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Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up – Jan. 8, 2009

Niall Browne — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:59:43 +0000

It’s time for another Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up.

In this week’s installment:

There’s half the blood in The Half Blooded Prince; The Mutant Chronicles finally sees the darkened theater; Mangold gets romantic with Juliet; Ender’s Game comes to the end of the road; nobody does it better than Quantum of Solace.

1. Harry Potter fans may be worried to discover that Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince has been given a PG rating by the MPAA. This rating is due to “scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality.”

Considering that the Potter books get darker (and thicker) this comes as a bit of a surprise. Could the MPAA be getting softer or have large chunks of the novel been ignored?

You can find out when Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince is released on July, 17 2009.

Source: Rope of Silicon

2. Fans of Thomas Jane rejoice! Mutant Chronicles finally has a distributor and a release date. Magnet Releasing have acquired the US distribution rights to the Sci-Fi film that co-stars John Malkovich and Ron Perlman. The film will open in selected cities on April 24^th.

Source: Moviehole.net

3. James Mangold director of such broad reaching fare as 3,10 To Yuma, Walk The Line and Kate and Leopold will next be helming an adaptation of Anne Fortier’s Juliet. According to The Hollywood Reporter:

“The story, which takes a cue from Romeo and Juliet, toggles from medieval Siena to the present day in a story about a woman who discovers she may be descended from the people who inspired one of the most popular and tragic love stories of all time.”

So it’s kind of like Rumor Has It – with Shakespeare instead of The Graduate. Come to think of it, isn’t this Shakespeare in Love?

Well, if anyone can make it work it’s Mangold. The man(gold) is able to knock out decent movies in nearly every genre.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

4. The film adaptation of Ender’s Game has died in development. Wolfgang Petersen was in the line of fire to direct the film but he dropped out because he was unhappy with the direction the project was going. According to The LA Times the film was scrapped early in November.

Source: LA Times

5. Quantum of Solace has become the highest grossing James Bond film of all time at the US box office by grossing $167.1 million, beating Die Another Day to the title. The film has taken $550 million in total since it’s October release compared to $591 that Casino Royale grossed in its entire theatrical run. Solace is still on release and it hasn’t opened in Japan yet so that gross will only rise and we could see the film become the all time Bond box office champion.

These figures make Quantum of Solace the unadjusted champion – consider that Moonraker grossed $200 million back in 1978 or that Thunderball grossed a staggering $141 million in 1965. Imagine how much they’d be worth in 2009 ticket prices!

Source: Coming Soon

That’s it for now. See you at the movies!

Thomas Janes Brings Us The Mutant Chronicles Trailer

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:22:10 +0000

Well this is different… the teaser trailer for a movie has premiered on the personal website of the star of the film. Thomas Jane (from the last Punisher movie) is starring in what looks to be a pretty cool sci-fi movie: The Mutant Chronicles. Click on the image above to see the trailer.

Until I read the synopsis, I thought it took place during WWII, but it actually takes place in the future. Of course the poster below is a giveaway: It takes place in the 23rd century… and it looks a bit different from Gene Roddenberry’s vision of that era via Star Trek.

The film is about mankind fighting for dwindling resources among four factions, when a very nasty fifth element comes into play: mutants with “boneblades” that grow from their arms.

And here’s the apocolypto-cool poster for the film:

There’s no set date date for release as of yet, but I’m looking forward to this at the moment.

Source: ThomasJane.com

The Mutant Chronicles Official Website Is Live

Niall Browne — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:21:22 +0000

I haven’t heard much about The Mutant Chronicles, which is surprising considering that the cast includes Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, John Malkovich and Sean Pertwee.

Last night I was watching Deep Blue Sea which stars Thomas Jane. On a side note: Man, I love that movie. It’s junk, but it doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a dumb, fun shark movie. It got me thinking about what upcoming movies he might be appearing in, and I had a few free minutes at work (it’s rare, but it happens), so I decided to check out Thomas Jane’s upcoming films.

This ended up leading me to The Mutant Chronicles official website. Now I’m not sure how long this site has been up, but there are some interesting goodies.

First up, here’s an abridged version of the films synopsis:

Earth’s natural resources have been exhausted by mankind and battle rages between the soldiers of four leading Corporations: the Capitol, Bauhaus, Mishima and Imperial.

When an errant shell destroys an ancient stone seal, Mitch Hunter and Nathan Rooker find themselves facing a new enemy: hideous necromutants, with boneblades that grow from their arms. Mitch barely manages to escape. Nathan does not.

The mutants multiply by millions and they destroy all before them. The Corporations’ leader, Constantine, is about to abandon the planet and leave countless innocents to their desperate fate.

He manages to recruit Mitch, along with a handful of like-minded soldiers.

The film follows Mitch’s mission to venture into the very heart of the darkness in an attempt to save the planet from marauding hordes of deathless mutants.

Sounds pretty interesting don’t you think?

The website has some good behind the scenes clips and it looks like there’s going to be much more going up: trailers and the usual marketing material. However the most interesting piece of footage is the “mood piece trailer”, which is basically a short film showing the style, tone and well, the mood of the film.

Now, Thomas Jane is a pretty cool guy, and like Hugh Jackman, he is one of the few good leading men under 50, so it’s always good to see him in a fun action romp. I really hope that this film is as cool as it sounds, and fingers crossed that it is a violent piece of action cinema in the vein of Aliens.

The marketing machine on this one hasn’t started up yet, but as more news comes in I’ll keep you posted.

No release date beyond the vague “2008″ has been set at this time.

Source: Mutant Chronicles Official Site