Firefly Soaring To Theaters
oss Whedon, best known for turning his unsuccessful feature film Buffy the Vampire Slayer into a popular television series, is adapting his short-lived television series Firefly into a feature film for Universal Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition to writing the screenplay, Whedon will also make his feature directorial debut with the project.
Set 500 years in the future, the action-adventure series centers around a crew of outlaws aboard the spaceship Serenity. According to the trade paper, the feature version will incorporate the mythology from the show but will take on a more epic feel. Whedon hopes to enlist the entire cast to come back for the feature, depending on their previous commitments, with new characters added as well.
Fox originally ran only 12 of the 15 episodes produced before canceling the series this season, but the unaired episodes will likely be included in an upcoming DVD release, due out in December. Production on the film is scheduled to begin in early 2004.
Hounsou Joins Alias
jimon Hounsou (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life) is joining the cast of ABC's Alias in a recurring role as a big-time villain, Variety reported.
Hounsou will play the head of an evil new criminal organization that the CIA and Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) will attempt to take down, the trade paper reported.
Honsou will appear in at least two episodes of the show, with an option to return for more, depending on plot twists, the trade paper reported.
Abrams Talks Alias Game
lias creator J.J. Abrams told The Hollywood Reporter that he knew his hit TV series would make a good video game, but that he still had worries.
"As a fan of video games myself, I knew this would be an excellent video game," Abrams told the trade paper. "So many games have used this sort of episodic adventure paradigm, from something as simple as Tomb Raider to as dark as Max Payne, where it's a character you're following."
Even so, Abrams admitted some concerns. "With the linear experience of television, you can structure revelation and storytelling, and you're able to be elusive when necessary and spoon-feed when necessary," he said. "But how do you make an interactive experience that you control into something that delivers emotionally? And on an aesthetic level, it has to be a satisfying game-play experience if it has the Alias name on it. I was a little nervous."
The answer was for Abrams to be involved from the very earliest stages, he said. He also made sure that game developer Acclaim used series star Jennifer Garner and the other actors, along with the writers, composer, set designers, costume designers and other members of the Alias team. "It had to stand on its own, but at the same time, it had to feel like an extension of the show," Abrams said. The Alias game will be released for all next-generation gaming systems this fall.
Gellar Guesting On Angel?
V Guide reported that former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar is in talks to appear in two episodes of The WB's spinoff series Angel next year, according to a report by the Associated Press.
Gellar's appearance will be during a sweeps period in either February or May, the magazine said.
The president of The WB network reportedly told TV Guide that bringing some of the characters from Buffy over to Angel—either to visit or to stay—helped in deciding not to cancel the show. Angel returns Oct. 1.
Actors Test For Batman
arner Brothers and director Christopher Nolan will test several hot new actors for the title role in the studio's proposed fifth Batman movie, which is scheduled to start shooting in February 2004, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Sources told the trade paper that during the next three days, several young actors are expected to test for the role, including Jake Gyllenhaal, Christian Bale, Joshua Jackson, Cillian Murphy, Henry Cavill and Eion Bailey.
Meanwhile, sources said that Hugh Dancy (King Arthur) may test if his schedule permits and he is able to shave the beard his Arthur character, Galahad, is sporting, the trade paper reported.
Padme's Family In Episode III
ctors who played Padme Amidala's family in deleted scenes of Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones will appear in the upcoming third prequel, Episode III, the official Star Wars Web site reported.
Claudia Karvan, Hayley Mooy and Keira Wingate will return as members of the Naberrie family, who were filmed for the previous movie, but cut in the theatrical release.
Scenes of Padme's (Natalie Portman) family on Naboo were included in the DVD release of Episode II. Karvan will again play Padme's sister, Sola Naberrie. Child actors Mooy and Wingate will again appear as Pooja and Ryoo Naberrie, Sola's daughters.
Title Out Of The Woods?
isney may retitle M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming supernatural thriller film The Woods, in part because director Lucky McKee will soon direct an unrelated horror movie also entitled The Woods, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Producers of McKee's Woods are reportedly clearing up any potential title dispute with Shyamalan's movie, and it looks as if McKee's project will get to keep its name, the trade paper reported.
A Disney spokesman told the trade paper that Shyamalan's The Woods is just a working title.
Gothika Stars Bonded
enelope Cruz, who co-stars with Halle Berry in the upcoming supernatural thriller film Gothika, told SCI FI Wire that she connected with the Oscar-winning actress.
"She's great," Cruz said in an interview. "She's my favorite. And with Halle I really connected, because my scenes were very emotionally draining."
Berry stars as Dr. Miranda Grey, a criminal psychologist who wakes up as a patient in her own mental institution. Cruz described her Gothika character, Chloe, as a young woman undeservedly imprisoned in the institution.
"She was raped by her stepfather, and she killed him," Cruz said. "So she's been put in there and treated like a crazy person, when it was really in self-defense. Now she keeps saying that somebody or something is doing things to her. But they think she's crazy. Nobody listens to her. And then she connects with this woman, this doctor, which is Halle's character. When things start happening to Halle, she starts thinking I might be right. They have a very special relationship together."
Cruz described Gothika as "Halle's movie," but added that Chloe is an important character, both to the movie and to her. "The character means a lot to me," Cruz said. "She's like a flower that opens. There are reasons for her to be there. And she's right. I don't know if I'm supposed to say what happens, but somebody listens to her, and things get better for her, just because somebody acknowledged what she was saying." Gothika will haunt theaters on Oct. 24.
Potter Train Vandalized
he British tabloid paper The Sun reported that a steam train used as the Hogwarts Express for the upcoming film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was forced off the rails after vandals caused thousands of dollars worth of damage.
In the film, based on the best-selling book by J.K. Rowling, the Hogwarts Express transports Harry Potter and his friends to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year. The train was found in its yard in Scarborough, Yorkshire, with two of its cars covered in graffiti. The damage to the rented train cost an estimated $5,000 to fix, the paper reported. James Shuttleworth, of the West Coast Railway Company, which operates the train, said that the vandalism was "heartbreaking" and called the perpetrators "mindless toerags."
Rings DVD Sets Records
he Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers has earned a record $22.89 million in its first five days on rental store shelves, according to estimates from Video Store magazine and The Hollywood Reporter.
The second installment of the Rings franchise also set a one-day record for the year in home video sales on Aug. 26, with consumers purchasing more than 3.5 million combined VHS and DVD units, the trade papers reported.
The first film in the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, earned an estimated $17.22 million in rentals during its first week of release in August of 2002. A four-disk Platinum Series Extended Edition of The Two Towers, which features 40 minutes of additional footage among its many extras, will be released on Nov. 18.
Roswell Fans Sell Calendars
ans of the defunct teen alien series Roswell are selling fan-produced 2004 calendars to benefit charity.
The fan Web site RoswellMovie.net is accepting orders for the calendars, which will be available in December, to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
The 11-by-17-inch calendar features fan-written poems and photos of the Roswell stars taken by fans and arranged into layouts. The calendars cost $18.99, plus shipping and handling, until Nov. 11, after which the price will go up.
Fever Evokes Classic Horror
li Roth, who directed and co-wrote the upcoming horror film Cabin Fever, told SCI FI Wire that he wanted to make a film in the spirit of the classic fright-fests of his youth.
"The inspiration for this was definitely Evil Dead," he said in an interview while promoting the film. "I wanted to make kids in the woods. And I loved Friday the 13th [and] Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I mean, that film was such a huge influence, as was John Carpenter's The Thing."
Cabin Fever follows a group of recent college graduates whose vacation is interrupted by an encounter with a flesh-eating virus. The concept was based on Roth's own personal experiences with a series of bizarre medical incidents. "I had this experience where I got this weird itch on this farm," he said. "And I started scratching my face, and I looked at my hand. And just like in the movie, there was chunks of, like, flesh and skin on my hand."
Roth felt the subject matter of a mysterious and deadly illness was ideally suited to the kind of horror film the first-time feature director has always wanted to make. "I was always terrified of possession movies," he said. "And I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to have a movie where people are stuck somewhere and there's possession, but it's sort of like the kind of possession that I felt, that I went through?'"
Roth hopes that the film not only scares audiences, but also gives them the desire to learn more about the real-life dangers it portrays. "You could be fine one day and then wake up, and you're just rotting away," he said. "We're not at the top of the food chain. It's viruses and bacteria that are going to get all of us." Cabin Fever opens Sep. 12.
Everhart Plays With Bugs
ngie Everhart, who stars in the SCI FI Channel's original picture
Bugs, told SCI FI Wire that she plays an entomologist trying to save the world.
"My character has a knowledge of certain species, and Antonio Sabato Jr. [SCI FI Pictures' Mindstorm] plays a [civil engineer] who brings me over a sample of something that was found on a body discovered down in a tunnel. I analyze the substance and find that it's from a scorpion-ish type of bug, but it couldn't be that, because the enzymes in it are off the charts."
Everhart (Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood) added, "The curious cat my character is, I want to go and find out what this creature is, because if it is what I think it is, we're dealing with a scorpion the size of an elephant that eats human beings and rips them in half. So the movie is about trying to discover what these bugs are and then, once we're trapped in the tunnel, it's about trying to get out, trying not to get eaten and using my familiarity with the bug world [to help them escape]."
Everhart revealed that no real bugs were used in the film. Instead, there were a few plastic creatures on set, while the rest were realized using computer animation. "Thank God there were no real bugs," Everhart said. "We had [fake] bug legs, arms and heads around, and one full bug in total. Even though my character likes bugs, I can't stand them. I see a spider and go 'Ewwww!' But I can't kill them. I can deal with snakes. I can deal with mice. I can deal with anything like that. But when it comes to bugs, I can't deal. It was almost all special effects. We did not act to one single bug. We were shown, on a computer, what the bugs were going to look like, so we used our imaginations."
Everhart may not like bugs, but she likes Bugs. "I think it looks great," she said. "I was surprised. We were working under such horrible conditions. We were in Toronto, in the middle of the winter. It was 30 below outside, and we were working in this huge factory that could not be heated. So we were freezing to death. I kept looking at the film, going, 'It doesn't look like we're cold. It doesn't look like we were absolutely miserable.'" Bugs premiered Sept. 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT and repeats at 1 a.m.
Summer Is SCI FI's Best Yet
he SCI FI Channel scored its best summer ratings ever, averaging a 1.0 household rating in prime time (782,000 households), the network announced.
That represented an 11 percent increase over the summer of 2002. SCI FI also extended its streak of year-over-year ratings growth in August to 16 months, currently the longest prime-time ratings streak in television, the network said.
SCI FI remained in the top 10 in major demographic categories, including persons 18-49 (10th place), 25-54 (seventh), females 25-54 (ninth) and men 25-54 (seventh). The biggest win was in the category of men 18-49, in which SCI FI's ratings increased 11 percent in prime time to seventh place.
The network's performance was led by Stargate SG-1, which was recently renewed for an eighth season. The series averaged a 1.6 household rating (1.32 million households) for its Friday night original episodes. That made it SCI FI's highest-rated series for the summer. The June 13 two-hour premiere of Stargate SG-1's seventh season delivered a 1.9 household rating, and, with 2.42 million viewers, the telecast attracted more viewers than any episode of Stargate SG-1 in the program's cable history, the network reported. Monday night's block of back-to-back Stargate SG-1 repeat episodes delivered an average 1.2 household rating, a 100 percent increase over 2002's average rating in the same time period.
In August, SCI FI delivered a 0.99 household rating, a 4 percent increase over August 2002's 0.95 rating. It was the channel's highest-rated August ever.
Fly Takes Wing Again
ox Searchlight has just made a deal to remake the classic SF movie The Fly, with newcomer Todd Lincoln writing the script and directing, Variety reported.
Lincoln's resume consists of commercials, shorts and music videos, the trade paper reported.
Searchlight was encouraged by the sleeper success of its summer zombie movie 28 Days Later. Lincoln, an avowed horror buff, told the trade paper that he admires the 1958 original Fly and David Cronenberg's 1986 remake.
"This is certainly inspired by the original, but it's a total re-imagining," Lincoln told the trade paper. He added, "Why, in both films, did the fly never fly?"
Batman Game Extras Offered
he upcoming video game Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu introduces a new villain in the Caped Crusader's universe, and publisher Ubi Soft Entertainment is joining with Mattel, DC Comics and Warner Brothers Consumer Products to launch special commemorative editions.
Some 15,000 copies of the Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu commemorative edition will include a Mattel Batman action figure, and another 15,000 will include a Batgirl action figure. Both will be dressed in classic costumes.
A lithograph edition will be available for the GameCube only and will include a four-color, two-sided Sin Tzu lithograph designed by Sin Tzu co-creator Jim Lee.
The editions will be sold through the GameStop and Electronics Boutique Web sites.
Developed by Ubi Soft's Montreal Studios, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu stays true to the Batman franchise with action-packed gameplay and challenging villains, Ubi Soft said. The game features Batman's allies Robin, Nightwing and Batgirl, as well as Sin Tzu and three other villains never before seen in a Batman video game: Clayface, Scarecrow and Bane. Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu will have a suggested retail price of $39.99 and is scheduled to ship in mid-October.
Pirates DVD Due Dec. 2
rrrh! The hit Disney movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl will come out on DVD on Dec. 2 in a two-disc set, the studio announced.
Starring Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom, the Pirates DVD will feature deleted scenes, a gag reel, audio commentary by Depp, a "making-of" featurette, additional filmmaker actor commentary and more, the studio said.
The DVD set will carry a suggested retail price of $29.99. A separate VHS version of the film will also debut, with a suggested retail price of $24.99.
Rare Beatrix Potter Art Found
rare cache of drawings and watercolors by Beatrix Potter, the creator of Peter Rabbit, has come to light in Scotland, with an estimated worth of nearly $400,000, the Associated Press reported.
The 23 illustrations by Potter were discovered when they were evaluated by Clive Farahar, an expert who appeared on the popular British television program Antiques Roadshow, the wire service reported.
They include pictures of rabbits and kittens and mice in human-like situations, all early drawings in Potter's style, the news service reported. Jack Swanston, who took the collection to the British Broadcasting Corp.'s TV program when it visited Dumfries, Scotland, was astonished by the value of the unique collection. "He was a very polite man, but when I told him the price his eyebrows shot up very far, and he took a deep breath," Farahar, an antiquarian book expert, told the AP.
Judy Taylor, a Beatrix Potter expert and biographer, said the collection may originate from Potter's brother, Bertram Potter, who used to have a farm in the area, the AP reported.
It's Jake With Gorham
hristopher Gorham, star of UPN's upcoming SF series Jake 2.0, told SCI FI Wire that the show is a metaphor for coming into your own.
"It's kind of discovering yourself," Gorham (Odyssey 5) said in an interview. "And I think the '2.0' kind of works on that level as well. It's like as you go through life, you're constantly upgrading [and] hopefully not downgrading. And each time you move into the newest version of yourself, there's new problems and there's new rewards, and you kind of have to learn all over again."
In the new series, Gorham plays Jake Foley, a computer tech for the National Security Agency, who becomes accidentally infected with high-tech "nanites" that give him superhuman powers. Gorham said that the physical role required him to learn a few new skills. "There's a lot of stunts," he said. "There's a lot of action stuff. So it's really fun. Honestly. It's challenging, especially since the show revolves so much around Jake that I'm working all the time. So I have to be really careful that I don't get injured. Almost all the stunts in the pilot I did myself."
Gorham added that he has one "superpower" of his own: He taught ballroom dancing in high school. "There was a thing called a cotillion in Fresno [Calif.] that I did growing up. And then as I got into high school, they asked me if I'd come back and teach. So I did. A little extra money on the side. It was fun." is it possible we'll see Jake Foley dance as well? "Absolutely," Gorham said. "Because I think Jake is one of those guys whose mom taught him how to waltz. So I think he knows how to dance. ... Like some super foxtrot or something." Jake 2.0 premieres Sept. 10 and will air on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT, right after Enterprise.
Walker Headlines Apostle
olumbia Pictures and producer Mark Gordon are teaming on The Last Apostle, an SF action movie to be developed as a starring vehicle for Paul Walker (Timeline), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Tag Mendillo and Ric Roman Waugh will write the script, which is set in a Gothic future world, the trade paper reported.
The Last Apostle follows an antihero with a dark secret who strives to win an epic struggle of good vs. evil, the trade paper reported. Gordon will produce, with Walker's manager Matt Luber at Nine Yards Entertainment executive producing.
Cruz Boxes, Shoots In Hell
enelope Cruz told SCI FI Wire that in order to play an operative from hell in the Spanish-language fantasy-comedy Don't Tempt Me she had to learn how to box and how to handle a gun.
"I did some training," Cruz said in an interview. "It was very exhausting."
The Spanish-born Cruz added, "I had to box with men, and everyone was, like, twice as big as me. So it took triple effort. But nobody hurt me. Everything went fine. I also had to learn how to use that gun. I'd never touched a gun in my life. It was such a strange object. I didn't like touching that very much."
In the film, the balance of power between heaven and hell depends on which faction wins the soul of a seemingly insignificant, brain-damaged boxer (Demian Bichir). Cruz plays Carmen, an ex-gangster in the body of an evil, sultry woman, whose rival is a heavenly angel named Lola (Victoria Abril). Cruz, who's been publicizing Don't Tempt Me around the world, said that journalists everywhere have asked her to compare how the film's depictions of heaven (a 1930s Parisian nightclub) and hell (a sweaty corporate world where everyone speaks English) compare with her own interpretations.
"Both of them, to me, are a state, a place you go when you die," Cruz said. "You just have to open a paper to experience hell. Some people go through that every day. And sometimes you can see in something a state that reminds you of what maybe heaven could be. Then maybe 10 minutes later, the phone will ring, and everything will be ruined again. So it's a constant combination of good and bad, this planet on which we live. We survive because life is great, and there is magic and there is love and we have families. There are so many reasons to keep fighting." Don't Tempt Me is now in limited release.
Natali Helms Necropolis
incenzo Natali (Cube) has come on board to direct Necropolis for Dimension Films, Variety reported.
Director Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil) wrote the script, which is being produced by Anderson and his longtime partner, Jeremy Bolt, under their Impact Pictures company, the trade paper reported. The movie is described as a psychological thriller set in Chicago.
Anderson is preparing to direct the upcoming SF action movie Alien vs. Predator for Fox, and, with Bolt, he is also shooting the sequel film Resident Evil: Apocalypse for Screen Gems and Constantin Film, the trade paper reported.
Hyams Expands Thunder
eter Hyams—who is directing the SF film A Sound of Thunder, based on Ray Bradbury's short story—told SCI FI Wire that the movie will greatly expand the slim premise of Bradbury's original time-travel tale, with the legendary writer's blessing.
"We took it a great deal farther, actually," Hyams said in an interview at Bradbury's 83rd birthday celebration at the Planetary Society in Pasadena, Calif.
Hyams (Timecop, 2010) said that the script, by Clement Enlatarne, takes off from Bradbury's story, about a big-game hunter who goes back in time to hunt a dinosaur and inadvertently changes the future. Hyams, who is no fan of hunting, has changed the character (played by Edward Burns) into a genetic researcher who is going back in time to take DNA readings in an effort to reconstitute wildlife that has vanished from the Earth in the future. "And when they come back from one of these [time trips], things begin to change, and they don't know why things begin to change," Hyams said. "And the changes escalate." After a number of subsequent time trips, Hyams said, "the city is actually turned into a primordial jungle. What you're basically seeing is evolution gone berserk, so the few people that are left are in fact the prey. And what is hunting them are things that no one's ever seen before."
Hyams added that he has been a big fan of Bradbury's since the director was a boy, and that he consulted with Bradbury throughout the development of the script. "He was involved in the sense that I kept on saying, 'Is this OK with you? Is this OK with you? Is this OK with you?'" Hyams said. "He's Ray Bradbury. If he didn't like something, I wouldn't do it." Hyams added, "He's been unhappy with a lot of things that have been done based on his work. And I did not feel like joining that group. I want to be the founding member of the other club. I want to make a film that he adores." A Sound of Thunder, which also stars Ben Kingsley and Catherine McCormack, is currently in production, with an eye to a 2004 release.
Smallville's Chloe Darkens
mallville co-star Allison Mack told SCI FI Wire that her character, tyro journalist Chloe Sullivan, is no longer the innocent, spunky and naive girl who thought she knew everything, but really knew nothing.
"As the years have gone on, we've really seen her grow and develop and change," Mack said in an interview. "She's become a woman and realized her strengths and her weaknesses. I think she's gotten a lot more guarded, and she's a lot less open to rejection from the people around her. She's been thrown into a horrible situation, and she's been forced to grow up in a lot of ways. So I think that she's matured as a woman."
During season two, Chloe took a bit of a back seat to Clark (Tom Welling) and Lana (Kristin Kreuk), as they explored their burgeoning romantic relationship, and to Pete (Sam Jones III), as he learned of Clark's super secret. In the upcoming season, Mack revealed, Chloe will step to the fore and toward the dark side.
"I think, as you saw last season, that she was screwed over one too many times," Mack said. "Now she has to make the decision 'Am I the most important person in my life or are my friends?' That's a tough question. It's good. It's very tantalizing, the dark side, and it's very interesting to her. Lionel Luthor [John Glover] makes it sound even more tantalizing. So she definitely plays with it and touches it, and I think that Chloe definitely has it in her to go that way." Season three of Smallville will take flight Oct. 1 on The WB, with "Exile," part one of a two-part opener that will conclude the following week with "Phoenix."
Fantasy X-2 To Ship
quare Enix announced that Final Fantasy X-2—the direct sequel to Final Fantasy X for the PlayStation 2 and the first all-female-led game in the franchise—will ship to retailers in early December.
The company also announced that Final Fantasy X has been added to Sony Computer Entertainment America's Greatest Hits series.
Final Fantasy X-2 is the first sequel in the best-selling series. The game is the first mission-based installment, allowing for nonlinear gameplay, and features new and unique job classes, which provide diverse looks for the leading female characters and an enhanced character development system. The game centers on the return of Yuna and her cousin Rikku and introduces Paine, their sarcastic, hard-nosed friend. Final Fantasy X-2 was released in Japan in March and shipped approximately 2 million units in the first month of its release. It carries a suggested retail price of $49.99.
Originally released in December 2001 in North America, Final Fantasy X is the first title in the role-playing game series for the PlayStation 2. To date, more than 1.8 million units have shipped in North America and 5.9 million units worldwide. The Greatest Hits edition of the game is available now, with a suggested retail price of $19.99.
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The Australian Moviehole Web site reported a rumor that Artisan has quietly begun shooting a new Man-Thing movie in Sydney, based on the Marvel Comics series. Citing an anonymous source, the site reported that the movie stars Matthew Le Nevez, Jack Thompson, Rachel Taylor, Alex O'Lachlan and Imogen Bailey.
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Terminator 3 star and California Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger was pelted with an egg at a campaign rally as he walked through a crowd Sept. 3 at California State University in Long Beach, Calif., Zap2it reported. "This guy owes me bacon now," he joked later.
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Id Software and Activision confirmed that Vicarious Visions is developing Doom 3 for Xbox.
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The official Star Trek Web site has posted new images from the upcoming third season of UPN's Enterprise, including new photos of T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) with her longer haircut and more colorful costumes. Enterprise returns Sept. 10 in its regular Wednesday 8 p.m. ET/PT timeslot.
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Harry Potter actor David Bradley (Argus Filch) is starring in This is Not a Love Song, a British movie that is being touted as the first movie launched on the Internet, Zap2it reported. The film is being streamed on Sept. 5 and is the work of Full Monty writer Simon Beaufoy.
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Dark Horizons reports that Jessica Simpson has been cast in Mort, The Dead Teenager, a movie adapted from the Marvel Comics series of the same name. Simpson had been rumored to be cast in the proposed Fantastic Four movie.
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Cinescape Online reported that the first trailer for Resident Evil 2 will screen with the upcoming vampire film Underworld, starting Sept. 19; that trailers for Spider-Man 2 will accompany The Missing in December; and that a trailer for Hellboy will appear in October.
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TheForce.net is reporting major spoilers for the upcoming Star Wars: Episode III, including elements of Anakin Skywalker's (Hayden Christensen) transformation into Darth Vader.
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The ComingSoon.net Web site reported a rumor that Paramount and MTV have pulled the plug on a proposed live-action movie version of the animated TV series Aeon Flux. Girlfight director Karyn Kusama was attached to the adaptation.
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Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro answered fan questions in a chat on the official movie Web site.
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