As I always try to look for some new way to expand my offerings, I have decided to keep an eye out across the world of entertainment news and try my hand at news reporting/commentary on a story here or there that catches my eye. Obviously, I cannot cover everything nor will I be able to cover most of it, or much of it at all. What I will do is whatever I can as I can and hope that it delivers something new to you.

Voltron Has A Director!

/Film is reporting that a live action version of Voltron has a director. His name is Max Makoswki and he will be helming the project for Relativity, which acquired the project from 20th Century Fox.

This is pretty intriguing news as the film, a potential blockbuster beginning to a franchise, is being handed over to an unknown quantity in Makowski. Frankly, I've never heard of the guy. Taking a quick look at his IMDb entry, I find he is currently working on a big screen update of the David Carradine series Kung Fu and is writing a movie adaptation of Hawaii Five-O. Still unsure, but willing to give him a chance; I mean Zack Snyder came out of nowhere and look what he achieved with 300.

It is being said that the film will have a moderate budget and be shot using technology similar to what was used for 300, which should help it stand apart from that other big robot series, you know, the one with transforming cars. As for the story, it is set on Earth and focuses on five survivors of an alien invasion who come to pilot the lion shaped robots in a battle to protect the Earth.

I had hoped it would be on an alien world as the series is, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little excited for this.

No Watchmen Until 2010? Maybe...

It has been reported at a number of sites, including Worst Previews, that a lawsuit could cause a delay in the release of Watchmen. This delay could push the release back as far as 2010. Now, no one wants that, do they? Well, 20th Century Fox does, if they can get their way.

I am sure a few of you do not know what is going on or why this would be happening. Well, it seems that Fox claims to own the copyright to the Watchmen source material, then there was some fuzziness that led to Warner Brothers believing they purchased said rights and they went ahead to produce the film. Now that the film has been made, Fox has stepped in and filed an injunction to prevent its release next March. There are reports of the two studios haggling over the actual start date of the trial which involves gray copyright laws and Hollywood contracts, none of which is likely to start until after the proposed March release of the film.