In part one of CINESCAPE's JamesWong 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 past tenure ...
Writer-director JamesWong and his THE ONE star Jet Li might be roughly the same age, but Wong has no illusions about the 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]," ...
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 ...
In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE's Scott Collura, writer-director JamesWong touched upon his fast moving remake projects with partner Glen Morgan: WILLARD and DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK.Wong revealed that the WILLARD project has actually been wr...
As if they don't already have a lot on their production plates, Glen Morgan and JamesWong are currently pitching an unnamed science fiction TV series concept to the NBC TV network.Working with writer-scientist Gentry Lee, the concept will be based on Lee...
JamesWong, formerly of The X-Files and the man behind Final Destination and The One, is writing and directing the live action version of Dragon Ball, which is going to go into production in Canada this November.
JamesWong (Final Destination, X-Files series, The One) has been confirmed by CHUD to be the director of the upcoming live action look of DRAGON BALL Z. 20th Century Fox sent out a casting notice and information which you can read in the link above. The f...
A remake of the 1971 horror film WILLARD is being pushed around Hollywood these days. The project, which is being pushed by writer Glen Morgan and writer-director JamesWong, has been making the pitch rounds at Revolution Studios, DreamWorks, Universal, P...
New Line has set JamesWong to rewrite and direct THE WATCH. The original script was written by John Claflin and Daniel Zelman.The horror film set during WWII focuses on a team of soldiers sent on a mission that can help end World War II and battle a sup...
Only days after their aggressive scheme to launch a remake of the 1971 horror film WILLARD, word has it that JamesWong and Glen Morgan have the project set up with New Line... and another remake project with Dimension.In addition to WILLARD, the pair pit...
...ship with JamesWong. The duo has contributed excellent episodes to THE X-FILES and MILLENNIUM, and the created SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND, a film that failed to become a ratings success despite developing a loyal following. On X-FILES, Cloke guest starre...
...governor (JamesWong) of the province to feed the peasants, who (understandably) revere their masked protector. The governor (also understandably) puts a bounty on the Iron Monkey, but no one is skillful enough to claim it. The benevolent Dr. Yang (Yu ...
Plot: A young couple inherits an old house. When they start doing renovations, they disrupt evil creatures that dwell in the walls.Players: TBDDirector: JamesWongStatus: DevelopingLatest Rumors: This is one of two remake projects from JamesWong and Glen...
...original, JamesWong directs from a screenplay by Glen Morgan and JamesWong. Warren Zide, Craig Perry, Glen Morgan, and JamesWong are producing. Mary Elizabeth Winstead will next be seen in SKY HIGH, which stars Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston. FINAL ...
...organ and JamesWong, previously two of the best writers on THE X-FILES and creators of SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND. Even S:AAB at its most "gruntish" was most intelligent than this.If you like action-packed martial arts films with lots of pretty neat spec...
...organ and JamesWong to appear in many of their productions throughout the '90s.In a series of impressive guest roles on key genre series like THE X-FILES and MILLENNIUM, Gere proved that she had the chops to handle serious acting. Anyone who has seen ...
...organ and JamesWong, two of the writers from Carter's X-FILES. They also brought with them a number of changes to the show and its mythology including the expansion of the supporting characters from the shadowy Millennium Group (which included the int...
New Line Cinema has asked the team behind the original FINAL DESTINATION to come back and create FINAL DESTINATION 3 -- and what do you know, they said yes.Writer/director JamesWong and writer/producer Glen Morgan were the necessary ingredients for New L...
...organ and JamesWong, will contain more backstory that involves "quite horrible things." For DEAD THINGS, Clark noted he has "added a new dimension to it, a new character. There's a ghoul that murdered fifteen people, forty years before and that's wha...
... director JamesWong and writer Glen Morgan, from the first film in the series. The film focuses on a group of teens who narrowly avoided death on a defective rollercoaster - however, as with the previous films, death will find a way to get them. The r...
...organ and JamesWong had a pretty good idea that their war story in space was doomed and decided to literally go out with a bang. In the second half of a two-part story, the Wild Cards performed one last mission presumably costing the lives of Lieuten...
Did ya spend your Easter holiday going through piles of receipts in an attempt to avoid paying off the entire national debt with your own tax bill? Did you only find one egg on your Easter egg hunt and it was hidden last year? Wanna get revenge? Well, we...
...eone like JamesWong would surely have provided something more memorable. In all, it's not the kind of breakout hit that the kyonsi subgenre needs to become known in the West, but it's sufficiently moody and action-packed to satisfy fans.A generally de...
...rected by JamesWong, will tell the story of a man (Li) who journeys through multiple alternative dimensions killing variations of himself and absorbing their power. A police officer in our dimension becomes the evil version's next target, resulting in...
Looks like the cast for FINAL DESTINATION 2 is coming together, with a few hold-overs from the original. A.J. Cook has signed to star as Kimberly Corman, newcomer to the series, along with Michael Landes and Ali Larter.What's more, JamesWong and Glenn Mo...
... director JamesWong and various crew members) on the disc fully explain how the film was created. The full screen version masks off significant screen space on both sides. Once you choose between screen formats, you need to restart the disc to switch....
...tographer JamesWong Howe deliver some stunningly eerie scenes, with Bela Lugosi and his prot�g� Carroll Borland gliding through a cobwebbed castle as leaders of a vampire cult terrorizing a European village. Professor Lionel Barrymore and Police I...
...organ and JamesWong to showrun the second season of MILLENNIUM. What audiences got was a deepening of the show's mythology and even darker stories than found in the first season of the show. Some of this season's highlights include the Halloween episo...
... HOW WAS JAMESWONG AS A DIRECTOR?Great guy, very technical—he’s a technical director. Didn’t give many notes, to be honest with you, but I enjoyed working with him. I prefer to get notes; I prefer to try to perfect the scenes. We were pretty much on ...
...s, namely JamesWong and Glen Morgan. After the demise of JUMP STREET, both men went on to write for another Fox series -- THE X-FILES. Later they went on to create their own successful feature film career as writers/director/producers on FINAL DESTINA...
...organ and JamesWong played a dead man's hand with SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND a WORLD WAR II allegory following a squadron of young space marines every Sunday night. Despite a rabid fan base, the series' cost and early Sunday timeslot proved untenable fo...
...s veteran JamesWong penned the screenplay and directed.To check out the photos, click here.Plot Summary: "Dragonball" is adapted from the manga created by Akira Toriyama; the work was also turned into a Japanese anime series that played all ...
... producer JamesWong, plus Glover’s music video, trailers, DVD-ROM stuff, and both widescreen and fullscreen versions of the film. (O) WU TANG COLLECTION 1 (Ground-Zero) 5-disc box set includes SLEEPING FIST, 18 FATA...
Crispin Glover has been tapped by former X-FILES and FINAL DESTINATION partners Glen Morgan and JamesWong for their remake of the 1971 horror film WILLARD. The story of WILLARD revolves around a loner/loser who only has rats to call as friends. He ...
...organ and JamesWong, the men behind the episode, had wanted to call it `Memoirs of a Cigarette-Smoking Man,` which would have implied more strongly that the events were real.In applying his own personality to the role, Davis has tried to stretch the b...
...co-writer JamesWong and producer & co-writer Glen Morgan, who launched their careers creating some of the best episodes of the X-Files . The second track features several cast members.From the other side of the Atlantic come two British goodies from ...
...organ and JamesWong, and actor Mitch Pileggi, among others. Included are some funny anecdotes, such as the casting of an actor terrified of snakes—to play a character devoured by a giant constrictor!As often happens with these DVD supplemental materia...
...the great JamesWong Howe, the film's themes resonate even stronger today than in 1966. One of Frankenheimer's brilliant moves in the film was to cast it with very average looking character actor types, making the incredibly handsome Hudson truly stand...
... Director JamesWong wrote the screenplay for Fox and production is currently taking place in Mexico City...
Here's what she had to say.
Sorry I've been rather quiet for a bit, I've been working on a very exciting new film that I'm shooting outside t...
...helm from JamesWong, who wrote and directed the first film, also scored by Walker. Walker will also score Glen Morgan's remake of WILLARD. "Tear 'em Up, Shirley!"And Alan Silvestri will return to the little mouseman when he scores STUART LITTLE 2.Soun...
...organ and JamesWong went AWOL to create this futuristic action-drama about the exploits of the 58th Marine Corps Squadron--the Wild Cards--in the star-spanning war against the alien "Chigs." The squadron included such memorable personalities as Lt. Na...
...arsters). JamesWong is directing the science fiction action-adventure for 20th Century Fox.
Plot Concept: Centers on an adult humanoid alien named Goku (Chatwin) who, after discovering he was sent to Earth to destroy the population, tries to fulfill...
...uce while JamesWong will be directing.
Plot Concept: Centers on an adult humanoid alien named Goku (Chatwin) who, after discovering he was sent to Earth to destroy the population, tries to fulfill the wish of his dying grandfather and collect all sev...
Director JamesWong plans to shoot a good chunk of the live-action film DRAGON BALL Z, says the Mexican newspaper El Norte. The paper says nearly 85% of the production will be taking place in Durango, Mexico from January through March before wrapping up a...
Glen Morgan and JamesWong have cut a deal to develop a movie from an upcoming video game titled DARKWATCH: CURSE OF THE WEST. In development at Sammy Corporation, the science fiction/western is due out next year. Morgan and Wong will also have a hand in ...
... Morgan & JamesWong (who created SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND and wrote many of THE X-FILES most effective episodes) wrote the final screenplay, working from a script by Jeffrey Reddick. Wong directed the film, with Morgan serving as producer. New Line Cin...
...er-writer JamesWong directs this spooky outing: a group of teens avoid a fatal plane crash thanks to a premonition experienced by one of them. Unfortunately, you can`t cheat death, which still wants to claim them. Interesting idea, but it will take sl...
THE OTHERS by Frederick C. Szebin (Fri 02-04-2000)
...organ and JamesWong and the screenwriters John D. Brancato and Michael Ferris (THE NET), who are also the show’s creators—can move on to different types of stories before they find themselves shoved into the oblivion of cancellation. NBC, one-hour ser...
...rected by JamesWong from a screenplay co-written with partner Glen Morgan. Sawa plays Alex, a character whose premonition saves him and some classmates from a fatal plane crash. However, as a series of incredible accidents wipes out the survivors one ...
...organ and JamesWong, starring Jet Li.Brian Tyler (SIX-STRING SAMURAI, TERROR TRACT) will score Tommy Lee Wallace's VAMPIRES: LOS MUERTES, executive produced by John Carpenter, and also Bill Paxton's directorial debut, FRAILTY, described as a "Texas Go...
...ion while JamesWong penned the screenplay and directs.
To check it out, click here.
Plot Summary: "Dragonball" is adapted from the manga created by Akira Toriyama; the work was also turned into a Japanese anime series that played all over...
In March of 2007 Casino Royale wasreleased on Blu-ray. It was the only James Bond film, out of the 20 that preceded it, to be released on the new format. This was not surprising to me. Having been raised on Bond and working at various video stores...
...oon Park, JamesWong is directing, based on a screenplay he wrote for Fox.
Plot Summary: "Dragon Ball Z" is adapted from the manga created by Akira Toriyama; the work was also turned into a Japanese anime series that played all over the worl...
... director JamesWong. Chatwin has begun training under the supervision of stunt performance company 87Eleven, the same team which oversaw the stunts for 300, The Matrix, Bourne Supremacy and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin S...
...tury Fox. JamesWong wrote the screenplay and will be directing while Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) is set to produce. Filming is underway in Mexico City and Los Angeles.
Plot Concept: Follows Goku (Chatwin), a warrior alien who protects the Earth fr...
... Director JamesWong also penned the screenplay.Plot Concept: "Dragonball" is adapted from the manga created by Akira Toriyama; the work was also turned into a Japanese anime series that played all over the world. It tells the story of an ali...
...nd alumni JamesWong and Glen Morgan and featuring the directorial talents of genre favorites like Mick Garris and Tobe Hooper, the series reunites composer Shirley Walker with her former Space: Above And Beyond producers.
...
...rected by JamesWong and written by Glen Morgan & Wong (who perform the same duties here) with Reddick, it was a plane crash. In 2003's FINAL DESTINATION 2, it was a freeway accident. The jumping-off or, to be more accurate, crashing-off point in...
Actress Emmy Rossum has once again updated her Myspace, letting the fans know that director JamesWong has finished principal photography on Dragonball, an adaptation of the famous anime for 20th Century Fox. In the film, she's starring alongside Justin C...
Genre:Horror/Thriller/Sequel.Studio:New Line Cinema.Production Company:Zide/Perry.Project Phase:Pre-script stage.Who's In It:Unknown. Tony Todd claims to have been approached about starring in a third FD film (see related stories).Who's Making It:James W...
New Line has hired actors Mary Winstead and Ryan Merriman to star in "Cheating Death: Final Destination 3." The creators of the "Final Destination" series, JamesWong and Glen Morgan, are back once again. Wong will direct from a script he wrote with Morg...
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 ...
For years, The Video Beat (www.thevideobeat.com) has been providing rare '50s and '60s era videos to fans and collectors, and they now join the List with their own high quality DVD-R titles that include menus and specially selected extras.SPOTLIGHT OF THE...
The nominees for the 2004 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced. The Eisners are held every year at the San Diego International Comic Convention and are the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars. Simply put, these are the best of the b...
There are two things that set THE MYSTERIOUS MR. WONG apart from the usual B movie programmers churned out by Monogram Studios in the 1930s. The first is Bela Lugosi, making his first feature for the Poverty Row studio. The second is that this marks one o...
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...
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 that torment kids from closets and under beds. He uses that skill to vanquish the beasts until...
VIDEO NEWSVidiots the world over bade a fond farewell recently to character actor Victor Wong, who passed away September 12. Wong became a genre favorite thanks to roles in TREMORS, PRINCE OF DARKNESS and his memorable turn as the heroic Egg Shen in BIG T...
At a weekend
press junket for Spider-Man Marvel chief Avi Arad commented on the
status of the Iron Fist movie.
Arad confirmed
that work continues on the movie but, "not with Kirk Wong." Wong had been attached to direct since last year. As was
reporte...
As if Glen Morgan and Jim Wong weren't busy enough with their coming remakes of 70s horror films WILLARD and DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, the pair are now at work on a deal to adapt John Kessel's science fiction short story HEARTS DO NOT IN EYE'S SHINE.Ac...
The chances of Iron
Fist going into production this year are starting to look pretty slim.
Although the movie had a script (by John Turman), a star (Ray Park) and a
director (Kirk Wong) at the end of last year, Comics2Film has learned the
project may ...
Well after returning home to find that an imposter had given an interview in her stead, Divi was pretty upset. As it turns out the imposter is not only someone who knows Divi well enough to impersonate her but has also caused trouble in the past. With som...
As Daniel Craig continues to take the Bond franchise by storm, it's easy to forget that 007 hasn't always been at his best. Sexism, racism, embarrassing cultural trends… the series' durability has preserved them all for future generations to point ...
When Sideshow announced a year ago that they 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 ...
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...
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 direct the movie and the screenplay will be adapted from the Ron Hansen novel THE...
Today is release date for Activision's mission-based driving and action game TRUE CRIME: STREETS OF L.A.. If you enjoyed GRAND THEFT AUTO, you sick individual, you should consider TRUE CRIME.Nick Kang is a L.A. undercover cop with a huge chip on his shoul...
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...
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 ...
If I may wax nostalgic for a moment, I can still recall the very first James Bond movie that I sever saw…actually the first three Bond movies…it was sometime in the late 60’s or early 70’s and my mom took me and my brothers to th...
...y partner JamesWong, both of whom Walker worked with on TV's SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND and both FINAL DESTINATION films.LaLaLand Records has issued a 3000 numbered unit limited collector's edition of the digitally re-mastered and expanded CD release of ...
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...
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...
According to Variety, the new title for the latest James 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...
"You have to do wire work and all of that stuff, but the 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, but the people...aren't acting like they're ...
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, but they also got a chance to tal...
"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 that James Mangold ('3:10 to Yuma') is up to direct the film, about a near future world where mercenary soldier's sport cyclopean helmets ...
It's been a while since we had an update on the long-awaited sci-fi epic Avatar so director James Cameron has answered the call and updated us all courtesy of George Stroumboulopoulos' "The Hour" on CBC. You can check out what the director of Te...
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 out that Millar himself likes the m...
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...
James Cromwell is set to 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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
In this an admittedly brief interview with Legion of Superheroes producer James Tucker emphasizing that the series owes its existence to the Man of Steel and the fact that Superman Returns was coming to theaters.
JAMES BOND 20, not the 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 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...
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...
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 –...
NECA has released an image of the new Ada Wong action figure from the Resident Evil 4: Series One. Ada comes packed with two different guns - pistol and high powered rifle.Other figures in the series include Leon S. Kennedy, Chainsaw Ganado, and Verdugo.
Twentieth
Century Fox kicked off the most exciting studio presentation at Comic-Con International
in San Diego with an appearance by king of the world James Cameron. Cameron
presented a clip from the upcoming film Solaris, which he is
producing for ...
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...
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...
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...
Q: Nowadays you're a producer on Justice League Unlimited. What are your duties? Do you have a specific area that you are in charge of?
James Tucker: I pushed for Ultra-Humanite to be included in the show. As our resident DC fanboy, I try to push to ge...
Concept artist James Clyne (War Of the Worlds, Fountain, Minority Report) is working on X-Men 3 designs for director Brett Ratner and production designer Ed Verreaux.
Oscar winner make-up artist Matthew Mungle on his newsletter lists among his works, that he designed and created the make-up concept and appliances for James Franco in 'Spider-Man 3' to be applied by Luisa Abel.
James Marsters, formerly Spike of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, said he is enjoying the clarity of Professor Fine/Brainiac, who he is playing in the upcoming season of The WB's Smallville.
"The thing I really love about this role, is that I have...
During a panel at Wizard World: Los Angeles, actor James Marsen spoke about working on the "X-Men" films, the development hell that is "Preacher" and other news. Marsden was joined by "X2" screenwriter Mike Doughrity and E.P. Tom DeSanto.
Sources deemed reliable have told Latino Review that 'Superman' director Bryan Singer has settled on his leading man, an unknown actor named Brandon James Routh...
"I am so gonna sucker Clark. It's not just Kryptonite that's his vulnerability, it's his own naiveté at this point in his life, and I'm going to go after that," reports actor James Marsters, who has joined the cast of 'Smallville' as the villainous Braini...
"Scott Summers is this very straight-laced, 'do the right thing, by the book, calculated, measured' character," says James Marsden of his 'X-Men' character, contrasting with his 'Superman Returns' role. "Richard is much more like a Kennedy, he's great guy...
Check out the concept art by Production artist James Clyne which he created for X-Men: The Last Stand. featuring some visuals scenes that didn't make the final cut of the movie.
"We send them our outlines, they give us notes on it. They have approval power over characters and stuff. And if there's something that feel that doesn't fit right with the Legion, they'll tell us," says 'Legion of Superheroes' showrunner James Tucker. "W...
Fans won't just see a new 'Spider-Man 3' trailer with 'Casino Royale' on November 17th, but Sony Pictures is probably attaching another trailer with 'Ghost Rider' as well on February 16th. Look out for new 'Spider-Man 3' posters around the release of the ...
"That's actually much ado about nothing about some test screenings that never took place, and the fact that there wasn't a lot of action -- that was all boloney," says actor James Franco of rumors swirling the filming of 'Spider-Man 3'.
James Marsden, aka Cyclops in the X-Men movies, told Sci Fi Wire that 'X-Men 3' is in the works and the producers have expressed interest in his reprising the character.
Comics2film recently sat down for a discussion with actor James McAvoy, who stars in the new movie 'Wanted', opening in theaters today. Check out what he had to say about depression, firearms and speaking with an American accent in part one of our Q &am...
"I have a great time with ['Spider-Man 3 director Sam Raimi]...there is part of me that would miss that and [Toby Maguire]," says actor James Franco on the prospect of ending his Harry Osborn run with the third movie. "You know it is funny cause when we b...
"...the graphic novel is very labyrinthine and I think like with any great adaptation there are always things you'll have to leave out," says 'V for Vendetta' director James McTiegue. "What you hope to do in the end is to get the essence of the graphic n...
James Franco "yes" when asked if the cast of 'Spider-Man 3' had already done a script reading. He then mentions that principal filming will begin next week.
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At Cannes James Franco briefly spoke about 'Spider-Man 3,' which is expected to arrive in 2007, he said, "I've met with (director) Sam Raimi a few times and we're planning on filming in January. I thought the second one was better than the first, and I th...
"Superman's gone for a while. He comes back to find, in Bryan Singer's words, Lois Lane with somebody who's very Superman-esque. There's a lot of similarities, so Lois Lane is engaged to this guy. They have a child together," says actor James Marsden of h...
"There's a bit of role reversal between Logan and I in this movie, where I actually become a little more irresponsible and emotional and he's a little more responsible. It was fun," says actor James Marsden of 'X-Men: The Last Stand'.
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James McAvoy has landed the starring role in Universal Pictures' "Wanted," a sci-fi actioner that will mark the English-language debut of Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov. "Wanted" is based on a comic book series by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones published...
James Cameron's next sci-fi epic has been in development for quite sometime and the director has had plenty of time to fine tune the technology that he wanted for this upcoming mix of CG animation and live-action. In the latest update on Avatar, Cameron h...
James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are in negotiations to play the title roles of Gnomeo and Juliet, a CGI-animated Shakespeare adaptation from Miramax and Elton John's Rocket Pictures. Kelly Asbury will direct from an original script by Rob Sprackling and Joh...
We last saw Marsters's character, Dr. Milton Fine (aka Brainiac), in Smallville's fifth season finale.
While it's unclear exactly how James is returning, I can tell you he's reprising the exact same character, he's returning to set very soon and his ep...
"He's an arsehole," says actor James McAvoy of the character he's set to play in the big screen adaptation of Mark Millar's 'Wanted'. "A complete geek [at this moment the cordon rope topples over]. There you go! He does things like that! He's a complete a...
One of the keys to the Saturday morning series' success has been producer James Tucker, whose name may not be familiar to you, but whose work is most definitely etched in your memory. "I was thoroughly prepared to stay away from the message boards for the...
"I was so pleased with the script that I called the last writer on the script, Alvin Sargent, and thanked him because I just thought it was so solid and he gave me so much to do," says James Franco of his role of Harry Osborn in 'Spider-Man 2'.
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 ...
Wow, this is one of those week’s when the column is just loaded. Onward!
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
This month is definitely John Wayne month, with several packages being released in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth over the next few ...
First a note about scheduling: With all the new content coming in along with the new website, they’ve decided to move the Anime Avalanche column from Saturdays to Mondays. This has the advantage of putting it closer to the Tuesday street dates (a...
A refreshing vacation from BULLET IN THE HEAD - John Woo’s epic action drama of friendship and terror during the Viet Nam War – this follow-up is a lightweight heist adventure, which reunites the director with his favorite leading man Chow Yun-fat.A team ...
Hannibal Tabu's Comic Reel @ CBR confirms that James Cameron is hard at work on 'Battle Angel Alita'.
Writer Yukito Kishiro says, "I made an agreement about film adaptation of '[Battle Angel Alita]' with the movie director James Cameron. I can't tell ...
James Franco who plays Harry Osborn in 'Spider-Man' and '2' is back for vengeance in 'Spider-Man 3'. So what was it like coming back for a third time? "Until I actually saw it I didn't realize how special these movies are and the heart Sam (Raimi) would i...
Best known for his roles in such films as 'Atonement' and 'Last King of Scotland', James McAvoy takes quite a different turn as Wesley Gibson in the action film adaptation of Mark Millar and JG Jones' graphic novel 'Wanted'.
The role is very much a dep...
What They SayBased on a hit video game. The planets are on the brink of war, but the 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...
VCDs are almost unknown in the USA, but they've been a hot item in South Asia over the past decade mainly because they're cheap and easy to bootleg. Basically they're a poor video encoding format for discs. They play on most players, but the video quality...
A great collection of DVDs is nice to have, but even better if you can enjoy them with a friend around the house, whether that friend has two legs or four. Try tying a DVD on a string and dangling it a couple feet off the ground – your cat will go nuts! A...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Scheduled for release on September 5th from Lakeshore Records, the soundtrack to JET LI'S FEARLESS is a massive action/adventure score from the composer of HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS and Kar Wai Wong luxurious drama, 2046, Shigeru...
That's right, fans it's October! The season of spooky pranks, ghoulish doings, colorful costumes and tasty treats is upon us. Of course you know what I'm talking about: Canadian Thanksgiving is just around the corner! Everyone who claims to be Canadian c...
As I was gazing lovingly at my growing stacks of DVDs the other day, I was pondering what sort of technology was bound to come along to make them all obsolete. Digital movies aren't even the wave of the future anymore they're the wave of the present. As ...
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 ...
Martial arts wonder Russell Wong (ROMEO MUST DIE) has agreed to star in a new WB martial arts pilot, THE BLACK SASH. Wong will play Tom Ballard, a man wrongfully accused of drug trafficking, who desires to return to his wife and family in San Francisco af...
"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...
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,...
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JamesWong ('Willard', 'The One') is set to direct. Stephen Chow ('Kung Fu Hustle', 'Shaolin Soccer') is producing. Twentieth Century Fox is commencing production with an eye towards an August 15, 2008 release.
'Dragonball' is based on the l...
Many mathematicians and theologians are now saying that the Number of the Beast is actually 611. I know - short notice to reschedule your Antichrist party, but a late Saturday date is better anyway. Getting that tattoo changed is going to be a bitch, thou...
If there is a gold standard for James Bond films it has to be Goldfinger. It is the quintessential James Bond in which all others are held in comparison. It has the guns, gadgets, villains and babes that will forever be the benchmark for James Bon...
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...
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...
The estate of Ian Fleming is honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the first James 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...
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...