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MOVIE NEWS

CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
The Tim Burton movie has released its official one-sheet poster, and effectively Dahl-esque it looks to. My bet's on this being THE kids movie of 2005...

BLACK CHRISTMAS
James Wong and Glen Morgan (writer-directors of Final Destination and TV's The X-Files) have agreed to remake the 1974 horror Black Christmas.
The movie was a precursor to slasher flicks like Friday The 13th and Halloween, revolving around a sorority house being terrorized by a killer over the Christmas holiday.

DEATH RACE 3000
Director Paul W.S Anderson (Alien Vs Predator) is set direct this Death Race 2000 update, based on the cult 70's movie starring David Carridine (Kill Bill)

GET SMART
Steve Carrel (Anchorman) will star as Agent 86 in a movie version of Mel Brooks' TV espionage comedy Get Smart.
Carrel: "They're developing [it] right now, and they are in the process of writing the script so it's somewhere down the road. Right now, the approach is modern day. The basic premise is that both CONTROL and KAOS have fallen on hard times and are not being funded by the government. They're not getting the same kind of funding as (the) CIA. They have one last mission to try to get back on top... it's not retro at all."

DIE HARD 4.0
Tony Jaa (right) is reported to be close to signed as Die Hard's latest villain. Jaa is a talented martial artist who is tipped to become the next Asian breakout action star after Jet Li and Jackie Chan.

HELLBOY 2
A sequel to the mildly successful superhero movie begins shooting this Autumn, with Ron Perlman back as the red-skinned demonic hero.

KING KONG 2 & 3
Director Peter Jackson revealed plans for two sequels to King Kong, due out this Christmas. The first sequel is provisionally titled Son Of Kong, and will feature Kong's offspring battling various creatures created by Nazi experiments. Sounds silly, but the marquette for the creatures are apparently already being created by WETA during Kong's production.
Although... this news did come to light on April Fool's Day... and was subsequently confirmed as a joke.

LIFE OF PI
'Fox 2000 Pictures' have begun talks with director Alfonso Cuaron (Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban") to helm their adaptation of Yann Martel's bestselling novel Life Of Pi.

SUPERMAN
Director Bryan Singer has recast Perry White! Out goes Britain's own Hugh Laurie and in comes Frank Langella (right). Laurie hadn't begun work on the movie, so it seems that Singer just belated decided that an older White would probably work better than the middle-aged Laurie.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2
'Empire Online' reports that Jack Davenport will be returning to his role as Norrington in Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest.
Davenport: "I'm filming on Pirates until January of next year. There's a little break between shooting on the two films, so that the poor bastards who have to work every day, i.e. the crew, can catch their breath slightly, because it's a pretty massive operation."
"The first one made so much money that the number crunchers obviously decided to turn it into a franchise. We're kind of lucky to be along for the ride really."

TRANSFORMERS
'Dreamworks' are moving ahead with their Transformers movie and have two potential directors in mind - Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) or Michael Bay (Armageddon). Apparently the studio is very happy with Bay's work on The Island, so he is currently the hot favourite.
Tom DeSanto and Don Murphy are both attached to produce the film, and are currently supervising a rewrite of the John Rogers script by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (The Island).

TRAILERS

Domino - Trailer 1 (weblink)

A gambling movie?
No. A bounty hunter movie.

Cool. Okay, so what, or who, is Domino?
Domino Harvey is Keira Knightley.

Keira "I wear corsets in all my blockbuster films" Knightley?
The very same.

Okay, this doesn't fill me with great ease. Can Keira do tomboy "tough" on screen?
Well, she did play the manly game of football in Bend It Like Beckham, remember?

Hmm. So does the trailer look good?
Well, it's directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun) so it has all the sheen to ogle at. The supporting cast includes Mickey Rourke, too - an actor finding a new lease of life by playing ugly tough guys recently now his looks have deserted him.

But does Keira kick ass?
Hmm, not in this trailer, no. Her monotone voice - repeating "I am Dominie Harvey, I am a bounty hunter" is very irritating, and while she looks quite hip in close-cropped hair and jeans... her posh accent grates and seem at odds with the desert setting of the movie.

I see.
Oh, and Ms Knightley may have been voted the Number 1 sexpot in movies (er, ever!) but she looks quite ugly when she has her mouth open. Or smiles.

Does she smile and open her mouth a lot in the trailer?
Yes.

Ah. So, a potential turkey?
Well, Scott can polish movies to a high degree and the trailer's cast look interesting... plus, it's written by Donnie Darko writer-director Richard Kelly. So, hopefully he'll put some Darko-style originality into this somewhat tired sub-genre of American "avenger" movies

US TOP 10 (CINEMA)

All figures are weekend box-office gross.

1. Sin City ($29.1m)
2. Beauty Shop ($12.8m)
3. Guess Who ($12.7m)
4. Robots ($9.83m) (total to date: $104m)
5. Miss Congeniality 2 ($8.13m)
6. The Pacifier ($5.80m)
7. The Ring Two (2005) ($5.69m)
8. The Upside of Anger ($4.03m)
9. Hitch ($2.91m) (total to date: $171m)

10. Ice Princess ($2.75m)

UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

1. The Ring Two (2005) (�2.06m)
2. Be Cool (�1.15m)
3. Hitch (�1.07m)
4. Robots (�0.99m)
5. Valiant (�0.92m)
6. Miss Congeniality 2 (�0.69m)
7. Constantine (�0.50m)
8. Hostage (�0.26m)
9. Der Untergang (�0.16m)

10. Pooh's Heffalump Movie (�0.13m)

** IN THE PIPELINE **

All the following are U.K. release dates, and are subject to change.

8th April 2005: The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The Cave, Bullet Boy, Sahara, DiG!

15th April 2005: The Edukators, The Weather Man

22nd April 2005: Tarnation, Sin City, Palindromes, Machuca, The Wedding Date, Unleashed, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

29th April 2005: In Your Hands, One Love, XXX: State of the Union

6th May 2005: Rubber Johnny, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Mysterious Skin, Twin Sisters, Kingdom of Heaven, Monster-in-Law

13th May 2005: The Eye 2, Friday Night Lights, A Good Woman

20th May 2005: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (19thh), Saint Ralph, What the Bleep Do We Know?

27th May 2005: Clifford's Really Big Movie, Torremolinos 73, Ong-bak, The Pacifier

3rd June 2005: House of Wax

10th June 2005: Silver City, Screaming Blue Murder

17th June 2005: Mr and Mrs Smith

24th June 2005: Batman Begins, Wonderful Days

1st July 2005: Stray Dogs, Madagascar

8th July 2005: War of the Worlds (2005)

15th July 2005: Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

22nd July 2005: The Wedding Crashers, Whisky, Fantastic Four (2005)

29th July 2005: The Skeleton Key, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

5th August 2005: Stealth, Because of Winn-Dixie, Nanny McPhee

12th August 2005: The Island, Herbie: Fully Loaded

19th August 2005: Doom, Bewitched (2005), Dark Water

26th August 2005: The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), Edison, Goal!

2nd September 2005: Cinderella Man, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

9th September 2005: Elizabethtown

16th September 2005: TBA

23rd September 2005: Pride and Prejudice (2005)

30th September 2005: The Perfect Man

7th October 2005: TBA

14th October 2005: Wallace & Gromit Movie: Curse of the Wererabbit

21st October 2005: Aeon Flux, Sky High, Corpse Bride

28th October 2005: Noel, Flightplan, Halloween 9 (31st)

1st November 2005: Bad Blood

18th November 2005: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

9th December 2005: Underworld: Evolution, The Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

14th December 2005: King Kong (2005)

All the following are U.S. release dates, and are subject to change.

APRIL: Amityville Horror (15), XXX State Of The Union (29),
MAY: Kingdom Of Heaven (6), Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (6), Star Wars Episode III (19)
JUNE: Mr & Mrs Smith (10), Batman Begins (17), War Of The Worlds (29)
JULY: Fantastic Four (1), Bewitched (8), Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (15), The Island (22), The Dukes Of Hazzard (29)
AUGUST: 3001 (5), Doom (5), Deuce Bigelow European Gigolo (12),
SEPTEMBER: Birth Of The Pink Panther (23), Legend Of Zorro (23), Serenity (30), Spy Hunter (30)
OCTOBER: Wallace & Gromit (7), The Fog (14), Land Of The Dead (21)
NOVEMBER: Cars (4), Harry Potter 4 (18), Brother Grimm (23)
DECEMBER: Chronicles Of Narnia (9), Underworld 2 (9), King Kong (14), The Producers (24), Zathura (21), Mad Max Fury Road (31), Die Hard 4 (31)

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The following is a list of Dan's Movie Digests online :

2007 Retrospective: Part One 2007 Retrospective: Part Two 2007 Retrospective: Part Three 2007 Retrospective: Part Four

Issue 188: August 22nd 2007 Issue 187: August 8th 2007 Issue 186: February 22nd 2007 Issue 185: January 26th 2007

2006 Retrospective: Part One 2006 Retrospective: Part Two 2006 Retrospective: Part Three 2006 Retrospective: Part Four

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2005 Retrospective: Part One 2005 Retrospective: Part Two

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