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  Nick Paramonte 11:21 pm on 02/13/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Al Pacino in Bond 22?! 

  

  This article really caught my attention today.

  A rumor is being reported on Cinematical, that Bond will confront the head of the terrorist group (cough S.P.E.C.T.R.E. cough) in Bond 22, and that it will played acting great Al Pacino.

  Here’s part of what the scooper wrote in to AICN: “But the big news that he
  leaked was that Al Pacino would be taking part in filming. I was a little
  shocked as the cast has been revealed already, but he said Pacino would play the
  head of the terrorist group introduced in CASINO ROYALE and QUANTUM OF SOLACE.
  Al is said to come to Pinewood in April-May to film what is said to be a brief
  cameo.” Hmmm. Pacino? As the big villain in a Bond film?

  If this false, I’ll be disapointed, like that rumor of Jean-Claude Van Damme being in Rush Hour 3.

  “And Justice for All” is my favorite Pacino movie, I can’t get enough The Court Room scene at the end, where he calls the corrupt judge and defendent off.

  It would be so cool to see him as a Bond Villain.
   

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  Nick Paramonte 6:11 pm on 02/11/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Roy Scheider Passed Away 

  

  Heatlh Ledger, and now this?

  From Variety, Chief Brody from Jaws aka Roy Scheider died at age 75.

  Roy Scheider, two-time Oscar nominee and star of JAWS and THE FRENCH
  CONNECTION, died yesterday after a long battle with myeloma. Scheider had been
  living with the incurable disease since 2004.
  

  R.I.P. Mr. Scheider.
   
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  Nick Paramonte 5:49 pm on 02/11/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Behold The Abombination 

  

  CHUD posted images of figures from the new Hulk film. One them is what Abombination will look like.

  Yes I know he doesn’t have the ears, but at least the feet look the same.

  Looks like a Hulk transformation gone wrong, where the muscle grows first and then the bones, where as Banner’s where everything excelerates all at once.

  But still with the footage description two posts below, I can’t wait to see a trailer.

  Click the image for more.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 5:09 pm on 02/11/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  CW Wants More Smallville! 

  

  My God this News is Friggin Sweet!

  According to Kryptonsite, that The CW wants five more episodes of Smallville, to which in total, makes 20 episodes this season.

  The striking writers had meetings yesterday to discuss the terms of their new
  contract with the studios, and if the WGA members vote to end the strike, a lot
  of writers could be back to work as early as Wednesday.
  

  But that’s not the only good news we have for you! The CW wants five more
  episodes of Smallville, bringing the total number of Season 7 episodes to 20…
  just two shy of the usual amount. Now, this is assuming that the strike will be
  ending and that there will be time to film all of those segments… but things
  are looking good.

  As always, we’ll keep you updated!

  In your face, Rob.
   
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  Nick Paramonte 4:56 pm on 02/11/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Pete’s Back 

  Kryptonsite has released images with the return of old friend of Clark’s, Pete Ross.

  
  It will be nice to see Pete rekindle with the gang, and from the other photo’s meet Clark’s cousin, other then that I’m not interested.

  PETE aka STRENCHIGY MAN?

  C’mon, they could’ve come up with a better story, worthy of a character from season’s past to come back for.

  Click the image for more.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 4:24 pm on 02/11/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Shellhead/Green Goliath Footage Descriptions 

  

  From AICN, apparently footage from Hulk and Iron Man were shown at the Toy Fair in Germany.

  Here the descriptions.

  For IRON MAN we saw the scene in which Tony Stark tests his Iron Man suit for
  the first time (in his garage). Of course this almost goes wrong. He speeds into
  a tunnel, gets out in the open and flies past a Ferris wheel. A malfunction in
  his suit makes him go higher and higher, almost leaving the stratosphere and
  running out of air. Then the suit goes completely dead and Stark falls to the
  earth. Just in time he manages to get his suit working again, making a mess of
  the traffic in the streets.

  A part of this sequence was in the Super Bowl spot, looks to be a funny sequence, like when Peter Parker tried to swing the first time in the Spidey flick.

  It was great to see the first footage of the INCREDIBLE
  HULK… What we saw looked like the first official trailer. The scene opens with
  Edward Norton meditating. We see images of a lab, experiments, Banner escaping
  from the (Russian?) military (led by William Hurt and Tim Roth), running in the
  streets, kissing Liv Tyler, guns, shooting, more running… The ‘trailer’ ends
  with Abomination walking towards Hulk. Remember the end of Rocky III? Apollo
  Creed wants to hit Rocky in their friendly duel? That’s exactly the way the
  trailer ends. Abomination wants to hit Hulk. Hulk wants to hit Abomination, but
  before it actually happens the trailer is over. Abomination looks like a Hulk
  with the Voldemort face from the first Harry Potter movie. A really mean motha.
  He sure is a great opponent.

  The “Norton Mediating” sounds like a nod to Peter David’s Return of the Monster story, where Banner uses yoga skills to control his anger.

  Hulk v.s. Abombination, Rocky style? Sounds cool, the fight scenes in that franchise, minus Rocky 5, where always compelling that you just can’t get from a real live boxing match.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 2:37 am on 02/11/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Episode 14 

  
  Our second episode of our second season.

  Topics of The Week

  • – “Siren” Review
  • – Supernatural
  • – Bond 22 Poster / Footage
  • – Guimero on Doctor Strange?
  • – Mortal Kombat Remade?
  • – Nick’s Top 3 Video Game Movies

  Downloadable link here.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 4:35 pm on 02/09/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  The Strike is Over! 

  

  WOO-HOO!

  Confirmed by Variety, The writer’s strike is officially over.

  “It is an agreement that protects a future in which the Internet becomes
  the primary means of both content creation and delivery,” they said. “It creates
  formulas for revenue-based residuals in new media, provides access to deals and
  financial data to help us evaluate and enforce those formulas, and establishes
  the principle that, ‘When they get paid, we get paid.’ ”

  Verrone and Winship said in the message that the time has come to end
  the strike and cited the “enormous personal toll on our members and countless
  others.”
  “As such, we believe that continuing to strike now will not bring
  sufficient gains to outweigh the potential risks and that the time has come to
  accept this contract and settle the strike,” they said. “Much has been achieved,
  and while this agreement is neither perfect nor perhaps all that we deserve for
  the countless hours of hard work and sacrifice, our strike has been a success.”

  The finalized deal came a week after the Feb. 1 breakthrough in informal
  talks between WGA leaders — Verrone, negotiating committee chief John Bowman and
  WGA West exec director David Young — with News Corp. president Peter Chernin and
  Disney topper Robert Iger.
  

  Now will have a full season 7 of Smallville.
   
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  Nick Paramonte 1:57 am on 02/09/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Guimero on Doctor Strange? 

  

  Empire Online is reporting that since there is no deal for Del Toro to direct The Hobbit, he tells the magazine that he expressed interest in taking on the task of bringing The Sorcerer Supreme to the big screen.

  “I talked with Neil Gaiman [about writing it],” he tells us. “I said,
  that’s an interesting character because you can definitely make him more in the
  pulpy occult detective/magician mould and formula than was done in the Weird
  Tales, for example…the idea of a character that really dabbles in the occult
  in a way that’s not X-Filey, where the supernatural is taken for granted. That’s
  interesting…But I wouldn’t use the suit!”

  Comic book geeks will remember, of course, that Dr Strange
  played quite an important role in Gaiman’s Elizabethan twist on the
  Marvel universe, 1602, making him a good choice of screenwriter for
  this. Of course, the Hellboy 2 director has a ton of projects on his dance
  card before he can think about getting to this.

  That sounds like an explosive creative mix, I would love to see Guimero direct a Doctor Strange film.
   
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  Nick Paramonte 7:33 pm on 02/08/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Mortal Kombat Remade? 

  

  According to Movie Hole.net, that they’re considering to reboot the Mortal Kombat franchise, after the last one was such a train wreck.

  mink says the project isn’t so much a sequel as it is a “re-envisioning(if
  that is a word) of the Mortal Kombat franchise from top to bottom. Todays
  audience is a savvy involved group so the film must be A plus plus in every area
  in order to capture the magic of the first film. It is taking the entire concept
  to the next level across the board in every area visual design, story, cast, FX,
  photography and most importantly the fighting scenes. The original Mortal Kombat
  game was born a child of many visual loves by the creators at Midway so this
  latest version borrows heavily from that pioneering spirit and must be thought
  out and executed at the highest level in order for it succeed in today’s market
  place. This is no overnight task.”

  Though the IMDB has Christopher Lambert returning as Rayden, mink says
  casting hasn’t begun yet.

  If that’s true fine, but keep Lambert on a leash this time, and don’t let him crank out laughs.

  That was problem I had with the last Blade film, where Goyer let Ryan Reynolds adlib too much.