Well,
with Toshiba and Microsoft having officially pulled
out of the high definition format war it looks like
Sony can claim victory. I know a lot of people
say that Blu-ray is technically superior, but I
liked the fact that HD-DVD had a lot of neat
features and was an actual, finished format.
Sony's baby may one day be something amazing that
will cause people to wonder how they ever lived
without it, but at the moment it's just an
underdeveloped technology that's beyond expensive.
What a shame. On the flip side, I guess it's
OK that I'll at least be able to pick up a lot of
HD-DVD titles for cheap in the near future. I
guess.
The weekly rundown awaits you below.
Read on.
PS - Sorry I never got around to making Oscar picks.
I blame the music portion of the blog.
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Amazon
(Yes, the site that sells stuff) has decided to enter
the world of film by way of Keith Donahue's fantasy
novel, The Stolen Child. 20th Century FOX
will finance and distribute.
Gore Verbinski (Pirates Of The Caribbean Trilogy)
is reportedly set to direct his first animated feature.
There is no title or plot details known yet, but the
target release year is 2012 and the budget is a whopping
$100 million.
Akira looks as if it's set to enter the world of
live-action due to Leonardo DiCaprio's company, Appian
Way. The group will produce what could eventually
be a two-part epic set in a post-apocalyptic city known
as New Manhattan.
Pixar has apparently thrown out the Toy Story 3
plot that dealt with a re-called Buzz Lightyear in favor
of a new one that deals with Andy going to college and
the toys being dumped at a day-care center.
David Fincher (Zodiac) is being rumored as the
director for Black Hole, which is about a group
of teens who experience a horrific STD that leaves them
physically deformed.
In what is easily the strangest story so far this year,
Universal and Hasbro have made a deal to make movies out
of Candy Land, Monopoly, Ouija,
Battleship, Magic The Gathering and
Stretch Armstrong.
Owen Wilson is ready to get back to work, and he will do
so with Jennifer Aniston in a flick called Marley And
Me. The story will follow a couple who adopt a
dog and then proceed to have a myriad of issues with it.
As if Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow)
hadn't already destroyed the Earth before, he has
reached a deal with Sony to put out a new
disaster-oriented effort titled 2012. The
plot will deal with the Mayan calendar and its
prediction that the world will end in 2012 with a
variety of terrible events.
No director has been attached yet, but Sony is all set
to go forward with a film based on the graphic novel
The Boys, which is about a team of people who help
keep superheroes in check.
In addition to Christian Bale and Johnny Depp, Michael
Mann has added David Wenham, Stephen Graham,
Marion Cotillard, Giovanni Ribisi, Channing Tatum
and Stephen Dorff to the cast of his gangster movie,
Public Enemies.
It looks as if David Yates will start work on Harry
Potter And The Deathly Hallows as soon as his wraps
up work on Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince.
So much for those rumors about Alfonso Cuaron returning,
right?
Orlando Bloom as signed on to appear in An Education.
The story revolves around an older playboy who arrives
in a neighborhood and turns a teenage girl's life into a
confusing mess.
Ryan Reynolds is Deadpool and Taylor Kitsch is Gambit.
They'll be in the upcoming Wolverine spin-off.
Hugo Weaving has signed on to join Benicio Del Toro in
The Wolfman.
Bad news for Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are.
Apparently, at a screening recently it scared the hell
out of bunch of kids, which is the target audience.
Word is that Warner Bros. want to dump the entire movie
and all of its weirdness so that they can start all over
from scratch. Yes, that means that Jonze, his
footage and the script that he used would all be canned.
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