Universal Lands Rights To Asteroids Movie (Slashdot)
It seems Universal Studios has won the highly sought-after movie rights to the 1979 Atari game Asteroids. Disney's Matthew Lopez will be writing the adaptation, having previously worked on the scripts for Bedtime Stories, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Race to Witch Mountain. The NY Times is skeptical about Hollywood's ability to do right by the 30-year-old game, already imagining what a director ...
‘Moneyball’ Movie: Strikeout, or in Extra Innings? (New York Times)
A complex movie about baseball that was supposed to feature a benchful of A-list actors, looks like a high pop fly to center field.
Asteroids Movie Coming To The Big Screen (Screen Rant)
It seems we’re just going to have to get used to the fact that Hollywood is adapting all sorts of beloved properties from our childhoods - everything from toys, to board games and video games. Today we get the news that Universal has bought the rights and are developing a movie based on the classic [...]
New Resident Evil flick for 2010 (Ferrago.co.uk)
Horror of horrors A new Resident Evil (Biohazard) flick is in the works, we hear today, with director Paul W S Anderson signed up to work on scripts for the new project - to be set between Alaska and Tokyo. According to movie website ShockTillYouDrop , the flick will be called Resident Evil: Afterlife, and will be released on September 17th 2010. We've no details yet on the cast, or whether the ...
Review: Final Draft AV 2.5 (Macworld)
For years, documentary-style film and video makers have struggled to use jury-rigged tables within word processing programs to create the unique two-column scripts needed for planning documentaries, commercials, and corporate videos. Final Draft AV 2.5.2 aims to put a smile on those creative faces by taking over such time-consuming formatting duties so that filmmakers can focus their time where ...
I’m Honoring the Dead (and Look at These Great Seats) (New York Times)
Walk-ins test the open-door policy of celebrity memorial services.
Studio mothballs Moneyball (Toronto Star)
In a film production office here, at least a couple of employees were still hanging around on Monday, hoping in vain to score with their troubled baseball movie Moneyball .
Daniel's star is on the rise (The Courier Mail)
HE'S used the jaws of life, clambered up buildings and dangled from cliffs to save lives, but Daniel Amalm says he's no hero. It's all part of the Brisbane actor's new role.
Transforming effect (The Washington Times)
Michael Bay's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" cruised to just more than $200 million last weekend, the second-highest five-day total in box-office history. As the film cruises to $300 million during Independence Day weekend, it's worth taking a look at the contribution of the military men and women who made the movie so compelling. "You can't just have robots fighting robots," Mr. Bay said ...
It's witchcraft! Harry Potter pushing same-sex marriage (WorldNetDaily)
Got questions about life, death, politics or religion? How about one on the topic of "gay" marriage? It's time for WWDD.
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