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DAN'S   MOVIE   DIGEST

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** MOVIE NEWS **

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THE HULK

Probably the best production photographs from Ang Lee's The Hulk have been released, showing the Hulk towering above Jennifer Connelly and one of the already infamous "Hulk Dogs". (see right)

Incidentally, 'Maxim' magazine recently interviewed 'Marvel' head Avi Arad and asked if the Hulk will talk in the movie. Arad said: "He's not going to speak, really. Only a couple of words, maybe. Like a baby. But you're in the neighbourhood with 'Hulk Smash!'"

ALONE IN THE DARK

'Screen Daily' reports the movie adaptation of the successful video-game, directed by Uwe Boll, begins shooting in Vancouver this July.

JAMES CAMERON

The director talked about his upcoming projects while promoting his 3D movie Ghosts Of The Abyss in London. He will definitely direct Battle Angel Alita at some stage, and wants to do a movie in a similar vein to his oft-aborted Avatar idea - utilising CGI actors.

Cameron will begin shooting a movie in January or February next year using the same 3D technology he has pioneered with Ghosts Of The Abyss. 'Fox' intend to equip 1000 US cinemas with suitable projectors to show the 3D spectacle as intended. Let's hope they follow suit in the UK...

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PETER PAN

Some photos have been released from this year's big-budget remake of the classic children's book Peter Pan. (see right, Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook)

JURASSIC PARK 4

Special effects guru Stan Winston talked to 'Box-Office Magazine' about his involvement in the next Jurassic Park movie. Winston confirmed that there is currently "plenty of brainstorming sessions with Steven Spielberg! Even though it's pretty early in the piece, things are moving forward very nicely."

"We're into the design phase here at the studio. Our drawings and concepts get submitted to Steven, who makes changes or corrections if he wants to... There is no official director yet, but yeah, it is going ahead slowly but surely".

"Expect to see many new dinosaurs, as well as some old favourites from the last three movies. There are also several previously unfilmed scenes from Michael Crichton's novels which Steven is looking to adapt, plus a whole bunch of really creative new stuff."

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Charlotte Church is in talks to star as Christine in Joel Schumacher's movie adaptation of the musical theatre smash-hit, according to the 'Sunday Telegraph'.

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SPY KIDS 3D: GAME OVER

The first photo from Robert Rodriguez's second sequel to kiddie Bond-alike Spy Kids has been released, showing the two young stars in their "power suits". (see right)

THE RUNNING MAN II

Basketball star Dennis Rodman is apparently in talks to star in this sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenneger headlining 80's sci-fi action, about a real-life gladiatorial game set in the future. Running Man 2 starts shooting this August.

VAN HELSING

Concept artwork has been released for director Stephen Sommers' 2004 summer movie Van Helsing, starring Hugh Jackman (X-Men 2). The images give an insight into the style and tone the movie will have. (see right and below-right)

SCARY MOVIE 4

A further sequel has been greenlit, despite the third film not even being finished yet!

SCOOBY DOO TOO

Producer Charles Roven told 'The Calgary Sun' details of the film's opening sequence: "The gang visits the Coolsville Criminology Museum only to discover the monster costumes are inhabited and attack them, so the gang's immediately off on a new case."

SHAUN OF THE DEAD

This British zombie black comedy, starring Simon Pegg (Spaced) from the director of that TV series Edgar Wright, begins shooting this May.

SUPERMAN

'Warner Brothers' seem determined to get their trilogy of JJ Abrahms' scripted Superman movies in the air. The studio is currently negotiating to have filming split between Australia and L.A, later this year once they find a suitable lead actor.

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US TOP 10 (CINEMA)

  • 1. Anger Management ($42.2m)
  • 2. Phone Booth ($7.6m)
  • 3. What a Girl Wants ($6.2m)
  • 4. Bringing Down the House ($4.5m)
  • 5. A Man Apart ($4.4m)
  • 6. Head of State ($3.9m)
  • 7. House of 1000 Corpses ($3.4m)
  • 8. The Core ($3.3m)
  • 9. Chicago ($3.2m)
  • 10. Basic ($2.1m)

    UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

  • 1. Johnny English (£3.43m)
  • 2. The Jungle Book 2 (£1.43m)
  • 3. The Recruit (£0.53m)
  • 4. Shanghai Knights (£0.38m)
  • 5. S Club: Seeing Double (£0.33m)
  • 6. Blue Crush (£0.25m)
  • 7. Just Married (£0.25m)
  • 8. A Man Apart (£0.22m)
  • 9. Maid in Manhattan (£0.16m)
  • 10. The Rules of Attraction (£0.12m)

    * TRAILERS *

    Dumb & Dumberer

    Ooop, sequel alert.
    Actually, no. This is a prequel.

    The Phantom Menace has a lot to answer for!
    Quite. Anyway, as I said, this is a prequel to 1994 gross-out comedy Dumb & Dumber (the first hit from The Farrelly Brothers, who went on to make There's Something About Mary, etc.)

    Another Jim Carrey yuckathon then?
    Sadly, no. Mr Carrey continues to shun sequels to his movies - perhaps still smarting after the execrable Ace Venture 2: When Nature Calls. Still, at least that ensures The Return Of The Grinch will remain a pipedream.

    But the Farrelly Brothers are back, yes?
    Er, no.

    Jeff Daniels?
    Nope.

    Oh. So what's going on?
    Dumb & Dumberer is set in the 80's, where our idiot heroes Harry and Lloyd are geeky High School teens who meet for the first time. Awww. Much cheap-laugh hilarity ensues. It's Dumb & Dumber with a dash of Animal House!

    Oh joy. So what's the prognosis?
    A test screening apparently went very badly, resulting in "fake laughter" at all the misfiring "jokes". The movie has no real stars involved - beyond a jobbing Christopher Walken - so box-office death is certainly on the cards.

    Shame. Any positives to end on?
    The young actor who plays Lloyd apparently does a fabulous Jim Carrey impression and merits some praise.

    Oh go on - end on a negative.
    The young actor who plays Harry is apparently out-acted by his hairstyle.

    CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER

    The Matrix Reloaded (Full Theatrical Trailer)

    This is it - the big one! Before the movie's release this is the last official deluge of footage you're going to see. The final trailer!

    So if you're one of the sad few still unconvinced this franchise will dominate 2003 ahead of Lord Of The Rings 3, The Hulk and X-Men 2, just check out this 2-min-30-sec slice of bullet-time glory... then pre-book those tickets!

    CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER

    * FEATURED INTERVIEW *

    Pitof, director of the upcoming Catwoman (15 Apr 03)

    French director Pitof is set to make the long-awaited Catwoman movie, currently in pre-production. The visually-stylish director responsible for the look of The City Of Lost Children, amongst others, was recently interviewed about the project for 'Allocine.com' which has Halle Berry attached in the lead role.

    The below interview is a rough translation of the French interview, which has been amended and paraphrased in the interest of readability:

    • Q: How did a French visualist become attached with Catwoman?
      A: I do not know! (laughter). After the incredible experiment of Alien: Resurrection [on which he worked on the visual effects], I wanted to direct myself towards the Hollywood studios. [An] opportunity arose via my American agent which meant meeting with many producers... It is in this manner that I was connected on Catwoman.

    • Q: At which stage of production is Catwoman?
      A: For the moment, the project is still under development. We have a star who is interested [Halle Berry]. Dates start to advance. But I cannot really say any more: the script is not finished yet, and all is still a little fuzzy. One hopes to be able to start filming in the Autumn of 2003, for an release in Summer 2004.

    • Q: Do you consider contacting your former colleagues of Duboi for certain effects in the film?
      A: We are currently evaluating how to work with French and foreign partners on the level of the visual-effects. It is clearly the subject of the day [Pitof left for the 'Warner Brothers' studio from Los Angeles at the end of our telephone conversation).

    • Q: With Vidocq, it appears that you had already approached the topic of the superhero... is this film considered a calling card to 'Warner Brothers' that you were man for the job?
      A: Absolutely. Vidocq can completely be seen like a superhero "with the Frenchwoman". At the same time, I do not think that it is the component superhero of the film which convinced the studio: it is rather the universe and the a little particular treatment of the image and the design which attracted 'Warner'.

    • Q: Tell us about the character, little known to the general public outside of Batman. How do you hope to approach it?
      A: Catwoman is a superheroine with her own bases, but with the attitudes of a cat: a night-vision, cat reflexes, a different instinct, as well as many other capacities which make her superhuman. I knowing that she does not have either the capacities of Superman and that she is subjected to the traditional physical laws.

      It is at the same time a superheroine which goes beyond the comics. She is a sexual symbol, of felinity, of femininity. Moreover, unlike the other superheroes, for which there are indeed Superman or Batman, the concept is that many Catwomen existed through time and that any woman can become Catwoman.

      Now, the concept is to evolve this character in a relatively realistic world, as with Spider-Man. We will transpose reality somewhat, probably in an immediate future, but in a North American urban environment with some traditions. The matter of film is really to treat a superheroine with the thickness of a character of woman: we do not want to make Catwoman a bimbo or a retributive sexual bomb... she is a hero of woman, for the women.

    • Q: The character of Catwoman in modern audiences' eyes remains Michelle Pfeiffer in a sexy leather costume from Batman Returns. How will you try to move away you from this iconic image?
      A: It is always a problem to fight against such an icon. But all will be different: there is no direct bond with Batman, and the project is not in the imagery of Batman - who will also not appear in the film. The environment will not be Gotham City, the history will be different, the costume will be different... One only keeps the concept of Catwoman. The idea is to start its history from zero, and to launch, why not, a series of several films.

    • Q: How you explain the current vogue for adaptations of comic-books? Are they new heroes for the American public, gooses that lays golden eggs for the studios or a true artistic will around interesting and deep characters?
      A: It is a little a mixture of all. These days, with modern digital technology, we make live - in flesh and bone - superheroes. Until now, the TV series and animated drawings were always somewhat kitsch, and maintained the superheroes within the framework of TV. Today, we have the technological means to make these superheroes real in an extremely realistic way, and to transpose to the cinema what one could imagine by reading the comics.

      I think that this wave will not stop for the moment, because we did haven't arrived yet at what audiences want to see, and of what one can show with these characters and these universes.

    • Q: Halle Berry recently signed for the title role. Why her?
      A: Initially because she is an excellent actress. We also needed somebody very cat-like who creates a real ambiguity with two characters: a cat and a woman. And that this woman, by her face, her attitude and her body, expresses a feeling of felinity. And Halle Berry has really all the qualities for that.

    • Q: Precisely, let us speak about the public. 'Warner Brothers' plans to produce Catwoman, a new Superman, and at least two new Batman movies. Isn't there a risk of overdose, or of over-saturation?
      A: I do not believe [that], because the fans of Batman are not inevitably fans of Catwoman, or inevitably that of Superman... There will be perhaps over-saturation in the end. But audiences are, for the moment, always ready - as one could see with Daredevil.

    • Q: What makes, according to you, a good superhero film and a bad one?
      A: A good superhero film answering our desires. It must be as faithful as possible to its origins but without being limited by them. That's what makes them a very difficult exercise. It is necessary to have digested the charter of the superhero and to have treated it and without extrapolating too much either compared to the comic original...

      A successful example was Spider-Man: Sam Raimi added doses of something original with the unexpected choice of Tobey Maguire, while remaining in the vein of the comic and respecting its codes.

    • Q: You are currently developing a Hollywood movie: how do you see the American industry compared to the world of French cinema?
      A: The answer is contained in your question! One speaks about French cinema and American industry. In France, one makes more artistic cinema.

      Here in Los Angeles, the cinema before is an industry and is managed as such. It is a completely different thing. Moreover I thank Jean-Pierre Jeunet for having given myself some experience [on Alien: Resurrection] and to have allowed me to include/understand the operation, which is 100% industrial.

      The director does not have any capacity in Hollywood: it is an employee just like another, solicited however in a creative and artistic way. I am today in the "positive phase" where the studio wants my opinion and to know what I want to make, knowing that the project is still under development...

      But once all will be stopped, if I am not able to make the things as they want which they are, I am thanked and I sent back to France... The system is like that, I know it, and it is obviously terrifying. Not terrifying on the level of control, because we have this control from the moment when our ideas are those which the studio has a desire for hearing - but terrifying on the return: if the film does not correspond so that they say 'Goodbye!'

    Cover ** IN THE PIPELINE **

    Note that these are US release dates.

  • April 2003: "Bulletproof Monk" (16), Basic" (18)
  • May 2003: "Matrix Reloaded" (16), "Bruce Almighty" (23), "Finding Nemo" (30), "The Italian Job" (30)
  • June 2003: "Fast & The Furious 2" (6), "Freddy Vs Jason" (13), "Hulk" (20), Charlie's Angels 2" (TBC), "Tomb Raider II" (TBC)
  • July 2003: "Legally Blonde 2" (2), "Terminator 3" (2), "Pirates Of The Carribean" (9), "League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (11), "Bad Boys II (18), "Exorcist - The Beginning" (18), "Dumb & Dumberer" (18), "Spy Kids 3" (25)
  • August 2003: "American Wedding" (1), "Cursed" (8), "Jeepers Creepers 2" (29) October: "Kill Bill" (10), "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (17), "Underworld" (TBC)
  • September 2003: TBA
  • October 2003: TBA
  • November 2003: "Matrix Revolutions" (7), "Looney Tunes - Back In Action" (14), Around The World In 80 Days" (21), "The Cat In The Hat" (21), "Dirty Dancing 2" (21)
  • December 2003: "The Last Samurai" (5), "The Alamo" (12), "Lord Of The Rings - Return Of The King" (17), "Garfield" (19), "Lemony Snicket" (19), "Peter Pan" (25)

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