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litheraIs there ever going to be a good movie from a video game? I don't know but they're trying again - Gaga Communications announced Monday that it has inked to turn another Capcom game, "Devil May Cry," into a blockbuster. The deal is based on an exclusive rights option agreement.
Variety reports the following: "It's down to dotting the 'I's' and crossing the 'T's," said Universal's Stacey Snider about bringing the musicalized B'way production of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" to the screen -- where it all started. "We're planning on it," she said "and with the same creative team." That means Brooks, his co-writer Thomas Meehan and director Susan Stroman. And the original co-stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. No deals have as yet been made, but she enthused, "We want to make it a film event the way he made it a Broadway event." (Brook is going to take something else to Broadway - Either Blazzing Saddles or Young Frankenstien next.)
Variety also reports the following: Michael Mann will next direct the DreamWorks drama "Collateral," and he has Tom Cruise in his crosshairs to play the lead role of a contract killer.
The June issue of Cinescape has an exclusive interview with Iron Man producers Don Murphy and Avi Arad, as well as screenwriters Alfred Gough & Miles Millar. Several new bits of information were revealed in the article. "In Iron Man, he's putting on a suit of armor that protects his heart – I totally get it," says Murphy. "To me it's always about, 'Can I see it as a movie?' So Iron Man works for me because of that very reason. He's not going to be Superman turning back the world. It's believable stuff." Writer Gough concurs, adding that "the intriguing thing to us [Gough & Millar] was (Iron Man's alter-ego Tony Stark) has an alcohol problem and he needs the suit to stay alive." Millar finds Iron Man to be "a very unique character in terms of he's not a teenager struggling with a superpower. ... he's like the Howard Hughes of superheroes."
Here is a review of the Canadian DVD of Brotherhood of the Wolf. Good movie. Go get it. Lots of gret extras on this disc.
And that's it for the moment.
Variety reports the following: "It's down to dotting the 'I's' and crossing the 'T's," said Universal's Stacey Snider about bringing the musicalized B'way production of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" to the screen -- where it all started. "We're planning on it," she said "and with the same creative team." That means Brooks, his co-writer Thomas Meehan and director Susan Stroman. And the original co-stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. No deals have as yet been made, but she enthused, "We want to make it a film event the way he made it a Broadway event." (Brook is going to take something else to Broadway - Either Blazzing Saddles or Young Frankenstien next.)
Variety also reports the following: Michael Mann will next direct the DreamWorks drama "Collateral," and he has Tom Cruise in his crosshairs to play the lead role of a contract killer.
The June issue of Cinescape has an exclusive interview with Iron Man producers Don Murphy and Avi Arad, as well as screenwriters Alfred Gough & Miles Millar. Several new bits of information were revealed in the article. "In Iron Man, he's putting on a suit of armor that protects his heart – I totally get it," says Murphy. "To me it's always about, 'Can I see it as a movie?' So Iron Man works for me because of that very reason. He's not going to be Superman turning back the world. It's believable stuff." Writer Gough concurs, adding that "the intriguing thing to us [Gough & Millar] was (Iron Man's alter-ego Tony Stark) has an alcohol problem and he needs the suit to stay alive." Millar finds Iron Man to be "a very unique character in terms of he's not a teenager struggling with a superpower. ... he's like the Howard Hughes of superheroes."
Here is a review of the Canadian DVD of Brotherhood of the Wolf. Good movie. Go get it. Lots of gret extras on this disc.
And that's it for the moment.
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Date: 2003-06-03 09:31 am (UTC)Game that made a good movie: "Final Fantasy."
Game that made a fun, minless flick: "Mortal Combat."
All others that I can think of are MST3K fodder... especially Mortal Combat 2. "And now the cliche is complete...."
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Date: 2003-06-03 09:39 am (UTC)Too much character development, and a really lame romance subplot that did nothing but slow the film down.
Tomb Raider was ass. The sequel should be better. But that's not saying much.
Mortal Kombat was great. It scored very high on the summer movie scale.
Street Fighter ... well ... the less-said about this steaming pile of film, the better. The same goes for Wing Commander and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
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Date: 2003-06-03 09:59 am (UTC)Mortal Kombat was as close as we get, I think and that was mainly just a pretty action flick.
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Date: 2003-06-03 07:00 pm (UTC)And...a Musical Young Frankenstein? I think I would want to see that. Very much. The Putting on the Ritz sketch on stage...oh, dear...
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