Film Stories Of The Day

• Watch ‘Midnight Meat Train’ Online For Free! - The film received a very limited run in theaters and has yet to be released on DVD, so in the spirit of Halloween, FEARnet (online and VOD) is making the film available to you - ScreenRant
• Millar’s “Superman” Trilogy Plans - Since the success of the film “Wanted”, which bared little relation to his original comic, Mark Millar has been boastful in interviews about his pitch for a new take on “Superman” - Dark Horizons
• Joaquin Phoenix done with acting for good!? - f you hate Joaquin Phoenix, you probably don’t care about this anyway and should stop reading. But if you’re a fan, here some sad news for you: Phoenix announced he’s retiring from acting - Screening Log
• Fearless Forecast - ‘High School Musical’ Trumps ‘A Porno’ - We’ll get our answer this weekend about one of the big movie questions of the year: Can you sell a movie with “porno” in the title? Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno is the week’s widest release, popping up in something like 2,700 - 3,000 theaters - Get The Big Picture
• 400 Screens, 400 Blows - Going Psycho - There were three factors that made Psycho different from other horror remakes. It was based on a high-quality, undisputed classic rather than some slapdash, B-level monster movie - Cinematical
• Bond Review: Thunderball - GOLDFINGER wasn’t just a successful film- it was a cultural phenomenon on par with Beatlemania. People had never seen anything like it before- and they demanded more - Joblo

Mark Millar Wants Three Superman Films

Mark Millar, comic book writer extraordinare, had an interesting interview with G4 that offered up some insight into his plans for writing a Superman movie. At this point, Millar has pitched the idea to Warner Bros and is currently waiting for the studio’s reply.

“I’ve had this plan for like 10 years for a big three-picture Superman thing, like a big Lord of the Rings epic, starting over from scratch again with a seven-hour Superman story. And hopefully one year after the other,” Millar told G4.

You can watch the full interview below, where Millar also talks about his other upcoming film project - Kick-Ass. Read the rest of this entry

Priyanka Chopra May Be Superman’s new Love Interest !?

According to India’s ZeeNews Superman will be courting a new love interest in ‘The Man of Steel‘.

According to the report, Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra is “likely to play Superman’s love interest in the…upcoming sequel.”

Officially, Chopra and the studios aren’t saying anything, but according to sources the actress has been offered the role and has almost accepted. The role will be that of a lady scientist who will be romantically involved with the Man of Steel.

Speaking to Spicezee, a source said,

“The filmmakers had been looking for an Indian face for quite long as the role is of an Indian scientist. When they came to know of Priyanka shooting in the US for Dostana, the director of Superman went to the shoot to judge her work.”

Impressed by the sizzling beauty, Priyanka was offered the role. However, there is no official word out as yet.

So will we see Priyanka playing a scientist and romance the world’s best known superhero? Now that’s whats called beauty with brains.

And what about Lois Lane? Well, remember that in Superman Returns, it was established that Lois was engaged to another man, who she assumed was the father of her son.

Few details are currently available for Superman: The Man of Steel, but it is known that Brandon Routh will return to his role as the Man of Steel and Bryan Singer will be back to direct. Kevin Spacey has also expressed an interest in returning as Lex Luthor.

Kevin Spacey - Interview

DarkHorizons.com interviewed Kevin Spacey about his new film titled “21” and during the interview asked him about returning as Lex Luthor in the next Superman movie.

Question: Was it this character, or this book that appealed to you?

Spacey: Well, it started with the story. I always thought that this story would be right for a film, and my business partner, Dana Brunetti, who, with a co-producer, we’d started hearing rumours about this, about a decade ago, and could never find any real evidence about it. It was sort of like an open secret in Boston, but we couldn’t get anybody on the record about it, and we even tried to write a treatment at one point, and that ended up in a drawer. And then about five years ago, Dana was walking down a New York City street, and he saw a Wired magazine with the cover story, “The MIT students who went to Vegas and made millions.” pulled it off the stands, and called me. Then, we ultimately tracked down Ben Mezrich, who’d written the article, and it was in connection with this book, which was going to come out about a month or two later, then at some point, made it to Los Angeles, and they optioned the book, and then we sold it to MGM, but didn’t know at that moment that, behind closed doors, MGM was being sold. So we went into a kind of holding pattern, until finally, Sony looked at the slate that MGM had, and decided to pull two movies out; one was James Bond, and the other was ours. And here we are, lo and behold, all these years later.

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Brandon Routh dumped as Superman!?

The Daily Planet is reporting, er, I mean, Latino Review is reporting that Superman will look a little different when he next hits the big screen : Seems he won’t look so much like Brandon Routh.

Why? Routh has been dumped from the role. Booted from Metropolis like a Meteor freak.

The next stand-alone “Superman” movie – which was to be the Bryan Singer-directed “The Man of Steel”, only Singer’s no longer involved, so who knows what it’ll end up being, let alone titled – will feature a new Supes/Clark Kent.

Who?

The site says that whoever is cast as the new Superman in the forthcoming “Justice League” will play the same role in the solo film that’ll follow. Interestingly enough - or rather ‘how’s this for a kick in the balls’? - they’re after a youngster (someone in their early twenties) to play the JLA “Superman”, so the next Superman movie won’t be so much “SuperMAN” as it will be… “Superboy”.

Sucks to be Brandon Routh right now.