This Story Will Make You Think A Bit. Are You ready?
So far this year we have been enjoying films that aren’t grounded in reality. Call it a “comic book Summer,” if you will.
But all that will change in a few weeks when “The Sum Of All Fears” hits theatres.
With new warnings rekindling public jitters, moviegoers may not be up to watching a disturbingly realistic portrayal of a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Is it too soon?
Harry Potter Becomes Fastest Selling British Video
Boy wizard Harry Potter may have weaved a little magic over the weekend to ensure the video and DVD release of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” broke British industry sales records.
Warner Home Video said on Sunday over 1.25 million copies of the big screen hit, known as “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in the United States, sold on Friday, May 10th, 2002, its first day of release, breaking the previous record set by “Titanic” of 1.1 million copies.
The British record is for the number of units sold in a 24-hour period.
The E.R. Has One Less Doctor
After eight seasons on “ER,” Anthony Edwards checks out.
Rush’s New CD Hits Stores on Tuesday
The new tour by Rush will be “…very, very visual.”
They Could Go….All…The…Way!
Sega is building ESPN features directly into it’s sports games from now on.
No word on Sonic’s feelings.
Hey, Remember The 80’s?
There is a “Miami Vice” movie in the works!
I knew if I kept all of those clothes and shoes they would come back in style!
Good Luck To “Undeclared”
With only 2 weeks left in this television season, the fate of many of our favourite TV shows coming back next year is still up in the air!
A Gay Anakin?
Star Wars actor Hayden Christensen has lost himself a potentially devoted fanbase by laughing off suggestions that he’s gay.
A leading American gay magazine declared Christensen to be “definitely gay”, and Hayden’s more amused than annoyed at the speculation.
He says, “It’s hilarious. I’m not gay. It’s amazing how much people will speculate if they haven’t actual information to draw from, they just make up whatever they feel is appropriate. “That’s cool. As long as the people I know and care about know the truth then everyone else’s opinion doesn’t really matter.”
Cast and crew on the set of the upcoming Attack Of The Clones film know where the 20-year-old’s tastes lie – he often forced extra takes of his kissing scenes with stunning co-star Natalie Portman by turning to the camera grinning and flashing a thumbs-up. He laughs, “They would be like, ‘You have to stop doing that Hayden! Now we have to do the whole scene again.’ I’d be like, ‘Fine’.”
COOL!
Producer Dean Devlin told SCI FI Wire that he and partner Roland Emmerich are gearing up to make a sequel to their blockbuster 1996 hit film Independence Day. “Roland and I, we’re back to work on doing a sequel to Independence Day,” Devlin said in an interview. “I think we finally found a story that we wanted to tell.” Devlin and Emmerich wrote and produced the original film, which Emmerich directed. ID4 is the 11th highest-grossing domestic release of all time, with more than $300 million at the North American box office.
Devlin added that he hopes to assemble as many of the original cast members as possible. “I like to think that hit movies are like a cocktail, you know?” he said. “You want to try to get all the ingredients back together again and try to get the same mix. But we’ll see. We’ll see what we can get back. We’ll try to get everyone. We’ll just have to see how it plays out.” The original film’s cast included Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch and Margaret Colin. As for the sequel’s story? “I can’t tell you that,” Devlin said with a laugh.
“Then there’s another science fiction film that Roland and I are working on, called The Hunt,” Devlin added. “So hopefully both of those will get started within the next year.”
Dreamworks Has Aquireed SPACE MONKEY
Dreamworks has picked up SPACE MONKEY from Ash Brannon (TOY STORY 2). MONKEY will be a fully CG picture about test monkeys involved in the NASA space program in the 1950s.