A third TV spot for the highly anticipated, wanted and needed The Dark Knight is now online, and it is better than the previous two we have seen. Mainly because Morgan Freeman says, ‘Three buttons is a little 90’s Mr Wayne’, which is no doubt having a dig at the previous Batman movies we got nearly two decades ago.
Unfortunately, the people who uploaded it onto YouTube are anti-embedders, so you will have to leave the site to see it. Make sure you come back!
SHH got a new poster for Hellboy II: The Golden Army. I think the poster should say ‘From the Future Visionary Director of The Hobbit’, it may bring in more people!
Columbia Pictures has bought the rights to over 50 Goosebumps books by childhood horror master R.L. Stine!  None of the books are currently in development, but we can expect to hear something relatively soon.
If these books didn’t scare the pants off you as a kid, here’s a little about them:
A primary protagonist(s) is often situated in a remote location or somehow isolated from typical societal conventions. These range from a comfortable suburban area to boarding schools, foreign villages, campsites, unfamiliar relatives’ homes or even oversea areas. The books in the series usually feature semi-homogenous plot structures with normal kids being, frequently indirectly, involved in scary situations; chapters end in cliffhangers, and after the central conflict has either been or appears to have been resolved, there is often a twist ending.
These books used to scare the crap out of me when I was younger. Will these be updated for all viewers, or geared towards the kiddies? We’ll find out soon!
Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro invite you to a live internet chat about The Hobbit on May 24 (May 25 in Australia/NZ). Peter and Guillermo would love to answer your questions and hear your comments about our new adventure into Middle-Earth. Please register now to make sure you don’t miss out on the Unexpected Party and get regular updates on the movies! Follow the registration link for instructions on submitting a question.
Weta are excited to be hosting this one-hour live online chat on our website WetaNZ.Com. Please check the start time for your time zone below:
Los Angeles (Pacific) Saturday 24 May 1 pm
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See you at the Unexpected Party!
Kiera Knightly is at it again! She stars opposite Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys in a tale of lust, love, betrayal and revenge. Could this possibly be another Atonement, as one reviewer suggests? Here’s the synopsis:
Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. She’s working as a singer whilst he’s churning out scripts for government propaganda films and living off the last in a long line of infatuated women. The two former lovers feel the thunderbolt once more, but Thomas is now married to the adventurous Caitlin. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship. Caitlin indulges in her own infidelities, and recognises a similar adventurous spirit in her husband. But she knows his connection with Vera is something different, not to mention dangerous.
Sounds interesting, but no Atonement. We’ll just have to see! Expect to see the The Edge of Love in theaters starting on June 18…
I thought the Magneto movie was dead. We haven’t heard anything about it in a long while, and director David Goyer is busy working on other movies. However, we now have a development which comes from Latino Review:
While on a visit today to the creature effects shop for Hellboy II: The Golden Army I noticed some pictures that were lying around for other movies like Land of the Lost and of course, Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
But I also noticed a photograph of a young looking Beast leaping through the air. Not a drawing, although it could have been computer generated, but an actual photo.
“What’s this?”
“This is young Beast from the prequel they’re gonna be doing. Magneto.”
“Oh, ok.” I replied, trying to act calm before my head exploded from seeing this picture. “So Beast is in Magneto, huh?”
“Ya.”
The picture showed a younger guy in the Beast getup leaping down. He was in the full blue costume with his long tail and you couldn’t mistake him for anything other than Beast. The picture also had ‘Magneto’ written in the upper corner. Like I said, I was only able to see it for a few seconds, but it did not look like a computer rendered picture, it looked like an actor in full makeup. Nevertheless, Beast IS in the movie.
This is certainly interesting. However, since when did Beast have a tail? It could be Night crawler, as they are both blue and sometimes people get confused. It seems FOX are making use of the X-Men characters that they have rights to. We have Gambit, Blob and a whole truck loads of characters in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, so I don’t see why Magneto cant get his fair share of X-Men characters. Plus Beast is a great character.
Okay, I know this is mostly a film website, and sometimes we talk about TV shows, too. But this is something I couldn’t pass up the chance to talk about! Plus, gaming is becoming an ever more lucrative sector of the entertainment industry, so why not?
Below, you will find the new PlayStation 3 ad that will be circulating in Australia:
