Question: For each of you, how have your characters changed between X-Men 2 to X-Men 3? As far as powers, personality?
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Halle Berry: And I get to fly [laughs]. That's another Brett Ratner (influence). Yeah, I do get to fly this time.
Hugh Jackman: He's a little sexier in this one though [laughs]
Ian McKellen: For those of us who get really close to Wolverine, we have to admit that his hair is getting even more gorgeous. [laughs].
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Question: Speaking to the cast-is it easy to slip back into these roles the third time around, or is it always a challenge?
Hugh Jackman: Easier than the second, but there's always a moment. I said to Brett the first week, "Let's just get through it, I want to watch the monitor with you" and he was great to me from the beginning. After the third day I was like BOOM, there it is. I don't think all the stuff we did on the first few days were useless, but I took a few days. It was just putting it back on for me.
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Question: Could you discuss the new actors, and the new characters?
Brett Ratner: I just signed like a 100 page document before I walked into this room (about nondisclosure) [laughs]. Juggernaut, played by Vinnie Jones, is a fantastic character and just a great actor and just a great guy to work with and be on the set with. Juggernaut joins Magneto's group, I won't tell you how, but Magneto picks him up along the way and he becomes part of the Magneto crew. There's Kitty Pryde who's an X-Men that had very small parts in the first two movies, but we decided in this version to expand that character. That's Ellen Page, a brilliant young actress who's done mostly independent films-she's in this brilliant film coming out soon called "Hard Candy".
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles in laughter in strife. In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes - how do you measure a year in the life? How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love... seasons of love.
Newsarama is reporting that the combined sales of theater tickets and DVD sales has turned Serenity out of the red and into the black.
The total production costs for the Joss Whedon film was $39 million with a rumored advertising cost at approximately another $10 million making the total out of Universal's pocket at around $49 million. The total U.S. theater box office take was a disappointing $25 million with international theatrical sales fairing little better at $13 million leaving Universal in the red for a whopping $28 million when taking into account that studios receive around 55% of total ticket sales.
With that kind of red ink Universal and Whedon have been walking around with all their fingers crossed hoping that the DVD sales would at least allow them to break even and show the pic in the black, even if only marginally. And it looks like all the finger crossing has paid off as the latest DVD numbers look very encouraging. All DVD reports up to January 31st are in and it looks like over 2 million DVD's have been sold and VideoBusiness.com, an organization that tracks video rental information, announced that Serenity has made $9 million in DVD rentals alone.
The fact that Serenity has taken Universal out of the red and into the black is great news, but don't cheer too early. According to Universal execs it still may not be enough for them to wager on a costly sequel, even though Whedon brought this one in at $1 million under its original projected cost of $40 million.
"In determining priority for shipping and inventory allocation, we give priority to those members who receive the fewest DVDs through our service," Netflix's revised policy now reads. The statement specifically warns that heavy renters are more likely to encounter shipping delays and less likely to immediately be sent their top choices.
Hard to believe huh? 9 years have passed since Dolly was first cloned. - the success rate has been very low: Dolly was born after 276 failed attempts; 70 calves have been created from 9,000 attempts and one third of them died young
- A surprising development to do with aging resulted from finds that Dolly was apparently subject to accelerated aging.
- Cloning is quite inefficient and usually there are over 600 to 1000 nuclear transfers before one is able to grow into a stem cell. Even those animals that are successfully cloned are not as heathly as the original animal.
Over all I agree that Hugh Jackman or Clive Owen would have been a much better choice but I'm also glad Hugh was not picked. People picked to be Bond are tied the franchise and allowed to do only projects that don't interfere with the franchise. I'd rather see Hugh in a slew of other films such as X3, Wolferine and The Prestige to name a few.
Is there any wonder why companies are so gung ho on breaking into China and India? Look at the difference in population!!!
I had no idea that Russia was that HUGE!!! Almost twice the size of the next largest country. And China and USA have roughly the same land mass but China has about 4 time the population. 
Gotta go grab more tissue now.
Had to post this, it's a picture of my family and was taken the night before I left Singapore.
I thought this was pretty interesting. Incase you didn't know, Singapore like many other metropolitian cities, is very rushed and time's always an issue. Hence, even the travel time between each stop is timed. The scary part is that its fairly accurate about 80% of the time.
I just had to take a picture of this advertisement. This guy's mug is plastered at almost every other bus and train stop as well as in the papers. As a model the exposure is great, but I can't help thinking that if he's really student than this guy is gonna be butt of a joke. He'll essentially have no anonymity.
Burning Crusade
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