Skip to content
Dan Owen reviews
I s s u e # 1 5 41 8 N o v e m b e r 2 0 0 5
MOVIE NEWS V FOR VENDETTASome excellent one-sheet posters for V For Vendetta have been released (seeright). This movie is based on a truly excellent Alan Moore graphic novel -a huge favourite of mine – and so far looks to be a great Moore adaptation;unlike From Hell, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Constantine. BLADES OF GLORYWill Ferrell (Anchorman) and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) are teaming upfor Blades Of Glory, as two warring ice skaters who are banned from theWinter Olympics after a punch-up, but who combine forces to re-enter theOlympics in the pairs figure skating category. Ben Stiller will produce. JUMPERDoug Liman (Mr & Mrs Smith) is set to direct Jumper, an adaptation of theSteven Gold novel about a teenager who discovers he can teleport from oneplace to another. The movie will be part of a trilogy, written by Jim Uhls(Fight Club) from a draft by David Goyer (Batman Begins). THE MUTANT CHRONICLESThomas Jane (The Punisher) will star in the sci-fi/action epic The MutantChronicles, based on the role-playing board game of the same name.The story is set in the 23rd century, in which four giant corporations havepillaged the last of the planet’s resources, causing a demonic, maraudingarmy of underworld NecroMutants to wage war against humans for what remains.Jane will play a battle-weary Marine who leads a squad of soldiers againstthe alien hordes.
Simon Hunter will direct the film from a screenplay he wrote with RossJameson.
The movie is scheduled to start filming early-2006 with casting currentlyunder way.
US TOP 10 (CINEMA)All figures are weekend box-office gross.
- 1. Chicken Little ($40.0m)
- 2. Zathura ($13.4m)
- 3. Derailed ($12.2m)
- 4. Get Rich or Die Tryin’ ($12.0m)
- 5. Jarhead ($11.7m)
- 6. Saw 2 ($9.13m)
- 7. The Legend of Zorro ($6.38m)
- 8. Prime ($3.87m)
- 9. Dreamer ($3.73m)
- 10. Pride & Prejudice (2005) ($2.87m)
UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)
- 1. In Her Shoes (£1.33m)
- 2. Nanny McPhee (£1.31m)
- 3. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of The Were-Rabbit (£1.12m)
- 4. The Constant Gardener (£1.00m)
- 5. Saw 2 (£0.76m)
- 6. The Brothers Grimm (£0.59m)
- 7. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (£0.45m)
- 8. The Legend of Zorro (£0.42m)
- 9. Elizabethtown (£0.32m)
- 10. The Corpse Bride (£0.29m)
** IN THE PIPELINE **All the following are U.K. release dates, and are subject to change.
- 18th November 2005: Transporter 2, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rize
- 25th November 2005: White Countess, Mad Hot Ballroom, The Matador, Mrs Henderson Presents, The Libertine, The Proposition, Just Like Heaven, Bee Season
- 2nd December 2005: Tickets, Keeping Mum, Ice Harvest, Where The Truth Lies, Family Stone
- 9th December 2005: Everything is Illuminated, The Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Shopgirl
- 14th December 2005: King Kong (2005), Joyeux Noel
- 16th December 2005: Lassie (2005)
- 30th December 2005: Stray Dogs, Brokeback Mountain, Proof
Page Content copyright © Dan Owen, 2005.
Email Dan Owen
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.