...And so is VforVendetta. Literally. Does it reflect the current political unrest that is felt by people around the globe? Absolutely, but let's not forget that the source material was started 25 years ago, finished just 18 years ago.
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"To me he's a human being under the mask, but you never see his face and you don't ever find out exactly who he is and that's importan," says actor Hugo Weaving about the protagonist of 'VforVendetta'. "He is the idea, yet you need to feel that he's a r...
It's based on the cult graphic novel by Alan Moore, it's being touted as the next Matrix and it boasts a cast to die for. It is VforVendetta and the whole film is next up in the Empire Public Access hot seat. In an exclusive online Public Access, we wil...
"Film techniques are a lot like crack - use a little and get high, use too much and lose that high. If the filmmakers learned this, they might, one day, create a truly great film. Instead, audiences are treated to yet another mediocrity. VforVendetta i...
"...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 'VforVendetta' director James McTiegue. "What you hope to do in the end is to get the essence of the graphic n...
Screenwriter Simon Kinberg hints that the full trailer for 'X-Men: The Last Stand' will appear with a "fanboy" favorite in March, which could be 'VForVendetta', opening on the 17th...
Film-makers and writers Andy and Larry Wachowski have made their first step back to the big screen since ending their epic Matrix trilogy with VforVendetta - a futuristic glimpse of the UK as a totalitarian state.
'VforVendetta,' the latest movie from the Wachowski brothers, isn't as dense as the "Matrix" movies, but there's still plenty to chew on. Adapted from a graphic novel that was serialized in the 1980s, the movie follows a terrorist (or freedom fighter - ...
"The two disc set for 'VforVendetta' is fun while it lasts, but the lack of film commentary was a major hit to the collection, especially after watching the movie. Overall the film is worth the price of rental or purchase, one way or the other."
'VforVendetta' is still a top 5 movie in its third week on the charts. The movie took in another $6.5 million bringing the domestic gross up to $56.8 million. The movie gets under moviegoers' skin more than new offerings like 'Slither', and will probabl...
"I was so trying to focus, be in character, because we only had one shot to do it," Natalie Portman says of her on-screen head shaving in 'VforVendetta'. "I don't really have any personal memories of the experience, though.
"I started letting it grow...
The day of the worldwide release of the movie, the official "VforVendetta" site is updated with more behind the scenes look at the stunts, art departement and visual effects.
Natalie Portman, producers Joel Silver and Grant Hill, and original graphic novel co-creator David Lloyd presented Warner Bros.' VForVendetta at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Listen to a 23MB, 16 minute interview with Portman, Silver, Hill and L...
...ng about 'VforVendetta'. "I think that's really positive and interesting in a world where we're constantly creating categories for what is good violence and what is bad violence. The truth is that all violence is horrible and whether it's good or not...
"I loved it," says actor Natalie Portman of the graphic novel 'VforVendetta'. "I read it after the script and I felt the script is very faithful to the graphic novel. Mainly, the script excised some subplots that would have made the film overly long. Th...
Here's an exclusive look at three photos from the 'VForVendetta' set. The Warner Bros. adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel, directed by James McTeigue and written by the Wachowski brothers, will hit theaters on November 4th.
Cinemax will premiere VforVendetta on Saturday, March 3 and Fox will put the X-Men against the Super Bowl, airing X2 on Sunday, Feb. 4. Click for times.
In2TV has special online presentation of 'VForVendetta: Behind the Mask.' The special features footage from the film and interviews with actors Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, director James McTeigue and producer Joel Silver.
The Continuum has package back art for the VforVendetta and Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman DVDs. The Superman documentary will be narrated by Kevin Spacey, who plays Lex Luthor in Superman Returns.
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'VforVendetta': "This is easily the most successful movie adaptation of a story from legendary comic-book scribe Alan Moore. It makes its way to digital video realms in a two-disc set that is short on extras and long on price but mildly educ...
"Actually, the first time I met Larry and James MacTigue in my audition for them -- because I had to audition for this -- they asked me, 'Would you shave your head for this?' And I said, 'Yeah. Why not?'," says Natalie Portman of her hairless heroine in '...
David Lloyd saw "VforVendetta" 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.
A limited edition, hand-painted cold-cast porcelain replica VForVendetta mask is now available. This replica was constructed from a mold of the actual movie prop.It is a limited edition of 500.
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"If you go into 'VForVendetta' expecting a superhero action film, you may be disappointed, but if you know the graphic novel, you'll be impressed with the way McTeigue and the Wachowskis have brought Moore's vision to life, embellishing and modernizing ...
David Lloyd, who with Alan Moore wrote the graphic novel VforVendetta, admitted to SCI FI Wire that he was concerned about how the upcoming film version might turn out after receiving the script from co-writers and co-producers Larry and Andy Wachowski....
Setting out more to challenge us with its ideas than make us whoop at the action, "VforVendetta" can be clumsy, but there are enough impressive flourishes to make up for its stumblings.
In June of 2005, CBR News was invited to the set of the upcoming film "VforVendetta," starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving. We've got full coverage of our visit and interviews with the principles. We begin with our set visit and some notes about ou...
"I know that all of us making this (movie) are obviously huge fans of the graphic novel and want to be as true to it as possible," says 'VforVendetta' star Natalie Portman, "and hope that it pleases Alan Moore because all of us are such fans of his, and...
"I don't want anything more to do with these works," 'VforVendetta' author Alan Moore said in a recent telephone interview, "because they were stolen from me — knowingly stolen from me."
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Joel Silver, producer of the VforVendetta movie, said he's optimistic about the film's chances when it opens on Friday.
Sci Fi Channel will rebroadcast the Painkiller Jane movie on Thursday, April 6 at 2 p.m.
Cinemax will air Catwoman six times i...
"V" stood for "victory" on the DVD sales and rental charts last week, as Warner Home Video's edgy futuristic thriller "VforVendetta" sailed into the No. 1 spot on both charts its first week in stores.
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Comics Continuum reports that 'VforVendetta' has February air dates scheduled on HBO, including Thursday, Feb. 7 at 1 a.m. and Friday, Feb. 29 at 11:30 p.m.
Daredevil is set to air on FX on Saturday at 3 p.m. and on Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
"The November issue was just an unfortunate situation," says producer Joel Silver about the delayed release of 'VforVendetta.'
"The Wachowski Brothers had a romantic notion of opening this picture on November 5th, which was a great idea, but we didn'...
The comic-based 'VForVendetta' dropped one spot on the box office charts this weekend, coming in second. The movie took in $12.3 million, topping new releases like the vid-game themed'Stay Alive' and 'Larry the Cable Guy'. The #1 movie was the new Denze...
Among the movies that Stephen Colbert railed against the other week were "VForVendetta" for it's anti-American statements and "X3? for its...posters. KFR's uploaded both clips for you to check out.
"Well it's a bit like George Orwell writing "1984", isn't it really? But he sort of died before he could actually see what happened to that," says 'VforVendetta' producer David Lloyd about the graphic novel's near-future setting. "But yeah, 1997 was qui...
Canadian exhibitor Imax Corp. said Thursday that Warner Bros. Pictures' Natalie Portman starrer "VforVendetta" will bow simultaneously March 17 on its giant screens and in traditional cinemas. Toronto-based Imax said it will digitally remaster the actio...
As of late last Thursday night (GMT), principal photography has wrapped on VforVendetta, the Warner Bros. film based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.
Directed by John McTeigue and adapted by the Wachowski Brothers, the film's final s...
"Behind the mask, V is an idea. V is a sort of concept," 'VforVendetta' 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...
About "Vforvendetta" Stephen Fry reveals: "I'm playing the character of Gordon Deitrich, who's a chat show host who questions the authority of the people who run Britain in this post-viral facist state, as it were."
Fry was also forthcoming about a few...
In March production starts for the Hollywood project 'VforVendetta' in the Studio Babelsberg. Stunt Crew Babelsberg (Aeon Flux, Bourne Supremacy) will provide a stuntmen as well as equipment. The female lead is Natalie Portman.
Confirming the news broken by fledgling site DC-On-Film.com: Hot off a Golden Globe nom for her work in "Closer," Natalie Portman is in final negotiations to topline the Wachowski brothers' "V Is forVendetta," for Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver.
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Producer Joel Silver told SCI FI Wire that his upcoming film version of Alan Moore's graphic novel VforVendetta is eyeing a Nov. 5 release date—Guy Fawkes Day in the United Kingdom and the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot to overthrow the English...
Adage reports that Warner Bros. will promote three films at this year's Superbowl with three 30-second spots."Poseidon," the remake of "Poseidon Adventure"; "VforVendetta," with Natalie Portman; and "16 Blocks," a copy movie starring Bruce Willis and Mo...
VforVendetta will make it's world premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany.The festival opens on February 9 and ends on the 19th.
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IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that VForVendetta, a thrilling action-adventure from the creators of "The Matrix" trilogy, will be simultaneously released to IMAX and conventional theatres on March 17, 2006.
In this long interview Hugo Weaving talks about "VforVendetta", how he came on board of the movie and how he approached a role where he can't show any part of his face.
"There's a part of me that believes ['VforVendetta'] was the most lucid fantastic dream I've had all year. And it is for that reason alone that it is not Number 1... The music, Biddle's brilliant camera work, the design, the editing and the story tellin...
The official Spanish VForVendetta website has some visual effects before-and-after clips showcasing the knives, pistol and mask sequences from the film.
"Happily, ['VforVendetta'] almost is entirely free of the hollow pomposity that marred the Wachowskis' last two 'Matrix' films. Here, Alan Moore's graphic novel and the history of real-world oppressive governments is more than enough, leaving no need fo...
"['VforVendetta'] is remarkable," swears producer Joel Silver. "[The Wachowskis] produced it with me. James directed it, he got great performances, but it's their vision. They designed the movie. It's a really incredible movie. People are really gonna b...
'VforVendetta' was screened at Ain't It Coo's Butt-Numb-A-Thon 7. "This is the most intense cinematic cry for Anarchy since 'A Clockwork Orange'," raves Harry Knowles. "Alan Moore is a bitch for even thinking of bitching about this. It is f***ing PERFEC...
DC's Bob Wayne joined the panel announced that in similar fashion to last year's screening of Batman Begins at Wizardworld: Philadelphia, Saturday evening DC will host a sneak preview showing of VForVendetta at SF WonderCon
"I sort of made some comments about [the script], but generally speaking my attitude towards it was incredibly positive," said David Lloyd, illustrator of the 'VforVendetta' graphic novel, of his first contact with the producers of the film after readin...
VForVendetta premiered in London on Wednesday UCI Empire Cinema in Leicester Square. James McTeigue, Joel Silver, Natalie Portman and others were there to celebrate. Plus, check out a press conference with cast members and crew.
"I was actually doing some post-production work on the third 'Matrix' film. Me and Larry and Andy have just been friends, and we got to talking about ['VforVendetta'] over dinner one night, and then I went back and read the graphic novel and went, 'this...
...ghtful as VforVendetta is allowed to stoke a multiplex debate on the use and abuse of state power. The best works of popular art get to play by their own rules."
The cast of VForVendetta was in New York last week to talk about the film. Check out the video interviews below. Also, in case you missed them, six clips from the film...
The official website forVForVendetta has been updated with news of the Premiere at the Berlin Film Festival as well as featuring 80 new photos and storyboards
Inquiring with additional sources about the current status of the Vendetta, IGN FilmForce was informed the production is moving along fine. The release date change should not be interpreted to mean the production has run into trouble...
"VForVendetta is the most dangerous film of 2006. If you're an idiot or a fascist, that is... VForVendetta is a dangerous film for these people and those who support them; it exposes their every trick. It gives the audience who perhaps hasn't second-t...
In a recent interview with Infoshop News, Alan Moore talked about the impact, or lack thereof, the film 'VforVendetta' had on the American public. The commentary is lead in by the interviewer telling Moore about an "A for Anarchy" group that used the fi...
Welcome to another week of Grind Your Axe at COMICSCAPE. I'm your host and all-around nice guy, Kurt Amacker. This week, we took some time at the Home Office to tear open some of your letters about that swinging new flick, VFORVENDETTA. As most of our v...
The dust is being blown off Warners' VFORVENDETTA, the film adaptation of the 1980s comic book mini-series written by acclaimed WATCHMEN writer Alan Moore. Surprisingly, the same gents that once were hired as screenwriters to adapt Moore's work, and who...
David Lloyd, who created the VforVendetta comic book with Alan Moore, said he feels the Wachowski Brothers' screenplay adaptation for the upcoming movie was a good representation of the original.
"I never had a purist concept of Vendetta as just a ...
VforVendetta makes its HD DVD debut with In-Movie Experience (IME), the interactive feature allowing viewers to enjoy new ways of accessing interviews and other material -- while the movie is running. The IME forVforVendetta features the "Director's ...
"Vendetta is a triumph for McTeigue and the Wachowski's. At 132 minutes, it delivers its message and keeps up a very brisk pace from the opening frames. It looks great and features a very carefully and perfectly chosen cast. It's quite likely that Vendett...
Interview from Stephen Fry, the well-spoken actor now in "VforVendetta":
"For my taste, and maybe I'm committing myself to being middle-brow, it (VforVendetta) is exactly the kind of film that I think cinema most needs, which is simultaneously ente...
Anonymous claims that the second trailer for 'Superman Returns' will be attached to 'VforVendetta' and a there'll be thirty second TV Super Bowl spot as well. Same source says there'll be a 'Vendetta' spot on the Super Bowl as well...
Warner Bros. has announced that Natalie Portman (STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH) will star in VFORVENDETTA, the movie adaptation of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's distrubing, futuristic comic book mini-series. The Wachowski brothers, writers...
DC Direct has announced they will be releasing a limited edition, hand-painted cold-cast porcelain replica mask based on the mask used in VFORVENDETTA. The mask measures approximately 10.5" high x 6.5" wide x 7" deep and is displayed on a sculpted base...
...hic novel VforVendetta.
Unfortunately, we have been unable to confirm which role Fry is playing and his reps did not respond to our inquiries for comment.
Check out this scan of the first picture of a bald Natalie Portman which first appeared in Time magazine. She shaved off her hair for a prison scene in the Wachowski brothers' VForVendetta, in which she stars opposite Hugo Weaving.
Production is underway on "VForVendetta," an action-thriller produced by the Matrix team of The Wachowski Brothers and Joel Silver, and based on the groundbreaking 1988 graphic novel of the same name from Alan Moore and David Lloyd.
Dan Glass ('Batman Begins') will serve as visual effects supervisor and London-based Cinesite will provide CGI and model work for 'VForVendetta'. Locations will also be shot in London. Silver produces with Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski. Full press ...
...ion DVDs. VFORVENDETTA and EXCALIBUR Headed for HD DVD: Warner continues their support of both next-generation platforms with the scheduling of six new titles. On October 31, the studio with release VFORVENDETTA and the King Arthur fantasy EXCALI...
CHUD went head to head with Joel Silver, producer of the 'Matrix' trilogy. During the extensive interview, Silver talked briefly about two of the many comic adaptations in his stable.
"[The Wachowski Brothers] wrote a script for me for 'VforVendetta,...
James Purefoy has signed on to star opposite Natalie Portman in "VforVendetta," an adaptation of a 1980s Alan Moore comic book that Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers are producing for Warner Bros. Pictures.
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"No matter what side of the political spectrum you are on, 'VForVendetta' is a movie that should make you think as well -- which was the intent of the film, in this reviewer's opinion. You will have to decide for yourself if V is a hero or terrorist? Is...
Receiving its world premiere at the Berlinale, Wachowski brothers' film 'VforVendetta' is out to provoke.
The good guy in the Wachowski brothers' latest cinematic adventure is a terrorist at war with the British government...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts are organizing an early screening of VForVendetta. The event will take place on March 15, 2006 at the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff.
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Here's Alan Moore revealing what he thinks about the VforVendetta movie. Top stuff. It seems that this is was footage shot for the BBC, but their website does not allow people to stream it outside of the UK.
The ICA (London) is hosting and exclusive preview screening of VForVendetta, directed by the Warchowski Brothers, preceded by a conversation with co-creator and artist David Lloyd, who will also be signing both Titan editions after the film. Starts at 6...
"He's a nice policeman," actor Stephen Rea said when asked about where his 'VforVendetta' character stands on the government oppression at the core of the film's plot. "There comes a point where you stop playing rebels and start playing policemen, and y...
"Evy herself is a pretty demanding part in the graphic novel," says Natalie Portman about her 'VforVendetta' character. "I think it's because she starts off as this passive character, which is like the 'everyman', who's just sort of like 'the government...
"'VForVendetta' will be a shock to the system for many, and not just because of its rangy political backdrop. Despite its graphic novel roots and action explosions, the film is essentially a bleak and despairing — but still intellectually pointed — dram...
...he recent VforVendetta press junket in New York, Natalie Portman talked about the violent choices made by the film's character.
"I think the great thing about this movie is that it leaves it at a question for the audience. I think you probably fe...