Writer Seth Grahame - Smith explain why Tim Burton ’s Dark Shadows is n’t your ordinary summer picture show . Not one but two Beauty and the Beast flick are headed our way . Plus a Game of Thrones actor joins Tom Cruise in Oblivion !
Spoilers from here on out !
Top persona from Doctor Who .
Here ’s a behind - the - scenes featurette focalise on Nicolas Cage ’s functioning as both Ghost Rider and Johnny Blaze .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KpUqv0G3WQ
Here ’s an overview of the movie , including some fresh footage .
Game of Thrones role player Nikolaj Coster - Waldau has reportedly been cast in Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski ’s post - apocalyptical sci - fi movie , in which Tom Cruise diddle the last human living on the Earth ’s surface . Coster - Waldau ’s character is reportedly Sykes , “ a battle - hardened , physically impose , intelligent and extremely acrobatic military engineering and weapons expert . ” He joins a casting also includes Olga Kurylenko , Andrea Riseborough , and Morgan Freeman . [ Deadline ]
Here are some more promo photos . [ Fangoria ]
A viral website has establish for this low budget moving-picture show starring District 9 ’s Sharlto Copley . Here ’s a key excerpt from the site that hints at the film ’s plot :
“ For decades , scientist have theorized the creation of liquid water sea on Jupiter ’s Sun Myung Moon , Europa . We ’ve recently discovered Modern , bewitch grounds that these sub - surface oceans do be and could digest life . We ’ve get off six astronauts from outer space programs throughout the mankind on a three year journey to Europa to explore its oceans and confirm these findings . We ’re proud to be at the forefront of the elbow grease to prove the existence of extra - sublunary life within our solar system , within our lifetime . ”
[ Europa Ventures LLCviaFirst display ]
Here ’s a promo photograph featuring Johnny Depp as the vampire Barnabas Collins and Eva Green as his jilted lover , the witch Angelique Bouchard . [ come Soon ]
Writer Seth Grahame - Smith explains the moving picture ’s strange approach :
“ The timber of the flick is grievous bodily harm operatic . It ’s rise . Everything is heightened and grand . Johnny is just dug in and big . [ Starts hamming it up ] ‘ Did n’t you see ? How … could you ? My god , woman ! ’ There ’s an absurdist element to it . It ’s very funny . I do n’t think mass are expecting it to be as mirthful as it is . It ’s PG-13 , so there ’s not gore , there are no hardcore scare , but there ’s some gaga Barnabas vampire shit in this movie that will surprise people in footing of its vehemence . ”
[ Badass Digest ]
We ’ve known that Guillermo del Toro has been developing a Beauty and the Beast adaption with Harry Potter star Emma Watson for awhile , and del Toro has now reportedly decided to mastermind the movie alternatively of just produce . It will be his next pic after Pacific Rim , and he will be working from a script by Bridget Jones ’s Diary writer Andrew Davies . [ Variety ]
You might retrieve that last detail would be the end of the Beauty and the Beast news , but then you ’d be cut the recent cinematic movement that demand every vaguely recognizable fairy story have multiple , dueling adaptations , each of various shadowiness of grittiness . This one is being head up up by Silent Hill music director Christophe Gans , and will star Vincent Cassel and Lea Seydoux . Here ’s how Gans described his project :
“ Although I will keep to a form of storytelling of this timeless poof narration that is in keeping with the same tempo and case as the original , I will surprise the audience by create a whole new optical universe never experienced before and make images of an alone quality . Every single one of my movie has show me with a challenge , but this one is , by far , the most exciting and rewarding . ”
[ The Hollywood Reporter ]
Director Joseph Chu confirms the Cobra Commander that seem in his motion picture is n’t the same type as the one portrayed by Joseph Gordon - Levitt in the first movie :
No . [ Smiling ] But we figure out a way that ’s moderately nice . And you get the Cobra Commander that you ’ve always want . Or , to me , what I always want : a bad - ass baddie . He ’s one of the most iconic villain ever .
Was that one of your first commands as manager ? “ Cobra Commander has to look like Cobra Commander . ”
Yeah , definitely , no doubt . That and no lips on Snake eye . And no optical maser guns . And as much real , physical stunt as we can . I do n’t need to snap on a green screen . Of naturally we had to do some green screen , but , for the most part , we got to shoot a deal of pragmatic stunts .
He also says the first movie was more like the quondam G.I. Joe cartoon , while his movie is more like the comical account book . There ’s more at the tie-in . [ Moviefone ]
There ’s a good roundup of everything that ’s sleep together about serial publication sevenhere , and it also admit three “ things that are rumored to be true . ” While I ’d advise take any Doctor Who rumour with an extra - skeptical grain of salt — this show is unique for its power to pull in wild , evidently false rumors — here are the three detail . The second is probably the most significant :
– The Doctor ’s next companion will not be from Earth .
– Amy Pond will die and Rory will live .
– The Ice warrior will return in the installment that Mark Gatiss has written .
Like I said , I would n’t put too much stock in that until we hear something more strong , particularly since the newfangled series has repeatedly teased the deaths of companions – Rose in “ Army of Ghosts”/”Doomsday ” is plausibly the most obvious comparison here – and it never turns out to be quite honest . [ Life , Doctor Who , and Combom ]
Saul Metzstein , who directed River Song actress Alex Kingston in one episode of the late Upstairs Downstairs revival , is the first officially confirmed film director for series seven . [ ATV Today ]
Here ’s a promo and a prowler peek for next Sunday ’s sequence , “ Triggerfinger . ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpzllZT5GBo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucpeos43q9A
Comics creator Robert Kirkman discuss the rest of the season and gives a brief update on time of year three :
There ’s a few mile posts here and there that we ’ll be bear on on and look piece of . The whole season was mean to be one part and it kind of lull you into a sense of security and then burn out you out of the water , so now we ’re beat into the snow it up out of the water part . I can say that Sophia come out of the barn and all the tension from that are just the kickoff of an escalation that will institute us to the ending of the season , so every sequence is going to get bigger and crazier as we continue on .
How far along are you in the cognitive operation of authorship and shooting for the show right now ?
The next part of the season is completely done , we finished filming that in November . We ’re currently come on the last of the third week in the writer ’s room on Season Three . If I can twit a little bit of Season Three , it ’s even crazier .
[ Comic Book Resources ]
Jon Bernthal talks some more about Shane ’s graphic symbol :
“ Once you get a taste of that No . 1 stance , it ’s a actual hard matter to give up . It ’s an incredibly intoxicating placement to be in as a man . I cogitate what ’s so beautiful about Shane is he kind of adopts this newfangled world order . He ’s see that there ’s actually no laws in this earth . And he ’s kind of becoming this creature of the zombie Revelation where he can shut down all emotions . But the tragedy of his eccentric is he gain that ’s an unimaginable task . He ’s in all probability the most emotional character on the show . So he ’s flim-flam himself . It ’s just such a nifty role to play . ”
[ Hero Complex ]
Here ’s the synopsis for sequence five , “ Peaches ” , which airs February 28 :
THE MAGUS CREW come in TO FIND OUT THAT NOT EVERYTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS inscrutable IN THE BOIUNA ON THEIR TREK TO FIND EMMET COLE , ON ABC ’S “ THE RIVER ” ” Peaches ” – The Magus crew are run aground by another vessel , and soon learn that the seemingly welcoming crew members of a ship claiming to have come to their rescue have in fact a very different schedule , causing a dreadful , life - and - last place . The gang also make a shocking discovery that will leave behind one of them in tears .
Here ’s a short description for episode eight , “ Clarence Montgomery ” , which airs February 27 :
AN INNOCENT MAN REAPPEARS – Clarence Montgomery ( guest star Mahershala Ali ) , the only guiltless man in Alcatraz , returns to present twenty-four hours , but is now commit crimes . Why ?
[ SpoilerTV ]
Here ’s a promo for this Sunday ’s instalment , “ What bump to Frederick . ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yWL6e1KcEQ
Grey ’s Anatomy actress Jessica Capshaw pronounce she want a guest spot as a princess on the show , and principal Ginnifer Goodwin has already tweeted the show ’s official feed say “ we need to make this happen ! ” So , that ’s a thing that could maybe occur . [ @ginnygoodwin ]
NBC has reportedly decided to detain production on Pushing Daises creator Bryan Fuller ’s Munsters reboot , which takes it out of disceptation for the fall 2012 schedule and potentially positions it as a midseason replacement . The decision was reportedly made to give the project “ more clip to fine - tune key component . ” [ Variety ]
Here ’s the promo for this Sunday ’s third episode , “ The Graveyard Shift . ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD18WarMOG8
Episode ten is reportedly called “ Dream Reaper ” and will air on March 19 , while the next calendar week ’s episode eleven is reportedly called “ Do n’t dread the Scott . ” [ SpoilerTV ]
Here ’s a sneak peek at Darth Maul ’s return in the show ’s season finis this March from what really , really appeared to be certain death in The Phantom Menace . There ’s a bit more info at the nexus . [ EW ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2XfYpD0dR0
Here ’s a promo for this Thursday ’s episode , “ All My nipper . ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wricQx3Gtt4
accord to actor Kris Holden - Reid , Dyson wo n’t “ get his mojo back ” until at least season three . [ SpoilerTV ]
Disney Channels chairman Gary Marsh describes the plot of land of the coming tie - in animated serial :
“ What ’s happened is that Tron has been mischievously injured by villainous Clu , but he has found a protege , a bright unseasoned mechanic , who is another platform like himself , discover Beck and voiced by Elijah Wood , who TRON decides he is going to educate to be the next TRON . ”
[ Collider ]
extra reporting by Ben Vrignon and Charlie Jane Anders .
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