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Michael Clarke Duncan dead at age 54
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan has passed away at the age of 54, from complications suffered from a heart attack he had in July.
Known for his big build and deep voice, Duncan was in the prime of his life. His first movie role was in 1995's Friday, and he had several small parts playing bouncers and muscle men. It wasn't until 1997's Armageddon that he had a meatier role with more lines, playing one of the rough-and-tumble drilling crew drafted into blowing up an approaching asteroid.
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Punisher star opens Book of Eli
With his new role as the enforcer of the Marvel Comics universe set to please audiences when Punisher: War Zone opens this Friday, Ray Stevenson is solidifying his movie career in his post-Rome world.
Add a comment (0)Shia becomes Grisham's Associate
Shia LaBeouf has signed to star in The Associate, a new thriller from Paramount Pictures based on John Grishan's novel of the same name. The Transformers and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull star will play a law school graduate from Yale who is herded in taking a job at an elite law firm only to find himself given confidential information about a multibillion dollar lawsuit that the firm is embroiled in.
Add a comment (0)Caprica gets a greenlight
The Sci Fi Channel has given a go-ahead to make futher episodes of Caprica, the prequel series spun off from Battlestar Galactica. Variety reports that the cable channel is hoping to reassemble as much of the Galactica writing team as possible; since the final episodes of that series were filmed earlier this year, the scribes had scattered to find work on other shows. The idea is to have episodes of Caprica filming by the middle of 2009 for an anticipated debut on Sci Fi in early 2010.
Add a comment (0)Monday, December 1, 2008
From Halloween III to Helliversity
Director Tommy Lee Wallace will return to the horror genre once again to direct Helliversity for FarCor Studios and Indusa Global. The helmer of Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Fright Night Part 2 and most recently the direct-to-vid sequel Vampires: Los Muertos, Wallace's story follows a group of American exchange students who, while trapped inside the grounds of a university, are stalked by a evil spirit out to release them from this mortal coil.
Add a comment (0)Buscemi in talks for HBO's Boardwalk Empire
Reservoir Dogs star Steve Buscemi is in negotiations to headline Boardwalk Empire, a pilot to be considered as a possible new series on HBO. Also in contract discussions is actress Kelly Macdonald (No Country For Old Men, Trainspotting) who would play a woman who marries a dangerous man to escape life with her family.
Add a comment (0)My Name is Bruce spec'd for February
Image Entertainment will street the comedy-horror hijinks of My Name is Bruce on February 10, 2009.
Add a comment (3)Straw Men held by Benderspink
The film rights to the book The Straw Men have been acquired by production firm Benderspink. Based on the crime thriller (and the first in a trilogy) by Michael Marshall Smith, The Straw Men follows seemingly unconnected storylines that eventually converge together. One plot tracks a detective called out of retirement to track down a killer while the other follows a young man who, after burying his parents who died in an automobile accident, discovers clues that lead him to think that they might still be alive. Smith's book starts off with a shocker as two men walk into a fast-food restaurant and shoot dozens of people in cold blood. All three stories eventually link together.
Add a comment (0)Faculty found for Fame
Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), Bebe Neuwirth (Cheers), Charles S. Dutton (Threshold) and Debbie Allen have all been hired to play the teachers for the next crop of young talent in Fame.
Add a comment (0)Saturday, November 29, 2008
Wonder Woman DVD director talks animated movie
On March 3, 2009 those that have been waiting patiently for a big screen movie featuring DC Comics' Amazonian princess will get the next best thing. Warner Home Video will release their next animated feature, Wonder Woman, an all-new direct-to-video adventure that serves as an origin story for the heroine. IESB sat down for an interview with the film's director, Lauren Montgomery, and discussed how the project got started, her approach to bringing Diana's story to the screen, the decision to jettison some of the dated aspects to the character's history so that she could be updated to stand side-by-side with other DC heroes and deciding on the look of her in the movie:
Add a comment (0)First image of Gambit from X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The new issue of Empire magazine features a cover story about X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and included in the images is the first look at Taylor Kitsch as Gambit (and as scanned in by Coming Soon.) Fans of the X-Men comic book know that the Cajun mutant has the power to kinetically charge up items which then explode, and the character's favorite weapon of choice are playing cards he throws at his enemies. It looks like Gambit will be seen using cards in the film but in the released photo of Kitsch his eyes aren't black with red irises (or at least in this shot), as the character appears in Marvel books.
Add a comment (0)Saturday, February 2, 2002
Director's Cut: Script review of Rendezvous with Rama
Howdy all. It's been about six weeks since my last Director's Cut, and I hope you've been groovin' with the film updates as well as what Dayna, Reg and the other hombres are doing with Test Pattern. So far 2002 has been a turbulent year for myself, in-between juggling time to update CA, fill my duties as the News Editor of Universal's 13th Street and run the business side of Corona. Somewhere in there I also managed to find the time to pitch a comic book series (my first since I wrote Technopolis for Caliber Comics back in '98), so I'm crossing my fingers and hoping to hear good things back from the editor. And if he likes my proposal, you better believe you'll hear about it from me, so send good thoughts my way!
Add a comment (0)Tuesday, July 25, 2000
Director's Cut: California Dreamin', or How Elizabeth Shue Nearly Ran Me Over
It's been one of those weeks.
Add a comment (0)Monday, June 5, 2000
Director's Cut: A Question of Ethics
Do ethics and morals apply when it comes to the realm of Internet movie websites? That's the question that's been asked this past weekend by webmasters around the world.
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