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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.

11 June 2008 10:10 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

This evening USA Today posted your first look at Nicolas Cage as a father who tries to avert the end of the world in Knowing, a film being directed by Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City). The pic can be found inside from the film that follows as a man who discovers a series of numbers that foretell catastrophes, including the 9/11 attacks. Cage discovers a letter buried in a time capsule outside a school. It doesn't mean anything to him until he sees the digits 911, which sets him on a course to prevent further catastrophes. Rose Byrne also stars.

11 May 2008 1:44 PM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news

April 24, 2008 -- On Wednesday morning I became seduced by the idea that I would, after all, somehow turn up at the festival. I would get there by ambulance, limo, MediVan, who knows what? But at the present I can't take a step with my fractured hip, so it would have taken two physical therapists to essentially haul me around. Thinking about it overnight, I decided it would be a great gesture to turn up and wave to my friends, but at what cost of pain and medical risk? The logistics just didn't add up. So while the festival unwinds in Urbana-Champaign, I will continue therapy at this end.

Chaz told me lots of people with experience of hip injuries advised her a six-hour round trip by whatever means would likely be very painful. (Flashback to old Trevor Howard story: "Right you are, old chap! Bloody difficult! Damned painful! No sense in my going!

Roger Ebert

5 articles from 2008