Archive for September 20th, 2006

Neil Marshall’s ‘Doomsday’ gets shooting date

Neil Marshall, the new master of british horror is set to start pre-production on his new film 'Doomsday' on September the 25th, the production scheduled for February the 12th. Somebodies going to have a busy christmas.
The plot of 'Doomsday is still patchy at this point, but apparently focuses on a group of people trying to [...]

McKean and Gaiman to make ‘Signal to Noise’

The word is that the graphic novel 'Signal to Noise', written by Neil Gaiman and visualised on paper by Dave McKean is going into production as a feature film. The pair will be writing the screenplay together and McKean will be directing.
Last years Mirrormask was a fascinating little animated film and was about as 'Dave [...]

‘This is England’ TIFF report

It's not often I say "stop reading solaceincinema and go read this…" but occasionaly I feel inspired to. It's a slow news week and not a lot has been going on so I was trawling through the Toronto film festival reviews over at Twitchfilm. They have a lot of interesting premiers at TIFF and one [...]

Early review and stills from ‘Shoot ‘Em Up’ **UPDATED**

This film sounds awesome, like a 'Commando' for the xbox generation. The plot is delightfuly simple…
A man named Mr. Smith (Owen) delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
I'm loving it. If anyones played 'Black' the self-pescribed "gun porn" console game, [...]