Atari to bring game to movie

Atari is going to attempt what Microsoft is doing with Halo with their new game Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. It’s a game based in the future of graffitti artists in the street…that would be Jet Set Radio…Couple of worrying points here… 1. The idea has been done in a … [Read More]

J-Lo’s Carmen is panned

Apparently Taylor Hackford is saying that none of the Studios will take on his new project of a movie based on the opera Carmen featuring…Jennifer Lopez (J-Lo). He’s claiming it’s because the studios are scared of showing J-Lo in a movie where she dies…let me correct that for you. They’re … [Read More]

Readers Lives #6

Well the emails are in once again and there’s more than enough for another Readers Lives. So here are some of your emails which some of you might find interesting, if you don’t then find something interesting to email into me and I’ll get it included in the next issue! … [Read More]

Audio Edition – January 4th 2006

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Narnia Passes Kong

Amidst all the controversy and debate on The Movie Blog around the length of King Kong (over 3 hours), I made a little prediction on the Audio Edition that although Kong debuted at #1 on it’s opening weekend (knocking out The Chronicles of Narnia which was #1 the previous week), … [Read More]

Hostel Reviews

The Hostel reviews are coming in… and man they look far better than I anticipated. Right from the first time I saw the Hostel trailer I thought it looked scary as hell… but so do all horror trailers, so I didn’t really think too much about it. But them came … [Read More]

Blu-Ray releases announced

Four Studios have announced their titles list for the launch of Blu-Ray, with the date still to be announced. Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate and Paramount have all revealed the titles they intend to release. From Reuters through Yahoo come the news of some of the top titles on … [Read More]

Casanova Reviews

The Casanova reviews are starting to roll in, and not surprisingly, the Heath Ledger film about the great lover is getting pretty negative reviews. When I first heard about the Casanova project, and the fact that Heath Ledger was taking the lead role, I was really interested in it…. and … [Read More]

He-Man’s Skeletor Cast?

I actually thought that John Woo’s He-Man movie had passed away, but it appears not, for the news is that Skeletor has been cast with the slightest whisper. According to Contact Music through JoBlo it’s John Glover he who played Lex Luthors’ Dad in Smallville. They even point out that … [Read More]

London Suicide Bombers inspire movie

The suicide bombings in London last year are already prompting the Movie Industry to commit stories to film, however this one isn’t from Hollywood, it’s from Bollywood, and will look into the mind of one of the terrorists. According to Reuters through Yahoo: Mahesh Bhatt’s Suicide Bomber, to be set … [Read More]

Spielberg says no Marry Poppins

We talked about the possibility of Steven Spielberg bringing the Mary Poppins stage show to the big screen, well now we have the official denial. From Ananova, a source that is quite often early with fact and sometimes wrong, comes the story: Spielberg’s spokesman Marvin Levy said: “I never heard … [Read More]

Goblet of Fire deleted scenes

Surprisingly (sarcasm) there were some scenes that were removed from the screen version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but now eight of those scenes are rumoured to be returning to the movie on the DVD release. The Potter site harrylatino.com has the news about the Gob of … [Read More]