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narrows101

02-20-2006, 05:47 PM

http://www.canmag.com/news/4/3/3166

During 2005 Hollywood raised up its hands and screamed 'box office slump.' Though the actual details behind the slump is still being debated by avid moviegoers and studio execs alike, fingers have now begun to point at Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ; a film that created a box office spike and overall shift for 2004.

But now we have begun 2006, a year that had studios push all in with astronomical budgets on highly anticipated sequels and adaptations.

Back in December of 2005 we had mentioned that studios were now giving their highly anticipated films of 2006 budgets north of $200 million. It seems like only yesterday when people were freaking out over the budget of films like Titanic and Terminator 2. But it doesn't end there, X-Men 3 and Spider-Man 3 (2007 release) have also joined on the $200 million-plus bandwagon.

For the summer of 2006, each studio is counting on at least one flagship movie to be box office gold. However, each major tentpole film has also encountered a problem-- competition.

Summer 2006: The Battle of Blockbuster Films

We here at CanMag have been watching the release dates for the big-budget releases for summer 2006 with keen interest and excitement. If the lineup remains as is, there will hardly be a weekend from May to July that will not have some sore of big-budget or highly-anticipated film being released.

This is great news for us as the moviegoers, but horrible news for the studios who have placed large sums of money behind the summer blockbusters in hopes to catch three to five week runs without any competition. What do we have to look forward to? Let's take a brief look below:

Mission: Impossible 3 (http://www.canmag.com/movies.php?moviekey=mi3) (May 5th)
Poseidon (http://www.canmag.com/movies.php?moviekey=poseidon) (May 12th)
Over the Hedge (http://www.canmag.com/movies.php?moviekey=overthehedge) (May 19th)
The Da Vinci Code (http://www.canmag.com/movies.php?moviekey=davincicode) (May 19th)
X-Men 3 (http://www.canmag.com/movies.php?moviekey=xmen3) (May 26th)
Nacho Libre (http://www.canmag.com/movies.php?moviekey=nacholibre) (June 2nd)
The Break-Up (http://www.canmag.com/movies.php?moviekey=breakup) (June 2nd)
Cars (http://www.canmag.com/movies.php?moviekey=cars) (June 9th)
Superman Returns (http://www.canmag.com/movies.php?moviekey=supermanv) (June 30th)
Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest (http://www.canmag.com/movies.php?moviekey=pirates2) (July 7th)

With this type of summer competition Variety (http://www.variety.com/) estimates that there will be some high-profile 'casualties'-- the production chiefs. Given the extraordinary costs ($150 million and up) of summer blockbusters, they know that a major flameout will impinge on the bottom line of their parent companies. They also comprehend the implications of the Kong (http://www.canmag.com/movies.php?moviekey=kingkong) conundrum: Rich talent deals have triggered big paydays for the talent, leaving only distribution fees for the studios.

It turns out that the best spot to be in the list of films above may be right in the middle or right at the end. 20th Century Fox has secured May 26th for X-Men 3, a date that should allow the film to have a solid box office run for at least a few weeks, while Disney has secured the July opener with Pirates of the Caribbean 2. The only problem for Disney is that Pirates will have to directly compete with Warner Bros big-budget Superman Returns.

As we approach April the release dates will become more for certain and studios will not want to risk losing faith in one of their tentpole films by having the release date pushed. However, I am sure the increased competition has caused August to look pretty appetizing for the larger-budget films.

With this direct competition between tentpole films for summer 2006 the box office numbers could go one way or the other. Either the box office is going to have an amazing summer that will push it through 2007 or it will suffer and never recover thanks to the density of high-profile release dates between May and July.

Studio execs may have some anxieties before the start of May, but we at CanMag couldn't be happier to find even more reasons to head out to the theatres.

Stay tuned for updates.

N_z0

02-21-2006, 12:41 AM

LOL How did Nacho Libre slip in there?

PWN3R

02-21-2006, 12:48 AM

Nacho Libre is gonna own, c'mon!

Kmack

02-21-2006, 07:19 AM

:confused:
That wasn't directed at you Electrix;)

Electrix

02-21-2006, 12:20 PM

:D Good

Weadazoid

02-21-2006, 12:30 PM

Electrix

02-21-2006, 12:36 PM

Brett Ratner Comes out Swinging on X-Men 3
Movie X-Men 3: The Last Stand Posted By: Michael / Source
Related News : Action Movie News , Comic Flicks ,

Brett Ratner has come out swinging a bat full of nails at people who are coming down hard on the crap-tastic images for X-men 3 that are circling the internet. He doesnt feel it is fair that people judge the appearance of the characters before they have time to touch them up and with the wonder of CGI make them look alot better. I agree with Brett we should judge the final product but I also agree the pictures of Juggernaut suck. Juggernaut is a HUGE brother and the pics that got leaked are Arnold S. size. Sure that is big but NOT big enough. Nice to see Brett Ratner taking a stand for his work, lets see who gets the last word when we see that final "touched up" work.

In X-men 3 to stave off this imminent threat to humanity, a potential cure is discovered and processed to treat - and ultimately eliminate - genetic mutations once and for all. As the battle lines are drawn, the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, are aided by new recruits like The Beast and Angel. Together they must contend with Grey's new powers, as well as the malevolent Brotherhood - a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.

http://www.moviesonline.ca/editor/assets/X-Men31102061.jpg

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_7562.html

Electrix

02-24-2006, 02:15 PM

Grammer uses Shakespeare for X-Men
Wenn Friday February 24, 02:30 PM

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Frasier star Kelsey Grammer is taking his role in comic book blockbuster X-Men 3 deadly seriously - he's using William Shakespeare as inspiration.

The actor is taking a giant leap from his most famous role as the TV psychiatrist and a illustrious stage career to don Beast's blue face paint.

But he jokes his character shares similarities with some literary greats.

Grammer says, "Some of what people assume about me, Kelsey Grammer, is evident in him.

"You know, a kind of innate intelligence and a well-spoken way of communicating.

"He's very wise, so he's a bit like Jacques in As You Like It.

"And he's a bit like Pandarus in Troilus And Cressida, because he understands the role of society.

"And he's also a bit like Henry V, because he likes to rally round a cause."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/24022006/364/grammer-uses-shakespeare-x-men.html

Retroman

02-25-2006, 07:35 AM

From LA TIMES (Jan.11):

Party people

The show over, spirits are high backstage. Perhaps that's because there are no losers to bring the party down. Pig in blankets and chili-stuffed mushrooms circulate, and snow bunnies pass out Bombay sapphire concoctions.

Alyson Hannigan talks up George Lucas' daughter. An exec type tells director Brett Ratner that his "jaw dropped" when he saw the trailer for Ratner's upcoming "X-Men 3."

And as I drift out, I look around and see for certain that Geena Davis is by a mile the biggest person in the room.

It may have been the People's Choice, I think, but it's still their Hollywood.Source: http://theenvelope.latimes.com/columnists/kudoscrasher/env-kudospeopleschoice11jan11,0,4429347.column?page=5

N_z0

02-28-2006, 09:57 PM

X-men reshoots have begun:

Posted Feb 28

Heard that there will be X-Men 3 reshoot in a building near Hamilton and Dunsmuir. The circus is parked at the Easy Park lot at Georgia and Cambie.

Probably filming today and maybe tomorrow. I asked if any of the principal actors will there, he wasn't sure. My guess would be yes because it is indoors.

Oops...forgot link (http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3175)

MoPlaYa

02-28-2006, 11:02 PM

^^ Cool!!

chaseter

02-28-2006, 11:12 PM

The reshoots better include a scantily clad Jean and Storm.

LittleMissVixen

02-28-2006, 11:15 PM

The reshoots better include a scantily clad Jean and Storm.

nah....only a brief Magneto nude scene.

enjoy.

PWN3R

02-28-2006, 11:45 PM

nah....only a brief Magneto nude scene.

enjoy.

The war is coming Charles, and I intend to fight it by any means necessary....

narrows101

03-01-2006, 06:55 AM

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/691/691869p1.html

X3's Lab Chase Sequence
Juggernaut versus Shadowcat.
by Steve Head (shead@ign.com)

(http://www.eyewonderlabs.com/ct.cfm?noCache=0&file=http://cdn.eyewonder.com/100125/750434/855668/NOSCRIPTfailover.jpg&eid=855668&name=Clickthru-NOSCRIPT&num=1&time=0&diff=0&click=http://www.us.playstation.com/psp.aspx)

February 28, 2006 - A pivotal character in X-Men: The Last Stand is Leech (played by Cameron Bright), a young boy who can nullify the powers of any mutant, if they get close enough. Magneto, as he is often inclined to do, sees the practical application of bringing a young mutant with such abilities into his corps. So it is decided: the boy must be kidnapped, and quickly... But it won't be easy (is it ever?) because the boy lives under tight security at Worthington Labs, where scientists are trying to figure out what makes him tick.

To nab Leech, Magneto calls on his new go-to man, Juggernaut (played by Vinnie Jones). But will he be fast enough? The good guys think not. So Shadowcat, a.k.a Kitty Pride (played by Ellen Page), gets the call to find Leech first. What you'll see in X-Men (http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/691/691869p1.html#): The Last Stand is a chase sequence in which Kitty phases and Juggernaut smashes through the walls of Worthington Labs.

"It should be very cool," visual effects supervisor John Bruno (Titanic) tells IGN FilmForce. "Kitty's running as fast as she can, trying to stay one step ahead of Juggernaut, and they've got concrete debris shooting-out from the sides and on top of them."

The way producer David Gorder sees it is: Juggernaut "builds momentum and he's unstoppable. Vinnie has just the right personality for the character. He's an amazing actor to work with and people are going to really fall in love with Juggernaut as a bad guy. And obviously Kitty's after [Leech] for a different reason than Juggernaut's after him. Ellen Page, she's amazing. [Director (http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/691/691869p1.html#)] Brett [Ratner] calls her the female Edward Norton. She's just an incredible actress. We're very excited for her to play Kitty."

The production spent almost a week shooting the sequence under the watchful eye of second-unit director Simon Crane (Tomb Raider 2, Terminator 3 (http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/691/691869p1.html#)). "Simon's very careful, especially when we have projectiles flying around like we do on these sets," Gorder tells IGN FilmForce. "It's safe, but you always have to be careful around things like this. He really knows how to orchestrate action like this safely."

For the sequence, stunt doubles Jovan Nenadic (Juggernaut) and Lani Gelera (Kitty Pride) run through a succession of lab sets, as Styrofoam concrete and other debris is shot from air cannons. As the scene is filmed in live action, Kitty runs through existing holes in the walls, which will later be digitally filled to look as though Kitty is phasing through them; then Juggernaut follows, smashing his way through - this, of course, will be also digitally enhanced.

The sets are "built like puzzle pieces and they have breakaway walls," says Gorder. "Breakaway material, like Styrofoam, so that's easy for a stunt performer to go through. They've already shot elements of where the walls have exploded when Juggernaut then runs through, and one hole in the wall is the final breakthrough. We've already shot the scene in the final chamber, or the final room, where Juggernaut and Kitty end up."

The irony of this unusual chase sequence is it pits the bad guys' biggest mutant against the good guys' smallest. "They both have just very different methods of getting where they have to go," says Bruno. "I've seen some of it already and the shots look beautiful. It's one of those things where you really just haven't seen a running chase like this. It's stunning."

Electrix

03-01-2006, 10:25 AM

:eek: :up:

I cant wait for this scene!

WorthyStevens

03-01-2006, 10:45 AM

Sounds good. :up:

Retroman

03-03-2006, 01:03 PM

From art director Chad Frey's official site....

Last Updated : 02/22/2006

* * * Recent Projects * * *

X-MEN 3

The second half of 2005 was spent in Vancouver, British Columbia working as an Art Director on Fox Studios X-Men series. Myself, Production Designer Ed Verreaux and Supervising Art Director Geoff Hubbard traveled from American to head the Art Department and our Canadian based counter parts were Helen Jarvis and Sandi Tanaka. It was (and still is) a hugely ambitious project and it is currently in re-shoots. Look for X-3 in theaters Memorial Day Weekend 2006!Source: http://freyart.us/latest_news.htm

Retroman

03-05-2006, 08:37 AM

The Oscars are been awarded tonight. Theres only two categories relevant to X-Men.

'The Squid and The Whale' is up for Best original screenplay (Anna Paquin co-stars) http://www.oscar.com/nominees/bestoriginalscreenplaynominee4.html
King Kong is up for Best Visual Effects (as in WETA) http://www.oscar.com/nominees/achievementinvisualeffectsnominee2.html

http://www.oscar.com/nominees/list.html

Electrix

03-05-2006, 08:52 AM

Cool :up:

narrows101

03-05-2006, 02:13 PM

Brett Ratner's day:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2006/03/05/stdayinthelife05.xml

One day in Movieland
(Filed: 05/03/2006)

Los Angeles is the epitome of the American Dream. If you've made it, then life is an adrenaline-fuelled round of power lunches, celebrity parties and multi-million-dollar pay cheques. If you haven't, then it's an exhausting string of auditions, more auditions and waitressing. Here, Stella presents the diaries of four denizens of Hollywood

The director (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/)

Brett Ratner, 36, is the director of a string of box-office hits, including the $500-million-grossing 'Rush Hour' movies and 'Red Dragon', and is currently making 'X-Men: The Last Stand'. He lives in Hillhaven Lodge, a mansion in Beverly Hills formerly owned by Ingrid Bergman

8am I'm incredibly busy at the moment, so I get up early despite having had a bunch of people - Paul Allen, Quincy Jones, Salma Hayek - over for dinner last night. My housekeeper prepares my breakfast and, while I eat, my assistant, Mike, goes through my call sheet - all the people I have to call today and all the people who've called me. On an average day I receive about 50 phone calls. Normally there are about ten things happening simultaneously.

9am I get into my Bentley and drive to Fox Studios, where I'm currently editing X-Men. The movie stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry and Kelsey Grammer and is going to be awesome. Editing is done on state-of-the-art digital equipment in three different bungalows, and I move constantly between them.

11am Conference call with Tamara Mellon of Jimmy Choo. I'm a photographer as well as a movie director and shot the company's latest ad campaign, starring Nicole Richie.

We brainstorm ideas for the next campaign - what the parameters will be, the type of shoes Tamara wants to feature and so on.

1pm Lunch at Mr Chow on Camden Drive with Roger Birnbaum, who is producing the next Rush Hour movie. I'm friends with Mr Chow and normally go there for dinner - when it's more of a scene - but it's nice for lunch as well. While I'm there I catch up with Oliver Stone, who's sitting two tables down from us. He's made a documentary on Fidel Castro that hasn't been released yet. I'm dying to see it - I love documentaries - and he says he'll send me a copy. Courtney Love, who's a good friend of mine, is also there. She's sitting at the table next to me with Mike De Luca, the former head of New Line and DreamWorks.

3pm Back at Fox, I watch the new trailer for the film with the president of marketing. Take a call from June Newton, with whom I'm making a documentary about her late husband, Helmut.

5pm Drive home to shower and change for American Cosmopolitan magazine's Fun Fearless Male awards. I'm one of 12 men being honoured, including Pharrell Williams and Matt Dillon. Take delivery of two sets of china - Herend Chinese Bouquet and Royal Copenhagen - which I bought at Gearys in Beverly Hills, and a set of vintage silverware. They are recommendations from Mr Chow's wife. She has exquisite taste.

6.30pm Take a limo to the Cosmo party with my grandparents (who live in my guest house) and my girlfriend, the model Alina Puscau. The party is fun. I catch up with Matt Dillon. We were friendly at NYU film school, but I haven't seen him for a long, long time.

10pm Carry on to Penélope Cruz's house. She is throwing a party for Paul Haggis, the director of Crash. All the cast are there: Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Thandie Newton and Don Cheadle.

1am Back home. Watch a scene from Nikita. I watch a scene from a movie every night before I go to bed. That's where I get most of my ideas and inspiration.

Retroman

03-05-2006, 02:19 PM

Interesting read. Thanks narrows.:up:

Brett has one hectic life.Moving place to place.

Aiden

03-05-2006, 02:19 PM

I envy Brett so much :D

CapBeerCino

03-05-2006, 02:20 PM

His grandparents? What a sweetheart! He sounds like a real fanboy!

lordofthenerds

03-05-2006, 02:21 PM

Wow! That guy has a Bentley!

CapBeerCino

03-05-2006, 02:25 PM

Wow! That guy has a Bentley!

Yes, but you have your avvy and this boards. You can't have it all you know!

lordofthenerds

03-05-2006, 02:26 PM

Yes, but you have your avvy and this boards. You can't have it all you know!
I also have a Ferrari...and I can have it all!:mad:

CapBeerCino

03-05-2006, 02:56 PM

I also have a Ferrari...and I can have it all!:mad:

You know I kid right? (I hate to wash down the drain all of my efforts to bring back the monkey nerd) :p

Retroman

03-06-2006, 01:31 AM

LEX

03-06-2006, 01:43 AM

Yeah, Brett Ratner is one lucky bastard. :spidey:

And winner is.....
http://www.oscars.com/oscarnight/winners/achievementinvisualeffectscategory.html
:o I thought the dinosaurs looked fake. :down

Thanks for the link. :)

Anton Oksehud

03-06-2006, 03:25 AM

And winner is.....
http://www.oscars.com/oscarnight/winners/achievementinvisualeffectscategory.html

Well, what do you know, Reese Witherspoon thanked Antichrist (Tom Rothman) in her acceptance speech:eek:

http://www.oscars.com/oscarnight/winners/bestactresscategory.html

GoldGoblin

03-06-2006, 04:20 AM

Hearing about the next Rush Hour got me excited.

narrows101

03-06-2006, 05:33 AM

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=34861
X3 Stirs Cast Emotions

The cast of the upcoming X-Men: The Last Stand said that the film raised issues that struck close to home, so much so that actors Ian McKellen, Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman ended up arguing about the film's central dilemma during a roundtable interview from the Vancouver, Canada, set last December.

The third film in the X-Men franchise takes the series' underlying theme of alienation to its logical conclusion with a story centered on a "cure" for mutations. Both McKellen and Jackman said separately that they think the new script is the best of the series. McKellen called it "a script that we all agree is superior from the start to the previous two."

The introduction of a cure presents each mutant character with a choice whether to or accept themselves as they are or take the chance at becoming "normal." It was clearly a dilemma to which the actors responded emotionally.

"There are people who think gay people can be cured," said McKellen (Magneto), who has spoken publicly about his own homosexuality. "My reaction to the idea that I can be cured as a mutant is as contemptuous as my view of people who say I need curing of my sexuality. The idea that black people could take a pill that would cure them of being black is abhorrent to me."

Halle Berry, who plays Storm, echoed McKellen's sentiment. "Being a black woman, a woman of color, I think that's been an issue I've struggled with my whole life," she said. "Feeling like, somehow when I was a child, if I could change myself somehow, my life would be inevitably better. As I've gotten older, I think I've come to terms with what nonsense that is, and this movie adds light to that dark subject."

Hugh Jackman, who plays Wolverine, took the other side, pointing out that there are other characters for whom the cure is more attractive. "Rogue [Anna Paquin], as amazingly powerful as she is, lives a potentially very lonely life," said Jackman. "Never being able to touch anyone, never being able to have a physical relationship, never able to have children. Now as politically abhorrent as something like the cure is, it's also humanely, socially, incredibly understandable that a character like that would take it."
"It isn't necessarily her mutancy that's the problem," McKellen shot back. "It's other people's reaction to it. Maybe it's society that's wrong, not her."
The cast then seemed to realize that they were getting emotional about the topic and backed off to more conventional interview subjects.

"It'll get you worked up, this script," McKellen said at one point. "And so it should, because I don't think people should be cured of their God-given nature."

X-Men: The Last Stand opens May 26. —John Sullivan

LEX

03-06-2006, 06:41 AM

Hmmm...I thought I read that article before somewhere else.

But great read, nonetheless. :up:

pyromaniac

03-06-2006, 07:00 AM

Hmmm...I thought I read that article before somewhere else.

But great read, nonetheless. :up:

It was in the set reports.

LEX

03-06-2006, 07:09 AM

It was in the set reports.
Ah, yes, I knew it was familiar. Thanks. :)

Storm22

03-14-2006, 03:08 PM

Thanks to narrows who found this cool Storm article. I'm gonna post it here though......

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/695/695095p1.html

X3: Storm Whips It Good
Filmmakers get her ready to fly.
by Steve Head
March 14, 2006 - Let's face it. After two movies, Storm's character development leaves something to be desired. Yeah, we got to see her do a few actiony things, when she wasn't teaching class or leading a field trip. But change is upon us. For in X-Men: The Last Stand, we can tell you this: her level of anti-Magneto action takes a big jump. Or, more to the point, a lift-off.

"Those fans that wanted to see Storm fly finally get to see that," says producer David Gorder. "She has a bigger role, she's flying, and fighting, and Halle looks really cool doing it" he adds, promising fans will see moves from her they've never seen before.

"The movie for me is still very much an ensemble," says Berry. "That's one of the things I really love about working on X-Men. But this time my character is saying something, she has a definite point of view. Brett was really instrumental in making that happen. He's really been a supporter of just finding a voice for the character." And, she admits, he was adamant that this new movie featured Storm's flying ability.

"We incorporated it into the storyline," says Ratner. "It's part of the plot."

To put Storm in the air, the production turned to Simon Crane. He's "one of the best second unit directors in the world," says Ratner. "He's been shooting some fantastic action sequences with these guys. I'll look at the dailies at the end of every day and I'm shocked."

Part of making it all look real is having Berry do much of the flying herself. "I don't know why Halle actually does it," says Ratner, "because nobody is going to believe it's her anyway." Nevertheless, fFor one particularly tough scene, Berry was "up in the air, hovering. She's literally creating a kind of windy, tornado effect and she actually spins. She's on a wire. She must have don it eighty-seven times."

For the more complex scenes, the filmmakers "cyber-scanned" Berry, effectively creating a digital double for Storm. "Putting them in a wire is one thing," says Gorder. "But we would never use the actors in any serious practical stunts. Storm and Magneto will do wire work in which they're in a harness on a wire. They're the characters that will fly."

"I've been saying this now since I started the movie, I just want to fly," says Berry. "Storm flies in the comic book, and I wore a cape for two movies and never used it. It's part of her power. and part of what her mutation is, and it's nice to be able to get to use that talent and that gift in a profound way that really helps my fellow characters."

For a glimps of the new Storm in action, check out the latest trailer for X-Men: The Last Stand. As Professor X tells her, "You, of all people, know how fast the weather can change."

We'll have more X-Men: The Last Stand features in the coming weeks, so keep watching IGN FilmForce!

The highlighted quote from Gorder partcularly caught my attention....
Does this mean Storm and Magneto are the only mutants who will fly? No Phoenix flight?

lordofthenerds

03-14-2006, 03:11 PM

Thanks to narrows who found this cool Storm article. I'm gonna post it here though......

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/695/695095p1.html

This quote from Gorder partcularly caught my attention....

Does this mean Storm and Magneto are the only mutants who will fly? No Phoenix flight?
I guess so.:( Good Magneto is flying again though.

Storm22

03-14-2006, 03:14 PM

I'd be a bit disappointed if that was the case. Surely Jean will at least rise out of Alkali??

WorthyStevens

03-14-2006, 03:15 PM

Thanks to narrows who found this cool Storm article. I'm gonna post it here though......

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/695/695095p1.html

The highlighted quote from Gorder partcularly caught my attention....
Does this mean Storm and Magneto are the only mutants who will fly? No Phoenix flight?

They didn't list every character who flies. Angel, anybody?

Storm22

03-14-2006, 03:17 PM

Good point! Hopefully he just forgot about Phoenix. I remember Kinberg say something abut Famke doing a certain amount of wirework also.

xwolverine2

03-14-2006, 04:56 PM

FRONT PAGE NEWS!!
Ghost Rider Trailer with X-Men!
Source: RedIsNotBlue March 14, 2006

In addition to the new movie artwork by Crash McCreery, Ghost Rider writer/director Mark Steven Johnson has revealed on the SHH! Boards that the trailer will be in theaters with X-Men: The Last Stand on May 26!

The long wait for a theatrical trailer is almost over. Look for Ghost Rider to be on X-Men 3! May is almost here! You'll get to see him on the big screen (if only for a minute) instead of on your computer. Also, there are some AMAZING pieces coming from Sideshow Collectibles. I know they're going to be posting here soon. They're doing the Ghost Rider, the Old West Ghost Rider, and the Hellcycle. Watch for it.

Columbia Pictures' Ghost Rider, starring Nicolas Cage, Wes Bentley, Eva Mendes, Matt Long, Sam Elliott, Peter Fonda, Donal Logue, Mathew Wilkinson, Daniel Frederiksen, hits theaters on February 16, 2007.
YES!!:eek:

TNC9852002

03-14-2006, 05:09 PM

Ooh..Ghost Rider trailer with X3!...

-TNC

xwolverine2

03-14-2006, 05:12 PM

GOD couldnt make that day any better!!!!!!!!!!!

Storm22

03-14-2006, 05:14 PM

Good movie to air the trailer with, should get ALOT of promotion!

xwolverine2

03-14-2006, 05:15 PM

Good movie to air the trailer with, should get ALOT of promotion!
and also VERY good for x-men too!:up:

Aiden

03-14-2006, 05:20 PM

Awesomeness :D

narrows101

03-14-2006, 07:47 PM

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-03-14-showest-notebook_x.htm?csp=34

Could Wolverine beat Superman?

It's a playful what-if on the tongues of some attendees, as the stars from both films are expected here Thursday. Hugh Jackman, who plays Wolverine in X-Men: The Last Stand, will receive the show's male star of the year award, while Superman Returns' Brandon Routh collects the honor for male star of tomorrow.

While that standoff isn't a serious one, both films will be competing to be the must-see film of summer — and are hoping to land on more screens nationwide.

But Superman director Bryan Singer, who directed the first two X-Men installments, says there's no competition between himself and X-Men 3 director Brett Ratner.

"We're really good friends," Singer says. "We talked last week, after I saw the trailer to X-Men. It looked awesome. I can't wait to see it."

Any wagers between the two men on which film will come out on top at the box office?

"Are you kidding? Singer says. "The way things have been going, nobody knows what's going to do well anymore."

TNC9852002

03-14-2006, 07:51 PM

The media is always pushing for this competition thing..

-TNC

Halcohol

03-14-2006, 07:53 PM

lol meanwhile Ratner & Singer are both very supportive of each other and keep babbling on about the other's movie :p

LEX

03-15-2006, 04:24 AM

Ghost Rider trailer attached to X-Men 3? :eek:

It's great to know that Singer is being supportive of Ratner. X3 will crush SR, anyway. Yeah, I know it's a biased answer. :p

Retroman

03-16-2006, 04:29 AM

Thanks to narrows who found this cool Storm article. I'm gonna post it here though......

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/695/695095p1.html

The highlighted quote from Gorder partcularly caught my attention....
Does this mean Storm and Magneto are the only mutants who will fly? No Phoenix flight?
You know i read that and wonderd the same thing.Phoenix without flight is pretty hard to imagine.

LEX

03-16-2006, 05:21 AM

Yeah, I concur. She must fly.

Kinberg said she's playing Phoenix. Of course, she will fly. In the Wondercon poster, she's looking like she's about to take off. ;)

Retroman

03-16-2006, 05:22 AM

Ghost Rider trailer attached to X-Men 3? :eek:

It's great to know that Singer is being supportive of Ratner. X3 will crush SR, anyway. Yeah, I know it's a biased answer. :p
Now tháts a weird statement from someone Mr.Lex Luthor?:o

Retroman

03-16-2006, 05:23 AM

Yeah, I concur. She must fly.

Kinberg said she's playing Phoenix. Of course, she will fly. In the Wondercon poster, she's looking like she's about to take off. ;)
I hope so. I really hope so.:)

LEX

03-16-2006, 05:24 AM

Now tháts a weird statement from someone Mr.Lex Luthor?:o
*coughs* Smallville fan, Retro, not Superman Returns. :p

Retroman

03-16-2006, 05:35 AM

*coughs* Smallville fan, Retro, not Superman Returns. :p
Oh, i see...

I'm not a big fan of the Smallville show though i do love John Glover and Michael Rosenbaum.:up:

LEX

03-16-2006, 05:43 AM

Oh, i see...

I'm not a big fan of the Smallville show though i do love John Glover and Michael Rosenbaum.:up:
Yeah, they're great actors. They're why I'm watching the show. ;)

N_z0

03-16-2006, 11:13 PM

X3 trailer featured on yahoo homepage:

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/x3trailer.jpg (http://www.theimagehosting.com)

Crimson Warrior

03-16-2006, 11:32 PM

X3 trailer featured on yahoo homepage:

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/x3trailer.jpg (http://www.theimagehosting.com)

my roomate called me to tell me this about 10 min. ago. Glad to see it on yahoo

migs

03-16-2006, 11:46 PM

You know i read that and wonderd the same thing.Phoenix without flight is pretty hard to imagine.

Pretty sure she will fly. They didn't mention angel's wirework, but i'm pretty confident he will be in the air at some point in the movie. haven't we seen that somewhere???

WorthyStevens

03-17-2006, 12:03 AM

Well, this really isn't an article, but it's online nonetheless.

This poll was done over at IMDb:

Summer sequel or remake you fear will be just terrible?

Votes

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (http://imdb.com/title/tt0463985/) 4770(25.3%)
Garfield's A Tale of Two Kitties (http://imdb.com/title/tt0455499/) 4372(23.2%)
They'll all be terrible 1848(9.8%)
Miami Vice (http://imdb.com/title/tt0430357/) 1415(7.5%)
Mission: Impossible III (http://imdb.com/title/tt0317919/) 1312(7.0%)
Clerks II (http://imdb.com/title/tt0424345/) 1128(6.0%)
Superman Returns (http://imdb.com/title/tt0348150/) 968(5.1%)
X-Men: The Last Stand (http://imdb.com/title/tt0376994/) 961(5.1%)
The Omen (http://imdb.com/title/tt0466909/) 660(3.5%)
Poseidon (http://imdb.com/title/tt0409182/) 574(3.1%)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (http://imdb.com/title/tt0383574/) 540(2.9%)
They'll all be fine 269(1.4%)

A total of 18817 votes were collected.

http://imdb.com/poll/results

I guess this is a good sign that alot less people are worried about this production. :D

LEX

03-17-2006, 04:40 AM

narrows101

03-17-2006, 07:34 PM

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/696/696567p1.html

X3: Maximum Beast
When it's time for action, for Grammar it's nothing but the Beast.
by Steve Head (shead@ign.com)

March 17, 2006 - You've been waiting to see it: Beast in action. Without question, it's one of the more guarded elements of X-Men: The Last Stand. But, on May 26th, when you do finally get to see the blue man throw down against Magneto's onslaught, producer David Gorder promises, "It'll blow your mind."

"Fans of the comic know that he can fight pretty well," says Kelesy Grammer, the man under the make-up. "His physical prowess should, I think, surprise and delight the audience."

Grammer, however, is quick to point out that jumping into action is the last option for Beast. "He's doing his best not to have to resort to violence or to enter any kind of a physical confrontation. He believes that diplomacy is the best way to way to work, until things come to a head. And then there's only one answer, and that's to stand shoulder to shoulder with his comrades and fight against a clear danger."

What we can tell you about the story is: Beast gives his all to open a dialogue with all mutants, and political leaders. The impending release of a drug that might nullify all mutant abilities has, as you might guess, a lot of people up in arms. Magento, of course, wants to get his hands on the vaccine, and it's source, and use it for his own warped purposes. "I deal with Magneto," says Grammer, "and I deal with a character called Calisto. I can't divulge too much, but [Beast] will do his best to do the world some good in whatever capacity he can find."

But (and this is no surprise) when diplomacy breaks down and Beast goes into action, it won't just be about throwing Juggernaut though a concrete wall: it'll be fun and games, too. And why shouldn't it? Hank McCoy has a sense of humor, right? "By virtue of [Beast's] ability to be ironic, I think it may be as high comedy (http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/696/696567p1.html#) as we get," says Grammer. "He's a cheerful fellow, and certainly fun in battle. So, I think we've got a little room in there to actually to have a bit of comic relief. Just within the context of the big fight."

So, how will Beast's ass-kicking translate from the comic book (http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/696/696567p1.html#) page to the movie screen? Gorder says their stylistic decision was to stay away from a cat-like beast, which would have made the character "a little bit too unbelievable." Instead, the filmmakers opted for a more human form upon which to display Beast's talents. "You want to use Beast's talents. He has skillful fighting moves. So you can imagine the stunts we're going to do there. We're going to exploit that as much as we can."

"Beast in the books is very agile," says visual effects supervisor John Bruno. "So, we'll be adding some moves based on the style that's described in the comic books (http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/696/696567p1.html#), and that will be digital." If his creative team has any questions about their digital stunt version of Beast, Bruno says, they'll go right to Marvel and Kevin Feige. "We'll run it by Marvel and by him, and they'll get information to us. We're constantly in the loop."

As the filmmakers are now editing The Last Stand's final battle, it may in fact not be Beast's final battle. "I think he's somebody that we're going to want to see back in future sequels," says Gorder. "I mean, you could almost do a Beast sequel on it's own, because he's got such an interesting story."

We've got more X3 coverage on the way, so keep watching IGN FilmForce!

spidey207

03-17-2006, 08:08 PM

Thats a sweet find on Beast, good work.

true316

03-17-2006, 08:12 PM

Kal-El 8 posted this on a SR forum. It has a cool little part with Hugh Jackman where he talks about getting in shape. Enjoy!

http://extratv.warnerbros.com/v2/news/0306/17/3/video.html

LEX

03-18-2006, 05:53 AM

Nice find, narrows. I can't wait to see his scenes with Magneto and Callisto. :up:

LMason

03-19-2006, 02:56 PM

Comcast gets in on the fun
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d120/jtagliere/comcsat.jpg

Electrix

03-21-2006, 01:48 PM

No one's gonna say the latest X-Men movie sucks before its release, with so much time and fazools invested in it. But we do keep hearing it might just be the very best in the franchise. Of course that has to be taken with a grain of salt, but if it IS that good, wouldn't Fox want the man responsible to keep going?

http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/images6/wolverine_jackman.jpg

Talking to MTV over the weekend, gargantuan actor Vinnie Jones expressed his own prayer that his multiple contract does mean being part of the Wolverine and Magneto movies. Apart from saying how much he liked playing opposite Hugh Jackman and being part of that universe, the former Soccer star mentioned talking to director Brett Ratner about the Wolverine pic, saying "[Brett] was saying that they'll probably use a lot of the characters."

Just around the same time, the good folks from IESB had the chance to interview the man himself about it, where he didn't confirm, but let his own hopes and desires be made quite clear. To the question whether he'd do it, Rather replied "Oh yeah, I love it, Hugh is one of the greatest actors in the world to work with and, hmm, like I said it's a dream, I mean it surreal for me because being a kid I grew up not reading X-Men comics but I was in love with the cartoon, the cartoon was like the coolest thing ever. All day long, how could I turn it down."

Not that Ratner has anything else to do, though. Should "The Last Stand" be the mega hit everyone hopes, other offers might become harder and harder to turn down. And where would that put "Rush Hour 3"?

http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/article/21030601.php

Electrix

03-21-2006, 01:49 PM

Ratner to get claws into Wolverine

Filmmaker Brett Ratner is reportedly in the final stage of negotiations to direct the proposed 'X-Men' spin-off 'Wolverine', which will probably star Hugh Jackman in the lead role as the mutant superhero.

Ratner impressed producers recently with his work on the most recent sequel 'X-Men: The Last Stand', leading them to launch an attempt to sign him for the first of many spin-off blockbusters.

Ratner has revealed that he is keen for Jackman to reprise his role as Wolverine for the project, while 'Swordfish' star Vinnie Jones is also in contention to repeat his forthcoming Juggernaut role.

Jones told MTV: "(Brett) was saying that they'll probably use a lot of the characters. Hopefully (the Wolverine/Juggernaut rivalry) will come into it."

http://movienews.virgin.net/Virgin/Lifestyle/Movies/virginMoviesNewsDetail/0,15384,1099771_movies,00.html

Angamb

03-21-2006, 01:52 PM

I really hope Ratner won't be the final director of that spin-off. I'd like him only for the X-films.

narrows101

03-21-2006, 01:54 PM

I really hope Ratner won't be the final director of that spin-off. I'd like him only for the X-films.
Truthfully I think it's all speculation, feeding of what Vinnie Jones said to MTV. You know how the media picks and chooses what it wants to print.

Angamb

03-21-2006, 02:00 PM

Yes, but I can understand Ratner is entusiastic about the x-men and could want to direct the Logan spin-off, it would be weird him doing the spin-off and the next sequels of X-men too... don't know

narrows101

03-21-2006, 02:02 PM

Remember when Len Wiseman was rumored to direct Wolverine? That was right around the time Van Helsing came out - and Wiseman's wife is Kate Beckinsale, Hugh's co-star in VH. This might be the same scenario. I guess time will tell.

LEX

03-21-2006, 02:03 PM

The Wolverine/Juggernaut rivalry? :o:down The movie should focus on his past with Weapon X and him being in the military. Why bring Juggernaut in? Unless I've missed something in the comics. Was Juggernaut in Wolverine's life before he joined the X-Men?

Retroman

03-22-2006, 01:19 AM

http://www.annarborpaper.com/content/issuev3i6/images3i6/v3i6.gif

Watch Me Now:
Love Trailers. Love Life.
Why previews are better than movies
by Jason Gibner

I don’t trust anybody who can be happy after they’ve missed the trailers, or as we used to say in ye olden times, the previews, in the theater. But trailers are an art in themselves, and often, very often, better than the movies they are selling. Take, for instance, the preview of the upcoming X-Men 3. The trailer makes the average man want to stand up in the theater, do a backflip, and then land and do the splits. Will the movie be any good? Oh, lord, no. A few months back, a fellow movie weirdo and I drove to Royal Oak’s beautiful Main Art theater to watch two hours of nonstop trailers. Barton Fink! Baron Munchuasen! Frankenhooker! Let me tell you this: Those two trailer-filled hours in lively downtown Royal Oak only cemented my belief that the preview is not only art, but a celebration of life itself.Source: http://www.annarborpaper.com/content/issuev3i6/wmn_v3i6.html

JustABill

03-22-2006, 01:22 AM

Okay, I was all liking that dude, then he just had to say ''Oh lord no." >_<

Retroman

03-22-2006, 01:29 AM

^^It's only logical that people will say this after all the negative hype it's recieved last year. Unfortunately.

TNC9852002

03-22-2006, 01:40 AM

All that "negative" hype was objective and unjustified anyway... :(

-TNC

LEX

03-22-2006, 05:09 AM

Okay, I was all liking that dude, then he just had to say ''Oh lord no." >_<
Yeah, I know. :o

Enough of the negativity already.

narrows101

03-23-2006, 01:44 PM

With the just-released pictures and you can comment.

http://www.justjared.com

>>Beast's Furry Blue Chest

These new X-Men: The Last Stand pictures with Ian McKellen as Magneto and Kelsey Grammer as Beast are kind of funny to me. Beast's furry blue chest makes me laugh and Magneto's in the kitchen next to a dishwaster fighting off flying dishware! X-Men: The Last Stand opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, May 26. Bigger pictures in the gallery!

One comment there so far:

>>jared, it makes me laugh as well. lol!

narrows101

03-23-2006, 03:30 PM

http://movies.go.com/jeannewolf?columnid=764259

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/ShoWest/hughjackman.jpg

X3 … Shocking!

Although Hugh Jackman was in a good mood, since he was accepting a ShoWest award for Male Star of the Year, he admitted that he has his competitive side: "I'd be lying if I told you I didn't find out on Saturday morning, when the movie opens, how we did."

As for Hugh's X-Men: The Last Stand, all I could get out of him was "There's plenty of action, but it's also a very emotional movie, and I think it's going to shock a lot of people." Clearly, these action guys are schooled to keep the plot to themselves.

It was no surprise, though, when he told me that playing Wolverine takes endurance: "A lot of food. I was taking in, like, 3,500 calories a day, which basically means you never stop eating. You think you're full, and about a half hour later they're bringing you another meal. That was my life."

Electrix

03-24-2006, 05:22 AM

A sneak preview of movies and the course of Western Civilization (or, what you missed when you went to the snack bar)
Friday, March 24, 2006
-- Nestor Ramos

'X-Men: The Last Stand'

In theaters: May 26

Stars: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman

The pitch: Three times the mutants, three times the fun.

The details: "X-Men" is unique among the ever-growing crop of superhero franchises. With an emphasis on killer ensemble casts and good screenplays, the first two films have succeeded as effective companions to the source comics. The problem with the films has been that there are too many characters and too much story: every second-tier mutant ambles on screen, and still the fans clamor for more characters. If you don't have a filing cabinet full of Mylar-wrapped comic books at home, it can get confusing. That could still pose a problem -- but this is a phenomenal trailer. The effects are cool, the snippets of dialogue are compelling, and the constant addition of new characters works well in a two-minute montage. The plot once again revolves around the mutual mutant/human resentment central to the previous films while being irrelevant to their success. If this third and presumably last chapter can finally make that theme truly affecting, it will be the best of the lot.

The bottom line: The only thing that might give fans pause? The jury is still out on director Brett Ratner ("Rush Hour," "Red Dragon").

-- Nestor Ramos

http://www.oregonlive.com/AandE/pluggedin/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1142549723285510.xml&coll=7

Retroman

03-28-2006, 12:24 AM

From VARIETY:

Posted: Sun., Mar. 26, 2006, 6:00am PT

Tights in a twist
Rival tentpoles test limits of studios' franchise factory

By TED JOHNSON

A year or so ago, Bryan Singer was working feverishly on a third edition of the "X-Men" franchise when he suddenly jumped from Fox to Warner Bros. to take over "Superman." Shortly thereafter, Brett Ratner, who'd been working on "Superman," jumped over to Fox to take on "X-Men 3: The Last Stand."
This summer's battle of the comicbook blockbusters comes down to the Bryan-and-Brett show, with roughly half a billion dollars in production and print and ad costs on the line.

The switcheroo may be less a coincidence than a symptom of the uphill battle that any studio faces in trying to revive a lucrative and pricey franchises whose pricetag can run into hundreds of millions of dollars.

The value of these tentpoles can't be measured just in terms of B.O.B.O. and DVD sales -- or in their cultural cachet as prime movers of the dueling D.C. and Marvel comic-book dynasties.

The hope is that each will lead to a legacy of projects. "Last Stand" is the final "X-Men" film and Fox hopes to spin off characters into their own pics; Warner Bros., as it returns an important major franchise, is making plans for Singer to direct a "Superman" sequel.

Both projects will test the limits of the tentpole strategy in an era of ever heightened expectations for storylines and special effects; more sophisticated techniques of marketing and even a wider network of licensing and promotion.

By the time "Superman Returns' comes out June 30, the "S" logo will be used to sell everything from soft drinks to motor oil. And toy manufacturers hope that products like the Superman InflatoSuit will help revive a sluggish licensing industry.

In style and substance, each director has unique capabilities. Singer, 40, and Ratner, 37, both come with oversized, charismatic personalities (Singer speaks to the set via a voice-of-God like microphone; Ratner is notorious for juggling as many as three cell phones simultaneously); an affinity for the nightlife; a special skill at working within the system; and, perhaps most importantly, a knack for showmanship.

Singer chronicled his experience making "Superman" in an antic-filled video blog on bluetights.net. Ratner sent out holiday cards with him dressed as X-Men's Wolverine, surrounded by the other mutants.

The projects still generate almost a daily noise and speculation, such as "Superman's" long and occasionally disorganized shoot. (Warners execs say they're more than pleased with the results). Fan sites, meanwhile, have mused on such things as the size of Halle Berry's role (small in the first two, bigger in No. 3) and the size of Superman's bulge.

And, as with all high-profile projects, there is speculation on the budget. Sources say the budget of "X-Men" hovers near $150 million. WB says "Superman" cost $184 million. But as any studio vet can tell you, quoted figures have a way of being much different than actual costs.

Singer's stamp is all over the first two "X-Men" pics, and when he ankled the "X-Men 3," Fox turned to "Layer Cake" director Matthew Vaughn. But Vaughn backed out, reportedly because he didn't want to relocate his family to Vancouver for the length of the shoot.

Ratner was hired when the film was in pre-production. He was an unknown factor to the actors who'd been in the first two. "It's always a test with great acting talent," says Marvel CEO Avi Arad, a producer on the pic. "But the talent got to meet and know him. If they had gotten uncomfortable we would have had a problem. But Brett is a real actor's director."

is straying from the usual marketing conventions. It is trying to brand the tentpole as a "thinking person's action film," in the words of studio co-chairman Tom Rothman.

Downplaying doubts expressed on a few noisy Internet sites, Fox notes that the franchise has been embraced by geeks and fans; a recently unveiled trailer, studio execs say, has been well received. And the pic has the brand recognition after the first two, which grossed $700 million worldwide

The marketing pitch is darker and more ambiguous than those of its predecessors. The plot, which hinges on what happens when a "Cure" for mutantcy is developed, explores big ideas about identity and race. The posters and billboards are as moody as a fashion shoot. They show isolated X-Men characters posed against the somewhat cryptic copyline, "Take a Stand." The trailer, which debuted in March during "24," is similarly somber.

"We wanted this film to be different from all of the other movies in the summer," Rothman says. "We wanted people to stop and not have it be so immediately apparent that we're selling a movie. We're interested in selling an emotion and an idea."

Warner Bros. has taken its lumps in the press after laboring for some 13 years through different Superman ideas and reinventions (see timeline). The studio at one point abandoned it altogether after spending almost $20 million in production and development costs.

Singer's approach was to create a much more traditional story that is a loose continuation of 1978's "Superman: The Movie" and 1981's "Superman II," using parts of John Williams' score and even old footage of Marlon Brando, while at the same time injecting new twists and turns. In the new pic, Superman returns to Earth after a long absence, only to find that Lois Lane has moved on with her life. The big question is whether she or anyone else still needs a superhero.

"The best thing we did was to engage Bryan Singer," says Jeff Robinov, president of production at Warner Bros. "From the second he came on, a lot of the energy -- both positive and negative floating around the movie before that -- dissipated and shifted. It became about what Bryan was going to do. He had a very specific story in mind, and it is very different from any story we've had before."

There will be subtle deviations from tradition. The slogan "Truth, Justice and the American Way" won't be heard; instead, newspaper editor Perry White says "Truth, justice, all that stuff." It's a nuance that could help bolster international appeal, at a time when the image of the United States is not exactly at its zenith.

The studio also sees even greater marketability in the character than, for example, Batman, a franchise that was itself revived last year with "Batman Begins." That character's dark persona is harder to translate into toys and promotional partnerships.

"Superman isn't caught up in the same angst that other characters like Spider-Man or Batman are," says Gaetano Mastropasqua, Warners' corporate senior VP of global promotions and partner relations. "Superman stands for truth, justice and a positive way of life."

The studio is undertaking what it calls an unprecedented campaign to promote "Superman Returns" with corporate partners that include Pepsi, Perfect Match.com, Burger King, Duracell and Quaker State Motor Oil. The "S" Superman logo will on Quaker State's Q Line, used for high-performance cars like Ferraris.

The idea is to get across Superman's "power, strength and durability," Mastropasqua says.

Promotional partners for "X-Men 3" have not yet been revealed.

All of this stands in sharp contrast to the way the previous "Superman" feature franchise was launched in the 1970s, when few people took the idea of a big-budget comicbook picture seriously. Back then, Warner Bros. execs were indifferent when producers Ilya and Alexandre Salkind wrangled movie rights to Superman from the studio's sister division National Periodical Publications, forerunner to DC Comics. In fact, only when Marlon Brando signed on to play Jor-El did the studio take interest, and only then as distributor.

By the time "Superman: The Movie" was released in 1978, the budget had swelled to $110 million, and "we owed about $60 million," Ilya Salkind recalls. Only when two sequels were released in 1981 and 1983, respectively, did they begin to recoup their investment.

The franchise died out after the failure of 1987's "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace," which was farmed out to Golan Globus' Cannon Films. Although distributed and co-produced by Warner Bros., Cannon skimped on the budget, forgoing elaborate sets of Metropolis for a London industrial park.

After the success of "Batman" in 1989, Warner Bros. re-acquired the rights to "Superman" from the Salkinds, intent on reviving the franchise, but it struggled with how to reinvent the character as a feature film. Through four different directors (including Tim BurtonTim Burton) and about a dozen screenwriters, different scenarios were broached in which Superman is darker and more neurotic, and one in which Superman battles Batman.

Commercial prospects sometimes ran up against artistic efforts. When Burton was attached to the film, some screenwriters complained of demands to put in such things as spaceships that could be spun off as toys. And senior execs seemed reluctant to redo Superman as an existentialist hero, which conflicted with what enthusiasts have come to expect from the character. In fact, before they left their posts as studio chairmen, Robert Daly and Terry Semel shelved the project, which was later revived under Barry Meyer and Alan HornAlan Horn.

In marketing Singer's version, Warner Bros. has paid particular attention to the comicbook's fan base, some of whom were wary of previous incarnations and expressed their opinions so on high-trafficked Internet sites. Last summer, in the midst of shooting, the studio flew Singer via private jet from the film's Australian location to San Diego, where he screened footage at the annual Comic-Con comic book convention. The response was enthusiastic.

"You are never going to satisfy everybody," says producer Michael Euslan ("Batman," "Batman Begins"), who has started a new company called Comic Book Movies with financier M. Jonathan Roberts. "But if you can't satisfy the main part of the fan base, you are going to have problems. These are people who are not only schooled in the characters, the mythology and the history but also in the creators over the years. They know what they like."

(Additional reporting by Nicole LaPorte and Pamela McClintock in Los Angeles and Michaela Boland in Sydney.)

Date in print: Mon., Mar. 27, 2006, Weekly
Source: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117940355?categoryid=13&cs=1&s=h&p=0

Retroman

03-28-2006, 03:56 AM

If play's your thing ...
LG Electronics model is ideal for movies and games

March 25, 2006
By VICTOR GODINEZ / The Dallas Morning News

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/ptech/dailyimages/032506lg.jpg
LG Electronics
LG Electronics' L203WT 20-inch display is worth a look, thanks to its razor-sharp image, good color quality and nifty features.

Wide-screen is all the rage when it comes to TVs nowadays, and it's becoming increasingly popular with computer monitors, too.

If you are on the hunt for a good wide-screen LCD monitor for your computer, LG Electronics' new $499 L203WT 20-inch display is worth a look, thanks to its razor-sharp image, good color quality and nifty features.

Just make sure you know what you'll be using it for.

If you're only going to be browsing the Web, writing documents and e-mail and doing other mundane chores, this monitor is overkill.

The expansive screen is so big that most Web sites fill only a portion of the real estate, and you end up with massive, unused margins on each side.

On the other hand, this monitor is ideal if you plan to watch a lot of movies or play a lot of games.

Setup is simple.

My only complaint is that while the monitor has both analog and digital ports to receive the video signal from your PC, the model I tested shipped with only an inferior analog cable.

You can buy a digital video cable separately for 20 bucks or so.

Once you've got everything plugged in, install the drivers off a CD, set your video output to the monitor's native resolution (1680x1050), and you're ready to go.

While the settings out of the box are perfectly acceptable, videophiles will want to tinker with the f-ENGINE function, which lets you adjust the image for movies, photos and so forth.

While the standard settings looked fine when I was browsing the Web, DVD movies and games looked a little off.

Scrolling through the menu was easy, and I quickly had a far better color setting.

Next I hooked up an Xbox 360 console to the video port to see how well this monitor could double as a gaming display.

The Xbox 360 can't pump out video at the monitor's maximum resolution, but it comes pretty close, and games and videos looked awesome.

If your console is hooked up to the Internet, you can download movie trailers in either high-definition or standard-definition quality.

Comparing the HD and SD versions of the X-Men 3 trailer, there was really no comparison.

Games looked equally impressive, and the nighttime scenes in Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter that look dim and muddy on my standard-definition television were far easier to navigate on the L203WT.

The eight-millisecond response time — the amount of time it takes for the individual pixels to change color as the on-screen image changes — isn't the fastest you can find, but it worked fine to my untrained eyes.

No "ghosting" — wispy smears on the screen as the pixels struggle to keep up with fast-moving images — was visible.

DVD movies also looked good, but — and this is a problem with most LCD televisions and computer monitors — black images looked more like deep gray.

Even in games like Ghost Recon, nighttime looked more like deep twilight.

If you can live with that — and it's really not that big a deal — and are a big gamer or movie watcher, the L203WT is a great choice.

Pros: Slick design, great image quality and extensive video adjustment controls.

Cons: You might need to buy a separate digital cable. Like most LCD screens, it has a hard time displaying true blacks.

Bottom line: Perfect for anyone building a small home-theater system.Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/ptech/generalstories2/032506ccdrPTECHmonitor.67fd4027.html

Retroman

03-30-2006, 01:48 AM

Film commission receives reprieve

By Rick Stiebel
Goldstream News Gazette
Mar 29 2006

The Victoria Film Commission has a new lease on life.
The commission had faced closure at the beginning of the year because of funding shortfalls, mounting overhead and the resignation of film commissioner Barry Dodd, said Starr McMichael, who chairs the commission's board.
However, a combination of municipal support and a new facility provided by the Provincial Capital Commission will allow the film commission to continue to attract and service film production in the Capital region, McMichael said.
Langford, with a donation of $2,000 a year since 2003, is the only West Shore municipality to support the film commission.
"Langford's been good for us and we're very grateful for their support," McMichael said, adding she appreciated additional support from Victoria, Saanich and Oak Bay.
Victoria had a banner year in 2005, posting a record $28 million in direct film production spending, McMichael said.
Royal Roads University has been a sponsor and provided support to the film commission annually, said Nancy Arsenault, RRU director of tourism and outreach.
Royal Roads has been a location for filming several major productions, including two films in the X-Men series.
"We're certainly behind them and recognize the importance of the work they do," Arsenault said.
She said she hopes the province continues to find ways to support the film industry on Vancouver Island, given the size of the economic benefit.
The film commission will continue to work toward a new provincial funding formula which will provide more support to all film commissions in B.C., McMichael said.
The Union of B.C. Municipalities is encouraging the province to engage in a funding formula that enhances the ability of regional film and television production.
Source: http://www.vicnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=36&cat=47&id=617219&more=

Victoria is where the Royal Roads University is located. Aka the School for the Gifted.

Sunstar

03-30-2006, 04:16 AM

Wow Retro you seem to be putting any article that at least mentions X-men 3 once! :D

Retroman

03-30-2006, 05:07 AM

He he

FRUITY

03-30-2006, 05:10 AM

He's awesome like that! http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f351/fruityemen/Gif/wearenotworthy__by_baby_alien91.gif

Retroman

03-30-2006, 05:18 AM

Why thank you fruity.:O I'm touched.

LEX

03-30-2006, 05:21 AM

I think it's just awesome that a news website would compare two television screens using the X-Men 3 trailer. :p

Electrix

04-01-2006, 05:54 AM

‘X-Men: The Last Stand’

How long since the last one? Three years.

Why the fanboy hate? Bryan Singer, who helmed the first two “X-Men” outings, left to fly with another superhero (more on that below), leaving the franchise in the hands of Brett Ratner, director of the “Rush Hour” movies. Though fans were panning the movie online before seeing a single frame of footage, expect them to turn out in droves to watch as the tensions between humans and mutants reach their breaking point.

http://www.adaeveningnews.com/entertainment/cnhinsentertainment_story_090102615.html?keyword=t opstory

Lil_Flip246

04-01-2006, 01:44 PM

That article kinda sucks. Nothing new. The only mention is the director.

Electrix

04-04-2006, 04:00 PM

Eragon trailer to be attatched to X Men 3!
By Anthony Pearson Apr 4, 2006, 19:51 GMT

Shurtugal are reporting that 20th Century Fox will premiere the much anticipated first look trailer for the upcoming fantasy film Eragon in front of prints of X Men 3: The Last Stand on May 26th.

The trailer will makes its online debut the same day so stay tuned to M&C for that.

The story follows fifteen-year-old Eragon, who believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save—or destroy—the Empire.

"Eragon" is the first part in the bestselling "Inheritance" trilogy.

The film stars Edward Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, Djimon Hounsou, Garrett Hedlund and John Malkovich.

http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1152483.php/Eragon_trailer_to_be_attatched_to_X_Men_3!

Aiden

04-04-2006, 04:29 PM

Cool. That and Ghost Rider

Retroman

04-04-2006, 06:28 PM

Yeah, great find:up:

B.C. saw major turnaround in '05

by Ilona Beiks
page 2

B.C.'s film and television industry staged an economic comeback in 2005, as total spending increased by more than 50% to over $1.2 billion - up from $800 million in the lackluster 2004.

"This is a major turnaround," said Olga Ilich, B.C.'s minister of tourism, sport and the arts, upon announcing the numbers in March. "This level of production activity has not been seen in the province since 2003, our strongest year ever."

Based on stats prepared by the B.C. Film Commission, the province saw 211 productions last year: 63 features, 31 TV series, 37 movies-of-the-week, 15 pilots, five miniseries, 20 documentaries, 16 shorts and 24 animation projects.

The big surge came from foreign spending, where feature films spiked 200% to $580 million, thanks to shoots including X-Men 3, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, The Fog and Eight Below. American TV series including Battlestar Galactica and Supernatural spent 26% more, or $298 million, while animation climbed 121% to nearly $50 million.

Domestic spending was softer, however, rising just 5% to $225 million. Feature and TV spending were down, by 13% and 11%, respectively, but were buoyed by animation, which jumped 138% to $35 million.

"We want to see the domestic side of the industry grow," said Ilich in a later interview with Playback, "so we are working with them even more to find a way to encourage and grow that sector."

The province's weak numbers in 2004 were partly blamed on a lack of Hollywood films and were used as a rallying cry for improved tax credits, which came through in January 2005.

Peter Leitch, chair of the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of British Columbia and president of Lionsgate Studios, attributes the '05 rebound to factors including the tax credits, the more stable Canadian dollar, and increased co-operation between companies and unions, all of which helped lure shoots north from the U.S.

"The increased tax credits played a significant part. It sent a message to L.A. that we want to be a part of the industry," he says.

www.bcfilmcommission.comSource: http://www.playbackmag.com/articles/magazine/20060403/bcnumbers.html

Retroman

04-04-2006, 06:31 PM

From The Art Department of the Denison University:

Junior Day Presentations

2005-2006

Junior Day is a component of the degree in Art History and Studio Art. Each student is required to make a 5-10 minute presentation of current work or research along with a statement about why the work is important to them and why they have taken it in a specific direction. The presentation is made to the faculty and student's peers as a "mini-symposium" once during the fall and of the junior year. A spring symposium is held to accommodate students who are off-campus in the fall.

Mo Stemen

Presentation given October 13, 2005

Comics: Visual Storytelling

Comics are a means of visual storytelling. Words and images join together to convey emotion. However, comics were not always as widely-accepted as they are today. In the 1950s, comics were blamed for the delinquency of youth and introducing ideas of sex and violence. Despite efforts to decrease popularity of the genre, comics still thrived, although with a certain degree of censorship. Comics today are very much a part of our social landscape.

Comics have grown to permeate our lives. They are everywhere: newspapers, ads, movies, television, music, books, magazines, the Internet, and any other means of communication you can imagine. Comics are accessible, but even today, are usually still regarded as “geek” fodder. As comics become more and more popular, respect for the art form will also develop. Comic influences are everywhere today.

I could not manage to escape comics. As far back as I can remember, I would steal my brother's comic books and read them. I'm even from the same hometown as Richard Outcault, the man credited with creating the first comic strip. When I came to Denison, I enrolled in a Contemporary Comics course. The primary focus was to create autobiographical comics. I had never associated my life with a medium that was used to tell the tales of superheroes. I was plagued with the question: “Is my life comic-worthy?” As a freshman, I began creating autobiographical comics and have never looked back. From that point onward, I have been fascinated with comics and everything comic-related, especially comic book movies.

Recently, comics have become a hot commodity in Hollywood. There have been film adaptations of numerous comic books and graphic novels, most of which have been quite successful, either at the box office or have gained a cult following. The summer releases of Batman Begins and Fantastic Four have both grossed over $300 million worldwide. Is this comic book fever?

This past summer, I spent three months in Los Angeles, CA working for Marvel Studios. I was able to experience, first hand, how popular comics are adapted into major motion pictures. One of my main tasks was to compile visual references for upcoming feature films based on Marvel Comics. This information was then passed on to writers, directors, actors, and costume designers so that they could have a base knowledge of storylines, style, visual effects, as well as character traits. For the upcoming X-men 3, not only did I have to create a reference guide, but I also had to find episodes from a mid-90s cartoon series that will have relevance to the film. Marvel's approach to adaptation is more of a synthesis. All possible story arcs are taken into consideration, and the product is a pastiche composed of many aspects from the entirety of a comic book title. This type of adaptation usually garners much criticism from the comic book loyalists, but with an abundance of source material, Marvel must make executive decisions. Adaptation is arduous, even when the two art forms are so closely linked.

Cinema, like comics, uses words and images together, but instead of written words and images, film includes spoken words with images. Comics are the link between my two majors, Cinema and Art. In contrast with Marvel's approach, Robert Rodriguez, along with Frank Miller, has not necessarily adapted Miller's Sin City graphic novels; he has translated it to the screen. Rodriguez actually used the Sin City graphic novels to set up his framing and camera movement. Comics are where Cinema and Art meet. Art is images, Cinema is moving images, and Comics are sequential images. I hope that through my future coursework in both disciplines, I can further investigate their common ground: comics.
Source: http://www.denison.edu/art/jdp2006.html

Retroman

04-05-2006, 08:20 AM

X3 is using some new technology...

RUSSIAN ARM CRANE AND FLIGHT HEAD
Winners: Anatoliy Kokush, Yuriy Popovsky and Alex Zolotariov, Filmotechnic
Uses: This is the first crane that stabilizes both the camera head and the boom arm with gyroscopes.
Credits: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, X-Men 3, Mission: Impossible 3, War of the Worlds
Source: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/printerfriendly/technology/generaltechnology/b519e7fd121d9010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Electrix

04-05-2006, 08:21 AM

Cool :up:

LEX

04-05-2006, 08:31 AM

"Uses: This is the first crane that stabilizes both the camera head and the boom arm with gyroscopes."

What does that mean? Boom arm with gyroscopes?

Retroman

04-05-2006, 08:40 AM

"Uses: This is the first crane that stabilizes both the camera head and the boom arm with gyroscopes."

What does that mean? Boom arm with gyroscopes?
Check this site...
http://www.filmotechnic.net/index.htm

LEX

04-05-2006, 08:49 AM

Thanks, Retro. :eek: So, it'll probably be on the X-Men jet or something.

Retroman

04-05-2006, 08:52 AM

Thanks, Retro. :eek: So, it'll probably be on the X-Men jet or something.
Yeah or one of the many vehicles in the movie.Looks like a great way to capture the action.:up:

LEX

04-05-2006, 08:57 AM

And the kid in the car? On the Golden Gate bridge in the first teaser? Maybe that's probably it.

FRUITY

04-05-2006, 09:00 AM

Retro, I've heard they also uses cg f/x to make Stewart and Ian look younger in one of the scenes is that true???? Just curious.

Retroman

04-05-2006, 09:01 AM

And the kid in the car? On the Golden Gate bridge in the first teaser? Maybe that's probably it.
Oh yeah, that too.

LEX

04-05-2006, 09:02 AM

Yeah, fruity, it's been confirmed in the set reports.

Samuryan

04-05-2006, 09:03 AM

Retro, I've heard they also uses cg f/x to make Stewart and Ian look younger in one of the scenes is that true???? Just curious.

This is my first post on the board, and its good to be here!

Anyways, Have you ever seen Hannibal? In that movie they used CG graphics to make Anthony Hopkins look 20yrs younger, so I believe if they really wanted to, they could makes Stewart and Ian look younger as well, but my hunch is that they will use new actors for the most part, and mabye only a few (if any) shots of older Stewart and Ian.

FRUITY

04-05-2006, 09:11 AM

Welcome to the hype Samuryan!

Yeah, I wonder if Patrick will still be bald or not. Lol.

Retroman

04-05-2006, 09:12 AM

Question is already answered fruity.;)

Welcome to the hype! Samuryan:up:

Aiden

04-05-2006, 09:17 AM

This is my first post on the board, and its good to be here!

Anyways, Have you ever seen Hannibal? In that movie they used CG graphics to make Anthony Hopkins look 20yrs younger, so I believe if they really wanted to, they could makes Stewart and Ian look younger as well, but my hunch is that they will use new actors for the most part, and mabye only a few (if any) shots of older Stewart and Ian.Was it not Red Dragon.They used it to get rid of his crows feet etc

LEX

04-05-2006, 09:17 AM

Welcome, Samuryan! ;)

narrows101

04-05-2006, 11:53 AM

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=35327

Cannes Has SF Debuts

The 59th annual Cannes Film Festival will include a screening of the upcoming superhero sequel X-Men: The Last Stand and the premiere of The Fountain, both starring Hugh Jackman. X-Men will have its domestic opening on May 26, which falls during the festival's second week. The Fountain, from director Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream) doesn't yet have a release date.

http://www.canmag.com/news/4/3/3510

If you have ever wanted to go to the Cannes Film Festival this year couldn't be any better. Opening up with The Da Vinci Code, the 59th annual Cannes Film Festival is only getting warmed up.

X-Men at Cannes
According to Variety, Cannes should get a boost in Hollywood presence thanks to teh screening of X-Men 3: The Last Stand. Hugh Jackman, who may become the top name of the festival, will also have his other starring vehicle, Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, screened as well.

Samuryan

04-05-2006, 02:06 PM

Was it not Red Dragon.They used it to get rid of his crows feet etc

Thanks everyone for your welcoming! I've actually kept up with this forum for about a year now, but I decided its about time I join up and post my thoughts here and there.

Ah, your right, it was Red Dragon. I get confused between the two sometimes. I remember reading something about them using CG to make Hopkin's face look younger as well. With combined CG and makeup these days, it would be possible to make Ian and Stewart look younger, but we shall have to wait and see I guess.

_BB_

04-05-2006, 02:29 PM

It was pretty much confirmed when patrick was on richard and judy that they would be using CG to make the actors look younger. Judy was hinting at it and was beginning to ask about the digital effects but patrick said, as usual, that he couldnt talk about it because of his contract.

narrows101

04-05-2006, 06:46 PM

http://www.movieweb.com/news/43/11943.php

(picture of Wolverine and Storm running through mansion)

The end of the month will see the return of everyone's favorite mutants in X-Men: The Last Stand (http://www.movieweb.com/movies/film/04/2404/summary.php), the final film in the trilogy. Fox is pulling out all the characters for this film including veterans Halle Berry (Storm), Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Sir Ian McKellen (Magneto), and Rebecca Romijn (Mystique). But who they're bringing in will top the other two films - Ellen Page (Shadowcat), Vinnie Jones (Juggernaut), Ben Foster (Angel), and Kelsey Grammer (Beast). Ok, I'll admit it - I'm psyched about Beast in this movie, and I think Kelsey Grammer is a perfect fit for the character. I've spoken to both Aaron Stanford (Pyro) and Vinnie Jones about this film; they tell me it's going to be big! Aaron says about his character, "It's bigger; he's become Magneto's right hand man. He's not sure where his allegiance lies; he's friends with Professor X but he also has this urge to spread his wings and find his power with the brotherhood. In X-3 he's definitely off the fence; he's decided where he wants to go. He's off the leash; there's a lot of explosions, a lot of things being set on fire." Directing is Brett Ratner, who takes over for Bryan Singer; X-Men: The Last Stand (http://www.movieweb.com/movies/film/04/2404/summary.php) launches into theaters on May 26th.

LMason

04-06-2006, 07:53 AM

Over on Roger Friedman's site, in a story about how Ratner is mentoring Lindsay Lohan:
Ratner, who’s said to be giving Lohan advice and providing a shelter to her from the gossip storm, is a little too busy to do anything else right now. He’s finishing “X Men III,” which will debut in Cannes a few days before its May 26 opening in theaters. The $200 million comic book adventure is said to be better even than episodes 1 and 2. I’m told the Cannes debut is so hot that the entire cast is being invited to the annual AmFar dinner in Mougins, where star Hugh Jackman may be asked to perform along with Elton John and other surprise guests.

narrows101

04-06-2006, 08:37 AM

http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=6362

3X X3
04.06.06
By Devin Faraci (devin@chud.com)
Contributing sources: Latino Review (http://latinoreview.com/news.php?id=469)

Give the people who cut the trailers and TV ads for X3 an Oscar right now. I know too much about what has been going on behind the scenes of this film to hold a reasonable hope for it (I do hold an unreasonable one, however), but the trailers - and now the three new TV ads – make me excited when I see them.

Latino Review has scored the latest ads, which have already begun airing. They’re well put together and have plenty of interesting and iconic imagery. Click here (http://latinoreview.com/news.php?id=469) to check them out.

You know, I’m going to hold on to my unreasonable hope in these last few weeks. I am going to choose to believe that the cast and crew rose to the challenge and overcame the incredible obstacle that is Brett Ratner. Maybe X3 is the beginning of the anti-auteur theory, the collectivist film theory.

WorthyStevens

04-06-2006, 02:44 PM

http://joblo.com/index.php?id=10904

New X3 TV spots

Apr. 5, 2006

Written by Omar Aviles
Source: Latino Review, The Movie Box

Fox unleashed three new TV spots for X-MEN: THE (MAYBE SECOND TO) LAST STAND during "American Idol", "House" and somewhere on ESPN recently and lucky for us, the folks over at "Latino Review" were quick to encode the sum*****es and post them for us to see. And if those aren't working, the folks over at The Movie Box were also cool enough to encode the footage. And if none of those work then try watching "American Idol" next time it airs (although I wouldn't recommend it; I've heard prolonged exposure to Ryan Seacrest actually causes an accelerated form of a very rare combined optic nerve/cerebral paralysis which results in multi-organ failure within a matter of minutes). May 26th is the proverbial d-day, folks, where we finally see whether or not The Ratner can take the franchise to the next level. Aww hell, I'll admit it, despite all the hoopla, I'm pretty damn excited about it and I'll be there opening day with jello shots and nipple clamps.

oneteen

04-06-2006, 05:42 PM

*shudders* Nipple clamps?

Electrix

04-06-2006, 05:44 PM

X-Men: The Last Stand TV Spots Debut Print E-mail
Written by Scott Collura
Thursday, 06 April 2006

Wow. We’re only a month and a half away at this point from the opening of X-Men 3. And then shortly after that, Superman Returns. And then… uh, My Super Ex-Girlfriend opens. Well, O.K. – at least we’ve got two superhero movies right around the corner to look forward to.

And yes, I’m looking forward to X-Men 3, a.k.a. X-Men: The Last Stand, and I know you are too – despite the presence of Brett Ratner and the rumors of a troubled production. Will it be a good film? I doubt it. Will I be there to see it with mutant bells on? Yep. And you will too.

In the meantime, LatinoReview.com has three new TV spots for the film online now. The spots have already started airing, so look for them during your American Idol bathroom breaks – or click here to watch them now.

http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/3492/2/

Iceman

04-06-2006, 05:56 PM

That's a bit negative :( :(

TNC9852002

04-06-2006, 06:02 PM

Welcome to the hype Samuryan!

Yeah, I wonder if Patrick will still be bald or not. Lol.

Well, the comics said that Xavier's baldness was somewhat connected to his psychic powers...So, if this is like, 30 years before X3, I would still expect Xavier to be bald or still quite bald..

-TNC

PWN3R

04-06-2006, 06:10 PM

Why do so many sites used that Colossus pic?!

Do they not know it is unfinished/never meant to be seen??

TNC9852002

04-06-2006, 06:20 PM

Why do so many sites used that Colossus pic?!

Do they not know it is unfinished/never meant to be seen??
Someone needs to email them and tell them to take that photo down!

-TNC

Electrix

04-07-2006, 04:32 AM

Brett Ratner Honored at Malibu Film Festival
Movie Superman Returns Posted By: Michael / Source
Related News : Action Movie News , Sci-Fi Movie News ,

The 7th Malibu International Film Festival is proud to announce the director of the highly-anticipated feature film X Men: The Last Stand, Brett Ratner, as this year’s celebrity honoree. Mr. Ratner, director of Red Dragon with Anthony Hopkins and the Rush Hour films starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, has quickly established himself as one of Hollywood’s most successful directors. Past festival directorial honorees include James Cameron, John Frankenheimer and Arthur Hiller.

The 7th Malibu International Film Festival is proud to announce Academy Award Winner Sir Anthony Hopkins as special guest presenter for its 2006 special tribute to Brett Ratner. Hopkins reprised his role as Dr. Hannibal Lechter for the film Red Dragon, directed by Ratner in 2002. Past festival presenters include Gary Sinise and James Cameron.

The tribute and awards ceremony will take place 8pm, Monday, April 10 with dinner to be served at Gladstone’s Malibu. This event is produced by Lori Llevano. For more information visit: www.malibufilmfestival.org

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_8148.html

LEX

04-07-2006, 06:03 AM

Great news. :up: Congrats, Brett.

DarknessOfDeath

04-07-2006, 08:40 AM

Specter313

04-07-2006, 05:35 PM

Twentieth Century Fox, Marvel Comics, Drissi Advertising and Rocketsports Racing have teamed up to promote the May 26 worldwide release of X-Men: The Last Stand during the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

The No. 50 X-Men Ford Crawford competing in the Crown Royal Grand American Challenge of Long Beach on Saturday. SPEED will air the event on a same-day tape-delay at 9 p.m. (ET).

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0604/06/index.htm

Retroman

04-08-2006, 01:46 AM

FX supervisor Alp Altiner talks a little about the effects in X3.

Matte Painting Part 4: The future of matte painting
Posted on Mar 06, 2006 by mseymour7

Alp is currently working in Hollywood on a soon to be released, major hollywood blockbuster: Xmen 3, in which he is again combining 3D with digital painting to produce final shots. "The main reason CG is being used anyways, is to allow the camera to freely move in these environments. So with more 3D programs like Vue, and Terragen giving us freedom to create convincing digital sets, is going to create a new job title, such as a 3D matte painter. At my daily work, I use more and more 3D, to create sets for film."
Source:http://www.fxguide.com/article334.html

LEX

04-08-2006, 05:36 AM

http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/3492/2/

Will it be a good film? I doubt it.

Jerk. :o

TNC9852002

04-08-2006, 10:47 AM

Check it out, guys:

http://latinoreview.com/news.php?id=469

Someone took down that leaked photo of Colossus!... :up:

-TNC

lordofthenerds

04-08-2006, 10:53 AM

Check it out, guys:

http://latinoreview.com/news.php?id=469

Someone took down that leaked photo of Colossus!... :up:

-TNC
Thank god. I bet people were starting to think that Colossus would look like some nut from a convention.

narrows101

04-08-2006, 02:20 PM

This is just a comment by me - I see Brandon Routh as Superman is on the cover of next week's Entertainment Weekly magazine. Usually the magazine does a "summer preview issue" and unless I missed it, this issue says nothing about that on the cover. I can only assume that X-3 is also going to have its own cover - maybe the summer preview one.

Storm22

04-08-2006, 02:24 PM

Check it out, guys:

http://latinoreview.com/news.php?id=469

Someone took down that leaked photo of Colossus!... :up:

-TNC

Good! The less seen of that picture the better! Imagine if the same happened for LOTR and people thought Gollum would actually be Andy Serkis in that brown/white Gollum suit! It's really unfair to use that pic of Colossus against X3!

LEX

04-08-2006, 02:26 PM

Check it out, guys:

http://latinoreview.com/news.php?id=469

Someone took down that leaked photo of Colossus!... :up:

-TNC
Great.

I wonder why.

Specter313

04-08-2006, 02:45 PM

http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/3492/2/

Jerk. :o

Hmm, link's not working.

VincenFilmerset

04-08-2006, 04:18 PM

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/Photo041.jpg
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/7aa417a1.jpghttp://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/f46d5ecd.jpg

From french magazine : premiere :)

Aiden

04-08-2006, 04:19 PM

Amazing pictures

VincenFilmerset

04-08-2006, 04:21 PM

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/496feb3d.jpghttp://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/Photo034.jpg
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/Photo035.jpghttp://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/Photo036.jpg

Aiden

04-08-2006, 04:25 PM

Woah

VincenFilmerset

04-08-2006, 04:26 PM

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/Photo037.jpghttp://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/9a8b38b0.jpg

Aiden

04-08-2006, 04:27 PM

Is there anything interesting in that?

VincenFilmerset

04-08-2006, 04:28 PM

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/Photo039.jpghttp://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/Photo040.jpg

MoiBijou

04-08-2006, 04:30 PM

Halle Berry says Brett Ratner is like a five-years-old kid because he's got a lot of energy. :D

Aiden

04-08-2006, 04:31 PM

Yeah. He's energetic in the Red Dragon documentary on him

flavio_lebeau

04-08-2006, 04:38 PM

its the first time i see that full picture of Anna Paquin :eek: she looks great in the heels...actually evryone look great, Hugh and Halle in the inside are wonderful. does anyone know if the full pic Of Anna as Rogue (with the heels and arms showing) has beeen released? Or only that half pic everybody has seen and maniped?
So Rogue is Malicia in French...great name.

Electrix

04-08-2006, 04:55 PM

:eek: Cool!

Can anyone translate any interesting bits?

Maze

04-08-2006, 04:58 PM

I will as soon as possible. ;)

Electrix

04-08-2006, 04:58 PM

:D :up:

Aiden

04-08-2006, 04:59 PM

Thanks Maze

MoiBijou

04-08-2006, 04:59 PM

:eek: Cool!

Can anyone translate any interesting bits?

Jackman says that Logan needs two hairsprays bottles everyday and Foster says that he saw "Nomads of the Wind" again and again to train as Angel .D

taintedFB

04-08-2006, 05:02 PM

Ha! I bet Logan's hair feels extra crispy and sticky from all the hairspray. Not exactly something for the ladies to run their hands through.

And heck, if I were Ratner, directing an X-Men movie, I'd be jumping off the walls like a kid! How much fun would that be! Especially for a fan!

Maze

04-08-2006, 05:14 PM

Some bits from Jackman interview: (nothing really new)

Premiere :hugh you said that the road to do an Xmen is always chaotic ..has this time been harder ?

Hugh Jackman: that's the less one can say..Bryan Singer letf the adventure , and had been replaced by Mattew Vaughn (Layer Cake) who contributed enormously to the script but decided to abandon the movie three month before shooting..a movie from this size can't handle that kind of "surprise" (The litteral translation is bounce , but i suppose that unpredicatble event is more adequate..i don't have the exact word. )..we were lucky that Brett Ratner accept to take over so late ..One has to be very courageous ..or unconscious (laughs)more soon .

Maze

04-08-2006, 05:18 PM

Jackman say that his relashionship with storm is ...professionnal..and that he can't say than there is really something romantic between them ..but , if that were to happen , he could really understand it .

more soon.

LittleMissVixen

04-08-2006, 05:19 PM

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/Photo036.jpg

oh dammit....Hugh is one hot DILF :up:

xstormfan

04-08-2006, 05:33 PM

this will this be in the american Premiere too, i presume?

Jan Irisi

04-08-2006, 05:35 PM

:eek: That's a great pic of Wolverine!!!!!!! WOW!!!!

narrows101

04-08-2006, 05:41 PM

That's a GREAT shot! Can't wait until I start seeing some of this stuff in American magazines - so far it's only overseas ones!

Storm22

04-08-2006, 05:46 PM

Great shots!! Anyone here who can translate some of it, especially the Brett Ratner questions section?

MoiBijou

04-08-2006, 05:50 PM

Great shots!! Anyone here who can translate some of it, especially the Brett Ratner questions section?

Maze is doing that. :)

Specter313

04-08-2006, 05:52 PM

:eek: That's a great pic of Wolverine!!!!!!! WOW!!!!

And Jan goes to change her drawers.

:p :D

xwolverine2

04-08-2006, 05:53 PM

holy crap!!!!......THAT PIC IS PURE AWESOMENESS!

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 05:56 PM

man... I come back and the whole thread gets hotter

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/Photo036.jpg

I got Goosebumps. Thats an awsome badass Wolverine/hugh. :up: :up: He means business! LOVE the claws crossing. MAN! Totally badass.

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 05:56 PM

sorry ... It was taking forever for the thing to show up.

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 05:56 PM

sorry thought my explorer was having its problem

Aiden

04-08-2006, 05:58 PM

Triple??? lol :D

Jan Irisi

04-08-2006, 06:00 PM

And Jan goes to change her drawers.

:p :D

:mad: Hey!!! I'm a happily married woman!!!! :mad:

But I think I can still recognize "WHOA" when I see it. :D :p

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 06:03 PM

since we're on the subject. I was at work today and I saw Rebecca Romjin on the cover of Instyle magazine. The caption next to her said "Hot body tips from Rebecca Romijn" and when I glanced at her, I grinned. Heh... damn it. I got visions now of her giving hot body massages on Hugh. lol damn lucky guy.:up:

xwolverine2

04-08-2006, 06:06 PM

thats my number one fav pic of wolverine ever!

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 06:07 PM

same here man!!

PWN3R

04-08-2006, 06:09 PM

oh dammit....Hugh is one hot DILF :up:

Ha, dilf. :eek: :)

Maze

04-08-2006, 06:16 PM

Some quotes from Ratner ( i seem to have read this interview somewhere else :confused: )

Premiere:SInger gave you some advice?
he prevented me that people ( fan and critics) would give me a hard time ."the fans would shout that's sacrilege like they did when one hired me on the first Xmen "."concentrate yourself on the movie" he advised me .If one read what people are saying on the net, i am almost the antechrist.But i'm just one harmless guy living with his grand parents.

Premiere: sexuality?(in X3)
Ratner: absolutely.Jean Grey reborn and become Phoenix ..She is full of rage and devellopp extraordinary powers ..like all powerful people she exudes intense sexuality.

Premiere:
Ratner: Superman prepared me in a way for Xmen 3.i was ready to shoot the movie , the entire movie was ready conceptually , but a disagreement on the choice of the actor, with the production, forced me to leave the project.My budget was also a little high.

Premiere:how much?
Ratner: 280 millions dollars (laughs)the producers were ready to give me the money if hired a star for the tittle role..but i wanted an unknown .Superman is too inconic to be played by a known actor. i had assembled however a crazy cast : Anthony Hopkins, Cate Blanchet , Christopher Walken ...The best actors in the world!

Premiere:maybe you'll do the sequel?

Ratner: i would love it.Give me all the movies with a numero in the tittle!

Premiere: who would you be if you could be a superhero ?
Ratner: I would be magneto .that's allways more fun to be the bad guy.

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 06:16 PM

DILF?? whats that?:confused:

Jan Irisi

04-08-2006, 06:18 PM

DILF?? whats that?:confused:

The male version of MILF.

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 06:19 PM

Whats MILF? :confused:

Jan Irisi

04-08-2006, 06:20 PM

Whats MILF? :confused:

:eek:

You don't know????

Mother I'd like to *insert word that begins with "F" *

Aiden

04-08-2006, 06:20 PM

280 Million !!!!!!!!!

Specter313

04-08-2006, 06:21 PM

:eek:

You don't know????

Mother I'd like to *insert word that begins with "F" *

Heh. "Insert". Yeah, I'm 5.

Jan Irisi

04-08-2006, 06:22 PM

Heh. "Insert". Yeah, I'm 5.

You're gonna get slapped!!!! :mad: :rolleyes:

PWN3R

04-08-2006, 06:24 PM

Heh. "Insert". Yeah, I'm 5.

Was that really necessary? :(

And if he is 5, he is pretty smart for registering and logging on. Plus he made is own email. I wasn't that smart when I was 5...:(

Specter313

04-08-2006, 06:25 PM

Was that really necessary? :(

And if he is 5, he is pretty smart for registering and logging on. Plus he made is own email. I wasn't that smart when I was 5...:(

Oh please. Knowing you, you cackled over that for 5 minutes. :p

And yes, I am a genius. :p :D

aaron

04-08-2006, 06:26 PM

it is a very good logan pic

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 06:27 PM

Seriously... I don't know. Tell me. Lecture me :D :p

PWN3R

04-08-2006, 06:28 PM

And yes, I am a genius. :p :D

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: , you sure are. ;)

:p

_BB_

04-08-2006, 06:41 PM

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/Photo036.jpg

:eek: :eek:

oh dear god thankyou

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 06:41 PM

:eek:

You don't know????

Mother I'd like to *insert word that begins with "F" *

Seriously... I dunno. Tell me.

xwolverine2

04-08-2006, 06:43 PM

those claws are SWEET!....he must polish them every night!

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 06:44 PM

I take it ur a big wolverine fan? right?

Jan Irisi

04-08-2006, 06:45 PM

Seriously... I dunno. Tell me.

I just did.....

Mother I"d Like to F***.

Specter313

04-08-2006, 06:45 PM

Seriously... I dunno. Tell me.

She just did. :p

xwolverine2

04-08-2006, 06:46 PM

I take it ur a big wolverine fan? right?
no.......

aaron

04-08-2006, 06:46 PM

watch american pie, somethin said bout milfs is there

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 06:48 PM

no.......

Oh... :( :o I'm sorry I asked. :(

PWN3R

04-08-2006, 06:51 PM

Yeah he is a huge COLOSSAL Colossus fan right xw2??? ;)

xwolverine2

04-08-2006, 06:52 PM

Oh... :( :o I'm sorry I asked. :(
ARGH!

my butthole belongs to MAGNETO!!!!!!

xwolverine2

04-08-2006, 06:53 PM

Yeah he is a huge COLOSSAL Colossus fan right xw2??? ;)
among other things..yes

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 06:54 PM

-sniffles- :( My feelings got hurt. :(

Specter313

04-08-2006, 06:54 PM

ARGH!

my butthole belongs to MAGNETO!!!!!!

Oookkaaaaaaayyyyyy.

*quickly runs from thread*

PWN3R

04-08-2006, 06:55 PM

ARGH!

my butthole belongs to MAGNETO!!!!!!

Like literally Ian?? ;)

xwolverine2

04-08-2006, 06:55 PM

Oookkaaaaaaayyyyyy.

*quickly runs from thread*
:D :D :D :D :D :p :p

xwolverine2

04-08-2006, 06:56 PM

Like literally Ian?? ;)
:eek: ........

you went too far.

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 06:58 PM

ARGH!

my butthole belongs to MAGNETO!!!!!!

WTF!! Since when!?! LOL Ew .. are you gay? HEH. Now I can make fun of you :p

PWN3R

04-08-2006, 06:58 PM

:eek: ........

you went too far.

I wanna see the sentinel manip dang it!!!!! :mad: :mad:

:p

_BB_

04-08-2006, 07:00 PM

wow, so erm yeah....new images!

xwolverine2

04-08-2006, 07:05 PM

I wanna see the sentinel manip dang it!!!!! :mad: :mad:

:p
soon...i must perfect it..right now they look like a bunch of dominos falling:( :O lol!

batboy99

04-08-2006, 07:34 PM

no new pics of phoenix from premire??

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 07:37 PM

I wanna shoot someone if there's no new pics of Kitty, Iceman and Phoenix. GRRR :mad: :mad: :mad:

Slim_X

04-08-2006, 10:50 PM

I just saw that in the 2 main mexican movie magazines's websites they have polls asking which of this summer's movies you're looking forward the most. X3 is winning both of them :up: :up:

berzerko89

04-08-2006, 10:54 PM

oh no its that green thing again. lol.

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 10:55 PM

hey now... be nice. HI slim and Ben :)

Slim_X

04-08-2006, 10:56 PM

I think I'll get Ben outta my avvy. Every post I make leads to a 'Ben' conversation :(.

DarknessOfDeath

04-08-2006, 10:57 PM

but i like ben :)

berzerko89

04-08-2006, 11:00 PM

um... im starting to like him to... ~crosses finger~

Slim_X

04-08-2006, 11:02 PM

but i like ben :)
But Ben hates you! He hates all of you and he hates you even more every time you talk about him! Don't you see?! He's trying to take over the ****ing world! He's pointing a gun at my face right now...

berzerko89

04-08-2006, 11:04 PM

OMG! I knew i... behind that cute (ewww) creature likes a dark and hidden desire. I'll call 911 now.
..........
................
.....................
................
...........
Sorry, the policeman say he's busy watching animal porn.

Guess you have to save yourself from him. lol.

TNC9852002

04-08-2006, 11:46 PM

Sorry, the policeman say he's busy watching animal porn..
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6897/busting23oz7ng.gif

-TNC

N_z0

04-08-2006, 11:59 PM

Bad time to come back to SHH.

:(

Retroman

04-09-2006, 12:24 AM

Awesome stuff Vincent!!!!!!!:up:

Electrix

04-09-2006, 04:16 AM

l "X-Men: The Last Stand" (May 26) - Professor Xavier's squad vs. Magneto's army, with the future of the planet at stake. The battleground is the Golden Gate Bridge (ripped up effectively in special effects), and in the hearts and minds of our favorite mutants - namely Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), who finally turns on her dark side. It looks great, but how will it play with Brett Ratner ("Rush Hour") replacing Bryan Singer at the helm? Stay tuned. Anticipation factor: 8.

http://www.sltrib.com/movies/ci_3688647

Maze

04-09-2006, 05:52 AM

Awesome stuff Vincent!!!!!!!:up:
There was some great photos and article indeed :)

Like you would say, no problem Retro :) :up:

DarknessOfDeath

04-09-2006, 07:00 AM

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6897/busting23oz7ng.gif

-TNC

ew... thats sick man. :( :mad:

LEX

04-09-2006, 11:16 AM

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a118/Tayelore/Photo036.jpg

^Shiny claws. :up: Love them.

WorthyStevens

04-09-2006, 11:18 AM

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6897/busting23oz7ng.gif

-TNC

Hee. :D :p

_BB_

04-09-2006, 11:28 AM

^thats so wrong

MoiBijou

04-09-2006, 11:28 AM

But so funny. :D

WorthyStevens

04-09-2006, 11:31 AM

And oh so hilarious. :D

LEX

04-09-2006, 11:46 AM

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f351/fruityemen/youhavegonetoofar.jpg

_BB_

04-09-2006, 11:47 AM

:eek: poor kitty

MoiBijou

04-09-2006, 11:49 AM

There's lack of oxygen into that tupperware...

LEX

04-09-2006, 11:55 AM

Exactly.

N_z0

04-09-2006, 04:20 PM

There's lack of oxygen into that tupperware...

That's what they call them in Spain?

What do you guys call CD's then :p

muscaremy

04-10-2006, 03:01 AM

haha yea thats the top to a cd pack...... also they need to make plastic halloween versions of those claws....no cheap ass ones but ones that are held like he holds em

pyromaniac

04-10-2006, 07:44 AM

I just did.....

Mother I"d Like to F***.

:eek:

I didn't know that either, like Darkness of Death... :o

I figured it was a cutesy-sounding name or something like that.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out what 'D' stands for. :p

:O

Whoo.

DarknessOfDeath

04-10-2006, 08:20 AM

dude..whats with your sig?:eek:

Retroman

04-10-2006, 10:59 AM

Article from Domincian press talking about Omayhra Mota and Dania Ramirez (both born in the Dominican Republic)....

Omahyra Mota
Una chica dominicana de peculiar belleza
y talento 1:30 AM

Omahyra es considerada por la crítica internacional como una modelo de imagen singular, que ha sabido aprovecharse de su peculiar aspecto para triunfar en las pasarelas y en las tablas

Por ROSARIO TIFÁ
La súper modelo dominicana Omahyra Mota, conocida en las pasarelas europeas y de Estados Unidos por exhibir un extraordinario talento y una imagen andrógina, continúa su carrera de éxitos en su condición de modelo y actriz en la película X-men 3.

Omahyra, nacida en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, interpreta el papel de Archght (Júbilo) en la película de ciencia ficción que se filma en Estados Unidos, en la que también participa su compatriota, la actriz Dania Ramírez en el papel de Callisto. El filme comenzó a mediados del pasado año.

Omahyra es considerada por la crítica como una modelo de imagen singular, que ha sabido aprovecharse de su peculiar aspecto para triunfar en las pasarelas y en las tablas.

Con rostro de rasgos marcados y un cuerpo delgado con pocas curvas, es una modelo que ha logrado irse cotizando más en el mundo de la moda. Esta figura que la convierte en una modelo no tradicional, le ha proporcionado importantes contratos y según vaticinios, podría convertirse en una de las top models más cotizadas del mundo.

Omahyra Mota, de piel tostada, ha sido la imagen de las firmas Charles David y Dakota. Ha modelado para las firmas Victoria´s Secret, Jean Paul Gautier, Yves Saint Laurent y Ungaro, entre otros cotizadas firmas.

La fama no ha afectado la personalidad de la dominicana, quien continúa manteniendo el temperamento franco y cordial, orgullo de sus compatriotas y las costumbres culinarias de su país.

En reciente conversación con esta comunicadora, Franc José Benedicto, otro dominicano exitoso en Barcelona, España, asegura que la diva, de quien es un gran amigo, mantiene su preferencia por el mangú, el arroz, las carnes y las habichuelas (bandera dominicana) y, por supuesto, el merengue.

Su trabajo profesional la mantiene continuamente viajando y actualmente se encuentra en Nueva York, aseguró Benedicto, quien regresó la semana pasada a España luego de una estada de 15 días en el país.
Source: http://www.hoy.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=69404

Retroman

04-10-2006, 10:59 AM

Pack in your friedns, park it at the drive-in
Students get the chance for nostalgia with flicks at the Belmont Drive-In

by Sunny Hutchinson
March 29, 2006

Tune your radio stations to 90.3 and rekindle your love for oldies rock n roll. Push back your car seat to a relaxing position and look out your cars front windshield. The stars are twinkling in the spring sky as the drive-in movie theater’s double feature begins to play on the projection screen.

Belmont, N.C. is home to a unique movie theater experience that movie lovers of all ages will enjoy.

For over fifty years, the Belmont Drive-In Theater has shown movies on its outdoor cinema screen to an audience complete with toddlers to senior adults. Located off of McAdenville Road in Belmont, N.C., the drive-in theater offers two cinematic adventures for one low cost.

For only $8, a carload of you and your friends can spend a weekend evening experiencing a unique cinematic adventure that has become a rare luxury.

The first patent for the drive-in theater was issued in 1933 for a theater located in New Jersey that would open in 1938. At it’s opening, the original drive-in theater charged an admission price of .25 cents per car and another .25 cents per person.

Since their first appearance in 1933, drive-in movie theaters have become a unique movie experience that many cinema lovers of all ages enjoy to attend. The popularity of the drive-in theater experience soared in the 1950’s. By 1958 there were more than 5,000 drive-in theaters in the United States alone.

Over the past 20 years, drive-in movie theaters popularity has decreased. With the openings of newer movie theaters occurring every day around the country, the drive-in theaters have slowly become outnumbered.

The unique experience that drive-in theaters offer can be appreciated by everyone. With the comfort of relaxing in your own car, movie patrons are able to converse as loudly as they please while not disturbing other patrons watching the same feature.

Whether or not you have attended a drive-in theater before or if you are a dedicated patron to this unique adventure, the Belmont drive-in theater offers a great weekend adventure for people of all ages.

“I have never been to a drive-in theater before but the atmosphere of it sounds like a neat thing to experience,” Nicole Jimenez, a sophomore English major said. Although Myrtle Beach, S.C. is home to Nicole and a popular vacation home for many others, it does not offer a drive-in theater.

“Knowing that there is a drive-in theater in North Carolina is refreshing,” Jimenez said. “It’s nice to know our area still has a old-fashioned theater to bring back the simplicity of enjoying a movie.”

The Belmont Drive-In Theater is only a 40-minute drive from the Winthrop campus and can easily be accessed from I-85 S. The box office opens at 7:00 p.m. with the double feature beginning at 7:30 p.m. and lasting until around 11:00 p.m. A snack bar is open during both features complete with hamburgers, nachos, cheese fries, assorted candy and more. Coming attractions for the theater include X-Men 3, V for Vendetta, Ice Age: The Meltdown and The Benchwarmers.
Source: http://www.thejohnsonian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/29/442c531abdc6d

narrows101

04-10-2006, 11:41 AM

http://www.totalfilm.com/movie_news/cannes_06_line-up_revealed

59th French-based film fest featuring X3 and The Fountain!

There are those who think that the Cannes Film Festival is one big journo/starlet love-in; where the occasional, slightly dangerous low-budget flick manages to achieve mainstream crossover, amid the beach parties and champagne breakfasts. It’s true.

But this year, they’re shifting the goalposts on us. As well as the previously announced opening screening of Ron Howard’s Da Vinci Code, those clever people at Cannes have added X-Men: The Last Stand, The Fountain, Over The Hedge, Babel and Pan’s Labyrinth to their roster.

X-Men 3 won’t be shown in competition, unlike Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain which will feature in the official selection.

It was felt that this year's festival was shifting to a more mainstream vibe after the announcement that 2046 helmer Wong Kar Wai had been installed as jury president.

Also confirmed for screening is 20 minutes of footage from Oliver Stone’s controversial 9/11 flick World Trade Center. Other movies vying to make the line-up are Steve Soderbergh’s The Good German and a possible slot for Kevin Smith’s Clerks 2.

Keep scanning totalfilm.com and Total Film magazine for news and reviews on the 59th Cannes Film Festival which kicks off on 17th May.

berzerko89

04-10-2006, 11:49 AM

somebody needs to translate that article w/ omahyra... sighs!

Retroman

04-10-2006, 03:08 PM

From For Him Magazine:
http://img326.imageshack.us/img326/9926/206ek.gif

Ever wondered what you’d look like getting cold-cocked by a super hero? Former New Mutants penciler Carlo Barberi can show you! One FHM reader will win a customized one-page comic in which he’ll be shown getting manhandled by Wolverine. To enter, take a picture of yourself dressed up as a supervillain – either one that already exists or, even better, one you’ve created. Then submit your digital picture here or send it, along with your name, address and phone number, to: Wolverine Punched Me!, FHM, 110 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10011.

The winner will be inserted – face, costume, and all—into a comic that looks pretty similar to the beating you see to the right. The comic will be printed in FHM, and the winner will receive the original artwork. And don’t forget to check out the newest X-Men: The Last Stand, which this theaters may 26!
Source:http://www.fhmus.com/hookup_win_free_stuff.asp?cnl_id=7&stn_id=32#

_BB_

04-10-2006, 03:10 PM

^ :eek: I wanna get beat up by wolverine

never thought id ever say that....

Avalanche

04-10-2006, 03:12 PM

Ever wondered what you’d look like getting cold-cocked by a super hero?

*ahem*

Stay out of my mind!

Retroman

04-10-2006, 03:12 PM

http://img318.imageshack.us/img318/957/higginspage5fk.jpg
"Hard Candy" Star Ellen Page and Producer Brian Higgins

“Ellen, you’re up next in X-Men: The Last Stand as Kitty Pride,” how much do we see of you in this and what can we expect? We saw very little of her previously.”

“Yeah only the fans would know. A lot more…she’s a member of the team and gets a suit. Yeah, there’ll be a lot more Kitty Pride.”

“Anything past X-Men?”

“Yeah, I jut shot a film in Toronto called “The Tracey Fragments” with a fantastic Canadian director named Bruce McDonald, based on a book. I’m excited about that. I;m shooting a film later this summer in New York called “Jack and Diane” directed by Bradley Rust Gray. They’re both small, really great projects.”
Source: http://www.moviejungle.com/interviews/

Retroman

04-10-2006, 03:16 PM

Someone bumped into Omahyra during the recent reshoots in Vancouver.

Arclight on a bus

Wednesday, March 01, 2006 / 11:30PM

I am still quite sick with this flu-ish type thing. It's been 8 days now with little relief. It's really getting old. Despite my illness, today I had some errands to run. I had to go meet someone at Vancouver Community College to pick up a check. I had to take the bus because Youl takes the car to go to work in the morning.

Just as I was getting off the bus at Pender & Cambie, we passed by a large movie crew. There was a crowd of extras behind a barricade holding signs that said "Don't Support The Cure". I wasn't sure what movie it was for, but it looked big. I didn't pay it much mind, and just went about my business.

After VCC I had to head to the bank. On my way back from the bank, I was sitting chatting with the bus driver. As we came up Hastings St. he noticed the movie crew I had passed by earlier and pondered out loud on what they could be filming. I told him about the crowd of extras and the signs, and he suggested that it could've been X-Men 3.

Just then, a girl a few seats away from me piped up saying, "That can't be X-Men, they don't start shooting until tomorrow. I know because I'm in it." The bus driver and I said, "Oh, cool." She came over and sat across from me and started explaining to us that she would be playing Arclight in the third installment, and that she had just gotten her hair cut the previous day for the role. She whipped her hat off and showed us; it was complete with lightening bolts shaved into the sides of her head. I was instantly reminded of my Vanilla Ice days when I had my hair cut in a very similar fashion -- but we won't go there.

We chatted briefly, I asked if she had been in any of the other X-Men movies, she said no, this was her first one, but she was going to be in Wolverine and X-Men 4 as well.

There were two things that really struck me about her. First of all, her appearance. She was so natural looking, yet very striking and unique. She was beautiful in a very raw, unconventional way that really left an impression on me. Whoever casted her for X-Men was really on the ball.

But what struck me the most was her response to a comment I made when she said she starts shooting tomorrow; I said, "wow, that must be exciting!" She just shrugged her shoulders and said, "Yeah, well..."

We got off at the same stop, she went one way, I went the other. When I got home after my doctor's appointment, I felt compelled to find out who she was. It wasn't hard to find out online that her name is Omahyra Mota. She is a fairly successful high fashion model from the Dominican Republic, she's been in a couple movies and has appeared in a Jay-Z video, Change Clothes. You can read a great interview with her here. In the interview she expresses that same sort of equivocal nature that I felt from her in regards to the successes she has had in her career. Of course I don't know her so I can't say what that is all about, but from what I saw today when I briefly met her, and from what I've quickly read about her, she is deserving of the success she has had and that which is to come.

She left an impression on me even in our short exchange. I'll be watching for her in X-Men 3, I'm sure she'll be a hit.
Source: http://www.dizzyisland.com/archives/2006/03/arclight_on_a_b.html