Chris Penn Found Dead
Posted by steelcage at January 25, 2006, 1:38 am.
Tuesday , January 24, 2006
 LOS ANGELES ( Zap2it.com)- Chris Penn, the actor known for both his roles in movies such as "All the Right Moves," "Footloose" and "Reservoir Dogs" and his run in with the law for driving while intoxicated was found dead in a Santa Monica, Calif. condominium, on Tuesday (Jan. 24) afternoon.
His body was discovered after someone alerted police who gave his age as 40, although other sources have it as 43. There were no sounds of foul play and an autoposy will determine the exact cause of death.
In addition to his film career, most recently Penn has been appearing on show's like The WB's "Everwood" and HBO's "Entourage." He was one of the three male leads in CBS' short-lived David E. Kelley drama "The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire."
Penn's father Leo was a noted television director until his death in 1998. He's survived by his brothers, actor Sean and musician Michael and his mother, actress Eileen Ryan.
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Current box office Top 10
Posted by steelcage at January 23, 2006, 6:16 pm.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "Underworld: Evolution," Sony, $27.6 million.
2. "Hoodwinked," Weinstein Co., $11 million.
3. "Glory Road," Disney, $9.1 million.
4. "Last Holiday," Paramount, $9.1 million.
5. "Brokeback Mountain," Focus, $7.8 million.
6. "Fun With Dick and Jane," Sony, $6.1 million.
7. "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," Disney, $6 million.
8. "Hostel," Lions Gate, $4.3 million.
9. "The New World," New Line, $4.2 million.
10. "End of the Spear," Rocky Mountain, $4.2 million.
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Serenity Might Fly Again?
Posted by steelcage at January 10, 2006, 2:26 pm.
Loni Peristere, visual-effects supervisor for the SF movie Serenity, told SCI FI Wire that there's hope for future flights of the cast and crew of the movie, which just came out on DVD. Director Joss Whedon—who also created the canceled Fox TV show Firefly, on which the movie is based—expected that the movie might draw the low numbers it did in its theatrical release, Peristere said in an interview. But he added that the movie's sales on DVD, which came out on Dec. 20, are running neck-and-neck with the hit comedy Wedding Crashers, which bodes well for a possible Serenity sequel.
"We kind of expected this from our audience," Peristere said. "We did so well on [Amazon.com] with the Firefly box set and the performance of that helped us get the movie made. We wish the audience would get up and go to the theater, but it shows that they like to keep coming back and revisiting the world Joss created." Serenity made $25 million at the domestic box office after it was released Sept. 30.
Whedon and his crew are waiting to see how well the DVD numbers go before proceeding with a Serenity sequel, Peristere said. "We really hope to return to this work," he said. "We love the characters. It's fun storytelling, and we all love using our talents. ... It all depends on Joss. He's not giving up on the characters. He had incredible writers who had a million stories to tell, and we're all just hanging out and seeing what the world has to give us, and given the opportunity we'll make more."
In the meantime, fans of both show and movie can enjoy the DVD's various extras, which include an easter egg: a featurette about the making of the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial that appears in the film. "In the main menu, if you play around with the buttons you'll find a featurette of the Fruity Oaty Bar," Peristere revealed. (From the main menu highlight "play," then press left, which will highlight a marker on the right side of the menu; press enter to see the featurette.) "It's all a lot of fun," he said.
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Superman Returns Images
Posted by steelcage at January 7, 2006, 12:10 am.
Warner Brothers has released four new images from writer/director Bryan Singer's upcoming Superman Returns movie, which are featured on SCI FI Wire's Photo Gallery page.
The new images show star Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel, Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor and Parker Posey as Kitty Koslowski.
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Whedon: No More Firefly
Posted by steelcage at January 3, 2006, 1:23 pm.
Firefly/Serenity creator Joss Whedon told USA Today that he still hopes to tell more stories set in the futuristic universe, but added that there's no chance he'll do another Firefly TV show. "We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone," Whedon told the newspaper before Christmas. "And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever comes next won't be, either. But I would love to tell more stories of this universe and to hang out with these people on and off for the rest of my career."
Serenity, based on the canceled Fox TV show Firefly, hit theaters last September and has pulled in a disappointing $25.4 million domestically since opening Sept. 30, 2005. The movie is now available on DVD. "The best-case scenario is that the DVD is such a spectacular, monster hit that we get to make another movie," Whedon said. "Then we get to make another movie. After three movies, we're all very tired. After Serenity: Revolutions, we feel like we've played it out. And then we make another series."
Whedon is currently writing the script for Wonder Woman, which he is slated to direct once Warner Brothers signs off.
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Resident Evil 3 Casting Rumored
Posted by steelcage at December 30, 2005, 8:20 pm.
The BloodyDisgusting.com Web site reported rumors that Sienna Guillory and Milla Jovovich will return in the third Resident Evil movie, subtitled Afterlife. Guillory will reprise the role of Jill Valentine in the Sony Screen Gems sequel, and Jovovich will again play Alice. Mike Epps also returns.
Paul W.S. Anderson, who helmed the first Resident Evil film and wrote the second, will again write and direct, the site reported.
The site added that the third installment will introduce the characters of Leon Kennedy and Wekser from the Resident Evil video games, on which the movies are based. Resident Evil: Afterlife, which deals with a world overrun by mutant zombies, is aiming at a 2007 release.
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Lost Wins Entertainment Kudo
Posted by steelcage at December 27, 2005, 10:44 pm.
The cast of ABC's hit SF series Lost won the title of "Entertainer of the Year" from Entertainment Weekly magazine, which called the show one of the "biggest cult breakouts since The X-Files," the Reuters news service reported.
Naomi Watts, who plays the blond actress befriended by the title giant ape in Kong Kong, was a runner-up, as was boy wizard Harry Potter.
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Conan Still Lives?
Posted by steelcage at December 24, 2005, 8:55 pm.
Warner Brothers production president Jeff Robinov told the Hollywood North Report Web site that a third Conan the Barbarian live-action movie is in the works and that the studio "is committed to producing the film within the next year."
Warner intends to produce Conan with a big budget, the site reported.
Robinov is reportedly going back to the original Robert E. Howard Conan stories for inspiration. "I love the character," he said. "You have to get to the core of who the Conan character was."
A different sequel, King Conan: Crown of Iron, was in development for years under original Conan the Barbarian writer and director John Milius, but never came together.
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CBS Pulls 'Threshold' from Schedule
Posted by steelcage at November 25, 2005, 6:48 pm.
Ouch to bad for Threshold allthough I do watch it is is not one of the better shows out there now. Go Surface!
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First offical post.
Posted by steelcage at November 23, 2005, 11:30 pm.
Testing this site out looks very cool good idea and well designed. 
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