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Dan Owen reviews

DAN'S   MOVIE   DIGEST

I s s u e   # 1 7 9

0 6   N o v e m b e r   2 0 0 6

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MOVIE NEWS

DMD returns this week from a lengthy holiday due to personal circumstances (don't worry, no deaths involved) and perhaps a slight case of laziness...

28 WEEKS LATER

The sequel to Danny Boyle's zombie thriller 28 Days Later is currently filmed, with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo in the director's chair. None of the original cast return, but the film continues the story... er, 28 weeks later. Some raw footage has been released at this link here.

FRAGGLE ROCK

The cult Jim Henson TV show from the 80s is being reinvented as a movie, currently being penned by Ahmet Zappa. The show concerned an underground society of Fraggles beneath their titular rock, who co-exist with Doozers and steal radishes from giants known as Gorks.

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STREET FIGHTER

Attempts are being made to remake the appalling 1994 movie adaptation of the Street Fighter video game series. The game remains popular and hopes are high that a more faithful movie can be created using the Street Fighter II characters, particularly with the advances in special-effects from the mid-90s.

Early word suggests Chun Li (right) will be the focal point (not Guile like the 1994 Van Damme debacle), although game fans are still alarmed the film isn't focusing on Ryu (as the games always have).

HALO

The movie adaptation of wildly successful video game Halo is not going ahead (for the time being). The movie was being overseen by producer Peter Jackson, with advert director Neill Blomkamp in the director's chair (he was the guy who did the transforming car ad).

The reason for the project's temporary sabbatical is purely financial, with Universal and Fox apparently unhappy with the movie's mega-budget cost.

SUPERMAN RETURNS 2

The critics were kind to Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, and it was certainly not a disaster, although the accountants were a little alarmed by its relative underperformance considering the popularity of the character.

However, Superman Returns has made its $200 million budget back, and is now in profit without even mentioning the DVD sales that should rack up soon! The greenlight has been given to a sequel, with Singer finalizing a deal for him to begin filming in 2008 for summer 2009.

The sequel will have increased action set-pieces (a criticism of the first movie), while Lex Luthor will not be the main villain. Superman Returns' budget was $208 million not including the millions spent on developing the movie throughout the 90s, so the sequel will have a budget of $175 million.

DAN'S MOVIE DIGEST BLOG (DMDB) - Dan Owen.blogspot.com

The DMDB has been running through the months DMD was away, so be sure to check it out of you who forgot to. Amongst the goodies are reviews of the shows listed below, plus the usual links and articles on media-related goodness!

Recent posts to DMDB include:

  • Extras Series 2
  • Lost Season 3
  • Heroes Season 1
  • Torchwood Series 1
  • Robin Hood Series 1

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

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US TOP 10 (CINEMA)

All figures are weekend box-office gross, including Sunday estimates (at the time of posting):

  • 1. Borat ($26,4m)
  • 2. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause ($20.0m)
  • 3. Flushed Away ($19.1m)
  • 4. Saw III ($15.5m)
  • 5. The Departed ($8.00m) (total to date: $102m)
  • 6. The Prestige ($7.78m)
  • 7. Flags of Our Fathers ($4.5m)
  • 8. Man of the Year ($3.82m)
  • 9. Open Season ($3.1m)
  • 10. The Queen ($3.01m)

UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

These figures are for weekend starting Oct 27th:

  • 1. Saw III (£2.52m)
  • 2. Step Up (£1.21m)
  • 3. The Departed (£1.03m)
  • 4. Open Season (£0.97m)
  • 5. The Devil Wears Prada (£0.90m)
  • 6. Barnyard (£0.74m)
  • 7. Click (£0.42m)
  • 8. The History Boys (£0.41m)
  • 9. A Good Year (£0.37m)
  • 10. Hoodwinked (£0.35m) <

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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
  • Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
  • 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