ScreenDaily reports that Eminem will soon be starring in Shady Talez, a 3D movie that will be "styled as The Twilight Zone meets Creepshow." The movie will also see a four-issue comic adaptation in 2010.

While the film will be produced by D.J. Classicz/Davis Entertainment, Kevin Grevioux, who created the story for Underworld, will co-write the screenplay with the writer/producer, Dallas Jackson. The pair will also team up for the comic series.

News about The Howling Reborn is fresh and just hitting the 'net thanks to ShockTillYouDrop (STYD). Attending the American Film Market, someone spotted a poster for the sequel -- or possibly remake -- from Moonstone Entertainment.

The poster, which you can click over to see here, says that the film was written and directed by Joe Nimziki, a man who STYD points out only has one TV credit to his name. No word on how far along the film is, but it is worth noting that the poster reuses the image from the special edition DVD release of the original film.

(Thanks to ObscureHorror.com for the DVD image.)

Err, nevermind all that. The Wolfman is poised to leap into theaters in February and the trailer already has me excited. Now, thanks to the folks at Cinematical, we can bring you a look at one of the new posters for the film. (Click the pic below to head to the source for the full image.)

Sure, it's a little plain but, from what I can tell, this movie is anything but. If you don't believe me, have another look at the trailer.

Another poster to add to the one from earlier today, friends. This one comes to us from AICN. Click the image below to head over there.

Evolution Expedition (HD, 18:00 mins): A fact filled trip to the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea tar pits where representatives discuss the animals featured in the film and their real life counterparts on exhibit.

Unfinished Deleted Scenes (SD, 5:00 mins): Two sequences that would have added little to the film told with black and white storyboards.

Buck: From Easel to Weasel (HD, 7:00 mins): The development and design of the character featuring interviews with Saldhana and Pegg.

Falling for Scratte (HD, 9:00 mins): A look at Scrat's new female love interest.

Addtional extras include the behind-the scenes featurette Unearthing the Lost World (HD, 9:00 mins), four Scrat Featurettes (SD, 14:00 mins) "The Saber-Toothed Squirrel" ,"From Head to Toe", "Breaking Story" and "News Report", five basic Fox Movie Channel Featurettes (SD, 28:00 mins): "Making a Scene", "In Character with John Leguizamo", "In Character with Ray Romano","In Character with Queen Latifah" and a second "Making a Scene", the "Walk the Dinosaur" Music Video (HD, 2 minutes): A "Walk the Dinosaur" music video comprised of clips from the film and two hilarious Scrat Shorts (HD, 12 minutes) "Gone Nutty" and "No Time for Nuts."

Introduced on the 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' blu-ray, this disc also contains the BD-Live feature Live Lookup that allows you to access actor filmographies and Dawn of the Dinosaurs info from the Internet Movie Database. There's also a Standard DVD Version as well as a Digital Copy of the Film.

A twisted, funny, high-octane adventure, director Matthew Vaughn brings KICK-ASS to the big screen.

KICK-ASS tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero would, he chooses a new name -- Kick-Ass -- assembles a suit and mask to wear, and gets to work fighting crime. There's only one problem standing in his way: Kick-Ass has absolutely no superpowers.

Instead of watching an average American family attempt to hide an alien visitor while working to get him home, Planet 51 starts on an alien world that's a shout-out to the 50s settings of many a sci-fi film. The family, voiced by the likes of Jessica Biel and Justin Long, is visited by an astronaut from our world (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) who at first thinks he's the first person to ever visit the elusive Planet 51.

What follows could be a paint-by-numbers alien movie -- only with a human astronaut as the so-called alien -- or it could be a fun send-off of the genre. We won't find out until November 20, but in the meantime there's this extended clip from Yahoo! to entertain you.

There movie even has a nod to the iconic bike scene in E.T.. Sure, nearly every other movie in its existence has its own version, but it never gets old.

To make matters worse, Dan Aykroyd is currently in negotiations to lend his voice to the Yogi Bear, and rumor is that Justin Timberlake could take over the role of Yogi's diminutive sidekick, Boo Boo. Anna Faris is also in negotiations to star in the film, and would play a nature documentarian.

About the only thing about this project I can't criticize is the inclusion of Faris, as she's a great comedic actress and fun to watch on screen. However, the very idea of a live-action/animated Yogi Bear movie continues to make me recoil in fear as visions of Garfield and Underdog dance in my head. Sure, there's a chance that this movie could be good but more likely than not it's just going to be embarassing for all involved.

Production begins next month in New Zealand.

Story, inspired by true events, centers on a young couple haunted by a supernatural presence unleashed during a college experiment. Start date for production is Feb. 1.

Silver is producing with Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman. Steve Richards, Sue Baden Powell and Daniel Alter exec produce.

Todd Lincoln is writing and will direct "Apparition," originally developed by Lincoln, Silver Pictures/Dark Castle exec Heineman and Alter. It was also one of the first projects Dark Castle has picked up since former Rogue Pictures prexy Rona was tapped prexy of Silver Pictures and co-prexy of the genre label late last year.

Dark Castle has "The Losers" in post and is developing "Unknown White Male," to star Liam Neeson, January Jones and Diane Kruger.

According to the Wall Street Journal, none other than J.J. Abrams is currently in negotiations to bring the Micronauts, a sci-fi action figure line from Japan, to the big screen. Arriving in the states during the 70s, the Micronauts enjoyed popularity first as a toy and then as a comic series from Marvel over the next decade.

Though both Image Comics and Devil's Due Publishing have apparently tried to revive the comics in the years since, the toyline itself ended quietly back in 1980.

Unfortunately(?) for me, I have no knowledge of the Micronauts beyond the vague awareness of their existence. So I ask you, readers: Do you want to see a Micronauts movie? How about one helmed by J.J. Abrams?

I made a promise to a friend that I would be a little nicer to Stephen Sommers' 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra', though I can't ignore the fact that I have more than a number of problems with this film. Sommers is in the business of creating popcorn movies. His job is to fashion a thrill ride and entertaining escape that makes you forget about reality for two hours as you enter his world of fantasy. He's done that job and more, yet I still feel like something is missing. I like to check my brain at the door, now and then, but I find having my brain stimulated a bit to be more exciting. I like a little substance to my stories, a little cream in my coffee. Good films, at least the memorable ones, make you think a little. Is this the 'G.I. Joe' that I remember from my youth? Not really, but it has the potential to be. This first movie in what is planned to be an new franchise is basically a prologue, an origin story that will hopefully get on track and start heading down familiar territory that entertained millions of kids over the past few decades. Sommers' film is very much in the spirit of G.I. Joe which is more than I can say for what Michael Bay did for 'Transformers'.



There were times, watching 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' where I felt like I was looking at something pleasantly familiar that gave me a sense of security. Almost like having that favorite meal mom used to make for the first time in many years. Like 'Transformers' this film has plenty of pluses as well as minuses, but just when I was ready to suspend my disbelief, the picture crumbles under the weight of its ambitions. In a post 9/11 world it's almost as if the producers felt they had to throw in an incredible amount of exposition to justify everything that's happening in this story just so it can appear somewhat believable to us. No matter how they slice it, we the audience know this is not real just as we knew that giant alien robots don't exist no matter how realistic the military they interact with is due to Michael Bay's Pentagon connections.



'G.I. Joe' starts off rather decently, even though much like every film where we are introduced to a team, organization or group, it's through the eyes of an outsider. They did this in the first 'X-Men', where Wolverine is rescued by two team members and then taken on a tour of their operation at 'Xavier's School for the Gifted' by Charles Xavier himself. Wolverine is meant to serve as the eyes of the audience and the same thing happens here, except we get two sets of eyes in the forms of U.S. soldiers Duke (Channing Tatum) and Rip Cord (Marlon Wayans). While transporting a new destructive weapon that uses nano-technology, their convoy gets ambushed by a mysterious group of soldiers led by a raven haired girl who it turns out Duke shares a history with. Just when it looks like it's the end for this dynamic duo, another group of mysterious soldiers comes to their aid and prevent the bad guys from absconding with the weapon. Our two heroes are introduced to the covert ops organization of G.I. Joe with the arrival of their rescuers Scarlett (Rachel Nichols), Breaker (Saïd Taghmaoui), Heavy Duty (Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje) and the enigmatic Snake-Eyes (Ray Park). Upon meeting their commander (via hologram), the legendary General Hawk (Dennis Quaid), Duke and Rip Cord agree to release the weapon to their custody only if they can accompany them and before long are given the grand tour of the Joe's base of operations, 'The Pit', located deep in the Egyptian Desert.

Sunglasses? In the rain?

When you're introduced to a complex world like this through the eyes of a main character, he'd better be a strong leading man. Now Hugh Jackman is a rare breed, a classically trained performer who can sing and dance as well as act. Even someone with less than half his talent could carry a lead role in 'G.I. Joe'. Channing Tatum, I'm sorry to say, ain't it. This guy is a complete bore and literally walks and talks like a ghetto breakdancer from right off the street. It's not that Tatum is bland, he just doesn't appear to be trying or even care. I suspect someone with less star power like Tatum was cheaper to sign up for this and future sequels. Wayans was probably made his sidekick to add a little flavor and although he outshines Tatum by playing it straight, his screentime is sadly limited. The same can be said for Dennis Quaid although he seems to relish the role of General Hawk and hits the right tone, knowing full well what kind of movie he's in. Supporting players like Nicols, Taghmaoui, Adele and Park make the most of their roles with some leaving more memorable impressions than others. Nichols is no doubt easy on the eyes, but I also believed that her Scarlett was an over-achiever that graduated college at the age of twelve and I bought the fact that she could handle herself as well as the boys. It's nice to see the hint of a romantic relationship between her and Rip Cord, even though at times it feels forced.



Ray Park may be a short guy with a tiny voice, but he is one of the best physical performers I've seen in recent years. Though his voice was dubbed over as Darth Maul in 'Star Wars', he was still menacing in the way he carried himself and acted with his body. There are a lot of really good actors who can't perform as physically well as Park and I'm not talking about martial arts abilities. That less is more approach can convey so much within a performance and as a masked character who has taken a vow of silence, Park's work here speaks volumes. You don't have to be familiar with the character of Snake-Eyes to get a sense of who he is, his history and his struggle. Almost on equal footing is the work put in by Byung-hun Lee as ninja assassin Storm Shadow. The history between these two revolves around a series of flashbacks where it was revealed they trained together as children as members of the Arashikage clan and share a bitter rivalry. Of the various flashbacks (and there are a lot) within the film, this is probably the strongest, yet I wish it was explored further. Though bitter rivals, both adult actors convey a sense of loss between their characters that's one of the strongest dramatic elements in the film and they do so with little to no dialogue. Their dynamic is so strong that a part of me wanted to see them in a separate film entirely.





Those flashbacks also involve another set of relationships that don't even come close to the dramatic power of Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow's. That raven haired girl who almost killed Duke with her mysterious group of soldiers turns out to be his ex-girlfriend. He may remember her as Ana, the sister of his best friend Rex and his one-time fiance, but she now goes by the name of the Baroness and is played with devilish delight by Sienna Miller. For the majority of her performance, Miller manages to capture the essence of the original character, even if her backstory has been screwed up. She seems to revel in her fiendish behavior with a wink and an impish grin. Only in the third act does her role in events really get silly and we have her cohorts to thank for that. The Baroness has been in cahoots with Scottish megalomaniac arms dealer James McCullen (Christopher Eccleston), the man who would be Destro. Miller is perfectly cast. Eccleston sounds flat and whinny like Craig Ferguson and doesn't make a strong villain. The slack is picked up by Joseph Gordon-Levitt as “The Doctor” who also seems to know what kind of film he's in and channels the late Chris Latta perfectly. You never see his mouth for his entire performance as this character, but I could almost feel him smiling at just how evil he could be. Arnold Vosloo is also appropriately wicked as “master of disguise” Zartan, so much so that I sometimes wished he were given the larger role of Destro over Eccleston.





The Paris chase sequence where the Joes attempt to stop the Baroness and Storm Shadow from destroying the Eiffel Tower is no doubt the major action setpiece of the film. Sommers has worked with big budgets and all the toys known in visual effects, but he often gets carried away. What begins as an exciting set-piece for Snake-Eyes as he chases down the bad guys “Action Jackson” style becomes about Duke and Ripcord as they put on those silly armored suits. I have the admit, the visual effects for this sequence are extraordinary, but I suspect that the reason every other effect in this film looks so mediocre is because a good deal of the budget was devoted to this scene.





By the third act the film heads down familiar territory where the heroes attempt to stop the bad guys and their insidious plans by staging an assault on their secret base. Stuff like this can be fun at times, even though there's no differentiation from a space, air or underwater battle. I just couldn't escape the feeling that Sommers has such a decent cast here and fails to really use them. What made the G.I. Joe comics and TV series work so well was character development, so why hire capable performers in a live-action adaptation if they're gonna be window dressing? Despite the generic direction the story headed in, there is potential for this franchise now that its been set up. There are a lot of loose ends that could be explored or developed in future films that might even improve this one. Sommers is no dummy, I'd like to believe he knows what he's doing and has better ideas for the next flick. In the meantime, this first film isn't a worthless experience and actually plays better in the comfort of your own home.

All Heavy-Duty needs to complete his 'Blade' Halloween costume is Snake-Eyes' sword.

Video: If only the film's story was as razor sharp as its visual presentation. This is one of those HD transfers that almost looks a little too good. I could really detect no film grain in this AVC encoded 1080p 2.39 to 1 framed transfer. If you put aside some of the underwhelming visual effects, this is a great looking movie in more ways than one. Black levels are strong, yet there is also a remarkable amount of shadow detail in the nighttime sequences. During fully lit scenes, you can see just what a wonderful production design this film has with a rich texture that gives this fantasy world a little realism.



Audio: As they did for the 'Transformers 2' blu-ray, Paramount seems to be on the DTS band wagon, employing a DTS 5.1 Master Audio track that's astounding. For over a decade, Sommers has produced incredible sound mixes for his films and 'G.I. Joe' is no exception. Sure, this is a film about big bangs and gunfire, but Alan Silvestri's score is mixed in with the action rather well, always maintaining a presence. The dialogue also manages to come in rather strongly and can always be coherent over the loud explosions or effects.

Has anyone noticed that Snake-Eyes' “mouth” is open and closed in some shots?

Extras: I may not have enjoyed all of Sommers' films, but he always provides informative and engaging audio commentary tracks. Along with producer/editor Bob Ducsay, Sommers' infectious enthusiasm is always a joy to listen to. I even applaud the fact that he's brave enough to point out the film's faults like the visual effects that don't work so well. He's obviously a man who enjoys what he does.





Disc two is actually a dvd that features a digital copy and two rather short featurettes. The Big Bang Theory: The Making of G.I. Joe (SD, 29:33 mins) is a behind-the-scenes short that opens with a hilarious bit with Gordon-Levitt reciting Hamlet's soliloquy while holding the Cobra Commander mask in place of a skull. , Larry Hama, Stuart Beatie and nearly the entire cast are featured in on camera interviews where they discuss the production and what the film was designed to be. Only thirty minutes long, but rather informative. Next-Gen Action: The Amazing Visual Effects and Design of G.I. Joe (SD, 21:08) is the second featurette that takes a look at the films special effects. Even though those accelerator suits served as a poor plot device, the time and effort that went into their creation is amazing, resulting in a visual effect that's often tough to differentiate from reality.



I like to think of 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' as the initial chapter of something to look forward to even if it gets off to a ho-hum start. It's not the perfect film or even the perfect popcorn movie, but the incredible audio and visual quality of this blu-ray is a marvel and not a bad way to pass the time.