JAMES CAMERON’S AVATAR: A RACE TO THE FINISH
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Less than a month before the scheduled release of James Cameron’s new movie, “Avatar,” some scenes from the costly special-effects extravaganza remain unfinished. Pressure to complete the project by the Dec. 18 release date has risen to the point where crews are working “24-8″—that is, eight days a week—said producer Jon Landau during a break from supervising the work in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Mr. Landau said that around 30 minutes of the movie remain incomplete, with issues ranging from sound mixing to more serious aspects like visual effects. The total running time is likely to fall between 2½ hours and two hours 40 minutes, not including credits.
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IRON MAN 2 TRAILER AND NEW MOON SELLING OUT
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Supherhero Hype reports that the new trailer for Iron Man 2 may be attached to the Christmas release of Sherlock Holmes, which also stars Robert Downey Jr.
Twilight fans really, really want to see the upcoming sequel, New Moon: On Wednesday, it became the top pre-seller in MovieTickets.com’s history, fueling speculation that the movie will rack up especially big grosses after its 12:01 a.m. Friday opening at the domestic box office, Variety reported.
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PATRICK STEWART OPEN TO STAR TREK CAMEO, NOTHING MORE
Thousands lined up to hear Patrick Stewart speak in the massive Marriott Marquis hotel ballroom at Dragon*Con over the weekend, and according to CNN.com, the Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men star didn’t disappoint, revealing his thoughts about possible roles in both franchises.
The bottom line is that a return as Professor Xavier is still possible, but a future for Jean-Luc Picard … not so much.
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GOT THE STAR TREK BLU-RAY? DID YOU SEE THE R2-D2 CAMEO?
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Don’t know about you, but one of the first things we did when we got our hands on the Star Trek Blu-ray this week was to go straight to the scene of the first attack by the Narada on Starfleet vessels to see if we could spot the rumored cameo by Star Wars‘ R2-D2.
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ANOTHER VAMPIRE MOVIE PICKED UP, BUT THIS ONE’S A COMIC BOOK
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Aurora Productions & Platinum Studios are banding together on a movie adaption of graphic novel “Nightfall” which was published by Platinum. The story centers on a guy who finds out just how crap life can get when he discovers that the prison he just entered is controlled by vampires.
Variety is reporting Aurora Productions has indeed teamed up with Platinum Studios to develop a feature length movie of Platinum’s comic book property Nightfall.
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UPCOMING VAMPIRE FILM DAYBREAKERS PUTS SOME BITE BACK INTO THE GENRE
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Lionsgate Films has released a new TV spot for the forthcoming much anticipated vampire film Daybreakers. Set in the year 2019,Daybreakers shows us a future where vampires rule the world and humans have been driven to near extinction. The problem with that is the dwindling blood supply created by the farming of the human race as fodder for the vampires.
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DOOMSDAY BOOM AT MOVIEHOUSE
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Call it a doomsday boom or an end days buffet, but chilling and thrilling conclusions seems to be everywhere I look. Besides doom-laden news reports from climate to economy, the Discovery Channel has Earth without People, great novelists like Margaret Atwoodand Kazuo Ishiguro have joined chroniclers of humanity’s swan song, yet it’s really been the big screen where ending it all gets the most splashy, big-budget play nowadays.
At times bleaker than you imagine (The Road, father and son battle last-day cannibals); other times apocalypse can be oddly hilarious (Shaun of the Dead, a zombie plague comedy of manners). Sometimes our own machines turn on us (Terminator Salvation); more often, though, some virus leaves us sterile (Children of Men) or, more frequently, turns us to undead flesh-cravers (I Am Legend). If that’s not enough, movies have been regularly serving up the planet’s plummet via pollution (WALL-E), climate change (The Day After Tomorrow), dragons (Reign of Fire), and, just for good measure, some fine wrathful deity action (2012, The Book of Eli and Legion).
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PLANET 51 – A MISUNDERSTOOD ALIEN, BUT NOT AS SMART AS E.T.
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The agreeable but flagrantly unoriginal “Planet 51” belongs to the mix-and-match school of animated moviemaking that operates on the plaintive hope that familiarity is the surest path to the box office. Almost every element of the film, created by Ilion Animation Studios, based in Madrid, is borrowed from earlier films, then tweaked (and invariably softened) to become a reference rather than a copy.
Directed by Jorge Blanco, from a story by Joe Stillman, it portrays the inhabitants of Planet 51 in a faraway galaxy as smaller, green, Shrek-like creatures with antennas, webbed feet and squished noses.
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