A FILM fan who fell in love with Inverclyde's scenery because of a movie has paid a visit to the area. Catherine Groger, from near Seattle in America, came to Greenock and Gourock to visit the setting for the film Dear Frankie. The movie, written by Greenock...
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Month: August 2006
REVIEW: “300” THE MOVIE
Last week I had the chance to see the upcoming movie "300" based on the Frank Miller graphic novel at the first advanced screening Warner Bros. held in Los Angeles. Advanced screenings are an important part of the film development process, as they allow the studio to...
Butler, Wenham on Bringing 300 to Life
Like Sin City before it, The 300 will bring the work of graphic-novel writer and artist Frank Miller to the screen using live actors against a computer-generated background. Shot entirely on a soundstage in Montreal, the film centers on the ancient battle of...
300 — lookin’ good!
A sneak peek at a rough cut of 300, Zack Snyder’s new film based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel, was held the other night, and everyone signed a non disclosure then went out and posted on the internet. The one’s we’ve seen have been overwhelmingly positive. Here’s...
DARK HORSE COMICS SOLICITATIONS FOR NOVEMBER, 2006
Excerpt from complete article... [img]http://www.gerardbutler.net/images/store/art_300.jpg[/img] [b]THE ART OF MAKING 300[/b] On sale Jan. 17 FC, 200 pages $24.95 TPB, 9" x 12" What does it mean to turn one of the great graphic novels of our time into a major motion...
Two People Soil Themselves With Excitement Over 300
The buzz about 300 -- the newest Frank Miller adaptation, this one about the ever-popular Battle of Thermopylae -- had been slowly mounting for months when a teaser was shown at ComicCon. The moment it appeared, anticipation for Zack Snyder's film went through the...
My 300 Screening Report
Last night I had the unbelievable good fortune to be in the very first test audience for the movie 300. I'm just going to gush now.... This movie is f-ing AMAZING! It's far superior in look, story, and performances to Sin City. I was enraptured from the moment the...
The Fevered Pleasuring Of 300 Continues!!
Two More Reviews From Last Night's Screening... Merrick again... ...with two more messages from last night's screening of FRANK MILLER'S 300. I've had a really good vibe about this film since some of the earliest video diaries were revealed, and I'm desperately...
FRANK MILLER’S 300 screened tonight! And…
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. There was a test screening this night of Zack Snyder's film version of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300. I told ya' the Comic-Con footage was out of this world awesome and now you'll have two guys... one a big Frank Miller fan and the other...
300 Is Screened!
Scooper 'Liu' got a chance Thursday night to check out director Zack Snyder's 300, which won't hit theaters until March 9, 2007! Just saw Frank Miller's 300 at Winnetka 21 preview. Pretty intense ... the movie has very similar quality as Sin City...live action w/...
GERARD BUTLER AND ‘300’
The Spartan king leads the charge to meet Frank Miller, train alone and bring 480 B.C. to life again Gerard Butler never really saw himself doing a comic book film—but he’d also never read Frank Miller’s epic 300. The story of 300 Spartans facing off against a massive...
Quint interviews 300’s King Leonidis himself, Gerard Butler!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with another of my shorty Comic-Con interviews. I've been overwhelmed recently with pet health problems, so I've let these interviews slip back, unfortunately. I'll do my best to keep up with them, but I have some pretty tough days ahead of...
Exclusive: Zack Snyder on 300 & Watchmen
A few years ago, Universal decided to remake George Romero's 1977 horror classic "Dawn of the Dead" using an unknown commercial director named Zack Snyder, something that did not go over well with horror fans. That is, until they saw the movie, a gory spectacle every...
Speleers, Urban, Butler: Hunks of Comic-Con
There were a few young hunks on display at Comic-Con. Edward Speleers (left) stars in Fox 2000's entry in the post-LOTR period fantasy sweepstakes, Eragon. Stefan Fangmeier (the ILM VFX whiz-turned-director) finally found this rookie actor in London after sifting...
The Big 3 Kahunas at San Diego Comic-Con
Amongst the comic book stalls, toy/statue presentations, creator panels and costumed geeks rises the snarling behemoth that is Hollywood. San Diego Comic-Con is saturated in movie posters, elaborate presentation booths and big splash film panels. These panels hype the...
San Diego Comic-Con 2006
[i][/i] Saturday Maybe it’s because I’m used to Saturdays at Comic-Con, but Friday had seemed quiet by...
Beguiles, thanks largely to the sparse Icelandic landscape
Rating: 3.0 stars BEOWULF & GRENDEL: Syrupy and annoying. Icelandic director Sturla Gunnarsson treats the Old English epic about a foreign warrior enlisted by a broken Dane king to rid the land of a scourge with both respect and irreverence. The result is at times...
‘Beowulf’ puts spin on ancient epic
Beowulf & Grendel Movie Rating: (R) | Critic: B+ Holy Venerable Bede. It’s ‘‘Beowulf” time. Someone else finally has noticed that Seamus Heaney’s acclaimed 1999 translation of ‘‘Beowulf” was a bestseller. Recently, a Julie Taymor-directed opera titled ‘‘Grendel,”...
Vistas aside,’Beowulf’ isn’tquite poetry in motion
Because he lived somewhere around the end of the first millennium A.D., the anonymous writer of the Danish heroic epic we know as ``Beowulf" probably wasn't concerned with movie rights. Too bad; in retrospect he gave away the store. Following upon Seamus Heaney's...
WB pushing pix around
Tweaking its fall and winter release sked, Warner Bros. Pictures is pushing back the release of Curtis Hanson's poker pic "Lucky You," starring Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore and Robert Duvall, from Sept. 8 to Oct. 27. Moving out of the Oct. 27 frame is the McG-helmed...
‘Beowulf’ undertakes glorious deeds on stage and in films
Odds are, unless you're a college English major, you haven't read Beowulf in years — if you read it at all. Which makes the sudden flourishing of the 1,000-year-old epic in popular entertainment all the more peculiar. An opera and three movies, including a big-budget...
Warner Bros. Re-works Their Upcoming Schedule
Warner Bros. Pictures has rescheduled some of their upcoming fall and winter films. Variety released the new dates as: Lucky You: Curtis Hanson's poker pic, starring Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore and Robert Duvall, moves from September 8th to October 27th. We Are...
The Insider
Interviewer is Lara Spencer And Hunk Friday goes New York as Lara flirts her way through Manhattan with her new crush, Gerard Butler. Interviewer “Are you dating anybody? I’ll be jealous” GB “No then – I’m not.” The 35 year old Scotsman, who played The Phantom of the...
Classic lit translates into a classic failure
Sarah Polley has been one of the most fearless and astute young movie actresses of her generation. She takes chances and usually winds up being the best part of any movie she's in. Not so in "Beowulf & Grendel," Sturla Gunnarsson's cold and stark retelling of the...
Ancient epic poem `Beowulf’ seen through a modern prism
Two elements of "Beowulf & Grendel" make a mixed-up and unbalanced picture nearly worthwhile. One is Iceland. Shooting in various, epically craggy corners of a country that hasn't been location scouted to death, the film's makers resort to not a single...