Ninja Assassin (2009)
Cast: Sung Kang, Randall Duk Kim, Naomie Harris
Director: James McTeigue
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski, Matthew Sand
Runtime: 99 minutes
Genre: action, crime, drama
Watched this last night, GREAT film…must see..
Toy Story 3
Columbia Pictures has cancelled Spider-Man 4 and will now develop “a younger, cheaper installment of the superhe
ro franchise”, without the assistance of Tobey Maguire or director Sam Raimi.
The movie was scheduled for a 2011 release, but the studio last week put it on indefinite hold due to “script problems”, Variety explains. Columbia already had a contingency plan based on a James Vanderbilt script which centres on a teenage Peter Parker as he “grapples with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises”.
Studio co-chairman Amy Pascal described the change of tack as “a rare opportunity to make history once again with this franchise”, adding: “We’re very excited about the creative possibilities that come from returning to Peter’s roots.”
Raimi, who didn’t see eye-to-eye with Columbia over Spider-Man 4, graciously said: “While we were looking forward to doing a fourth one together, the studio and Marvel have a unique opportunity to take the franchise in a new direction, and I know they will do a terrific job.”
The fourth outing for the franchise, which as yet has no director or star attached, will hit the silver screen in summer 2012. Columbia stands to save a few bucks since it “won’t be paying the high salaries or gross points to returning talent”, Variety notes. ®
A movie revolution will take place at the end of the year – potentially offering as big a leap in our viewing experience as the change from black-and-white television to colour.
James Cameron, the film director who pushed technical effects to the limit with the blockbuster Titanic in 1997, and ushered in the dawn of action films with ’80s classics such as Terminator and Aliens, has unleashed the film he has been hoping to make for nearly 20 years.
Avatar, when it is released in December, will be the most ambitious 3D film ever released, and the first trailer, unveiled on the Internet yesterday, gives us a glimpse of the future.
