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I love the alien films, I also thought that Ridley Scott did a fantastic job but something still fills me with worry and concern as the prequel will be venturing deep into unknown and unwritten territory.
It's going to come down to the directors vision or someone else having a stab at a story line that is a mystery for a reason (and adds to the terror of it all in a way) THIS COULD BE GOOD OR VERY BAD......I mean take Alien Ressurection for instance.......how badly could that have been mismatched in the story line just to crowbar another film out???

Also you will have now lost the main protagonist from the films and easily the most frequently named name in the (current) quadrilogy....

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Milla Jovovich On Why They're Making Another Resident Evil Movie



Hollywood has already churned out three Resident Evil films. Three films? That's a trilogy. Now, director Paul W.S. Anderson and his star/fiancée Milla Jovovich are making a fourth. Why? Money.

"The movie makes money," says Jovovich. "If it makes more money than the last one, you'd think that people want to see another one, so we'll do another one. There's been a lot of interest online, there's been a lot of letters from fans... film company. It's not like I said, 'Hey, honey! Let's do another one right away!' I mean, it's an expensive film and it's all business and if the third one didn't do well, there wouldn't be another one."

Slated for a September 2010, the fourth film is dubbed Resident Evil: Afterlife and will be in 3D. According to Jovovich, Anderson has been busying himself by boning up on every 3D film that's ever been made. "Especially for a movie like this," the actress adds, "because it's wild and a lot of action and a lot of potential for 3D to use the medium at its best."

Anderson has inked a deal with the folks who are doing Avatar's 3D to bring their expertise to Afterlife.

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James McTeigue on Superman Reboot

It was recently reported that Warner Bros is working hard to reboot the Superman franchise and are currently looking to bring on a director. Some of the names that keep coming up are the Wachowskis (The Matrix, Speed Racer) and their protege James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin).

/Film had a chance to speak to McTeigue and asked him about whether he is in-talks to helm the new Superman movie and is being looked at to replace David Goyer on the "X-Men Origins: Magneto" film.

"[Magneto] was just one of those rumors that started out and I don't know where it came from or how it came up," he said. But when it came time to give an answer to the Superman rumor, he played it more coy. "You know... I would say... I'll keep you guessing, actually. It's good not to dispel every rumor, right?"

It is not much of a confirmation, but it is also not a denial. And if I had to take guess, his hesitation to answer the question means that he has already been approached by Warner Bros to helm or once again assist the Wachowskis.

[GamerMan316]

Movie site, IESB, is reporting that Steven Spielberg is currently in talks to pick up Stuart Beattie's "Halo: The Fall of Reach" script to produce himself, under his Dreamworks umbrella. The site writes ...

"Spielberg is blown away by writer Stuart Beattie's take on the game in his script entitled HALO THE FALL OF REACH. This coupled with the fact that his Dreamworks umbrella is looking for a big tent pole to help launch their newly independant studio with distribution over at Walt Disney Pictures after losing Transformers to Paramount in the separation, it's the perfect combination."

Following the news that Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp's Halo project is dead in the water, this maybe Microsoft's best chance to thrust their Halo into movie theatres. IESB is reporting that CAA, who reps both Beattie and Spielberg, are heavily pushing the negotiations; and considering the fact that Spielberg shares a good relationship with Microsoft - he even appeared as part of Microsoft's E3 press conference this year - this may not be a bad shout.

We'll chalk this down as a rumour for now until we hear something a little more official, but if this plays out, it could be interesting. Very interesting indeed. It may just turn a few more heads.

[GamerMan316]

Bunch of movie news for you all, the first one will most likely not impress Neato 

Hugh Jackman Talks Wolverine 2
Logan heads to Frank Miller's Japan

Hugh Jackman revealed to MTV at the weekend that planning for the follow-up to X-Men Origins: Wolverine is well underway.

It may have received a less-than-warm critical greeting and provoked a mixed fan reaction, but it still more than reached it audience, with estimated box office north of $350m worldwide. Jackman was coming offstage at the Teen Choice awards where it actually won Best Film when he spoke to the music channel.

To nobody's surprise, he confirmed his intentions to have the next film set largely in Japan. The plan, as hinted before, is to base the story around the acclaimed four-issue mini-series from 1982, co-written by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont. A sort of 'year one' origin story (a bit of a Miller trademark), it sees Logan heading East to learn philosophy and fighting.

Miller wasn't quite the name he is today at that pre-Dark-Knight-Returns point in the 80s, but he was becoming hot stuff due to his awesome run on Daredevil (if all you know of Daredevil is the film, go and find Miller's Marvel work, now!)

"That's a movie I've longed to make from the beginning," says Huge. "I think the fans love that saga, and it's my favourite... so that's where we're heading." As long as it remembers that it's a film about Wolverine, and not a bunch of random other mutants, that should be exactly the right direction.


Kick-Ass Is Going, Going... Gone?
Three studios circling Vaughn's new film

At long last, Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass, is close to securing a distributor, with three studios currently vying for the bold and brutally violent comic-book adaptation.

Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal are the companies duking it out to secure the rights to the independently-financed film for a figure that, according to the Hollywood Reporter, will be a serious seven-figure sum, plus a commitment to P&A.

The interest was sparked by the film's recent rapturously-received debut at Comic-Con, where Vaughn showed several clips. It was one of the biggest hits of the 'Con, with a reaction up there with big guns like Avatar and Iron Man 2.

Vaughn, who took the incredibly brave decision to self-finance the movie after pulling out of a deal with Sony following key creative differences with the studio, has always been quietly confident about the appeal of his movie, which follows a normal teenager who, inspired by comic books, decides to become a DIY superhero, becoming embroiled in a dark and violent world dominated by insane gangsters and heroes who are much, much better than him, including Nicolas Cage's Big Daddy and his eleven year-old daugher, Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz).

Nevertheless, given that the movie started shooting almost a year ago, there's bound to be relief that the long search for a distributor who won't be cowed by the movie's no-nonsense, R-rated approach and controversy-baiting content (not only does Hit Girl kill virtually everybody on the planet, but she uses fruity language that will have The Daily Mail's Chris Tookey spluttering onto his keyboard with indignant rage).

We're not sure which studio will ultimately emerge victorious, but our money's on either Paramount (which has a history of distributing films that it didn't finance, after its deal with Marvel) and Universal. Given our track record for predictions, it's bound to be Lionsgate now.


Frank Langella Joins Wall Street 2
He's a broker in Oliver Stone's sequel

The career renaissance of Frank Langella continues, with today's news that the veteran actor has joined the cast of Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.

Langella, who bagged an Oscar nom for his last role as the Nixon part of the Frost/Nixon equation, will play Lewis Zabel, an old-school mentor to Shia LaBeouf's character, a young broker who comes under the wicked influence of Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko.

According to Variety, a huge plot point revolves around Zabel's fate – we're guessing that it can't be good.

Allan Loeb wrote the screenplay for the 20th Century Fox movie, which starts filming soon. Josh Brolin is also in talks to join the cast, replacing Javier Bardem.


Green Hornet Finds His Kato
Jay Chou cast as kickass chauffeur

Following Stephen Chow's departure, the Kato-shaped gap in Michel Gondry's Green Hornethas now been filled, say Variety. Jay Chou will fill Bruce Lee's shoes as the ass-kicking chauffeur, alongside Seth Rogan as the titular vigilante newspaper tycoon.

Chou is a hugely prolific, classically trained Taiwanese singer-songwriter, with 25 million album sales under his belt. His music blends r&b, rap, rock, pop and world music in what's been dubbed "the Chou style" (because, like, he invented it) and he's won the World Music Award four times.

Films are a late addition to his CV. His first was the live-action adaptation of the Initial D anime in 2005, He played Prince Jai in Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower, and wrote, directed and starred (and provided the music, obvously) in the multi-award-winning romance Secret in 2007.

Here's the video for Lang Man Shou Ji, which has both acting and singing in it, though not much evidence of this groundbreaking smorgasbord musical style we've heard so much about.

Green Hornet is Chou's Western debut. His plans for world domination are currently under wraps.

Meanwhile, Hollywood Snitch reports that Battlestar Galactica's Edward James Olmos will be playing a role in Green Hornet as well, but it's not yet confirmed what that is. We're hoping for A Large One.


Louis Letterier Talks Marvel Futures
Few facts, much brainstorming

There's not much actual "news" content, but a few interesting titbits in this interview with director Louis Leterrier in the LA Times' geektastic Hero Complex blog, where he talks Hulk, Captain America, Thor and Avengers.

Most tantalising is the part where he reveals that what he's seen of Joe Johnston's work on Captain America so far is "Raiders of the Lost Ark with more gadgets... Raiders meets Rocketeer and Saving Private Ryan". So we look forward to seeing Bucky wandering around the beach at Normandy carrying his severed arm, looking for treasure whilst ogling Jennifer Connelly.

Then there's his dream for an Avengers Summer, where four interconnected films are released on a monthly schedule: "One story arc but told in instalments. So all of the directors that touch part of the Avengers world would do a part."

And finally, intriguingly, the gallic director seems very equivocal about his 2007 Incredible Hulk. He avoids coming right out and saying he was happy with it, and is pretty clear that, while he's contracted to do one more film for Marvel, he hopes it won't be anything to do with Bruce Banner...

Letterier is currently working on Clash of the Titans, which is due for a March 2010 release. After that "I will go back [to Marvel] and say to them, 'Guys, you need me? Is there something I can do?'"

[RedMaster11]

Frank Langella. How did he not win an award for his performance as Skeletor? 

[GamerMan316]

20 Reasons Why John Hughes Rocked the 80's

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20 Reasons Why John Hughes Rocked the 80's

Rest in peace, John Hughes.  You made me a man before I even hit puberty.

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Hugh Jackman Talks Wolverine 2
No matter what I think/say, I know I'm going to spend money to see this.  I hate myself ... don't look at me.



Kick-Ass Is Going, Going... Gone?
For those of you that don't know, Kick-Ass totally kicks ass.  If this movie is half as good as the comic, I'd be selling my right arm for the distribution rights as well.  I can't wait to see this movie.



Frank Langella Joins Wall Street 2
Ummm ...

What?  A sequel 20+ years in the making.  Must be a hell of a movie.



Green Hornet Finds His Kato
About damn time.

Jay Chou ... classically trained Taiwanese singer-songwriter  Cool?

Battlestar Galactica's Edward James Olmos will be playing a role  COOL!!!



Louis Letterier Talks Marvel Futures
Hulk, Captain America, Thor and Avengers.  [squeel]

Captain America so far is "Raiders of the Lost Ark with more gadgets ...  [squeel]!

... his dream for an Avengers Summer  [SQUEEEEEL]!!!

... equivocal about his 2007 Incredible Hulk  The Incredible Hulk got a bad rap because of the Ang Lee Hulk movie.  Frankly, I thought The Incredible Hulk was great.  And the fact it managed to be great despite Ang Lee's shadow, makes it INCREDIBLE 

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A Lego Movie? Get Lars Von Trier!

So, in a world of Monopoly and Candyland movies, it's hard to be surprised by anything any more.

But still -- as the old-time columnists used to say -- color me shocked by the Warner Bros. announcement that it's building a movie out of Lego.

Dan Lin, who produced the upcoming "Sherlock Holmes" flick and Richard Kelly's "The Box,"will be assembling the pieces. Newbie scriptwriters Dan and Kevin Hageman are to write the instruction manual -- er, screenplay. Lin noted that the Lego movie will have "a fun factor, creativity and imagination that has no boundaries."

No offence, but can you imagine a statement which has less fun, creativity and imagination?

Apparently, Warner Bros and the Lego people have been talking about this for a year, with the American contingent even flying the Lego plane to Denmark to talk about how the movie will proceed. No doubt that the proud Danes will want one of their own to direct.

Might I humbly suggest Lars Von Trier?

He's so hot right now, and a scene in which a live-action couple copulate wildly among a landscape of animated colored bricks would really go over beautifully at Cannes.

Failing that, give it to Michel Gondry, who's already proven himself brilliantly in the field

You'd be forgiven for thinking that, like the White Stripes music video, there are endless possible combinations for a Lego movie. Sadly, I suspect that's far from true.

As a kid, we got the little boxes of plastic blocks and assembled them into the prescribed shapes -- space ship, pirate boat, Linda Ronstadt, whatever. Once we were done, we promptly made it our mission to lose three vital pieces and feed the instruction leaflet to the dog.

It didn't matter though because the blocks were so generic you could build whatever you liked -- racing car, oil tanker, Olivia Newton John -- using just "imagination that knows no boundaries."

But take a cruise down the Lego aisle in 2009 and you'll see a startling array of amazingly complicated toys.

Buy one of these -- as I have a few times recently for the flock of nephews -- and you'll find a box filled with specific pieces, tiny fiddly add-ons, servo-motors, remote controls, Intel processors and, I suspect, small-scale nuclear reactors.

Lego bricks and panels are now moulded and designed so that you pretty much can only make what's on the box -- or narrow variations thereof.

Usually those toys look like soulless, high-tech killing machines out of a summer blockbuster -- that is, if not they're not already directly based on the likes of "Star Wars" or "Transformers."

Anc just check out the faces on the little guys.

Forget the happily naïve little square heads of the 1970s. The new Lego men have sun-glasses and snarls and trimmed goatees and look like they'd kill you -- or at least bite your finger hard -- if given half a chance.

It'd be great to think that someone like Michel Gondry or Spike Jonze or even Lars von Trier might be turned loose in Legoland.

But what has this summer taught us -- and, more importantly, what has it taught the guys with the money? It's that "Transformers" took $400M. It's that "G.I. Joe" opened at #1 and is on track for $150M.

Toys that go boom make box-office registers ring.

so with that in mind, here are a few Lego Movie posters 

[nCogNeato]

The 'I Am Lego' one cracked me up.   

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I Am Lego looks awesome.

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bunch of movie news below

Ball Rolling On Rambo 5
Sly prepares John's next mission

There's no sign yet of the promised "John Rambo" director's cut of Sylvester Stallone's fourth Rambo outing, but Variety reports that work on Rambo 5 is underway, with Stallone again directing and (obviously) starring.

Stallone previously said that Part 4 was the final instalment: a similar cap to the series to Rocky Balboa. But he's clearly changed his mind. Apparently the story this time revolves around "Rambo fighting his way through human traffickers and drug lords to rescue a young girl abducted near the US-Mexico border".

The film will be produced under the wing of Nu Image / Millennium, where Sly is currently in post-production on The Expendables. Shooting, in every sense, will start next spring on what we're sure will be a sensitive examination of cross-border American societal issues. With awesome killing and maiming.


Get Ready For Bad Boys 3
This sh*t just got real. Again.

Bad Boys 2 may have been the sequel that nobody asked for, but we bought it anyway and it took a reported $273m worldwide. Its stars (well, Will Smith and Michael Bay) have risen astronomically in the years since the 1995 original, but The Hollywood Reporter says this morning that "all parties have expressed a willingness to return if a story can be hammered out".

Enter Peter Craig, who's knocking out the script as we speak. An established author of "darkly comic novels", and a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop under the tutelage of Tobias Wolff (thanks Wikipedia!), he's recently been working on the screenplay for Cowboy Bebop, adapted from the anime and set to star Keanu Reeves as Spike.

Bad Boys was solid but unremarkable. Bad Boys 2 was an absurdly overblown, late-coming surprise follow-up, which mixed the good (it's sporadically funny and has a freeway car chase which knocks a similar scene in its immediate contemporary The Matrix: Reloaded into a cocked hat), the bad (it was two and half bloody hours long) and the ugly (another, supremely bad-taste chase in which morgue-corpses are strewn all over the road). It was so ridiculous that it was a key inspirational source for Hot Fuzz.

So what do we think? Is there any way that Smith and Bay will actually turn out for this? And do we want them to? Was Bad Boys 2 fun enough to warrant more, or have we had enough already? Over to you...


Rob Zombie Is Remaking The Blob
Space jelly for the Superbeast

The first one introduced Steve McQueen to the moviegoing world. The second one starred Kevin Dillon and had a screenplay by Frank Darabont. And we will soon be able to beware The Blob again when Robert Cummings, aka Rob Zombie, gets to work next year.

Zombie's nightmare finding distribution for House of 1000 Corpses seems to be long over, and he's now firmly ensconced with creative control (read R ratings, lots of nudity and casting his wife Sheri Moon) at Dimension, who have been trying to get a Blob up and running for a while.

Variety reports that Zombie is dispensing with all notions of big red blobbiness, should anyone be concerned that this idea seems ridiculous. "That's the first thing I want to change," he says. "That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now."

So after Halloween and its sequel, why another remake? "I'd been looking to break out of the horror genre, and this really is a science fiction movie about a thing from outer space. I intend to make it scary, and the great thing is I have the freedom once again to take it in any crazy direction I want to."

The budget is set at around $30m (similar to District 9 and Cloverfield) and filming is planned for next spring. Rob has a new album out in November and plans to write the Blob script while he's on his winter tour. It'll give him something to do on the bus.

Zombie-related trivia: Bill Moseley, who played Otis Firefly in House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, and Z-Man in Halloween, played "Soldier no. 2" in the 1988 Blob remake.


Green Hornet pushed back to December 2010
Seth Rogen reassures us all it's for good reason

While it would appear that the latest news about The Green Hornet - that it's been shoved back from a July to a December release next year - is yet another bad omen, that's not how Seth Rogen feels.

While the movie is definitely being pushed back on Sony's schedule, it's been widely assumed that the move is to give the filmmakers - including director Michel Gondry - more time to get the thing finished in post-production.

Especially since it has yet to start shooting.

Talking to HitFix, producer/writer/star Seth Rogen has gone on record to explain. "We're both relieved and psyched about the change.  It gives more time for post, which would have been immensely rushed if we were to come out in the summer.



"It also affords us more time to promote the film, (now we can go to Comic-Con with more than a car!) and ultimately is a great vote of confidence from the studio.  We got the same date that movies like I Am Legend and Avatar are getting, so we're thrilled to be there."

So there you have it, folks - straight from the stoner horse's mouth.

Now we just want this thing to be in production so everyone can stop worrying...

[GamerMan316]

New Poster For Bad Lieutenant
Cage and Mendes call New Orleans

There is a brand new poster online for movie mouthful Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans!

Nicolas Cage is said Bad Lieutenant, a druggie detective in love with a prostitute (Eva Mendes), who reigns over battered post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.

We know it is hard to contain the excitement for Werner Herzog's coked-up cop drama, starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, and Alvin 'X to the Z Xzibit' Joiner, but hold it in, because the film isn't out until November 20.

[GamerMan316]

30 More Days Of Night
Dark Days ahead

Bloody Disgusting have revealed that work is steaming ahead on a sequel to 2007's vampire graphic novel adaptation 30 Days of Night, which starred Josh Hartnett, Melissa George and Danny Huston in an adventure about a vampire attack in the Arctic circle winter.

Entertaining but flawed (Alaskan readers can correct us here, but when the sun came back up wouldn't it only have stayed up for a matter of minutes?) the original topped the US box office on the weekend it was released, so the most surprising thing about the follow-up, subtitled Dark Days, and again adapted straight from the comics series, is that it's taken this long.

It doesn't sound like any of the original cast will be returning however, and the director will be Ben Ketai, who shot a couple of webisode stories to accompany part one - original director David Slade is, of course, wrestling with a different sort of vampire on The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. BD say that the story will involve a recast Stella (George's character) joining some vigilante vamp hunters to get revenge on "Lilith, the vampire responsible for the attack on the Alaska town." Yes, you may've thought Danny Huston was responsible, but it turns out it was all his girlfriend's fault really.

No word yet on whether original producers Sam Raimi and Bob Tapert are involved. The script will be by Ketai and Steve Niles, who writes the comics. Shooting starts next month in Vancouver; a change from the original, which shot in New Zealand.

What do we think? Another palpable hit, or straight to DVD?