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07.29.08 by Widge @ 10:31 pm  This is interesting. Warner Brothers has apparently picked up the rights to Isaac Asimov's Foundation from Fox, where it had languished for quite a while. Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, who founded New Line Cinema and are now producers under the banner of "Unique Features" have picked this for their first project. Vince Gerardis (executive producer of Jumper and, sadly, I, Robot) was on board to produce at Fox and remains on board. This version of the film will adapt the first book in the original trilogy and hope that it works well enough to do the second and third books later. This is in contrast to the Jeff Vintar (also I, Robot) version that tried to hit all three books at once and then only adapt the latter bits. Now bear in mind this project has been bouncing about (albeit slowly) since...well, since before even Corona's Coming Attractions came on the scene (while it was alive) to track such nonsense. In 1994, TriStar had the rights. Went nowhere. February, 1996: the rights went to New Line with Dennis Feldman (Species, but also, hey--Golden Child) to scribe. Then...went nowhere and into turnaround. Then in 2000, Variety reported that it had resurfaced at Fox with Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth) in the chair. It's no doubt after this point Vintar came on board. But I've not seen Kapur mentioned since--and really, after Golden Age, I can't say I'm too torn up about that. Categorized as: Movies
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07.27.08 by Widge @ 12:46 am  Okay, so it's been making the rounds: TRON 2.0 a.k.a. TR2N is happening. Or it damn well better be, otherwise the fanboys are going to have Disney's ass. The full news on what was shown and how it was handled was first broken, to my awareness, by Ain't It Cool News. You can check out their stuff here. The first word about a sequel to the original Tron came in the 80s. Back when I first generated a Tron 2.0 page over at Corona's Coming Attractions in 1999, somebody sent in a scan from Electronic Games from 1982 where Disney apparently talked about two sequels, not just one. That image is no longer extant online from what I can tell. Corona broke the news that same year that Steven Lisberger had signed a deal to scribe the sequel but no word on directing. I know that since 1999 there's been a kind of weak, wheezing buzz about the project, and copies of a Lisberger script have been running around. But I didn't ask you all here to talk about what has happened in the past. Instead, let's do something we seldom do without mentioning the word "Pixar": we're going to praise Disney. Why? Because this "teaser" is the smartest way they could launch a Tron sequel. Categorized as: Movies
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07.20.08 by Siege @ 11:33 pm  Written by: Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, based on a story by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan, based on characters created by Bob Kane Review: The best part of this movie wasn't the fact that it was kickass in every way, or Heath Ledger's mythical performance as the Joker, and his "disappearing pencil" magic trick. It was the fact that I was sitting next to a five year old whose father obviously thought that a Batman movie would be perfectly safe for children. Ha. Chump. Now that child is traumatized forever. One more in the movie's favor. Time: 15 seconds Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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07.17.08 by Widge @ 2:55 am  Well, this deserves its own post. Lionsgate is making far too much sense for a company in the movie industry. It's scaring the crap out of me, frankly. Here's the story: they've made a deal with YouTube. Rather than fighting to get clips of their films taken down, they're going to monetize the clips. They're going to have their own YouTube channel and let people share, embed, upload and mash up clips. That's what the Variety article says. Pause here for a moment. Upload? That's fascinating. So does that mean they'll let you upload a clip from a Lionsgate movie if it's uploaded to their channel so it can be monetized? That seems fair enough. And as for mashup--does that mean they'll let you download and then re-upload your new version? If so...wow. This covers film and television programs. Now, users don't get free reign. If something's still in cinemas, clips will be removed. But that's perfectly reasonable. Categorized as: Movies
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07.13.08 by Widge @ 4:04 am  Hello, Dolly! plays a role in Wall-E. How big a role I won't say, but it had Cosette and Thespia laughing throughout the whole picture. Apparently they're not the only ones, as the success of the Pixar film is inspiring folks to look at a revival on Broadway. There's an interesting angle on this that hasn't been used before, I don't think: so many films are being turned into musicals--instead, use a film to build up buzz about an existing musical, then revive it. We couldn't get this idea out of our heads, so we put them together and came up with some suggestions. Categorized as: Movies
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