Universal Pictures and filmmaker Gore Verbinski (The Pirates of the Carribean series, The Ring, The Mexican) have bought the rights to use a 2007 Wall Street Journal article they plan on developing for the basis of a film about the online fantasy role-playing world known as Second Life. Verbinski is set to direct and Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Amazing Grace, Dirty Pretty Things) will pen the script. The WSJ article by Alexandra Alter focuses on Ric Hoogestraat, a married man who spends as many as 20 hours a day on a computer living as a thriving, muscle head entrepreneur in the virtual reality Second Life. In reality, he is a…

With the success of Marvel Enterprise’s Iron Man movie and the abounding rumors of upcoming Captain America and Avengers movies, Mark Millar, is talking about his upcoming work at Marvel and how much of an influence the Ultimate line, where classic Marvel titles and characters are given modern revamps, is having on upcoming Marvel Enterprise film projects. In an interview with Newsarama, Millar, the creator of both Wanted and Kick-Ass, said “I’d say the biggest success I’ve had, the one thing I feel very confident doing, is a new spin on the old characters. […] all these guys worked out really well in Ultimates, so much so that Marvel Studios…

Watch the latest video game trailer for the upcoming game “Speed Racer” for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Description: A unique racing game experience developed for the Wii in part by the movie directing duo, the Wachowski brothers. The game is designed as a game that players can build their own racing track, and it also has a “choose-your-own-adventure” aspect that presents the experience as a series of choices that the player must make in gameplay. In Speed Racer, players take on the role of the characters from the film, getting behind the wheels of each character’s signature vehicles to experience firsthand the film’s high adrenaline, combative racing style….

Watch the official movie trailer for the upcoming film “Backseat” by director Bruce Van Dusen and starring Josh Alexander, Starla Benford and William Bogert.

Four-Hour Television Event Imagines London Underwater and Asks ‘What If?’ RHI Entertainment announced today that the four-hour television event Flood will make its U.S. debut during the RHI Movie Weekend on the ION Television Network Sunday, December 16 (7/6c). Airing in its entirety in one night, Flood stars Robert Carlyle (Human Trafficking, Trainspotting, The Full Monty), Jessalyn Gilsig (Prison Break, Nip/Tuck), Tom Courtenay (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Dr. Zhivago), Joanne Whalley (Scandal, Dance with a Stranger), David Suchet (Poirot, A World Apart), Nigel Planer (Hogfather, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Young Ones), and Tom Hardy (Marie Antoinette, Black Hawk Down). When a raging storm coincides with high tides to…

Variety reports today that Paramount Pictures along with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and Director David Fincher best known for his film Se7en and The Zodiac will team up to develop the live action version of the graphic novel “The Killer” by Matz. The screenplay will be written by Allesandro Camon who co-produced American Psycho. Keep your eyes on Toxic Shock TV for more news on the upcoming film “The Killer”.

Check out the first poster from the upcoming remake “Conan” by writer Robert E. Howard. The film production will start in Spring 2008. Keep your eyes on Toxic Shock TV for more Conan news.

Take a look at what we came across while scouring Youtube. I’m not totally positive, but it appears that it might be a clip from the upcoming untitled J.J. Abrams project “Cloverfield” aka 01-18-08 by director Matt Reeves. One Youtube viewer noticed a “flash noise in the background” that may match the trailer that was shown during Michael Bay’s “Transformers”. The guys over at Britfilms.tv seem to think it might be another clip from Neil Blomkamp’s live action “Halo” that we posted earlier this month HERE. Take a look and you be the judge!

Check out the official poster for the film “Graveyard of the Blind Dead” aka El Monte de las Animas by director Vick Campbell. Be sure to check out the official movie trailer at Google Movies.

Trailer for the independent zombie horror film “Noctem” by director Jens Wolf and starring Michael T. Hauber, Werner Kochel and Andrea Schonherr. Synopsis: Kusey and Amy, two lonely civilians try to survive in a world populated by zombies. They try to find a group of Rednecks to be safe, but the undead are everywhere. Together with Redneck Mike, they barricade themselve in an old house to fight the undead…but they didn’t reckon with the apocalypse.