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Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 26th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: THE AVENGERS at Comic-Con, Brad Pitt in WORLD WAR Z, Jim Carrey, Katherine Heigl, Guillermo del Toro, Tim Burton

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web. Comic-Con 2010 is underway in San Diego leading the way with most headlines across the web this week. Amongst all the preview footage, panels, exhibitions and guest appearances, only a handful of casting news has trickled out of the convention. Without a doubt the biggest casting news out of Comic-Con came when the cast of The...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 26th, 2010 | View Comments

WORLD OF WARCRAFT movie alarmingly close to getting made

You’ve probably heard of World Of Warcraft; it’s kind of like Farmville on Facebook, but with more particle effects and Tolkien plagiarism. The idea that 11 million people pay money to keep playing a game that never ends literally hurts my brain. It’s like paying $5 per episode to watch “The X-Files,” but they only give you the monster-of-the-week episodes, rather than the story...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jun 26th, 2010 | View Comments

Reel Thinker Podcast #01, June 25 2010

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. You’re moments away from listening to our first ever podcast. Go ahead, click the players above or below to start streaming from the web or Download the mp3 file (19 mb). Jason Stringer, Danny Clark and Nyrie Anne share their...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jun 16th, 2010 | View Comments

Sam Raimi directing OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL, starring Robert Downey Jr.

Where do you go searching for your next project after being axed from the mega-bucks Spider-Man franchise you helped create? Why, you simply follow the yellow brick road. Deadline reports that Sam Raimi has officially signed to direct the project Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz detailing how the man who becomes Wizard wound up in the land of Oz in the first place (also via rogue...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 22nd, 2010 | View Comments

10 film trilogies with bad third chapters

Sometimes it’s because the studio makes so much money they can’t resist developing another sequel. Sometimes it’s because the franchise creators always planned a three-act story arc. Sometimes the studio funnels funds into the hands of franchise creators who don’t really know how to build on their first film. Whatever the case, 3 is the magic number in Hollywood: trilogies have grown in...
Posted by Robin Hare on Feb 7th, 2010 | View Comments

State of the art: 3D and the “AVATAR effect”

The disappointing but inevitable box office success of James Cameron’s lacklustre return to fantasy filmmaking has, for better or worse, solidified 3D movies as financially viable in the minds of those cold, distant studio execs whose only apparent concern is the bottom line. After the unprecedented success of Avatar in standard 3D as well as Imax 3D venues, many studios appear to be jumping on the...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 12th, 2010 | View Comments

SPIDER-MAN 4 scrapped in favour of franchise reboot

Hollywood is officially broken. After a recent flurry of casting rumours (Anne Hathaway, John Malkovich as new villains), delays, script problems and fan plot speculation regarding the planned fourth, fifth and sixth Spidey flicks, Sam Raimi has finally had enough of Sony’s shit, and has officially left the building, taking with him Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, the heart and soul of the films, and any...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 11th, 2010 | View Comments

The 7 best comic book movies

The Joker turns 70 this year. The clown prince premiered in the northern hemisphere spring of 1940 in Batman’s first standalone series. Batman himself, as well as Superman and some other, lesser-known characters, are a few years older even than Mr J. Back then it was all about domino masks, tights, capes, and good-old-fashioned crime-fighting, with a dash of Freudian introspection on the side. With the...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 11th, 2010 | View Comments

SPIDER-MAN 3 review: oh how the mighty have fallen

I was actually looking forward to finishing off the Spidey trilogy, especially coming off the back of the first sequel. I had fond memories of this third instalment, but watching the film again, I have no idea why. Maybe it stands on its own quite well — that is, if you don’t watch it within 48 hours of the other two — but after the awesome Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3 feels detached,...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 10th, 2010 | View Comments

SPIDER-MAN 2 review: the best comic book film of all time

Narrowly snatching the crown from the discombobulated Watchmen, and the too-cool-to-be-emotionally-engaging The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 2 is probably the greatest comic book adaptation of all time. How do I know that, you ask? Because from the opening frame you forget it’s a comic book movie. It’s just a great film with some wacky costumes and surreal vertical combat scenes. And that, more than...
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