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DAN'S   MOVIE   DIGEST

I s s u e # 1 7 8

1 9   J u l y   2 0 0 6

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MOVIE NEWS

THE EYE

Jessica Alba (right) is in the frame to star in the US remake of the hit Hong Kong horror about a woman who receives a transplanted cornea and develops the ability to see disturbing images. This starts a quest to find out what happened to the donor before they died. French directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud will take the helm.

(DVDfever Dom adds: "I do think Jessica Alba's the cutest girl on the planet, but how many more times will classic Japanese horror thrillers get remade and diluted by Hollywood?"

ADAM RESURRECTED

Jeff Goldblum will star in writer-director Paul Schrader's Holocaust drama about a Jewish circus entertainer who is kept alive by the Nazis to entertain fellow Jews as they march to their death in concentration camps. The film is based on the novel by Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk.

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THE FOUNTAIN

The best sci-fi movie of 2006? Early word suggests so. Just check out the glorious one-sheet poster (right)

BOND 22

Well, Casino Royale isn't even released yet, but already rumours of the next film's director are surfacing! It appears that Roger Mitchell (Notting Hill) is in the frame to direct a movie based on an idea by Bond producer Michael Wilson. Mitchell has already worked with Bond star Daniel Craig in The Mother and Enduring Love.

FANTASTIC FOUR 2

Unconfirmed rumours suggest Doug Jones (Abe Sapien in Hellboy) is close to being cast as The Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four 2, a character that will be digitally created like Gollum from Lord Of The Rings.

GALLOWWALKER

Wesley Snipes is set to play the lead in this movie from Andrew Goth, written by Joanne Reay, about a gunman called Kaos (the son of a nun who breaks her covenant with God to ensure his survival). This act brings a curse upon Kaos... so everyone he kills will return as ghosts. Snipes' character finds himself haunted by his former victims, led by the vicious Kansa, so he enlists the help of a warrior called Fabulos...

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HALO

Script problems with Alex Garland's draft have led to the involvement of D.B Weiss, who will be taking over trying to adapt the popular video-game into a movie for producer Peter Jackson.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

George Romero's zombie classic is returning to cinema in the U.S, but as a 3-D film using the Natural Vision 3D process. The new 3D horror will debut in November across 1,500 screens.

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US TOP 10 (CINEMA)

All figures are weekend box-office gross.

  • 1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($62.3m) (total to date: $258m)
  • 2. Little Man ($21.6m)
  • 3. You, Me & Dupree ($21.5m)
  • 4. Superman Returns ($12.3m) (total to date: $164m)
  • 5. The Devil Wears Prada ($10.4m)
  • 6. Cars ($7.84m) (total to date: $220m)
  • 7. Click ($7.26m) (total to date: $120m)
  • 8. The Lake House ($1.67m)
  • 9. Nacho Libre ($1.62m)
  • 10. A Scanner Darkly ($1.27m)

UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

  • 1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (£6.04m)
  • 2. Superman Returns (£4.33m)
  • 3. Over the Hedge (£0.91m)
  • 4. The Wind The Shakes The Barley (£0.167m)
  • 5. Just My Luck (£0.165m)
  • 6. The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift (£0.09m)
  • 7. The Lake House (£0.07m)
  • 8. Golmaal (£0.051m)
  • 9. The Da Vinci Code (£0.050m)
  • 10. Banlieue 13 (£0.03m) <


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As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B 37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.

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