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• New Star Trek and Cloverfield 1-18-08 Movie Posters

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:54 pm

  Tags: Movie Marketing, Paramount Pictures, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Sequels And Remakes, Poster, Cloverfield, Jj Abrams, Star Trek

  I’m sitting in Hall H for the Paramount panel, so this is a quick update. Paramount has given us the new posters for the JJ Abrams produced monster flick code-named Cloverfield and his upcoming Star Trek prequel. It looks liked “Monsterous” has been removed from the poster. I wonder if Paramount had secound thoughts about the

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• Comic-Con Preview: 20 Minutes of Beowulf 3D

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:35 pm

  Tags: Adaptation, Paramount Pictures, Movie Marketing, Animation, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Beowulf, Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary

  very talky and lacked much action because they wrote it with a small budget in mind. Zemeckis hired them to rewrite the film and encouraged them to “go wild”. Gaiman also confirmed that they are aiming for a PG-13 rating despite the violence, blood and previously discussed nudity of Angelina Jolie. I’m wondering if they can

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• Bus Photos: Spaceballs Animated Series and WarGames: The Dead Code

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:27 am

  Tags: Direct To Dvd, Comic Conventions, Comic Con, Television, Images, Movie Marketing, Action Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Sci Fi Fantasy, Sequels And Remakes, Spaceballs, Wargames The Dead Code

  While waiting outside of Comic Con , we ran into two busses decked out in full promotion for the upcoming Spaceballs animated series and the WarGames direct to DVD sequel. We were able to snap off a couple photos before they drove away. We’ve written at lengths about our disgust for movie studios raping some of our favorite films for a few

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• Beowulf Movie Trailer

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:18 am

  Tags: Paramount Pictures, Adaptation, Movie Marketing, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Horror, Movie Trailers, Beowulf

  I just got back to our hotel from the big Beowulf footage premiere and party at Comic-Con 2007. One of the many things they showed us was this movie trailer, but in digital 3D. I’m interested in hearing what you guys think of this one because on the computer screen it looks a little flat to me. The trailer is definitely a lot cooler when it

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• Indiana Jones 4 Poster Revealed at Comic-Con

  Published: July 26, 2007, 4:28 am

  Tags: Comic Conventions, Comic Con, Paramount Pictures, Movie Marketing, Sequels And Remakes, Action Adventure, Poster, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones 4

  I was surprised to find that Paramount are handing out Indiana Jones 4 teaser posters on the show floor of Comic-Con 2007. I grabbed one on my journey through the massively crowded and exhausting preview night. The new poster is a collage of past character paintings of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. The bottom reads Memorial Day 2008 in the

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• Watchmen Cast List Confirmed/Announced

  Published: July 25, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Warner Brothers, Action Adventure, Comic Book Superhero, Casting, Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Mathew Goode, Patrick Wilson, Watchmen

  The casting for Zack Snyder’s big screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel Watchmen has been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. But honestly most of the names on the list have been rumored to be attached to the project for months. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is the only name not in our report from last week. Morgan will play

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• Greg Grunberg Cast in Cloverfield/1-18-08

  Published: July 25, 2007, 2:39 pm

  Tags: Paramount Pictures, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Casting, Cloverfield, Greg Grunberg, Jj Abrams

  Heroes star Greg Grunberg revealed to TV Guide that he has been cast in JJ Abrams’ top secret monster movie project code-named Cloverfield. “It’ll probably be something where no one will be able to tell it’s me,” he said. “As you know, J.J. calls me his good-luck charm, so he’s got to put me in there

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• First Look: Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf

  Published: July 25, 2007, 3:52 am

  Tags: Adaptation, Paramount Pictures, Images, Sci Fi Fantasy, Movie Marketing, Action Adventure, Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis

  The Los Angeles Times has a first look at Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf. The article includes two brand spanking new images (seen above and to the right). Here is an interesting clipping from the newspaper’s feature: His knack for a good scrap is on show in one of the film’s pivotal fight scenes when Beowulf battles Grendel in the

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• Indiana Jones 4 Comic-Con Spy Photo

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:57 am

  Tags: Paramount Pictures, Images, Movie Marketing, Action Adventure, Sequels And Remakes, Indiana Jones 4

  Someone just e-mailed us this photo. Apparently a spy snuck onto the show floor of Comic Con and captured this photo from (presumably) the Hasbro booth. It appears to be a miniature from this new film that is currently in production - Indiana Jones 4. Ever hear of it? The working title of the film is Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods. Could

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• Alex Proyas to Direct Silver Surfer Movie?

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:23 am

  Tags: 20th Century Fox, Action Adventure, Comic Book Superhero, Sequels And Remakes, Rumors, Alex Proyas, The Silver Surfer

  Marvel producer Avi Arad revealed the following tidbit in article about super hero filmmaking in Australia: Arad would not name the films he planned to shoot in Australia, but he did reveal he was attempting to hire an Australian director for one of the movies. He declined to say the director’s name, but there has been speculation Australian

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• Southland Tales Release Date Announced, Movie Trailer in Mid-August

  Published: July 24, 2007, 7:14 pm

  Tags: Sci Fi Fantasy, Movie Marketing, Sony, Drama, Comedy, Movie Trailers, Release Dates, Action Adventure, Poster, Richard Kelly, Southland Tales

  Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly will be at Comic Con on Friday. Today the official release date for Southland Tales was announced. The film will hit theaters on November 9th 2007. “I will be down at Comic-Con to sign copies of the new Southland Tales teaser poster,” Kelly wrote on his MySpace Blog. Kelly also reveals that the

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• 3:10 to Yuma Movie Poster

  Published: July 24, 2007, 2:01 pm

  Tags: Lionsgate Films, Western, Movie Marketing, Action Adventure, Sequels And Remakes, Poster, 3 10 To Yuma, Ben Foster, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Russell Crowe, Stuart Beattie, Vinessa Shaw

  We haven’t had much (if any) coverage of James Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma remake on /Film based purely on my dislike of movie westerns. But it seems like everywhere I look there is something else about this new flick. Today it’s the movie poster [via our friends at FirstShowing ComingSoon], which even I must admit, looks very cool.

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• Cloverfield is Colossus?

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Paramount Pictures, Comic Conventions, Comic Con, Movie Marketing, Sci Fi Fantasy, Rumors, Action Adventure, Poster, Cloverfield, Jj Abrams

  AICN is reporting that the title for JJ Abrams upcoming top secret monster flick (currently code-named Cloverfield or 1-18-08) might be Colossus. No official confirmation. Paramount released a limited edition set of four teaser posters at comic-con. Each poster shows the same headless statue of liberty picture. What’s different is the

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• Watchmen Release Date and Movie Poster Revealed

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:02 pm

  Tags: Comic Conventions, Comic Con, Warner Brothers, Movie Marketing, Comic Book Superhero, Action Adventure, Poster, Watchmen, Zack Snyder

  Zack Snyder made an appearance at Comic Con to promote his upcoming big screen adaptation of Watchmen. Snyder is one of those guys who talks in sound-bytes. Everything he says is interesting of relevant and he spits out the information in a rapid fire pace, at times almost like a Machine gun. I really tried to capture what Snyder was saying in an

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• The Dark Knight Teaser Trailer and New Joker Photo

  Published: July 28, 2007, 5:51 am

  Tags: Images, Warner Brothers, Movie Marketing, Action Adventure, Sequels And Remakes, Comic Book Superhero, Movie Trailers, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Dark Knight

  Warner Bros has released a new photo and teaser trailer for the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. The new photo shows The Joker (Heath Ledger) holding a knife up to Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal). The teaser trailer would have been great if it had been released a few months ago, but now that we’ve seen a bunch of official photos from

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