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Marvin the Martian: Meet Mike Myers
20 hours ago
A Marvin the Martian movie sounds like a good idea, probably. There is no cartoon character more underrated. Unfortunately, the film will also following the recent trend of CG character in a live action world, which might work for some movies in which humans exist, but Marvin also exists in his own fictionalized, cartoon universe, so it will stray far from its original roots. The crew doesn’t fill one with much hope, either. The La Times reports that Alex Zamm has signed on as the director, and he has to his credit films such as Inspector Gadget 2 and Dr. Doolittle: Million Dollar Mutts (a franchise so bad that even Eddie Murphy has vacated it). The writers are Paul Kaplan and Mark Torgove, who have both worked on Spin City and George Lopez. Their upcoming writing project is a CHiPS remake. Supposedly Mike Myers could be approach to play the martian, …
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An Exercise In Saying Nothing: Bond 23 to be Shocking
21 hours ago
My Bond wish would be to see Daniel Craig in a Live and Let Die remake that finally does some justice to the book. But in lieu of that, I like the direction they’re taking; for the first time since the Connery films, it feels like they’re trying to do something different with the franchise, even if the Marc Forster experience had mixed result. Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen) is the next talented storyteller to take on the franchise, and chances are that it’s not going to be the same predictable and expected story that the series fell into for twenty-five years. Unfortunately, Peter Morgan is not ready to give away his secrets yet, but MI6 quotes him as saying that “it’s a shocking story”. Casino Royale and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service are the only two shocking Bond movies, I feel, but it …
- Jacob
Box Office: Avatar is King of the World wth $73 Million Opening
20 December 2009 7:52 PM, PST
That’s it? Just $73 million? How much did “Titanic” make again? Just kidding. Compared to his last film, any number would have seemed inadequate. “Avatar”, the self-proclaimed king of the world’s first feature-length movie in 12 years (“Titanic” came out in 1997) opened to the tune of $73 million at the domestic box office, but brought in $159 million Internationally, giving it a worldwide total of $232 million in just its first week of release. Official numbers have the film costing $300 million to produce, though unofficial numbers peg it somewhere in the $500 million dollar range. Still, $232 in the first week ain’t bad, and given the film’s universally heralded industry-busting special effects, “Avatar” would seem to have long legs ahead of it, one of the primary reasons why Cameron’s “Titanic” did so well 12 years ago. With the monster that is “Avatar” scheduled to open this week, only one studio film dared challenge it for supremacy. …
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