The Hobbit - movie news

‘Hobbit’ alert: Evangeline Lilly joins the cast of the films - thestar.com
Evangeline Lily will play a wood elf named Tauriel.
Barry Humphries will play the Goblin King.
Luke Evans will play Bard, and Benedict Cumberbatch will be Smaug.
Martin Freeman will play Bilbo.
The movie will be release in 2 parts: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and The Hobbit: There and Back Again. They are to be released in 2012 and 2013.

Best Video Stores in Toronto

The Best Video Stores in Toronto
Great list of video stores, mainly downtown Toronto.
Read the link for details

Basic list:
Queen Video - Queen St West of Spadina, and Bloor East of Bathurst
The Film Buff - in Leslieville and Roncesvalles Village
Suspect Video - behind Honest Ed's - Bloor and Bathurst
Black Dog Video - Queen & Ossington
Eyesore Cinema -  Above Rotate This, on Queen St, East of Trinity Bellwoods Park.
7-24 Movies a& More - Church & Wellesley, and in Parkdale
Bay Street Video - Bay & Bloor
Videoflicks - Avenue Rd. N. of Lawrence
Big Daddy's DVD Shop - Dundas W. in The Junction

Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern coming to the big screen

Watchmen writer adapting Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern to film

Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern book series has garnered generations of fans. Now it's about to be translated for the screen by the screenwriter for Watchmen and X2, David Hayter.

According to Deadline,
producer Steve Hoban has been itching to make a Pern film forever. And
now David Hayter has been hired to write the script based on Dragonflight, the first book in McCaffrey's 22-book series.

I wasn't too impressed with The Watchmen movie. But I can't see how they can make Dragonflight dull. Here's hoping they do a good job on this.

John Cusack to star as Edgar Allen Poe in The Raven movie

Relativity Media To Release John Cusack Mystery-Thriller 'The Raven' | Hollywood.com
Poe (Cusack) will be a serial-killer-hunter - hunting for someone inspired by Poe's literary works.

Another vampire movie - Priest - looks like fun, hopefully.

How much crap can the vampire-slaying movie Priest cram into one trailer?

Future cities, motorcycles, brothers, CG monsters, CG vampires, cowboy
vampires, Emperor-esque priests, forehead burns, brothers on their
deathbeds, crucifix ninja weapons, lady warriors, train jumping — gasp!
Everything you've ever wanted from a monster vampire motorcycle movie is
in Priest.

As one commenter said:

This looks fantastically bad. Can't wait to see it

Yes, I do want to see this.

Lena Heady to take on Judge Dredd as Head she-villain?

Lena Heady to take on Judge Dredd as head she-villain?

The movie (which is being billed as a grittier version than the Sly
Stallone flick, and more faithful to the comics) is being directed by
Pete Travis.
Hooray!

Thor movie trailer

First trailer for Thor hits the web - Shadowlocked
In theatres May 6, 2011

Uwe Boll, King of Trash, to make a 3rd Bloodrayne movie

First look at Uwe Boll's third Bloodrayne movie — featuring Nazis who want to make Hitler a vampire!

Punks On Film

Destroy All Movies!! A Complete Guide to Punks on Film

Sucker Punch movie - This Looks Fun

New Sucker Punch trailer delivers robots, dragons and sexy lady fights
Watch the trailer.

Coming in March 2011

And here's another trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3707110937/

"The Fourth Kind" - a Cloverfield on the Moon

The Fourth Kind screenwriter's new film: Cloverfield on the Moon

"28 Months Later" movie in the works

28 Months Later: The Bottom Line - ShockTillYouDrop.com
Over the past few weeks, director Danny Boyle has been cornered and
queried at various promo screening Q&A's about the status of the 28 Days Later sequel, that's become known as 28 Months Later.
Each time, he's reiterated what he said two years ago, which is that
he’d like to direct it. Many of these queries may have come about from a
recent interview with original writer Alex Garland in which he said
there wasn't a script and any possibilities of it being made were tied
up in some issues revolving around the rights to make another film. ...

Trailer for the new Narnia movie: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Eustace Shows Up And Faints In The International Narnia: Dawn Treader Trailer
It looks like they added things to the story, but I think it will still be fun.

Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) is being considered for Ridley Scott's Alien prequel

Next Hot Female Role: Noomi Rapace In Hunt For Ridley Scott’s 3D ‘Alien’ Prequel – Deadline.com

Also, at the above link, is a trailer for the 3rd and final film in the Dragon Tattoo trilogy: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

Trailer for the new Tempest movie

The gender-swapping, hyper-stylized trailer for Shakespeare's The Tempest

Finnish Lord of the Rings

Bilbo and Frodo go to Helsinki in the Finnish Lord of the Rings

Boy Scouts Vs Zombies movie

Boy Scouts Vs. Zombies, the movie, gets a director

Monsters coming soon

New Monsters preview gives a first glimpse of Mexico's intergalactic horror
Check out the trailer.
This looks to be something like a blend of District 9 and Cloverfield and ...

Norway's Troll Hunter movie/documentary!

Norway's massive Troll cover-up exposed!

Hobbit movie news

David Yates to Take on The Hobbit? - CraveOnline.com
David Yates, the director of several of the most recent Harry
Potter films, is said to be in the running to take over
direction on The Hobbit, says a report by /Film.
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