It’s not unheard of for directors to leave projects—it is unusual is to have a director leave the project in the post-production process. This is the case with the reboot of Judge Dredd, as 24 Frames reports director Peter Travis (Vantage Point) has left the film during the editing process.
Sony has decided to give “Zorro” the reboot treatment. Writers Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia will be giving the masked swordsman a makeover based on Isabel Allende‘s 2005 novel.
There was only going to be one winner for Recommendation of the Week, Star Wars The Complete Saga. Finally the whole Saga is coming onto Blu-ray in one big boxset and has everything a Star Wars fan would want, commentaries, documentaries of the filmmaking process and even comedy sketches. But has fans’ patience been tested to the limit?
As with the past few major movie seasons, we of the PAM staff have pooled together our collective 10 most anticipated movies of Fall 2011. All we can say is this is not a fall you’re going to want to sleep through on your way to Holiday Season.
Colombiana is as inept a movie as I’ve seen in a long time. The film does virtually nothing right. The acting is wooden, the writing is atrocious and there’s little action to be found, actually. We’re supposed to care about this heroine, but everything about her story is clunky and unoriginal.
This week showcases lower-budget and smaller movies and Player Affinity honors that with our Recommendation of the Week, the comedy hit Swingers. Starring Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, Swingers is an inexpensive Blu-ray re-release that features documentaries, commentaries and the short film Swingblade.
IDW was known for its horror before its licensed titles. Here, we showcase some of the better series produced by IDW Publishing that focus on the more horrific side of comics. IDW’s first comic, which launched an infamous seven-way bidding war for a movie (which scored a 49% on Rotten Tomatoes), 30 Days of Night, was written by Steve Niles. Niles loves to write horror and has tackled numerous dark characters in the comic universe, including Batman, Spawn and his own creation, Simon Dark. His series 30 Days of Night was another vampire title, but with a creative twist: the vampires come to the Alaskan town of Barrow where, from mid-November to mid-December, the town is completely dark all day long. The perfect setting for a vampire. It’s feeding time!
Alright. So three seasons is not all
that young when it comes to the lifetimes of television shows, but
that’s my tagline. And just as with the ones from the first two
features, these series were also killed off before their time. In
this final installment I’ll cover five more series that were still
taken from us too soon, despite them lasting longer than many great
shows. There’s an old show about futuristic space, and a recent show
about the old west. A dramedy about a teen detective, and a comedy
about a dysfunctional family. And no list of great three seasons
shows would be complete without a cult classic featuring a tattoo
named Petunia.
Friday, July 22 will likely be the most exciting day of the Comic-Con 2011 convention featuring The Adventures of Tintin,
the exciting motion-capture animated film from Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg, who will in fact make his first Comic-Con appearance ever, ends with a Sony panel that includes The Amazing Spider-Man and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.
This year’s Emmy nominations have just been unveiled as reported by Ali, and two dramas dear to Player Affinity TV (PATV) have met strikingly different fates. Fringe was all but ignored while Game of Thrones not only won recognition but arguably broke the glass ceiling. Since the announcement yesterday, Fringe
seems to have garnered better chances in a less prestigious contest.
The series has been appearing systematically on lists about the “Biggest
Snubs” of this year’s Emmy Awards. Fox’s sci-fi drama received Emmy
nominations in 2009 and 2010 for visual effects and sound editing
respectively. For its third season, generally considered by fans as its
best by far, expectations were high. Many timidly hoped for a nomination
of the drama series itself, more felt Anna Torv’s performance deserved a
nod, but all agreed John Noble could not be denied an Emmy. Anna Torv
and John Noble have both impressed and delighted viewers by each of them
playing several characters throughout the season.
