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| 03/20/2008 |
 First Indiana Jones 4 Teaser Trailer online |
| The first teaser trailer of Indiana Jones 4 is now online. Please find the link here. |
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| 01/23/2008 |
| Heath Ledger found dead |
Heath Ledger found dead in NYC apartment
Authorities say actor’s death likely suicide or accidental overdose
NEW YORK - Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday in a Manhattan apartment in what police sources are calling an apparent suicide or accidental overdose. He was 28.
According to the New York Times, Ledger was found naked and unconscious with pills strewn all around him. Police sources told the Times that the death appeared to be a suicide or an accidental overdose.
A source told msnbc.com's Courtney Hazlett that Ledger had been turning down roles lately.
The Times initially reported that Ledger was found in an apartment owned by actress Mary-Kate Olsen, but a spokesperson for the actress, who is at the Sundance Film Festival, later told the Times the apartment was not Olsen's.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the apartment. The housekeeper, who went to let Ledger know the masseuse was there, found him naked and unconscious in bed at approximately 3:30 p.m. ET, according to The New York Times. After moving his body to the floor and receiving no response from the actor after shaking him, they called authorities.
“We are investigating the possibility of an overdose,” Browne said. “There were pills within the vicinity of the bed.”
A large crowd of paparazzi and gawkers began gathering Tuesday evening outside the building on an upscale block, where several police officers guarded the door. According to The Times, city workers rolled Ledger’s body, encased in a black body bag, out of the building on a stretcher.
The medical examiner’s office planned an autopsy on Wednesday, spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said.
While not a marquee movie star, Ledger was a respected, award-winning actor who took his craft seriously rather than cashing in on his heartthrob looks. He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as a gay cowboy in “Brokeback Mountain,” where he met Michelle Williams, who played his wife in the film. The two had a daughter, Matilda, and lived together in Brooklyn until they split up last year.
Ledger most recently appeared in “I’m Not There,” in which he played one of the many incarnations of Bob Dylan — as did Cate Blanchett, whose performance in that film earned an Oscar nomination Tuesday for best supporting actress.
Ledger had finished filming his role as the Joker this year in “The Dark Knight,” a sequel to 2005’s “Batman Begins.”
He’s had starring roles in “A Knight’s Tale” and “The Patriot,” and played the suicidal son of Billy Bob Thornton in “Monster’s Ball.” He also played a heroin addict in the 2006 Australian film “Candy.”
Mel Gibson, who co-starred with Ledger in “The Patriot,” told Access Hollywood, “I had such great hope for him. He was just taking off and to lose his life at such a young age is a tragic loss. My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.”
Before settling down with Williams, Ledger had relationships with actresses Heather Graham and Naomi Watts. He met Watts while working on “The Lords of Dogtown,” a fictionalized version of a cult classic skateboarding documentary, in 2004.
Ledger was born in 1979 in Perth, in western Australia, to a mining engineer and a French teacher, and got his first acting role playing Peter Pan at age 10 at a local theater company. He began acting in independent films as a 16-year-old in Sydney and played a cyclist hoping to land a spot on an Olympic team in a 1996 television show, “Seat.”
After several independent films, Ledger moved to Los Angeles at age 19 and co-starred opposite Julia Stiles in “10 Things I Hate About You,” a teen comedy reworking of “The Taming of the Shrew.” His movie career caught on soon after that, culminating with his Academy Award nomination for “Brokeback Mountain.”
“Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan said earlier this month that Ledger’s performance as the Joker would be wildly different than Jack Nicholson’s memorable turn in 1989’s “Batman.”
“It was a very great challenge for Heath,” Nolan had said. “He’s extremely original, extremely frightening, tremendously edgy. A very young character, a very anarchic presence that taps into a lot of our basic fears and panic.”
source: www.msn.com |
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| 04/13/2007 |
| The Mummy 3 announced |
| A sequel of The Mummy will be released in 2008. |
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| 04/13/2007 |
| Hellboy 2 announced |
| A sequel of Hellboy will be released in 2008. |
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| 11/22/2006 |
| First Harry Potter 5 Teaser Trailer online |
| The first teaser trailer of Harry Potter 5 is now online. Please find the link here. |
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| 08/25/2005 |
| New Harry Potter 4 trailer |
| I spotted a new trailer of Harry Potter 4. Just take a look at this site. |
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| 08/11/2005 |
| Hui Buh Teaser Trailer online |
| The first teaser trailer of Hui Buh the castle ghost (German comedy) is now online. Please find the link here. |
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| 08/09/2005 |
| Shrek 3 announced |
| 2007 another sequel of Shrek will hit theaters. Part 3 has been announced. More infos will follow here later. |
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| 07/29/2005 |
| "Neues vom Wixxer" |
A sequel to "Der Wixxer" will hit German theaters in 2006. "Der Wixxer" was a very successful German movie in 2004.
See IMDB-link here. |
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| 07/05/2005 |
| King Kong Trailer online! |
| The first teaser trailer of Peter Jackson's King Kong is now online and of couse linked here. |
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| 05/10/2005 |
| First trailer of Harry Potter 4 online now |
The first teaser trailer of this year's Harry Potter movies is now online and of course linked here  |
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| 04/19/2005 |
| Ice Age 2 in 2006! |
| The sequel to Ice Age will be released in March 2006. A short teaser trailer can be found here. |
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| 03/30/2005 |
| Star Wars 3D |
George Lucas announced a 3D release of the original Star Wars trilogy for its 30th anniversary in 2007.
Source: www.thedigitalbits.com |
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| 02/12/2005 |
| Kill Bill SE DVD probably available in August |
| According to digitalbits.com the special edition of Kill Bill, which was announced already, will become available in August. |
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| 02/12/2005 |
| Titanic SE seems to hit shelves in the 4th quarter |
As of digitalbits.com's rumor mill the Titanic special edition will hit shelves in the 4th quarter of this year. It will contain a 2 disc edition and the film will be in anamorphic format this time.  |
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| 02/12/2005 |
| German Release Date of Wimbledon postponed to March |
Wimbledon has been postponed from the beginning of February to the end of March in Germany.
For people in Germany who would like to see it in advance: the US-DVD is already available |
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| 01/26/2005 |
| Oscar Nominations |
 There's enough websites reporting about the Oscars, so we're following our old tradition, just to link to the Internet Movie Database. |
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| 12/17/2004 |
| Zorro sequel hits movie theaters in 2005 |
By the end of 2005 a sequal to the 'Mask of Zorro' will hit the theaters und the name Legend of Zorro.
Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones will be starring again. |
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| 12/13/2004 |
| King Arthur - Unrated Director's Cut on DVD |
| An unrated Director's Cut of King Arthur will be available on DVD (also in Germany). |
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| 11/24/2004 |
| Titanic SE DVD announced for 2005 |
I just read on www.digitalbits.com, that for mid/end 2005 a special edition of Titanic is planned to be released on DVD (probably 4 discs).
As the first release took very long to be released at all and then wasn't even released in anamophic format, a lot of fans were annoyed.
This new rumor let's all the fans hope that finally this mistake is being corrected |
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| 11/20/2004 |
| Hellboy 2 has been announced |
| A sequel to Hellboy has just been announced. More details are not known yet, but it's something to look forward to. |
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| 10/25/2004 |
| Star Wars Episode III Trailer on November 4th |
On November 4th the first teaser trailer of Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, will be available for Star Wars Hyperspace- and AOL-customers as a high quality stream.
Everyone else has to wait four more days until November 8th for the trailer to be available. |
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| 10/19/2004 |
| "Bully" Herbig coming to theaters as Hui Buh! |
 This message probably concerns more our German readers as I'm not sure if anyone outside Germany knows Hui Buh at all. It's a famous German "audio play" (not sure if this is the right expression for this, but it's some sort of audio book.).
Anyway, a German production company is making a movie of that character "Hui Buh" (a funny ghost story for kids) and Michael "Bully" Herbig (famous German comedian) is going to play that ghost. |
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| 10/09/2004 |
| Fahrenheit 9/11 on German televison |
photo © ddp
ProSieben (a German TV channel) will already show the Bush-documentation on Nov 1st, only 4 months after the German theatrical release date, due to the US elections.
Michael Moore wanted to make this movie available to an international TV audience already and even renounced an Oscar nomination for that. |
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| 10/03/2004 |
| Hellboy DVD Gift Set |
On Oct 19, 2004 the Director's Cut will be released as a limited edition incl. a Hellboy sculpture.
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| 09/27/2004 |
| Disney's Aladdin on DVD |
On 10/05/04 Disney's classic Aladdin will be released on DVD.
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| 09/26/2004 |
| Classic DVD recommendation: The Fearless Vampire Killers |
Roman Polanski's classic from 1967: The Fearless Vampire Killers will be released to DVD on 10/05/04.
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| 09/20/2004 |
| Finally available on DVD: The Star Wars Trilogy!!! |
The waiting has ended! Finally the long awaited Star Wars Trilogy has been released to DVD. A Must Have for all Star Wars Fans. Get it!
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| 08/04/2004 |
| Successfull opening weekend for The Village |
| The new M. Night Shyamalan movie grossed about $50 mio. at the opening weekend and is the current #1 in theaters. |
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| 07/25/2004 |
| (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 - please remain seated until the end!
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| During the credits of (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 a few outtakes are shown. After the credits Bully added a nice little additional scene. It's worth remaining seated |
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| 07/05/2004 |
| Shrek 2 - please remain seated!!! |
When watching Shrek 2, you should make sure to remain seated, at least for a few more minutes, when the credits show up. There's a nice little additional scene included in the credits
Have fun! |
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| 07/02/2004 |
| New movie starring Kim Basinger and Jason Statham: Cellular
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A new thriller starring Kim Basinger and Jason Statham has been announced for a release by the end of this year.
I just watched the trailer and thought that this could be a pretty good movie.
That's why I just wanted to point this movie out here. |
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| 06/30/2004 |
| Princess Diaries 2 Trailer |
| Stephan's gonna kill me, but I liked the trailer better than I expected, so I had to post a news, that a trailer of Princess Diaries 2 is now available |
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| 06/29/2004 |
| New Jerry Bruckheimer movie: National Treasure |
| By the end of this year a new Jerry Bruckheimer movie with Nicolas Cage will be released. The first trailer is already quite promising. Looks, as if Lara Croft does get male competition |
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| 06/28/2004 |
| Spider-Man 2 "extended" version on DVD |
| "Spider-Man"-Director Sam Raimi is planning an extended version of Spider-Man 2 on DVD. This has been announced at a press conference. The thatrical version has been cut by five minutes, according to Raimi. The longer version of this movie shall be called "Spider-Man 2.5". The release is planned to be long time after the release of the regular Spider-Man 2 DVD-release. |
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| 06/25/2004 |
| new Trailer for Pixar's The Incredibles |
Pixar's latest movie, which will start by the end of this year, looks really interesting.
Meanwhile a new Trailer, showing a bit more of the movie than the old Teaser-Trailer, is available. |
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| 06/21/2004 |
| Blade 3 announced (now includes Trailer-link!!!) |
By the end of this year Blade 3 will start!
You can also have a first peek at the trailer! |
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| 05/16/2004 |
| Sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean |
There are plans for a 2006 release of a sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean.
Further details are not know yet. |
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| 05/07/2004 |
| German release of Walking Tall postponed |
The German Release-Date (originally planned for 05/06/2004) of Walking Tall has been deleted.
Probably it'll premiere on DVD in Germany. What a pity, as I like this movie.
Note: Meanwhile an updated date has been anounced for a theatrical release in Germany: 07/15/2004. |
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