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News Bites: Tuesday, August 16th 2005

By Garth Franklin Tuesday August 16th 2005 10:25PM

Daredevil 2: God help us Affleck and Garner reteaming? See Softpedia for details.

Doom: This past weekend in Grapevine, Texas, iD software held a panel for the movie version of their game "Doom". Gamerati.net was on hand and has details of the first person view scenes from the movie and creature mockups from the Stan Winston studios.

DVD News: Details are out for American Gothic: The Complete Series, Batman: Anthology, The Mask of Zorro: SE, Fantastic Four, Melinda & Melinda, King Kong (1933), Dark Shadows: Revival Series, Sound of Music: 40th Anniversary, Cinderella Man & Oklahoma!

The Moon is A Harsh Mistress: Tim Minear is adapting the Robert Heinlen story for the big screen according to iF Magazine.

New Posters: The official one-sheets are out for A History of Violence, Glory Road, Jarhead

One for the Money: TriStar has gotten another screenwriter to adapt the Janet Evanovich novel. While Evanovich said she'd like to see Sandra Bullock in the role of lead character Stephanie Plum, the current state of development hell will keep it on the back burner for a good while.

Pathfinder: Shooting on the Karl Urban flick is scheduled to take place between September 21st and December 8th in Vancouver.

Pirates of the Caribeean: Dead Man's Chest: In this month's Premier Magazine, Kiera Knightley gave a bit of info on what she gets up to in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel: "She's a bit less the damsel in distress, but there's still elements of that. We've got some nice fights. I end up dressed as a boy. It's just more pirating. That should be the word-it's just more."

Snakes on a Plane: Samuel L. Jackson talks about his work on the thriller to LatinoReview.

Tom Yum Goong: Three new fight reels from Tom Yum Goong - the follow up to Ong Bak - have turned up online at Twitchfilm.

V for Vendetta: An exclusive copy of the PSP-compatible trailer for the Alan Moore comic turned film is up at IGN Filmforce.

Vancouver Productions: Currently in production in the Canadian city are a heap of projects - Scary Movie 4, Hollow Man 2, Dr. Dolittle 3, John Tucker Must Die, Pathfinder, The Invisible, Like Mike 2, Dungeon Siege, The Cleaner, Pacific Air 121, RV, X Men 3, Wicker Man.

Thanks to 'KC', 'Wilson', 'Todd', 'Rick', 'Crouch', 'Jeff', 'Thatdamngood'

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