Ever since I heard that there will be a Wolver­ine spin-off I was con­vinced that this will be the real thing. Espe­cially since they got Hugh Jack­man to star as Logan once again. Also in for the fun are Sabre­tooth, Colonel William Stryker and Sil­ver Fox. Now Vari­ety reports that Ryan Reynolds has joined the cast and is set to play Dead­pool, a high-tech mer­ce­nary. Dead­pool appar­ently shows signs of insan­ity and is known for his black humor. Per­son­ally, I think Reynolds is able to han­dle both parts well enough. Still, they did better!

They finally brought Gam­bit to life! Accord­ing to the report Tay­lor Kitsch will star as the enig­matic thief. Appar­ently, Fox and Mar­vel have tried to add Gam­bit to the X-Men fran­chise for a long time but they could never find a way to give him enough screen time. Last but not least, the pro­duc­ers have added Kestrel (John Wraith) to the cast, who will be played by
Black Eyed Peas front­man will.i.am. X-Men Ori­gins: Wolver­ine is cur­rently set to be released on May 1st, 2009.

I remem­ber the first film adap­tion of the very pop­u­lar video game Street Fighter, star­ring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia and Kylie Minogue. As a mat­ter of fact, I still have a copy of the movie on VHS but I haven’t watched it in years. Back then when I was a youth it was a great movie. Nowa­days I couldn’t watch it with­out prej­u­dice. Any­way, accord­ing to Vari­ety there’s a new movie in the works and I’m not quite sure what to think of it.

Kristin Kreuk, who plays Lana Lang in the CW’s “Smal­l­ville”, will star as mar­tial artist Chun-Li. Michael Clarke Dun­can will play Bal­rog, Chris Klein will imper­son­ate Nash and Rick Yune will star as the mys­te­ri­ous Gen. Also on are Moon Blood­good, Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas, Edmund Chen and Cheng Pei Pei. Cur­rently, it is unclear as to who will step into the role of the big bad­die Bison. To me the cast doesn’t seem par­tic­u­larly over­whelm­ing. At least there’s fight chore­o­g­ra­pher Dion Lam who is han­dling the extreme fight sequences. He was also respon­si­ble for the fight scenes in The Matrix.

As far as the plot is con­cerned, not much is known at the time. Accord­ing to Vari­ety it will focus on the Chun-Li char­ac­ter. Well, I won­der how long they’re going to keep it under wraps. I don’t even know if I want to watch this movie. Seems like there’s noth­ing to do but wait for the first trailer.

One of the def­i­nite high­lights this year. Absolutely. Indi­ana Jones and the King­dom of the Crys­tal Skull is com­ing to a the­ater near you on May 22nd, 2008. That’s all the nec­es­sary info and we’re ready to watch the trailer. If you want to give HD a try, try over at Yahoo! Movies. Unfor­tu­nately, at the time I posted this it was really, really slow going.

With­out fur­ther ado, enjoy the trailer:

Due to strike com­pli­ca­tions Fox has been forced to delay the sev­enth sea­son of the pop­u­lar show to an unspec­i­fied date. Last week, Fox dropped the bomb­shell: There will be no sea­son of 24 in 2008! Up to now, the crew has already shot eight episodes and if Fox wanted to con­tinue pro­duc­tion this year, there would’ve been a lengthy break between the air­ing of the already shot episodes and the new ones. In order to ensure that the sev­enth sea­son was aired unin­ter­rupted, Fox opted to delay the show until Jan­u­ary 2009, one year after its orig­i­nally planned run date. TV.com has the news.

Here’s the low-down on what has been con­firmed for the sev­enth sea­son up to now:

• With CTU dis­man­tled, the show’s set­ting moves to Wash­ing­ton, D.C..
• Jack Bauer faces trial for his actions in the pur­suit of justice.
• Tony Almeida returns!
• Chloe O’Brian and Bill Buchanan too are back.
• There will be a female president.

I will eagerly await the next sea­son of 24. Hope­fully, they will use the time granted by the pow­ers that be to be more cre­ative than ever before. They absolutely need to pro­duce a show that really kicks some ass. After the dis­ap­point­ing sea­son 2 of Heroes I call it a good deci­sion to wait and prod­uct some qual­ity rather than some hastily thrown-together episodes.

This guy is a pain in the ass but I already drove that point home a time ago. For­tu­nately, his lat­est movie – In the Name of the King – didn’t do too well at the box office where it only grossed roughly $10 mil­lion world­wide. Accord­ing to Hol­ly­wood Reporter, Boll “will focus on small films” in the future. Unfor­tu­nately, before he will do so there will be another film adap­ta­tion of a famous game.

This time around the movie is based on the very pop­u­lar Far­Cry cre­ated by the Ger­man com­pany Cry­tek. Far­Cry is star­ring Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Craig Fair­brass, Ralf Moeller and, sadly, Don S. Davis whom I liked as “Ham­mond of Texas” in Star­gate SG-1. There’s no defin­i­tive release date yet except that it will come in 2008.

Any­way, take a look for your­self. Be sure to watch out for absolutely awe­some catch­phrases like “I haven’t said any­thing about being sim­ple.” or “You are one per­sis­tent son of a bitch.” or – best of all – “Is that your gun?”. I may not know much but I know one thing: This movie will suck again. Then, this doesn’t come as a sur­prise, does it?

Finally, I get to see those two in one movie. They got together to star in the upcom­ing movie The For­bid­den King­dom – for­merly known as The J & J project – which is about an Amer­i­can teenager trav­el­ing back through time to ancient China. Obvi­ously, he doesn’t do so because he planned it but rather because he got his hands on a leg­endary weapon that once belonged to the Mon­key King. The offi­cial site doesn’t have any­thing on it at all but the lat­est trailer which is also avail­able in HD over at Apple. Accord­ing to IMDB the movie will be open­ing in the US on April 18th, 2008.

This is the first col­lab­o­ra­tion between mar­tial arts vet­er­ans Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Chan will act as a drunken kung fu mas­ter while Li slips into the role of a silent monk who doesn’t talk much. This was quite unex­pected. I always hoped to watch both of them come together in one movie and now the time has arrived. Truth be told, I hoped for them to star in the upcom­ing movie adap­ta­tion of the very pop­u­lar video game Tekken. I’m afraid that’s not going to hap­pen if this report can be believed.