JoBlo (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Were you excited to see Silver Surfer come to the big screen? However, were you deeply saddened that he had to be in a movie like FANTASTIC FOUR 2? You are not alone. J. Michael Straczynski, writer of all things awesome, was asked if his Surfer draft was dead, "What happened was when FF2 didn't do as well as they hoped it would do, it caused them to call into question a Silver Surfer movie. The...
Celebrity Baby Scoop (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Julian McMahon took his 9-year-old daughter Madison to the Arclight Theatre in Hollywood to watch Michael Jackson: This is it! Mom is Julian's ex-wife, actress Brooke Burns . The 41-year-old Sydney native is best known for his portrayal of Cole Turner in The WB hit series Charmed , womanizing plastic surgeon Christian Troy on the TV show Nip/Tuck and Doctor Doom/Victor Von Doom in Fantastic Four and...
Bamboo Killers (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Because I hate myself, I watched Fantastic 4, Rise of the Silver Surfer last night. There's much wrong with that film and its many flaws have been brought out for all to see, but if I had to pin down the one thing that bothered me the most about the film is that it felt so contrived. Johnny Storm somehow and for no logical reason whatsoever gains the ability to switch powers with his cohorts. Why?...
Drawn! (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
One of the most impressive illustrators working in film production today is Rodolfo Damaggio. Damaggio worked as a comic book artist for DC in the 1990’s before moving on to do concept art and storyboards for such summer blockbusters as MI3, Lemony Snicket’s SoUE, Hidalgo, Indiana Jones 4, and Fantastic Four “Rise of the Silver Surfer”, [...]
CinemaSpy (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
A gritty war film featuring soldiers with psychic powers? It's as if Scott Stewart and Gus Krieger are reading my mind. Stewart, who is directing the upcoming vampire action flick Priest , dreamed up the premise of 'Psy-Ops', which Bold Films has picked up. According to The Hollywood Reporter , he then developed the idea with Krieger, who will be writing the script for first-time director Stuart Maschwitz....
Beam Me Up - Science & Science Fiction news (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Rise of the Silver SurferDirected by Tim StoryStarringIoan GruffuddJessica AlbaMichael ChiklisChris EvansDoug Jones (Doug's the body for the Surfer, even though he voiced it, Fishburn overdubbed)Julian McMahonKerry WashingtonLaurence Fishburne (ok this is a stretch...he did the surfers voice in final production...so staring?)Yep, I know, scraping the bottom of the barrel in some respects with
Edge Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Almost half of the workforce at Activision’s 7 Studios has reportedly been laid off. The Los Angeles-based developer, which has worked on projects including Fantastic 4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer , Shrek The Third and Napoleon Dynamite: The Game , has cut around 30 members of staff, sources have informed Kotaku . read more
Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun! (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
Johnny "The Thing" Storm (Chris Evans) and Ben "Human Torch" Grimm (Michael Chiklis) in a scene from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Myrhaf (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
1. I was in a mime troupe. Yes, in my youth, I committed mime. I could even moonwalk. I've been haunted with guilt ever since... 2. I once had some 7,000 comic books, including Avengers #1, Fantastic Four #2, so many more. I sold them for peanuts in the 1980's to move to New York City. 3. I once had a pre-CBS Stratocaster. I sold it for peanuts in the 1980's to move to New York City. 4. I once lived...
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 13/09/2009
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Whoa, I don't know what this is for, but it looks awesome. ShockTillYouDrop has debuted an early teaser poster for a new horror film called Growl that is being written and directed by Sxv'leithan Essex. If you don't know, Essex is a talented music video director and writer who is making his feature directing debut on this. I also found a second early sales poster on his MySpace which I've included...
CinemaSpy (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
Those DC Comics-based movies are just popping up everywhere. It was recently announced that Warner Bros. has an agreement with Guy Ritchie to direct Lobo , about an alien bounty hunter known for being a real bastich. The character first appeared in a 1983 issue of 'Omega Men', written by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen, and since then, Lobo has appeared in several books with varying degrees of graphic...
Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
Guy Ritchie will be teaming up again with Sherlock Holmes producer Joel Silver for the film debut of comic book character Lobo. Don Payne ( 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer , My Super-Ex Girlfriend ) is writing. Variety has the story - Production on Lobo begins early next…
Twitch (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
***UPDATE*** Never mind! This is going to suck balls. Read on. In the film, he is a seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, indestructible and heavily muscled anti-hero who drives a pimped out motorcycle, and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives who are bent on wreaking havoc. Lobo teams with a small town teenaged girl to stop the creatures. WB is aiming for a PG-13 rating. Variety . Ritchie’s visual...
The Screening Log (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
Guy Ritchie is keeping himself busy, as the "Sherlock Holmes" helmer has already set his next directing gig: the big-screen adaptation of DC Comics' character "Lobo" for Warner Bros. Production is set to kick off early next year already. Don Payne ("4: Rise of the Silver Surfer") wrote the script, and Joel Silver is on board as one of the project's producers. Don't expect...
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