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News Shorts: September 14th 2008

By Garth Franklin Sunday September 14th 2008 08:45AM
News Shorts: September 14th 2008
  • On-set photos of Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams making out for reshoots of scenes on "The Time Traveler's Wife".
  • Some interesting new posters for Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Lovely Still, Soul Men, The Tale of Desperaux.
  • Ben Affleck is sporting a new look - bearded and long-haired - on the set of Mike Judge's "Extract".
  • Fox Searchlight has set a December 19th 2008 release date in the US for Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler". No word on the scale of the opening, though it will likely be limited with a wider release in January.
  • Joseph Gordon Levitt has denied rumors that he'll play Tetsuo in the live-action "Akira" movie. Levitt says "That's really just a rumor. They don't have a script or anything".
  • The producers of 2006's "Paris, je'taime" and 2008's "New York, I Love You" are planning on doing similar anthology films set around Shanghai for release in 2010 and Jerusalem for release in 2012.
  • The full-length trailer for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" will be attached to "Star Trek" on May 8th 2009. No word on when the teaser trailer will debut as yet.
  • The Coca-Cola Company has released a new commercial featuring an instrumental piece for "Quantum of Solace" scored by Jack White. How much of this will end up in the still unreleased theme song has yet to be determined.
  • Brad William Henke has revealed that his character of Captain Kirk's Uncle Frank in the upcoming "Star Trek" is an abusive alcoholic - quite unusual for the Trek universe.
  • NBC's Brian Williams gives a fascinatingly awkward video interview with the notoriously difficult interviewees Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino out doing interviews for "Righteous Kill".
  • A blown-up photo from the "Avatar" set hints at an alien Na'vi torso from the waist up.

  • The premiere of "Fringe" pulled in only a disappointing 9.1 million, just under half the numbers that tuned into the "Lost" pilot. Also, the second episode of the new "90210" plummeted from its strong debut.

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