Jack Black Gets Animated Again; McG Still Wants to do TERMINATOR 5 & 6; and Two New Featurettes for AVATAR

We have a little grab bag of geek news for you tonight. First up, Jack Black is getting animated again, this time would focus on cryptozoological animals like Bigfoot, the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and James Carville. Based on a pitch from screenwriter Jason Micallef, Black is currently set to produce, but Heat Vision says he’s not committed to voice act in the project at this point. Black’s vocals led 2008′s Kung Fu Panada which went on to gross $216 million domestically and $631 million worldwide. He’ll return to voice Po the Panda in the 2011 sequel, Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom. He also did a great job voicing lead character Eddie Riggs in Tim Schaeffer’s video game Brütal Legend (unfortunately, the game itself was one of the biggest disappointments of 2009).

In another story, Director McG (which stands for “I’ll spend the rest of my career explaining why I call myself ‘McG’”) said in a commentary on BD-Live for Terminator: Salvation last night (where he was asked why he calls himself “McG”) that he wants to make Terminator 5 and 6. While McG wants this, Halcyon is still trying to auction off the rights to the franchise. Also, Terminator: Salvation only managed to break even with a worldwide gross of $371 million. While that is considerably more than its reported $200 million budget, once you factor in prints and advertising it was not the successful re-launch folks were hoping for after 2003′s Rise of the Machines. So the question becomes once somebody buys the rights to the franchise, will they want McG continuing his intended trilogy? [Gizmodo]

Finally, two more featurettes for Avatar have come online. To see the featurette about the ecosystem of Pandora click here, and hit the jump to see the featurette about the story. Remember six months ago when we hardly knew anything about this movie? I miss those days.

JUDGE DREDD

TERMINATORS 5 – 6 Better be getting made!!! I actually liked T4 and saw it as a beginning of something that was going to get better.

The Robots need to develop to the next stage, so does the weaponry, skynet and the war!
T4 was part 1 of developing trilogy, to cut it short now will kill Terminator for good.
We need to see how the Terminators get made of tougher metals, so that bullets will be useless. Then how the blue lasers get made to replace bullets. How time-travel becomes possible. How Arnie gets captured and sent back.

So many things yet to happen. I think people went into T4 expecting all of these things to happen in film 1, not realising it was just the first chapter.

Also, in T4, if you rewatch the original terminator, Kyle Reece describes the future, and everything in it happens in T4. Including the harvesters, and the rubber headed terminators. Give it a chance people!

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Avatar better live up to all this hype! But so far theyre killing it for me by showing toooooo much of the film already, I have tried staying away mostly but still, i doubt there will be much left to see on the big screen after all these clips and trailers. And i’m still not 100% convinced about the look of it all.Still, I’ll be there on opening night to see what all this 3D fuss is about.

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Oh and Kung fu Panda 2 will be more than welcome! That was a great lil film.
JUDGE DREDD

TERMINATORS 5 – 6 Better be getting made!!! I actually liked T4 and saw it as a beginning of something that was going to get better.

The Robots need to develop to the next stage, so does the weaponry, skynet and the war!
T4 was part 1 of developing trilogy, to cut it short now will kill Terminator for good.
We need to see how the Terminators get made of tougher metals, so that bullets will be useless. Then how the blue lasers get made to replace bullets. How time-travel becomes possible. How Arnie gets captured and sent back.

So many things yet to happen. I think people went into T4 expecting all of these things to happen in film 1, not realising it was just the first chapter.

Also, in T4, if you rewatch the original terminator, Kyle Reece describes the future, and everything in it happens in T4. Including the harvesters, and the rubber headed terminators. Give it a chance people!

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Avatar better live up to all this hype! But so far theyre killing it for me by showing toooooo much of the film already, I have tried staying away mostly but still, i doubt there will be much left to see on the big screen after all these clips and trailers. And i’m still not 100% convinced about the look of it all.Still, I’ll be there on opening night to see what all this 3D fuss is about.

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Oh and Kung fu Panda 2 will be more than welcome! That was a great lil film.
wotsits99uk

Avatar…. visual, stunning, amazing, mind blowing, the short clips you see on adverts does not do it justice at all, it must be seen before you die, i’m still thinking about it and i must tell everyone about it but i can’t cos you have to see it for yourself and watching it on the big screen…..lost for words to describe it!
wotsits99uk

Avatar…. visual, stunning, amazing, mind blowing, the short clips you see on adverts does not do it justice at all, it must be seen before you die, i’m still thinking about it and i must tell everyone about it but i can’t cos you have to see it for yourself and watching it on the big screen…..lost for words to describe it!
wotsits99uk

Avatar…. visual, stunning, amazing, mind blowing, the short clips you see on adverts does not do it justice at all, it must be seen before you die, i’m still thinking about it and i must tell everyone about it but i can’t cos you have to see it for yourself and watching it on the big screen…..lost for words to describe it!

by Matt Goldberg Posted: December 6th, 2009 at 10:37 pm

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