From Postal to American Idol
Uwe Boll alum is in the running to be this year's Idol winner.
February 4, 2009 - If you're a connoisseur of a certain kind of movie – which is to say an Uwe Boll movie -- then you might recognize one of the finalists on this season's Idol. Jackie Tohn, who played the female lead, Faith, in Boll's Postal has made it to the Hollywood round of Season 8 of Idol, which is currently running on FOX.
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Resident Evil 4 Rumours
Latest gossip on the game-to-film franchise.
January 30, 2009 - Some rumours regarding the future of the Resident Evil movie series have cropped up on joblo.com.
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The Many Looks of the Street Fighter
Chun-Li, Guile and Ryu have come a long, long way.
January 29, 2009 - 2009, it seems, is the year that the
Street Fighter series finally makes its big comeback. It never really went away, of course, but for a long time it wasn't the videogaming fixture that it was back in the 16-bit age. This year, though, we've got a brand new Street Fighter game, a brand new Street Fighter movie, and a whole bunch of new looks for classic characters who've been around since the series first broke big.
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Top 10 Game-to-Film Posters
Our fave posters for videogame adaptations.
January 29, 2009 - Movies based on videogames usually don't make very good films. However, that's not the case for their posters -- which are frequently awesome. Designing one-sheets for these films is difficult, as you have to remain true to the spirit of the game and not alienate its initial fanbase, but also open up the title to a wider cinema-going audience who may not be familiar with the source material. Plus, they have to look cool.
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Tomb Raider Reboot
New Lara Croft movie greenlit by Warner Bros.
January 28, 2009 - Two days after rumours hit the Net that Megan Fox was being lined up to replace Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, (which, according to io9, her reps say isn't true), The Hollywood Reporter is running a story about a big screen reboot of the videogame franchise.
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A Peek at Prince of Persia
Artwork for the game-to-film revealed in Shopaholic.
January 26, 2009 - That Jerry Bruckheimer is one clever producer. Anyone interested in getting a first look at imagery from Bruckheimer's game-to-film Prince of Persia is going to have to sit through his new chick flick in order to see it.
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Max Payne DVD Review
First there was the game, then came the movie, now here's the DVD.
January 26, 2009 - Based on the Rockstar videogame franchise, Max Payne follows the eponymous maverick cop (Mark Wahlberg), who is a NYPD detective here rather than an undercover DEA agent. A brooding widower whose pregnant wife and unborn child were murdered some years before, Max is a grim reaper-like figure in the department: a storied tough guy who may or may not have killed suspects in his wife's case who subsequently mysteriously disappeared
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Director on Gears of War Movie
Wiseman: "Basically a harder edged Lord of the Rings."
January 26, 2009 - Underworld director Len Wiseman had a host of interesting things to say about his forthcoming movie adaptation of hit videogame Gears of War this week.
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