An Omen of What's to Come

Hollywood Death Watch, Part LXXXX

Are you ready for The Omen? It's opening next Tuesday (6/6/06 - get it?), and Garth Franklin of Dark Horizons has this review:

The first time I heard they were remaking "The Omen" I had to ask...'why?'. Having seen the remake, I'm still left with the same question.

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Ultimately pointless, the remake of "The Omen" is exactly as it appears - a marketing ploy to exploit the admittedly intriguing release date gimmick. There is absolutely nothing new here, nothing to justify why it was made and nothing of redeeming value ...

There's very little that's getting me excited to head off to the multi-plex this summer (save for An Inconvenient Truth, which I'll be viewing with several FotFs tomorrow night). Yes, I trotted out dutifully for MI-3, and it was a really sweet episode of Alias with a short-cropped Jennifer Garner (oooops... that was Tom Cruise). And Mrs. F and I made our Memorial Day pilgrimage to The DaVinci Code, which felt fairly lifeless except when Ian McKellan was around. But looking at the release schedule for this summer stuffed full of sequels (Garfield, Pirates of the Caribbean, Miami Vice, Clerks) and remakes (Superman, Click--which seems like a variation on Multiplicity), I'm just not that sussed about summer movies (though I am curious about A Scanner Darkly). Looks like the garden will be getting a lot more attention this year.

Now, one thing that I am looking forward to is the new season of Battlestar Galactica, which DH has a scoop on:

If you thought the first two seasons of "Battlestar Galactica" were dark, just you wait actor James Callis told Sci-Fi Wire.

"In the upcoming episodes, the simplest way to explain what happens is that the wheat is separated from the chaff. I'm not actually sure at this moment which I belong to, which bothers me, whether I'm the wheat or the chaff. All I know is that we are necessarily separated" says Callis, who plays new Colonial president Gaius Baltar on the series.