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More X2 effects news by Christopher Allan Smith and James T. Voelpel (Tue 04-09-2002)
Last week we reported on Bryan Singer tapping Canadian visual effects house Frantic Films to do work on X2. Now we've got a mini-exclusive. Our man JamesT. Voelpeltalked to Ken Zorniak, Vice-President and Co-Founder of Frantic Films, and found outthe s...
For years, James Bond fans bemoaned the seemingly endless cycle of `special edition` 007 laserdiscs. It seemed that, as soon as they bought a deluxe laserdisc of, say, From Russia With Love, yet another `special edition` would be announced. This annoying ...
Writer-director Mitch Marcus seems to have adjusted to the idea that his period adaptation of `The Ghostly Rental,` a story by Henry James (Turn of the Screw), has somehow been retitled The Haunting of Hell House for it`s recent video release on Roger Co...
Steve Carr has been picked to direct Kevin James in MALL COP, reports Variety. The trade says that Steve Pink (High Fidelity) wrote the most recent draft, while James penned an earlier version with Nick Bakay. Sandler's Happy Madison is producin...
Well after returning home to find that an imposter had given an interview in her stead, Divi was pretty upset. As itturns outthe imposter is not only someone who knows Divi well enough to impersonate her but has also caused trouble in the past. With som...
The members of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) have announced the winners of the 3rd Annual IFMCA Awards, honoring achievements in film and television music in 2006.
Leading the pack with the most wins is James Newton ...
When Sideshow announced a year ago thatthey had obtained the James Bond license to make 12" action figures, toy-minded 007 fans around the world emitted a collective shriek of joy that would have paralyzed Ernst Blofeld himself. The James Bond franchise ...
Sony Pictures has hired Kevin James io star in the family adventure film MONSTER HUNTER. James will play "a child psychologist who can actually see the monsters thattorment kids from closets and under beds. He uses that skill to vanquish the beasts until...
If I may wax nostalgic for a moment, I can still recall the very firstJames Bond movie that I sever saw…actually the firstthree Bond movies…it was sometime in the late 60’s or early 70’s and my mom took me and my brothers to th...
Brad Pitt will play the legendary bad boy of the old west, gunslinger Jesse James, in a movie based on the life and death of the outlaw. CHOPPER director Andrew Dominik will directthe movie and the screenplay will be adapted from the Ron Hansen novel THE...
When Timothy Dalton appeared in LICENCE TO KILL, which was destined to be his swan song as James Bond – with no one, not even the actor himself expecting Pierce Brosnan to replace him in the next film six years later – he was proud of what had been accomp...
If there was any one person who would be able to describe the world of James Bond, it would been the late screenwriter, Richard Maibaum. Beginning with the first 007 film, DR. NO, he had played an integral role in shaping the life of the super spy, having...
Producer Kevin McClory's latest attempt at legally wresting some control of the JAMES BOND franchise has been shot down. McClory, who came into partial ownership of the character due to a lawsuit settlement on his script collaboration with Bond creator Ia...
In spite of his first-look deal with 20th Century Fox, James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment is part of a deal to produce a film called THE HANGING TALE for Revolution Studios.Revolution snagged the pitch by Danny Rubin (GROUNDHOG DAY) as a producing v...
JAMES BOND 20, notthe film's official title as you can imagine, may very well have a villain. According to a piece in Britain's Daily Express (bounced to here through DarkHorizons.com) Brit actor Nigel Havers (EMPIRE OF THE SUN) has been cast as so...
In part one of CINESCAPE's James Wong interview, the director of THE ONE discussed the origins of the new Jet Li film as well as his views on the martial arts genre in general. Today, in our continuation of the interview, Wong talks about his pasttenure ...
In an interview with the TORONTO SUN given prior to an awards ceremony earlier this week, James Earl Jones speaks about his life, education, and about voicing Darth Vader.Jones is quoted concerning his projected return to the role: "George Lucas says 'Whe...
In this an admittedly brief interview with Legion of Superheroes producer JamesTucker emphasizing thatthe series owes its existence to the Man of Steel and the factthat Superman Returns was coming to theaters.
CNN.com covers James Coburn's passing at 74 on Monday. He died of a heart attack while listening to music at home. The actor won a 1998 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work in the film AFFLICTION.His first film role came in 1959's RIDE LONESOME and fi...
The world is in danger from a power-crazed maniac with minions all over the world. The only one who can save mankind is the world’s greatest secret agent: a man who laughs at danger, is skilled in the deadliest of martial arts and comes armed with the mos...
Here's news of James Cameron's latest project... and again this is not a story of his new directing gig five years after finishing TITANIC. The man who once brought us TRUE LIES, TERMINATOR 2 and THE ABYSS is now bringing us another documentary on the los...
"Bryan is a great friend and has been very, very helpful with my career and its 'Superman' and I love Bryan as a director and I think that he is going to give people exactly whatthey want," says actor James Marsden, of director Bryan Singer, who he's wor...
"We're going to do 'Avatar' first, and we're in active pre-production on it right now," director James Cameron said of his comeback as a director. "I'm directing it; I'm directing all these films.
"And with 'Battle Angel,' also, we'll do the same thing...
Stepping out onto the balcony of the 26th floor of the St. Regis Hotel in Century City, Calif., with James Cameron provides an enlightening moment. As the sun sets and the moon slowly rises in the distance, the sky is neither night nor day, and the TITANI...
"['Superman Returns' is] one of these gigantic movies. Ittakes an eternity to finish—we started in March," says actor James Marsden, who plays the father of Lois Lane's child in the movie.
The actor also talks about returning to the role of Cyclops in...
"The nextthing I'm shooting?" series star James Franco said over the weekend. "Re-shoots on 'Spider-Man.' "
Revealing that director Sam Raimi has put outthe call for "more action," Franco said he's being called back to the set of the blockbuster. "Pr...
"I knew. That me and my team's idea. We knew that Fantastic Four was being made. I know [Fantastic Four director] Tim Story. My manager and agents discussed it, we said 'Let's ask them if they will go black for Alicia.' We wentto the studio and asked the...
"They want me to do as much as I can anyway. There's a lot of free running and Parkour and all that kind of stuff," says actor James McAvoy, who will play the lead in the filmed adaptation of Mark Millar's 'Wanted'. "A lot of driving and guns and all that...
"In the past, I've been a co-producer with Bruce Timm, and then Dwayne McDuffie and Bruce Timm on Justice League Unlimited. The division of labor was differentthen," says 'Legion of Superheroes' showrunner JamesTucker. "Bruce was in charge and we all ki...
According to Variety, Bill Pullman, Julia Ormond and Pell James have all signed on to the upcoming supernatural thriller, Surveillance. They will join Ryan Simpkins, French Stewart and Cheri Oteri in the cast.The film, to be directed by Jennifer Lyn...
James Cromwell is setto walk the beat in Columbia Pictures' "Spider-Man 3" as Captain Stacy, the father of Bryce Dallas Howard's character. Sam Raimi is directing the movie, which is scheduled to roll this month.
"You have to do wire work and all of that stuff, butthe experience of getting into character is the same," says actor James Franco of the commencement of filming on 'Spider-Man 3'.
"Yes, it's a comic book, butthe people...aren't acting like they're ...
"I had heard of the comic but I hadn't read it even though I am a big sci-fi fan. Also a Glaswegian wrote it [Mark Millar]. The thing that really got me excited about it is [director] Timur [Bekmambetov] because I had had [his previous film] Nightwatch th...
'Cyclopes', the graphic novel by Matz (aka Alexis Nolent), has been sold as a film to Warner Bros.
Variety reports thatJames Mangold ('3:10 to Yuma') is up to directthe film, about a near future world where mercenary soldier's sport cyclopean helmets ...
IGN.com reports that, during the 'Wanted' panel at WonderCon, lead actor James McAvoy discussed the radical differences between Mark Millar's graphic novel and the resulting adaptation to film.
McAvoy is quick to point outthat Millar himself likes the m...
Director James Cameron plans to bring the Yukito Koshiro adaptation to silver screens and multiplexes in 2007. "It's going to be a mega-budget film shot in 3-D," Cameron said. "It's set in a post-human world in the distant future, and a number of the main...
A talking point surrounding the release of any new James Bond film is often the title song and this week it was announced that Chris Cornell, who was previously involved in groups such as Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog, has written and will perform "Yo...
Rachel Portman is no longer involved in the scoring of the upcoming Jodie Foster thriller FLIGHTPLAN, according to Music from the Movies. James Horner has taken over the project, hired by the producers who – according to a source at Walt Disney Pictures –...
James Horan only appeared in one episode of HIGHLANDER, but his portrayal of pre-Roman warrior Grayson in "Band of Brothers," and his ferocious swordfight with Adrian Paul's MacLeod, made an indelible impression on many fans. Horan talks about Grayson's t...
For actor James Franco, research is key to immersing himself in his roles and with his new World War I aerial film FLYBOYS (opening Friday) he decided to get his own pilot's license. "I'm obsessive about research and I had signed on [to FLYBOYS] four mont...
According to Variety, the new title for the latestJames Bond book is Double or Die. The title was voted upon after readers chimed in with a nationwide ballot. Names that got rejected were Nemesis and The Deadlock Cipher.The book, written by C...
After this weekend's Spider-Man 2 junket, you'll probably be seeing lots of reports of Avi Arad announcing the looming production of X-men 3. About Action Adventure will have the Spider-Man 2 coverage in the coming weeks, butthey also got a chance to tal...
"See, that's a- - I obviously can'ttalk about it but it's weird. Everyone asks me aboutthe Hobgoblin because actually Harry Osborn never became the Hobgoblin. He became the second Green Goblin," says James Franco. "But I think Marvel and Sam and everybo...
Genre:Adventure/Romance/Biography.Studio:20th Century Fox.Production Company:Lightstorm Entertainment.Project Phase:Pre-script Stage.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:James Cameron, Rae Sanchini, Jon Landau (Producers); based upon the autobiography writ...
James Marsden on 'X-Men 3': "If I had to guess, and I know the writers very well, and this would be purely speculation, thatthey would probably go into the Dark Phoenix Saga."
and on 'Preacher': "I'm still kind of going through my deal, but we're suppos...
Actor James Marsters (best known to genre fans as "Spike") is returning to the role he began in season 5 of SMALLVILLE, says Kristin at EOnline. The man who filled the shoes of Dr. Milton Fine aka "Brainiac" will be returning for a 4-e...
Director Jay Russell has confirmed that he has signed James Newton Howard to score his fantasy adventure The Waterhorse, starring Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin and David Morrissey. The movie is about a lonely boy who discovers a mysterious egg that ...
The estate of Ian Fleming is honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the firstJames Bond book, CASINO ROYALE, by creating a new award for thriller writing named after the iconic British author. Starting later this year, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award wi...
WhatThey SayBased on a hit video game. The planets are on the brink of war, butthe only thing hard-woring, hard-drinking, all-American cargo hauler James Links wants is to reconcile with his estranged family, but when he discovers a fearsome weapon aboa...
It is starting to seem as if everyone who worked on THE X-FILES TV series is doomed to make a bad horror movie. So far, we have THE X-FILE movie, which involved most of the show’s cast and crew, and of course there was also DISTURBING BEHAVIOR, which was ...
With TITANIC, director James Cameron created one of the most enduring romantic films of all time and it was set againstthe sinking of a ship.With SOLARIS (which Cameron produced and Steven Soderbergh directed), love is on Cameron's mind again as a diffe...
A source deemed "very reliable" stats thatJames Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer will travel to London next month to begin writing the score for 'Batman Begins'.
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Is Austin Powers teaming with James Bond? Technically, no, but...According to the UK's Daily Express, Pierce Brosnan may be on board the coming AUSTIN POWERS 3: GOLDMEMBER project. The actor is said to be setto play a role that parodies 007, though one w...
Hitting video stores across the country last week was ROD STEELE: YOU ONLY LIVE UNTIL YOU DIE, a James Bond spoof whose title character is dubbed as follows: "More class than Bond... More hip than Powers... And dumber than Smart." Today, writer-director R...
This week brings an assortment of intriguing scores just released or near due – and the death of a horror film music icon. On the soundtrack front, from sci-fi comedies like EVOLUTION to England’s female version of Austin Powers, MODESTY BLAISE – and a sp...
Electronic Arts announced that it has closed a deal with MGM Interactive that will see the video game publisher be able to use the James Bond license all the way through to 2010. The deal allows EA to make Bond video games based on any of the pre-existin...
Writer-director James Wong and his THE ONE star Jet Li might be roughly the same age, but Wong has no illusions aboutthe differences between himself and the Hong Kong superstar."I think he was already a Wu Shu master, or a prodigy I guess, [at age 11]," ...
Since the stratospheric success of his Oscar-winning 1997 film TITANIC, the name of director James Cameron has been attached to wide variety of projects in development: AVATAR, TRUE LIES 2, TERMINATOR 3, ALIEN 5, PLANET OF THE APES, Anne Rice’s THE MUMMY,...
The upcoming science fiction film I Am Legend, starring Will Smith and based on the classic Richard Matheson science fiction story (previously filmed as The Last Man On Earth and The Omega Man), will get an original score composed by James Newton Howard. ...
Actor James Purefoy will going from one period epic to another in the near future, says producer Samuel Hadida. The actor who recently wrapped up his stint as Emperor Mark Anthony on Hbo's Rome has been selected by the producer for the role of SOLOMO...
JAMES BOND 20 now looks to be starting up relatively soon, and contrary to recent rumors, will star Pierce Brosnan.Regarding rumors of actor Gerard Butler being up for the role of 007, Eon has dashed them, with a spokesperson for the production company de...
Avi Arad told the audience at Wizard World today that he hopes to have James Marsden reprise his role as Cyclops in the next installment of the mutant series. Arad says thatJames Marsden called him and said that he read aboutthis on the internet and sai...
Variety broke the news today thatTITANIC director James Cameron has a new project: a biopic focusing on the accomplishments and relationship between Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras and his wife Audrey Mestre. Both were world-class champions atthe extreme spo...
In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE's Scott Collura, writer-director James Wong touched upon his fast moving remake projects with partner Glen Morgan: WILLARD and DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK.Wong revealed thatthe WILLARD project has actually been wr...
Today Variety is reporting that Oscar-winning director James Cameron (TITANIC) is almost ready to make his next feature. The man who gave us ALIENS, THE TERMINATOR and THE ABYSS told a TERMINATOR 2 audience this week that his next movie will be a "big-bud...
Director James Gunn (Dawn of the Dead, Slither) gave an update on the status of his projects now thatthe WGA strike is in full gear. While explaining to his fans why he had to lay down his pen for the PETS project, a sci-fi comedy about a man abducted by...
James Franco didn't have much to do in Spider-Man. Just look good, brood, fight with his father and be a little sexistto MJ. But comic fans all knew thatthis was all build up, and Spider-Man 2 starts to realize the Harry Osborn character's potential.
There is no doubtthatJames Cameron has a love for the ocean. Ever since Titanic it seems that we can't get him off a boat. Butthat is going to change in the next couple of years when he tackles Battle Angel Alita.
After having spentthe past several years on IMAX documentaries, filmmaker James Cameron is jumping back into the feature film world with 'Battle Angel,' based on the manga 'Battle Angel: Alita'.
While not much is being leaked aboutthe film, it will f...
Danny Graydon over at Variety has tried to squeeze some answers out of EON, Sony, and the creators for details of JAMES BOND 22. While they've kept mum on the exact story details for the upcoming sequel, they did talk aboutthe character itself and what w...
Electronic Arts and James Bond have ended their relationship. MGM and EA had a deal which was supposed to run through at least 2010, but have instead decided to call it quits.Activision is setto take the place of EA and become the publisher of one of th...
According to various reliable sources and news publications, James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici have produced a documentary which claims to have found the remains of Jesus of Nazareth.They claim to have puttogether DNA and archaeological evidence, as we...
Academy Award winning composer James Horner re-teams with directing legend Terrence Malick for the film THE NEW WORLD, and the soundtrack album will be released in early 2006 by old world label, Silva Screen Records of England. Horner remains one of the m...
James McAvoy has signed on to star in the upcoming Universal Pictures film WANTED. The film will be directed by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov.The sci-fi action film will follow a put-upon young man who discovers that his long-lost father is an assas...
Composer James Dooley will score WHEN A STRANGER CALLS for Screen Gems and director Simon West (LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER, CON AIR). Starring Camilla Belle, Katie Cassidy and Tommy Flanagan, the film opens February 3. WHEN A STRANGER CALLS is a retelling of...
James Cromwell and Eddie Izzard have signed on to join the cast of Fox's 24 for season six.Cromwell will recur this season as Phillip Bauer, the estranged father of Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), while British actor/comedian Izzard will portray a villain...
According to the British tabloid Sunday Mail, James McAvoy is likely to be given the role of Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the upcoming J.J. Abrams film, Star Trek XI."[The studio] thinks [McAvoy] could form a brilliant double act with Matt ...
According to Variety, Rogue Pictures has signed a deal with James Cameron to co-write and produce Cameron's upcoming live-action drama SANCTUM.The film will revolve around a deep-sea diving team headed by a father and son. When the team heads to uncharted...
As expected, Halle Berry's X-MEN 2 schedule obligations have been worked out, allowing the actress to take part in the coming JAMES BOND 20.According to the official JAMES BOND movie website, Berry will take on the role of "Jinx," a character the site pro...
Look for lots of JAMES BOND collectible figures to turn up, starting in 2002.The Sideshow toy company has confirmed rumors thatthey have acquired the rights to create 12" collectible figures that will tie into the 40th anniversary of the JAMES BOND film ...
THE RECRUIT is a thoroughly entertaining thriller that intelligently plays upon everybody's expectations of what really happens atthe Farm, the CIA training facility in Langley, VA, where people embark on careers thatthey can never acknowledge. The scri...