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Posted on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 6:05:47 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie news scifi united kingdom

Update: Casting is underway and plans are under the way for a late year/early next year shoot

As a big fan of Jeff Noon, I'm hoping there will be a run on his material someday beginning with the excellent Nymphomation which I think Terry Gilliam could only do justice, but in the meantime, one of his short stories from Pixel Juice has a planned adaptation in the works by the folks who did the excellent Triangle, and apparently there was a sales teaser shot which was shown at the last Berlinale. We have two stills from it and I'm hoping we can talk them into releasing their promo piece.

60 years into the future, Civilization is divided. The Creeping Zero team are employed to protect their fellow humans from having their faces taken by the Fumati. But when your image can be stolen, how can you know who you are.

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Posted on Thursday, July 29th, 2010 19:46:12 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie news festival

And the film I'm most looking forward to seeing (like I'm going to be there) is Vincent Gallo's Promises Written in Water. Someone send me a screener, asap! What else?

Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky.
Somewhere by Sofia Coppola.
13 Assassins by Takashi Miike.

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Posted on Thursday, July 29th, 2010 17:54:34 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie news festival

The TAD lineup has been announced a day late after some bizarre website glitches, and was it worth it? Well considering the lineup, I'd say so:

Rubber the killer tire.
Cargo the fantastic Swedish sci-fi film we here at QE love.
Centurion do I even need to tell you who this one is by?
Black Death ayup.

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Posted on Thursday, July 29th, 2010 6:14:07 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie news scifi horror

That's right, I'm not a fan of Del Toro and certainly not of Cameron, so even if you took one of them off this project (Del Toro is directing, Cameron producing) I'd still be pissed. I ran through Lovecraft's works at a ferocious pace when I was younger, and this book was hands down my favorite. Now, they're going to do it with big Hollywood money and of all things, in 3-D. Yes, you heard it right, a masterpiece is going to get the Hollywood butcher treatment. They need to give this to someone proper. I vote for Enki Bilal, he could do that dusty old civilisation justice.

What's it about? Simply pit, an expedition to Antarctica discovers a lost civilisation. If you want to know more, read it. I'd highly recommend it.

Ugh.

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Posted on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 20:47:54 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: post apocalyptic movie news united kingdom

Describing your film as Knife In the Water meets Dead Calm doesn't really intrigue me, and considering Thandie Newton co-stars with Murphy in this flick which starts shooting this September in Wales, along with the fact this will be directed by first timer Carl Tibbetts who was an editor on the horrendous Aliens vs Predators doesn't really inspire confidence. Is there anything positive I can say about this? Maybe it will actually be post apocalyptic and we'll get a glimpse of the world, decimated.

Murphy and Newton will play a husband and wife who rent a remote island cottage while trying to repair their marriage. One day they find a biohazard-suited soldier washed up on the beach, who warns them that everybody on the mainland has been killed by an airborne virus. That’s when the psychological fun-and-games begin...

More as it comes! via Deadline

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Posted on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 18:11:10 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie trailer news drama fantasy Netherlands

What strikes me most about the trailer for Johan Timmers’ new film The Odd One Out (Vreemd bloed) is how it plays with expectations. Perhaps it's just me but as this trailer unfolds, I keep expecting something to go horribly wrong and the trailer to turn into an all out gore fest of a kid who loses his cool and turns into a psycho serial killer and yet, it never happens.

What else do you expect from a movie about a kid who grows up in a violent family of butchers yet resists falling into the tradition of those before him (becoming a butcher himself) even though he’s forced to partake in the family business from a young age?

The trailer plays like a beautiful nightmare, peppered with surrealism and a touch of a twisted fairy tale, ready to explode in a wall of blood at any moment but if the film manages to have as much restraint as this footage suggests, we may be in for a fantastic surprise.

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Posted on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 19:31:28 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie news festival

Black Swan? Submarine? Yes.

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Posted on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 5:48:43 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news drama

While plot details are available around the net, we're going to forego putting them up because their spoilerish, and as a tribute to the lost. Just watch it.

Trailer after the break. via the playlist

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Posted on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 5:03:39 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news scifi foreign mexico

We reported on this flick late last year and have heard nothing since, but one of our readers (thanks Renato!) gave us the heads up on a new trailer for the film which is a bit more explicit. Can someone translate? And yes, I know it looks like a Mexican X-Files, so I don't want to hear your b*tching.

Owal Tec Investigates the paranormal activities that are taking place around the country.

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Posted on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 0:12:58 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie trailer news fantasy sci-fi

I’m still not 100% sure how Zack Snyder went from the Dawn of the Dead remake to multi-million dollar productions and frankly, I don’t really care. They many not work 100% but the guy has a knack for eyecandy. My kind of eye candy: highly stylized and ubber pretty to look at. Granted, that’s not the only thing you need to make a good movie but it certainly helps.

Hi newest project Sucker Punch, which he also co-wrote, is a smörgåsbord of ideas and styles. It takes place in the 1950s and tells the tale of a young woman who ends up in a mental institution and has to break out with the help of other inmates before she is lobotomized. Things get particularly interesting as her alternate reality/dream world starts to blend with reality, an alternate world in which everything from dragons to machine-guns rule supreme.

Snyder had me at the cast which includes a wallop of up-and-coming fresh faces namely Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Jamie Chung and Vanessa Hudgens along with the great Carla Gugino but man, this trailer sold me. I’m not convinced this is the best thing since sliced break but it certainly looks pretty. Add in chicks kicking butt and some super polished visuals and we’ve got, at the very least, a nice looking picture.

Is it March 25th 2011 yet 'cause I want to see this like NOW!

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Posted on Monday, July 26th, 2010 21:18:02 GMT by: Hal MacDermot
Posted under: movie review cyberpunk scifi animation foreign serbia

Year: 2009
Directors: Aleksa Gajic & Nebojsa Andric & Stevan Djordjevic
Writers: Aleksa Gajic
IMDB: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Hal MacDermot
Rating: 6.5 out of 10

Serbia’s first full feature animation is a cyberpunk adventure starring a scantily clad hot chick who’s turning into a human robot hybrid. No wonder this movie is generating so much heat. I was reminded of Ghost in the Shell, sort of, but really more of Milo Manara, an Italian comic book genius known for erotic works such as Click.

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Posted on Monday, July 26th, 2010 18:39:19 GMT by: agentorange
Posted under: movie review action martial arts

Year: 2010
Directors: Issac Florentine
Writers: David N. White
IMDB: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 7 out of 10

[Editor's note: If you want to see an example of just how kick-ass the fighting in UD III is watch this fight clip and crank the volume.]

I may be new to the Undisputed series, but I ain't new to fight films - particulary those that go straight-to-video. Hell, I grew up in the era of straight-to-video. I remember a time where there wasn't any predjudice against them at all and any flick with badass cover art had the same chance of getting played as a blockbuster. Sure a lot of them were sequels to minor hits like Bloodsport or what-have-you, but as the years rolled on and more money got thrown into the STV market, some of these titles got even better than the originals.

Which brings us to Undisputed III, a film that gives STV tites a good name as is probably the best of the entire Undisputed series. Why is that? Two reasons: Scott Adkins is a fu**ing animal as Russian fighter, "Boyka," and director Issac Florentine knows that what we want is jaw-dropping, bone-crushing fight scenes with just enough story thrown in so we'll have time to run to the fridge and grab another beer.

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Posted on Monday, July 26th, 2010 18:03:08 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie news mexico

Kilómetro 31 director Rigoberto Castañeda is a busy, busy man.

Shortly after the success of feature film debut, he followed with another horror film but since the 2007 release of Blackout, we haven’t heard much from the director. For a while there was talk that he was working on a follow up to Kilómetro 31 which would take place a few years after the events of the first film but that project seems to be stuck, for the moment at least, in some sort of development limbo. That’s not stopping Castañeda who currently has two other projects in development.

The first of the duo is Lázaro, a psychological thriller about a single mother who, after a mysterious death changes her life, escapes to the small town of Lázaro to rebuild her life. There isn’t much information on what makes this a psychological thriller though I expect she’s likely being following by someone or something. What we can say for sure is that Castañeda has mentioned that the film will have “allusions to death and resurrection.”

The second and most interesting of the two projects is Alegorías (Allegories), a fantasy tale set in 1940s Mexico. It’s the story of a shoemaker who discovers a parallel world under the streets of Mexico City called Alegorías and as suggested by the name, the city and film is an allegory of what it is to be Mexican.

Two, perhaps three, very different projects on the go for Castañeda. It’s been a few months since we’ve seen updates on these projects so your guess is as good as mine as to which will come first though I’ve got my hopes set on Alegorías. Not only did the film receive a Tribeca Film Institute $20,000 fellowship but underground cities that aren’t quite right tend to make for interesting stories (or at the very least, cool settings).

More to come as the projects develop!

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Posted on Sunday, July 25th, 2010 23:05:55 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news thriller foreign france

I dug Vincent Cassel ever since I first saw him in La Haine (Hate) many a year ago, and his career has only been a continuation of that greatness we saw in that first film. Romain Gavras' debut feature looks to be no exception. What seems to be a rage filled trip we saw in the first teaser is expounded upon here in magnificent fashion. Enjoy.

What do you do when you're a red-haired teenage loser with no friends except for an older guy, your shrink? When everyone hates you, especially your family? When all your peers make fun of you and kick you around? The answer: you and your loser buddy blow all the cash you can get your hands on to buy a sportscar, you dress smart and you head for the land of redheads, Ireland. But what starts off as a search for an ideal, gradually escalates into a rampage of hate, violence and self-destruction.

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Posted on Saturday, July 24th, 2010 1:14:37 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news drama

Finally, some footage! Yeah, it's been a good day so I'm using a lot of exclamations.

TJ Forney is 13-years-old. Two months ago his mother was killed in an accident, so he and his broken dad, Paul, move in with TJ's grandmother to pick up the pieces. Hesher is a loner. He hates the world and everyone in it. He has long greasy hair, a baby moustache, a Metallica t-shirt and homemade tattoos. He is malnourished and smokes a lot of cigarettes. He likes to get into fights, start fires and blow things up. He lives in his van...until he meets TJ. HESHER is the story of a family struggling to deal with a loss and the anarchist head banger who helps them do it.

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Posted on Saturday, July 24th, 2010 0:58:23 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: post apocalyptic movie trailer news scifi horror action dystopic

All I can say is WOW! This is Dune rad! And I thought it was going to be crap.

PRIEST, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller, is set in an alternate world -- one ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. The story revolves around a legendary Warrior Priest (Paul Bettany) from the last Vampire War who now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities ruled by the Church. When his niece (Lily Collins) is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires, Priest breaks his sacred vows to venture out on a quest to find her before they turn her into one of them. He is joined on his crusade by his niece's boyfriend (Cam Gigandet), a trigger-fingered young wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess (Maggie Q) who possesses otherworldly fighting skills.

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Posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 22:53:12 GMT by: io9
Posted under: movie apocalyptic news scifi

The low-budget indie Skyline, where hostile aliens unleash hell on Los Angeles, just unveiled its first-ever footage. We saw a movie that definitely has the potential to be the next District 9...but on an even bigger scale.

The premise of Skyline is simple. As the trailer and a preview showed us, a group of young, mildly douchey friends are spending the weekend partying at a swanky hotel on the outskirts of Los Angeles. After a night of revelry, they are awakened at 4:27 AM by strange, booming noises. They head outside to see strange blue lights vaporizing downtown Los Angeles. When two of the characters go out to the roof to investigate, they see UFOs descend from the clouds, and other people start getting sucked off the rooftops into the ships.

With that, the race is on to survive and flee the city, all while trying to avoid getting sucked into a UFO, dodge giant prowling aliens, and escape the mysterious blue lights that absolutely wreak havoc on people's skin. We don't know just how massive the attack is - whether it's worldwide or centered on Los Angeles - but we saw clips of giant aerial battles between the military and the UFOs, and the panel moderator hinted that he had seen scenes that were on an even bigger scale.

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Posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 22:32:34 GMT by: io9
Posted under: post apocalyptic zombie tv news

[Editor's note: If you hadn't noticed, we've had a cross-posting deal with our friends at io9 for a couple of months now which is why we're able to provide you details from SDCC even though we can't be there.]

We got a chance to view the very first footage from AMC's The Walking Dead and it's pretty frightening. Its gritty realism is taken directly from the graphic novels. Also, Bear McCreary was unveiled as the show's new composer!

Here's what we saw:

Opening with crows picking at an animal, it's immediately obvious that this is gonna be a damn creepy ride.

Rick Grimes (played by Andrew Lincoln) is on the job. We see the sheriff's deputy before he's shot and trapped inside the hospital of nightmares.

His brain flips through a barrage of snapshots from his past life and what we assume is the state of the current world outside before he pops awake. Rick falls out of his bed and enters a hallway where the sterility has been marred by blood and body parts. He looks up, and there's the pic we've seen of the poorly worded door holding out zombies: "Don't open. Dead inside."

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Posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 18:23:20 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news scifi action

Finally, more!

After a very long wait we get our first decent look at Gareth Edwards' lo-fi Monsters in this great trailer that actually manages to make it look pretty big budget. A couple of our boys have already seen the flick (reviews here and here) and I'm now itching to see it. It looks right up my alley.

Synopsis:
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.

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Posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 17:56:23 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie trailer news short sci-fi

A few weeks ago we posted a great looking trailer for a sci-fi short titled R.O.A.C.H.. The project, an independent production out of Italy, looked pretty awesome and though we had a plot to go with the trailer, us non-Italian speakers had no clue what was being said.

If you don’t recall, here’s the scoop:

The story takes place in 2068 and is set in a place very similar to Minsk, the capital of Belarus which sits nestled on the borderline between Russia and Europe, called New Minsk. In this future incarnation, corporations have near complete control of industry and communication. The story follows one man who rises up against one of the most powerful multinational corporations exposing the company’s genetic experimentation project code named R.O.A.C.H.

Language problem now solved. The trailer has re-emerged, this time with English voice over and yes, it still looks totally badass. Must get hands on finished product. This looks to good to melt into the noise.

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Posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 16:54:00 GMT by: agentorange
Posted under: movie news scifi horror

Mutant Chronicles director, Simon Hunter, will bring things back to basics with his next film , Safe House, that's being touted as "Assault on Precinct 13 meets The Thing" by producer Steve Iles.

Speaking in London Simon commented; “Safehouse is a terrific project, a totally entertaining movie with a fresh angle - we start pre-production this fall with shooting in South Africa in the Spring of next year. This movie is an entirely different project for me. It’s very realistic, shot on location, full of jumps and scares. Its going to be great and I am so excited to working with Lena, (Headey) Michael (Ironside) and such a tremendous cast.“

Safe House was written by Andy Briggs, who wrote Aquaman for Warner Bros.

Info via: Deadline

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Posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 16:22:48 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news action drama

What with news of Robert Rodriguez's star Danny Trejo serving tacos and the sweet looking new trailer here, I'm pretty darned excited.

After being betrayed by the organization who hired him, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.

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Posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 13:01:45 GMT by: io9
Posted under: movie news scifi comic con

Aaron Eckhart's new movie Battle: Los Angeles tries to combine the realistic urban warfare of Black Hawk Down with the classic alien invasion film. We got our first glimpse at crazy battle footage - including a glimpse of those aliens.

Spoilers...

The stars of Battle: L.A., Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez, came to Comic Con along with director Jonathan Liebesman (The Killing Room) and producer Neal Moritz. And they showed a ton of new footage:

The footage opens with a little background on the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles, when anti-aircraft artillery responded to reports of an unknown aircraft. It then switches to a more modern-day Los Angeles, clearly under enemy fire, although the nature of the fire isn't entirely clear. As the military evacuates LA, a Marine platoon is ordered to find a group of survivors and bring them back to the evacuation point. But time is short; the Armed Forces plan to bomb LA in just three hours, hoping to obliterate the invading army. The Marines clearly know little about these invaders, except that they are "not of this world."

As the Marines track down the survivors' signal, they are ambushed. We aren't able to see the enemy, although they don't appear to be much taller than humans. Their alienness is betrayed by their gunfire. Most of this footage looks far more like something out of a Iraq War movie than a science fiction film, but the gunfire resembles something out of a laser gun, as if to remind us that we're dealing with extraterrestrials.

We only get the barest flashes of the alien invaders. We occasionally get a glimpse of something sand-colored, a foot taller than any human they encounter, wearing a round, flat helmet. It is not clear at first whether they are entirely biological, or partially mechanical, but it is very clear that they are soldiers. The only hint we get of the aliens' anatomy is when a group of Marines rip one open, looking for weaknesses. And even then, we only see its chest: tough, stringy tendons that are torn apart.

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Posted on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 21:20:59 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie trailer news mexico

Of the films announced for this year’s Venice Critic’s Week, the title that immediately jumped out was Marcelino Islas Hernández’s Martha which was described as the story of a woman who loses her job to a computer.

Not sure what I was expecting exactly but seeing the trailer for the film, I’m a tad bit disappointed that this isn’t some sci-fi mind bender but also really pleased at the fact that Hernández’s film appears to be a gorgeous contemplation on life after well, work.

The film stars Magda Vizcaíno as Martha, a 75 year old woman who lives in social housing in Mexico City. Her daily of routine is suddenly thrown off balance when she is given notice that her job will be terminated and that her position will now be filled by a computer. Unsure, or unable, of imagining life without work, Martha decides to kill herself.

It’s a sad premise for a story and I can’t even begin to understand what would possess someone to end their lives because they can’t imagine filling the days with something other than work but it’s an interesting, and I imagine, not uncommon, thought for some. The trailer for Hernández’s directorial debut is dreamlike or perhaps nightmare like is a better analogy as there’s a tinge of sadness in every corner even though there’s no dialogue.

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Posted on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 20:33:09 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie trailer news thriller

So how do you sell a movie to the public that features a dude in a box, 6 feet under and little more?

You start with some cool concept art and then move on to sharing some wickedly great clips but for the masses that need more, you give them a trailer that gives you even less visuals than any of the previous material we’ve seen to date.

If, like me, you like your movies a little off the grid, you were probably into Buried from the get go but for the others, you give them a spiffy trailer, like this new one, with cool animation, the entire plot of the film rattled off in snippets by the lead Ryan Reynolds, and just a few dark images to go with it. Guess creativity isn’t completely dead and though this isn't exactly awesome, it still reeks of better than average thriller. I hope.

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Posted on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 20:04:32 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: trailer news drama australia

Australian director Jon Hewitt came on our radar a few years ago with Acolytes (trailer) in which a group of kids blackmail a serial killer. We later discovered that Hewitt was working on a new film titled X which would look at the ugly side of Australia’s sex trade industry and now, we have a first look at the very sexy trailer for the new film.

X, which has now wrapped, stars Viva Bianca (of TV’s "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" fame) as Holly, a call girl on the eve of her retirement, and Hanna Mangan Lawrence as Shay, a girl on her first night as a hooker when "fate throws them together on a job that goes horribly wrong and they're trapped on an out-of-control roller coaster ride, through the twilight zone of sex-for-sale."

Alright, I’ll bite. If nothing more than because I have a soft spot for Australian indie films and regardless of how good or bad this one is, it certainly looks good (and I don’t just mean the girls either).

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Posted on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 19:23:43 GMT by: agentorange
Posted under: trailer scifi 'movie

I've talked about how Tron's basic concept won't be as awe inspiring to audiences today as it was in the 80s when personal computing was in its infancy and comuters in general were new-fangled, but I honestly think this sequel will be an awe inspiring cinematic experience. And you know what? I'm okay with that. Tron Legacy has a lot going for it and if the story ends up being captivating I think it'll be a winner. From the looks of this new trailer it'll certainly be one for IMAX.

Synopsis:
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant, father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous,

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Posted on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 19:16:47 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie comic news adaptation

Super hero comic books have never been my favourites but once in a while one comes along that catches my interest. Such a one was Alan Moore’s “Top 10” which, like television’s “Eureka,” is set in a place where everyone’s a superhero. What I’m surprised at is that in my wanderings through comic land (they’re few and far between I admit), no one ever bothered to even mention Kurt Busiek's “Astro City.”

The long running series takes place in the titular Astro City which is itself situated in the United States of an alternate reality, a place where superheroes (and their counterparts) have been in the limelight since WWI with stories that range from the implications and difficulties of superheroes dating to a super-villain adjusting to life after prison; stories which are told from both the heroes and villains perspectives along as that of the humans who are caught in the middle of the drama.

It’s a great sounding concept that will see life on the big screen in the near future as the folks at Working Title have optioned the property, giving Busiek first crack at the script. Must admit that I'm a bit surprised this has been optioned at all considering the films in the same vein that have come before it (Watchmen (review), Hancock and to an extent Kick-Ass (review)) have done well but haven’t been the runaway success that some of the more traditional superhero films have been but I guess if you can start with a built in fanbase, it's better than starting from scratch.

I assume that as the project is developed, fans will start to come out of the woodwork with their thoughts on the adaptation. We’ll see if the studio manages to appease them while bringing in a whole new audience because that’s the trick isn’t it?

Via Deadline.

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Posted on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 17:34:42 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie news festival

To go with the announcement that Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is opening the Venice Film Festival, we have the announcement of the films that will be making a splash at Critics’ Week.

This year’s line-up is heavy on European releases, all of which are world premieres including Alix Delaporte’s Angèle et Tony about a recently released convict and her relationship with a fisherman, Massimo Coppola’s Hai Paura Del Buio, Eitan Tzur’s noir Hitparzut X (Naomi, Syllas Tzoumerkas’ Hora proelefsis (Homeland), Vlado Skafar's Oča (Dad), a drama about a father and his son and Pernilla August’s Svinalängorna (Beyond) which stars the newest of international stars Noomi Rapace.

Perhaps the most interesting of the films on the line-up is also the only one which is not European, Marcelino Islas Hernández’s Martha, about an older woman who loses her job to a computer.

On the surface this doesn’t really come across as the most interesting of line-ups but there’s always a surprise to be hand and with so many first time directors on the line-up, one or two of these may really impress.

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Posted on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 16:47:23 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie news thriller gallery

There was quite a bit of speculation around the web this week about the films that would be making a debut at the Venice Film Festival. Why? Because we’re still waiting for a great selection of films from reputable directors that simply weren’t ready in time for Cannes. One of those reputable directors is Darren Aronofsky whose Black Swan was a hot topic of discussion as a possible selection (I’m sure the speculated sex scene between the two leads has nothing to do with the jabber).

It has now confirmed that the film will, in fact, open the 67th Annual Venice Film Festival on September 1st but beyond that, we also have our first look at the much anticipated production which stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as rival dancers. No, not those type of dancers silly, ballet dancers. The film also stars Winona Ryder, Sebastian Stan, Barbara Hershey and the great Vincent Cassel.

Wait. What? Aronofsky doing a film about ballet? Yup. Though it’s not so much about the dancing as it is set in the dance world (it’s being dubbed a ballet thriller) and centers on the relationship between Portman who plays Nina, a veteran ballerina and Kunis (Lilly), another dancer who may, or may not, be real. This is Aronofsky we’re talking about. You didn’t really expect it to be straight forward did you?

Trailer is still to come but for now, some great looking stills have appeared online. I was already pretty excited at the prospect of new material from Aronofsky and these stills only add to the excitement. Hopefully some video will follow in the coming weeks.

Images via USA Today.

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