The Random Spiel: April 24th 2007
By Garth Franklin
Tuesday April 24th 2007 12:41PM
- A script review is out of Martin Scorsese's music industry-set drama "The Long Play".
- Wal-Mart may be gearing up to release a dirt cheap HD-DVD player by next year - sub-$299 prices which could have a major effect on the still brewing format war.
- A synopsis for the fourth "Saw" film currently in production is up at Fearnet, as is the first photos.
- Bart Simpson will go full frontal in the upcoming "The Simpsons Movie" according to MSNBC.
- James Cameron's "Avatar" is said to have an 'initial budget' of around $195 million according to The Chicago Tribue.
- Joss Whedon talks about the "X-Men 4" rumours and how he's in a sad place right now it seems in a fascinating Wizard Universe interview.
- The first pics from the set of Baz Luhrmann's "Australia" are up at Australiamovie.net.
- Former "Star Trek" producer Rick Berman is set to write a tell-all book about his time working on the various spin-offs from TNG to DS9, Voyager and Enterprise.
- Early photos are out of the Alien and Predator designs being used in AVP2.
- A whole stack of pics are out from the Tribeca entry "Unearthed."
- A new and exclusive clip is out from the upcoming horror sequel "28 Weeks Later".
- A new one-sheet is out for the Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez vehicle "El Cantante"
- If you haven't had the chance, check out the French trailer for "Live Free or Die Hard" which shows off lots of action.
- Shaun Toub is not playing the Mandarin in Iron Man, rather a prisoner named Dr. Yinsen reports Screenrant
- Ten international movie posters are out for "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer."
