Ghostbusters Goes Ballroom Blitz...

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Buffy Preps For "American McGee's Alice"...

Universal Pictures and Collision Entertainment are prepping production on the film "Alice", based on the 2000 video game "American McGee's Alice".

The horror fantasy film will shoot in Langley, BC starring actress Sarah Michelle "Buffy" Gellar as 'Alice'.

Story begins after Alice's second adventure, "Through the Looking Glass", when she loses her parents, becomes catatonic and institutionalized in 'Rutledge Asylum'.

Years later, she is summoned by the 'White Rabbit' to come back to 'Wonderland', now under the despotic rule of the 'Red Queen'.

Director is Marcus Nispel, from a script by Erich and Jon Hober, based on author Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass".

Producers are Scott Faye and Julie Yorn.

"Alice' is set for a July 2008 release...

Alien Sex Creates A "Mass Effect"...

Singapore has banned Microsoft's "Mass Effect" video game for a scene showing a human woman and 'alien' woman, "kissing and caressing each other".

"Mass Effect" was banned by Singapore's Media Development Authority.

It is the first Microsoft video game to be banned in the city-state.

Singapore previously banned Sony's "God Of War 2" for nudity and unlisted Top Cow's "The Darkness" for excessive violence and religiously offensive expletives...

Nate Dog!

Saturday night I lined out this fun cover up tattoo. Check out the old Betty Paige piece (actually the second tattoo I ever did!) that won't be there much longer.

Gans Fights For "Onimusha"...

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As studios ramp up production slates before the contract for the Screen Actors Guild expires July 1, 2008, director Christophe "Brotherhood Of The Wolf" Gans will adapt Capcom video game "Onimusha' as a feature, with an April 2008 start.

The game debuted in 2001 on PlayStation 2 with 4 sequels produced, including "Onimusha: Dawn Of Dreams", released in 2006.

"Onimusha" the film will be set in feudal Japan, 1582, as warlord 'Nobunaga' is ambushed by ninjas, led by the samurai 'Samanosuke'. Nobunaga commits 'seppuku' but two sorcerers reanimate his corpse with half-human insect larvae. Resurrected Nobunaga plans his revenge, by ordering the capture of two women.

When 'Britta', daughter of a Dutch merchant is abducted on board a ship by warriors, her tutor 'Jacob' pursues the captors. 'Princess Yuki' is also kidnapped by part-spider ninjas. Meanwhile Jacob discovers in the 'Cave of Elders', a magical sword and learns of a ceremony at 'Inabayama Castle' intended to blot out the sun.

Invading the castle, the team of Samanosuke and Jacob find their women dressed as 'Moon Princess' and 'Daughter of the Sun', ready to be wed to Nobunaga.

The two warriors attack the insectoid hordes, but Samanosuke falls.

Then in a 'mystical' encounter, he is given an option to survive and fight, but at a heavy cost...

No Payne, No Gain...

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20th Century Fox is ramping up their production slate, before next summer's anticipated strike by the Screen Actors Guild, on the heels of the current Writers Guild of America strike that started today.

In the wake of greenlights for "X-Files 2" and "The Day The Earth Stood Still", video game adaptation "Max Payne" is also headed for the big screen.

The original "Max Payne" game focused on anti-hero 'Max Payne', an undercover DEA agent in New York City, strung-out over the destruction of his family by a group of junkies.

When an undercover meeting goes bad, Max gets mixed up in the middle of a turf war, becomes a suspect in a crime he didn’t commit, then takes the law into his own hands...

"Elan" Awards Show Feb 15, 2008...

"As the movie industry goes to Hollywood for its Oscars, so will the world of video gaming and animation come to Canada for their 'Elans'," said Holly Carinci, Founder, Producer of the Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts (CAEAA), as she announced the 2nd Annual Awards Show for the Video Gaming/Animation industries will take place February 15th, 2008, at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts.

Extending the Elan’s qualifying year to December 31st, the 2nd Annual Elan Awards will accept submissions for productions/games made publicly available (student’s work need not be publicly available, only completed) from July 1, 2006 to December 31, 2007.

All submissions for the 2nd Annual Elan Awards are due Friday, December 21st. This extension will allow the participation of upcoming games including "Halo 3", "Crysis", "Guitar Hero III", "Need for Speed ProStreet", "Super Mario Galaxy" and "BioShock" to qualify.

Official Hotelier of the Elans is the Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver.

The CAEAA and their Event Partners Electronic Arts (EA), Autodesk, N-GAGE by NOKIA, Ernst & Young and the British Columbia Provincial Government will host the event, backed by supporters Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP, Annex Pro, Foundation 9/Backbone Entertainment, Radical Entertainment, Next Level Games, Studio B Productions, Mercury Filmworks, Action Pants, Atomic Robot Games, Blue Castle Games, Voicebox Productions, Western Imperial Magnetics, 90 Degree Software, David Kaye Productions, Raven Tales, Selkirk College, The Art Institute of Vancouver, Emily Carr Institute, Sheridan College, Vancouver Film School, School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SFU), University of Washington Department of Communications, BC Film, Vancouver Economic Development Commission, Tourism Vancouver, BC Innovation Council, Uniglobe Advance Travel, Elan statuette artist Dean Lauzé of D’Arts, FedEx, Paramount Limousines, Chloe Angus Designs, Moore’s Clothing for Men, Awards Auditing firm, Buckley Dodds & Assoc's.

HollywoodNorthReport, SneakPeek.Ca and BigGameHunter are delighted to continue our second year of coverage of this event...