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Comic-Con: The Corpse Bride panel

Corpse BrideDirector Tim Burton sent a video greeting along with a clip from his new stop-motion animation film The Corpse Bride. The lengthy clip, which made its debut at the convention, revolves around Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp) rehearsing his wedding vows the day before his wedding. His role-playing in the forest has the unintended effect of waking the Corpse Bride, a dead woman left at the altar by a man a long time ago. The Bride's convinced that Victor is her new true love, and pursues him. Bonejangles, a beatnik, jazz-singing skeleton (voiced by Danny Elfman) and his band of bony jazz blowers tell Victor the legend of the Corpse Bride. This musical sequence is one of four musical numbers in the film.

Quint at AICN writes "This musical number isn't as instantly classic as the best songs in A Nightmare Before Christmas, but it's really damn catchy and the scat that Bonejangles does is just awesome."
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Pirates of the Caribbean: World's End

PiratesAccording to actor Martin Klebba's official website, the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie will be called Pirates of the Caribbean: World's End. Klebba plays the character Marty in the original Pirates of the Caribbean and the two sequels which are now being filmed back to back.

Could the title mean that the plot has something to do with the end of the world, or that they're on a quest to find the literal world's end? Could be interesting... Read

Mel Gibson ashamed of gay kiss

Mel GibsonPassion of the Christ director Mel Gibson is ashamed of his first ever on screen kiss, according to ContactMusic. The kiss was with another man in a movie entitled Summer City. Gibson says, "It was a cheap, nasty movie that was cranked out in three weeks on a tiny budget." Gibson won the role during his graduation year at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art. He never received the $450 he was promised for performing the embarrassing movie scene with Steve Bisley. Ironically, the pair have since worked together in the stage production of The Hostage and in the first Mad Max movie. Read

Comic-Con: Bruce Campbell takes on Hollywood and the MPAA

Bruce CampbellBruce Campbell says Hollywood is "creatively bankrupt." At a Comic-Con question and answer session, the cult actor went through the list of films that came out this summer, deconstructing each one. "First of all, every A-movie is a now a B-movie," he said. According to Campbell, any movie that relies on costumes and aliens falls into the B-movie category.
  • On War of the Worlds: He complained that the idea was tired, "every 50 years they do something with that idea."
  • On Batman Begins: "Well, this was a good one. It took 'em five tries."
  • On Bewitched: "Hollywood has a file drawer 30 years deep."
He urged the crowd not to support the "same horsesh*t you're getting out of Hollywood." Tounge in cheek, he added, "Except Sky High," which he stars in. He then went on a tirade refering to the MPAA's decisions as "stupid" and "embarrassing." "The MPAA can kiss my ass so hard it can come out the other side." He questioned why it was wrong that violence is much more acceptable than nudity on television: "You can shoot a boobie, but you can't kiss it."
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Futurama movie confirmed

FuturamaIGN talked with Futurama voice actor Billy West (who voices Fry, Zoidberg, the Professor, and many more) at San Diego's Comic-Con International, and it was revealed that a brand-new direct-to-video Futurama movie has been greenlit. There is also an option for a second movie as well. This is great news for Futurama fans, and it may also pave the way for other canceled shows to make their way back to audiences in the direct-to-DVD model. Read

Comic-Con: V for Vendetta panel

Portman at ComicconProducer Joel Silver, star Natalie Portman, co-producer Grant Hill and co-creator David Lloyd were on hand to show off an exclusive clip which started with a startled Portman running and hiding from "pursuers who want her to give up the identity of the vigilante Vendetta – a masked marauder carrying out his own version of justice on the streets of London." A voice asks Portman if she understands the information they are after. She answers "Yes." Then the voice asks, "Are you ready to tell us the identity of V?" She answers, "No." We then cut to scenes of Vendetta (played by Hugo Weaving) taking out his enemies one by one with a knife. The trailer closes with the voice-over from Hugo Weaving saying "Remember, remember the fifth of November."
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Sony buys a Ring

RingersThe film I most wanted to see at Sundance 2005 wasn't at Sundance. It was showing in Salt Lake City as part of Slamdance, the indie alternative film festival to Sundance's more mainstream indie festival. I was unfortunately unable to make the trek to the city to see the documentary.

Now, according to Variety, Ringers: Lord of the Fans has been acquired by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Carlene Cordova's documentary tracks the cultural influence of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Ring. books. Think the movie Trekies but with LOTR fans. The film is narrated by Lord of the Rings hobbit Dominic Monaghan. Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Clive Barker and David Carradine also appear in the movie. Read
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