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#1
Film & TV / The Matrix: Re4matted
20 August, 2019, 09:31:03 PM
Get ready to re-enter the Matrix.

Lana Wachowski is set to write and direct a fourth film set in the world of "The Matrix," with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively.


https://variety.com/2019/film/news/matrix-4-keanu-reeves-carrie-anne-moss-lana-wachowski-1203307955/
#2
Judge Dredd Owner Rebellion Sets Up $100 Million U.K. Film and TV Studio

Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper are shooting into action near Oxford, England.

Video-game company Rebellion, which is moving into film and TV, has bought a large former print works that will be converted into studio space for its highly anticipated Judge Dredd TV series, "Judge Dredd: Mega-City One," and its Rogue Trooper film, directed by Duncan Jones ("Source Code"). Both projects feature characters from the legendary British comic book series "2000 AD," which Rebellion bought, appropriately enough, in 2000.

As well as servicing Rebellion's burgeoning slate of film and TV projects, the studio will also be made available to third parties in a boost for the entertainment industry in Britain, where demand for space is outstripping supply.

The site in Didcot, about 50 miles west of London, was previously a printing press for the Daily Mail newspaper. With large soundproofed spaces already in place, parts of the facility will be ready for use within weeks, without the need to go through the lengthy planning permission process.


Major expansions are underway at Pinewood, Shepperton, Church Fenton and other studios, and there are plans to build new facilities in Liverpool, East London and Leeds. But with its proximity to production bases in London and Bristol, the new Rebellion Studios will provide much-needed additional space now. It boasts an overall area of 220,000 square feet, including a 25,000-square-foot sound stage.



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Jason Kingsley, who founded Rebellion with his brother Chris, said the site would be used as a location as well as a studio. The company expects to create up to 500 new jobs as the new studio gets up and running.

In the gaming world, Rebellion is known for the "Sniper Elite" series and such recent releases as "Strange Brigade." It has acquired a raft of comic book IP, having bought "2000 AD" from Egmont and, two years ago, the Fleetway and IPC Youth Group archives from the same seller, a deal that handed it titles and characters including "Battle," "Action" and "Roy of the Rovers."

Jason Kingsley told Variety that the barriers between different types of screen-based entertainment and storytelling are falling away. "I think we are pretty good at creating content in all different types, screen content and interactive games and all sorts of stuff, and I'm hoping we're going to be equally good at making TV and film," he said.

The Kingsleys were producers on the 2012 feature film "Dredd," and the hard-hitting lawman will return in TV series "Judge Dredd: Mega-City One." That will be produced by Rebellion Studios, which, with pilot script in hand, is talking to potential broadcast and platform partners. The Rogue Trooper film features the titular blue-skinned, genetically engineered super-soldier, and is being developed in partnership with Duncan Jones and Stuart Finnegan, who are directing and producing, respectively.

Part of the reason for setting up the new studio, which sits near Rebellion's Oxford base, was a lack of space to pursue these new projects, Kingsley said.


"We've got a huge library of good stories, and we'll do original stuff as well," Kingsley said. "We make computer games. VFX is an area we are looking at as well. There is a whole bunch of interesting stuff, but you do need the craft skills and you need facilities...and it is hard to find them. We were looking and couldn't find anywhere to shoot the stuff we have ambitions to do."



Chris Kingsley noted that the growth in the demand for content from the likes of Netflix and Amazon is an opportunity, but has also presented a challenge in terms of space and facilities. "We're seeing more big players wanting to get in on the action," he said. "This is very exciting for the domestic and global film industries, but it's also meant that our infrastructure is under increasing pressure."

The Rebellion library covers superheroes but also touches on other genres. Through its acquisition of the TI Media library, it has an archive stretching back 130 years that includes "Comic Cuts," which dates back to 1888 and is arguably where the term "comic" originated.

"We have plans, we have a lot of scripts in development, we have got a lot of scripts written, we have pilots that are looking for people to work with, we have people going out to the U.S. to talk to the people who are the routes to market," Jason Kingsley said.


#3
Film & TV / RoboCop Returns
11 July, 2018, 06:14:03 PM
Neill Blomkamp To Direct New 'RoboCop' For MGM; Justin Rhodes Rewriting Sequel Script By Creators Ed Neumeier & Michael Miner

MGM is developing a new installment of RoboCop and has set District 9 director Neill Blomkamp to helm the picture, which is titled RoboCop Returns. The studio hopes to revive a franchise that began with the Paul Verhoeven-directed satirical sci-fi action thriller that Orion released in 1987. Original writers Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner are producing and exec producing, respectively. Justin Rhodes, who co-wrote the Terminator film that Tim Miller is shooting, will rewrite the script that Neumeier and Miner wrote years ago as a planned sequel to Verhoeven's hit, an installment that never happened. That duo is creatively involved in moving forward their creation for the first time since the original.
#4
Film & TV / Star Wars Episode IX
10 July, 2018, 01:50:53 AM
To no one's surprise.

[spoiler]Billy Dee Williams[/spoiler] Reprising Role as [spoiler]Lando Calrissian[/spoiler]

Link
#5
Film & TV / GLASS – UNBREAKABLE/SPLIT Sequel
29 June, 2018, 07:22:37 PM
#7
Film & TV / Another New Star Wars Trilogy
06 February, 2018, 08:45:58 PM
'Game Of Thrones' Duo Benioff & Weiss To Pilot New 'Star Wars' Trilogy

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going from Winterfell to a galaxy far, far away.

It was announced today that Benioff and Weiss, creators of the smash-hit, Emmy Award-winning television series Game of Thrones, will write and produce a new series of Star Wars films.

These new films will be separate from both the episodic Skywalker saga and the recently-announced trilogy being developed by Rian Johnson, writer-director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.


#8
News / 2000AD REGENED (preview)
23 January, 2018, 01:06:43 AM
2000AD REGENED
REBELLION DEVELOPMENTS LTD

(W) Matthew J. Smith, Alec Worley, Owen Michael Johnson, Colin Bell, Ned Hartley, Henry Flint (A) Neil Googe, Ben Wilsher, Tanya Roberts, INDIO, Henry Flint, Pye Parr
2000 AD Regened proudly presents a riotous all-ages comic featuring original, full-colour strips packed with thrill-power for Earthlets of all inception dates!

Cadet Judge Dredd upholds the law in a blistering crime caper at an Aeroball game by Matt Smith and Neil Googe! Mutant bounty hunter Johnny Alpha earns his Strontium Dog badge from Alec Worley and Ben Willsher! Tharg's Futureshocks present the wonderful world of HumanCraft by Ned Hartley and Tanya Roberts! Help Chet Jetstream escape Hell Island by Henry Flint! The teenage alien delinquents return with an eye on causing chaos in 'D.R. & Quinch Hijack Free Comic Book Day' from Owen Michael Johnson, Colin Bell and INDIO!

All-Ages.


https://issuu.com/richjohnston/docs/stl076130/2
#9
Film & TV / SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
09 December, 2017, 08:08:34 PM
Great style on display in this SONY animated feature-film.

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
#10


Lucasfilm is excited to announce that Johnson will create a brand-new Star Wars trilogy, the first of which he is also set to write and direct, with longtime collaborator Ram Bergman onboard to produce.

As writer-director of The Last Jedi, Johnson conceived and realized a powerful film of which Lucasfilm and Disney are immensely proud. In shepherding this new trilogy, which is separate from the episodic Skywalker saga, Johnson will introduce new characters from a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored.

"We all loved working with Rian on The Last Jedi," said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. "He's a creative force, and watching him craft The Last Jedi from start to finish was one of the great joys of my career. Rian will do amazing things with the blank canvas of this new trilogy."

"We had the time of our lives collaborating with Lucasfilm and Disney on The Last Jedi," Johnson and Bergman said in a joint statement. "Star Wars is the greatest modern mythology and we feel very lucky to have contributed to it. We can't wait to continue with this new series of films."


http://www.starwars.com/news/rian-johnson-writer-director-of-star-wars-the-last-jedi-to-create-all-new-star-wars-trilogy
#11
General / The 1995 Mangafication of Judge Dredd
02 October, 2017, 07:40:56 PM
As a follow-up to this ancient forum thread, a long scavenge of Japanese sites and vendors turned-up an elusive copy of the Shonen Jump AutumnSpecial – it features a promotional comic tie-in to the release of the 1995 Judge Dredd film.



It's unbelievable I know, but I can't read Japanese, so on a very superficial reading of panels, the 45 page story by Hitoshi Matsumoto & Mitsuyoshi Takasu looks like another re-imagining of the Rico yarn but in this version 'Rico' – I presume it's still Joe & Rico – seems to be a good 'un who gets cut down in the line of duty and 'Joe' must avenge him – both Judges are identified by the initials JD printed on their helmet badges.

The beloved hue and texture of bog-paper remains in the scanned and untouched pages bleow. For the unManga'd of us, read the panels from top right to left working downwards – the first 11 are sequential.







#13
The final LOEG book.




Opening simultaneously in the panic-stricken headquarters of British Military Intelligence, the fabled Ayesha's lost African city of Kor and the domed citadel of 'We' on the devastated Earth of the year 2996, the dense and yet furiously-paced narrative hurtles like an express locomotive across the fictional globe from Lincoln Island to modern America to the Blazing World; from the Jacobean antiquity of Prospero's Men to the superhero-inundated pastures of the present to the unimaginable reaches of a shimmering science-fiction future. With a cast-list that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture, and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events, this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories.

Commencing as a six-issue run of unfashionable, outmoded and flimsy children's comics that will make you appear emotionally backward if you read them on the bus, this climactic magnum opus will also reprint classic English super-team publication The Seven Stars from the murky black-and-white reaches of 1964. A magnificent celebration of everything comics were, are and could be, any appreciator or student of the medium would be unwise to miss The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: THE TEMPEST.


#15
News / Rebellion Interview On 2000AD Game licensing
06 April, 2017, 09:25:21 PM
Trade magazine interview with Jason Kinsgley can be read online





#16
2 hour podcast on Future Shock! - The Story of 2000AD

Get it early on patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/special-report-7924493

Or wait a few days to get it free when it uploads.

http://projection-booth.blogspot.ie/


#17
News / Mills & Skinner's ACCIDENT MAN - The Film
17 November, 2016, 08:50:58 PM
Scott Adkins, who was recently seen in Doctor Strange, has joined the cast of Accident Man, an action title based on a character from the graphic novel by Pat Mills and Tony Skinner from the defunct monthly UK comic Toxic!.


http://deadline.com/2016/11/scott-adkins-accident-man-ashley-greene-jesse-johnson-doctor-strange-1201856204/
#19
News / Masks of Dredd
12 October, 2016, 08:09:26 PM
The days of bank-jobs without the fun of wearing a novelty mask of your favourite 2000AD characters are over -



With a galaxy of series to bring to life, the masks will allow humans everywhere to don the mantle of their favourite characters from the pages of 2000 AD – making them ideal for Halloween, fancy dress parties, or putting the frighteners on your friends!

The first characters to be immortalised will be famous future lawman Judge Dredd, aliens superfiend Judge Death, and Al Ewing and Henry Flint's 'weaponised zombie' Zombo.

Dredd and Zombo are scheduled to be available for order by January 2017.

Keith Richardson, licensing manager for 2000 AD, said: "Ever since we began working with Ghoulish on these masks it's been clear that these are going to be great – whether you choose Judge Dredd, Zombo, or Judge Death, these will be perfect for Hallowe'en and fancy dress parties. Ghoulish have a worldwide reputation for high quality and it will be great to see 2000 AD's characters alongside so many other iconic franchises in their catalogue."

Ghoulish Productions CEO Diego Esponda said: "2000 AD and all its characters represent comic book culture. We are very proud to bring this characters to life for all the fans."

Every Ghoulish Productions mask is 100% hand-crafted with the highest quality materials available to meet the demands and expectations of all our costumers. Every mask they make has the same detail work that only a hand-crafting artist can have.

Based in Mexico and already holding licenses for Hellraiser, Terminator, Resident Evil, World War Z, Men In Black, and Plants vs Zombies, Ghoulish Productions is a leading mask and costumes company with more than 50 years experience. It has been exporting original quality products to the US since 1988. It's commitment to innovation, ingenuity, art, quality, trust and professional service has opened the door to licensing products with many movie studios. In 2009 it expanded its markets to Europe and Asia, making it one of the most recognized worldwide companies in the Halloween Industry in the last 10 years.



http://comicsalliance.com/judge-dredd-halloween-masks/?trackback=tsmclip


#20
Film & TV / Button Man TV Show
01 January, 2016, 03:20:05 AM
From Arthur Ranson's website:


John Wagner and I have just agreed a contract with Warner Television. This will allow them, via their subsidiary company 'Bad Robot', to make a pilot based on the first Button Man story 'The Killing Game'.


http://www.arthurranson.com/blog/tv-button-man