Blu-ray Bulletin for October 20, 2009

October 20, 2009 100 Feet (Asylum) Blood: The Last Vampire (Sony) The Crew (Image) Easy Rider (Sony) Eminem: Live from New York City (Eagle Rock) Freedomland (Sony) Iron Man: Armored Adventures (Genius) Leonard Cohen: Live from the Isle of Wight (Amazon Exclusive) (Sony Music) Monsoon Wedding (Criterion) Toto: Falling In Between Live (Eagle Rock) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen(Paramount) UFC 100: Making History (Starz/Anchor Bay) Waterworld (Universal) Wrong Turn [...]

Tahar Rahim joining Eagle Of The Ninth

Tahar Rahim has been nabbing some healthy praise for his role in A Prophet, and now he's signed on to Kevin Macdonald's Roman epic The Eagle Of The Ninth.

Rahim will play Seal Prince, the leader of a band of fearsome Gallic warrior types who harangue Marcus Aquila (Channing Tatum) and slave Esca (Jamie Bell) as they hunt for the Ninth Legion, which vanished 20 years previously in the Scottish mountains.

Macdonald has already been shooting for a few weeks in Hungary and has now moved on to Scotland for that authentic scenic backdrop.

We're still not convinced Tatum can make a convincing Roman warrior, but Rahim certainly has the chops to pull of a solid role. If you need to know more, check out our feature on A Prophet as one of the pics to catch at the London Film Festival.

[Source: Coming Soon]

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Mark Strong signs for Eagle Of The Ninth

Director Kevin Macdonald has grabbed two new cast members for Roman epic The Eagle Of The Ninth.

Donald Sutherland and Sherlock Holmes' Mark Strong have both signed on to the film.

They'll join the already-cast Jamie Bell and Channing Tatum who play a Celtic slave and the centurion he serves who head off to locate the titular Roman brigade in the second century.

Seems the Ninth marched off to the Scottish hills on a mission 15 years previously and never returned.

Channing has a personal stake in the mission - his father was the Ninth's commander.

Macdonald has just begun calling the shots in Hungary.

[Source: THR]

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The Eagle of the Ninth Gets Wings

All right, loyal LatinoReview readers, don't think I haven't noticed you in the comment sections suggesting that Channing Tatum star in every upcoming film that's been announced. Well, now you get your wish: today Focus Features revealed that filming on The Eagle of the Ninth has begun with Tatum starring as Marcus Aquila. Set in 140 AD, The Eagle of the Ninth is about a young Roman, Marcus, who is on a quest to investigate the Ninth Legion's disappearance amongst the mountains of Scotland. What follows is a journey throughout the rich countryside of Scotland as Marcus tries to find the truth and make peace with the past, encountering native tribes along the way. Donald Sutherland will also make an appearance in the film as Marcus' uncle Aquila. Filming is set to take place entirely in Hungary and Scotland, which means you can all stop casting Tatum in the next big film because he'll be busy overseas for awhile. On second thought, continue with the Channing Tatum comments; it amuses me.   Source: Focus Features

Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell Begin Shooting THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH with Mark Strong and Donald Sutherland

Principal photography got under way today on “The Eagle and the Ninth”, the Roman period drama starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell.  The film, based on the young adult novel by Rosemary Sutcliff, is being directed by Kevin MacDonald for Focus Features.  In addition to Tatum and Bell, MacDonald recently added two more big names [...]

New Promo For Jean Claude Van Dammes The Eagle Path

Just one movie can turn a whole career around. For Jean Claude Van Damme, that was JCVD. The movie proved (at long last) that the notoriously self-aggrandizing actor had a sense of humor. Folks that hadn't paid attention to the guy in a decade were suddenly big fans. Who needs The Expendables when you can rope your own persona into a failed bank robbery and subsequent media circus? Now Van Damme is hard at work on a more tranditional new film called The Eagle Path, and Twitch has a new promo. The film is much more in the line of late '80s / early '90s action flicks. You can use the term 'standard' or 'classic' depending on your point of view. Picture a lower-budget version of Taken starring JCVD. Which is a long way of saying that from here, this looks like a fall back to the DTV pictures Van Damme ...

Shia LaBeouf Out Of Y: The Last Man

It's been about two years since Eagle Eye director D.J. Caruso announced that he wanted to direct an adaptation of the graphic novel Y: The Last Man, with Shia LaBeouf starring as the only survivor of a plague that wiped out everyone with a Y chromosome. Caruso's two career hits-- Disturbia and Eagle Eye-- have both starred LaBeouf, and it seemed safe to assume that Caruso's planned trilogy of Y movies wouldn't happen with LaBeouf's guaranteed starpower. So, uh, ...

Jean-Claude Van Dammes The Eagle Path Trailer

After the critical acclaim that Jean-Claude Van Damme received last year for his performance in JCVD, things seemed to be looking up for the aging action star. He had been toiling away in direct to video hell for quite a while now, but a lot of people felt that movie would give him a new lease on life -- including himself, after all, he did turn down a role [1] in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables. Instead, he was inspired to get back behind the camera for the first time since his 1996 film The Quest. Well, he probably should have left that to the professionals. The first trailer for Van Damme's The Eagle Path has now arrived online, and guess what? It looks like a Jean-Claude Van Damme film! The story has him playing "Frenchy", a former mercenary who now works as a taxi driver in East Asia. While frequenting a bar called The Eagle's Nest, he meets a beautiful woman who is caught up in some trouble, and he is inspired to do everything he can to help her out of her predicament. "War is hell, but nothing theyve done could have prepared them for this. Its an adrenaline-fueled, full-on, maximum firepower thriller, filled with the intense psychological conflict that Van Damme fans love the world over." Uh... yeah. By the end of the trailer when Van-Damme proclaims, "I love a woman for the first time in my life!", all of that acting talent that people have been gushing about has gone right out the window. The Eagle Path is coming sometime in 2009; check out the trailer below and see what you think. [1] http://www.filmjunk.com/2009/02/09/why-did-van-damme-turn-down-a-role-in-stallones-the-expendables/

Set Pics from M. Night Shyamalans The Last Airbender

LEFT: Film crew members in a field below the Pagoda move a camera RIGHT: Bones are scattered on the fields below the Pagoda depicting lead character Aang’s battered hometown. Photo: Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden Thanks goes to SlashFilm for pointing us in the direction of Pennsylvania’s The Reading Eagle and Sermitsiaq which both contain news and pics from [...]

Kevin Macdonald Takes on Eagle of the Ninth

Helmer Kevin Macdonald will follow State of Play by directing the Roman military drama The Eagle of the Ninth , reports Variety . Focus Features will distribute the film, set to begin production in August.