Archive for October, 2009

New Hi-Res ‘Avatar’ Images

Check out eight new and beautiful images from James Cameron’s Avatar.

Gallery after the jump.

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‘Ultramarines’ Animated Feature Film Announced

Ultramarines

Codex Pictures, a UK-based film production company, have announced they will be producing a feature film based on the Games Workshop game Warhammer 40,000.

The film, titled Ultramarines, will be a high quality, 70-minute state-of-the-art animated feature film made for DVD.

“We’re hugely honoured to be making Ultramarines,” said a spokesman for Codex Pictures. “It’s taken a lot of research and development to get to this stage – and it’s such an exciting challenge to be able to bring the depth and power of the Warhammer 40,000 universe to a brand new medium.”

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‘Day One’ Series Canceled, Now a Mini-Series Instead

David Lyons hears about NBCs decision in Day One

David Lyons hears about NBC's decision to cut back on 'Day One'

NBC has canceled plans, at least for the moment, to produce a 13-episode season of its new sci-fi thriller Day One.

The network is now planning to convert Day One into a four-hour mini-series event that will probably be aired as two separate 2-hour movies.

I’m saddened to hear this news as I truly believe Day One was shaping up to be the next big sci-fi TV series.

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‘Transformers 3′ Release Date Confirmed

Megan Fox in 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'

Megan Fox in 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'

In March of this year Paramount announced that Transformers 3 would be released on July 1, 2011.  The next day Transformers director Michael Bay publicly announced there was no way he could be involved with the movie if it was to be released any time prior to 2012.

Clearly “no way” really means “some way” since Bay has now announced not only that the release of Transformers 3 will occur exactly on the date Paramount originally announced, but that he has also already started working on the film.

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More Photo’s From the Set of ‘The Green Hornet’

The Green Hornet

Seth Rogen as 'The Green Hornet'

Splash News have debuted a few images from the set of The Green Hornet.

Based upon the original radio series, The Green Hornet follows newspaper publisher Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) who fights crime as the masked superhero ‘Green Hornet’ alongside his martial arts expert Kato (Jay Chou). Additional cast members include Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz and Edward James Olmos.  Edward Furlong is also rumored to star.

I don’t usually post paparazzi photo’s as I’m not a big fan of ruining movies with early set photo’s.  That said, I’m also aware a lot of Green Hornet fans are keen to see how Seth Rogen looks as the title character.  So head on over to Splash News if you want to check out more images from the set.

The Green Hornet will hit theaters December 17, 2010.

‘Hugh Jackman’ to Promote Boxing Robots?

Club Fight Night

Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in a robot boxing movie titled Real Steel, according to a report by Variety.

Real Steel is billed as a Rocky-esque story about a fighter who tries to reinvent himself as a robot boxing promoter after human fighting is outlawed.  The story follows him as he struggles to win due to an inability to find good robotic parts, until he discovers a discarded robot that never loses.

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