Bone Written by: Jeff Smith (creator) Sold to: Warner Bros. Pictures Three cousins from the Bone family, who are small, white and bald humanlike creatures with big noses, run out of their hometown and find themselves in a mysterious valley where they are separated and hunted by other creatures. They are taken in by a girl named Thorn and her grandmother, and find out that the valley is threatened by an evil force called the Lord of the Locusts. Snaked Written by: Clifford Meth Sold to: Independent producer(s) Centers on the personal and political exploits of a government employee with supernatural, snake-like abilities. Imaginary…

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The end of the writers strike meant that Jerry Bruckheimer and friends could continue to develop the movie adaptation of The Prince of Persia, a well known video game. The director is Mike Newell, who directed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and all that they need now is a cast, but most importantly, a lead. Well those semi-detective people over at IESB have got their hands on some market research analysis for the film. Which could be naughty of them, but it gives us an incite into the minds of the…

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Warner Bros have released a new poster for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs which is due for release July 2009. I have enjoyed watching the previous instalments. I never get too worked up over animated films, after all, they are aimed at children and are meant to be enjoyed. You can check the poster below!

 

For me, there is one moment more than any other that sets “Batman Begins” apart from “Spider-Man”, that establishes the key differences in tone, and in the worldviews on display in each film. That moment comes during the film’s climactic set-piece. After dispatching one of Ra’s al Ghul’s henchmen, Batman takes a tumble, landing among some of the denizens of The Narrows. Now, in a Spider-Man movie, this would be the moment where the ordinary citizens band around the hero in a show of support (“Us New Yorkers stick together!”). But in “Batman Begins”, the panicking crowd form a mob and attack Batman, forcing him to fight back against the very people he’s trying to save. It’s a stark difference, which encapsulates the fact that this Batman is not the squeaky-clean man of the people that Spider-Man embodies, and suggests a dark heart beating beneath the film’s heroics. If “Spider-Man” was the early, defiant response to the atrocity of 9/11, America united through the belief that good will prevail (and Spider-Man existing in a New York where the Twin Towers still proudly stand), then “Begins” is its darker cousin, embodying the contrasting response: paranoia, uncertainty, and a fair share of moral questions. In many ways, “Batman Begins” is like an anti-superhero movie. Rather than create a fantasy world where superheroes can exist, Nolan and Goyer take the superhero out of his element and place him in our world. Serious questions about what drives a man to put on a costume and fight crime – and the consequences of doing so – are raised, and many of our assumptions are challenged. And that’s not just relating to the superhero genre in general, but to our assumptions surrounding the Batman mythos. Take Gotham City. For so long presented as a nightmarish, Gothic nightscape, Nolan first presents his Gotham – a shiny, modern metropolis much like Chicago – in bright daylight. People have complained that grounding the setting of the action so much makes the film too “realistic” (the dreaded word) and strips away the larger-than-life elements of Batman. I disagree. When the rest of the world is so grounded and gritty, I feel the presence of a figure like Batman seems all the more fantastical. His impact is truly felt.…

Continue reading There Will Be Blog: An In-Depth Review of "Batman Begins"

Disney is dipping into its classics vault yet again for a remake of the 1975 classic Escape to Witch Mountain, (un)cleverly redubbed "Race to Witch Mountain". Alexander Ludwig (The Seeker: The Dark is Rising) and AnnaSophia Robb (The Reaping, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) will be taking over the roles of two psychic siblings who are in a race to get to witch mountain (which I guess is the inspiration behind the uninspiring name change) so that they can help save the world (that's new to me! Didn't they just want to escape the gold-digging rich guy in the first…

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A new behind-the-scenes featurette for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian has popped up on the internet.  In it you get a few new scenes that haven't been shown in the trailers/tv spots, as well as interviews with director extraordinaire Andrew Adamson and new star Ben Barnes (Prince Caspian himself!)... Click Here to watch the video. I've always been excited about this movie, and this only adds to it!…

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Lowis Lowry, writer of such classic books as The Giver and Number the Stars, has recently written in her blog that the film The Giver has been postponed by several years because of David Yates's commitment to finish off the Harry Potter franchise: Bad news from The Giver Movie front. David Yates, the director currently working on the next Harry Potter film, was supposed to begin The Giver film next. But he has just decided he wants to do the final Harry Potter first, thereby postponing The Giver by several years. Maybe the opening…

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In a recent email to The Baltimore Sun, screenwriter Steve Kloves (who adapted all of the Harry Potter movies, except for Order of the Phoenix) discusses the decision behind the recently announced split of Deathly Hallows into two movies, and what it means to him. "Years ago," he writes, "we briefly — and seriously — considered doing Goblet of Fire as two films. So this concept is not altogether new. As for Deathly Hallows, I intuited — almost from the first moments I began reading it and certainly once I’d finished — that…

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It seems there has been quite a big a shake up on the upcoming Tintin trilogy. It was thought that Peter Jackson would be directing the first movie after he had finished work on The Lovely Bones, but it now appears that is not the case and Spielberg will be the man in the directors chair for the first outing. This could be due to a number of reasons, but the one that sticks out is that Peter Jackson may want to get started on The Hobbit now the writers strike is over. It may also explain…

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We got our first look at The Incredible Hulk yesterday and things look pretty good. I have watched it around 20 times since it was released and the final charge between The Hulk and Abomination gets me pumped. Thankfully, Louis Leterrier is a cool director, and spoke to Empire, giving them a walk through of the trailer. Regarding the scene I have just mentioned, Leterrier said: " This sequence is toward the end of the movie. But our final scene, our final battle – unlike a normal movie where the…

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