Last Thursday we reported a rumor that the CATWOMAN feature film was in trouble and in danger of not happening. After reaching the ears of our friends at Warner Bros., a representative for the studio contacted Coming Attractions to inform us that the information our source told us was incorrect; "pure rumor" were the representative's exact words. The CATWOMAN feature film was scheduled to begin filming on September 10 and nothing is standing in its way. Right?

Well, we're not here to derail Warner's superhero movies. If the studio wants to acknowledge a rumor and address that there are no problems with the production, we couldn't be happier. However, a second website has now heard of trouble associated with CATWOMAN.


According to sources speaking with IGN FilmForce, multiple souces have stated that major creative issues are hampering the project. The website goes on to say that while their sources tell them CATWOMAN isn't dead, "the feeling held by many insiders is that the project is turning into a ticking bomb," writes FilmForce reporter Stax.


FilmForce addresses three critical points their sources told them. One, word is the latest draft by screenwriter Ed Solomon (MEN IN BLACK) is "dull, pretentious, charmless, unfunny, and lacking an understanding of the title character and her lore."


Second, there may now be concern that CATWOMAN director Pitof may not be the man the studio wants for the project. Will the French special effects supervisor's take on the comic book heroine lure American audiences in? The disappointing grosses for THE HULK, which some critics have said was too cerebral and full of complicated characterization, may be playing a part in this change of heart.


Third, FilmForce's sources state that the Catwoman character is slated to have a cameo in Christopher Nolan's new BATMAN picture. Warners reportedly doesn't wish to crossover between their franchises, which may be one of the reasons why their proposed SUPERMAN VS. BATMAN feature fell apart when heat began to build on the two characters' separate franchises. Further complicating matters is the rumor that the Catwoman character slated to cameo in the new BATMAN is Selina Kyle, the original character, and not Patience Price (who's in CATWOMAN.)


But even with all of these creative troubles, FilmForce's reporter concedes that the film is still likely to be made. "Warners simply can't sit on the sidelines any longer while Marvel Studios rides the comic book movie bandwagon," writes Stax.

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So by now you should have heard the news that 20th Century Fox has given a greenlight to ALIEN VS PREDATOR, the long-awaited meeting of two of sci-fi's biggest and baddest creatures. If you attended the San Diego Comic-Con last week you may have even spotted people wearing the crew t-shirt, a simple black number that read "AvP" on the back.

While writer/director Paul W. S. Anderson prepares to start filming this year, a reader emailed us with some news about the production that he's heard. We're keeping the how a secret for now to protect this individual's position, but they wanted us to know the gossip they've heard up to now.


According to our source, Anderson is aiming for an October start to filming in Prague. The source also said that a good number of sets will be barren ice caves since the project takes place mostly in Antarctica.


But the source also heard a very tantalizing casting scoop: supposedly Milla Jovovich was cast as the film's female lead. While it's true that Anderson had written the AvP script with a strong female as the film's primary character, even our scooper doubted this rumor when they first heard it. Jovovich is committed to starring in RESIDENT EVIL 2, which starts filming in August in Toronto. Could she finish her work in RE2 and prepare for another role in just two months?


We also thought that the casting rumor sounded suspect, so we contacted a representative for 20th Century Fox. The Fox rep immediately denied that Jovovich was cast in ALIEN VS PREDATOR; in fact, no casting had yet happened. "Nothing could be further from the truth," was their exact quote.

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STARSKY & HUTCH

Saw an interesting program earlier today.
the show was set in make up\costume studio where all the LOTR
work is done,that was interesting enough but what was more interesting was a notice board in the background,on the notice board was mention of 2 up coming productions 1 being THUNDERBIRDS and the other was STARSKY & HUTCH.
I was curious,has anybody else heard anything?

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From: http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808501323

In this time of increasing numbers of movie sequels each year, one type of movie is actually seeing its sequel chances decrease from previous decades: Academy Award Best Picture Winners. To date, there have only been six Best Pictures to inspire produced sequels, and four of them were in the 1970s (admittedly, one of them, The Godfather Part II, was itself a sequel). My hunch as to why Best Picture winners haven't inspired more sequels in the last 20 years is that in the 1970s, sequels didn't yet have quite such a stigma attached to them as the 1980s sequel explosion produced. So, producers probably fear a backlash at the prospect of Best Picture winners being revisited, except in the two 1980s-1990s cases, Terms of Endearment and Silence of the Lambs, where there were other novels that served as the basis for sequels (and even so, The Evening Star was far from a hit).

That these elite few are relatively unrevisited makes the idea of a Gladiator sequel seem especially noteworthy. For many movie fans, Gladiator was the ultimate "sword and sandal" movie, a grand and visually-stunning reimagination of what a filmmaker can do with an epic about an ancient civilization. Using computer-enhanced effects liberally to work off miminum practical props (like the various colliseums which were far taller and more detailed than what the actors were actually standing against), Ridley Scott and his team of CGI experts challenged the perceived budget limitations of a massive epic. At the same time, he delivered a well-written, effective drama about one man's relentless emotional journey, with plenty of gladiator action to go with all of the other eye candy.

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Saw an interesting program earlier today.
the show was set in make up\costume studio where all the LOTR
work is done,that was interesting enough but what was more interesting was a notice board in the background,on the notice board was mention of 2 up coming productions 1 being THUNDERBIRDS and the other was STARSKY & HUTCH.
I was curious,has anybody else heard anything?

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A friend of mine just landed himself a job on the set of Agent Cody Banks 2. He is going to be doing behind the scenes filming prob for the dvd / promo slots.
It starts filming over here in the UK (@ pinewood I think) in the next couple of months. The project title is just ACB2, but if anyone cares I can post any developments.

Cheers

Jobber

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yeah... this 'needs' to happen. UGH! Waiting for the MANIMAL film and MISFITS OF SCIENCE feature!
X-FM in the UK has this funny little bit every week where they interview a known (but not currently popular) star and ask them about their past roles and what's going on in their lives now. For instance, last week they interviewed James Tolkan (Stinger from Top Gun, Mr. Strickland from Back to the Future).

So how's The A-Team fit in? Dirk Benedict (Face) was interviewed today. He said he didn't know exactly where the A-Team film sits in development, but that Brendan Fraser was rumoured to play Face. Dirk went on to explain the he wanted Owen Wilson to play his old role, but apparently Owen is up for the role of Murdock, so that's out.

That's it, that's all...

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i want an A-Team movie, just so some band can cover the themesong and FUCK IT UP!

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A-Team? how can u replace Mr-T??

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SYLVESTER STALLONE is planning a sixth Rocky film.
The 57-year-old actor has written the script and he wants former heavyweight champion GEORGE FOREMAN to appear in it, he tells syndicated columnist LIZ SMITH.
"I call the script Puncher's Chance because it's what every fighter has," he said. "A fighter may lose his abilities but even old fighters retain their punch. It's the last thing they lose. And if they use it right, they can get lucky.Foreman is going to fight again professionally and look at a great athlete like LANCE ARMSTRONG. These guys just keep moving forward."
Stallone, who is currently playing the villain in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, went on: "Rocky has great meaning and the character became indelible.Rocky is a philosophy, so let's make the sixth one. Rocky still needs to be in the game."
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I have heard other tidbits from other sites. Clubber Lang is rumored back as a ring announcer in the last Rocky fight of the movie. Ivan Drago maybe back but not to fight Rocky. I seen in an inerview with semi-retired Dolph Lundgren that he is under the assumption that he will be fighting Rocky once again in this sixt installment but from what I gathered in the Stallone interviews I've seen. Is that Stallone wants to fight a new breed of athlete in this movie. He said I quote "An Allen Iverson on Steroids". Rumored guys cast as the baddy are possibly LL Cool J, DMX or even The Rock. MGM I beleive has pretty much agreed to do this movie for a budget of 30 million and Stallone will make very little up front but may gather in pieces of the gross. Stallone said that if MGM balked. He would actually foot the cost of the whole movie himself to get it done. And by the way Stallone is in training in the gym and ring for Rocky VI and the script is wrote and floating around Hollywood as we speak.

I for one am jacked to see a Rocky VI. For one to restore the franchise back from the dreaded V that was made. This will be good I hope.

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Does anyone else have any info on this?

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Grease 3 & Rocky VI: Box-Office Mojo recently spoke with Olivia Newton-John about the potential third "Grease" movie musical and the response was quite surprising - "They're writing it, and we'll see what happens. If the script looks good, I'll do it. But I haven't seen the script, and it has to be cleverly done" . Speaking of old resurrected franchises, Entertainment Tonight reports that Sylvester Stallone said that MGM and Robert Chartoff are "as of now making final preparations going over the script and it looks like its a go" in regards to a sixth "Rocky" film. Stallone himself says "it's very good - it's a story that can relate to everybody which is good" and somehow Carl 'Apollo Creed' Weathers is expected to be involved despite the character's demise. Thanks to 'Kenny' & 'ABKing'.

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Revolution Studios is working on a sequel to DADDY DAY CARE, their box office hit starring Eddie Murphy. Titled DADDY DAY CAMP, the sequel is being written by scribes Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (TOY STORY). The idea is to coax Murphy back to reprise his frenzied stay-at-home Dad in the sequel which would see him placed in charge of a childrens daycamp; the actor hasn't signed any deals with Revolution yet.

Also back are the original film's trio of producers, John Davis, Wyck Godfrey and Matt Berenson. DADDY DAY CARE proved to be one of this summer's success stories for Sony Pictures, grossing more than $100 million dollars at theaters. The film hits home video on September 23.

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It first began as a rumor on Dark Horizons and now IGN FilmForce has thrown gasoline on the fire. Is English actor Hugh Dancy close to playing the part of the next BATMAN?

Horizons launched this latest round of Bat-rumors by printing a report that the actor was discussing the possibility of playing the Dark Knight with director Chris Nolan. Nolan, as you recall, is the auteur currently developing BATMAN 5 for Warner Bros. Seeking something substantial to go on, FilmForce contacted representatives for Dancy to find out if there was something to it...and surprisingly, the Dancy camp chose not to comment at all.


And then it gets even curiouser: The Unofficial Christopher Nolan website quotes an informant as telling them "[Dancy] is almost and I quote: 'Signed, Sealed and Delivered'"


So who is this Hugh Dancy? He's currently starring in KING ARTHUR in the part of Galahad. He's also had numerous credits in British dramas including DAVID COPPERFIELD and MADAME BOVARY.


Time will tell the tale.

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well, its not keaton...but i cant imagine a british batman. unless he can do a good job of hiding his accent, like that farrell bastard or mel gibson.

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Studio Insider ‘Going Greek’ drops in with a bit of a Sly update. Firstly, the recently rumoured-to-be-canned “Rocky 6”. “It was all purely fiscal. The suits didn’t want to hand over bags of currency to anyone that’s going to go away and make a sequel that nobody wants to see, but the star. But things are looking up for the project. And why not, there’s a bit of a void to fill in the action world now that Arnie has as good as called it quits, and secondly though it didn’t make a lot of pool, “Spy Kids 3” proved Sly’s still got appeal."

"The screenplay’s done, and it’s quite good - Very reminiscent of the first film. In other words, lots of character detail, not so many 15 minute training montages. The opponent of the movie is a guy called Excel, who’s just your typical new-age smart arse athlete. The audience is going to be begging Rocky gives this guy a thumping. Talia Shire is ready to come back too [as Adrian]”.

Not so good news on the “Rambo” front. “Very, very doubtful. Sly and the studio had early discussions about it, but I think ultimately those discussions led to him getting the part in Spy Kids instead. No one wants to do a terrorism flick anyway.”

Apparently, Rocky 6 will happen “when people get wind of how good Sly’s Biggie and Tupac flick is. It’s shaping up superbly.”

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MATRIX 4 is out of the question. Neo sacrafices himself to cancel out smith and by doing so restarts the matrix with the new exile, the little girl. The arcitec realeases the people that want to be freed. The matrix is restarted becuase neo canels out smith. Smith was a virus that took over the whole system so it needed to be rebooted. When neo dies he is on a machine like jesus was on the cross and their is 12 people on the counsil, 12 disapals. This is a religous undertone. Anyone disagree>? Any1 Agree>?

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MATRIX 4 is out of the question. Neo sacrafices himself to cancel out smith and by doing so restarts the matrix with the new exile, the little girl. The arcitec realeases the people that want to be freed. The matrix is restarted becuase neo canels out smith. Smith was a virus that took over the whole system so it needed to be rebooted. When neo dies he is on a machine like jesus was on the cross and their is 12 people on the counsil, 12 disapals. This is a religous undertone. Anyone disagree>? Any1 Agree>?

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say it aint so

if justin timberlake gets the part of jimmy olsen i will be forced to leap from a tall building in a single bound.... like gag me with a chainsaw

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***note**** didnt she fill up with adamantium? and die? be interesting to see how they iron out that little nugget

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my moneys on some sort of clone..... they didnt really use the comic's background for her.. basically she was just another mutant in the movie. Or magneto coulda saved her. take the metal out and let her heal herself.. hell its Hollywood, they can do what ever the fuck they want, the story is just that shit between the CGI these days.

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Paramount Pictures has optioned the rights to the book "How to Tell He's Not the One in 10 Days" for Christine Peters and Lynda Obst to produce. Published in March, the volume is Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long's follow-up to their hit tome "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," which Peters and Obst turned into a Paramount hit last year, starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, "How to Tell He's Not the One in 10 Days (and Other Warning Signs)" is a comical guidebook featuring stick-figure pictures to illustrate each day's warning signs to help figure out if a man is "Mr. Right" or "Mr. Get Me Out of Here Right Now."



****Did we really need a sequal?****

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