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X-Men Origins: Wolverine leaked online

Liam — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:47:36 +0000

[This is NOT an April Fool's post]

Somewhere, somehow X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been leaked online. I will not link to it and personally I do not recommend you go search for it. From what I have read the leak is good quality but the effects are not 100% complete. 20th Century Fox recently sent a notice to Screenrant to remove some images, so they will no doubt go bats*hit over this. While X-Men Origins: Wolverine is my #1 anticipated movie I want to see it on the big screen, not unfinished on my laptop. It’s also not fair on the film makers and everyone involved (regardless of what you think about Fox as a studio).

Update 1: Just spoken to a Fox client. They are going to inform Fox of the leak, if they do not know about it already.

Update 2: Fox know of leak. Operation ‘take down month early leak of our biggest movie this summer’ commencing.

Update 3: From Variety:

Fox execs first heard about the breach at about 7 p.m. last night and began assessing the damage. A Fox source said the leaked version is an early rough cut, with temporary sound and music and a darker appearance than the finished footage.
Fox said they will pursue the breach as aggressively as possible with the help of the MPAA, FBI and local law enforcement.
The studio will be releasing a statement shortly.

Update 4: From HitFlix:

The following statement was sent to us by 20th Century Fox in response to yesterday’s story:
“Last night, a stolen, incomplete and early version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine was posted illegally on websites. It was without many effects and had missing scenes and temporary sound and music. We immediately contacted the appropriate legal authorities and had it removed. We forensically mark our content so we can identify sources that make it available or download it. The source of the initial leak and any subsequent postings will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law – the courts have handed down significant criminal sentences for such acts and the last person who committed such a crime is still in jail. The FBI and the MPAA also are actively investigating this crime. We are encouraged by the support of fansites condemning piracy and this illegal posting and pointing out that such theft undermines the enormous efforts of the filmmakers and actors, and above all, hurts the fans of the film.”

Hey look! It’s Joaquin Phoenix…rapping?

Liam — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:17:47 +0000

When Joaquin Phoenix made an announcement that he was retiring from acting to concentrate on his music I was a little sad. Not in an emotional way. It’s just he was great in Gladiator, Signs and Walk the Line and I didn’t think he was quite finished yet in terms of getting great roles and giving some great performances. Well…

He told Wenn.com

“This is me saying this is who I am. This is my story. After all the years of reading scripts and reading lines, this is my chance to do something straight from the heart and put it out there.
“When I was young I liked punk rock music but then I discovered rap. I love the storytelling aspect of hip-hop.
“Are there people out there who think I’m a joke? I’m sure there will be. Are there people who think it’s going to suck? Probably, but I can’t worry about that.”

2008 Razzie Nominations are here!

Liam — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:54:43 +0000

It’s that time of year again. With the ever growing Oscar buzz for films such as The Dark Knight, The Wrestler and Slumdog Millionaire, comes a different kind of award buzz for other films and so called ‘actors’.

Below are the 2008 Razzie Nominations!

Worst Picture:

Speed Racer, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans, The Day the Earth Stood Still, High School Musical 3, The Hottie & The Nottie, Dungeon Siege, The Love Guru, Postal, Rambo, The Happening, Meet Dave, Witless Protection

Worst Actor:

Zac Efron, Dane Cook, Larry the Cable Guy, Eddie Murphy, Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, Sylvester Stallone, Tom Cruise (Valkyrie), Will Ferrell, Ashton Kutcher, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Mark Wahlberg

Worst Actress:

Paris Hilton, Jessica Alba, The cast of “The Women,” Camilla Belle, Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson, Diane Keaton, Jennifer Connelly, Zooey Deschanel, Vanessa Hudgens, Eva Longoria-Parker, Reese Witherspoon

Worst Screen Couple:

Any couple from HSM 3, Cameron Diaz & Ashton Kutcher, Paris Hilton & Joel David Moore, Kate Hudson & Dane Cook, Kate Hudson & Matthew McConaughey, Larry the Cable Guy & Jenny McCarthy, Any couple from Mamma Mia, Eddie Murphy & Eddie Murphy (Meet Dave), Al Pacino & His Hair, Mark Wahlberg & Zooey Deschanel, Mark Wahlberg & Mila Kunis, Sylvester Stallone & His Ego

Worst Director:

Uwe Boll, Scott Derrickson, Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, Tom Putnam, Marco Schnabel, Sylvester Stallone, Jon Avnet, Diane English, Roland Emmerich, Brian Robbins, Kenny Ortega, M. Night Shyamalan

Worst Prequel, Sequel, Remake or Rip-Off:

Indiana Jones 4, HSM 3, Rambo, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, An American Carol, The Women, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Prom Night, Speed Racer, X-Files: I Want To Believe

Worst Career Achievement:

Uwe Boll, Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, Madonna, Keanu Reeves, Sylvester Stallone

My favourite Razzie ‘win’ was when the wonderful Halle Berry accepted her Worst Actress Award for Catwoman in person.

Fox want to delay Watchmen. Riots expected.

Liam — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:16:35 +0000

According to The Hollywood Reporter an attorney for 20th Century Fox said the studio will continue to seek an order delaying the release of Watchmen.

U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess last week agreed with Fox that Warner Bros. had infringed its copyright by developing and shooting the superhero flick, scheduled for release March 6.
Feess said Monday that he plans to hold a trial Jan. 20 to decide remaining issues.

If Watchmen does get delayed there is no doubt that fans will be pissed off. Earlier this year ComicBookMovie got the chance to interview one angry fan, and if I were Fox I would be shaking in my boots!

CBM: What exactly are you planning on doing?
Wyatt: If I get enough support, I would like to go picket Fox Studios and even perhaps the local Wolverine opening night. Aside form that I want to cover up all Fox movie posters with signs that read: Who Watches the Watchmen?
CBM: What would you tell the Fox execs if you could get a meeting with them?
Wyatt: They have no idea who they a f**king with. Watchmen fans are not regular comic fans. We’re f**king crazy. There will be retaliations if they keep this nonsense up. Also I would say that they had there chance and blew it. Stop being assholes and give the people what the want.

20th Century Fox were not the most loved studio to begin with, so this will not help their image one bit (however I doubt they will care). Ideally things will get sorted and Warner Bros. will just have to give Fox a big chunck of money, although I doubt it will be that simple.

Expect more updates on this in the upcoming days/weeks.

Cher As Catwoman?

Liam — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:22:01 +0000

Some crazy rumor has been whipping around that Cher, who is best known for having plastic surgery and being old, will play Catwoman in Christopher Nolan’s follow up to The Dark Knight, or Batman 3 as some like to call it. This bullcrap comes courtesy of The Telegraph:

A studio executive said: “Cher is Nolan’s first choice to play Catwoman. He wants to her to portray her like a vamp in her twilight years.
“The new Catwoman will be the absolute opposite of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry’s purring creations.”

Well Film School Rejects must have had a slow news day, as they decided to follow up this bull by contacting Cher’s agent.

“I would LOVE nothing more than for Cher to play Catwoman,” said her manager Risa Shapiro in this morning’s phone interview. “She’d be great. She’s one of the most extraordinary women anyone could ever meet. But I haven’t received any phone call about this, and hadn’t even heard about it. I think I’ll call Chris Nolan and find out what’s going on.”

I suspect Nolan will reveal to her agent that this is just a dumbass rumor, he hasn’t even started writing the script, no casting will be done for at least a year and Catwoman won’t even be in the next film.

Dragonball Scrapped?

Liam — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:00:26 +0000

According to Film Junk an anonymous tipster told them that the big wigs at FOX are thinking about scrapping the upcoming Dragonball movie.

According to our tipster, the higher-ups at Fox are not too impressed the footage that has been shot thus far, and are seriously debating shutting the whole thing down. Now I have no idea if this is a real possibility or if the studio is just putting pressure on director James Wong to deliver, but the movie supposedly has a budget of over $100 million and I can understand them wanting to cut some losses while they still can.

Of course that is a load of crap. FOX wouldn’t cancel a movie they have thrown $100+ million at, however bad it may be. I know expectations from Dragonball aren’t that high considering we haven’t seen any footage, but FOX have put out much worse.

Dragonball will not be scrapped. Stupid Film Junk.

Ace Ventura 3! Yay!

Liam — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:01:55 +0000

The most highly anticipated sequel of the decade is finally on its way! Unfortunately, Jim Carrey chose not to return to this obvious box office hit.

“Everyone knows he was the main reason the first two movies were entertaining in the first place but screw that lets make it anyway!”

Says greedy and unintelligent film makers who should have taken the phrase ‘Somebody stop meh’‘ a bit more literally.

Posters from Filmz.ru.

“Allrighty-then. After his African adventure in “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls,” Ace returned to Florida, married girlfriend Melissa (Ann Cusack) and became the doting father of a baby boy. Never one to sit still, Ace’s curious nature took him on another remote case. The goofball gumshoe was never to be seen or heard from again.
Single mom Melissa couldn’t fully put the past behind her. Now a zookeeper, she and Ace Jr. (Flitter) have made a life carrying on without her husband. Much to Melissa’s chagrin, however, 12-year-old Ace Jr. has begun to follow in his father’s comic footsteps. He has recently become a pet detective for the 7th grade set, often trying to recover classmates’ missing pets, and always with big mishaps.
But when a master animal thief abducts a baby panda and his mom is wrongly arrested of the crime, Ace Jr. must jump into action. Now, with the help of pals Laura and tech wizard A-Plus, young Ace must bring the thief to justice and do his inane and lovable dad’s memory justice.”

Disaster Movie Poster

Liam — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:13:11 +0000

Cinematical got themselves an exclusive look at the new poster for Disaster Movie. (I’m sure they are very honoured)

I didn’t know of this movies existence but the title gave it away as to what I should expect. It comes from the makers of Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie and Date Movie, which all have a score below 3/10 on IMDB, so it will no doubt suck even if the poster is slightly amusing.

As usual Carmen Electra is in it, but I assume you already guessed that. It looks like they will be spoofing The Day After Tomorrow along with other ‘end of the world’ movies. However, they will also be spoofing The Love Guru, The Incredible Hulk and Superbad which have nothing to do with disasters at all.