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Comic book writer/artist Al Davison on what was wrong with The Dark Knight, Superman Returns and Watchmen
13 November 2009 3:31 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
We're seeing more and more comic books and graphic novels being adapted for the big screen and, even with varied results at the box office, the trend shows no sign of stopping.
This is largely because established titles come with a devoted fanbase while newer publications are akin to film storyboards that give studios a clear visual idea of the project.
Only recently I have twice reported on a number of comics that are being picked up by film bosses, and you can see those round-ups here and here.
I talked about the craze to comic book writer and artist Al Davison, who runs The Astral Gypsy graphic novels shop and art studio in the Canal Basin here in Coventry.
Al's been writing and drawing comics for 25 years. He is working on the Doctor Who comic (as seen in the image pictured right), which was launched in July, and recently »
- David Bentley
Comic book writer/artist Al Davison on what was wrong with The Dark Knight, Superman Returns and Watchmen
13 November 2009 3:11 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
We're seeing more and more comic books and graphic novels being adapted for the big screen and, even with varied results at the box office, the trend shows no sign of stopping.
This is largely because established titles come with a devoted fanbase while newer publications are akin to film storyboards that give studios a clear visual idea of the project.
Only recently I have twice reported on a number of comics that are being picked up by film bosses, and you can see those round-ups here and here.
I talked about the craze to comic book writer and artist Al Davison, who runs The Astral Gypsy graphic novels shop and art studio in the Canal Basin here in Coventry.
Al's been writing and drawing comics for 25 years. He is working on the Doctor Who comic (as seen in the image pictured right), which was launched in July, and recently »
- David Bentley
Cusack Interested in 'Preacher'?
8 November 2009 9:25 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Recently, Sam Mendes (The Road to Perdition, Away We Go) said the script for Preacher — an adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic book series — is about halfway finished. Now it appears that John Cusack, who’s starring in the upcoming 2012, may want in on it.
In an interview with io9, Cusack described a comic book movie circulating around Hollywood that he’s trying to get himself attached to. "It's a vampire and a killer, and they're on the road, and it's this really strange story," he said.
When asked if he was talking about Preacher, which revolves around a former faith-spreader, his trigger-happy girlfriend, and a vampire who hit the road to teach God a lesson, Cusack replied, "I think it might have been Preacher," adding that he would be interested in playing “either the vampire or the priest."
"One of those two guys," he said.
If Preacher sounds like an odd fit for Cusack, »
Cusack Interested in 'Preacher'?
8 November 2009 9:25 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Recently, Sam Mendes (The Road to Perdition, Away We Go) said the script for Preacher — an adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic book series — is about halfway finished. Now it appears that John Cusack, who’s starring in the upcoming 2012, may want in on it.
In an interview with io9, Cusack described a comic book movie circulating around Hollywood that he’s trying to get himself attached to. "It's a vampire and a killer, and they're on the road, and it's this really strange story," he said.
When asked if he was talking about Preacher, which revolves around a former faith-spreader, his trigger-happy girlfriend, and a vampire who hit the road to teach God a lesson, Cusack replied, "I think it might have been Preacher," adding that he would be interested in playing “either the vampire or the priest."
"One of those two guys," he said.
If Preacher sounds like an odd fit for Cusack, »
Nakata Wrings The Voice From The Stone
6 November 2009 5:24 AM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Hideo Nakata, the scariest man in Japan, is back to his usual spooky, pant-wetting tricks with the news that he's to direct Voice From the Stone, a supernatural thriller based on an Italian cult classic novel.The plot involves a female psychologist as she starts a case concerning a boy who won't speak - supposedly because of a promise he made to his recently deceased mother not to utter a word until 'her spirit returns'.We're not sure what that means or how exactly your spirit might return (Self-addressed coffin? Shaped as boomerang?) but it has something to do with the psychologist being inhabited by the mother's ghost, someway, somehow.We'll have to find out once the film's released, or buy the novel it was originally based on, which was written for the screen by Mark Wheaton, writer of Friday The 13th and The Messengers. It will be produced by »
AFI Fest 2009: Something’S Gonna Live, North By Northwest
26 October 2009 12:41 AM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Cary Grant in North by Northwest Among the highlights of AFI Fest 2009 is the Nov. 2 screening of AFI Conservatory Alumnus Daniel Raim’s documentary Something’s Gonna Live, which profiles several behind-the-scenes Hollywood veterans — most of whom have already passed away — including production designers Robert Boyle (who turned 100 this past Oct. 10), Henry Bumstead (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting), Harold Michelson (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Mommie Dearest, Dick Tracy), and Albert Nozaki (When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds, The Ten Commandments), in addition to cinematographers Conrad L. Hall (In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Road to Perdition) and Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, In the Heat of [...] »
- Andre Soares
Warner Bros. Wants Willy Wonka To Build A Chocolate Factory On Broadway
2 October 2009 3:54 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
It looks like Sam Mendes found a golden ticket. According to THR.s Risky Biz, Warner Bros. is trying to bring Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Broadway with the help of Mendes. production company Neal Street Productions. Mendes is also flirting with the idea of directing the piece. Moviegoers are primarily familiar with Mendes for having directed films like American Beauty, Road to Perdition and Revolutionary Road but he.s also directed a number of theatrical productions including Gypsy and The Vertical Hours. His hesitancy to pursue directorial duties results from a number of potential film projects, particularly Focus Features. Middlemarch, Butcher.s Crossing and Netherland. Clearly I prefer the big screen to the stage, but if Charlie and the Chocolate Factory actually makes it to Broadway, it could be huge. Superb source material cannot carry a film and that couldn.t be more evident than with the 2005 film »
2009 Gotham Awards Announce Career Tributes
23 September 2009 11:40 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp), the nation's oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, announced today that director Kathryn Bigelow, actors Natalie Portman and Stanley Tucci, and producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, will each be presented with a career Tribute at the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Monday November 30th in New York. Ifp also announced it has moved the gala awards ceremony to Monday, November 30 at Cipriani Wall Street, from the previously announced date of Tuesday, December 1st.
Signaling the official kick-off to the film awards season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film. Anchoring the evening's six competitive awards for Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You, are four Tributes to film community icons.
This year's Tribute selection represents a range of individuals - »
Sam Mendes Eyes Netherland
17 September 2009 1:23 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Variety reports that Focus Features has teamed up with Oprah Winfrey’s Harper Productions and Sam Mendes’s Neal Street Productions to produce a film version of the novel “Netherland” by Joseph O’Neill. Released in 2008, “Netherland” is the story of a Dutch stockbroker living in New York City who forms a cricket team with marganalized immigrants. It won the 2009 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Christopher Hamptom (”Atonement”) is writing the script. Perhaps most notable is the fact that Sam Mendes has expressed interest in helming the picture himself. Having worked on stage for years, his feature film debut, “American Beauty”, earned five Oscars in 1999, including Best Director. His subsequent films include “Road to Perdition”, “Jarhead”, “Revolutionary Road”, and this year’s effort “Away We Go”. Mendes has had such a diverse filmography that cricket-playing stockbrockers sounds only like the next logical step in his career, but the novel itself »
- Jacob
Preacher Movie Updates
14 September 2009 7:24 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Perfect timing! I finally finished reading the entire Preacher series last week after having been stuck at the two-thirds mark for months and here we have an update from the director of the film adaptation giving an update on the status of the film.
It sounds like the project is almost there - it’s so close, I can feel it. Preacher has been in development hell for a very long time (a decade now) and you can read my previous posts on the history of Preacher to find out how it was supposed to come at us in the form of an HBO series, which it would do for perfectly during these times.
In talking to Empire, Mendes revealed that he has read a complete draft of the script and he hinted that the movie may not be too far away.
“It’s getting closer… I’ve seen a »
- Rob Keyes
Sam Mendes Updates Preacher, Says it’s Getting Closer
14 September 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
It’s not easy being a Southern preacher with a vampire sidekick. Just ask Jesse Custer, whose trials and tribulations was originally supposed to be a TV show from Mark Steven Johnson on HBO, but that fell through. (Some, especially non-fans of Mark Steven Johnson, would say it was for the best.). Then it was supposed to be a movie from Sam Mendes, but that was a while ago, and we haven’t heard a lot about the film’s progress until now. The director of “Jarhead”, “Road to Perdition”, and “Revolutionary Road” recently updated Empire about the status of “Preacher”: “It’s getting closer. I’ve seen a script and it’s very good. We’re a little further down the road than when I last spoke to you.” Sounds good, right? Looks like things are rolling and we could get a “Preacher” movie soon. Unfortunately Mendes won »
- Nix
Ron Howard tackling The Parsifal Mosaic
29 July 2009 11:20 PM, PDT | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Universal is clearly looking to kick the production of movies based on Robert "Bourne" Ludlum's books into high gear, and has attached Ron Howard to The Parsifal Mosaic. It's another twisty thriller from Ludlum, which finds a CIA operative watching his lover get gunned down shortly after she's exposed as a Kgb double agent. But, as with all things Ludlum, it's not quite that simple. David Self, who wrote Road To Perdition and most recently helped out on the script for the troubled new take on The Wolfman, has been hired...
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- James White
Rachel McAdams Loves Sherlock Holmes
24 July 2009 7:40 PM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
Take a look at the new teaser poster showcasing Canadian film actress Rachel McAdams as 'Irene Adler', supporting Sherlock Holmes, the latest film adaptation of author Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective character, directed by Guy "Snatch" Ritchie, produced by Joel "Lethal Weapon" Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. Screenplay is by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg, based on an original story by Wigram incorporating Doyle's public domain characters. Actor Robert "Iron Man" Downey, Jr. portrays Holmes and Jude "Road To Perdition" Law plays his associate 'Dr. John Watson'. Set in 1891, the film revolves around Holmes and Watson as they try to stop a conspiracy that could destroy Britain, opening with Holmes apprehending cult leader 'Lord Blackwood' (Mark Strong), who promises he will return from the dead and exact his revenge, while being led to the gallows. "...In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle »
Sneak Peek Sherlock Holmes
19 July 2009 11:37 AM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
Sneak Peek the new HD trailer supporting Sherlock Holmes, the latest film adaptation of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective character, directed by Guy "Snatch" Ritchie, produced by Joel "Lethal Weapon" Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. Screenplay is by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg, based on an original story by Wigram incorporating Doyle's public domain characters. Actor Robert "Iron Man" Downey, Jr. portrays Holmes and Jude "Road To Perdition" Law, his associate 'Dr. John Watson', with Canadian actress Rachel McAdams as love interest 'Irene Adler'. Set in 1891, the film revolves around Holmes and Watson as they try to stop a conspiracy that could destroy Britain, opening with Holmes apprehending cult leader 'Lord Blackwood' (Mark Strong), who promises he will return from the dead and exact his revenge, while being led to the gallows. "...In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle.s most famous characters, »
Weekend Report: 'Bruno' Not as Brawny as 'Borat'
13 July 2009 3:08 PM, PDT | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Bruno strutted to the top of the box office but wasn't quite in vogue, leading to a relatively slow July session. Overall, the weekend was the least attended for the timeframe in 17 years and down five percent from last year.
Striking approximately 3,400 screens at 2,756 venues, Bruno donned a solid $30.6 million, which was less than I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, another "gay panic" comedy from July 2007. Despite a higher-grossing debut, Bruno didn't make a statement like Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen's previous mockumentary. That picture opened to $26.5 million at only 837 theaters, and then made $28.3 million in its second weekend, when it expanded to 2,566 theaters, culminating in a $128.5 million final tally.
Breaking the weekend gross down, Bruno had one of the steepest Friday-to-Saturday drops on record, slipping 39 percent from $14.4 million on Friday to $8.8 million on Saturday. For the most part, movies with such Saturday slides do not hold up well in the long run, »
- Brandon Gray
Weekend Report: 'Transformers' Fends Off 'Ice Age' in Close Independence Weekend
6 July 2009 2:44 PM, PDT | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Giant robots narrowly socked it to anachronistic dinosaurs over Independence Day weekend. With actual grosses reporting, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen weighed in with $42.3 million, while Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs came in at $41.7 million. Distributors Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox had estimated $42.5 million for each movie, which was the first time two studios had the same weekend estimate since 1998, when Titanic and The Man in the Iron Mask were in a photo finish. Paramount ended up having the more accurate Sunday projection, and that was the difference as both pictures were neck-and-neck on Friday and Saturday. With Public Enemies debuting solidly in third, business as a whole was up a tick from the same weekend last year, when Hancock was in charge.
Overall, Revenge of the Fallen has had a far more winning run than Dawn of the Dinosaurs. It will pass its predecessor's final gross in a matter of days, »
- Brandon Gray
Best Dads, Bad Dads & Dads you’d like to do
21 June 2009 7:53 AM, PDT | AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news »
For Father’s Day, a few of my favorite father figures in film: Henry Jones Sr., Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness Michael Sullivan, The Road To Perdition Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird Antonio Ricci, The Bicycle Thief Worst Movie Dads Ever? Major infernal paternal influences: Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back Daniel Plainview, There Will Be [...] »
- Ryan Adams
Sherlock Holmes: Elementary My Dear Watson
19 June 2009 12:03 PM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
Check out the new posters featuring actors Robert "Iron Man" Downey Jr. and Jude "Road To Perdition" Law in Sherlock Holmes, the upcoming film adaptation of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective character, directed by Guy "Snatch" Ritchie, produced by Joel "Lethal Weapon" Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. Screenplay is by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg, based on Lionel Wigram's story and Doyle's characters. Downey, Jr. portrays Holmes and Law, his associate 'Dr. John Watson'. Set in 1891, the film revolves around Holmes and Watson as they try to stop a conspiracy that could destroy Britain, opening with Holmes apprehending cult leader 'Lord Blackwood' (Mark Strong), who promises he will return from the dead and exact his revenge as he is being led to the gallows. "...In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle.s most famous characters, 'Sherlock Holmes »
The Motion/Captured Review: 'Away We Go' offers Sam Mendes sweet relief after 'Revolutionary Road'
25 May 2009 4:00 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Sam Mendes has built a solid, respectable, acclaimed career out of making films that I don't much like. "American Beauty" may have suffered a profound backlash after winning the Oscar for Best Picture, but I still think there's a lot to like about it. Sure, the third act is built on a lame "Three's Company" coincidence, and it doesn't really break any new ground in the "suburban life can be weird" genre, but it's got energy and style and some great performances. "Road To Perdition" is a mild pleasure for me, but I'm not sure I could even explain what it... »
Checking out the New Moon competition: Angels & Demons
17 May 2009 11:24 PM, PDT | Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news »
Angels & Demons (pre-quelto The Da Vinci Code) stars Tom Hanks whose resume of excellence includes Charlie Wilson's War, The Polar Express, Catch Me If You Can, The Road To Perdition, Cast Away , Catch Me If You Can, The Green Mile, Toy Story (Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3), Saving Private Ryan, Apollo 13, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, and Big. Secondary actors include Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgard, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Nikolaj Lie Kaas. The director is Ron Howard, who directed Hanks in Splash, Apollo 13, & The Da Vinci Code, won 2 Oscars for Russell Crowe & Jennifer Connolly film A Beautiful Mind.... The film grossed over $152 million world-wide topping Star Trek, making big competition for The Twilight Saga: New Moon (starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner - directed by Chris Weitz)... »
- thetwilightexaminer
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