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Dildog zauvek!
Vest nije bas najsvezija (Mark made me write that!), ali svakako zavredjuje paznju!
Interesantno da se radi o animaciji... Ako nista bar ce gl. glumac da lici na Sklavijevu tvorevinu (nazalost, Rupert je kompromitivan i prestar da bi ga angazovali)...

Dildog zauvek!
Vest nije bas najsvezija (Mark made me write that!), ali svakako zavredjuje paznju!
Interesantno da se radi o animaciji... Ako nista bar ce gl. glumac da lici na Sklavijevu tvorevinu (nazalost, Rupert je kompromitivan i prestar da bi ga angazovali)...

Quote from: "dr Kunac"Dildog zauvek!
Vest nije bas najsvezija (Mark made me write that!), ali svakako zavredjuje paznju!
Interesantno da se radi o animaciji... Ako nista bar ce gl. glumac da lici na Sklavijevu tvorevinu (nazalost, Rupert je kompromitivan i prestar da bi ga angazovali)...

Dilen RULES!

Rupert je jedini Dilan Dog, i ako je kompromitovan Madoninim filmovima - ja bih ga ipak angazovao...
Nije On bas toliko star! Gejevi ne stare tako brzo      

A KO CE GLUMITI GRUCA MARKSA?!?!?!
Apsolutno mi NIKO ne pada na pamet!

Ja cekam nestrpljiv ...

ja bih radije IGRANI film, sa Rupertom, (makar morali da ga CGI malkice podmlade/ fejsliftuju).
u tom slučaju, Gruča bi mogao da igra, recimo, Džefri Raš (mada jeste malkice previsok, otherwise – što da ne? kad je skinuo Sellersa, verujem da bi mogao Gruča).
avaj, Mark, da si pažljivo čito ovu bajatu vest, video bi da se radi CGI ANIMIRANA varijanta, u kojoj Gruča igraju 11111 & 00000...

Hmmmmm... Samo snimanje filma je sjajna vijest, ali ostalo... Sklavi ne učestvuje u pisanju scenarija, a i prokleta kompjuterska animacija mi ide na živce i mislim da nimalo ne pristaje ovakvom tipu filma. Mislim da bi sjajno bilo da ga urade staromodnim ručnim crtanjem svakog frejma, kako su i nastali najbolji animirani filmovi.

Quote from: "Morticia"Evo sta ja jedva cekam da mi padne saka!  
Vise od pola epizoda je ekranizovano.

Ako je to-to sto mislim onda ga imamo Magic i ja(jos nisam bacio pogled jer mi je uzet DVD iz ruku cim sam ga dobio), a sve zahvaljujuci Rommelu.  

Jeste, jeste. To je TO!

Baš jurim Magica.

Quote from: "Morticia"Jeste, jeste. To je TO!

Baš jurim Magica.

Hahahahha, samo se ne mogu setiti da li ima makar engleskih titlova.

Quote from: "Pajke"

Quote from: "Morticia"Evo sta ja jedva cekam da mi padne saka!  
Vise od pola epizoda je ekranizovano.

Ako je to-to sto mislim onda ga imamo Magic i ja(jos nisam bacio pogled jer mi je uzet DVD iz ruku cim sam ga dobio), a sve zahvaljujuci Rommelu.  

Pa sad ide DVD za nesto u vezi Maltezea uz neki casopis...

PS

Izvinite na neodredjenosti  

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Quote from: "Morticia"Jeste, jeste. To je TO!

Baš jurim Magica.

Hahahahha, samo se ne mogu setiti da li ima makar engleskih titlova.

Makar engleski titlovi mislim da mi neće biti potrebni. Koliko sam videla to je RAI produkcija. Ja poznajem italijanski. Magic će morati da gleda filmove listajući strip. Valjda će dovoljno brzo okretati strane.  

Quote from: "sgt. Mark E. Smith"Pa sad ide DVD za nesto u vezi Maltezea uz neki casopis...
PS Izvinite na neodredjenosti  

E jesi neodređen!   Čak si toliko neodređen da si me podsetio na Rendalovu priču o čudnim mušterijama video-kluba... ja bih uzeo onaj novi film sa onim glumcem što je igrao u onom hit filmu iz prošle godine, ma, znate ga, onaj film sa onom glumicom...

Ko je Rendal? Danteov najbolji prijatelj.

I, Mark, zar bih pisala o iščekivanju nečega što mi je dostupno već... kol'ko beše? Dve godine? I ovih par dana na DVDu?

Ne, ovde se radi o italijanskoj animiranoj produkciji preostalih avantura Corta Maltesea. Nekoliko je dugometražno, kao film čiji plakat stoji iznad - Balada o slanom moru, a nekoliko je po pola sata, kao npr. epizode iz Kelta i Karipske svite.

During his visit to Argentina's Mar del Plata Film Festival, where his current movie VITAL was screened, cult director Shinya Tsukamoto confirmed he's planning to shoot a second sequel to his 1989 classic TETSUO: THE IRON MAN. "I´m interested in directing a new TETSUO film," Tsukamoto tells Fango. "And this time I might have American co-producers. It´ll be a throwback to my first films, and you can expect to see a flying Tetsuo."

While VITAL (coming to U.S. art houses in June from Tartan Films), which centers on a medical student who finds his deceased girlfriend on his operating table, is closer to a horror melodrama than anything else he has done, TETSUO 3 will be fast and furious, just like his debut effort. "I think I got old, because my films became less violent and extreme," Tsukamoto says. "But that´s because I got a little tired of being classified as cyberpunk... People used to point me out and say, 'Shinya Tsukamoto... Oh, yeah, the cyberpunk director.' I wanted that to stop. However, I'm doing another sequel, so the curse will begin again!"

As for the new movie's story, Tsukamoto has only one thing to say: "Well, I´m not even sure what it´ll be about yet, but I can tell you this time the main theme will be war."

ne pamtim da sam negde video naslove koji će činiti serijal MATERS OF HORROR (13 jednočasovnih horor filmova), pa zato, evo:

John Landis will direct DEER WOMAN, Dario Argento's doing JENIFER, Don Coscarelli is takin' on INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD, Mick Garris is helming CHOCOLATE, Stuart Gordon's directing DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE (LOVECRAFT AGAIN! WAY TO GO!    ), and John Carpenter is delivering us some CIGARETTE BURNS...

dobra imaena, intrigantni naslovi, sounds promising...

Quote from: "Ghoul"... Stuart Gordon's directing DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE

Ovu ekranizaciju čekam čitavog života!!!!        
Samo da Gordon ne uprska fenomenalnu priču...i brrrr... jezu...

Fantasy MirrorMask.
Režija Dave McKean, po priči Neila Gaimana. Trejler je više nego interesantan. Film je uradila produkcijska kuća Jima Hensona i ideja je da film bude neka vrsta nastavka Hensenovog Lavirinta iz 1986. sa Jenifer Conelly i Davidom Bowiem.
McKean ima svoj strip Cages, zajedno je radio sa Gaimanom na Sandmanu, kao i ilustracije za Gaimenovu priču Dan kada sam trampio tatu za dve zlatne ribice.

MirrorMask is the story of Helena, a fifteen-year-old girl working for her family circus, who wishes-quite ironically-that she could run away from the circus and join real life. But such is not to be the case, as she finds herself on a strange journey into the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, Monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. Helena searches for the Mirrormask, an object of enormous power that is her only hope of escaping the Dark Lands, waking the Queen of Light and returning home..

Koralina je još u postprodukciji. Jedva čekam da vidim njenu kosu i dva dugmeta umesto očiju.  
Koralinu režira Henry Selick, radio je sa Timom Burtonom The Nightmare before Christmas.

Quote from: "Morticia"Fantasy MirrorMask.
Režija Dave McKean, po priči Neila Gaimana. Trejler je više nego interesantan. Film je uradila produkcijska kuća Jima Hensona i ideja je da film bude neka vrsta nastavka Hensenovog Lavirinta iz 1986. sa Jenifer Conelly i Davidom Bowiem.
McKean ima svoj strip Cages, zajedno je radio sa Gaimanom na Sandmanu, kao i ilustracije za Gaimenovu priču Dan kada sam trampio tatu za dve zlatne ribice.

MirrorMask is the story of Helena, a fifteen-year-old girl working for her family circus, who wishes-quite ironically-that she could run away from the circus and join real life. But such is not to be the case, as she finds herself on a strange journey into the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, Monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. Helena searches for the Mirrormask, an object of enormous power that is her only hope of escaping the Dark Lands, waking the Queen of Light and returning home..

Koralina je još u postprodukciji. Jedva čekam da vidim njenu kosu i dva dugmeta umesto očiju.  
Koralinu režira Henry Selick, radio je sa Timom Burtonom The Nightmare before Christmas.

e, ovo i ja jedva cekam

Uuuu... e, ovo jedva cekam! Novi film od autora filma DOG SOLDIERS Nila Marshala, po imenu THE DESCENT: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/

plot: An all-female caving expedition goes horribly wrong.

   

Tu je jos jedan horor slicne tematike, ali iz USA produkcije, THE CAVE: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402901/

Ovaj ce doci i kod nas u bioskope, zaplet mu zvuci slicno, poster (visi u takvudu) je opak, ali, avaj, tu je i PG-13 rejting, tako da dobijam flasheve na DARKNESS FALLS...  

(btw niti jedan od gore pomenutih filmova NIJE adaptacija romana THE DESCENT Dzefa Longa koji jos uvek ceka na ekranizaciju. Je l citao to neko?)

Din Kunc, Den Braun i njima slicni na stranu, u pitanju je jedan od najgorih romana koje sam imao prilike da procitam, polupismen, naivan, politicki korektan i sve sto ide uz to ukljucujuci i fascinantno jalovu suspenziju nevjerice. Jedan od rijetkih koje cak nisam ni mogao da zavrsim. Sirlijevi Demoni pokraj njega se citaju kao najuzbudljivija prica o nekoj intrigantnoj konspiraciji. Stiven Dzons ga je, pak, u onom uobicajenom uvodu za neki Best New Horror nazvao ambicioznim. Yep.  

     Ne mogu se sjetiti detalja, ali znam da prvih stotinjak strana (od skoro 600) tvori tzv. uvod - a svaka pricica je kao pocetak Dzejmsa Bonda: treba da te uvuce u nekakvo bajkovito cudo kako ispod zemljine kore zive neke pseudo-humanoidne civilizacije i mi nalazimo njihove tragove i whatnot. Mozda je to donekle bilo i zanimljivo, na jedan palpican, infantilan nacin. A potom imamo savrseno labavi cut na Tri Godine Kasnije i poglavlje u kome je - putem onih Ladlamovski-monotonih kilometarskih dijaloga - pojasnjeno sta se sve izdesavalo za te tri godine i... tu sam otprilike prestao citati.

      Naredni komad romana dogadja se, hm, Osam Godina Docnije i... mogu misliti sta se sve tu izdesavalo; demoni su naselili zemlju i tome slicno. Hocu reci, kome se dopao Da Vincijev Kod ili Bojno Polje: Zemlja postoji mogucnost i da mu se ovo dopadne. Ja nisam citao do kraja, bez obzira na visok nivo tolerancije prema literarnoj iritaciji. Sta god bilo, ako ikada i naprave film po ovom romanu, to ce biti jedna izandjala, dosadna truba.

Film koji cekam citav svoj zivot - "Transformers" - ce da padne u ruke najvecem netalentovanom retardu ever - Majkl Beju!!!        Zasto, boze?! ZASTO?!?!?!                      

'esi blesav bre, pa M.Bay je režirao "Bad Boys II", najbolju akciju vidjenu u poslednjih nekoliko godina.... I ja sam ga prezirao, dok nisam odgledao BBII.

Incubuse, vidi se da si povukao na Crippla...

BAD BOYS 2 je jedan od kljucnih filmova decenije...

Bay je najidealniji covek za taj posao, posle eventualno Boba Zemeckisa. On je mentalno najblizi onome sto je najuzbudljivije u toj mitologiji. I on ce to sjajno uraditi jer ume & voli da bez ironije snima potpuno preposterous spektakle.

Sa filmom BAD BOYS 2 se uzdigao na nivo autora, i verujem da ce TRANSFORMERS biti pravi `magnum opus` koji je potreban za autora tog profila. Naime, TRANSFORMERS je za Baya kao ZLOCIN I KAZNA za Kusturicu.

Dostigavsi vrhunac sposobnosti da konstituise uverljiv stilizovani svet, Bayu bas treba da takav neobican zadatak da se sasvim ustolici.

Bay je pravo resenje!

A da nama ne bude još jedan Kusturičin film zločin i kazna...

ko je gledao BAD BOYS 2 nema potrebe za takvim poigravanjem recima...

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ZODIAC KILLER casting news:

Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey have signed onto David Fincher's long-gestating thriller ZODIAC, with Mark Ruffalo in talks, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Gyllenhaal will play Robert Graysmith, the journalist and author of the two books, "Zodiac" and "Zodiac Unmasked," upon which the film is based. Downey will play fellow reporter Paul Avery, and Ruffalo would play the San Francisco homicide inspector in charge of the case. The books revolve around the real-life tale of a serial killer known as the Zodiac Killer, who terrorized San Francisco for 25 years. Graysmith and Avery worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, which the killer used as a conduit to communicate with authorities.

THE BLACK DAHLIA casting news:

Aaron Eckhart is set to star in Millennium Films adaptation of James Ellroy's 1940s-set novel, THE BLACK DAHLIA, says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie, helmed by Brian De Palma, is about two LAPD cops who investigate the real-life case of the murder of fledgling actress Elizabeth Short. Eckhart will play one of the officers. Josh Hartnett portrays the other cop. Hilary Swank and Scarlett Johansson also have been cast. Shooting takes place next month (april) in Bulgaria.

Snuff

 
  Mike Goodridge in Los Angeles 22 April 2005
 


Dir: Bernard Rose. 2005. UK/Romania. 93 mins.



After ivansxtc proved such a cult favourite in certain territories, British director Bernard Rose now delivers in Snuff a deliciously Machievellian horror movie which has cult hit written all over it. Strictly for adults of a robust constitution, as opposed to the sanitized PG-13 horror movies which are so marketable in wide release these days, Snuff ramps up the gore, nudity and shock factor within the context of myriad narrative puzzles. Often genuinely scary, sometimes laughably absurd, the picture is destined to be a favourite of horror fans and midnight movie aficionados, while amusing critics and buffs with non-stop film references.

Snuff marks an opportunity for international distributors to buy into a smart genre title with theatrical potential and high DVD value. It nevertheless contains some no-holds-barred imagery which some will take more seriously than others (or than they should), so buyers should expect prohibitive ratings and a limited free-TV life across the world.

Production values are high. Although almost all set in the ritzy North London neighbourhood of Highgate, it was shot entirely in Romania and the results are impressive. The $6m film feels like it's set in London, but could never have been made so cost-effectively had it been filmed there.

At the heart of the multi-layered drama is a gleeful performance by Dutch star Jeroen Krabbe, playing a film director called Boris Arkadin (note the Orson Welles reference right off the bat) with the oily charm and menace of Vincent Price at his most demented.

The film opens in London, 1888, with the arrival of a doctor at the mansion of Mr Maezel (played by Krabbe). Maezel explains that his wife has died in childbirth but the baby is still alive and he wants the doctor to cut her open and rescue the infant. But, once the operation has been completed, the audience realizes that she was never dead.

The Hammer-esque sequence, we soon discover, is a clip from a film by the legendary horror director Arkadin being projected in his London house, the same mansion as we saw in the film. It is 1975 and all his friends are there for the screening and party, as well as his pregnant wife Mary (Lisa Enos). A man is shooting the party on a Super 8 camera. But after Arkadin has been called away on an emergency to go to the film laboratory, a group of crazed girls and one man (a la Manson) break into the party and kill all in sight including Mary.

Next up is a documentary being shown on television in present day London. A budding actress Wendy (Enos again) and her boyfriend Andy (Mackenzie) are making love watching the film while the film's director Nick Broomfield (yes, the same) is explaining how Arkadin withdrew into a life of seclusion following the murders with his son who was born by Ceasarian section after his wife's death.

But Boris is planning to go back behind the camera to make a film recreating the events on the night of the murders, and he wants Wendy to play Mary. She and three other actors a busty Californinan blonde (Harrison), a leading man (Sharif) and a nerdy guy (Regan) are asked to spend a couple of days in extended rehearsal with Arkadin in his mansion the same one we have seen before.

Arkadin has wired the house with multiple cameras and starts shooting the movie immediately, forcing the actors to play their roles and setting in motion a series of horrifying events for them to cope with. Andy meanwhile stumbles upon a website which is webcasting the evening for entertainment, and calls the police in.

Armed with a surprise finish, Rose manages to keep bluffing the audience while building considerable tension. Krabbe meanwhile camps it up something marvelous as the puppetmaster, laughing his way through various acts of degradation, a decaptiation and a spectacular crucifixion. Lisa Enos is game as the various women in his life, whether having a baby cut out of her without anesthetic or being nailed to a cross.

From The Devils to Eyes Wide Shut, Peeping Tom to A Clockwork Orange, Rose infuses the drama with tips of the hat to other films, a device which only strengthens his theme of the medium's ability to beg, borrow and steal in the service of illusion. If it's nothing more than a shaggy dog story in the end, hardy viewers will have devilish fun in the process of being deceived.



Prod cos: Junction Films.
Worldwide sales: Focal Point Releasing (+ 1 310 641 5360).
Exec prods: Donald Kushner, Peter Locke.
Prods: Brad Wyman, Lisa Enos.
Scr: Bernard Rose.
DoP: Bernard Rose.
Prod des: Tine Jespersen.
Ed: David Gamble.
Mus: Matt Schultz..
Main cast: Jeroen Krabbe, Lisa Enos, Hugo Myatt, Joe Regan, Teri Harrison, Sharif, Alastair Mackenzie

Now that the "Alexander" business is done and gone, Oliver Stone is thinking along more restrained lines for his next project with word today that he's in talks to direct "The Night Watchman" according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The feature is an adaptation of James Ellroy's script about a disgraced police officer who fights to redeem himself once he discovers corruption in a police department around the same time period as the O.J. Simpson verdict.

The project, which has been in the works for some time and is currently being refinanced. Spike Lee was set to direct Keanu Reeves in the long-gestating project but has since dropped off to helm "Inside Man" for Universal Pictures. David Fincher was in talks to direct at one point as well. The producers are awaiting a new draft of the script from John Ridley and will then move toward closing deals with Stone and Reeves.

E, da. Citajuci Morticijinu prepirku sa Kripom i njenu pricu o Beju, setik se da nisam odgovorio Kripu.

Quote from: "crippled_avenger"Bay je najidealniji covek za taj posao, posle eventualno Boba Zemeckisa. On je mentalno najblizi onome sto je najuzbudljivije u toj mitologiji. I on ce to sjajno uraditi jer ume & voli da bez ironije snima potpuno preposterous spektakle.

Kripl, nekad znas da pogodis... k'o prstom u pekmez. Koliko god da si u pravu za Zemekisa, toliko grijesis kad je Bej u pitanju. Bej! Alo, ovdje govorimo o Majkl "Armagedon" Beju! Zamisli scenu: Optimus kaze ono legendarno "Autoboti, transformacija!", a onda se kamera fokusira na Windchargera koji se oko 5 sekundi transformise, a Majki nam tu transformaciju prikaze u 386 kadrova uz neku novokomponovanu rokacinu. Poslije toga slijedi gomila eksplozija, onda jedan lik preuzima sve u svoje ruke (Hot Rod?!), nakon cega mlati Konstruktikone (i pojedinacno i sve zajedno) uz mnogo – ali bas mnogo – eksplozija, potom slijedi jos eksplozija, a poslije toga ovaj jebe oca Deseptikonima, pogotovo Blitzwingu sto mu je psovao mater, i tu ide jos eksplozija, pa jos malo eksplozija, onda ovaj postane glavni baja na Cybertronu i tu je kraj (naravno, uz jednu slavljenicku eksploziju). Ovo je samo banalan primjer onom cemu je Majkl Bej, kako ti kazes, "mentalno najblizi".

Ako mene pitas, Majki je mentalno najblizi Dinobotima. Onako, svu su one big happy retarded family. Mozda bi spin-off o Dinobotima bila sjajna stvar za njegovu "autorsku poetku".  

Ako vec govorimo o moneymaking spektakl majstorima, zasto ne pomenu makar Emeriha koji umije da napravi daleko bolje popkorn filmcine! Vjerujem da si gledao "Transformers – The Movie". Film bi trebao tako da izgleda – super likovi, non stop akcija (ne bejvovska akcija od koje ti glava pada!), odlicni onelineri, ispeglani zasecereni cheesy americki heavy metal (inace, to je najbolji soundtrack ever!)... Pored toga sta sadrzi neke od najjacih borbenih scena ikad vidjenih, ovaj film je uspio da da najkatarzicniju zavrsnicu koju sam ja ikad vidio na mom TV-u/kompu. Najjace unistenje glavnog negativca ikad i igdje! Ma, masterpis!

Quote from: "crippled_avenger"Sa filmom BAD BOYS 2 se uzdigao na nivo autora, i verujem da ce TRANSFORMERS biti pravi `magnum opus` koji je potreban za autora tog profila. Naime, TRANSFORMERS je za Baya kao ZLOCIN I KAZNA za Kusturicu.

Krip, pobogu! Sta to pricas!?

Quote from: "crippled_avenger"Dostigavsi vrhunac sposobnosti da konstituise uverljiv stilizovani svet, Bayu bas treba da takav neobican zadatak da se sasvim ustolici.

Koji mrceni "uverljiv stilizovani svet"?!? No, mozda je problem u meni, mozda sam ja nesposoban da sa svojih 20 godina vidim i shvatim nesto sto se zove Bejov "uverljiv stilizovani svet". Ezoterija, a?! Ipak, imam neki cudan osjecaj da ti u pojedinim stvarima vidis ono cega tu uopste nema?! Ili jednostavno volis da udaras kontru svim onima koji govore da je Bej penal?!

Quote from: "crippled_avenger"Bay je pravo resenje!

Za sta?!?

Kripe, postujem ja tvoj rad i sve to, ali sam poceo da sumnjam u tvoje (pr)ocjene od onog dana kad si ocrnio Dzeksonovu maestralnu trilogiju.  

momce postoji jedna stvar koju zanemarujes. ljudi se menjaju. jedni stare, drugi sazrevaju. to vazi i za Baya i Zemeckisa. nemoj misliti da su svi znali kakav je Zemeckis genije kada je snimao svoje prve filmove. pitanje je da li i danas to ljudi znaju.

u to ime, jedna neobicna vest:

First up The Arnold Fans put in a call into John Milius's offices and receive confirmation that the "Conan" referred to in the recent rumours that Robert Rodriguez is attached to, is indeed a new "Conan the Barbarian" movie. Rodriguez has been given the opportunity to direct Conan in few years and as a result Milius and co. have been kick off the lot and he's now heading over to the CBS lot to write for a new Western series called "Dodge City". It's expected Rodriguez will do a whole new script rather than the now defunct "King Conan".

u petak premijera dva filma za koja mislim da ce mi se ultra dopasti... House of Wax i Kingdom of Heaven

Morticia, procitaj prvo Sandman : Brief Lives ili Seasons of mist ili npr Dolls House ako si horor fan pa ces videti zasto Gaimana smatram kao polukvalitetnim piscem proze ... a oci  umesto dugmica, to smo videli kod Corinthiana iz dolls housea, ne bas to ali...jedno JAKO neprijatno iznenadjenje.

Kad sam citao Koralinu, pitao sam se na kojim je drogama Gaiman bio...

Ja sam citao i Seasons of Mist i Dolls House, i oboje mi je fino leglo. Inace mi je Gaiman sasvim ok pisac, bolji od vecine njegovih savremenika. Mada ja i nisam neki horror fan, pa su nam misljenja mozda zato u neskladu....

Inace, sa zanimanjem iscekujem ekranizaciju The Hitchicker's Guide To the Galaxy  

Pa, kome Gaiman bude smetao neka uživa uz McKean-a.

Quote from: "crippled_avenger"First up The Arnold Fans put in a call into John Milius's offices and receive confirmation that the "Conan" referred to in the recent rumours that Robert Rodriguez is attached to, is indeed a new "Conan the Barbarian" movie. Rodriguez has been given the opportunity to direct Conan in few years and as a result Milius and co. have been kick off the lot

Ovo boli. Onako, baš.

Boli, zato sto je Milius ocigledno propustio taj kratki period kada je mogao da se izbori za film, nosen ugledom Joel Silverovih baby boyeva Brace Wachowski koji su tretirani kao nepogresivi geniji. Ali, posle RELOADED i REVOLUTIONS, oni su ispali iz igre, izgubili su kontrolu na projektu i stvari se u Warneru sada vracaju u blagu uravnilovku iz Semel-Daly administracije. Uostalom, Malpaso je doneo oskara Warneru ove godine sto samo potvrdjuje ionako konzervativni kurs studija. Ali, jos je veci problem sam Rodriguez za kog se plasim da nema dovoljan attitude za ovaj film.

Emmett/Furla Films, a wholly owned subsidiary of Family Room Entertainment Corporation, has announced that principal photography has commenced on the Richard Donner ("Lethal Weapon", "Maverick")-directed "16 Blocks", which stars Bruce Willis and the recently announced Mos Def ("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

Based on a screenplay written by Richard Wenk, "16 Blocks" follows Jack Mosley (Willis), an aging cop assigned the mundane task of escorting a fast-talking, wise-cracking young witness (Mos Def) to the courthouse -- sixteen city blocks away -- and the action-packed thrill ride that takes place in those "sixteen blocks."

Co-chairmen Randall Emmett and George Furla stated: "We are excited to be working with the strong creative talents of Dick and Bruce. We believe that '16 Blocks' is a high-concept picture with commercial appeal and, with the elements assembled, solid potential."

Kad vidim nešto kao Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, Maverick) umjesto Richard Donner (The Omen), kosa mi se diže na glavi skoro ko kad Džonu Vuu u zagradu stavljaju Nemoguću misiju 2 umjesto Hard-Boiled. Zapravo lupetam, Lethal Weapon i Maverick su carski filmovi. Nemoguća misija 2 je više kao carski... rez.

Chow Yun-Fat will star in the gritty action thriller "Deadly Deception." James Fargo, veteran director of such Clint Eastwood films as "The Enforcer" and "Every Which Way But Loose," wrote the script and will also direct reports Production Weekly.

The film follows Philip Chase (Yun-Fat), a highly skilled Hong Kong detective who travels to Los Angeles to solve his sister's murder. Phillip matches wits and trades punches with the greedy, devious Jonathan Beardsley (John Leguizamo), who is the mastermind behind a conspiracy much larger than Philip can fathom. Roselyn Sanchez ("Rush Hour 2") plays a tough Los Angeles Police officer who teams up with Chase. "Deadly Deception" is budgeted at $20 million and will begin shooting mid-May in Hong Kong, Argentina and Los Angeles.

He will also play the lead in Andrew Goth's "The Wretched," an original fusion of gothic western and classic horror. Yun-Fat plays Rellik, a bounty hunter of zombies. He introduces his apprentice, Twenty-One, to a dangerous world where zombie outlaws roam the earth, avoiding capture and incarceration in the prisoner catacombs for the Undead. When a wagon train of misguided travelers stumble upon the Monastery and unwittingly release the Undead locked within, Rellik and Twenty-One find themselves facing a jailbreak like no other. Production is scheduled to begin on location in New Mexico this June.

Thanks to 'Scott'.

Alan McElroy will write BONESAW, a CG horror feature, for Platinum Studios and the Shop Prods. The story is based on Rob Moran's upcoming graphic novel in which a horror-fantasy writer discovers her novels are about to release the hellish creatures she's been writing about into the real world.


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Richard Stanley will direct digital action thriller VACATION, about an American couple on a holiday from hell, with Michael Riley and RPC's Alexandra Stone producing.

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Spike Lee starts SAVE US JOE LOUIS, his long-planned Joe Louis feature, immediately after completing INSIDE MAN with Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster and Clive Owen for producer Brian Grazer at Universal. Lee and Budd Schulberg have been writing the project for five years. It's the story of the two Louis-Max Schmeling championship bouts (1936 and 1938) and the global ramifications. Characters involved in the pic will include FDR, Hitler, Mussolini and Sugar Ray Robinson among many others.

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Paul Verhoeven is set to direct BEAST OF BATAAN, a bigscreen adaptation that follows the war crimes trial of Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma at the end of WWII. Homma was the Japanese officer in charge of the Bataan death march endured by American and Filipino prisoners of war in 1942 in the Philippines. Pic is an adaptation of the book A TRIAL OF GENERALS, by Lawrence Taylor. Mark Jean penned the screenplay.

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Richard Stanley will direct digital action thriller VACATION, about an American couple on a holiday from hell, with Michael Riley and RPC's Alexandra Stone producing.

da, znam za taj projekat od onog istog dana kada ga je Stanley ugovorio (16. marta o.g.); znam i još neke detalje, ali
1.   nije mi dozvoljeno da ih diseminiram dok ne budu zvanično obznanjene
2.   ime tog đenija ionako nije dovoljno poznato širim masama da bi im ova vest nešto preterano značila (dakle, ko zna – znaće...)

Quote from: "crippled_avenger"momce postoji jedna stvar koju zanemarujes. ljudi se menjaju. jedni stare, drugi sazrevaju. to vazi i za Baya i Zemeckisa. nemoj misliti da su svi znali kakav je Zemeckis genije kada je snimao svoje prve filmove. pitanje je da li i danas to ljudi znaju.

Il' imas talenta, il' ga nemas. Vrijeme to ne moze da promijeni. Dzaba ti sazrijevanje, ako nema tu sta da "zrene".

"Lynch's 'Empire' building backed by StudioCanal

By Charles Masters

CANNES -- French sales and distribution company StudioCanal is backing the upcoming project from David Lynch titled "Inland Empire," sources in Cannes confirmed Wednesday. StudioCanal, a division of Vivendi Universal's French pay TV company Canal Plus, declined to talk about the project, which it has been trying to keep top secret. Even posters for the film on the Croisette and around the Cannes market have been covered until a grand unveiling scheduled for Thursday. StudioCanal is expected to handle world sales on the title, with its French distribution company Mars Films handling theatrical in France. It is unclear whether any cast is attached to "Inland Empire." Buyers already looking at the project say details remain hazy, in typical Lynch fashion. "It's about a film within a film. There's nothing to see, there's no script," one top international buyer said.

"But when have you ever seen a David Lynch script in advance?" said another, implying that this did not affect the project's attractiveness.

StudioCanal financed Lynch's movies "The Straight Story" and "Mulholland Drive," both of which unspooled In Competition at Cannes, with Lynch picking up the best director prize for the latter." (Hollywood Reporter)

John Woo and Terence Chang's Lion Rock Prods. has teamed with France's StudioCanal to develop modern-day remakes of three vintage French thrillers. The pics are "Honor Among Thieves" (1968), starring Charles Bronson and Alain Delon; "Rider on the Rain" (1969), with Bronson and Marlene Jobert; and "The Prone Gunman" (1982), featuring Delon again.

The films could grow to include further remakes from StudioCanal's 3,000-strong movie library according to Variety. Although the idea is to hire up-and-coming helmers on the three titles - budgeted at around $15 million to $20 million apiece - Woo has said he is tempted to direct "Thieves" himself.

"Thieves," which starred Bronson as a doctor and Delon as a criminal who become acquainted in the French Foreign Legion, is the first project to be assigned a writer. Brit scribe David Logan ("Circus") will transpose the action to present-day New York.

"Riders," in which Bronson played a U.S. investigator probing a murder in the South of France, and "The Prone Gunman," about a hired killer trying to get out of the game, will also be placed in contemporary settings. The three projects are being developed simultaneously with the aim of putting the first into production by the end of this year.

Woo's next pic will be Paramount's remake of another Melville classic, 1970's "The Red Circle." After that, he plans to helm Chinese historical epic "The Battle of the Red Cliff," based on true events from 203 A.D. Woo recently left Universal's "Spy Hunter" project over scheduling conflicts.

Zna li ko sta o Karpijevom novom projektu Trinaesti apostol? Da li je u pitanju buva?

   Znam pak da je casopis Creative Screenwriting organizovao contest za skript namijenjen Dzonu Karpenteru (pobjedniku je islo $500 + citanje od Najveceg Reditelja Horora), no to se okoncalo jos pocetkom godine. Mozda je to u pitanju(?).

Zna li ko sta o Karpijevom novom projektu Trinaesti apostol? Da li je u pitanju buva?

   Znam pak da je casopis Creative Screenwriting organizovao contest za skript namijenjen Dzonu Karpenteru (pobjedniku je islo $500 + citanje od Najveceg Reditelja Horora), no to se okoncalo jos pocetkom godine. Mozda je to u pitanju(?).

Robert Carlyle and Colin Firth will star in Antonia Bird's gothic horror comedy "The Meat Trade." Currently in pre-production and with an original screenplay by "Trainspotting" novelist Irvine Welsh, it's a contemporary reworking of the crimes of the 19th century bodysnatchers Burke and Hare. This notorious Edinburgh duo made a living robbing graves to provide doctors with cadavers for experimentation. When the supply of corpses dried up, they started killing tramps..."

MEG, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450459/

Okej, jeste da ovo rezira tupson koji je snimio jedan odlican film (SPEED, naravno), a potom i gomilu budalastina, ali dzinovske ajkule su dzinovske ajkule, a jos od 1999. (i DEEP BLUE SEA) nista slicno nije zaplivalo na velikom platnu. U medjuvremenu, neki su bili toliko ocajni da pogledaju i SHARK ATTACK 3: MEGALODON (cak mi je sad i zao sto ga nisam narezao, koliko je to neopisivo los film...).

Nikada ne zanemaruj De Bonta. Taj covek je snimio SPEED koji VEEEEELIKI film, i radio je kao DP Verhoevenu i McTiernanu. Iako je njegov output bio slab, vazno je imati na umu da je zaista snimao stravicnu konfekciju koju bi tesko neko drugi ucinio znatno boljom. A iz ove perspektive ni TWISTER ni drugi TOMB RAIDER nisu totalni abortusi, zar ne?

Speed: Plusevi: Dobra akcija, Denis Hoper, minusi: Kijanu Rivs, Sandra Bulok (u istom filmu   ), glup kraj (trebalo je oboje da poginu i da Denis trijumfuje)
Twister: Plusevi: Interesantna priča s vjetrovima, Shining u drajv-inu, minusi: Helen Hant, previše patetičnog baljezganja
Tomb Raider 2: Plusevi: Anđelina goloruka sređuje ajkulu (da je kojim slučajem dvaes godina starija, Jaws bi trajao svega 15 minuta), scena toliko blesava da bi i Uwe Boll bio ponosan da je ima u svom filmu, minusi: Kris Beri iz Crvenog Patuljka u ponižavajućoj ulozi batlera, sveukupni debilizam priče i svega ostalog i naravno Anđelina Džoli.
The Haunting: Plusevi: Ništa, minusi: SVE.
Jel' on snimio još koji film?

Ma, ne zanemarujem ga (jos uvek), uostalom, vecinu njegovih filmova sam pogledao u bioskopu gde su oni jos i gledljiviji, ali TWISTER, TOMB RAIDER 2, SPEED 2, ili (ugh) THE HAUNTING na tvu deluju smesno, i dosadno. Ima on nesto talenta, ne bi mogao da snimi SPEED da nema, ali ja imam utisak da mu nije stalo da pazljivije probere sta ce da radi nego ga uvek povuce vraziji CGI i to ode bestraga (narocito u HAUNTING), a cak i kad ne radi CGI kao u SPEED 2 onda slupa pare na par scena i jebiga... Kad Kameron tako nesto radi (npr. u TRUE LIES kad srusi most) to uvek ima neku visu svrhu i pazljivo je osmisljeno. Kameron ima hrabrosti da ulece u neke rizicne projekte, dok je kod DeBonta to vise ludost. E, sad, konkretno ovaj film, MEG, bi mogao da uspe u njegovoj reziji (a tek sta bi Kameron tu uradio, eh...). A kad pomenu Verhovena, on je poznat po tome sto i los scenario moze da pretvori u zabavan film (HOLLOW MAN), a za DeBonta nekako cisto sumnjam.