July 2008 News Archive (Page 5)

Shia LeBouf was arrested for DUI after a traffic accident early Sunday morning in Hollywood.

According to The Hollywood Gossip, the actor was involved in a traffic collision around 3 a.m. when he flipped his truck while making a left hand turn.

LeBouf was hospitilized with injuries and had to undergo extensive hand injury.  Luckily the actor is recovering and should return to the set of Transformers 2 within one month. 

Luckily, the female passenger in LeBouf's truck and the driver of the other vehicle in the accident weren't seriously injured.

Previously set to start production this fall, Ridley Scott's much anticipated Nottingham has had its production date postponded indefinitely.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Notthingham has been delayed because of

1. The uncertainy of the upcoming Screen Actors Guild (SAG) inevitable strike
2. Weather
3. The script is not ready

The upcoming epic starring Russel Crowe will tell the Robin Hood story from a different angle, that from the persctive of the Sheriff of Nottingham.

The movie was previously set to release on November 6, 2009.  Please, don't hold your breath.

You can currently see Christian Bale fighting crime in Gotham City and breaking box office records as Batman in the wildly successful The Dark Knight.

Soon Terminator fans will be able to see Christian Bale leading the resistant and saving mankind as the grown up John Connor in the 2009 Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

While this poster may be more of a teaser, we couldn't help but reveal this sexy new Terminator Savlation movie poster.  Enjoy!

With Christian Bale onboard, to say that we're excited about this latest addition t othe Terminator franchise would be an understatement.

The Dark Knight set records with the biggest opening weekend last week with $153.3 million last weekend.

The Dark Knight doesn't look to be slowing down with the biggest second opening weekend at $75.6 million beating out previous record holder, Shrek 2.  Already the 23 top grossing movie of all time, The Dark Knight has earned a record fast $314.2 million in just 10 days.  Previous record holder was Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in 14 days.

How did other movies fare in the box office last weekend?

• Step Brothers - $30 million
• Mamma Mia! - $17.9 million
• X-Files: I Want to Believe - $10.2 million
• Journey to the Center of the Earth - $9.4 million

Does The Dark Knight have what it takes to beat out the current biggest domestic earner of all time, Titantic?  James Cameron should be nervous.

Here's another character preview for the upcoming Watchmen movie:

Patrick Wilson (Hard Candy, Little Children) takes on the role of Nite Owl in the big screen adaption of this comic book series. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actor talked about the man formerly known as Dan Dreiberg.

Patrick Wilson is Nite Owl and Malin Akerman (in the background) is Silk Spectre in Watchmen.

As an outlawed super hero, Nite Owl mopes around in a stupor. Wilson described the masked avenger to the aforementioned magazine with the following quote:

"He's a big man who's gotten soft."

Ray Stevenson takes over for Thomas Jane in the role of Frank Castle for Punisher: War Zone.

The movie comes out on December 5, but here's your first look at Stevenson as the title character:

Legendar comic writer Frank Miller (300) makes his solo debut with an adaptation of Will Eisner's 1940s comic strip The Spirit.

The movie is about a police officer who, after getting shot and killed, comes back to life... with a major agenda. '

'The Spirit is out for justice,'' said star Gabriel Macht who plays the title character. ''He's trying to clean up the city and find his killers.''

At first, Miller turned The Spirit down.

''But three and a half seconds later I said, 'Hold on, nobody else gets to touch it,''' he said. ''It's a comic strip that's had a tremendous effect on my own work.''

Do any of the movies opening this weekend have the power to take down The Dark Knight? We doubt it, as viewers have responded positively in many polls asking if they'd see the latest Batman film a second time.

Still, here's a closer look at the three flicks daring to open around the same time as the Caped Crusader...

Step Brothers
Stars: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly
Quick synopsis: Two immature adults become step brothers. Hilarity ensues.
Prediction: Solid reviews and the mere presence of Ferrell ought to be enough for a top three finish at the box office.

The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
Quick synopsis: Following in the mysterious footsteps of the TV series, film follows two agents in search of aliens. And the truth.
Prediction: It's been six years since the last film. X-Files fans may no longer be lining the streets, but we still see a second place finish for the movie.

Brideshead Revisited
Stars: Matthew Goode, Emma Thompson
Quick synopsis: The memoirs of a World War II captain take him back to his days at a British estate.
Prediction: Nowhere near the top five at the box office, but a possible Oscar contender.

Yesterday, we posted a controversial article that highlighted why we disliked The Dark Knight.

One point we forgot to make, though? We couldn't understand anything Batman said!

Looks like we weren't alone, either, as this clip spoofs the difficultly Christian Bale appeared to have enunciating in the role:

As fans of G.I. Joe are keenly aware of, Snake-Eyes is a black-clad warrior. The man is a silent, lethal assassin - with an emphasis on the silence.

But that almost wasn't the case in the upcoming movie based on the cartoon, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura admitted to MTV.

“We actually had Snake-Eyes utter one sentence at the very end of the movie,” di Bonaventura said “We thought [it] was very clever… [writer Larry Hama] didn’t think it was clever at all.”

Having penned all 155 issues of the original Marvel series, Hama was drafted by filmmakers to act as consultant to the project.

“The good news for us was we gave him the script and we held our breaths,” said di Bonaventura. “Because that was the moment where if he rejected the whole thing I’m not sure what we would have done. And what was great was he had really small notes, one or two very passionately held.

And what Larry said was no matter what you guys think, you can’t have Snake-Eyes utter a word.”

Actor Ray Park will be taking on the role of Snake-Eyes in G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, which is set for an August 7, 2009 release.