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| Posted: [unable to retrieve full-text content]Springsteen & I is a patchwork of fan footage that matches the storytelling of the man himself. |
| Posted: WHILE last year's ultraviolent Judge Dredd flick Dredd scored mostly solid reviews and enthusiastic reception from fans, it failed to find much of an audience. The US$45mil (RM143mil) film grossed just US$36mil (RM114mil) worldwide. But you can't keep a good Judge down, and strong home video sales may yet prove the key to a big-screen comeback for Karl Urban's grim, constantly-helmeted (as he should be) interpretation of the 2000AD comic hero. According to Urban, who was at last week's San Diego Comic-Con, Dredd sold about 650,000 units on home video in the first week. The science fiction entertainment news website Airlock Alpha (www.airlockalpha.com) said Urban had met with Dredd writer-producer Alex Garland to explore the possibility of a sequel. "It's certainly my hope that we get to make more ... clearly it has found an audience," Urban said at a Comic-Con media event, referring to the home video numbers. "I think the more people that campaign for it, the more people that e-mail, Twitter and write into (studio) Lionsgate and say 'We want to see more of this,' then the more likelihood that we'll get to see that. We certainly are doing everything we can to ensure that happens." Lionsgate – the law is quite clear on this. And Beverly Hills Cop 4, too FIRST, The Shield creator Shawn Ryan tried to get a Beverly Hills Cop TV series going, starring Brandon T. Jackson as the son of Axel Foley, who was played by Eddie Murphy in the three BHC movies. A pilot episode was made but failed to get the green light to go to series. Hope is not lost, according to the entertainment website Dark Horizons (www.darkhorizons.com). Ryan tweeted: "Sad to report that efforts to land Beverly Hills Cop pilot at another network have failed. This iteration is dead for now. Good news for fans ... the pilot tested so well, it has caused Paramount to put another #BHC movie into development." That's all for now – no word on whether it will feature Foley, Foley Junior or both. |
| Posted: Hugh Jackman returns home to Sydney to reprise the role that made him an international action star. The Chinese Garden of Friendship in Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia resembles a Japanese temple with the help of some Hollywood magic. Chinese pergolas are draped in black banners with Japanese letterings. A coffin is placed at the entrance of the garden. Surrounding the area are "moaners" dressed in black, some mingling while others are taking a coffee break. This elaborate set has been erected for the grand funeral scene in The Wolverine. It's just after 11am on a weekday but the cast and crew have been hard at work since the break of dawn. They have only a few days to finish this scene before moving on to their next site, a suburb just outside of Sydney. Among the hundreds of movie extras, most of them Asians, is a familiar face – the signature sideburns, the intense eyes, that body, the clenched fist and the claws – it is Wolverine. But wait, there goes another one, dressed exactly the same. Both are stunt and body doubles for the award-winning actor Hugh Jackman who plays the titular role. But Jackman and director, James Mangold (Walk The Line, 3:10 To Yuma) rarely used the doubles during my day on the set of the movie. In fact, Jackman did most of the stunts himself, except for the really dangerous ones. "I'm not that crazy," he tells me. The Wolverine finds Logan aka Wolverine in modern day Japan where he meets up with Yashida, a man he saved during the war. To repay Logan for saving him, Yashida promises to make him mortal. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, Logan is forced to confront his inner struggle – does he remain immortal, save humans in need and outlive everyone he knows, or does he give up his immortality? Principal photography for The Wolverine began in New South Wales, Australia late July last year and later moved to Tokyo before the cast and crew headed back to Sydney Filming was to take place in Japan in 2011, but the devastating earthquake, the resulting tsunami and the nuclear power station catastrophe caused the filmmakers to rethink their logistics. What is it like to finally be shooting this movie after such a long wait? Jackman: I've waited 12 years to have this Japanese saga told. From the first week I was in the first X-Men set I had this comic and I was reading it. I remember saying, "One day I'm going to do this story". It's nice to know that despite some delays, we have started. James, where do you see Logan in this movie and how are you putting your stamp on it? For me, the focus of this movie has been very specific. I wanted to place this movie at the end of the timeline of all the existing movies. I didn't want to hand off to a pre-existing story. I was interested in the idea that spoke to me from the original Claremont/Miller epic, which was this idea of finding Logan at a point where he's questioning his immortality. In fact, when I met up with Fox studios about the concept of my work, I had five words written on the back of the script, "Everyone I love will die". I felt that the story I wanted to tell was about this man who in a way felt cursed – everyone he cared about or knew, be it people he fought with in X-Men, his wife or others will be gone and he'll be all alone. His immortality is his purgatory, his own hell. And that's what I wanted to tell in The Wolverine. What do you think makes you Wolverine? Jackman: I could never take sole credit for being one of the loved characters of the comic book series. I'm just grateful to the fans for embracing me for playing the part. I never thought my run could last this long. I've found my character to be very fascinating and a little frustrating because I never really delivered the core of who this character really is. Hugh, how do you stay physically fit and what's the Dwayne Johnson diet? It gets harder by the year. I had to train a little more than usual to get that leaner animalistic look and I wanted to bulk up, which is hard because I'm naturally skinny. I called Dwayne for help on how to bulk up. I saw him in Fast & Furious 5 and he put on about 12 kilos of muscles in six months. I wanted the same, so he sent me his entire routine and I followed that. It was 6,000 calories a day! I started eating six to seven meals filled with lots of protein and brown rice and I trained for three hours a day. The Wolverine opens in cinemas nationwide today. |
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