Firefly Film Details Hinted
oss Whedon, creator of the defunct Fox SF TV show Firefly, told SCI FI Wire that his proposed series-based feature film will aim at an audience that has never seen the show, but will also contain "big giant payoffs" for faithful fans.
Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) added that he's finishing up the script for the proposed movie.
"It is still just that, a possible film," Whedon said in an interview at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention. "We have a good chance, actually. It looks like it's a real possibility. But more than that I cannot say. ... I don't want to jinx anything."
Whedon acknowledged that it seems odd to try to mount a movie based on a failed television show (Fox canceled Firefly after airing only 11 of the 14 produced episodes). But, he added, referring to his hit Buffy TV series, "It also seems unusual to want to mount a show from a failed film, so you know unusual is sort of my stock in trade. The only reason I'm doing this is because I believed that there was a story to tell that I had not had the opportunity to tell. And I believed that I didn't want to work with anybody except these guys for a long while. So ... there was just too much to give away."
Whedon declined to say which of the series' many loose threads he would tie up in the movie. Some of those include the secret behind the Blue Sun Corp. and its interest in River (Summer Glau); the secret behind Shepherd Book's (Ron Glass) past; the unresolved romantic tension between Capt. Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and Inara (Morena Baccarin); and the unresolved romantic tension between Simon (Sean Maher) and Kaylee (Jewel Staite).
"There are about 400 things I'd like to see wrapped up in the film," Whedon said. "Unfortunately, then it becomes a miniseries. And so there are certain threads that this follows up on very heavily, and certain ones that it drops entirely. Because you have to pick and choose if it's a movie. ... Obviously, the movie is more epic than the show. There's big action stuff and all kinds of hijinks, but the ... development of the relationships and who these people are and why they belong together is always going to be the point." Firefly: The Complete Series was released on DVD on Dec. 9.
Fillion Up For Firefly Film
athan Fillion, who played Capt. Mal Reynolds in the short-lived Fox SF TV series Firefly, told SCI FI Wire that he would like to see his character return to his original, darker persona in a potential feature film based on the space western created by Joss Whedon.
"One of the things we did on the show was we had to lighten him up a little bit," Fillion said in an interview at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention. "I'd like to see him as dark as he was originally conceived. That was something I found a little unusual about him and very unlike me in the beginning and now something I'm anxious to embrace."
Fillion recalled his experience on the show fondly, but criticized his commentary on the recently released DVD box set. "Listening to the commentary that Joss and I did, Nathan should shut up more and listen to Joss a little more," he said. "[Joss] has 25 different layers of scene and what he's thinking about, and story and through-line and just has a wealth of information, and it's poetic the way he puts it out, and then I'll come in with, 'And then I split my pants.'"
During a panel, which included castmates Gina Torres, Adam Baldwin, Morena Baccarin and Ron Glass, Fillion said that nothing could keep him from starring in the film should it go into production. "I would cancel dialysis to be in the movie," he said. Firefly: The Complete Series was released on DVD Dec. 9.
Baldwin Circling Atlantis
dam Baldwin, best known to SF fans as the mercenary Jayne on Joss Whedon's Firefly, told SCI FI Wire that he is pursuing a role on the upcoming Stargate Atlantis, a spin-off of the SCI FI Channel's Stargate SG-1.
"I'm hoping that can work out," he said during an interview at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention. "We're working on it. Nothing set in stone just yet. I'm actually trying convince them to hire me."
Baldwin said that he is up for a supporting character not unlike his role on Firefly. "He's a military guy," he said. "I would be one of the supporting ensemble guys. Not the lead guy. I'm a little past my prime. They want someone in there in their early 20s. You've got to launch a show with a 20-something guy. That's just the nature of the beast these days. So I hopefully could jump in and add my experience to any new show."
In the meantime, Baldwin can be seen in the recently released box set Firefly: The Complete Series, which came out Dec. 9.
Stargate Atlantis is a weekly series set to premiere in the summer of 2004, alongside the upcoming eighth season of SG-1. Production on 20 hourlong episodes of Atlantis is set to start in early 2004. Meanwhile, the remaining episodes of the current seventh season of SG-1 will return to SCI FI on Jan. 9, 2004, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Whedon: No Buffy On Angel?
oss Whedon, co-creator of The WB's Angel, told SCI FI Wire that he doubts that Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar will ever appear on the spinoff series.
"I don't know that we'll see her on the show," Whedon said in an interview at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention. "I don't know that she'll ever pick up a stake again. I don't know. But that's really something you'd have to ask her."
Gellar has recently been quoted as saying that she probably won't appear in an Angel episode this season, which could be the show's last. Whedon said that he hasn't received word on Angel's fate yet, but that it would be nice if Gellar reciprocates the favor Angel star David Boreanaz made by appearing in Buffy's final episodes.
"If it became definitely the end of Angel, that might come up," Whedon said. "But since we don't know, you know, we're counting on anything. You know, Angel really is its own thing, and the cast ... they have a lot to go through anyway. I would love to see her on the show. But we're definitely prepared for anything."
Whedon added that he's not worried about whether Angel's current season, its fifth, is its last. "I'm concentrating on making this season," he said. "And we have an ending that has a lot of closure, but will also lead in very nicely to next season if ... they have one." Angel, which airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT, returns with original episodes in January 2004.
Angel's Harmony Up Front
eff Bell, co-executive producer of The WB's Angel, told SCI FI Wire that the series will resume original episodes with "Harm's Way," an episode devoted almost exclusively to the character of Harmony, played by Mercedes McNab.
"It's just Mercedes front and center," Bell said in an interview. "I think it's really funny. It's sort of the working girl, but the working girl happens to be an evil vampire trying to walk the straight and narrow."
Bell described "Harm's Way" as pretty much a stand-alone episode. But observant fans will notice that Angel (David Boreanaz) and Spike (James Marsters) still sport the bruises and cuts that resulted from their fracas in "Destiny." "We rarely play those holding-over [bits] when it's been a week, because vampires heal quickly," Bell said. "But we just really want you to remember that Angel and Spike had beaten the crap out of each other in episode eight. So those marks are all over both of their faces."
Bell added, "What we're playing in ['Harm's Way'] in terms of our arc is Angel is wondering if he's the guy or not, because Spike just came along and beat him. And so Angel is back on his heels a bit. So you sort of feel that, though there's not a lot that's explicitly about that. The story is really told from Harmony's [point of view]. She's in pretty much every scene we see, and so you're limited to how she perceives everybody. It's all about Harmony, and Mercedes did a great job." "Harm's Way" will likely air in Angel's regular Wednesday 9 p.m. ET/PT timeslot on Jan. 14, 2004.
Angel Props Auctioned
ans will auction props from The WB's Angel—including the amulet that returned Spike from the dead—as part of the "Wolfram & Hart Annual Revue" in Los Angeles to raise money for charity, organizers said.
The charity fund-raiser ball will take place Feb. 21 at the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa and will benefit the Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center, a neighborhood organization dedicated to the revitalization and empowerment of the South Los Angeles community.
Auction items will include a T-shirt autographed by James Marsters (Spike), a leather jacket worn in the show by star David Boreanaz (Angel), and a second Boreanaz leather jacket covered in "Thraxis blood." Tickets for the fan party and charity benefit are still on sale.
Wonderfalls Delayed?
im Minear, who executive produces the upcoming Fox fantasy series Wonderfalls, told SCI FI Wire that the network still has not decided when the show will air, though it's slated for a midseason debut.
"We actually don't have an air date yet," Minear said during an interview at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention. "We don't know if we're going to be on in March. We don't know when we're going to be on. ... It may be in the summer. I would imagine it will be before next fall."
Minear said that the show's odd concept was certainly a factor in the delay. Wonderfalls centers around a 24-year-old girl who hears voices coming from the souvenirs she sells in a tourist shop at Niagara Falls. "I think it's a hard show to sell, and I think that's one of the reasons that they're not quite sure when they're going to air it," Minear said. "Because they want to approach the marketing very carefully. It's not really like anything you've seen. People aren't sure if it's a comedy. They don't know what it is."
The success of the similarly themed Joan of Arcadia is encouraging, Minear said, though Wonderfalls has a distinctly different tone from the CBS show. "It shares some things in common, but it's more like Malcolm in the Middle stylistically," he said. "Both these shows were conceived and the pilots were made at the same time, so we're not really taking any inspiration from Joan."
King Advances In F/X Derby
he Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King made the first cut for nominations for the visual-effects Oscar, but neither of the Matrix sequels did, Variety reported.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week tapped the seven movies that will compete in the effects business' annual bake-off to fill the final three Oscar nomination slots in the category, the trade paper reported.
The films that made the cut: Hulk, King, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Peter Pan, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and X2.
The academy surprised observers by eliminating both the effects-laden Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. The first Matrix won the Oscar for visual effects in 1999, the trade paper reported.
Other films that were in contention but failed to make the cut included Bad Boys II, Big Fish, The Haunted Mansion and The Cat in the Hat.
Final nominees will be announced Jan. 27, along with nominees in the 23 other Oscar categories.
King Rules Box Office
he Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King raked in about $73.6 million in its first weekend of release and put up a five-day haul of $125.1 million since debuting on Dec. 17, the Associated Press reported.
That put it well ahead of the film trilogy's first two chapters, the AP reported.
The Fellowship of the Ring grossed $47.2 million in its first weekend and $75 million in its first five days; the middle chapter, The Two Towers, had a $62 million opening weekend and took in $102 million over its first five days.
Return of the King did not set records for best domestic opening weekend, but it put up the highest numbers ever for a worldwide debut, the AP reported. The film added $121 million in 28 other countries since Dec. 17, for a global total of about $246.1 million, surpassing the $202.8 million five-day opening for The Matrix Revolutions last month.
The fast start boosts the prospects for Return of the King to top the $861 million total worldwide gross for Fellowship and $921 million take for Two Towers. Return of the King could become the second movie to top $1 billion worldwide, after Titanic ($1.8 billion), the AP reported.
Molina Embraces Doc Ock
lfred Molina, who plays the villainous Doctor Octopus in the upcoming sequel film Spider-Man 2, told the Comics Continuum Web site that he has "surrendered" to the experience.
"It's not like anything most of us do in the course of our work," Molina told the Web site. "It's its own world and has its own rules, its own conventions. The one thing you never hear from actors who are in a movie like this, whether you're playing a villain or a superhero, is, 'Well, I don't know anybody who could do this.' Because, the thing is, it's a whole different universe. And you have to embrace that and be as authentic as you can."
Molina plays Doc Ock opposite Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker/Spider-Man. "I'm having the time of my life," Molina said. "Playing villains is the perfect job, really because you get to be outrageous as you want to be. All bets are off." Spider-Man 2, from director Sam Raimi, is set for a July 2004 release.
Constantine Satan Cast
eter Stormare (Fargo) will portray Satan in Warner Brothers' upcoming Constantine movie, an adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic Hellblazer, Variety reported.
Satan is the archenemy of the mystical troubleshooter John Constantine, who is portrayed by Keanu Reeves, the trade paper reported.
Kevin Brodbin, Mark Bomback and Frank Cappello adapted the script from the DC Comics property. Francis Lawrence is directing.
Stormare will soon be seen in Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm.
Fox Previews Slate
ox has released details of its 2004 slate of films, including I, Robot, Alien vs. Predator and the supernatural-tinged thriller film Stay.
I, Robot, based on the Isaac Asimov collection of stories, is slated for a July 16 release; Alien vs. Predator, based on the two SF film franchises, is eyeing an Aug. 6 date; and Stay has no release date yet.
I, Robot, directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City), stars Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride and Alan Tudyk. In the year 2035, robots are an everyday household item, and everyone trusts them, except one, slightly paranoid detective (Smith), who investigates what he alone believes is a crime perpetrated by a robot. The case leads him to discover a far more frightening threat to the human race, the studio said.
Alien vs. Predator is directed by Paul Anderson and stars Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen and Ewen Bremner. The iconic monsters from the two film franchises battle each other on Earth for the first time on film. The discovery of an ancient pyramid buried in Antarctica sends a team of scientists and adventurers to the frozen continent, where they make an even more terrifying discovery: two alien races engaged in the ultimate battle.
Star is directed by Marc Forster (Monster's Ball) and stars Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Bob Hoskins and Janeane Garofalo. It is a reality-bending thriller about a psychologist whose suicidal client makes bizarre predictions that, to the psychologist’s mounting terror, begin to come true. The shrink must race against time to save everything he loves before it disappears.
AvP's Lathan Is No Ripley
anna Lathan, who co-stars in the upcoming franchise hybrid film Alien vs. Predator, told SCI FI Wire that she plays a strong female action hero, but that her character has little else in common with Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley.
"She's the same as Sigourney's Ripley character in that she's very strong and independent, but I think that's probably about it," Lathan said during an interview on the set in Prague. "For one [thing], it's actually not in the future. This movie happens before all of the Alien movies."
In Alien vs. Predator, Latham's character leads a team of explorers to an archaeological dig in Antarctica, where they find themselves caught in the crossfire between two deadly alien races. "She is kind of unique in that she is somebody who loves Antarctica and is very familiar with that territory," Lathan said. "And that's how she makes her living, by being a guide."
Lathan, who was cast a week before the start of principal photography, hadn't previously seen any of the Alien or Predator films. But director Paul Anderson supplied her with the DVDs to watch during her breaks from filming, she said. Lathan added that she was particularly impressed with Weaver's work in the series. "As far as Sigourney goes, it's just an honor to be able to even be talked about in the same sentence," Lathan said. "I've been watching the Aliens since I started shooting, just to kind of like get a background, because I wasn't really prepared. Everything happened so quickly. But it's a completely, completely different character. And so I'm approaching this as completely new and trying to go off the script." Aliens vs. Predator is scheduled to open Aug. 6, 2004.
Henriksen Looks Back In AvP
ance Henriksen, who plays billionaire industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland in the upcoming franchise hybrid film Alien vs. Predator, told SCI FI Wire that director Paul W.S. Anderson wrote the role specifically for him, as a nod to the previous Alien films.
"I was the first one cast in the movie," Henriksen said in an interview on the set in Prague. "Paul was gracious enough to literally, for two hours, tell me every scene in the movie. And I was stunned, because he has this incredible enthusiasm for what he's doing and what his vision is that he had the energy to do that. So I was really welcomed."
Set in the present day, Alien vs. Predator will be a prequel of sorts to the four Alien films, which are set in the distant future. "It's like going through the looking glass backwards here, because now we're going back in time to before Aliens, before Alien even." Henriksen said. "The way [Anderson has] structured this script, there's such logic to it all, such sense, because we know those movies before, and we're not denying you know them, so when you see this movie you're going to see something completely different, but it's got those genres in it."
As the head of Weyland Industries, a precursor to the Weyland-Yutani Corp. referenced in the first Alien film, Henriksen's character is the implied inspiration for the future android Bishop, whom he portrayed in Aliens and Alien 3. "This one is really closure, because I'm the guy that started the robotics that goes into use in the future," Henriksen said. "And they patterned it after me, so it's kind of a [tribute]."
Henriksen's character isn't the only link to the films that spawned the upcoming alien showdown, he said. "Oh, there's a lot of nods in this, but they're more treats than anything." Alien vs. Predator is scheduled for release Aug. 6, 2004.
5 Days Cast Expands
CI FI Channel announced additional casting for its upcoming original miniseries 5 Days to Midnight, including several veterans of SF television and films.
Nicole de Boer (The Dead Zone), Angus MacFadyen (Miracles) and Randy Quaid (Independence Day) are among the new cast members joining Oscar-winning star Timothy Hutton in the five-hour miniseries.
Hutton plays J.T. Neumeyer, a college professor who learns that he is about to be murdered and has five days to figure out who is trying to kill him. De Boer will play Chantal Hume, the wife of Brad Hume, the brother of J.T.'s deceased wife. McFadyen will take on the role of Roy Bremmer, a shady figure and a suspect in J.T.'s future murder. Quaid plays Irwin Sikorski, a homicide detective whose aid J.T. enlists.
The cast also includes David McIlwraith as Brad Hume and Kari Matchett as Claudia Whitney, J.T.'s girlfriend, who has a mysterious past.
5 Days to Midnight will air as five one-hour episodes over five consecutive nights and premieres in June 2004.
Kidman Noses Into Bewitched?
icole Kidman told the TV talk show The View that she's close to signing for the lead role of housewife/witch Samantha Stevens in a feature-film update of the '60s TV series Bewitched, according to a report in the Australian Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"I think I'm probably going to do Bewitched," Kidman reportedly told the show. Stevens was originally played by Elizabeth Montgomery.
Kidman added that she was having trouble learning how to master Samantha's famous nose wiggle when casting a spell. "I had better get that down," she said. "It doesn't come that easy. I don't know how she [Montgomery] did it, actually."
The Ephron sisters wrote the script, the Telegraph reported. Kidman initially had some reservations about the script, but the film's producer Douglas Wick said changes had been made. Alicia Silverstone and Lisa Kudrow were reportedly interested in playing Samantha, but Kidman was always the top choice, the newspaper reported.
Thousands Want Potter Role
housands of Asian teenagers came to London from all over the United Kingdom for a chance to play a part in the upcoming fourth Harry Potter film, The Goblet of Fire, the BBCi Web site reported.
The girls were trying out for the part of twins Parvati and Padma Patil, who will be featured in the fourth movie based on J.K. Rowling's best-selling series of books.
But the desperate teens didn't get a chance to show off their acting skills as it turned out the producers only wanted to take photos at this stage, the site reported.
Producers are looking for two Asian girls aged between 13 and 16 to play the parts of the sisters, who date Harry and Ron. They say the girls don't have to have acted before, but they must look right for the part and get on well together, the site reported.
Time Machine's Chang Dies
ah Ming Chang, an animator and artist who won a special-effects Oscar for the original Time Machine movie, died Dec. 22 at his home in Carmel, Calif., the Associated Press reported.
He was 86.
Chang worked as an artist for more than seven decades, the AP reported. He worked on three Walt Disney films and as a Hollywood costume designer and sculptor.
Chang designed costumes for the film The King and I, created masks for The Planet of the Apes and made Elizabeth Taylor's headdress in Cleopatra. He also made creatures for the television series The Outer Limits and Star Trek. It was his work on The Time Machine that earned him an Oscar for special effects, the AP reported.
Some of his other works include a stop-motion animation production of The Three Bears. Chang created wooden models of Pinocchio and Bambi so that Disney animators could study body movements. He also contributed to Bozo the Clown, Tom Thumb, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, the wire service reported.
Chang is survived by a half-sister, Lana Price of Carmel, and several nieces and nephews.
Shrek 2 Game Deal Set
ctivision announced that it has signed an agreement with DreamWorks to develop and publish video games based on the upcoming animated sequel film Shrek 2 and any subsequent sequels.
Under the terms of the agreement, Activision will have the rights to develop and publish Shrek 2 games for the console, hand-held and PC platforms, the company said.
Activision also holds the exclusive interactive rights to publish games based on DreamWorks' three upcoming computer-animated feature films Shark Tale, Madagascar and Over the Hedge.
Subatomic Shopped For TV
roducer Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment is developing a long-form TV show for cable based on its recently acquired graphic novel Subatomic, Variety reported.
The company is shopping Subatomic to cable networks.
The futuristic thriller, from Mad Yak Press and created by Patrick Neighly, centers on a young surveillance expert who is being hunted by a Big-Brother antiterrorist agency from which he has escaped in an attempt to lead a normal life, the trade paper reported.
Rick Alexander (Strong Medicine) will adapt and produce Subatomic with Hyde Park's Amritraj and Jon Jashni, the trade paper reported.
Fact Meets Fiction In Santa
eff Guinn, author of The Autobiography of Santa Claus, told USA Today that the book mixes fact and fiction.
Nine years ago, Guinn, books editor of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, wrote a feature story about the origins of Christmas traditions. Guinn learned a lot of history, back to the year 280 and the birth of a generous boy who would become a bishop and ultimately St. Nicholas, the newspaper reported.
Guinn says he learned more than he could fit into a newspaper article "about all the things we take for granted. Everything comes from somewhere. History is a big part of Santa Claus." So he decided to write a book, but didn't want to "spoil the magic." "I wanted something that someday I could read to my grandchildren," he said.
The book blends fact (St. Francis of Assisi's idea for manger scenes in homes as a reminder that Jesus was born poor) and fiction (Leonardo da Vinci's aerodynamic instructions, helping reindeer fly), USA Today reported.
Tink's Big In Peter Pan
rench actress Ludivine Sagnier, who co-stars as Tinker Bell in the upcoming live-action version of Peter Pan, told SCI FI Wire that the diminutive fairy plays a far larger role in the J.M. Barrie tale than most people realize.
"She is the key in the story," Sagnier said in an interview. "In the original story, she is the one that took Peter in while he was in Kensington Gardens. She's the one who took him to Neverland.
"For me, she is like a nightlight for children," Sagnier added. "Every time kids are in their nursery and the lights are off, if they're afraid of the dark, Tinker Bell is there, and she guides them. You have the Sandman, who puts sand on the eyes of children. Tinker Bell is the little light that brings children to the world of imagination."
Sagnier spent countless hours suspended by wires and in front of a green screen in order to portray Tinker Bell. As a result, she said, watching the finished film was a revelation. "It was amazing," she said. "I'd seen several steps in the process. I went to San Francisco, to [Industrial Light & Magic], because I wanted to meet all the people who were working on Tinker Bell. I thought it was important for them to see me in person, in order to get my personality into the character. So I'd seen a lot of the footage before watching the completed film, but it's amazing, the work they've done. Sometimes in the movie you cannot tell if you're watching what I've done or what they've done. Even I cannot say for sure."
In fact, Sagnier acknowledges, there are moments that are actually her head on a computer-generated Tink. "I was on the wires," she said. "I did plenty of moves and a lot of the stunts, but it's true I couldn't do everything, especially things like the loops. The stunt guys said even the world's best athletes can't fly like a butterfly, because they're human. So I knew it was going to be magical when I saw it. And it was. I wasn't disappointed at all." Peter Pan soars into theaters nationwide on Christmas Day.
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Because of the Christmas and New Year holidays, SCI FI Wire will not be updated between Dec. 25 and Jan. 4, 2004. Regular updates will resume on Jan. 5, 2004.
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Yahoo! Movies has posted the teaser trailer for the upcoming comedic remake of the classic SF movie The Stepford Wives, starring Nicole Kidman, which opens in June 2004.
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The C.H.U.D. Web site has posted an image of the teaser poster for the next Crow film, observing that filmmakers have apparently dropped the franchise title and are simply calling the movie Wicked Prayer.
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Nickelodeon has picked up 26 episodes of the animated comedy series Yakkity Yak after a successful tryout in November, Variety reported. The show centers on an outgoing yak named Yakkity who's trying to make it big as a comic.
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USA and The WB will pay $30 million to New Line for a shared broadcast window for the studio's fantasy film Elf, Variety reported. As part of the deal, USA and the WB also will share the exclusive network runs to New Line's Final Destination 2, and USA has committed to Freddy vs. Jason, signing a deal that allows New Line to find a second buyer for the movie down the road.
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ComingSoon.net has posted links to the teaser trailer for Disney's upcoming King Arthur movie, which is set for a July 2004 release.
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Montreal-based Equinoxe Films told The Hollywood Reporter that it acquired Canadian rights to Mel Gibson's controversial movie The Passion of the Christ for an Ash Wednesday (Feb. 25) debut, in tandem with its U.S. release.
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Alyson Hannigan (who played Willow in TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has been cast alongside Luke Perry (who played Pike in the 1992 Buffy movie) in a London stage production of When Harry Met Sally, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Loveday Ingram, the production is set to preview Feb. 10, 2004, with an official opening Feb. 20 at the Theatre Royal in London.
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A teaser trailer has gone live for the newly renamed upcoming retro-SF movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which opens next summer.
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The teaser trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming supernatural movie The Village will hit the Web on Christmas Eve. The Village opens next July.
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Media 8 Entertainment and Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment have teamed to produce the supernatural horror comedy film Santa's Slay, written and to be directed by David Steiman, Variety reported. In Santa's Slay, St. Nick reverts to his true self as a devil who only kept his bad side in check after losing a wager with an angel.
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