Movie news

Here are some of the movie news that I found. Many interesting info!

1) Jurassic Park 4

Looks like they will make a fourth movie from the franchise after all. But nothing is certain, as usual. Steven Spielberg is cooking up some ideas for the movie with writer, Mark Protosevich who were a screenwriter for I Am Legend and Thor. This movie could be a continuation from the past movies or it could turn out to be a total reboot. We will have to wait and see.



2) Final Destination 5

Okay, so everyone who is a fan of the franchise (or maybe not) should probably already know that a fifth movie is coming out sometime in August 2011. You can watch the trailer by now, just head to YouTube and type Final Destination official trailer. Speaking of the trailer, the film seems to take a different tone than the previous movie, which to me is a good choice considering the fourth movie is the 'weakest' in the franchise. It was said that if this fifth movie is a success, a sixth and seventh movie would be filmed back to back. Cool!

The film starred Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell and Miles Fisher. The main 'death' event that will be the trigger point is the collapsing of a bridge. There are also 'accidents' involving laser eye surgery and acupuncture. Scary....

3) Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

That would be the title of the new Silent Hill movie. I posted about this before, so now for some updates. The movie already wrapped filming in May 2011. Some of the actors from the 1st movie will also appear in this movie like Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell and Deborah Kara Unger. It follows plot from the video game Silent Hill 3 and will feature characters from the video game like Heather Mason and Claudia Wolf.

I played Silent Hill 3, it was a scary and dark video game, hopefully the film will also follow the same tone. But I would prefer if the don't follow 100% the story from the game because it was very good that I doubt they could successfully adapted it on the silver screen. It would be better to stray a bit from it. ;-)

4) X-men movie series

X-Men: First Class are still playing in theaters and they already talking about a trilogy. Yup, X-Men: First Class will have another 2 movies if the first movie did well. The studio that developed the movie always envisions the movie as a part of a trilogy, so we just have to wait how this all will turn out.

There are also plans to do X-Men 4, a continuation from X-Men: The Last Stand (or X-Men 3, which way you want to say it). Although it would be hard to get the actors from the past movies back, but I think if they plan it right, this could work out! They are also trying to get Bryan Singer, the director of the 1st and 2nd X-Men movies, to get on board for this movie. Hopefully this could become a reality.



5) Septimus Heap: Magyk

This movie will be the film adaptation of the children novel by Angie Sage, Magyk. I love Magyk very much and so I hope they would make a good movie out of it. Reportedly it will be a live-action movie and not animated. Mmm...are trying to find a new wizard for the big screen now that the Hary Potter movie series coming to an end? Whatever they do, they better not screw this up because Magyk the novel was superb.

6) Pacific Rim

Many would never heard about this movie project by Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy). It's an upcoming science fiction giant monster film set to be released in July 2013.

What's interesting about this project is that it is inspired by mecha anime, piloted robots used in battles that heavily found in anime; and kaiju, meaning strange beast in Japanese which used to describe a type of monster movies in Japan. I love anime, and I used to watch these kaiju in TV series like Ultraman. So this project sounds very interesting to me. 2013 is still so very far away but hopefully they manage to make this movie into a hit.


Okay, that's all for now. Hopefully I gave you some valuable info that you do not know.

Good news from the Silent Hill franchise

I LOVE Silent Hill video games. And I love the movie too. So here the good news. A new game called Silent Hill: Downpour (finally we got a title for this game) is coming this year while a sequel to the first movie called Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is finally in the making. Yeay! Double dose of good news.

I posted about Silent Hill: Downpour before so I think I will just write something about Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. It will follow the story from the 3rd game in the series. For those who don't know, the game is about Heather Mason who was drawn to Silent Hill and its sordid past. I played the game and it was one of the best. It was creepy and the story is good. Hopefully the movie could live up to the awesome game, or at least reach the same level of the first movie.

The movie will be directed by Michael J. Bassett who had directed Deathwatch and Solomon Kane before. The film is currently in pre-production and there is no release date yet.

I'm hoping Silent Hill: Revelation 3D will be a great movie. Fingers cross!

Japanese Film Festival in Gurney Plaza, Penang

Just what I stated on the title, the Japanese Film Festival will be held in Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) in Gurney Plaza, Penang, Malaysia starting today, 25 June 2010 until Sunday, 27 June 2010. You can check out the list of films and the time of screening by clicking here. It had already being held in GSC Mid Valley and GSC 1 Utama (in Klang Valley, Malaysia) from 17-21 June 2010.

Another Silent Hill video game!!!

Wow, I'm loving this. They just keeps coming and coming.

A new trailer from a new Silent Hill video game had just premiered at the E3 2010 Press Conference for Konami. By the look of it, it looks pretty good. The new protagonist is a prisoner and it seems that he come across Silent Hill while escaping from his prison truck. Or maybe he was caught after he visits Silent Hill? Anyway, the visuals looks pretty cool. The new design for Silent Hill town looks kind of different though than previous games. It kind of reminded me of Alan Wake. Nevertheless, the visuals look good. And do I need to even mention the soundtrack? As usual, it was marvelous!

I'm looking forward to this game. Hopefully it will be as scary and twisted as the previous installments.

You can check out the trailer by clicking here. Hope you guys like it because I certainly do.

All about movies! Resident Evil: 4, Silent Hill 2 & more

I love digging news and rumors about new movies, especially regarding sequels of my favourite movie franchises. Here's what I've dug so far...

• Resident Evil: Afterlife, the 4th installment of the Resident Evil movie franchise, had been pushed back and scheduled to be release in January 2011. The original release date for the movie before the delay was August 2010.

This is not surprising to me, although it is quite disappointing. Apparently, they afraid that they will not finish the movie in time for the summer 2010 release and hence, the delay. And because this movie will be released in 3D, so they will definitely need more time to complete it.

• Silent Hill 2 will start filming after Resident Evil: Afterlife wrap production.

This is good news for me! I've been craving for a sequel for a long time. Hopefully it will be visually stunning just like the 1st film but less confusing plot-wise.

• Vulture and Vulturess (a new character) will be the new villains in Spider-Man 4.

Although it sound stupid, but this is the newest rumor circulating the new installment in the Spider-Man movie franchise. According to the rumor, Vulture will be played by John Malkovich while Anne Hathaway will play Vulturess. Mmm...I'm a bit worried if this rumor turns out to be true. I mean, having a 'bird' as a villain is bad enough and now they want to add another one. But wait, Nite Owl from Watchmen looks cool, so perhaps it wasn't a bad idea afterall.

• Magyk, a children's novel by Angie Sage and the 1st book in the Septimus Heap series, will be turned into an animation movie.

This is another good news for me. I love Magyk! Although I was expecting it to be filmed as a live-action movie but I think animation would be great too.

• Jurassic Park 4 on the way?

A lot of fans want this but it is still not confirmed whether the studio will go forward with it or not. Joe Johnston, the director of Jurassic Park III, however did mentioned in November 2009 that a script has already been done and the story will take the franchise to a whole different direction.

• Dawn Trader set to sail in December 2010

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Trader has already started filming back in July 2009 and scheduled to be released in December 2010. Everything seems fine with no more drama about budget conflict or creative differences, hopefully the 3rd film will be as successful as the 1st film.



Hopefully all the movies that I had mentioned will have smooth production process and become successful in the box-office. That is, of course, if the studio decided to make them (yes, I'm talking about Silent Hill 2 and Jurassic Park 4, I'm tired of waiting).

Sources:
ComingSoon
Wikipedia

Sick joke!

What is this?!?! A sick joke?!?!

I stumbled upon this when I was reading Utada Hikaru Wiki page. Read the last sentence before the Personal Life section. Sorry if the image is not so clear.

Anyway, I was stunned. :-(

Final goodbye...Yoshito Usui (1958-2009)

Sad, sad news. Yoshito Usui, the creator of the popular manga Crayon Shin-chan, had died. On September 12, 2009, his family filed a missing person report after he did not return from hiking in nearby Gunma Perfecture. On September 19, 2009, a body had been found at a bottom of a cliff wearing clothes matches to his. Dental records and family members had indentified the body to be Yoshito Usui.

Source: Wikipedia

I have been a great fan of Crayon Shin-chan and the passing of Yoshito Usui had certainly left a sad feeling in me. I did not even heard the news of his missing until I stumbled onto the subject on the Animax website today. I was shocked!

R.I.P.

This Is The One that I'm waiting for!!!

Utada Hikaru's 3rd English studio album, This Is The One had been released! Oh my god, how did I miss this? I remember checking the music store last week and I saw no new album from Utada. Weird. Well, according to Wikipedia, the album has been released in Japan on 14 March 2009 and in the US digitally on 24 March 2009. The physical CD would only come out in the US on 12 May 2009. It also stated the release dates for several other Asian countries like Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand though I'm not sure whether it was for digital release of physical CD release.

I'm happy that this album had somewhat some promotions in my country; the music video for the lead single, Come Back to Me, had been screened on TV. The song had also been played on local radio station (although I only heard it from 1 radio station). I wish there would be more promotion so that people will become aware of this new album. Utada Hikaru had been huge before in Malaysia when her 1st Japanese album hit stores, so I hope history will repeat itself.

Ganbatte Utada!

Narnia needs a new dad

I read an article in IGN the other day about the Narnia movie franchise. Apparently, Disney had pulled out as the series distributor. Why? Part of the reason is because of the fewer box-office returns of the 2nd movie, Prince Caspian, compared to its predecessor, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In other words, Walden Media, the production company, needs to find a new distributor for the next movie in the franchise.

As a result, fans will have to wait a little bit longer to watch the 3rd movie in the series, The Voyage of the Dawn Trader, on the silver screen. Worst case, the movie will not be made at all (gasp!). But hopefully that will not be true because to be honest, I believe Narnia franchise has a lot of potential. So fingers crossed! Click here to read more from the article.

By the way, thanx to this site for the Narnia logo. I'm not sure whether its legal or not to post it here because of copyright issue but if anybody knows that its not, please inform me and I will take it off immediately. Thank you.