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Dan Owen reviews
I s s u e # 8 90 9 M a y 2 0 0 4
MOVIE NEWS BATMAN BEGINSThe first clear images of Christian Bale as Batman have been released (seeright and below) on the official site Batman Begins.com
3001Sara Rue has joined Luke Wilson, Dax Shepard and Maya Rudolph in theuntitled Mike Judge comedy (previously titled 3001) for ’20th Century Fox’.
The film centres on Joe Bowers (Wilson), an average American who is selectedfor a top-secret hibernation program that finds him waking up and livingamong a society a thousand years in the future, where he finds thatcivilization is the most intelligent person alive.
The film was written by Judge and Ethan Cohen (Intolerable Cruelty).
INDEPENDENCE DAY 2Director Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow) has commented on the statsof a sequel to his 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, saying: “[IndependenceDay co-writer and co-producer] Dean [Devlin] and I met two or three times tofigure out a way how to continue the story and we couldn’t.”
X-MEN 3’Sci Fi Wire’ caught up with X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner who gave anupdate on the status of the third instalment.
She says that filming is targeted to begin in June 2005, in Vancouver, for aMay, 2006 release date. Donner: “I just had a conversation with [director]Bryan [Singer] today. We just started to talk about what the possibilitiesare. We’re pretty sure Wolverine’s going to come back.”
Shuler Donner added that she’s going to push to add Gambit and Beast thistime around. “I’m dying to put Beast in. I tried to get Beast in the firstone and the second one, but it was always too expensive. So, yeah, I’mreally dying to get Beast in, and I’d love to get Gambit in, because he’ssuch a cool guy. And there’s some really good casting ideas for Gambit.”
WEBSITES Garfield
’20th Century Fox’ has also brought online the full site for director PeterHewitt’s big screen Garfield adaptation, in US theatres on 11 June and starsBreckin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitt with Bill Murray as the voice ofGarfield.(Website link)
The Terminal
‘DreamWorks’ has launched the very original new official website fordirector Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal, arriving in the US on 18 June, andstarring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. (Website link)
US TOP 10 (CINEMA)All figures are weekend box-office gross.
- 1. Mean Girls ($24.4m)
- 2. Man on Fire ($15.0m)
- 3. 13 Going On 30 ($9.8m)
- 4. Godsend ($6.8m)
- 5. Laws of Attraction ($6.7m)
- 6. Envy ($6.1m)
- 7. Kill Bill Vol.2 ($5.8m)
- 8. The Punisher (2004) ($3.5m)
- 9. Home on the Range ($2.3m)
- 10. Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed ($2.2m)
UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)
- 1. Kill Bill Vol.2 (£1.45m)
- 2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (£1.04m)
- 3. Secret Window (£0.75m)
- 4. 50 First Dates (£0.59m)
- 5. Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (£0.55m)
- 6. Shaun of the Dead (£0.42m)
- 7. Main Hoon Na (£0.32m)
- 8. The Butterfly Effect (£0.24m)
- 9. The Cat in the Hat (£0.205m)
- 10. Taking Lives (£0.202m)
** IN THE PIPELINE **All dates are U.K release dates, and are subject to change.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.