Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its “Alien” franchise. The studio has hired Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott attached to return as director. Spaihts got the job after pitching the studio and Scott Free, which will produce the film.
The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Scott directed. It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.
Read more HERE and watch the original ‘ALIEN’ trailer (circa 1979) below.
Plot synopsis: A black comedy set in 1967 and centered on on Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg), a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother (Kind) won’t move out of the house.
Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and set for a October 9th, 2009 release, ‘A SERIOUS MAN’ stars; Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Simon Helberg, Adam Arkin, and Sari Lennick.
THRAL WORLD is looking forward to another COEN brothers (FARGO, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, BURN AFTER READING) masterpiece.
Gary Oldman just announced at the Warner Bros. Book of Eli panel that a third Batman film will go into production next year.
“I think the next Batman is next year,” he told a fan who asked about when the long-awaited “Dark Knight” follow-up would hit, “We start shooting next year. You didn’t hear that from me.”
Of course there’s always the possibility Oldman had heard the question a billion times and just gave it the “Sure, why not…” response. We heard this yesterday but wanted to make sure the rumor held before we passed it on. Pretty cool if it works out. THRALL WORLD is prepared to wait five years between Batman movies if necessary to uphold the standard director Christopher Nolan has brought to the franchise and comic book movies as a whole.
Source: Disney.com
Watch it below or at the Official movie website HERE.
Directed by TIM BURTON (SWEENEY TODD, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS) and set for release on March 5th, 2010 to IMAX® theaters simultaneously with the film’s wide release, ‘ALICE IN WONDERLAND’ stars; Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar, and Christopher Lee as Jabberwock.
The Kevin Greutert directed ‘SAW VI’ will hit theaters on October 23rd, 2009 and stars; Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell, Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Peter Outerbridge, Shauna MacDonald, Devon Bostick, Marty Moreau, Karen Cliche, Shawn Mathieson, Melanie Scrofano, James Gilbert, Shawn Ahmed, Janelle Hutchison, Gerry Mendicino, Caroline Cave and Ginger Busch.
Paul W.S. Anderson is returning to the director’s chair for Resident Evil: Afterlife. Anderson directed the first installment and stayed on board as a writer and producer for the two sequels. He wrote the fourth film as well.
The fourth film in the franchise will have the largest budget of all the films so far. ” I don’t regard it as Resident Evil 4, I regard it as a re-tooling and rebirth of the entire franchise,” said Anderson in a quick interview.
Tim Burton announced at the San Diego Comic-Con that once he’s done with Alice in Wonderland, his next project will be Dark Shadows.
The film will be based on the cult ’60s supernatural TV show created by Dan Curtis. Johnny Depp is attached to play Barnabas Collins, the vampire patriarch of the series.
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OTEP has posted a new track, “Rise, Rebel, Resist”, on the band’s Official MySpace page. The track comes off of the bands new album, “Smash the Control Machine”, which will be released on August 18 through Victory Records.
Gidget the Chihuahua, the bug-eyed, big-eared star of 1990s Taco Bell commercials who was a diva on and off the screen, has died. She was 15. Gidget suffered a massive stroke late Tuesday night at her trainer’s home in Santa Clarita and had to be euthanized, said Karin McElhatton, owner of Studio Animal Services in Castaic, which owned the dog.
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