Archive for April, 2008

Brendan Fraser Sounds Game For ‘Mummy 4′ (Flix99.com)

Brendan Fraser Sounds Game For ‘Mummy 4′ The franchise has been away from the big-screen for seven years. It’s changed directors. It even replaced its leading lady. And, yet, so confident was newcomer Maria Bello that the Mummy series hooked itself up to the rejuvenation machine - she recently promised MTV that there would be […]

The Dailies: April 21, 2008 (Flix99.com)

The Dailies: April 21, 2008 - We’ve come a long way since Linda Hamilton: Moon Bloodgood cast as female lead in “Terminator: Salvation.” (Hollywood Reporter) - Confirmed: Producer says no plans exist for Narnia franchise after third film. (First Showing) - A slew of new pictures from “Indy 4″ surface online. (/film) - Guillermo del […]

Would Indiana Jones’ Death Be OK? (Flix99.com)

Would Indiana Jones’ Death Be OK? Harrison Ford would be interested in a fifth installment of the Indiana Jones films … even if the character dies in the fourth one?
If the rumors (or are they predictions?) are true that Harrison Ford/Indiana Jones dies at the end of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal […]

EXCLUSIVE: Frank Miller In Talks To Direct ‘Hard Boiled’ Movie (Flix99.com)

EXCLUSIVE: Frank Miller In Talks To Direct ‘Hard Boiled’ Movie It’s been called one of the most violent comic books ever created, and now Frank Miller’s “Hard Boiled” may finally be seeing its way to the big screen. At one time developed as a starring vehicle for Nicolas Cage with none other than David […]

Monday Morning Box Office Report - Apr. 21, 2008 (Flix99.com)

Monday Morning Box Office Report - Apr. 21, 2008 A Jet Li/Jackie Chan team-up is what people wanted, and that’s what they got this weekend, as The Forbidden Kingdom fought its way to a $20 million opening weekend. Forgetting Sarah Marshall wasn’t far behind at #2, with $17.3 million. Al Pacino and 88 Minutes […]

In The Shadow of the Moon trailer (Flix99.com)

In The Shadow of the Moon trailer Well a new trailer has been released for the upcoming documentary In The Shadow of the Moon. I am not really this infatuated with the moon but I gotta give props to the people who will probably be debunking all the theories that men didn’t land on the […]

What Just Happened? To Cannes Trade Roughage 04/17/08 (Flix99.com)

What Just Happened? To Cannes Trade Roughage 04/17/08 The Cannes Film Festival will close with a Sundance leftover, and Catherine Zeta-Jones becomes a pawn in SAG’s contract negotiations with the studios.

Barry Levinson’s meta Hollywood comedy What Just Happened?, which premiered at Sundance to a chorus of shrugs and remains undistributed, had been selected to close […]

Moving Image Institute Day One: The Divide (Flix99.com)

Moving Image Institute Day One: The Divide The first guest speaker on the first morning of the Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing, New York Times critic A.O. Scott made a comment about the problematic nature of Iraq films that seemed to me to serve as a wider metaphor for the current […]

The Afghanistan Witch Project, Coming to Tribeca (Flix99.com)

The Afghanistan Witch Project, Coming to Tribeca BLAIR WITCH director Daniel Myrick resurfaces at Tribeca with a horror film set in Afghanistan right after 9/11.

Probably in part thanks to the Tribeca Film Festival’s new pre-fest review embargo, it’s been extremely difficult thus far to get a sense of which of the festivals many, many titles […]

Lakeview Terrace Trailer Starring Samuel L. Jackson (Flix99.com)

Lakeview Terrace Trailer Starring Samuel L. Jackson Nothing sucks more than having neighbours that you don’t get along with. I mean, there will always be people in the world that you clash with for whatever reason, but having them live right next to you so that you can’t really escape them is both stressful […]