"A certain Comic-Con-timed announcement caught our eye:"Prince of Persia" creator Jordan Mechner is penning Prince of Persia - A Graphic Novel Anthology to arrive in April 2010, a month ahead of the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (out May 28, 2010), starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The full-color novel, 128 pages in hardcover and paperback, will include six stories written by Mechner, who created the original Prince of Persia video games. McFarlane has a busy slate at Comic-Con. In addition to a Prince of Persia panel, he has a new comic, Haunt, debuting there. Comic-Con, which began in 1970, has changed over the years for McFarlane. "It's a pop culture-con now. You can argue us comic guys who were there at the beginning of it are getting pushed to the corners," he says. "You went to buy and trade comic books and show your portfolio around". Source: content.usatoday.com
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner at Comic Con (Press Conference), on 23rd July 2009.
"When asked about a possible romantic relationship between the two, the studio (who requested people refrain from asking personal questions) stepped in to cut the reporter off. Stewart laughed at the question and only offered an 'are you kidding me?'
She was more open when talking about the movie and her character Bella. “This movie is not about discovery or falling in love,” Stewart said. “Bella is basically manic-depressive.” When asked about any changes she may have gone through, she pointed out the obvious: “I cut my hair off.” Pattinson also jumped in on the conference fun calling New Moon “one of the most relaxing jobs I’ve ever done” and offered that the film is “a completely different mood” than the first film.
Taylor Lautner also revealed a movie teaser: “There’s double the action in this movie.”
So what was Pattinson’s reaction to the romance rumors? The British hottie kept the talk to their characters.“Bella ends up saving Edward like she does in every book”, Pattinson said. “I find it funny that the hero is always being saved by the damsel in distress.” Source: www.radaronline.com
IRON MAN 2 STARRING Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, and Scarlett Johansson DIRECTED BY Jon Favreau RELEASE DATE May 7, 2010Buzz around the first Iron Man started building at the 2007 Comic-Con — the success caught many people by surprise. Now, three months into shooting on Iron Man 2 — in which Stark faces off against Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke), a Russian inventor who adopts the nom de evil Whiplash — star Robert Downey Jr. is the underdog no more. ''There are a lot more invisible eyes on us now'', Downey says. —Josh Rottenberg.ALICE IN WONDERLAND
STARRING Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Mia Wasikowska DIRECTED BY Tim Burton RELEASE DATE March 5, 2010
Burton's Alice explores the angst beneath the surface of the classic about a girl (Wasikowska) seriously interrupted. ''It's about somebody who has a rich fantasy life, who feels alone in a strange world'', he says. ''Pretty much my life.'' —Christine Spines."Burton worked with girlfriend Bonham Carter, who plays the evil Red Queen, and alter ego Depp, who's the Mad Hatter: ''Johnny defi nitely gets Alice in Wonderland,'' says Burton. ''He's probably been there himself many times.'' —CSPAPER HEART STARRING Charlyne Yi, Michael Cera DIRECTED BY Nicholas Jasenovec RELEASE DATE Aug. 7, 2009 Not quite a documentary, not quite fiction, Paper Heart is a hybrid: A movie starring Yi (Knocked Up) as herself, on a quest to shoot a documentary about true love and whether it actually exists. —ABV Source: www.ew.com
Very few takes of Jake Gyllenhaal smoking in his movies and zero in real life, in "Brothers" he appears in a low-fi environment, showing brooding looks and maybe that his blue-collar character smokes it gives us an indication of his nervousness and intensity: Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brothers" (2009).Sean Penn in "U Turn" (1993). Emile Hirsch in "The dangerous lives of Altar boys" (2002).Anton Yelchin and Kat Dennings in "Charlie Bartlett" (2007). Robert Pattinson on the set of "Remember me".Kristen Stewart on the set of "The Runaways".Sean Penn.Catherine Deneuve.Elisha Cuthbert.James Franco.Jonathan Rhys Meyers.Anne Hathaway in "Brokeback Mountain" (2005).Willa Holland.Shia Labeouf.Taylor Warren.
New stills from "New Moon". Source: www.newmoonmovie.org "Robert Pattinson is having an Obi-Wan Kenobi moment. Inside a soundstage where "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is shooting, the lanky English heartthrob stands in front of a tall, wide green screen murmuring a tender admonition, "You promised me nothing reckless." The plan is to digitally insert Pattinson, who plays swoony good guy vampire Edward Cullen, into a scene that was filmed much earlier -- one in which he appears as a spectral vision to his costar, Kristen Stewart, cautioning her headstrong character, Bella Swan, against hanging out with some unsavory-looking biker types. The team working on this sequel to last year's Catherine Hardwicke-directed "Twilight," which brought in an unexpected $365 million worldwide for Summit Entertainment, is moving quickly to sustain the momentum of the sexy, youth-oriented franchise". Source: www.latimes.com
"As highly anticipated as it is, the trailer for The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Michael Sheen's Alice In Wonderland is a bit complicated to watch, it seems. From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes an epic 3D fantasy adventure ALICE IN WONDERLAND, a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. JOHNNY DEPP stars as the Mad Hatter and MIA WASIKOWSKA as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. The all-star cast also includes ANNE HATHAWAY, HELENA BONHAM CARTER and CRISPIN GLOVER.Capturing the wonder of Lewis Carroll’s beloved “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass” (1871) with stunning, avant-garde visuals and the most charismatic characters in literary history, ALICE IN WONDERLAND comes to the big screen in Disney Digital 3D™ on March 5, 2010". Source: www.examiner.com
A musical video featuring some scenes from the film "Thirteen" (2003) directed by Catherine Hardwicke, with Nikki Reed as the teenage temptress Evie Zamora & Evan Rachel Wood as the atribilious Tracy Freeland, and stills from "Jennifers' Body" (2009), written by Diablo Cody and starred by Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried.
"Share the excitement of Elvis Presley's earth-shattering introduction to the nation in this collection of iconic performances from "The Ed Sullivan Show". Appearing on the show Sept. 9, 1956, Elvis sent shock waves through a repressed nation with his soulful singing, wild hip gyrations and raw energy, attracting a record-breaking TV audience of more than 60 million people. Presley returned on Oct. 28, 1956, continuing to provoke ecstatic screams with hits such as "Don't Be Cruel", "Love Me Tender" and "Hound Dog". These exhilarating performances were so explosive that Elvis was filmed above the waist during his final Sullivan show appearance on January 6, 1957".SPECIAL FEATURES: Remembering Ed and Elvis; Why Ed Didn't Host Elvis' First Appearance; Elvis and Ed: Intros and Promos; Caught on Celluloid: The First Moving Pictures of Elvis Presley; Special Elvis Moments; Jerry Shillings Home Movies; Documents from the Graceland Archives; Documents from the Sullivan Archives. Release Date: 8/4/09