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28 August 2008 7:29 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Last week we announced that Dark City director Alex Proyas would be helming an adaptation of Robert Heinlein's "Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag", but one film we forgotten to mention was Dracula: Year Zero. Proyas is still set to direct Dracula: Year Zero and recently chatted with MTV about some of the finer details of another new vampire film. As we all know, there are some elements of vampire mythology that must be included - the teeth at least - and Proyas answers some questions regarding what we can expect with this origin story, which thankfully isn't just another dark interpretation inspired by The Dark Knight. Proyas seems to be a bit more excited to take this one to different heights. Like Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One", Dracula: Year Zero retells the origin of the dark vampire lord known as Dracula. As Proyas describes, it's "sort of the

Alex Billington

28 August 2008 12:25 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

I sure do like the upper end of Alex Proyas' imagination. After all, he gave us the film version of The Crow, which I humbly submit has a lot of influence on today's darker comic book fare. And he gave us Dark City, one of the best out-of-nowhere sci-fi movies of the past 20 years.

The big budget I, Robot is fine, I guess, and I don't think Knowing looks like it could stop you in your tracks, but when he's at his peak, Alex Proyas can be very good.

He's a perfect director for a vampire project, because of the stark point of view of his best work, which is so clearly influenced by German expressionism, so I'm holding out hope for Dracula: Year Zero. The title is awful, but Proyas told MTV recently that his movie, currently in pre-production will have "lots and lots of blood."

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Colin Boyd

27 August 2008 1:18 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Alex Proyas (Dark City) had many of us wondering just what he was going to do with the Dracula name when he spoke briefly about the project at Sdcc 08. Indeed Mr. Proyas has great vision, but what could he bring to the vampire world that we haven't already seen before?

According to a recent interview with MTV, Proyas is going for realism. Realism with undead creatures who suck blood, turn into beasts, and have various other supernatural powers? Okay! Let's see what the filmmaker has to say.

According to the man at the helm, Dracula: Year Zero will be "sort of the origin tale that mixes [the historical] Prince Vlad of Transylvania with sort of [the fictionalized] Bram Stoker [take]." Proyas goes on to state that certain things like blood drinking and the pointy teeth will remain intact while other bits of vampire lore will probably get chucked out the window (i.e., garlic

Kryten Syxx

27 August 2008 10:15 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

After delivering such fine films at The Crow and Dark City, it's hard not to be excited for Alex Proyas' next venture, Dracula: Year Zero, which he has no begun work as he waits for his latest film, Knowing, to arrive in theaters next March from Summit Entertainment. This morning we came across a new interview with the director, who talks about what kind of mythology we'll find in this new Dracula tale. One of the main questions that always arises when a new vampire or Dracula film is announce is, will he be able to transform into bats, will garlic hurt him, will he appear in mirrors and most importantly, will he have giant fangs? Find out inside.

21 August 2008 11:09 AM, PDT | From ReelSuave.com | See recent Reel Suave news

Alex Proyas has directed for his adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s work now he is set to tackle Rober Heinlein’ novella The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. It is story about a man who is not sure of his activities in the day and doesn’t know what he does for a living is getting increasingly disturbed. He tells this to a private detective who tries to find out what he is upto and it leads to a series of revelations. This sort of sounds like a mix of I Heart Huckabees and the Dark City which is one Proyas’ own creation. Dark City had a huge cult following...

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John

20 August 2008 2:36 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Alex Proyas is set to direct the big-screen adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's sci-fi novel "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" for Phoenix Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

Phoenix execs call the project a "complex psychological thriller with plenty of action as well as some love interest."

The book, originally published in 1942, focuses on a man who has no memories of his daily activities. To uncover the mystery and find out what he spends his time doing, he hires a pair of detectives, who eventually stumble across series of secrets no one could ever have imagined.

Proyas wrote the screenplay himself and will likely head into pre-production for the flick once he is done with the Nicolas Cage vehicle "Knowing," which opens March 20, 2009.

This is not the first Heinlein novel to make the transition to the big screen. His "Starship Troopers" debuted in theaters in 1997 and became a worldwide hit.

Franck Tabouring

20 August 2008 9:48 AM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dark City director Alex Proyas plans on bringing Heinlein's 1942 novella, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag to the big screen. I like Heinlein. He's not one of my favorite scifi authors by a long way but this particularly strange tale of his sounds almost like Dark City meets Philip K Dick so I'm intrigued.The offbeat tale centers on a man who becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes he cannot account for his activities during the day or even what he does for a living. He divulges his problem to the husband-and-wife partners of a private detective agency, and their investigation leads to a series of revelations they could never have fathomed. Producers Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer, and Brad Fischer describe the flick as "a complex psychological thriller with plenty of action, and a love interest." Just don't expect the mouthful of a title to stick.

20 August 2008 7:49 AM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Juliet Snowden and Stiles White have been hired to pen the screenplay for MGM's upcoming Poltergeist remake, (based on the classic horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, and co-written/produced by Steven Spielberg) according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Snowden and White wrote the (absolutely terrible) 2005 movie Boogeyman, and have also worked on a draft of The Birds remake (coming from who else, Platinum Dunes) and the upcoming Knowing directed by Alex Proyas (I, Robot, Dark City, The Crow).

The article says, "The original "Poltergeist," miraculously skirted an R rating despite its children-in-constant-peril, toy clown-strangling, face-peeling, skeleton-swimming medley of horrors. The MGM/Ua release grossed $122 million worldwide and earned Oscar nominations for its Ilm-designed visual effects, sound effects and score. The story of a suburban home built over an Indian burial ground and thus inhabited by a nasty spook earned further cult status when two of the child actors in the

20 August 2008 6:36 AM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

Alex Proyas. The man does sci-fi and he does it well, there is no doubt about that. Any misgivings aside about I, Robot, his other film, Dark City, stands out as one of the genre’s great offerings. And news has come forth that Alex Proyas is setting himself up to write and direct an adaptation of The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag by author Robert A. Heinlein. Just reading the plot summary for it gets me all excited and tittering like a little school girl. This sounds like excellent material for someone with Proyas’ visual strengths.

Originally published in 1942, the offbeat tale centers on a man who becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes he cannot account for his activities during the day, or even what he does for a living. He divulges his problem to the husband-and-wife partners of a private detective agency, and their investigation leads to a

Mack

20 August 2008 5:45 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Filmmaker Alex Proyas has directed an adaptation of an Isaac Asimov story before, but now he's tackling sci-fi author Robert Heinlein. Proyas will write and direct an adaptation of Heinlein's novella "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" for Phoenix Pictures. The story centers on a man who becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes he cannot account for his activities during the day or even what he does for a living. He explains his problem to a private detective agency and their investigation leads to a series of revelations they could never have fathomed. Sounds an awful lot like Dark City, which was Proyas' own creation from 1998, and a huge cult sci-fi hit itself. The film is described as a complex psychological thriller with plenty of action and is expected to start production in 2010. "I read this story as a kid, and it really stayed with me," Proyas explains. "It's ...

Alex Billington

15 August 2008 8:16 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Alex Proyas is a respected maestro in the sci-fi genre weaving in a huge fan base with cult favorites like "Dark City" (Now available in a Blu-ray Director's cut) and, one of the most beloved, original films ever, "The Crow" starring Brandon Lee. His last film was the Will Smith sci-fi actioner "I, Robot."

So what's knowing about?

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one of the students, a mysterious girl who seems to hear whispered voices, fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead.

Fast forward 50 years to the present: A new generation of students examines the contents of the time capsule and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Myles. But it is Caleb’s father,

10 August 2008 9:22 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Welcome to another fun filled installment of Screen Rant’s Weekend Movie News Wrap Up.

This week:

We see who is penning Flash Gordon, we learn some details about Alex Proyas’ Dracula Year Zero, discover what David Goyer is working on, Channing Tatum lines up something for after GI Joe and The Conversation goes to television.

1. The Flash Gordon Remake/ adaptation has now grabbed Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to pen the script. The Neil Moritiz produced, Breck Eisner (Sahara) directed film is in production at Columbia.

I just hope the film is more like the 1980’s movie and less like the Si-Fi channel show.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

2. Speaking of Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, their script for Dracula Year Zero is to be directed by Robot and Dark City director Alex Proyas. Proyas recently gave some details about the Dracula prequel/origin story:

“You could see it as a

Niall Browne

8 August 2008 11:25 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

I believe this is our final San Diego Comic Con piece (thank God), so sit back and enjoy our chat with director Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City), who was out and about promoting his latest project, Knowing, which is the story of a man (Nicolas Cage) who unearths a time capsule with children's drawings predicting the future that was buried in the 1950s. One child's drawings predicted several horrible events that already have come true; however, one of those events has not yet occurred, and the man sets out to prevent it from happening. The film hits theaters March 20th, 2009.

31 July 2008 1:01 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

The Dark City director's cut is a vast improvement over the original taking the high concept film and placing much more responsibility on the audience rather than piecing it together every step of the way, something that was obviously intended by writer/director Alex Proyas from the start and on Blu-ray high-definition there really is no comparison to what this film once was and what it has now become. To prepare for reviewing this new cut of Dark City, which runs a full 11 minutes longer than the original was to grab my standard definition DVD copy and watch the theatrical release before watching the director's cut. The Blu-ray disc does include both the theatrical and director's cut, but I also wanted to use the opportunity to compare the audio and visual differences when bouncing from Sd to HD and I can tell you now it is astonishing. Dark City tells

Brad Brevet

29 July 2008 3:48 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

DVD Links: Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed Paramount Blu-ray Extravaganza! Thanks to Comic Con my Blu-ray watching abilities were basically destroyed. I came home to several new Blu-ray discs that arrived in the time I was away and out of all of them eight of them hit the shelves today. Six of them I am going to detail here as they are catalog titles. The others I will get to in a second. The first one was Top Gun of which I reviewed on HD DVD (review here) and was not very kind to considering the HD DVD edition contained none of the features from the 2-Disc Special Edition DVD. Well, I am happy to say the Blu-ray comes with all the goodies (documentaries, music videos, commentaries, etc.) that I loved from the DVD. On top of that... included is a DTS soundtrack, a Huge step up from the HD DVD Dolby DigitalPlus.

Brad Brevet

28 July 2008 1:43 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

A decent helping of horror DVDs is coming your way this Tuesday, July 29th, 2008... check 'em out!

Antisocial Behavior (2007)

Directed by Vinson Pike

Ever since a traumatic accident when he was a child, Jakob Kelser has been alone, shunning the outside world and ignoring everyone who tries to connect with him. When a gang of teenagers makes him their new target, all of his pent-up rage is released, and now not a single soul in his neighborhood is safe from his vengeance. Buy it here!

Bloody Moon (1981)

Directed by Jess Franco

Incest, voyeurism and disco; only from Jess Franco can you expect to get all three in one movie. Bloody Moon was Franco’s answer to the stalk-n-slash trend of the late 70’s/early 80’s, but it’s nothing like any of the Black Christmas copycats that came out in that time frame. Fully remastered in high def and featuring

Johnny Butane

27 July 2008 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news

We had a chance to talk to Alex Proyas at Comic Con and he enlightened us on the new Dark City Directors cut DVD which he is just as excited about as we are. Warner Brothers also just in time sent us a brand new clip bringing our total clips for the directors cut to 4 which you can checkout&nbs...

24 July 2008 2:35 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Andrew Kasch just checked in with a Dark City: Director's Cut update and news about future projects from Alex Proyas.

Director Alex Proyas revealed that the July 29th release of this cut of the film will be about 10 minutes longer. Most of this time is made up with extra dialogue which, we're told, helped further the development of both Rufus Sewell's and Jennifer Connelly's characters. It may not add to the overall visual flare of the film, but it does create a more complex story that was lost thanks to good ol' test audiences.

Now for the real interesting news. Alex Proyas also hinted that he may be doing a Dracula feature in the future, but right now the only things listed on his upcoming slate are Knowing and possibly (Please!) Silver Surfer. Mr. Proyas' other future endeavors will be adapting a trilogy of books, though we're not quite sure which three.

Kryten Syxx

13 July 2008 10:08 AM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

Argentine director Esteban Sapir’s sophomore feature La Antena (The Aerial, 2007) is densely marbled with cinematic citation, juggling freely the silent film conventions gleefully mined by Guy Maddin, with clear tips of the hat to Georges Méliès’ La Lune à un mètre (Man in the Moon, 1898) and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), and more veiled references to Alex Proyas’s Dark City (1998), Higuchinsky’s spiraling nightmare Uzumaki (2000), and the numerically confused plot contrivances of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s 6ixtynin9 (1999).  Its kinetic and innovative use of intertitles reminds of Timur Bekmambetov’s Nochnoy dozor (Nightwatch, 2004) and its criticism of consumerist society and television brainwashing harbors a cautionary touch of John Carpenter’s They Live (1988).

Which is not to say La Antena is derivative.  It achieves a singularly unique and vibrant synergy through its rampant citations in what Hollywood Reporter’s Gregory Valens describes as “a poetic attempt to recreate a world through the

Michael Guillen

4 July 2008 11:50 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

This 4th of July morning IGN posted an exclusive first look at the trailer for Knowing, the latest film from director Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow). The film tells the story of a man (played by Nicolas Cage) who unearths a time capsule with children's drawings predicting the future that was buried in the 1950s. One child's drawings predicted several horrible events that already have come true; however, one of those events has not yet occurred, and the man sets out to prevent it from happening. Summit Entertainment has slated the film for release on March 20, 2009. Read on for the trailer.

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