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No January re-release for THE DARK KNIGHT

Matt Holmes — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:14:02 +0000

Looks like three viewings on the big screen is all I’m going to get for one of my favourite movies of all time. Superhero Hype report that the plans to re-release THE DARK KNIGHT in January to help boost both the movie’s Oscar chances and to pass the elusive $1 billion mark have now been scrapped. [...]

Downey Jr. knocked unconscious during SHERLOCK HOLMES shoot

Ross Miller — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:01:26 +0000

Matt here... welcoming OWF’s newest recruit Ross Miller to the site. He is going to help me out with updating the latest movie news stories. Ya know, I need to find time to actually watch the movies I’m talking about! Robert Downey Jr. was accidentally punched and knocked out cold by his seven foot co-star Robert [...]

SPEED 3 might happen but NOT as a remake?

Ross Miller — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:27:45 +0000

I am not ashamed to admit that I am a fan of the first SPEED film. It’s awful sequel aside (that ditched the main character for God’s sake!), I thought the film was a lot of fun and still holds a lot of re-watch value for a genre that produced a lot of lame movies [...]

A preview of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s metaphysical spaghetti western gangster film!

Matt Holmes — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:10:55 +0000

Chilean born actor/writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky hasn’t helmed a movie in 18 years and I dare say the core audience of OWF won’t really know who he is. Out of the eight movies he has made, I’ve only seen one myself. But when AICN this morning posted this Youtube video of Jodorowsky giving us a preview of [...]

TWILIGHT ZONE movie gets a writer?

Matt Holmes — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:44:55 +0000

Announced on my birthday this year was a TWILIGHT ZONE movie, which as I’m a huge fan of the original Rod Serling classics, got me rather worried as even Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller and John Landis couldn’t make a really good movie out of the concept in the early 80’s. But, there is glimmer [...]

Shia LaBeouf in John Grisham thriller THE ASSOCIATES

Matt Holmes — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:50:13 +0000

Paramount Pictures are banking on Shia LaBeouf once again, giving the young star of DISTURBIA, TRANSFORMERS 1 and 2 and INDY IV - the lead role in a new John Grisham thriller. The movie is THE ASSOCIATES and it’s based on Grisham’s first legal thriller novel in three years when it’s published in January. LaBeouf will play [...]

Rob Zombie close to HALLOWEEN return

Matt Holmes — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:12:40 +0000

Despite claiming he had no interest in directing another HALLOWEEN movie (you may remember he said the same thing about ever doing a remake), Shock Till You Drop are now reporting that Rob Zombie is expected to be announced as the director of HALLOWEEN 2 for Dimension Films this week. The sequel is expected to film [...]

New WOLVERINE pics

Matt Holmes — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:03:14 +0000

A couple of new images have turned up online from X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE… And then this very interesting images featuring Liev Schreiber (Victor Creed) and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine). There’s a few more image HERE but I believe I have seen them before. 20th Century Fox’s latest X-MEN movie opens May 1st 2009 and you can see a new [...]

TV Plug: CINEPOLITICS on Sky Channel 515

Matt Holmes — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:01:28 +0000

It’s been a busy year for Obsessed With Film writers. Simon “Will” Reynolds, who the longer time readers of this site may remember wrote daily movie news for us last year, secured a full time job in the industry and both our feature writers Tom Fallows and Mike Kaminski got book deals for GEORGE A. [...]

George Miller officially off JUSTICE LEAGUE

Matt Holmes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:54:09 +0000

Although with the movie adaptation being dead in the water for months, this news has been obvious to everyone for such a long time but in any event, today Aussie director George Miller confirmed on the Sydney-based talk show “Sunrise” that he is no longer working on the JUSTICE LEAGUE movie in any capacity at [...]

Guillermo del Toro directing Roald Dahl’s THE WITCHES!!!

Matt Holmes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:30:52 +0000

I was right at the perfect age to catch Nicolas Roeg’s adaptation of Road Dahl’s THE WITCHES when it debuted in 1990. What a creepy, disturbing and effective movie. Roeg captured the essence of Road Dahl perfectly, I loved in particular the scene of the WITCHES reveal, with our little man hiding and witnessing the [...]

LOOKOUT! New APES movie has a director now?

Matt Holmes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:49:02 +0000

Production Weekly, a trade magazine we shouldn’t forget, has THE LOOKOUT director Scott Frank attached to GENESIS: APES, 20th Century Fox’s attempts to revive the four decade old franchise. Solid, solid, choice. Actually he’s better than that, he is a great choice. THE LOOKOUT is a stunning thriller, this is a hungry director who will have [...]

Martin Scorsese directing THE FALCON’S TALE?

Matt Holmes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:26:07 +0000

Martin Scorsese is adding another potential directing vehicle to his proposed list of projects once he has done filming his upcoming movie SHUTTER ISLAND. Production Weekly have Scorsese’s name listed to direct THE FALCON’S TALE which /film have rigorously reasearched as belonging to Playboy, Paramount and GK Films. James Keane and author/reporter Hillel Levin‘s article “The [...]

Christmas comes early but AUSTRALIA needs Oscar help

Matt Holmes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:22:48 +0000

Audiences were more ready for the Christmas holiday than I expected. The awful looking and loaded with on set problems between it’s co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, festive rom-com FOUR CHRISTMASES made a massive $31 million over the weekend, that’s $46.7 million Wednesday to Sunday for Warner Bros’ newly owned New Line Cinema. For Witherspoon, [...]

First look: Rachel Weisz on the set of AGORA!

Matt Holmes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:22:52 +0000

I’ve had a few people e-mail me about the upcoming Egyptian epic AGORA, the new movie from Spanish maestro Alejandro Amenabar (THE OTHERS, OPEN YOUR EYES) and they keep telling me to think “BIG”. Like really, really big. CLEOPATRA sized big. Rope of Silicon have come across some new photo’s today which give us our first look [...]

ROME: The Movie?

Matt Holmes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:57:55 +0000

The premature cancelling of HBO/BBC’s Rome, has left it’s creator Bruce Heller with the only option of trying to get a big movie adaptation into production to finish off the series which was a critical and commercial success for the two seasons it ran. The only problem was it cost too much money to make. It [...]

An hour with MILK on Charlie Rose

Matt Holmes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:54:04 +0000

Sean Penn, Gus Van Sant and Josh Brolin appeared on Charlie Rose this week and talked about their Oscar contender MILK which opened Wednesday in the U.S. The movie opened really strongly with a $1.6 million taking from just 36 theatres and hopefully word of mouth will keep it in cinema’s until the end of the [...]

BEVERLY HILLS COP IV details revealed

Matt Holmes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:45:05 +0000

What kind of script can attract Brett Ratner, and only Brett Ratner to a big Hollywood production? A bad one of course. Latino Review have reviewed Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (writers of 3:10 TO YUMA and WANTED) script for the proposed BEVERLY HILLS COP IV movie and weren’t impressed by what they saw calling it [...]

Are you excited for TRZ?

Matt Holmes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:41:45 +0000

TRZ is the new title Production Weekly have listed for the sequel to TRON, which will see Jeff Bridges return to play Kevin Flynn, the computer programmer who was abducted into the world of video games in the 1982 original. The previous title we heard was TR2N. One wonders why TRON 2 was out of the [...]

Phil says TRANSPORTER 3 dazzles the eyes and quickens the pulse!

Phil — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:37:16 +0000

As James Bond leaves behind the gadgets and quips to follow Jason Bourne down the path of gritty, no-frills realism, it’s nice to have Frank Martin around to prove there’s still more than one way to make an action movie. Authenticity may be the watchword for most modern action heroes, but for the Luc Besson-produced [...]