Here are some of the other movie news items floating around the web today that you might be interested in:
– Satellite Awards name The Departed and Dreamgirls as best pictures
– Brittany Murphy to star in White Hotel “The story centers on an opera singer (Murphy) who seeks out the services of Sigmund Freud in post-World War I Vienna. Haunted by hallucinatory dreams about a white hotel, she becomes Freud’s famous case study Anna G. Together, they unlock the key to figuring out her memories and her premonitions of the future, which include the Holocaust.”
– Crash producers want more Oscar push for his film “The Painted Veil” “Debates between the filmmakers and Warners over the final cut of the film — in which China, where the movie was shot, had final say — delayed delivery of the finished print. The producer is unhappy with the studio’s support for the film to date. At one point, Yari even offered to buy the film back from the studio.”
– Werner Herzog says filming in Antartica is easy
– Lionsgate Picks Up Koldo Serra’s The Backwoods
– Beyonce Knowles Interview, DreamGirls
– Alien – New Videogames a RPG and a FPS
– New Zach Braff film Life on the Fast Track Trailer
– McG talks Hot Wheels movie Oh good god this must be some sort of bad joke
– Stallone will talk to Tarantino about Bastards So he’s not in… but he might become in.
– Co-star talks Resident Evil 4 rumours “What could be happening here is that the studio is announcing the next film as the final part of a trilogy – meaning “Resident Evil 4” will be the start of something new; a spin-off perhaps with one of the other characters. One little rumour that has been doing the rounds is that the character of Leon Kennedy could be the hero of the next movie – which would fit in nicely with these other rumours.”
– 2 new stills from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix They’re really nothing special at all… but I’m just giving you the link in case you’re interested.
– Peter Pan Sequel Rights Sold Man I loved “Hook”.
– In Spider-Man 3 Venom does come from Space Yes that’s true to the comic… but it’s a bad idea.
– Sony Pictures 2007 release outlook Actually, this isn’t a bad list of upcoming films for the struggling studio
– Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi are being courted to star in “The Rape of Nanking” “A film about the elongated massacre carried out in China by the Japanese which resulted in many innocent deaths. The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the period of carnage lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938.”
– Willem Dafoe and Jeff Goldblum in “Adam Resurrected” An interesting duo for a Hollocaust film
