By Katey Rich
Proving that even the silliest, most nonsensical video games can be turned into movies, Fox is setting up a cast for its adaptation of 80's arcade staple Street Fighter. Kristin Kreuk (TV's "Smallville"), Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile) and Chris Klein (American Pie) have been added to the cast, which also includes Moon Bloodgood (TV's "Pathfinder"), Hong Kong action star Cheng Pei Pei, and Taboo, a member of The Black-Eyed Peas. Wow, what a collection we have here. Andrzej Bartkowiak (Exit Wounds) is directing. Street Fighter fans can check out the Variety article for the dish on who is playing who, though you've probably guessed already that Kreuk is playing Chun Li. And that's the extent of my Street Fighter knowledge, so moving onward...
What Roman Polanski could not do, Stone Village Entertainment will now attempt. The production company has optioned the rights to Mikhail Bulgakov's Russian novel The Master and Margarita, a book once banned that also served as inspiration for the Rolling Stones album Sympathy for the Devil. It concerns the devil's return to Earth in the form of a mysterious man in World War II-era Moscow. Polanski had adapted the novel in the mid-80s and was set to direct it until Warner Bros. pulled the plug. Stone Village embarked on another literary adaptation last fall with Love in the Time of Cholera, with little domestic succcess.
You'd think that a product called HD DVD would have had an edge in the HD DVD market, but manufacturer Toshiba has admitted defeat against the mighty Blu-Ray. In the last few weeks many studios have followed Warner Bros.' lead and committed to the Sony-backed Blu-Ray format. When Wal-Mart announced that it would stock only Blu-Ray discs, the jig was pretty much up. Now consumers can finally commit to HD DVD players and discs without worrying that the technology will become instantly obsolete. We've all pretty much come to terms with the fact that it will all be obsolete in 10 years, no matter what we do.
And finally, another day, another vampire movie. Summit Entertainment has rounded out the cast for its upcoming thriller Twilight, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Peter Facinelli (TV's "Damages"), Elizabeth Reaser (The Family Stone) and Jackson Rathbone (TV's "The O.C.") have joined, and will star alongside Kristen Stewart (Into the Wild) and Robert Pattinson (the Harry Potter franchise), who had already been cast in lead roles. Pattinson plays a young man who comes from a family of vampires, with Stewart as a girl with a crush on him. Summit reportedly hopes to turn the film into its first franchise series.
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