and television music. Newman replaces Christopher Young, who rec...
David Arquette is usually pretty cavalier when it comes to going after roles. But he was literally foaming at the mouth after he read the script for the giant spider invasion movie EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS."I was like 'I've got to do it,'" he recalls. "I calle...
For a time it was rough going for PANIC ROOM director David Fincher during production of his new hit thriller. Several weeks into shooting, the film's star Nicole Kidman injured her knee and had to drop out of the production. With some 19 days worth of fi...
Comics2Film loves that David Fincher. We were excited back when he was a contender to direct 'Spider-Man'. Now a chat with MTV.com reveals that Fincher has plans for lots of other comic-based fare.
He's presently attached to direct the film version of Br...
According to Sci Fi Wire, David Goyer and David Heyman are co-producing a feature film based on the fantasy novel, Here, There Be Dragons.The novel brings together three strangers (John, Jack and Charles) in London during World War I, where they become en...
According to Production Weekly, David Ondaatje will remake the 1927 silent film THE LODGER.The original was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel by Marie Adelaide Lowndes.The film will follow a fictional version of the Jack the Ripper killing...
DreamWorks is hoping that it can whet the interest of director David Fincher for his next movie project. The studio has a Scott Frank script titled THE LOOKOUT that it wants the helmer of FIGHT CLUB to tackle for them. Frank's story is about a young man w...
There has been talk of a SPIDERMAN feature film for years, with a variety of famous names connected to the project: everyone from Roger Corman to James Cameron. But now it seems the project is truly on the way to reaching the silver screen, with David Koe...
`Internet buzz helped make PITCH BLACK a successful film,` says screenwriter-director David Twohy of his hit film. `The film outperformed expectations--it made $14 million the first week, and debuted in 4th place. The next week it was in 5th place, and is...
On the set of David R. Ellis' new movie Final Destination 4, ShockTillYouDrop.com had a chance to ask Ellis about Dead of Night, a movie based on the Italian comic book by Tiziano Sclavi Dylan Dog, that he was supposed to direct and now is instead in the ...
'Wedding Crashers' and 'Fred Claus' director David Dobkin revealed to MTV News that he's signed with Warner Bros. to bring the DC Comics character 'The Flash' to the big screen in a solo film.
The movie will apparently be a direct spin-off of the 'Just...
According to Variety, David Strathairn will play the lead role in Paramount Pictures THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES and will then shoot for the third installment of the BOURNE IDENTITY franchise.THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES centers on three children who move to t...
Blade may have his work cut out for him facing down blood-hungry vampires in the new Wesley Snipes horror-adventure, BLADE 2, but for screenwriter/executive producer David Goyer, it was a walk in the park... or perhaps cemetery."There were no difficulties...
J. Michael Straczynski announced that David Goyer will be writing a treatment for Marvel Studios' THOR.Mark Protosevich was originally tabbed to write the script and Goyer will be taking his place. No word on if he will be altering Protosevich's script o...
Universal Pictures has signed David Dobkin to direct the big screen adaptation of Dark Horse's comic book, R.I.P.D..The comic book, written Peter M. Lenkov, centers on the Rest in Peace Department, the dedicated yet dead police officers who patrol the dea...
FUN WITH DICK AND JANE is the new caper comedy project for the director of television's MONK series, GALAXY GUEST, and a number of other notable TV movies and series, Dean Parisot. Written by Judd Apatow and Nick Stoller, it is a remake of the 1977's same...
As director David Fincher (SEVEN, FIGHT CLUB) readies his Jodie Foster-starring suspense thriller PANIC ROOM for release at the end of the month, speculation on what his next project may be has led the trade papers to throw out such high-profile titles as...
Like fast action, graphic violence, hot chicks and intricate storylines? Then "Blade" is the show for you. In an exclusive interview, CBR News spoke with Exec. Producer David Goyer about the series and its future. Plus we talk comics and get updates on "T...
Writers David Goyer and Geoff Johns give double meaning to the term `double threat.` Together the duo is charting the course of the Justice Society of America as they head into the twenty-first century every month in DC Comics’ JSA. Separately, both are w...
There have been whispers of a Cloverfield 2 on the horizon in the near future. Even the trades said Paramount approved of a could-be-sequel not too long ago. But nobody's asked the leading star of the original until now. Ryan Rotten asked star Michael Sta...
Paramount Pictures and director David Fincher continue their growing friendship with a new graphic novel adaptation on the horizon, the big screen treatment for Charles Burns' Black Hole, reports Variety. After completed Zodiac and The Curious Case o...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the BBC is refusing to deny various press reports saying that David Tennant will be leaving the show Doctor Who after the current season finishes filming."He is totally committed to filming the third series, which...
This September, the silver screen adaptation of John Wagner and Vince Locke's graphic novel "A History of Violence" hits theaters. Convention goers were given a sneak peek of the film and a chance to chat with the film's writer, Josh Olson, and the film's...
With the 20th Birthday Edition DVD of Child's Play hitting markets this week, Shock Til You Drop had a chance to talk shop with the creators about the planned remake of the killer doll tale. There have been reports that the producers wanted to go back and...
David Fincher will be heading back behind the camera after Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to the graphic novel THE KILLER, reports Variety. The pic will be produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and Alexandra Milchan. Allesandro Camon is dev...
Screenwriter David Hayter will make his directorial debut on 'The Black Widow,' a comic book adaptation he is writing for Lions Gate Entertainment. Hayter is such a fan of the character that he named his daughter Natasha when she was born this month. More...
After John Turman and Michael France turned in their work, but before James Schamus took a crack at penning the script for 'The Hulk', David Hayter ('X-Men') wrote his own version of the green goliath. Check out this examination of his draft...
Goyer on 'Blade': "It could go any different direction. There could be another 'Blade'; there could not be another one. There could be a 'Nightstalkers'; there could not be another one. There could be another 'Blade' without Wesley."
On Batman Begins: "i...
Inner and outer beauty describes Maria Bello. She stars as the wife of Viggo Mortensen in 'A History of Violence.' If there's one character who doesn't change in the film; Maria stays true to Viggo even after certain things with his personality change.
The second volume of Blood+ continues the fun from volume one, but still suffers from minor flaws that keep it from being as good as it could be.What They Say
They are called Chiropterans, ravenous creatures that can change their form, disguising themsel...
This is both the best and the worst time of year for a TV writer. It's the best because a new season is in bloom, with promising new entertainments across the dial. It's the worst because I suddenly have even less of a social life than normal. I've seen s...
Opening Ceremonies
Hosted by: Adam Ferraro
The opening ceremonies for Anime Boston took place in a grand theatre room. Crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling and an upper level let some special guest sit from above and watch the people who were seate...
Any doubts about David Boreanaz's excitement at voicing the role of Green Lantern were quickly put at ease the moment he walked through the doors of Warner Bros. Animation for his first recording session in late 2006.
Boreanaz quickly confessed that hi...
"The way the violence is structured in this movie narratively, the violence that the main character commits, is all justifiable," says Cronenberg. "The Tom Stall character is forced into violence when there was really not much of an alternative for him. A...
PREVIEW/INTERVIEW: Next month, David Yurkovich and Top Shelf Productions will be turning the superhero genre on its ear with LESS THAN HEROES, a collection of his stories from the hard-to-find THRESHOLD series that it's impossible to describe without usin...
Apicella, 48, says he was seven or eight years into his career before he did anything really worthwhile. His latest project is among the work he's most proud of: Jerry Seinfeld's "Webisodes" for American Express (the second installment, a road trip with S...
From Peter David's blog site:
"Just turned in the manuscript for the novelization of 'Spider-Man 2: In Arm's Way.' Which isn't actually the title, but it kind of amuses me. Got delayed by last minute script changes. However, unlike previous occasions on ...
"It's about a man who has gone from a life of murder and practised violence - like you, he can kill a man with his bare hands - to running a restaurant in a small town; he's got a wife, a teenage son. All that dark stuff is behind him. Now, some critics w...