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‘Man on Wire’ Director Gets Supernatural with ‘Vatican Tapes’
9 November 2009 8:52 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Director James Marsh, who brought us last year's best documentary (in my opinion) Man on Wire, is taking the jump to genre filmmaking with the upcoming supernatural thriller The Vatican Tapes. Lionsgate and Lakeshore Ent. are producing the flick, according to THR, which follows the story of a series of events that unfold after a tape gets leaked from the Vatican displaying an exorcism that goes wrong. It's the kind of story that will bring the Da Vinci Code protesters back out into the streets. It will be interesting to see how this one turns out. The script is coming from Chris Borrelli, who is making his feature script debut. His major credit is serving as a miniatures videographer on Michael Bay's Armageddon. Marsh is a solid director though, with not only Man on Wire to his credit, but also the 2005 indie drama The King, starring Gael Garcia Bernal and William Hurt. »
- Neil Miller
You sank my ‘Battleship’: Peter Berg’s adaptation to feature aliens?
8 November 2009 2:28 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Director Peter Berg, who is known for chugging a few Red Bulls with his cereal, may be smoking to much peyote or watching too many Roland Emmerich/Michael Bay movies.
According to an unnamed source (grains of salt should be included), Latino Review is reporting that Berg’s big-screen adaptation of everyone’s favorite naval game, Battleship, will not feature your regular run-of-the-mill naval fights. Instead, it will be something out of this world.
The film will not merely focus on two countries matching wits on the open seas, it will have an international fleet (wait) fighting (for) against (it) aliens. Aliens…
Aliens. The toy trash craze is really heading into weird territory. With movies like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, one could understand why filmmakers and studios were so hellbent on making idiocy the genre du jour for audiences purely for the »
- Reel Loop News Staff
Kellan Lutz Talks Nightmare on Elm Street
7 November 2009 9:38 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
Kellan Lutz ('Emmett Cullen') spent his downtime between Twilight films New Moon and Eclipse working on the new A Nightmare on Elm Street film. Oscar nominee Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) takes over the role of Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund portrayed the killer in all the previous films) and Lutz plays Dean, one of the people Freddy terrorizes, in this new, revamped take on the decades-old horror franchise.
Although the La press day for New Moon was focused 99.9% of the time on all things Twilight, A Nightmare on Elm Street came up during the press conference Lutz was a part of. When asked about the dream sequences and what audiences can expect from the 2010 film, Lutz joked that his character actually becomes the steel-gloved killer.
"It's great. I kill Jackie Earle Haley and take away his glove and sweater -- the sweater itches," said Lutz, laughing. "No. You know what? »
Micronauts the Movie? J.J. Abrams? Wth?
6 November 2009 9:11 AM, PST | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »
The Wall Street Journal, of all places, currently has an article on Hollywood’s gold rush to make movies out of toys and board games following the phenomenal success of Michael Bay’s “Transformers”. Toward the end of the article, it mentions that “Star Trek’s” (and “Lost” mastermind) J.J. Abrams is currently in discussions to produce a movie based on the Japanese toy line Micronauts, which, coincidentally, Hasbro (the same people behind “Transformers”) has just acquired. Opines Abrams: “Sometimes, when someone is not a celebrity and you are casting them in a role, everyone who is in a seat of authority voices questions about that actor’s talent, sex appeal, looks, ability — their everything. But then they get the role, and suddenly they are on the cover of every magazine, and nobody questions those things again. In retrospect, everyone says, ‘Of course that person is a star.’” I don »
- Nix
Bay Buys $10 Million Home
6 November 2009 12:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Blockbuster moviemaker Michael Bay has started spending his Transformers millions - on property.
The director has spent a cool $10 million (£6.25 million) on a new Bel Air mansion in Los Angeles.
The estate features a seven-bedroom main house and three staff spots.
The home comes with spectacular views, a pool and a championship sunken tennis court. »
Etch A Sketch Movie Now a Distinct Possibility
5 November 2009 2:15 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Someone stop the madness already! This toy and board game licensing thing is already way beyond out of control. Yesterday we reported on Sony's acquisition of the screen rights [1] to the board game Risk, the latest in a long line of questionable movie deals involving branded playthings. The Wall Street Journal [2] followed up with an article on the phenomenon today, addressing the "herd mentality" in Hollywood and the fact that somehow this is all a direct result of the success of Transformers. Go figure. The article also goes on to reveal a handful of other interesting tidbits including: J.J. Abrams is in talks to produce a Micronauts movie Will Smith and producing partner James Lassiter are developing a Big Wheel TV series There might actually be an Etch A Sketch movie! "The Ohio Art Co., which owns Etch A Sketch, says it has received numerous calls from producers interested in »
- Sean
Sony Takes Risk: The Film of World Domination
5 November 2009 1:01 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Sony Pictures has acquired the movie rights to the board game “Risk” from Hasbro. The studio is hoping the “strategic and tactical gameplay” will translate to the silver screen.
The game of world domination was created in 1957 by French film director Albert Lamorisse before it was purchased by Parker Brothers two years later. Parker Bros was then acquired by Hasbro in 1991. For those of you who haven’t amassed your forces in Kamchatka, Risk is a turn based board game for 2 to 6 players where you try to capture territories and control the world with your army.
In the trade paper announcement, Columbia Pictures President Doug Belgrad cites the success of franchises like Transformers and G.I. Joe as reason enough to pour more money into rainy day nostalgia.
The studios, especially Universal, seem to be moving aggressively forward with these toy and board game adaptations. Video game movies didn’t »
- Jeff Leins
How To Go Bigger With Transformers 3: Unicron
4 November 2009 7:03 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
You Transformers fans know what I’m talking about when you see the name “Unicron.”
That’s right. If you thought Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen was a massive convoluted mess of nonsense and wasted… well, everything, coated in a big pile of explosions and sometimes-awkward visuals, then you’ve seen nothing yet. How can you introduce and misuse even bigger characters for Transformers 3 after what happened with Devastator and many others in Revenge of the Fallen?
Well, you introduce the Death Star Transformer!
For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, Unicron was the antagonist character introduced in the 1986 animated Transformers: The Movie. He’s so big that he transforms into a mechanical planet, or as Obi-Wan Kenobi would describe, “that’s no moon.”
I’ll try to be as brief as possible in describing Unicron’s role in that movie and how »
- Rob Keyes
Wes Anderson Addresses Sci-Fi Movie Rumors and His Next Project
4 November 2009 3:05 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
A few hours ago I participated in a roundtable interview with writer/director Wes Anderson for his new movie “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”. Before I go any further, if you’re a fan of Anderson’s work, you are going to Love this film. While I didn’t know what to expect walking in to see it last night, the film was awesome and a real surprise!
Anyway, a few days ago a story started circling the internet that Wes Anderson wanted to do a sci-fi movie and he wanted to film part of it in space and maybe on the moon. Many sites picked up the story even though it sounded like he was joking. Since so many are talking about it online, I decided to ask him to address the rumors. The quick answer is, he thought everyone would realize he was joking around. The other thing I »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Michael Bay's Hidden Transformers 3 Message Teases Unicron
4 November 2009 9:57 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Anyone familiar with Michael Bay will know already that not only is he skilled at making flashy, pointless action movies, but he's also skilled at putting his erect ego into his own mouth and going to town. And now thanks to the crew over at Filmonic we get to see him at it again. This two-minute clip is a hidden Easter Egg on the Transformers 2 DVD released on October 20th, and now, just as Bay expected, some little .cyber freak. (Aka any person over the age of two with a DVD remote) found the clip and put all kinds of effort into pointing a camera at his TV and playing back the clip so he could post it on the internet. In the video, Bay mentions wanting to take a small break before Transformers 3, but we already know that he's working on TF3 with Ehren Kruger, since he »
Bay: 'Transformers 3 will have less action'
4 November 2009 9:27 AM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Director Michael Bay has revealed that the third Transformers film will be less action-driven than its predecessors. The filmmaker made the admission in the All Spark Experiment feature on the DVD for Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. He said: "It can't get bigger, we have to figure out to go sideways and I'm wondering where to start. What I'm doing is having Hasbro send me tons of lore and stuff like that, things that we can draw from, and I just got to let it simmer. "Definitely more has to be made of Bumblebee in the third one, that's a relationship (more) »
- By Tim Parks
Bay Area: A Flare for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"
4 November 2009 6:39 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
The way to enjoy Michael Bay is to deny him his rights as a filmmaker. That is, to turn his fascism around and onto him. Instead of bludgeoning him, your power is denial, or reduction. You can limit his arsenal, so to speak, at home: you can turn off the sound, you can arrest the image, you can plumb shut it down if you want. Looking at Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen off and on these past few weeks since its DVD/Blu-Ray bow, I'm struck simply by the image-making because I've taken the film into my own hands, selecting what I want, proving Bay's advertising-bent history in that the film works best as a gloss—as pure spectacle. I've gotten the same thrill watching pretty clips on youtube, or vimeo, where all I'm looking for is a beautiful nugget. (In fact, the 30-second advertisements during this year's baseball divisional »
The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Sands of Not My Freakin' Dime
4 November 2009 1:09 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
It's the mid-week report of the good, bad and you-know-what-the-what here, as we compile the movie news from the past week and a half. Yes, you'll have more at the end of the week—but for now, let us all cringe together as we see stomach news of the 2012 motion sickness experience, an Mib without Will Smith, and the audacity of some people to shoot a barely visible topless scene and hype it up like it was Basic Instinct 3.
The Good
• For years, there have been several attempts to do a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, none of them ever came close to moving ahead. Speaking to MTV last week, director Robert Zemeckis set the record straight: that this time he is personally involved and really excited to do the sequel, and that he has commissioned original scribes Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman to write the screenplay. Let's hope »
- Arya Ponto
Michael Bay: 'Transformers' "Can't Get Bigger"
3 November 2009 10:38 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
I'll spare you the video (although you can see it here if you wish), but Michael Bay is talking Transformers 3, and what's on his mind may surprise you. "It can't get bigger, we have to figure out to go sideways and I'm wondering where to start," Bay says.
"What I'm doing is having Hasbro send me tons of lore and stuff like that, things that we can draw from, and I just have to let it simmer. Definitely more has to be made of Bumblebee in the third one, that's a relationship you want to explore more. And I think we're definitely going to get more into the robot characters."
I'm not sure we need a lot of robot depth, because I don't know exactly how you convey that with nothing but effects. But on this point, I agree with Bay. I know...I can't believe it myself. "The »
- Colin Boyd
Michael Bay wants to go “sideways” with Transformers 3
3 November 2009 4:09 PM, PST | Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news »
If you get the right combination of vehicles on the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Blu-ray extra feature “The AllSpark Experiment” then director Michael Bay will appear on-screen and talk about Transformers 3. It’s quite marvellous. Someone has YouTubed the two minute clip which you can watch here. In the clip Bay talks about where he [...] »
- Liam
Fanboy Fix: 'Transformers 3', 'New Moon' and 'Paranormal Activity 2'
3 November 2009 2:38 PM, PST | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
'Transformers 3' Apparently there's a secret video you can unlock on the new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen DVD, and on that video is an interview with Michael Bay where he talks about Transformers 3. While he claims to be lying about everything he says, the director does admit that it will be hard to top the action in part two and that they may need to go sideways instead of bigger with the third installment. He also calls for less action and more emotion, especially when it comes to the robots as characters. Excuse me, but I don't think fans want to date these robots – they want to watch them fight each other to the death. I say lose the boring, emotional character study and amp up the action just one more notch. Eh, make it two more notches. Watch the video...
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From the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising comes Robopocalypse
3 November 2009 1:17 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
"Any machine could rebel, from a toaster to a Terminator." -Author Daniel H. Wilson
Following in the footsteps of Max Brooks, author Daniel Wilson published the novel How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion (amazon link) in 2005 which ran the gamut from realistic scenarios, to humor and robot history.. and is now following it up with a novel titled Robopocalypse which "explores the fate of the human race after a robot uprising." While an "unpublished manuscript", word is that Dreamworks has optioned rights to the film and are fast-tracking it even though the book won't be published until 2011.
I'm no fan of Spielberg, so when you say "Dreamworks" I'm automatically wary, but this is post apocalyptic so I can only hope it's done properly. But who am I kidding, they'll probably put Michael Bay on it.
via THR »
Transfomers 3: Michael Bay Ponders How to Make it Good
3 November 2009 12:18 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
I’m usually a pretty good barometer for how the majority of moviegoers feel about an upcoming film, but in the case of Transformers 3 I’m mystified. There’s been such a divisive split between those who hated Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen and those who think they loved it, that now I don’t know how many of you want to see a third installment (if only hoping one last time that it’s done right) – and those of you who cringe at the knowledge that Revenge of The Fallen made so much money Transformers 3 is going to happen no matter what.
Either way, one guy who already has his mind on Transformers 3 is Michael Bay, and he’s wondering how to outdo himself by actually proving that he can do more than make glossy, explosive, senseless sun-tanned spectacles for the screen. Buried in the special »
- Kofi Outlaw
Michael Bay Has an Epiphany: Characters Are Important
3 November 2009 9:11 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
The man who has never seen an explosion that he hasn’t liked talks about the potential direction for Transformers 3 in a DVD extra for Revenge of the Fallen. His prognosis? Smaller, more intimate, more character driven. Perhaps darker. What exactly, then, was he doing with the first two films? Bay made it sound like it was physically impossible to shove more action into the stove of the films, as if he could no longer feed the beast. I guess this answers humanity’s oldest question: is there an action sequence too big that not even Michael Bay can make it? He also says that he is combing the Transformers lore looking for story ideas, and so there should be no end to the source material. He discusses further specifics below. »
- Jacob
Michael Bay on 'Transformers 3': Less Action, More Emotion
3 November 2009 6:03 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
I didn't think it was possible for any movie to be too big for Michael Bay, especially not a Transformers movie. But judging from this candid DVD extra, even Bay thinks Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen veered on excessive, and he's promising to scale back when he tackles #3. As we speak, Bay is combing through the Transformers lore that Hasbro has sent him and pondering who or what will be smashing crap up in another installment. Just the way he says "Transformers lore" makes me want a story centered on Bay exploring ancient catacombs to uncover the missing Transformers arcana with Megan Fox as his sidekick. (She'll be packing a Ph.D in Hasbro lore because she's not afraid to be smart and sexy.)
As Bay ponders how to go sideways from Revenge (his words, not mine), he does have a few ideas in mind. He wants more Bumblebee, and »
- Elisabeth Rappe
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