Category Archives: Movies

“Daredevil” movie news

While we’re talking about Marvel comic to movie
adaptations, we might as well mention
Daredevil. The official press release
from 20th Century Fox is available on
Ain’t It Cool News
. I have to say, with a
January release date planned, it doesn’t sound
promising. Add to that the writer and director
who has never handled this sort of movie before
(although he has done good work in other genres)
and Ben Affleck as Daredevil, and I’m not sure
what to think. I like the idea of Jennifer
Garner as Elektra and Michael Clark Duncan as the
Kingpin, but I’m really not sure about the
project as a whole.

LOTR DVD out in August, but wait until November

The full details on all four releases of Lord
Of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
are
available at
DVD File
. The two disk sets released on
August 6 sound like the regular two disk sets.
One will be widescreen, and the other will be
butchered. The November 12 editions both include
the director’s cut (which runs just short of four
hours) with two disks of extras. In fact, the
only drawback to the November editions I can see
would be that the movie doesn’t fit on one disk
(since it has three commentary tracks.)

Oscars: Beautiful Mind More Beautiful Than LOTR

Alexius
writes, I Know We All wanted The Fellowship
Of The Ring To Succede, But Apparently Sauron’s
Forces Are Too Strong, Er Something. Here‘s
A Decent List Of Oscar Winners.
Alexius
just saved me the trouble of finding that myself.
I’m disappointed with LOTR missing the major
awards, as well as Memento‘s losses in
both the editing and screenplay categories.

Geeks IRL trailer

Alexius writes, Black Cat has finished the trailer for ‘Geeks IRL’, A Mocumentary Of Geeks in Pittsburgh. It’s A Large Download, But Pretty Entertaining.

(Yes, I’m Biased, You’ll See How Biased When You Watch It.) The trailers are too large for me to download and watch at work. (They are 39 and 104 megabytes) but I’ll definitely take a look when I get home. In the meantime, what do you people think?

ET 2 – Spielberg makes sense

Cinscape
is reporting
on Spielberg’s response to the
suggestion of a sequel to E.T.. The
quote: “It ended exactly where it should have
ended. There is no postscript to it.” The
Cinescape article says a bit more. Suffice it to
say that there is at least one person in
Hollywood who needs more than a financial success
to convince himself to do a sequel.