Matthew Vaughn’s recently green lit prequel X-Men: First Class has its first cast member: James McAvoy. The 31-year-old Scot, star of Mark Millar comic adaptation Wanted, will play a younger Charles Xavier
Sherlock Holmes was one of the most popular films of 2009. With this success a sequel was quickly commissioned. Now Barry Meyer, Chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers, has confirmed Sherlock Holmes 2 will be released in mid-December 2011, with the aim to capitalize yet again on the popular Christmas season.
For a genre where the most highly regarded films are often described as the “least bad,” it is not surprising video game movies garner little praise from critics or audiences on a steady basis. This feature could be more aptly named “The Okay, The Awful, and The Horrendous.”
So why is it that film adaptations from all other sources (literature, other movies, comic books, graphic novels, television, etc) all have their masterpieces while video games have only disaster-pieces? This subject could be analyzed ad nauseum, but the most obvious fault can be found with the studios that produce the movies. Because, according to “experts,” video games are an inferior art form (if even an art form), loved only by the geek populous, so the adaptations are treated as such: trashy, low-budget schlock.
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Walt Disney Pictures is taking a big risk this weekend. Well, actually, the risk was taken awhile back and now it’s time to see if Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time can pay off.
When Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer realized it would be quite some time before another Pirates of the Caribbean film would be able to come together, they began looking for solutions. Interestingly enough, they zeroed in on a video game, Prince of Persia, a title that’s been around since 1989, managing to find life on the 3-D gaming platform, first on Sega Dreamcast and then on Play Station 2 and 3 thanks to Ubisoft.
The casting for Marc Webb’s Spider-Man revamp has begun! Apparently, the (500) Days of Summer director has been meeting with actors for several months, but within the past few days, the list of candidates has become smaller. Here’s the list of actors in contention to step into the shoes once filled by Tobey Maguire.
One would think that with a ghoulish approach to monster movie making, that Splice would either be a mindless gore fest or an over-predictable snore fest, but that’s not the case with Vincenzo Natali’s latest.
