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Jan 3, 2011 - 8:02 AM
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dragon53
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MONDAY, JANUARY 3
THE DARK TOWER---Javier Bardem (NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN) is the top candidate to star as Roland Deschain with Viggo Mortensen (THE LORD OF THE RINGS) coming in second according to the NEW YORK POST. The actor picked would star as Deschain in the three movies and possibly on the tv series.
V---Season 2 will have Jane Badler, who starred as an alien on the original series, joining the cast as Morena Baccarin's mother. Marc Singer, another original cast member, will guest star as a member of a secret organization of military and political leaders who oppose the aliens. Actor Morris Chestnut said, "In Season 2, we're going to see what the hybrid baby looks like... We're seeing a little bit more of the lizards' skin. [That is] something that we heard a lot from fans of the show, that they wanted more of that." Season 2 premiers on Tuesday, January 4.
24---Howard Gordon, executive producer of the tv series, said 20th Century Fox has rejected the script for the 24 movie, "As far as I know, it is in suspended animation. There is talk about re-approaching it. I understand (director/producer) Tony Scott is meeting with Kiefer to talk about ideas. People are still talking about it. I was disappointed [Fox] passed on the script but I'm certainly hopeful that the movie will get made at some point."
WORST SCI FI MOVIE---NASA scientists meeting at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the movie 2012 (John Cusack) is the worst sci fi movie ever in terms of scientific accuracy. Donald Yeomans, head of NASA's Near-Earth Rendezvous Mission said 2012 was, "exceptional and extraordinary...The film makers took advantage of public worries about the so-called end of the world as apparently predicted by the Mayans of Central America, whose calendar ends on December 21, 2012." He added, "The agency is getting so many questions from people terrified that the world is going to end in 2012 that we have had to put up a special website to challenge the myths. We have never had to do this before." Yeomans said about the movie's premise that a solar flare could cause super heating of the Earth's core, "It's absurd".
Other sci fi movies that were criticized were THE CORE (Hillary Swank), ARMAGEDDON (Bruce Willis), THE 6TH DAY (Arnold Schwarzenegger), VOLCANO (Tommy Lee Jones) and CHAIN REACTION (Keanu Reeves). The NASA group recommended BLADE RUNNER, GATTACA, JURASSIC PARK, CONTACT, METROPOLIS and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (original) as worthy sci fi movies. The NASA scientists joined the National Academy of Sciences' Science and Entertainment Exchange in calling for Hollywood to produce more scientifically realistic movies. Dustin Hoffman, a chemist at Maxwell House before starring in THE GRADUATE, endorsed its call for more credible sci fi movies.
COGAN'S TRADE---Brad Pitt stars in comedy movie underway about a mob enforcer who investigates a heist at a mob-protected poker game.
SUPERMAN---Natalie Portman denied reports she might star in the SUPERMAN reboot movie or THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Batman sequel, "No, I haven't heard anything."
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN---Diane Kruger (NATIONAL TREASURE) will star as Marie Antoinette in this movie about the final days of the French Revolution. Kruger replaces Eva Green (CASINO ROYALE). Gerard Depardieu and Lea Seydoux also star.
MEETING EVIL---Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Wilson and Leslie Bibb star in this movie about a struggling real estate salesman who joins a mysterious criminal on a 24-hour crime spree.
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Jan 3, 2011 - 8:18 AM
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Thor
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WORST SCI FI MOVIE---NASA scientists meeting at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the movie 2012 (John Cusack) is the worst sci fi movie ever in terms of scientific accuracy. Donald Yeomans, head of NASA's Near-Earth Rendezvous Mission said 2012 was, "exceptional and extraordinary...The film makers took advantage of public worries about the so-called end of the world as apparently predicted by the Mayans of Central America, whose calendar ends on December 21, 2012." He added, "The agency is getting so many questions from people terrified that the world is going to end in 2012 that we have had to put up a special website to challenge the myths. We have never had to do this before." Yeomans said about the movie's premise that a solar flare could cause super heating of the Earth's core, "It's absurd".
Other sci fi movies that were criticized were THE CORE (Hillary Swank), ARMAGEDDON (Bruce Willis), THE 6TH DAY (Arnold Schwarzenegger), VOLCANO (Tommy Lee Jones) and CHAIN REACTION (Keanu Reeves). The NASA group recommended BLADE RUNNER, GATTACA, JURASSIC PARK, CONTACT, METROPOLIS and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (original) as worthy sci fi movies. The NASA scientists joined the National Academy of Sciences' Science and Entertainment Exchange in calling for Hollywood to produce more scientifically realistic movies. Dustin Hoffman, a chemist at Maxwell House before starring in THE GRADUATE, endorsed its call for more credible sci fi movies.
They may have been bad in terms of scientific accuracy, but that's why they're FILMS and SCIENCE FICTION! I happen to like several of those films (and the ones they apparently liked too).
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(Seriously, though, knowing that Jane Badler was also on Neighbours somehow makes this even better.) 