You’ve heard about it, you’ve been waiting for it (well, some of you have, anyway), and now it’s finally here: the very first trailer for Aussie directors Michael and Peter Spierig’s futuristic horror movie “Daybreakers”. For those who saw the brothers’ “Undead”, it’s obvious they had a bigger budget this time around, and the cast, of course, is solid, with Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, and Sam Neill all in big roles. Unfortunately maybe I just expecting too much, because the trailer leaves me just a bit underwhelmed. Shouldn’t it be more, I don’t know, exciting? Anyways, first trailer for “Daybreakers” below.
Following up on yesterday’s announcement of Marvel’s anime projects at Comic Con International, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed via their exclusive trailer that Lions Gate/Marvel Entertainment will handle animation production on the feature slated for release in 2010, not Studio Madhouse as has been reported by the rest of the media.
The confusion stems from the announcements of the Wolverine and Iron Man projects being announced at the same time as Planet Hulk.
Akira Following up on the apparent death reports of the live-action Akira project, executive producer Andrew Lazar confirmed that Warner Bros. has made the adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s epic dystopian saga a priority when speaking to if Magazine during Comic-Con International this past weekend. He also confirmed that the studio was working on a script, but wasn’t aiming for a release before 2011, which makes sense given the prior timeframes that were previously reported were much too accelerated for such a large scale production.
Akira(アキラ?) is a 1988 anime film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his hit manga. The film is set in a futuristic and post-war city, Neo-Tokyo, in 2019. While most of the character designs and basic settings were adapted from the original 2,182-page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the manga.
Director Sam Raimi said that a fourth Evil Dead is in the works!
While speaking at the San Diego Comic-Con panel for his upcoming horror film, Drag Me To Hell, Raimi said that he’d love to do another Evil Dead film with actor Bruce Campbell and that he’d like to start working on it next week with his brother Ivan Raimi.
“I love working with Bruce Campbell and he’s like Allison [Lohman, star of Raimi's Drag Me To Hell]. He’s super willing to do anything to make it right. He’s a very funny guy, but mostly he’s got this quality where he will physically do anything to get the shot done right, so I would love to work with Bruce again because I’d love to test those limits. I’d love to make another Evil Dead picture. And actually that’s in the wheelhouse. I’d like to work on it with my brother Ivan [Raimi] when he comes up next week.“
That’s all Raimi revealed about his plans for a new Evil Dead film.
It had been rumored that Raimi wanted to do a follow-up to his original campy horror film trilogy, but there has not been any official plans until now.
The trilogy — Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness — starred popular B-movie actor Bruce Campbell, and judging by Raimi’s comments, he’d love to get Campbell on board for a fourth film. When referring to his brother, Raimi is most likely referring to work on a script for Evil Dead 4, since Ivan co-wrote Army of Darkness with him (Ivan also co-wrote Drag Me To Hell with him).
A videogame based on the upcoming film adaptation of the classic comic Green Lantern is in development at Double Helix, according to Venture Beat.
The film, to be directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, GoldenEye), is scheduled for a June 17, 2011 release.
Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the Double Helix game are in the works. No other details on the game were mentioned.
Double Helix is comprised of former studios Shiny Entertainment and The Collective. The studio released its debut title, Silent Hill: Homecoming, in 2008. Helix will release G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and Front Mission Evolved later this year.
Director Sam Raimi said that a fourth Evil Dead is in the works!
That’s all Raimi revealed about his plans for a new Evil Dead film.
