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With principal photography only just having wrapped, no digital effects were complete but, taking that into consideration, things appear to be shaping up nicely. The footage began with Lance Henriksen's industrial billionaire instructing his team of scientists and archaeologists as they make ready to enter the uncovered Aztec dig site deep within the Antarctic circle. Ewan Bremner reveals himself as the token comic relief before we see a montage of panning shots of the temple, with nerv

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Sean Michael Breen was sentenced a 50-month jail term in California for selling cracked console and PC software totaling nearly $500,000. Breen was a member of Razor1911, a notorious group of game hackers. Together, these guys cracked games such as Quake and Warcraft III, and sold them in advance of their release dates. They aquired the games by posing as reviewers from a fictional gaming magazine, and having them delivered to a "derelict storefront address in Oakland". They would then se

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Near the beginning of the week, news sites all over the place sprung the news that Nintendo was putting their next-generation console plans on hold in order to focus more on the handheld market. Rumors started flying about that the Gamecube's successor wouldn't hit store shelves until 2007, way after Sony and Microsoft would debut their next consoles. In order to quell all the unsubstantiated rumors, Nintendo announced that they will have their new home console (codenamed the "N5") on dis

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Forget everything you thought you knew. Game Informer and The-MagixBox have revealed new details on Capcom's GameCube survival horror adventure game Resident Evil 4 / Biohazard 4: Appearance: - The game can be played in first person view and two other view perspectives. - RE4 supports 16:9 widescreen (which is mandatory) and 480 progressive scan. When the game is played on a regular screen, there are black borders on top and bottom. - When the game plays in 3rd p

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The superhero genre maybe relatively quiet this year, but in 2005 its coming back with a vengeance as two such films aiming to bow next Summer are about to get underway according to Variety. First up the next "Batman" movie which soon begins filming in Iceland has confirmed two new cast players that have been rumoured for a few weeks now. First up the one and only Liam Neeson is set to play the main villain Ra's Al Ghul, a role many thought that Viggo Mortensen was occupying (no word ye

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The WB has announced that Angel will be ending with its current fifth season. Following is a statement, released by the network on its web site: "For the last seven years Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have been cornerstones of our network. The sum total of the work done on those shows has produced some of the proudest moments in our history. Like some of the great series that are leaving the air this year, including Frasier and Friends, the cast, crew, writers and produc

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All of the unforgettable heroism, villainy and epic adventure of George Lucas's STAR WARS trilogy comes to the ultimate home-entertainment format for the very first time around the world this September from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, ending the wait for the most-anticipated DVD release ever. The four-disc collection will be released on Sept. 21 in the U.S. and Canada, with international release dates following closely. "We know how long fans have waited

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Variety reports that Warner Bros. and director Wolfgang Petersen have set scribes Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty to adapt the Orson Scott Card books Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow into a film Petersen will direct. The Hugo Award-winning young adult fantasy series begins on Earth after an alien attack. Gifted children are recruited for war, with a prodigy leading the assault against aliens. Petersen is currently prepping Troy and hasn't locked his next movie yet, says the tra

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Sci Fi Channel has greenlit production on the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a new original weekly series. Based on the top-rated December miniseries event of the same name, the one-hour drama is slated to begin production on 13 episodes in Vancouver next month. All principal cast from the mini will reprise their roles for the series, including Edward James Olmos (Commander Adama), Mary McDonnell (President Laura Roslin), Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck), and Tricia Helfer (Number Six), amo

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Variety ran an article today with heaps of new details on the upcoming "Batman" movie set to begin shooting at the end of the month in Iceland. First off expect this Bats to be grounded more in reality which is why there's no costumed villains, little focus on gadgets, and a bigger role for Bruce Wayne - Director Chris Nolan says "I felt like doing the origins story of the character, which is a story that's never been told before. The world of Batman is that of grounded reality, ours w

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Two previews are coming out shortly that are worth taking an early squizz at, and some lucky people got to see them for marketing surveys recently and are more than happy to share their experiences. In regards to "Phantom of the Opera", 'Moviegod' made a list of some cool shots we can expect to see in the teaser trailer: • Sunrise over the city • Man in top hat walking through the city • People holding candles/candles floating in the water • Woman in cemetery in the

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LOTR: Return of the King (DVD): Peter Jackson confirmed on Friday to the IESB that the 'extended cut' will be 250 mins, exactly 50 mins longer than the theatrical version. No date is yet set, but the 'regular' edition will hit sooner - around May or June according to USA Today.

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Producer Mario Kassar recently spoke to a Lebanese film magazine regarding production for Terminator 4 and TheArnoldFans transcribed a copy of the key elements of the article: "T4 is in the works. The screenplay will be ready in 8 or 9 months. Once we have that, we will proceed with the production. The question that has never been answered in all the Terminator films is time travel. You can come from the future to change the present. But we never see how they go back to the future, whic

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After almost four years of development, Sci Fi Channel has given the green light to "Anonymous Rex," a two-hour movie based on Eric Garcia's series of comedic mystery novels. The books center on Vincent Rubio, a high-tech private investigator who, along with hundreds of others on Earth, is in fact a dinosaur (in his case, Velociraptor). They never became extinct. Instead, they have evolved to be 6 feet tall and have integrated themselves into modern s

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"The A-Team" "A feature film version of The A-team will be headed to theaters if Stephen's plan comes together. However, in order to modernize the plot, instead of four Vietnam vets on the run for a crime they did not commit the characters will be comprised of four Desert Storm vets. It's genre will also shift towards a more serious action-oriented Die Hard style film. Cannell promises the characters to be much better at aiming than their predecessors, yes people will die with this A-Team. N

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Robert Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios is rumoured to be working on a film adaptation of Frank Miller's comic which Robert himself might direct. Cinematography wise there's apparently going to be a unique tri-colour/high contrast method to filming whilst casting wise Josh Hartnett may have already tested.

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Rumors have been circulating that Warner Bros. may split up Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire into two films, due to the size of the book. Not so, Mike Newell tells Empire magazine. "As far as I'm concerned it's absolutely possible to do it in one. I think it would be slightly embarrassing to do it in two." The director said he'll also be taking the franchise in yet another new direction. "It's a classic paranoid thriller in a way. I've spent Christmas watching things like The Paralla

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Pixar today said that it is ending its discussions with The Walt Disney Company to extend their existing five-picture deal, and will begin discussions with other studios to distribute its films beginning in 2006. After completing the final two films under the current agreement with Disney, The Incredibles in 2004 and Cars in 2005, Pixar intends to retain full ownership of its future productions. "After ten months of trying to strike a deal with Disney, we're moving on," said Pixar CEO S

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January 27, 2004 - According to The Nikkei Weekly, Japanese electronics retailers are not ecstatic about sales of the PSX, Sony's new all-in-one gaming/DVR/DVD recorder device. In a survey of chief managers of retail stores in Japan, 40% said that sales of the PSX were below expectations. Analysts have been buys pointing fingers at a number of possible problems with poor marketing and a lack of features in the PSX. Beyond being disappointed in the sales figures, those surveyed

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January 29, 2004 - Headed for Japan next month and scheduled for our shores in May, Onimusha 3 is in for plenty of changes when it comes stateside in only a couple of months. Set to receive a slight title change to Onimusha 3 Demon Siege (why there isn't a hyphen, we'll never know), the latest and greatest from Keiji Inafune is being billed by officials as Capcom's premier title for the PlayStation 2 in 2004. "Onimusha 3 Demon Siege will surpass its predecessors in all areas:

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Yesterday FilmForce published an exclusive report stating that producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is turning Hasbro's G.I. JOE toy franchise into a live-action movie. FilmForce also reports that the script will be done by writer Michael Gordon and that while deals for both men are complete, an announcement may be published in the movie trade magazines sometime in February. Also mentioned was that the movie will utilize characters from the popular 1980s cartoon series and not so much the m

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Despite those mixed "Highlander: Endgame" reviews, it looks like the producers have finally taken notice of what the fans have wanted by returning the immortal franchise to TV (rather than the big screen) late in 2004. UK magazine Impact just ran an interview with David Abramowitz, the man who was a guiding hand for many of the "Highlander" TV series' best seasons and reveals that he has been asked to write a four-hour mini-series which looks set to start filming in April - with a se

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Yesterday's gossip of Beyonce Knowles as Lois Lane and Johny Depp as Lex Luthor has sent quite a few repercussions across the Globe, and already follow-up talk on both however has rendered it moot: AICN reports that "Seems that McG had decided he wanted to go with Beyonce, nothing official had been signed at that point, HOWEVER, agents of other actresses that were up for the part, their agencies, a few secretaries and assistants here and there all heard that the part was no longer avail

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"The filming begins at the end of next month in Iceland and will continue until mid March before moving to the U.K. Iceland shooting-don't worry, it's not Batman on ice skates-more like all terrain vehicles, with Christian Bale not arriving till around March 1st. One of the cardington hangers being used for the film has large sets of a old train station of some sort, as well as housing the MASSIVE batcave. Casting. First of all, Morgan Freeman is no longer up for Lucious Fox, but is up

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