Roger Avary

E3 2008: First Wolfenstein Footage

DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008

Having announced the game already, publisher Activision has released the first footage from Wolfenstein, the current-gen entry in the long-running Nazi-slaying shooter series. The title goes back to World War 2 once again, having you battle Nazi’s using sci-fi weapons and supernatural powers. In development at Raven Software alongside Singularity, the game is due out sometime [...]

E3 2008: Singularity and Wolfenstein at Raven

DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008

Activision has revealed that Raven Software is working on a first-person shooter called Singularity. While no additional details were given, the company noted that the game is an “all-new wholly owned intellectual property.” Additionally, the company announced that Raven is also working on the new Wolfenstein game. Here’s the deal: Set within a near-fictional, historical WWII [...]

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Avary Does Not Want todo Silent Hill Sequel

Screenhead (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008

While the Silent Hill movie is panned almost universally, I personally found it quite interesting, with the underlying message being subtle and open to several interpretations. However, the screenwriter of the original movie - Roger Avary - won’t be behind the sequel. Avary is credited with Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe and Rules of Attraction. In [...]

David Fincher to Produce Animated Comic Book Film The Goon

/Film (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008

“Feed me, feed me comics,” booms Hollywood. According to TheGoon.com, /Film fave, David Fincher, has optioned movie rights for The Goon with plans to adapt the Dark Horse comic book into a CG animated film from Blur Studio. If this news sounds familiar, back in March it was announced that Fincher would team with Blur [...]

bustin up my brains for the words

WWdN: In Exile (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008

In fact, I've learned a few things that may be obvious to more experienced writers, but have been useful to me, so come with me, for a moment, while I share a few of the things I've discovered about the transitions from non-fiction to fiction, and short-form to longer-form writing . . . ... When I write narrative non-fiction, my goal is to faithfully recreate the experience as best as I can, I've tried...

MirrorMask

Ambival.net (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008

“It's just life.” “It's just stupid.” Hmm … I have to say, I was really looking forward to seeing this again having, I think, only seen it once before. But I can't help but feel a little let down by it a second time around. Everything I said below still applies – even that it is a [...]

Romance of the Three Kingdoms Coming to PC

DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008

Koei has announced that it is going to bring Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI to the PC. It is set for release in North America on July 29. Originally released for consoles last year, the game is the latest in the historical simulation franchise that allows players to relive the period between the end [...]

MooPig's Movie Challenge Department: Beowulf 2007

MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008

Forget the movie; watch the bonus features showing how this flick is made... it could start us on a new journey: Reverent Blog-Patrons and Readers: Your mission if you should chose to accept it is to rent this flick at your leisure, and watch the bonus features, "How it's Made" and lend me a comment to this effect: 1) What the heck? 2) Can even I make a movie in this fashion? 3) Is this the cat's meow?...

Beowulf, Retail & Rental (Warner Home Video)

The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008

Robert Zemeckis's thrilling fantasy adventure thrusts a battle axe into the notion that cartoons have to be aimed at children.

Shock Therapy

American Spectator (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008

Why our tormented souls need torturous films.

Beowulf

IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008

Website Buy the 2-disc director’s cut ( HMV ) Buy it ( HMV ) Buy the 2-disc director’s cut (Amazon) Buy it (Amazon) Buy it on Blu-ray (Amazon) Read our review Ray Winstone interview Anthony Hopkins interview Crispin Glover interview Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary and Steve Starkey interview View Beowulf photos

David Fincher to Take on “Black Hole”

Screenhead (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008

What once was TV show revivals is now becoming comic book revivals. Yes, Hollywood seems keen on cracking the comic nerd market after the ridiculous success that was 300. Hell, even the French are at it, after adapting Persepolis to much critical acclaim. Now things are moving on, with almost everything Frank Miller spilt ink [...]

Tonight: Charles Burns at Powell's.

Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008

We already put it in Busy Week , but just a reminder: Charles Burns, tonight, Powell's (1005 W Burnside). 7:30. Free. The reading should be all the more interesting now that David Fincher's been tapped to direct the film version of Black Hole , with Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman ( Beowulf ) possibly adapting the script. So speaketh Variety : David Fincher is attached to direct Black Hole for Paramount...

Fincher gets sucked into ‘Black Hole’

Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008

Mastermind director David Fincher looks like he’ll be more productive than ever. Known for being sporadic in his film making, he’s got The Curious Case of Benjamin Button coming out of the shoot only a year after Zodiac, and now, he’s just signed on to direct an adaptation of the cult comic “Black Hole”. Our friends [...]

The Dailies: February 21, 2008

MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008

- Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon Levitt to headline live-action “Akira” adaptation. (AICN) - The Curious Case of the Teenage Plague: David Fincher to direct “Black Hole” from a script by Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman. Story centers on a radical STD sweeping through American high schools. (Hollywood Reporter) - On golden wings: Former hobbit Dominic Monaghan makes [...]