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2009 Comic-Con Schedule for Wed July 22 - Thurs July 23
11 July 2009 6:53 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
Comic-Con is coming at us and everyone is wondering who and what will be where and when.
The good folks at the Comic-Con 2009 website have started to release schedules for the big 4-day event. The weekend for some will actually start on the night of Wednesday, July 22nd, for the pre-registered 4-day attendees with a Special Preview Night Programming.
The schedule is a bit fluid, but at press time, this was as it stood for the Wednesday & Thursday schedules. Of course, the entire has been edited down to what Screen Rant covers. Check it out:
Wednesday, July 22
6:00-9:00 in Ballroom 20
Special Sneak Peek Pilot Screenings of exclusive pilot premiere screenings of the new TV series of the 2009–2010 season - Human Target, V, and The Vampire Diaries, plus some preview trailers for other upcoming new shows.
Human Target is based upon the DC Comics title starring Mark Valley (Fringe
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Bruce Simmons
New Poster for Taxidermia and Gyorgy Palfi's Future Slate
10 July 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news
- I'm not sure when Regent Releasing/Here Films inserted Taxidermia into their line-up, but I'm glad I'll get a first chance to see a film that lit up the festival circuit back in 06'. Since the film, Hungarian filmmaker Gyorgy Palfi has pretty much booked himself several projects including the recently preemed I Am Not Your Friend at the Karlovy Vary Film Fest and he is currently working on a trio of projects including his first English language effort in The Blood Hurricaine, Man and Woman and Toldi. Today's poster artwork release is a lot tamer than the original festival poster (view here) and I'm worried that if people to see the trailer (view here) then they'll think this is an art-house horror film when instead, critics have said things such as "Transgressive and transfixing" and "reveals visuals worthy of Terry Gilliam, Quentin Tarantino and Gaspar Noé as the master works of Bergman.
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Full Thursday Comic Con 2009 Schedule Released
9 July 2009 11:23 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news
San Diego Comic Con International has finally come up with the full schedule for the first full day of Comic Con 2009. From the programming list, it is revealed that Summit Entertainment as well as Walt Disney Pictures will be among those presenting their latest line-up of upcoming movies, such as "The Twilight Saga's New Moon" and "Alice in Wonderland", on Thursday, July 23.
Summit will make use of Hall H from 2:15 P.M. to 3:15 P.M. to give a special presentation as well as unveil exclusive footage of their three feature projects, "Astro Boy", "Sorority Row" and "New Moon". Especially for "New Moon", it is mentioned that surprise members of the cast will attend the presentation to answer questions.
In the meantime, Disney will dominate the Hall H from 11:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. to present their upcoming slate, including "A Christmas Carol (2009)" and "Tron 2.0". Aside from the movies' presentation,
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Thursday Tiiiime
9 July 2009 5:04 PM, PDT | From Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news
Philip and I (above) will be there for your Comic-Con goodness!
What am I talking about when it comes to Thursday? Well I’m referring to the lovely absolutely wonderful list of panels to check out at this year’s 40th San Diego Comic-Con International. Amongst the glitz and glamour that the Con has brought into its hallways amongst the burst of popularity on comic book adaptations, the pure love of all things comics still reigns supreme.
From James Cameron’s Avatar, Terry Gilliam’s the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus to Summit Entertainment’s Twilight Saga: New Moon, there are plenty of movies to choose from. Those of us here from Atomic Popcorn will be going to the Con, so we will have by the hour updates on each big time panel from comics, television and movies and some interviews for you to watch as well. Interested in seeing what the list is?
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Melissa Molina
Monty Python Reunion: The Bright Side of Life
9 July 2009 2:38 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
Well before the advent of the blog, there was Monty Python. Before the Internet, before video games, before the Walkman, before me, there was Monty Python.
In 1969, Monty Python debuted on BBC with six members: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. In the 40 years since, they have released several films, including The Life of Brian, and The Quest for the Holy Grail, to name a few, not to mention albums, stage productions, and solo endeavors.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the dawn of that new age of comedy. To commemorate this (slightly holy) event, The Independent reports the remaining members of the troupe, sans Cleese, will reunite at the Royal Albert Hall in in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, on October 23rd. Cleese will be unable to attend due to previous engagements, and Graham Chapman passed away in 1989 of spinal cancer.
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Jacob Waldman
Comic-Con 2009 partial schedule revealed
9 July 2009 2:01 PM, PDT | From Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news
The 2009 Comic Con International has unveiled the line-up of programming for Wednesday and Thursday and it's loaded with plenty of movie and television related goodness. If this is what the con has in store for Thursday, heaven help those that cover it on the weekend.
I've selected just the movie/TV/DVD stuff to be found on those two days. If you're interested in reading the full programming schedule which includes comic books, video games, novels and other entertainment panels, you can find it on the official website.
Wednesday, July 22:
6:00 - 9:00 Pm: Previews/presentations of three of 2009-10's upcoming new series: The Human Target, V and The Vampire Diaries.
Thursday, July 23:
10:15 - 11:15: Astro Boy presentation. On hand will be director David Bowers, producer Maryanne Grager and stars Freddie Highmore and Kristen Bell.
11:00 - 12:30: Disney 3-D panel. On hand and
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Patrick Sauriol
Monty Python’s Life Of Kickass Comedy To Be Celebrated This Fall
8 July 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news
British comedy troupe Monty Python is turning 40 this year! Damn that’s a long time. I didn’t exactly grow up with the Pythons since I wasn’t even a twinkle in my parents’ eyes when they formed. But I discovered “Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail” at a young age and have since voraciously devoured every bit of their material that I could lay my hands on.
To celebrate their waning youthfulness, four of the five members of the troupe will reunite this fall for a musical adaptation of “The Life of Brian.” It won’t be a straight reproduction of the movie for stage, but rather a tweaked musical along the lines of the hit Broadway “Grail” spin-off, “Spamalot.”
The Independent reports that Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam will premiere “Not The Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy)” at London
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Adam Rosenberg
Monty Python Turns 40, Plans Reunion and DVD Series
7 July 2009 7:29 PM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news
It seems fitting that I was just spending the afternoon the other day watching several hours of behind the scenes features on my Blu-ray copy of Monty Python's Life of Brian, as news from the Python camp today is that the gang is getting back together to celebrate their 40th Anniversary later this year. According to The Independent, four of the main six stars -- Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam -- will get together for the first time in over a decade to take part in the musical adaptation of Life of Brian, called Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy). John Cleese will be unable to attend due to a previous engagement and as you probably know, Graham Chapman died in 1989. Idle, who stars in the production which he co-wrote with composer John Du Prez, said: "It is rare you get to be silly on a mass scale. It
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Neil Miller
Monty Python Turns 40 & Reunites This Fall
7 July 2009 4:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Where has the time gone?
The Independent reports that Monty Python will celebrate their 40th anniversary this October. As part of the festivities, Royal Albert Hall will host a one-night-only performance on the 23rd of Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy). You may have heard of this -- it's Eric Idle and John Du Prez's wildly funny 1-hour oratorio based on Monty Python's Life of Brian. But this one-night-only deal is even more irresistible than usual -- Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam will perform in it. Unfortunately, John Cleese can't make it, which is a damned shame.
Nevertheless, here I thought that I was lucky that Idle's first cousin is Toronto Symphony Conductor Peter Oundjian, which led the world premiere to happen right in the T-Dot.
As Idle describes the oratorio: "It ranges in reference from Handel, through a naughty Mozart duet, to the Festival of Nine Carols,
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Monika Bartyzel
Pythons to reunite for 'comic oratorio'
6 July 2009 4:50 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
Four members of the Monty Python team will reunite for a "comic oratorio" based on 1979 movie Life Of Brian, it has emerged. Eric Idle will be joined by Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam, as well as Carol Cleveland and Neil Innes, to perform Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy). However, fifth surviving Python John Cleese is unable to attend because of prior commitments, The Daily Telegraph reports. Of the new piece, Idle said: "It ranges in reference from Handel, through a naughty Mozart duet, to the Festival Of Nine Carols, (more)
By Mayer Nissim
Top Ten Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Films
6 July 2009 2:25 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Top Ten Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Films It seems Hollywood's infatuation with the end of the world has found its place in 2009 with releases such as Knowing this past March and upcoming releases such as 9, The Road and 2012 later this year. I never saw The Horsemen, but I know it had an apocalyptic theme, and films such as Terminator Salvation and even Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen threaten the continued existence of the human race. So, with such a situation at hand what better time than now to take a look at what I believe to be the best apocalyptic films of all-time... or at the very least of those I have seen... We all have a morbid curiosity when it comes to the world's end. Will it go with a whimper or a bang? Will the apocalypse be man-made, ape-made, E.T.-made, nature-made, or God-made? Will I be holding Nicolas Cage
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David Frank
Williams split 'made Ledger snap'
6 July 2009 1:48 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
The anxiety and insomnia issues that led to Heath Ledger's death were brought on by a stressful custody case with ex-girlfriend Michelle Williams, it has been claimed. Terry Gilliam, who directed Ledger's last film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, told Vanity Fair that Williams pushed Ledger to win an Oscar, whereas he just wanted to relax with his friends. The director explained: "He didn't care about things like those awards. That was the moment when it changed, when he realised, uh-oh, we perceive the world differently." The film (more)
By Rebecca Davies
Multiple Personality Disorder Report
3 July 2009 4:43 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news
[Editor's Note: Multiple Personality Disorder Reports are short news blasts meant to let you know about the stuff that didn't make it to the news page but still had us talking behind the scenes]
#1: Surrogates gets posterized!
As you see here, Johnathan Mostow's Surrogates (trailer here) starring Bruce Willis has finally received a poster. [via: comingsoon]
#2: Resident Evil: Afterlife in 2010?
The webs exploded with news that director Paul W.S. Anderson would be getting a new Resedent Evil flick into theaters by September 17, 2010. The 3rd one was the only one I've enjoyed so far so I hope they keep going the heavy Pa direction. [via: filmonic]
#3: live action Star Wars begins production in Australia?
We were promised a live action Star Wars show years ago so about bloody time i say. [via: scifiwire]
#4: Gilliam kills Zero Theorem
Word is that Terry Gilliam has canned production on what was to be his film after Dr. Parnassus, the heady scifi film Zero Theorem. I guess he wants to do Don Quixote instead. [via: /Film]
#5: Jack Kerouac's "Big Sur" heading to the big screen
This news made quietearth cringe
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Terry Gilliam Scraps His Sci-Fi Project Zero Theorem
1 July 2009 12:15 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news
And another one down for Terry Gilliam. The overly ambitious and terribly unlucky filmmaker has told the fansite Dreams that yet another of his projects is going in the trash bin. Zero Theorem was the title of the project, a science fiction film supposedly about a reclusive and tortured data processing genius working on a mysterious project. The last we heard it was due to begin filming this year with Billy Bob Thornton set to star. But apparently due to all the extra work and publicity put into Gilliam's latest, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the project got delayed and eventually had to be scrapped in the end. Very sad news. "I thought I could do it quite quickly and cheaply," the filmmaker said in an interview conducted at Cannes last month, "and that would be a nice one, rather than getting caught in more expensive, more complicated or hard-to-finance
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Christopher Campbell
Terry Gilliam May Do ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Without Johnny Depp, Pass On ‘Zero Theorem’ Completely
1 July 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news
Terry Gilliam still wants to return to his long-suffering dream project “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” but he appears to have accepted that the show will have to go on without former leading man Johnny Depp. The man who almost directed “Watchmen” will finally release his delayed film “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” (starring Heath Ledger) in October and plans to then turn his attention back to “Quixote,” even if that means abandoning his other film “The Zero Theorem.”
“I’m about to sit down this evening with Tony Grisoni and see if all the bits we’ve been doing in this last couple of weeks are enough to keep us happy and say that’s it,” Gilliam told his online fanzine Dreams. “Basically, we are pretty much there on the script and then Jeremy Thomas and I have been moving ahead on different deals.”
The “Brazil” director acknowledged
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Brian Warmoth
From the Palantir! (A Fantasy News Round-Up)
1 July 2009 8:22 AM, PDT | From thetorchonline | See recent thetorchonline news
If Terry Gilliam really does (finally) get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote made, it looks like it won't be with original star Johnny Depp -- and it's not just because Depp's schedule is so "nutty." Depp told Ain'tItCoolNews.com, "I feel like we went there and tried something, and, whatever it was -- the elements and all the things that got up underneath us -- were there and happened and were documented well in that film Lost in La Mancha. So I don’t know if it’s right for me to go back there.
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Gilliam Announces That He’s Canned Zero Theorem, Offers Depp First Dibs On Quixote… But Depp Doesn’t Seem To Be Biting
30 June 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news
Phil Stubbs of Dreams, the splendid online Terry Gilliam fanzine and forum, has recently had another chance to chat with the master director about his films upcoming, and one definitely no longer approaching. Though Gilliam is still currently working on the PR and sales for The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, he's also preparing to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote next spring. His last attempt to mount the production was infamously thwarted by a whole heap of unfortunate coincidences, giving rise to the Tragi-documentary Lost in La Mancha. That time around it starred, or was in the process of starring, Johnny Depp as a commercials director transported into a Cervantes novel. Next time around, however, that most definitely won't be the case. For one thing, the character is now a screenwriter courtesy of a script rewrite that has turned the best thing Gilliam ever wrote into something reputedly even
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Brendon Connelly
Heath Ledger Wanted to be Fired from "Dark Knight"?
30 June 2009 1:38 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
So what was it about Heath Ledger's Joker that made it so memorable, so feverishly engrossing in its complete abandon? Was it his deep understanding of the character? His anarchic approach? Could it be that it was because he was secretly hoping to get fired from the movie, so he let it all hang out and it ended up working flawlessly for the psychotic supervillain?
According to a new article on the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, Ledger didn't really want to be in a big blockbuster movie like The Dark Knight and only took the job to get away from other big offers.
Be warned that the piece is quite gossipy and focuses on Ledger's personal demons and his failed relationship, which is rather off-putting for me, personally. It takes snipes at Michelle Williams, and I'm disappointed to see Terry Gilliam contributing to this speculative "what made Ledger snap" stuff.
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Arya Ponto
Ledger Wanted Out of 'Dark Knight' Role, Source Says
30 June 2009 10:02 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
While the world mourns the loss of Michael Jackson, Vanity Fair has cooked up a somewhat controversial (and fairly random) look back at Heath Ledger's final days, with quotes from his agent, his vocal coach, director Terry Gilliam and Doctor Parnassus cinematographer Nicola Pecorini. The article, published in part on Vanity Fair's website, is broken into different paragraphs with titles like "How chronic insomnia may have led to his death" and "How his relationship failed." Did the world -- not to mention Ledger's fans, friends and family -- really need all these old wounds dug up and scraped for a little extra attention? Probably not. Of all the quotes, the most fascinating seem to be the ones which talk about The Dark Knight, and how Ledger's pay-or-play deal allowed him to do whatever he wanted with the role of Joker seeing as he was to still receive a paycheck
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Erik Davis
The Reelist: Johnny Depp, American Original
30 June 2009 3:30 AM, PDT | From TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news
If you were going to cast a beautiful man to play your off-center character, you can't do better than the strange and wonderful Johnny Depp. From Benny and Joon to Ed Wood to Dead Man, he's been remarkably reliable as a free spirit-on-film. And unlike the majority of working actors, Depp is constantly choosing directors at fertile, interesting points in their careers - Lasse Hallström (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Terry Gilliam (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), and Ted Demme (Blow) - if they get on well enough, he's likely to work with them again, which speaks well for the actor. Depp's longest-running director-relationship, with Tim Burton, is a marriage of two simpatico minds. Depp's career could be split into two eras: pre-Pirates of the Caribbean/post-Pirates. Before the hit/albatross-around-his-neck, Depp was an intriguing, beautiful actor best known for his eclectic, eccentric taste. After starting out as a 21 Jump Street teen-hunk,
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