Tag: The Hobbit
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TMA FilmCast #21 – District 9
Rookie director, Neill Blomkamp, has received untold accolades for his alien apartheid allegory, “District 9.” Can this $30 million socially conscious film please both the sci-fi fanboys and hardcore...
Oct 11, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongGuy Ritchie to Direct ‘Lobo’
Guy Ritchie has signed on to direct “Lobo,” a live-action adaptation of the DC Comic for Warner Bros. Variety reports that Don Payne penned the most recent draft of the script about the alien bounty...
Sep 3, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDistrict 9 (2009)
The 1970s were to good science-fiction what the 1960s were to social and political unrest, and counter-cultural deviance. With genre classics like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Wars,”...
Sep 1, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongA&E TV Networks to Acquire Lifetime Entertainment
New York/Burbank, August 27, 2009 – The Disney-ABC Television Group, Hearst Corporation and NBC Universal today announced an agreement for A&E Television Networks to acquire Lifetime Entertainment...
Aug 27, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongAvatar Trailer!
Avatar takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. The...
Aug 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongOrphan (2009)
With protesting rapidly emerging as a new national pastime, it’s shocking that middle-aged housewives and adoption advocates aren’t lining the streets opposite Warner Bros. Studios shouting...
Aug 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongFirst Official ‘Avatar’ Photo Released
Sam Worthington in "Avatar" Geeks rejoice. James Cameron’s long-awaited sci-fi epic is coming. Yes, it sounds too good to be true, but it will get released. In fact, Fox just released the first...
Aug 16, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongLegos Build Their Way to the Bigscreen
Apparently Hollywood feels toys are a more ripe source material for films than actual source material these days. After Paramount’s intensely lucrative endeavors into the action figure world with the...
Aug 12, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongWhere The Wild Things Are Trailer #2
Maurice Sendak’s classic book comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation. Where the Wild Things Are follows the adventure of Max (Max Records), a mischievous young boy who is...
Aug 6, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMaurice Sendak Loves Jonze’s ‘Wild Things’
In an effort to appease fans of Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic, “Where the Wild Things Are,” Warner Bros. put together a video that first screened at this year’s Comic-Con in which Sendak gives...
Jul 29, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Saw VII’ Gets Green Light
With the inexplicable continued success of the “Saw” franchise, Lionsgate has greenlit “Saw VII” months before “Saw VI” has even been released. Variety reports that David Hackl, production designer...
Jul 26, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongCooper, Reynolds, Timberlake are Finalists for ‘Green Lantern’
Warner Bros. is expected to announce who will slip on the ring of the “Green Lantern” any day now. According to THR the studio has whittled the candidates down to three: Ryan Reynolds, Bradley...
Jul 10, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘MacGruber’ Adds Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer to Cast
“MacGruber,” the popular “Saturday Night Live” parody of the 1980s Richard Dean Anderson TV action series “MacGyver,” has just added Ryan Phillippe and Val Kilmer to the cast, says Reuters . The two...
Jul 8, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongJason Lee, Michelle Trachtenberg Join ‘A Couple of Dicks’
Kevin Smith, director of “Mallrats,” “Chasing Amy,” and most recently, “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” is filling out the cast of his upcoming detective comedy, “A Couple of Dicks.” Jason Lee and...
Jun 30, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Invention of Lying Trailer
In an alternate reality, lying — even the concept of a lie — does not even exist. Everyone — from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street — speaks the truth and nothing but the...
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