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DAN'S   MOVIE   DIGEST

I s s u e   # 1 6 6

0 5   A p r i l   2 0 0 6

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MOVIE NEWS

OCEAN'S 13

The second sequel to Ocean's Eleven will begin filming on 21 July, with Ellen Barkin (right) co-starring alongside the regular gang of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Eddie Jemison, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould.

Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones will not return, but director Stephen Soderbergh is again in the hot seat. Ocean's Thirteen will debut in cinemas in the summer of 2007 release.

REMO: THE DESTROYER

A guilty pleasure of mine back in the '80s was Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, starring Fred Ward as Remo - a policeman who is killed in action actually revived to become part of a group known as Cure. Remo was then taught martial arts and how to dodge bullets by Chuin. Oh, it also starred Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek Voyager's Janeway!) Never heard of it?

Well, it looks like a very belated sequel is in the pipeline called Remo The Destroyer. The Remo character actually derives from a novel by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir that was full of satire and hard-edge thrills. The first movie was somewhat watered-down by the studio, but here's hoping the sequel realls nails what the book set out to achieve...

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THE SIMPSONS MOVIE

A leaked report suggests the plot for the 2007 Simpsons movie will involve Homer's incompetence at the nuclear power station resulting in a containment dome being placed over Springfield.

The movie being written by Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, Al Jean, Brian Scully, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti. The director is David Silverman (Monster's, Inc.), with guest voices from Albert Brooks, Minnie Driver and Erin Brockovich!

SUPERMAN RETURNS

The new Superman movie will be released in IMAX theatres. No big deal there, but there is once you're told 30 minutes of the film will be shown in 3-D!

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A companion blog to DMD here at DVD Fever! If you want a daily fix of news, reviews, opinions, links and other goodness, then look no further!

Recent posts include: James Cameron and 3-D movies, the history of disaster movies, Carnivale, Battlestar Galactica, 24, V For Vendetta, Snakes On The Plane, Lost, Prison Break, graphic novels, Derren Brown, The Simpsons, Ricky Gervais, Stephen King and the unaired Jack Black TV show Heat Vision & Jack.

So hurry over to Dan Owen.blogspot.com and bookmark DMDB!

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TRAILERS

Poseidon - ShoWest Footage (click here for trailer)

The God of water.
You know your mythology.

I'm guessing this is a seafaring movie?
It's a remake of the 1972 classic disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure.

Hmm, cool. Who's in it?
Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, er, Stacy Ferguson.

Whoooo?
The bird from Black Eyed Peas.

Ah. Hmm. Okay. Good effects, yeah? Of course. A massive CGI tsunami capsized an ocean liner and the passengers have to--

Blah, blah, blah!
Oh, c'mon, these disaster movies are just what the summer's all about.

Okay... just kidding. But these things are quite formulaic.
The trailer has plenty of spirit and snippers of "tough choices" for our heroes to make. Should be fun.

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US TOP 10 (CINEMA)

All figures are weekend box-office gross.

  • 1. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown ($68.0m)
  • 2. The Inside Man ($15.4m)
  • 3. ATL ($11.6m)
  • 4. Failure To Launch ($6.46m)
  • 5. V for Vendetta ($6.30m)
  • 6. Stay Alive ($4.51m)
  • 7. She's the Man ($4.43m)
  • 8. Slither ($3.88m)
  • 9. The Shaggy Dog ($3.24m)
  • 10. Basic Instinct 2 ($3.20m)

UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

  • 1. The Inside Man (£1.11m)
  • 2. Failure To Launch (£1.08m)
  • 3. The Shaggy Dog (£0.83m)
  • 4. Hostel (£0.76m)
  • 5. The Pink Panther (2006) (£0.59m)
  • 6. Basic Instinct 2 (£0.48m)
  • 7. Firewall (£0.46m)
  • 8. The Ringer (£0.37m)
  • 9. Yours, Mine and Ours (£0.33m)
  • 10. V for Vendetta (£0.28m)

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

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DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TXW32R4 32" widescreen TV connected to either a Creative Dxr2 DVD-ROM player or Microsoft Xbox and played through a Sony STR-DB930 amplifier.

PC games reviewed by the editor are on:

  • Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
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  • Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
  • Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
  • Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP