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THE ABYSS Screening

The Abyss, the costly, special-effect-laden, deep-sea adventure drama about underwater aliens and a bickering married couple, will be screened at a special 20th anniversary event by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, June 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
This Academy screening will premiere a newly struck 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive. Considering that The Abyss boasts awesome underwater cinematography and first-rate visual and sound effects, this is a great chance to catch it on the big screen.

Presented by the Academy’s Science and Technology Council, the evening will be hosted by film historian and author Eric Lichtenfeld and will feature [...]

LAND OF THE LOST Photos

Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, and Danny McBride star as, respectively, has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, research assistant Holly, and redneck survivalist Will in the big-screen remake of the mid-70s television series Land of the Lost, a campy delight after all these years. (Spunky Cha-Ka to Holly after she messes things up: "Cha-Ka half-monkey. You whole monkey.")
The new Land of the Lost was directed by Brad Silberling, best known for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and written by Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas.
Land of the Lost opens in the US on June 5.
The original TV series starred Spencer Milligan, Wesley Eure, Kathy Coleman, and Philip Paley (as Cha-Ka).
Photos: © 2009 Universal Studios
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Cannes 2009: Heath Ledger in THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS

Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian:
"Heath Ledger takes a poignant final bow in Terry Gilliam’s loopy, sweet-natured but madly self-indulgent fantasia The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, showing here at the Cannes film festival out of competition. Halfway through shooting, Ledger had made a desperately sad early exit, so the director ingeniously re-invented his character as a series of personae. Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp gamely stepped into the breach.
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"When Gilliam shoots off into his surreal wonderland, his film has a kind of helium-filled jollity and spectacle. … But the film’s convoluted curlicues are tiring, insisting too loudly on how ‘imaginative’ everything is. And when it descends into the real world – Lucy [...]

THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM Trailer

The Hunt for Gollum, a 40-minute film conceived, created and funded by fans of the J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, will be screened exclusively online on Dailymotion on Sunday, May 3. The film will have a simultaneous premiere at SCI-FI LONDON, the 8th Annual London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, with free tickets available to festivalgoers.
Written, directed, and produced by Chris Bouchard, who was inspired by notes in the appendices from the The Lord of the Rings, The Hunt for Gollum follows Aragorn as he sets out to find the Gollum so as to discover the truth about the Ring.
As quoted in [...]

Hugh Jackman in X MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE Photos

From the Academy Award-winning socially conscious drama Tsotsi to the political melodrama Rendition to X Men Origins: Wolverine. No one can’t say that Gavin Hood isn’t an eclectic filmmaker.
X Men Origins: Wolverine, though leaked online, will probably turn out to be a gigantic hit.
Starring Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Liev Schreiber, Dominic Monaghan, Lynn Collins, and Danny Huston, X Men Origins: Wolverine opens in the US on May 1.
Photos: © Twentieth Century Fox / James Fisher (Hugh Jackman image below)

 
Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana at STAR TREK Berlin Premiere
Chris Pine, Eric Bana, Zoe Saldana at STAR TREK Berlin Premiere
Reese Witherspoon at MONSTERS VS. ALIENS London Premiere
STAR TREK’s Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto’s Sydney Photo Shoot
Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Rachel [...]

DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION Revolution

In the Los Angeles Times, Michelle Castillo discusses Dragonball Evolution, which, "for right or wrong, may be the most-hated film of 2009 that hasn’t even been released yet." Fans are reportedly furious because of changes made to the storyline and the characters.
Below is a brief quote from Castillo’s article:
"At 20th Century Fox, the studio behind the Dragonball film, there must be some executives missing the old days when fans just waited for a movie to be released before deciding its fate. The studio leadership watched in horror in recent days as a stolen, near-finished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine became a torrid sensation on file-sharing sites. The FBI has stepped in but, like a man watching his [...]

KING KONG – Naomi Watts – d: Peter Jackson

King Kong (2005)
Direction: Peter Jackson
Screenplay: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson; from Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace’s story for the 1933 film
Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Jamie Bell, Kyle Chandler, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Craig Hall, Evan Parke
 

 

The biggest disappointment about Peter Jackson’s King Kong is that, despite all the p.r. regarding Jackson’s fascination with the Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack 1933 horror classic, this latest remake is considerably closer in spirit — or lack thereof — to the 1976 Dino De Laurentiis production, with (heavy) touches of Jurassic Park and Raiders of the Lost Ark thrown in. In other words, the new King Kong is very much the sort of adventure [...]

CAST AWAY – Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt

Cast Away (2000)
Direction: Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay: William Broyles Jr.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Lari White
 

 

Many will see Cast Away as a celebration of the triumph of the human spirit. Others will prefer the more mundane explanation that the film merely depicts a man following his animal survival instincts, which propel him to remain alive almost against his will. Whichever way one chooses to view the survival of Tom Hanks‘ Federal Express engineer Chuck Noland (No-land, get it?) after being stranded for years on a desert island (mostly shot in Monuriki, Fiji), Cast Away is little more than an elaborate star vehicle disguised as an existential adventure film. Indeed, this Robert Zemeckis production offers little depth in its presentation of [...]

THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, HONDO, McLINTOCK!: John Wayne on DVD

Paramount Home Entertainment and Paramount’s Worldwide Television Distribution, in association with John Wayne’s old Batjac Productions, will be distributing several Wayne titles on DVD beginning in spring 2005.
The upcoming releases include:

Island in the Sky (1953), a rarely seen adventure film about a plane crash in sub-Arctic Canada;
Hondo (1953), a Western based on a story by Louis L’Amour, who was erroneously nominated for an Academy Award in — and was later withdrawn from — the Motion Picture Story category; additionally, Hondo earned Geraldine Page her first Academy Award nomination (as best supporting actress);
the comic Western McLintock! (1963), partly inspired by Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, and co-starring Maureen O’Hara and Stefanie Powers;
and a fully [...]

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