Shoot 'Em Up Posters

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Movie Minesweeper - The Silver Helium Balloon Edition

Yesterday was a very busy day for me, culminating in an evening at the theatre, under the spell of Derren Brown. But I'm back now, and I'm determined to catch up. So expect a few Movie Minesweepers today, to say the least.


- There's a neverending graveyard of movie projects that never came together. Premiere have compiled a 20-strong list of the more interesting, including a number of film ick faves that never were: Mark Romanek's A Cold Case, The Onion Movie (no, really), Ridley Scott's Tripoli, Richard Goleszewski's Tortoise vs. Hare, Cameron Crowe's Phil Spector biopic and, perhaps the greatest loss of them all, Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Premiere have managed to scrounge up status reports on some of the films, and it isn't exclusively bad news.

- Michael Davis already has a script written for a Shoot 'Em Up sequel.

- A new adaptation of Hell House could be on the cards. Could Richard Matheson be the next Phillip K. Dick, getting a whole slew of options sold in the next few years?

- Guillermo Del Toro has told his fans on a forum that Danny Elfman is scoring Hellboy 2. He's also promised 30 distinct creatures in the film.

- The redband trailer for The Brothers Solomon requires age verification.

- Ronald Moore has given a video interview that is up at Collider. The big scoop is that he's working on an I, Robot sequel.

- On a very similar note, Billy Ray has told SciFi that he's scripting a Westworld remake.

- Brian Yuzna has been discussing Beneath Still Waters with UGO, also touching on House of Re-Animator as they chatted. Will we ever get to see it...? Yuzna is optimistic.

- Time magazine are explaining Why Pixar Is Better.

- IESB are reporting that Steve Pink is to direct Fletch Won and... wow.... Joshua Jackson is to play the title role. That's incredible.

Direct Download Link For That Shoot 'Em Up Trailer

Download and enjoy. Shoot 'Em Up could be just the ticket to a couple of hours of morally dubious gun play of the highest order - fingers in Xes.

Movie Minesweeper - The This Is Certainly A Job But I Don't Get Paid Edition

- Terry Brooks' Shannara books are headed to the big screen, in some form or another.

- Herc at AintItCool is trying to save Veronica Mars. Lend your support.

- The IESB report that D J Caruso is the first choice director for Wolverine, with Len Wiseman in backup. If you don't recall, I reviewed the Wolverine script and had almost nothing good to say about it at all.

- Fred Wolf is to direct the previously mentioned (somewhere on film ick, I'm sure, but I can't find the link) comedy in which Anna Faris plays an ex-Playboy bunny girl. If memory serves this was possibly going to be a TV series at some point...? I like Farris, a lot, but I wish she got better roles.

- The 50th Spoleta Festival is to honour Terry Gilliam, Andy Garcia and Paul Mazursky. At least it will, if it goes ahead...

- A Thundercats origin story has been optioned by Warners, with an eye to making a movie and merchandising the life out of it. The screenwriter, Paul Sopocy, hadn't sold a script before.

- A remake of Dressed to Kill is heading straight to DVD. Does anybody hold out any hope at all?

- Leandro Sanchez' Bitter Grapes is to star Julio Cedillo, Jacob Vargas and Laura Harring. Set on both sides of the US-Mexico border, the film is a family saga.

- Joel Hopkins, director of Jump Tomorrow, is back: this time, Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman are with him for the romantic drama Last Chance Harvey. The script was apparently written with the pair of actors in mind - but will that mean roles to type, or deliberately going against expectation?

- The official site for the Halloween rehash is now online. Like the theme remix?

- Disney are gearing up for a treasure hunt film. Simple concept: adults get together again to hunt for treasure they sought as kids. Could have been a Goonies sequel, and in a way, I suppose, it is. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film has no title yet but they've used the word Golden in quotes in the article title for a reason, I'm sure. Golden Years? Or just plain Golden? We'll know soon enough, I'm sure.

- Aki Kaurismaki, Bent Hamer and Dagur Kari are to collaborate on a feature, each directing a third. Twitch have a few more details.

- IGN are premiering the Shoot 'Em Up trailer. What do you reckon?

- In the midst of a sprawling blog update, Richard Stanley has announced that Imago Mortis is now in production.

- Peter O'Toole is to play Pope Paul III in The Tudors.

- A William M. Gaines biopic is in the offing. I think Joe Dante would be a good choice for director, perhaps John Landis. Joel Eisenberg is writing the script, telling the story of "an anti-establishment group of comic book creators, led by a reluctant Gaines, as they produce their controversial yet hugely popular line of comic books like Tales from the Crypt, which later led Gaines to face Senate subcommittee hearings over accusations of perpetuating juvenile delinquency".

- Allocine have mutliple My Blueberry Nights trailers for you to choose from.

- Walden are to make a comedy about a slacker running for mayor and "unexpectedly" winning the role. The scriptwriters come from Surf's Up, the director from Malcolm in the Middle and Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants.

Shoot 'Em Up Shots

Thanks to 'May Dupname', I've got a big pile of pictures from Michael Davis' Shoot 'Em Up. Expect the (previously) unexpected with this one: that is, a sleeper of 300 proportions. Similar proportions can be attained, pictorially speaking, by a simple click of the mouse up any of the images.

So, I'm betting this will make a mint. Not sure how good it will be, though. Not at all. Though I hope the original animated pitch reel is included on the eventual DVD.