I dunno if anyone else is interested, but Zediva has finally been suspended. They still have a fight on their hand, but who knows how many months or years it’ll take.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/02/idUS317363613120110802
Argh! My unused credits!!
Steve Kloves and David Yates want to work on Stephen Kings “The Stand”
Riddick Character Bios
http://www.moviehole.net/201143902-exclusive-riddick-begins-casting-character-descriptions
The World War Z movie may not be exactly like the book (which makes me nervous)
http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=20438
Riddick and his dog (That is a big frakkin dog)
Now THIS is a Christmas movie
The Hunt for Blue August…?
Lost at sea. Military loses contact with hypersonic test plane
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/11/new-york-to-la-in-less-than-12-minutes/
"DARPA’s goal is to create an aircraft capable of reaching any target in the world in less than an hour.
The triangular wedge of zoom is capable of reaching Mach 20 - approximately 13,000 miles per hour - according to DARPA. At such speeds in Earth’s atmosphere, friction subjects the vehicle to temperatures of more than 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit."
Riddick Character Bios
http://www.moviehole.net/201143902-exclusive-riddick-begins-casting-character-descriptions
Riddick and his dog (That is a big frakkin dog)
Squeeeee!!! This is my up and coming movie. If I had a gay crush, this would be it!
Warehouse 13 has been renewed…
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/its-official-syfy-renews-warehouse-13-for-fourth-season/
Jonathan Femme (director Silence of the Lambs) wants to direct the movie adaptation of the next Stephen king book…
Looks like there may be an Austin Powers 4…maybe
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/whats-really-happening-with-mike-myers-and-austin-powers-4/
Justin Lin (Fast and Furious) won’t be directing Hihlander reboot
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/justin-lin-exits-summits-highlander-222325
Star Wars Blu Ray will havr 40 frakkin hours of bonus footage
Lone Ranger on ice
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/shocker-disney-scraps-johnny-depps-lone-ranger/
This will hold me until they release the 5th anniversary of the Blu-ray release with 80 hours of bonus footage. They have enough footage to squeeze more money out of us for decades to come.
I’m still waiting for the edition where Alderaan shoots first.
A planet can’t shoot! Maybe a moon, but nothing bigger than that. That is crazy-talk!! 
Rise of the Planet of the Apes likely to be a trilogy…
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/08/11/rise-planet-apes-sequel-screenwriters/
WB really wants a Batman/Superman film…whether or not that’ll happen is something else entirely…
More Riddick goodness…
http://www.moviehole.net/201143902-exclusive-riddick-begins-casting-character-descriptions
Google is gonna own your phone (if you have Motorola that is)…
First shot of Jason Patric as Christian Walker from upcoming Powers show on FX
And…dropping ib October…CANNOT WAIT!!
New In Time trailer…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdadZ_KrZVw
Woman in Black trailer below…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=arixaTWmIA0
Babylon 5 may be making some kind of return…
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a335755/babylon-5-to-return-to-television.html
GameStop Pulling Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC Off Shelves
Retailer’s response to today’s backlash seems to be sending everything back.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/gamestop-pulling-deus-ex-human-revolution-pc-off-shelves/3618/
"GameStop dominated the conversation today, based on reports the retailer was opening copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution on PC, removing the coupon for a copy of the game through OnLive, sealing the games back up and selling them as ‘new.’
Perhaps for a variety of reasons, possibly ranging from conversations between GameStop and Square Enix to backlash from basically the entire Internet, the company is now pulling all copies off store shelves.
…
GameStop issued a similar public comment about its original reasoning for opening the games.
‘We pulled the coupons because, like all retailers, we prefer not to promote our competitors and their competing offerings and services in our stores,’ said a company spokesperson. ‘Unfortunately, the coupon was packed without our prior knowledge.’
Both Square Enix and OnLive declined to comment on the matter."
Interesting choice…if it has good scripts, it might work
“Questions about your life, love, work and family? Need the advice of an agent of the Sith? ‘Ask Vader’ and call upon the Dark Lord to answer your questions. Vader will (im)patiently listen to your questions before dishing out his dark wisdom.”
Wolverine 2 looks to start shooting in Spring
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/wolverine-2-may-push-to-spring-start-date/
Taken 2 to start filming in Oct
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=81492
Dan Akroyd thinks Ghostbusters 3 will start filming in 2012
Rum Diaey looks funny
Flatliners to be redome
httpZ://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/flatliners-revived-by-columbia-pictures-228327
Zoe Saldana has Dominion (giggedy)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zoe-saldana-produce-star-thriller-228369
The very definition (ok, not really) of Random!
Lando Calrissian: The New Messiah
http://torwars.com/2011/08/28/lando-calrissian-the-new-messiah/
'While at PAX we bore witness to a new age of religious zealotry and it’s focus was the eternally debonaire, Lando Calrissian. Yes, The Lando Society is a group of individuals dedicated to better living through the teachings of Lando Calrissian and “Promoting Interstellar Commerce and Good Looks Since The Old Republic”. ’
Continued at link.
albeit unofficial…he seems confident
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ml4FHeFRXdQ
“It’s already in the works…”
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Tron-3-Is-A-Done-Deal-According-To-Bruce-Boxleitner-26478.html
Josh Brolin to sra in Spike Lees version of “oldboy”
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/josh-brolin-to-star-in-spike-lees-oldboy-redo-for-mandate/
Hunger Games Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAWODq_dMFI
in WYF news …BSG Blood and Cheome may just be a webseries again
http://www.aoltv.com/2011/08/22/battlestar-jamie-bamber-caprica-blood-and-chrome/
ABC buys Ron Moore Old West series
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/abc-buys-western-from-ron-moore/
Thanks for keeping us up to date, Operator! I really enjoyed The Hunger Games and Catching Fire (the third book, Mockingjay, left me about as depressed as the end of BSG and suffered from the same problems, imo–too hopeless and a few too many plot tatters to really hang together). I have always been strenuously ambivalent about the movie. It could be AMAZEBALLS but most likely… they’re not going for an R rating and I just don’t understand how you can do the books justice without one. Plus, Katniss will be difficult to translate to the screen because so much of her character is revealed through her internal monologue. But I want it to be a great movie, y’know?
All that said, this teaser footage is so empty. It wasn’t even really impressionistic! Still reserving judgment for a longer trailer and then the movie itself. But this is not, I fear, a good sign.
A little late on this, but I had to say – nervous? If this is accurate, I’m LIVID. The whole appeal of the book was the view from the aftermath, and the social, political, cultural and psychological impact of the zom-pocalypse as seen the way few writers have even thought about, let alone penned – “what now?”
To push the whole film back into the ‘present tense’ literally tears the heart out of the book, and frankly I’m disgusted that Pitt, who practically championed the optioning of the book in the first place for his own production company long before taking on the created role, allowed this bastardization to happen. sigh
I guess money talks, and zombies walk. Er…shuffle. Amble. Stumble? Crawl, most likely.