Martin Campbell is deep into casting on Green Lantern in preparation for a March shoot in New Orleans.
Ryan Reynolds is playing the title character, Blake Lively his love interest Carol Ferris, Peter Sarsgaard the villain Dr. Hector Hammond, and Mark Strong is in talks for Sinestro.
While we wait for paparazzi set pictures or official promotional images, a batch of cool concept art has surfaced on the Internet for a few unannounced supporting roles.
Cosmic Book News and the Green Lantern Corps. message boards (via /Film) scored early looks at possible designs for three other Green Lanterns. These pictures are unconfirmed.
Kilowog (seen in the first two pictures below) is a brutish character that trains Hal Jordan (Reynolds) in ring combat.
Kilowog
Kilowog head close up
Abin Sur (the purplish guy) is the alien who passes the ring to Jordan, and Tomar-Re (the finned fellow) is another friend who helps in his intergalactic training.
Abin Sur and Tomar-Re
Campbell has confirmed all three characters will appear in the film, but it’s important to note these are only concept pieces and may not reflect how the aliens actually look on screen. A perfect example is the frightening concept art for the Joker in The Dark Knight.
Green Lantern is scheduled for theaters June 17, 2011.
Synapse Films continue their ongoing campaign to bring early schlock horror & exploitation cinema to the US, with the release of Kazuo ‘Gaira’ Komizu’s, Battle Girl: The Living Dead In Tokyo Bay on R1 DVD. Komizu gained notoriety in 80s Japan with films like ‘Entrails of a Virgin’ and ‘Entrails of a Beautiful Woman,’ and from just the titles you can guess in depth character and plot development weren’t top of his list. Zombies, nudity, sex, gore and spatter were the name of the game. Nothing new there you’d argue? But then its always interesting to see how they used to do it the “olden” days. Battle Girl goes on sale on Feb 23rd.
A meteor lands in Japan and the fallout creates a “shield” around Tokyo, encasing the city in a foggy darkness. A state of martial law is declared. People are in a panic as violent crime and corruption spreads throughout the region and punk gangs are ruling the streets. As if things weren’t bad enough, a chemical reaction from the meteor unleashes a deadly virus and now the dead are coming back to life as flesh-eating zombies! K-ko (played by Japanese wrestling sensation, Cutie Suzuki) is asked to help find survivors and given a bulletproof leather-and-blade “Battle Suit” to help her on her rescue mission. Punching, blasting and decapitating the zombie hordes with her armor and weapons, she discovers something even more evil… a sadistic military general who wants to use the zombies in his own plan for world domination!
Four recently deceased characters find themselves in Purgatory awaiting a sin cleansing so that they may enter Heaven. They have been gathered to review and relive the ONE sin which they have failed to repent while on earth, that is so heinous, it may send them straight to hell. The film is composed of four horror vignettes with a wrap around story of their spiritual guide. But nothing is what it seems as these people may be misrepresenting themselves.
Filming begins in February 2010
Traci Lords
Directed by
Edward G. Norris
Writers
Ron R. Anand
Scott C. Sanford
Producers
Michael A. Calace … co-producer
Precious Hilton … associate producer
Edward G. Norris … producer
Scott C. Sanford … associate producer
Cast
Laura Harring … Marcella
Traci Lords … The Guide
Amanda Plummer
Sid Haig … Dr. Phillips
Meg Foster … (rumored)
Karen Black … Lacy
Courtney Gains … Baxter
James DeBello … Bobby
Greg Travis … Ronald
Iglesias Estefania … Freda
Cinqué Lee … Tyree
Joseph Ferrante … Miles Cohen
Bianca Giancoli … Bonnie
Deanna Webb … Blonde Woman
Precious Hilton … Actress
South African beauty Tanit Phoenix (Lord of War, Gallowalker, Lost Boys : The Thirst) is said to be in talks to join Luke Goss for Death Race: Frankenstein Lives, the direct-to-video prequel to Universal Pictures’ Death Race remake, reports Geek Week.
They add that Phoenix is believed to be the frontrunner to play Elizabeth Jane Case, a card girl for the fight matches, later a navigator when the prisoners are forced to test their driving skills, who develops a ‘close’ bond with Lucas. She’s in prison for accidentally killing her cop husband. Directed by Roel Renie (The Marine 2), the sequel goes behind cameras next month in South Africa.
The swords and sandals are about the only similarities between Spartacus: Blood and Sand and Xena: Warrior Princess, Lucy Lawless says.
“They’re so different from each other in almost every way,” she tells TVGuide.com. “From the technology, the fight sequences, the sex scenes.”
In addition to the copious amounts of blood spilled on-screen, the Starz ancient Rome epic features boundary-pushing sex scenes that are about as explicit as you can get on television. Lawless, who had not done nudity prior to Spartacus, is at the center of a number of them as manipulative man-eater Lucretia.
The show shoots in Lawless’ native New Zealand, where she will return in April to begin production on Season 2. In a huge vote of confidence, Starz renewed the series a month before its January premiere. It wasn’t for naught — the series premiered to a record 3.3 million viewers with DVR and encore viewings tabulated.
It was the independent, art-house studio that became a major industry player in the 1990s, courtesy of such Oscar-winning hits as Pulp Fiction and The English Patient. But there was no Hollywood-style happy ending for Miramax studios, which shut up shop today with the loss of 80 jobs.
Founded by producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein back in 1979, Miramax flourished as an independent distribution and production outfit, before becoming part of the Disney empire in 1993. The company scored with low-budget hits such as Clerks and sex, lies and videotape and won Oscars, helped launch the career of Quentin Tarantino and scooped Oscars with the likes of The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love. The Weinsten brothers – who named the company after their parents Max and Miriam – quit to form the Weinstein Company in 2005.
During its heyday, Miramax was regarded as arguably the industry’s most respected and influential production company. But in recent years its output has been downscaled by Disney, and its demise was predicted long before today’s closure of its offices in LA. The six Miramax pictures that are currently awaiting distribution – including John Madden’s The Debt and Last Night, starring Keira Knightley – now face an uncertain future.
“I’m feeling very nostalgic right now,” Harvey Weinstein said today “I know the movies made on my and my brother Bob’s watch will live on … Miramax has some brilliant people working within the organisation and I know they will go on to do great things in the industry.”
We knew it was coming, but didn’t expect there to be an English subtitled version from the get go. A fantastic first trailer for Pakpoom Wongchinda’s latest horror Who Are You has arrived. Written by Ekasit Thairat who penned ‘13: Game of Death’ and ‘The Body’ we knew it would be good, but seeing this, we’ll stick our necks out and say this could well be one of the best horror flicks to come out of Thailand this year.
Synopsis: Nida, a Porn DVD vendor is the mother of Ton a boy with a severe psychological disorder called Hikkikomori (Acute Social Withdrawal). He has locked himself in his room for the past 5 years, not going anywhere or meeting anyone. The only way to communicate with him is through written notes slipped under the door. This mysterious behaviour led to a lot of interest from others like “Dome” a TV show executive , “Parn” a sickly young girl from the house opposite, “Nino” the motorcycle taxi/thief and “Wirach” Ton’s father. The curiosity leads all of them on a journey that finally culminates in asking a shocking question, that not one of them had anticipated….Is Ton actually still in the room!?
Speaking of the man formerly known as Mad Max, after not acting in a movie since 2003’s “The Singing Detective”, Mel Gibson appears ready to make up for lost time. He’s got the revenge thriller “Edge of Darkness” coming out soon, and he’s already down in Mexico shooting his friendly-sounding-yet-anything-but prison movie “How I Spent My Summer Vacation”. Now he can add a return to action hero status as the lead in Shane Black’s “Cold Warrior” to his list of comeback films. Black signed on to direct the spec script almost two years ago, but he’s just now landed his main draw — an A-list leading man.
Black and Gibson share a history — one of Gibson’s biggest hits was 1987’s “Lethal Weapon”, which Black wrote on spec. In “Cold Warrior”, Gibson would play a retired cold war spy who must stop a domestic terrorism threat from Russia.
“Cold Warrior” will be Black’s second movie after 2005’s action-comedy “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”.
Variety reports that Charlize Theron and filmmaker David Fincher have teamed to develop a drama series titled Mind Hunter for HBO and Fox 21 revolving around the investigation of serial killers.
The show will be loosely based on the book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. The book recounts Douglas’ experiences as a top FBI investigator of serial killers and rapists, and the profiling techniques he developed. Scott Buck, an exec producer on Showtime’s hit series Dexter is set to script the pilot.
Theron is producing through her Denver and Delilah banner, which she runs with Beth Kono and J.J. Harris. Fincher of course helmed the movies Se7en and Zodiac, both based on the investigation of serial killers
by Deljhp – 24FramesPerSecond.com
Andrew Pulver and Xan Brooks – Guardian.co.uk
by Deljhp – 24FramesperSecond.com
