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Ant-Man will come out of his hole in 2015

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 01:51 AM PDT

SAN DIEGO (Relaxnews) -- Disney has set the release of the Edgar Wright-directed superhero film Ant-Man for November 6, 2015.

Officially announced at San Diego's Comic-Con, Ant-Man will roll out worldwide in November 2015. It will be the first film based on the Marvel character.

Ant-Man is the alter-ego of a scientist named Henry Pym who is able to change his size at will and communicate with ants.

The cast has yet to be determined. Adrien Brody and Benedict Cumberbatch were previously mentioned for the title role, and you can expect the actor who gets it to fight with other Marvel heroes in the next chapter of The Avengers.

Disney hired an English duo for the film described as the "first Marvel comedy": Shaun Of The Dead and Scott Pilgrim director Edgar Wright and scriptwriter Joe Cornish, who made a splash last year with his directorial debut Attack The Block.

Ant-Man is the latest addition to phase 2 of the cycle "Marvel Cinematic Universe," which will launch in 2013 with Iron Man 3 (May) and Thor: The Dark World (November), followed by Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 4, 2014 and Guardians Of The Galaxy in August 2014. Avengers 2 will bring the cycle to its conclusion on May 1, 2015.

Acclaimed Japanese director Koji Wakamatsu dies

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 12:58 AM PDT

TOKYO (AFP) - Award-winning Japanese director Koji Wakamatsu, whose film career started in pornography and ended in acclaimed independent productions, has died after being hit by a taxi, an aide said Thursday.

Wakamatsu was 76, and had only two weeks ago been named Asian Filmmaker of the Year at the region's biggest film festival in Busan, South Korea, for his contribution to independent cinema.

Interviewed by AFP in Busan, the Caterpillar director had said he felt his films were undervalued in Japan, "so this is a great honour for me". "I am an independent filmmaker and this goes against the system in Japan. But you have to make the films that are in your heart, not films other people want you to make," he said.

Wakamatsu was hospitalised on Friday after being hit by a taxi as he crossed the road in a busy commercial district of Shinjuku in Tokyo, according to Kazuya Shiraishi, an employee in his production company.

He died on Wednesday evening, Shiraishi said.

Wakamatsu first came to international attention when Secrets Behind The Wall was featured at the 1965 Berlin International Film Festival.

In a career that spanned more than 100 movies, he was as noted for his work exploring strong social themes as he was for his contribution to adult films. He was prominent in Japan's notorious "pink" or soft-porn genre with Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1968) and entered the mainstream through his involvement in the likes of the acclaimed 1976 erotic drama In The Realm Of The Senses.

His 2008 United Red Army centred on the Japanese Maoist group of the same name that became involved in a protracted police stand-off after they took a woman hostage in rural Japan. The film won the Best Asian Movie Award at Berlin.

In 2010, the actress who starred in his film Caterpillar, Shinobu Terajima, won the best actress award at the Berlin festival.

Writing on her blog on Thursday, Terajima, 39, paid poetic tribute to a man she said had a "burning passion" for his art. "He disappeared so suddenly, the director who likes to surprise people. I want him to show up again, saying he's just kidding.

"The director who is considerate, who sides with the weak and turns on the strong, who loves liquor and good food, who had a burning passion for film-making. Oh, where on earth are you?" she wrote.

Wakamatsu's last work was Sennen no yuraku (The Millennial Rapture), which featured at this year's Venice International Film Festival.

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Khamis, 18 Oktober 2012

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