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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

'Widescreen' magazine have interviewed animation director Anthony LaMolinara and lead animator Spencer Cooke, who will both be working on 2004's "The Amazing Spider-Man". Both confirmed that Doctor Octopus is the bad guy in the new movie!

LaMolinara: "What's going to be really difficult in the next film is Doctor Octopus. Making those tentacles look right and look believable in the context of being on that character, that's gong to be very difficult."

"We're working solely on Doctor Octopus right now. Each arm is like a different character and it's a lot of work. We're still developing the intricate process of how it's going to look and move around."

Cook: "There's a tricky balance with that character. He's got four mechanical arms that need to interact with him - they're his servants to some extent - but they also have individual aspects of his personality so we're working on portraying that."

"Also, from a technical standpoint, we're working on a model that has the animation controls that we need to get the actions. It needs to be something all the animators are comfortable with so they don't get bogged down by technical aspects."

ALFIE

Michael Caine has confirmed that one of the writers for "Frasier" is readying a script for a remake of his cult hit "Alfie". Caine said: "I feel rather jealous. I think Brad Pitt's going to play it. He's a very good actor, but he's too good-looking so people don't think he can act".

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HELLBOY

A spy who has read the "Hellboy" screenplay blurted his comments to the 'Corona' website recently, saying: "I just finished reading the script for 'Hellboy', and boy oh boy is this one going to be great! It's been awhile since I read the first few mini-series, but this script is pretty faithful to the comics as I remember them.

"And it's got plenty of that Mike Mignola weirdness that defines the book: Talking Corpses, Clockwork Nazis, Cthulu-esque Monstrosities, and at least two instances of Hellboy falling into a pit (which seems to happen in every issue)."

HELLBLAZER

The graphic novel "Hellblazer", about a British working-class occultist/thief/con-artist/ex-punk womaniser called John Constantine (phew!) is to in pre-production to be adapted into a film - starring Keanu Reeves!

This is the current rumour circulating the movie-world, amidst fear that the American filmmakers will dilute the anti-hero appeal of Constantine - who regularly managed to outwit The Devil and save the world with his limited magical ability and hard-assed attitude.

Tarsem Singh ("The Cell") was interested in directing, with the current screenplay basing Constantine in an apartment above a bowling alley with a "Dirty Harry set in the occult world" vibe. Unfortunately Singh was forced out over legal squabbles with 'Warner Brothers'. His replacement could be music video helmer Francis Lawrence.

The character John Constantine was created by comic-book legend Alan Moore during a run of "Swamp Thing", but found success with other writers/artists in his own graphic novel series since then.

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THE HULK

Snapshots of prototypes for Hulk action figures to accompany next year's film have been released. The figures are said to be fairly accurate representations of the CGI Hulk now used in the film. (see right)

LOONEY TUNES - BACK IN ACTION

Matthew Lillard ("Scooby Doo") will reprise his role of Shaggy for Joe Dante's "Loony Tunes" movie. Lillard has said: "I play me talking with [an animated] Shaggy, so it's kind of funny. He's giving me the business, and I'm giving it right back."

Producer Larry Doyle added: "Matthew Lillard is actually having an argument with Shaggy, who feels he portrayed him as an idiot in the movie, and [threatens] that he'll take him out if he does it again."

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE TWO TOWERS

The first image of Treebeard (a 'talking tree' known as an Ent) from "The Two Towers" has been released - together with a daylight shot of the CGI Gollum (seen only briefly in "The Fellowship Of The Ring"). (see right)

THE MATRIX RELOADED

Special effects wizard John Gaeta spoke recently about the improvements his celebrated "bullet-time" effects from the original "Matrix" film.

He said: "The next films will blow your minds. We'll show all the faithful that the concept of bullet-time still rules. We have trashed all the previous methods, they are ancient history."

"And once again the victory will be for the movement in digital film circles which have devoted themselves to visualizing virtual cameras and virtual reality for the first time on the big screen. Many ideas and influences are in the mix but only one film will present them with meaning and purpose which served the story of a superman Messiah named Neo."

ROBOTS

'Ice Age' director Chris Wedge will next make "Robots", another CGI-animated movie. Wedge said: "It's being written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel ['Multiplicity'], and it's being designed by William Joyce ['A Bug's Life']. So it's a real fun, big collaboration, and it's going to be a really colourful, funny movie. It's not [science fiction]. It's a completely fresh take on the world of mechanical people."

SOLARIS

Producer James Cameron gave an indication about what audiences can expect from his collaboration with direct Steven Soderbergh. He said: "This movie is not an action film and people need to know that going in. This is science fiction the way science fiction used to be back in the Fifties and Sixties when it was a fiction of ideas, a fiction of people."
"From the moment Kelvin [George Clooney] enters the space station, you know that there is great jeopardy there. You don't understand the nature of the danger right away. You think that it could be anything - there could be a monster there, a murderer. It turns out the jeopardy is to one's sanity."

"Kelvin's strongest image is of his wife who died several years earlier. So Solaris in a sense sets the stage for a playing out of this relationship beyond her death, which is a pretty dramatic conceit."

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TERMINATOR 3

Arnold Schwarzenegger has spoken about the female villain in next year's "Terminator 3" saying: "She will kick ass. A person that you never want to meet in your life because she is more than devilish! She has plasma weapons and tries to kill me with them."

"With these special weapons she can destroy everything that she wants. Our fight scenes are really extreme, with the plasma weapons the TX can destroy almost a whole city and I must prevent that. But it's hard to do this. More at this point I can't say. It's really top secret!"