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Michael Clarke Duncan dead at age 54
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan has passed away at the age of 54, from complications suffered from a heart attack he had in July.
Known for his big build and deep voice, Duncan was in the prime of his life. His first movie role was in 1995's Friday, and he had several small parts playing bouncers and muscle men. It wasn't until 1997's Armageddon that he had a meatier role with more lines, playing one of the rough-and-tumble drilling crew drafted into blowing up an approaching asteroid.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Lucasfilm bought by Disney for $4 billion dollars, Star Wars Episode VII coming in 2015
The Walt Disney Company has made an agreement to purchase Lucasfilm, the company created and built by Star Wars creator George Lucas, for $4.05 billion dollars. Furthermore, Disney is planning to create and release Star Wars Episode VII, the sequel to Return of the Jedi, for release in 2015.
This is big news. Furthermore, it seems to fly in the face of what Star Wars creator George Lucas has said throughout his filmmaking career: to keep Lucasfilm an independently run film business and to never make another Star Wars sequel.
So what changed Lucas' mind?
Add a comment (6)Saturday, October 27, 2012
Infographic: 50 years of James Bond
This month marks the 50th anniversary since the release of Dr. No, the first James Bond movie. During the past five decades we've seen 25 James Bond movies released, two of which are considered outside of the canon that most Bond fans follow, those being the 1967 comedy version of Casino Royale and the 1983 Sean Connery picture Never Say Never Again. And with current Bond actor Daniel Craig appearing in the most recent Bond film (Skyfall), there's been renewed interest in the British secret agent and his government issued license to kill.
Add a comment (0)Friday, October 26, 2012
Arnold Schwarzenegger agrees to make third Conan movie
While I didn't see this one coming, the signs were pointing in that direction: Arnold Schwarzenegger will portray his first iconic movie hero role again, that of Conan the barbarian, in a new movie titled The Legend of Conan. This is a done deal and Universal Pictures, the company who now has the rights to release Conan movies, wants this new picture out in the summer of 2014.
Add a comment (0)Thursday, October 25, 2012
Review: Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is a movie that comes along infrequently, a product of the commercial Hollywood system but done with a definite art house style approach to its creation. Clocking in at nearly three hours long, this ambitious movie tries to tell multiple stories that weave across a tapestry of five hundred years of human history, from the 19th century to the 24th. Throughout all of the eras the same ensemble of actors return to play different characters in the different time periods, sometimes swapping roles between hero and villain, black or white or Asian, and even male or female.
Add a comment (2)Johnny Depp to star in Wally Pfister's first movie, Transcendence
If you spend time following the business side of film, then one of the people whose career you may have been paying attention toward is cinematographer Wally Pfister. Pfister has been the director of photography for Christopher Nolan throughout his career, from Memento right through The Dark Knight Rises. Pfister won an Oscar for his photography for Nolan's Inception.
Add a comment (0)Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Trailer: Iron Man 3
Marvel Studios, Disney and Paramount have released the first trailer for Iron Man 3. Watch:
Sooooo...
All that talk from Robert Downey Jr., director Shane Black and Marvel prez/producer Kevin Feige about Tony Stark having everything stripped away in IM3 looks to be legit.
Add a comment (0)Sunday, October 21, 2012
Paranormal Activity 4 opens in first place but the weakest in movie series
The ghostly hauntings documented in Paranormal Activity 4 attracted audiences for the fourth straight year in a row, with this latest installment continuing the franchise's performance of opening in first place at the box office. Ticket sales are estimated to be $30.2 million dollars this weekend for Paranormal Activity 4, which is definitely good enough to give it the top spot.
Add a comment (0)Thursday, October 18, 2012
Warner Bros. wins victory in Superman lawsuit
A federal Californian judge has ruled that movie studio Warner Bros. has ownership in the one-half of Superman property rights created by Joe Shuster. The ruling comes as the studio is well into post-production on its next Superman film, Man of Steel, and as a different lawsuit brought on by the other Superman co-creator heirs (Jerry Siegel) winds its own way through the courts.
Add a comment (0)Monday, October 15, 2012
With season three premiere, The Walking Dead has its highest ratings ever
The Walking Dead returned last night for its third season premiere and audiences feasted upon it.
AMC issued an announcement about how big the audience was for the premiere episode and you could practically see the smiles on the programming execs faces between the lines. It turns out that the season three Walking Dead episode attracted 10.9 million viewers, which works out to a 7.4 household rating.
Those 10.9 million viewers were the show's biggest audience ever, surpassing the second season's premiere episode by more than 50%.
Add a comment (0)Marvel's Ant-Man movie comes out in 2015
Marvel Studios has spent some coin developing a live-action Ant-Man movie, slated to be directed by Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shaun of the Dead). Concept test footage showing scientist Scott Lang walking around in ant-sized form was shown to a packed house at this year's San Diego Comic Con, and it got a favorable reaction from the crowd.
Add a comment (2)Sunday, October 14, 2012
Taken 2 beats the box office again
For the second weekend in a row Taken 2 is the #1 movie at the box office. With a modest drop of 54% and $22.5 million dollars in new ticket sales, Taken 2's total North American gross now stands at $86.7 million dollars.
Compared with the first Taken, Taken 2 is still $35 million bucks away from besting the first movie's B.O. However, the film's international grosses have been higher than with the first Taken, and as such it' already into the black.
Ben Affleck has his new movie Argo open this weekend, and it did rather well. Argo opened with $20.1m and as such falls neatly into spot #2.
Add a comment (0)Friday, October 12, 2012
Munsters remake Mockingbird Lane to be broadcast October 26
Even though the network hasn't decided to pick it up as a series, NBC has made the announcement that it will broadcast the pilot of Mockingbird Lane on October 26. A reimagining of the classic 1960s series The Munsters, which centered on a family of monsters that lived in a creepy suburban neighborhood home, Mockingbird Lane will air before a new episode of Grimm on the peacock network that night.
Add a comment (0)Wednesday, October 10, 2012
A look at the unused Jurassic Park 4 dino-human hybrids
It hasn't been a secret that Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment have been trying to make a Jurassic Park 4. Nor is it a secret that way back in 2005 they were tinkering around with a JP4 story that would have seen cloned dinosaurs created with a mixture of human DNA, thus giving us terrifying new creatures that were part dinosaur and part human.
Add a comment (0)Monday, October 8, 2012
Unused Prometheus story secrets revealed by original screenwriter
Back in June and shortly after the release of Ridley Scott's Prometheus, the online discussion circled around how much of the movie's screenplay was changed by Damon Lindelof, one of the creators of Lost. Scott had brought in Lindelof to rework Jon Spaihts first draft of the film.
Add a comment (0)Are Emily Blunt and Ruth Wilson being scouted for Ms. Marvel in The Avengers 2?
It's no secret that Marvel Studios and director Joss Whedon are hard at work planning out the storyline for what happens in The Avengers 2. May 2015 seems like it's far away right now but when you break it down Whedon and his crew only have 12 or so months to iron out the movie sequel's story, figure out how these characters integrate into all their own individual movie franchises and pick which new Marvel superheroes (and villains) will be included in Avengers 2.
And there's also a S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series to launch.
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