Archive for: August 2007

As a follow up to last year’s blockbuster Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan is set to direct Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Dark Knight, written by Jonathan Nolan, based on a story by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer. The film will be produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan. Additionally, Christian Bale will resume his role as Bruce Wayne and Academy Award nominee Heath Ledger has been cast as The Joker.

Starring: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Michael O’Keefe, Sydney Pollack,
Director: Tony Gilroy

Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house “fixer” at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen’s dirtiest work at the behest of the firm’s co-founder Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack). Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm.

Elton John once tried to commit suicide by putting his head in a gas oven.

The “Rocket Man” singer’s main lyricist Bernie Taupin walked in on the suicide attempt, which took place when the now openly gay singer was set to marry.

A new Elton biography claims: “Bernie once walked in on Elton trying to commit suicide when he was about to marry a woman named Linda Woodrow.

Billy Crystal wants to rake in $20 million-a-year as a late-night TV talk-show host.

The “Analyze This” star is keen to land a lucrative spot as the host of one of US TV’s most popular chat shows.

TV News reporter Simon Hunt and cameraman Duck have worked in the world’’s hottest war zones: from Bosnia to Iraq, from Somalia to El Salvador. Together they have dodged bullets, filed incisive reports and collected Emmy awards. Then one terrible day in a Bosnian village everything changes. During a live broadcast on national television, Simon has a meltdown. After that, Duck is promoted and Simon just disappears. Five years later Duck returns to Sarajevo with rookie reporter Benjamin to cover the fifth anniversary of the end of the war. Simon shows up, a ghost from the past, with the promise of a world exclusive.

Director: Shim Hyung Rae
Starring: Jason Behr , Amanda Brooks , Robert Forster , Craig Robinson
Release Date: September 14, 2007

Korean director Shim Hyung-Rae’s effects-saturated, long-in-the-tooth monster movie D-War begins with a lengthy prologue, in which an antique dealer named Jack (Robert Forster) watches a young patron, Ethan Kendrick (Cody Erens) get zapped with a force emanating from a chest in his shop. Realizing the significance of this event, Jack bequeaths a medal to the boy, and speaks candidly to him of mystical events that transpired a half-millennium earlier.

Ricky Martin wants to adopt a child from every continent.

The “She Bangs” star is planning to open his home to children from all over the world and create a “family of many colors,” …

In Theaters October 2007

Director: Bryan Bertino
Cast: Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Gemma Ward

Synopsis: A terrifying suspense thriller about a couple (Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman) in a remote suburban house who are targeted by three dangerous masked strangers.

Brad Pitt was called for jury duty in Los Angeles on 08.09.07

The “Fight Club” star - who has postponed his civic duty several times, due to work commitments - took a …

Director:     Rod Hardy
Starring:    Teresa Palmer , Daniel Radcliffe , Christian Byers , Lee Cormie 
Release Date: September 14, 2007

Prolific television and film director Rod Hardy helms this tale of four young orphans coming of age in 1960s-era Australia. Soon after the quartet leaves the orphanage behind for a seaside holiday, rumors that one of them is about to be adopted finds tensions steadily rising among the tightly-knit group. Adapted from