20th Century Fox has provided Comingsoon.net with photos of Mulder and Scully from the set of The X Files 2, along with a brief explanation of the much-anticipated film’s plot.
"The film will dump the long-running ‘mythology’ plotline — that aliens live among us and are part of a colonizing effort."
More photos to be found at Comingsoon.net.
You’ve got to hand it to the marketing crew behind Cloverfield – they’ve managed to successfully stoke the fires under the J.J. Abrams-produced monster movie to an amazing degree while keeping the ‘Net rumor mill relatively spoiler-free. The level of online curiousity regarding the film is so high, in fact, that some sites have even ventured outside the U.S. to advance their quest for more Cloverfield clues.
Case in point: The strange path to (and revelations within) Cloverfield: Kishin by the crew at Comic Book Resources:
"As seen in the Cloverfield trailers, a character called Rob is set to leave New
… and the investigation continues:
"After consulting with Cloverfield experts, we soon found ourselves navigating the website of Kadokawa –a major manga publisher in Japan, known for books like Sgt. Frog, X/1999, Cowboy Bebop and others, as well as the leading manga magazine Newtype – where we discovered a manga featuring a boat with the Tagruato logo plastered on the side. This certainly piqued our interest, but as we here at CBR don’t speak or read Japanese, we enlisted the aid of some people who do, Audrey Shiomi and Justin Clemons, who helped decipher the 22-page comic."
You can find out what they discovered over at CBR, but keep in mind that it’s the journey, not the destination, when it comes to the quest for Cloverfield info.
In an official press release issued earlier today, Sega of America released a gallery of screenshots from the upcoming Iron Man video game based on the Marvel Studios film.
SEGA® of America Inc. presents new screens from Iron Man, the highly-anticipated video
Iron Man is based on Marvel Studios’ highly-anticipated Iron Man feature
You can find more screenshots at Comic Book Resources.
Moviefone recently posted the first photo from the upcoming Star Trek feature film. The shot depicts a somewhat grainy U.S.S. Enterprise.
The first trailer for the J.J. Abrams-helmed Star Trek is expected to be shown during this weekend’s premiere of another much-anticipated Abrams project, Cloverfield.
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed today that filming of the George Miller-helmed Justice League will be delayed by Warner Bros. until after the writers’ strike. In its rationale for the delay, the studio cited a need for script rewrites as well as uncertainty regarding the film’s eligibility for tax incentives in Australia, where filming was planned.
"The feature was to have been a tentpole special effects extravaganza for Warners. Word leaked in the fall that the script, by Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney, was good but that subsequent passes, including the latest by Miller, had pacing issues and took the project in directions the studio wasn’t happy with."
According to the Reporter, the Justice League delay comes as welcome news to Christopher Nolan, director of Batman Begins and its upcoming sequel, The Dark Knight. Nolan was unhappy with the significant differences between the Batman character planned for the League and the Batman of his current franchise.
Filmmaker Uwe Boll, whose work on big-budget flops such as Alone in the Dark and BloodRayne has made him a favorite target of critics and movie fans, recently announced that he plans to return to low-budget films now that the tax shelter that provided backing for his projects has been banned in Germany.
After making a career out of producing big-budget adapatations of videogame properties, his latest project, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, continued the filmmaker’s streak of both commerical and critical failures at the box office. Despite his string of big-screen flops, Boll’s ability to continue producing big-budget films due to German tax shelter funding has long been a subject of discussion among online movie fans and critics alike. In 2006, after BloodRayne was universally savaged by critics and fell more than $20 million short of making back its production costs, Boll earned even more notoriety by challenging some of his most vocal critics to a boxing match. The critics who took him up on the offer received a fairly one-sided beating.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
"In the future, I will focus on small films such as (the video game adaptation) Postal or (the Vietnam war drama) Tunnel Rats, " [Boll] said. "These are films that represent my true passion, and they can be done with small budgets."
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"Because of the Boll reputation, it is not easy to get audiences into the cinemas," said Mychael Berg, head of distribution at 20th Century Fox in Germany, which released King locally. "We finally managed it, and we are quite satisfied with the abut 250,000 people who watched the movie (in Germany). We proved that you can make money with a Boll film."
Boll’s next project? The filmmaker plans to helm an adaptation of the videogame Zombie Massacre.
The ‘Net is buzzing this week over the potential implications of the writers’ strike on this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego. Sure, there’s a lot of chatter about the effect the strike will have on Hollywood’s participation in the event,with some arguing that less Hollywood means more comics, and that more comics means… well, more comics. Over at The Beat, however, Heidi MacDonald assesses whether there are any answers to the big questions, then takes a look at some of the other, equally important questions on the peripheral of the discussion.
"At this point it’s quite likely — but depressing — that the writer’s strike will last at least as long as the last one — six months. Networks are filling the space with reality programming, so we could just see more stars of Beauty and the Geek and How Clean is Your House on parade at Comic-Con (These shows have the strongest tie to the core demographic, in our opinion.) There are a number of movies in production that will still need to be flogged, as well, WATCHMEN for one,
So our prognosis? If the strike doesn’t end soon San Diego may be a little less manic, but not a whole lot less.
But that’s not even the really IMPORTANT question:
What does this mean for your chances of getting a hotel room?"
The finalists for "Best Foreign-Language Film" were announced by the Academy yesterday, with nine films making the cut for a potential Oscar. Conspicuously absent from the list, however, is the film adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis. The animated film was the official submission of France to the category, and has been widely hailed by critics.
From the Los Angeles Times:
"Missing, too, is critically hailed "Persepolis," which won a jury prize at Cannes and was voted best animated film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Circle."
Registration for the Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards has opened once again, providing webcomic creators the opportunity to vote for their favorite comics and creators. Voters must register before Jan. 23, 2008. Winners will be announced at MegaCon on March 8, 2008.
For rules regarding eligibility, timelines and a list of ways you can promote the WCCA on your own site, visit the WCCA homepage at www.ccawards.com/.
The marketing machine for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the latest installment in the Indiana Jones film franchise, appears to be in full swing over the last few days, with various sites, sneak peeks and tie-ins popping up around the ‘Net. The film, which is scheduled for a May 22 release, stars Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, Karen Allen, John Hurt and Jim Broadbent.
Among the more notable items dug up recently:
Heck, it’s like having your own, virtual archeological site without all of the dirt, sun and endless hours of dusting! Okay, not really… but if you’re an Indiana Jones fan, you get the idea.
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