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Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | yesterday
“Hancock” director Peter Berg, who created “Friday Night Lights” (which features an obnoxious Texas guy in a wheelchair named “Herc”), now plans to direct “Hercules: The Thracian Wars” from a screenplay by somebody named Ryan Condal.It’s based on a five-issue Radical comic book series by Steve Moore ("Tom Strong's Terrific Tales"). (Radical is the same publisher behind “Caliber,” which is being developed...
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Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Peter Berg has added another film to his seemingly endless list of projects: an adaptation of the Radical comic book title Hercules: The Thracian Wars.
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WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Little Tony and Takeshi co-star again... this time around in John Woo's Red Cliff It's so late as I write this blog entry that even though I'm treating it as Tuesday night, we're now officially into Wednesday morning. So this is going to just be a quick and dirty "heads up" that the bc magazine website has finally been updated, making it so that the following film reviews by moi -- and quite a bit...
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Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Red Cliff (赤壁) is Asia's most expensive movie ever though its turned that huge price tag into cinema success scoring big results across Asia, none more so than in China where lines at theaters have been far longer than usual. The movie is full of famous stars including Tony Leung, Takeshi Kanishiro, Hu Jun, Lin Chiling, and Zhao Wei and almost had Chow Yun-fat, though he may make an appearance in part...
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caffeine-headache (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I will be at San Diego's Comic Con later this week looking for more info on this one! Filmmaker John Woo has been hired to direct the adaptation of the forthcoming graphic novel Caliber that will debut next week...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Film News: 'The Good the Bad' pummels John Woo film -- Chinese actioner "Red Cliff" fell steeply in its second frame in Asian territories where it faced fresh competition.
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KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
John Woo will direct comicbook adaptation "Caliber," to be unveiled at next week's Comic-Con in San Diego. Radical Comics' hit story sets King Arthur and his knights as 19th century gunslingers in the Pacific Northwest..
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Film Reviews: One of the most ballyhooed Asian productions in recent history, and the most expensive Chinese-lingo picture ever, John Woo's costume actioner "Red Cliff" scales the heights.
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TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
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ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
July 18th, 2008, LOS ANGELES – Radical Publishing is proud to announce that famed director, John Woo (Red Cliff, Mission Impossible 2) has signed on to direct the film adaptation of Caliber , based on Radical Publishing’s Caliber: First Canon of Justice written and created by Sam Sarkar. Caliber will be produced by John Woo’s Lion Rock Productions, Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil, and Radical Pictures,...
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Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
John Woo agrees to direct Caliber, a reinvention of the King Arthur legend.
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MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
- Megan Fox says “Transformers 2″ has twice the budget of the original ($300 million') (IGN) - “Robocop” remake actually a sequel. Darren Aronofsky reportedly being eyed for the director’s chair. (Bloody Disgusting) - First trailer for Ridley Scott’s “Body of Lies” with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio pops up online. (Coming Soon) - Giggity, giggity, goo! A [...]
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Filmmaker John Woo has been hired to direct an adaptation of the upcoming comic book Caliber that will debut next week at Comic-Con. The comic story sets King Arthur and his knights as 19th century gunslingers in the Pacific Northwest. Apparently this one necessarily be Woo's next film, since he's finish up work on his two-part epic Red Cliff and has other projects lined up afterwards, including a...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Filed under: Action , Independent , Sci-Fi & Fantasy , Deals , Newsstand , Comic/Superhero/Geek , Western There is a real trend of King Arthur revisionism lately -- first there was Galahad , then Brian K. Vaughn's Roundtable , and now John Woo is taking a crack at it with Caliber . Variety reports that the rights to the series have been snatched up by Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil, Barry Levine's...
