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Sci-Fi Time: ‘Hellboy II’ set visit

September 23rd, 2007, 11:05 pm by Mike

Comic book movie fans take notice. The good folks at Latino Review (how do they get all the scoops?) just visited the set of “Hellboy II: The Golden Army.Director Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming sequel to his 2004 comic book adaptation is set to hit theaters July 2008. For now, LR has a few interesting tidbits about the movie and its set, and they promise to post interviews with all the stars in the next few days.

The good news is that most of the original cast members are back for “Hellboy II,” including Doug Jones as my fav Abe Sapien (that’s him with the goggles up there), and Guillermo Navarro, Del Toro’s Oscar-winning cinematographer for “Pan’s Labyrinth,” is shooting the thing. So at least it’ll look great. LR says the dailies they saw look fantastic and it looks like this one is loaded with great set design and lots of action. Read LR’s first post about the set visit here.
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Photo courtesy Universal Pictures

Will ‘Diary of the Dead’ kill George Romero’s career?

September 15th, 2007, 8:52 am by Mike

I’ll say this for filmmaker George A. Romero - he’s done us all a big favor. By virtually creating the zombie genre with “Night of the Living Dead” way back in 1968, the filmmaker paved the way for great movies like “28 Days Later,” “Shaun of the Dead” plus that great “B****, get out the room!” scene in “The 40 Year Old Virgin.” But I think he should have stopped hemorrhaging fake blood and wanky scripts way back in the 70s.

Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s an unpopular opinion. Romero’s a “legend.” A “master of the craft.” Sure, he made some great horror movies years ago that worked as brave social commentary. Yes, he inspired some maverick filmmakers. Fine. But, did you catch his last movie, the dreadful mind-numbing wreck “Land of the Dead?” That one made it official - Romero’s knack for weaving unexpected social messages into genre movies has been successfully passed on to other, finer filmmakers. Plus, the dude really needs a good editor and a dialogue writer.

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