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[Sunflower Peeps]

Yeah, I really wasn't that much of a fan and yet still haven't seen planet terror................. biggrin  

[Zombie Mark]

Ok. I'm back. Had to take a little time out there, even thou I did post here and there. Here is some movie news I found.

Transporter 3 poster as been release.

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Wolverine In Trouble Say Gossips And Liars

According to Hollywood Elsewhere X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been having some behind the scenes drama involving director Gavin Hood and Fox CEO Tom Rothman. Lots of movie news sites have been posting it, however, it is full of crap and I will tell you why.

They start off with:

This is a second-hand but reliably sourced story about the currently-shooting Wolverine movie,

Wolverine actually finished filming over 2 months ago. To prove it here is an article by The Daily Telegraph talking about the wrap party. It even has images of Hugh Jackman and his wife dressed in 70’s costumes and has quotes from them thanking the cast and crew for all their hard work. That puts the ‘reliably sourced story’ well and truly in the crapper.

Anyway, here’s what they say the big drama is all about.

There was/is a huge Wolverine set being recently used. I’m not even sure which lot it was built on, but the look or mood of the set is, according to a source who was told Hood’s view of things, supposed to be on the dark, dinghy and somber side. I only know what I was told, but the basics are that Hood was away from the set for whatever reason (shooting something else, taking a day or two off), and when he returned to the big somber set he was shocked to find that it had been repainted top to bottom on Rothman’s orders. The murky-scuzzy vibe was gone, and a brighter and less downish look had taken its place.

Rothman redecorated? That’s the best they could come up with? If Rothman wanted to make the movie lighter he would have raised those concerns during the scripting process, he wouldn’t wait until director Gavin Hood conveniently goes off set for a few days to make a move. I am also sure Tom Rothman (however much of an a** he can be) is far to busy to care about what colour a set is.

And for all the Comic Geeks out there (because I am one)

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Superman Not Flying Anytime Soon

Variety’s Anne Thompson reports that Superman: Man of Steel, sequel to Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, is still not moving forward at Warner Bros.

Fans have been clamoring all over the web–and on this blog–for a complete reboot. And within the halls of Warner Bros. the same debate rages on. They too believe that the last movie didn’t break the mold and wound up in some kind of middle limbo. Today I was told that it is a priority at the studio to find the right direction and if Bryan Singer is willing to do that, fine, but if he gets in the way, he may not stay on the project. There are no writers working on a Superman script now. The studio wants to figure it out. “It might be better to start from scratch,” one exec admitted.

Do Warner Bros. ditch Bryan Singer and go with a director who will take Superman in a different direction? Or do they do a ‘Hulk‘ and pretend Superman Returns didn’t happen, eventually setting up a reboot?

This was the first I had heard of the next one.

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Development In Fox vs Warner Bros ‘Watchmen’ Case

Back in February news appeared that 20th Century Fox had filled a lawsuit against Warner Bros over Zack Synder’s upcoming Watchman movie. The whole case is a bit complicated and here is what it’s all about:

Fox claims that between 1986 and 1990, it acquired all movie rights to the 12-issue DC Comics series and screenplays by Charles McKeown and Sam Hamm. In 1991, Fox assigned some rights via a quitclaim to Largo International with the understanding that the studio held exclusive rights to distribute the first motion picture based on “Watchmen,” according to the lawsuit. When Largo dismantled, the rights were transferred to producer Lawrence Gordon. Under a “turnaround agreement” between Fox and Gordon, the producer agreed to pay a buy-out price to Fox if he entered into any agreement with another studio or third party to develop or produce “Watchmen,” among other things.

The project apparently bounced around to Universal and Paramount before returning to Warners. Now, Fox claims that neither Gordon nor Warners has paid the buy-out price or advised the studio of any other conditions required under the agreement, including procedures necessary to acquire the rights to “Watchmen” from Fox.

Basically, according to Fox they own rights to Alan Moore’s Watchman and Warner Bros just went ahead and made the film. Now there has been a development. A judge has denied a Warner Bros. motion to dismiss 20th Century Fox’s lawsuit over the right to make a film based on the graphic novel.

From Variety:

Judge appears to conclude that Fox retained distribution rights to the graphic novel penned by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons through a 1991 claim, and he concludes that under the 1994 turnaround with producer Larry Gordon, Gordon acquired an option to acquire Fox’s remaining interest in “Watchmen,” which was never exercised, thereby leaving Fox with its rights under the 1994 agreement.

This is bad for Warner Bros. Very bad. Apparently the court is still contemplating Fox’s motion for an injunction, which means that if they get it, Warner Bros will essentially be forced to give up all rights to Fox and they’ll in turn distribute the movie. The Fox rep also adds that “while the Judge’s opinion is preliminary and his views could change in the course of the litigation, his current take on the facts is consistent with our position.”

And another one for the comic fans

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Justice League Official Dead. For Now Anyway.

Despite having a wealth of characters from the DC world, Warner Bros have only managed to make Batman profitable with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Catwoman had the wrong creative team and Superman Returns didn’t meet expectations. More recently they have been trying to follow Marvel’s road by having a team movie, the Justice League. However the main problems were that fans didn’t particularly want it, and neither did Australia.

From Variety:

“We’re not off the notion of a Justice League,” Robinov says. “There’s a massive interest and knowledge in the comicbook industry and it takes time to sort of catch up and understand the characters and the history, where they’ve intersected with each other and what their worlds are. That’s part of the education that we’re going through.”

“These are big, iconic characters,” [Greg] Noveck says. “So when you make them into a movie, you’d better be shooting for a pretty high standard. You’re not always going to reach it, but you have to be shooting for it. We’re going to make a Justice League movie, whether it’s now or 10 years from now. But we’re not going to do it and Warners is not going to do it until we know it’s right.“

This is the best thing that could happen. Batman and Superman already have their franchises (well Batman has anyway), so to cross them over and mix them up would be stupid and it wouldn’t work.

So where do DC and Warner Bros go from here?

“We’re having a lot of internal discussions on it,” Horn says. “We haven’t committed to any change at DC at this point,” adding that both Warners and DC are committed to turning “the properties into viable movie product in an intelligent way so that we introduce them like planes on a runway. They have to be set up the right way and lined up the right way and all take off one at a time and fly safe and fly straight.”

So they have decided to do what Marvel are doing. Marvel have launched Iron Man, rebooted The Incredible Hulk, and will soon be giving us Thor and Captain America. All of these will then join together for a big old bash in The Avengers movie in 2011.

DC’s first solo movie off the blocks will most likely be Green Lantern, which already has a script and is apparently ready to go.

 

[MandaG]

Well that took yonks to read, lol.

The only thing I have to say on that matter is on the whole Justice League thing, surely they would create a larger audience due to fact people who don't like some characters would go to see it anyway because it sontains others that they are fans of?

For example I'm not a Superman fan but I would go see JL for the Batman element. Things like that?

PS - I'm not going to say anything about Superma Returns because I've ranted about it enough, lol  

[vincent_enigma13]

whoa no JL or new superman  

[MandaG]

Maybe not - just Hellyboy 2 now, Wolverine soon and waiting on the next Batman.  

[Zombie Mark]

Spiderman 4, Fantastic 4 #3, X-men 4 (possibly), Green Arrow, Green Marshen, Wonder Woman, Batman 3, Iron Man 2, Thor, captain America, and the Avengers are all in the works. So we geeks have plenty to keep us occupied.  

[_Mih_Shell_]

i like action movies like the warriors romance like the note book and the dark night(whicheva catagory that in)





ps. the joker is hawt in the movie and in rl(even though he died in rl)  

[Sunflower Peeps]

I think that lucy lawless would make a good wonder woman or sophia bush, I like her too....  

[MandaG]

Zombie Mark

Spiderman 4, Fantastic 4 #3, X-men 4 (possibly), Green Arrow, Green Marshen, Wonder Woman, Batman 3, Iron Man 2, Thor, captain America, and the Avengers are all in the works. So we geeks have plenty to keep us occupied.

I'm so glad you included yourself in that xd

xxlil_babygrlxx

i like action movies like the warriors romance like the note book and the dark night(whicheva catagory that in)

Do you mean the film "Once Were Warriors" or a different one? O.W.W is an amazing film too!

Sunflower Peeps

I think that lucy lawless would make a good wonder woman or sophia bush, I like her too....

I would love Sophia Bush as Wonder Woman! She needs to improve her acting range in my opinion because I think she's a good actress and so gorgeous and all I know she's been in apart from One Tree Hill is slasher film re-makes sad  

[Zombie Mark]

Sophia Bush would make a good wonder woman. I would support that choice.  

[vincent_enigma13]

lucy lawless has my pick  

[Sunflower Peeps]

Yeah, and Sophia bush If they wanted to get a young star ...

But they will problely mess it up and put in a stupid actress that don't know crap... and then it would suck !!!!  

[MandaG]

Sunflower Peeps

Yeah, and Sophia bush If they wanted to get a young star ...

But they will problely mess it up and put in a stupid actress that don't know crap... and then it would suck !!!!

Like Paris Hilton or someone! I teeny bit of gossip, I read today at work that the Paris Hilton/Benji Madden engagement is off! eek shock, horror! Hands up who didn't see this happening *looks around* no-one?

That's what I thought.  

[MandaG]

Forgot to say, I saw Hellboy 2 this evening! And I LOVED it! Was so funny. There were 4 of us and we were giggling through the whole thing. I was on the end of us four, sitting nect to this amazing older couple. Legends, they are. At the point which I think was the funniest (I'm not going to spolit it) I had tears rolling down my cheeks and the 6 of us (my and friends plus the couple next to me) were the only ones laughing. Or the only ones being nosiey about it.

Was great!  

[Zombie Mark]

MandaG

Forgot to say, I saw Hellboy 2 this evening! And I LOVED it! Was so funny. There were 4 of us and we were giggling through the whole thing. I was on the end of us four, sitting nect to this amazing older couple. Legends, they are. At the point which I think was the funniest (I'm not going to spolit it) I had tears rolling down my cheeks and the 6 of us (my and friends plus the couple next to me) were the only ones laughing. Or the only ones being nosiey about it.

Was great!

I hate when people like that come to our theater. Because then, everyone complains about them and I have to go and get on to them or kick them out. But I'm glad you got to enjoy the movie. I'm normaly like that when I see a movie.