BREAKING MOVIE/TV NEWS

Monday, November 05, 2007

No Payne No Gain...

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20th Century Fox is ramping up their production slate, before next summer's anticipated strike by the Screen Actors Guild, on the heels of the current Writers Guild of America strike that started today.

In the wake of greenlights for "X-Files 2" and "The Day The Earth Stood Still", video game adaptation "Max Payne" is also headed for the big screen.

The original "Max Payne" game focused on anti-hero 'Max Payne', an undercover DEA agent in New York City, strung-out over the destruction of his family by a group of junkies.

When an undercover meeting goes bad, Max gets mixed up in the middle of a turf war, becomes a suspect in a crime he didn’t commit, then takes the law into his own hands...