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NEWS SYSTEM - NOW ONLINE

Currently working on a better and quicker way to get all the latest War Of The Worlds news to the site.  Putting together a team of people who will be able to log on and add news instantly to the site!  eveofthewar.co.uk  will be the place to be for all the latest and breaking news...

JEFF WAYNE MUSICAL
COLLECTORS EDITION

News has come in from Jeff Wayne about his forth coming album re-launch this summer of the international award winning album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds of what the long awaited 'Collectors Edition' set(s) will include.

CLICK HERE FOR THE DETAILS!

DATE : 11th March 2005

INVADERS FROM HOLLYWOOD

Spielberg's motion picture of H. G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," the 19th-century story of a martians' attack, turned into a nerve-wracking radio show by Orson Welles in 1938, has area fans in high anticipation. That includes Julie Scully, a Howell resident whose home is in the development where the "War of the Worlds" production team filmed last November. Scully, the mother of two, and her husband, Shawn, plan to see the movie at least once. She's a Cruise fan, to boot. "I got within two arms-lengths' of him (Cruise). He has a great smile and he was very nice to everybody," said Scully of the actor during a break from filming.  Click here for the full story.

FROM : App.com
DATE : 13th March 2005

NEW PARAMOUNT SURVIVAL GAME & TRAILER, NEW LOOK SITE & 2ND TEASER TRAILER!

Coming next week you can expect a first look/teaser trailer for Paramount's upcoming War of the Worlds Survival game, which will be found exclusively on WarOfTheWorlds.com.

This game will be a multi-player online only game with realistic 3D rendered backgrounds and a birds-eye perspective of all the action as you and your friends attempt to escape the devastation that the alien invaders cause.

Later in March you can look forward to the initial launch of the above mentioned game, a new look for the official site (including translation into many different languages), as well as the release of the second teaser trailer for War of the Worlds which will be in theatres on 3/18.

More cool features are on the way - official photos, 3 additional Q&A features from the set on Yahoo.com and new downloads!

FROM : Paramount Pictures
DATE : 2nd March 2005

GAMELOFT SECURES MOBILE GAMING RIGHTS

Gameloft, a leading developer and publisher of video games for mobile phones, today announced it has signed an exclusive agreement with Viacom Consumer Products, Inc. to develop, publish and distribute the wireless game version of Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. With exclusive gaming rights for the movie, Gameloft will develop the War of the Worlds storyline into a mobile game and distribute it through Gameloft's wide network of carriers, partners and its online store.  "War of the Worlds is a classic, both in novel and film form, and Gameloft is very excited to add the mobile version to the list of acclaimed adaptations," said Karine Kaiser, Gameloft's Marketing Deputy Director. "We are looking forward to working collaboratively with Viacom Consumer Products to produce the best possible mobile game that captures the essence of the movie."  It will be invading mobile handsets June 29th, 2005, in sync with the worldwide movie release.

FROM : Gameloft
DATE : 3rd March 2005

SPIELBERG FILMS PARTS AT MYSTERY MESA

The director, Tom Cruise and a crew of approximately 300 production personnel spent Tuesday & Wednesday night at isolated movie location Mystery Mesa, filming scenes for an adaptation of "The War of the Worlds." Drivers on the Antelope Valley Freeway on Tuesday night witnessed an eerie blue glow and flashes of light coming from the 380-acre site off Vasquez Canyon Road. Spielberg's crew is scheduled to wrap pyrotechnic work at the location tonight, according to a source with access to the set. Click here for the full story.

FROM : Avpress
DATE : 5th March 2005

YAHOO PREVIEW ON PARAMOUNT WOTW

"There are tons of those moments," Producer Kathleen Kennedy says. In fact, there's one in the first 15 minutes that "will knock your socks off." The leggy alien war machines that shoot out lethal beams of light. "Let's just say that they are five times the size of a T. rex," Kennedy says.  Full preview here

FROM : Yahoo
DATE : 5th March 2005

THE RED WEED

While director Steven Spielberg and star Tom Cruise are back on the West Coast for the filming of Paramount's War of the Worlds, you can view images and a report from the previous shooting at Bayonne, Newark, Staten Island. The report concentrates mainly on the red weed/vines you'll be seeing in the film.

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 24th Feb 2005

BEHIND THE SCENES...

Rick Carter and Doug Chiang on the Aliens, Red Weeds, & Spielberg's Vision, full 5 page article here

The environment of this “War of the Worlds” has been described as hyper-real.

FROM : romanticmovies.about.com
DATE : 27th Feb 2005

WAR AIMS FOR REALITY

Rick Carter, production designer for Steven Spielberg's upcoming War of the Worlds movie, told SCI FI Wire that the movie aims for a hyper-realistic look and feel for its fantastical events, based on the novel by H.G. Wells. "The idea of this version of War of the Worlds is that it really takes place in our world," Carter said in an interview at WonderCon in San Francisco.

The film begins in New Jersey, where star Tom Cruise's character is a dockworker. The choice of location is in part an homage to Orson Welles, the director whose 1938 Halloween radio production of War of the Worlds set off a national panic.  FULL STORY HERE.

FROM : Sci-Fi Wire
DATE : 24th February 2005

ALIENS FAITHFUL TO WELLS

Doug Chiang, the conceptual artist on Spielberg's upcoming War of the Worlds, told SCI-FI Wire that he relied heavily on the detailed descriptions in H.G. Wells' original book for the look and feel of the film's aliens and tripod war machines. "As much as we could, yeah," Chiang (Star Wars: Episode II) said in an interview at WonderCon in San Francisco last weekend. "I mean, we wanted to be faithful to it, because ... we think it's best to go to the source material versus other interpretations, as great as the other interpretations may have been. It's always nice to see where the inspiration came from. And then Steven, of course, takes it to a whole new level." FULL STORY

FROM : Sci-Fi Wire
DATE : 23rd Feb 2005

EVE OF THE WAR EXCLUSIVE
Interview with Arnold Leibovit

Eve Of The War has an exclusive interview with Arnold Leibovit, the award winning writer, director &  producer. He wrote, directed and produced the acclaimed film tribute "The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal".  For biography, pics and interview, click here

DATE : 22nd Feb 2005

PARAMOUNT WOTW
JAPANESE TRAILER

A Japanese trailer for Paramount's upcoming War Of The Worlds has been released.  This trailer reveals some new footage.  To see more screenshots and to download the trailer, click here

DATE : 21st Feb 2005

PARAMOUNT WAR OF THE WORLDS CLAIMS 4TH OF JULY

20th Century Fox has called off what was the summer's highest-profile head-to-head opening battle by pushing the release of Fantastic Four back a week to July 8, reports Variety.

That clears the Fourth of July holiday frame for Paramount and DreamWorks' War of the Worlds. The film, will be released on Wednesday, June 29, giving it a six-day opening run through Independence Day on the following Monday.

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 8th Feb 2005

WAR OF THE WORLDS SETS ADDED TO STUDIO TOUR

The original movie sets from Steven Spielberg's highly anticipated film are the latest feature to be added to Universal Studios Hollywood behind-the-scenes Studio Tour, the theme park's signature attraction which immerses guests in the authentic Hollywood experience. Guests aboard the popular Studio Tour tram ride will traverse a key scene (view pictures) from War of the Worlds, depicting a small town devastated by an elaborately choreographed 747 jetliner crash. The town's facade is dramatically surrounded by wreckage and debris resulting from a Martian attack.

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 9th Feb 2005

'ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT' SPECIAL FOOTAGE

A special behind the scenes look at Paramounts War Of The Worlds was broadcast last night on 'Entertainment Tonight'.  To see stills and footage from this click here.

DATE : 8th Feb 2005

PARAMOUNT TV COMMERCIAL

Paramount have confirmed that the new War Of The Worlds television commercial will feature the first footage from the movie and will be hosted on apples website.  It will be available at 10 PM (PST) on Sunday 2/6.

DATE : 3rd Feb 2005

PENDRAGON NEWS UPDATE

Pendragon have sent eveofthewar.co.uk new images of their movie and they look great!  Click here to see them and larger versions.

Also look out for an article in the January issue of Creative Screenwriting magazine. Timothy Hines talks about the process of adapting WOTW.

DATE : 2nd Feb 2005

JEFF WAYNE CGI
CLIP RELEASED

A 15 second clip of test footage for the Jeff Wayne CGI movie has been released. Click on the above pic to go to waroftheworldsonline.com from there you can view the sample.

FROM : Waroftheworldsonline.com
DATE : 26th Jan 2005
 

YAHOO AND PARAMOUNT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SESSION UPDATE - 05/02/05

JEFF WAYNE CGI CLIP
Martian Flying Machine

A 60 second clip of test footage for the Jeff Wayne CGI movie has been released. Click on the above pic to go to waroftheworldsonline.com from there you can view the sample.

FROM : Waroftheworldsonline.com
DATE : 26th Jan 2005

PENDRAGON THEATRICAL TRAILER ONLINE

Click on the above for screenshots
and trailer link

FROM : Stuffo
DATE : 12th Jan 2005

PARAMOUNT TV SPOT
DURING SUPERBOWL

Paramount Pictures today announced that there will be a 30 second TV spot for War Of The Worlds during the Super Bowl on FOX on Sunday February 6, 2005, which will feature the first footage from the film!

DATE : 25th Jan 2005

MORE OFFICIAL IMAGES
FROM PARAMOUNT

DATE : 25th Jan 2005

WILLIAMS TO SCORE 'WAR'

John Williams fans should breathe easy as despite his lack of credit on the film’s teaser one-sheet and trailer, Steven Spielberg’s long-time composer is indeed on the film.  Besides his work on War Of The Worlds, Williams will also be scoring George Lucas's final 'Star Wars' instalment.

FROM : spielbergfilms.com
DATE : 6th Jan 2005

FIRST OFFICIAL IMAGE

The first official image from the Paramount WOTW film has been released, showing Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning. Click on the above pic for a larger version.  Click here for other images of this movie.

DATE : 4th Jan 2005

PARAMOUNT TRAILER NEWS

According to the source, the second trailer for Paramount's WOTW will hit theatres during March Break and/or attached to DreamWorks Ring 2. Also the studio is planning to attach third and final trailer to Star Wars Episode III. A web exclusive trailer may also appear before the release in June.

FROM : dreamworksfansite
DATE : 30th Dec 2004

SFX NEEDS YOU!

What do you want to see in Paramounts upcoming War Of The Worlds?  Well, SFX magazine are running a wish list and the best ones will be printed in Issue 128 on sale Feb 16th.  Click here for more details.

FROM : SFX
DATE : 30th Dec 2004

PARAMOUNT WOTW
POSTER SNAPSHOT

DreamWorks Fansite has your first look at the new teaser poster for Spielberg's War of the Worlds.

Click the thumbnail for a much bigger version of the poster.

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 16th Dec 2004

MORE SET PICS FROM PARAMOUNT WOTW

Click on the above pic to view the gallery

FROM : Dreamworksfansite
DATE : 27th Dec 2004

PENDRAGON MOVIE POSTER

Pendragon have released their first movie poster, click here to see it

DATE : 13th Dec 2004

RESIDENT TALKS ABOUT BEING HOST OF SPIELBERG MOVIE

For six days in November, Henry Sanchez's house was the centre of the universe - movie-maker Steven Spielberg's universe that is. Sanchez's house on Kennedy Boulevard near the foot of the Bayonne Bridge was transformed via Hollywood magic into the home of a fictional character named Ray Ferrier, the hero of Spielberg's latest science fiction epic, War of the Worlds - staring Tom Cruise.  Click on the below link for the full story...

FROM : Hudsonreporter
DATE : 15th Dec 2004

JEFF WAYNE PRESS RELEASE

Some new information of Jeff's upcoming projects has been released.  Details on the CGI movie, large scale show, new video game, 6-CD box set and limited editions fine art prints can be found here

FROM : Waroftheworldsonline
DATE : 12th Dec 2004

PARAMOUNT TEASER TRAILER
RELEASED

Paramount Pictures teaser trailer for Spielberg’s War of the Worlds released exclusively on the web Friday morning, December 10th, 2004. To view the teaser trailer, visit the film’s official site at http://www.waroftheworlds.com/

DATE : 10th Dec 2004

PARAMOUNT WOTW FILMING MOVES TO ATHENS

According to WSTM, filming of Spielberg's War of the Worlds, begins today in the Greene County village of Athens, NY. The news channel says the scene to be shot will feature crowds fleeing a Martian invasion and will include a 168-foot car ferry.

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 6th Dec 2004

MORE SET PICS &
SPIELBERG LOSES EXTRA'S

Lots more pictures here of Dakota Fanning and her co-stars on the set of Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds.

Associated Press has a funny article on some "extras" that were used for filming. A crew that was filming scenes for Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," based on H.G. Wells' novel about an invasion from outer space, lost a few extras in the Connecticut River last weekend. Two adult-size mannequins got free and drifted south down the river during filming on the riverbank in Windsor, said Windsor police Lt. Shannon Haynes.

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 8th Dec 2004

PENDRAGON WOTW
TRAILER & INTERVIEWS

stuffo.howstuffworks.com have released a 3 part interview with Timothy Hines on the upcoming Pendragon War Of The Worlds movie.

Also on the site is a Teaser Trailer and video of interviews with the cast.

Just click on the link below to access it all!

FROM : stuffo.howstuffworks.com
DATE : 2nd Dec 2004

BROOKLYN SET PICTURESS

Paramount's The War of the Worlds production is filming in Brooklyn borough of New York this week and new pictures from the set are up at Yahoo!. The pictures taken Tuesday, November 30th feature one of the final scenes for the movie.

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 1st Dec 2004

PARAMOUNT OFFICIAL WEBSITE LAUNCHED

http://www.waroftheworlds.com

DATE : 1st Dec 2004

SPIELBERG MUST FIGHT
'WAR' FAST

Can Martian invaders destroy New Jersey and New York on schedule and within budget? Hollywood's about to find out.  The problem is simple - Spielberg's contempo version of a Martian invasion is supposed to be in theatres on June 29, less than eight months after the Nov. 7 start of lensing. That's a fast turnaround for any production, much less a summer tentpole containing 500 f/x shots. Spielberg's plan for the 75-day shoot is to shoot the big action segments first, such as a segment in early December with 1,000 extras in Athens, N.Y.     

He began submitting sequences to special effects giant ILM during the second week; by the time production wraps, ILM will either have finished or be working on at least half the f/x shots.      Paramount and DreamWorks are co-financing what's been announced as a $128 million budget...click here for full story

FROM : Yahoo Movies
DATE : 22nd Nov 2004

SPIELBERG TO FILM
IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY

Scenes for the Martian-invasion film "War of the Worlds," directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, will be filmed in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, according to an area tourism official. Jean Clark, tourism director for the Rockbridge County area, said she does not know exactly when or where the movie will be shot in the valley. But, "I know they're shooting something," she said. Clark expects filming in the area will wrap up before the year's end.

FROM : Associated Press
DATE : 29th Nov 2004

WOTW PRODUCTION UPDATE

Director Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise started shooting their adaptation of H.G. Well's The War of the Worlds in Newark, New Jersey on Sunday and a few pictures from the set have turned up online. The Paramount/DreamWorks sci-fi actioner, also starring Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto, and Dakota Fanning, is due out June 29. You can view the pictures here, here, and here!

The Saratogian also reports that 1000 extras are needed for next month's shoot in Athens on the Hudson River.

Filming will take place Dec. 6-9 in Athens, about 25 miles south of Albany, on the Hudson River. A casting call for extras will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday at the Athens Community Centre. Most filming is taking place in metropolitan New York. One scene requires a waterfront setting where people flee onto a ferry trying to escape invading aliens.

'They're bringing in a 168-foot ferry,' Smallwood said. 'People will run down Second Street onto the boat.' 'The scenes are at night. It will be cold.' Filming will begin at 3 p.m. each day and last well into the night.

On Nov. 15, about 20 pre-production people will start preparing the site for shooting. During filming, about 200 production people will be on hand, not counting extras. Movie companies have been known to pay property owners considerable sums for letting them set up lights and make minor exterior changes to homes.

For the full article, hit the link above. Cruise has previously said that this new version is "going to be exciting, it's going to be really scary, and it's going to maintain the tone of H.G. Wells' book. These guys are coming to dominate Earth."

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 11th Nov 2004

SET REPORT & PICTURES

Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise continue to shoot Paramount's The War of the Worlds in New Jersey. Scooper 'Kevin' shared this report and pictures, which include a few spoilers, click here.

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 20th Nov 2004

WOTW TO SHOOT IN BAYONNE

The Jersey Journal reports that Steven Spielberg will shoot The War of the Worlds, in downtown Bayonne, New Jersey next week in the shadows of the Bayonne Bridge.

"Paramount Pictures is offering quick cash to folks who live on First Street and Pointview Terrace to move their cars off the block between Tuesday and Friday to make way for film crews who will be starting to shoot scenes for next summer's projected blockbuster"

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 13th Nov 2004

PARAMOUNT W.O.T.W. PICS

Globephotos.com have some set pics from the new movie.  Click on this link to see them and to visit their site.

FROM : Globephotos
DATE : 8th Nov 2004

CRUISE REVEALS SCENE

Zap2it attended a public interview with Tom Cruise at UCLA sponsored by the American Film Institute and the Collateral star revealed which scene he shot that morning for Steven Spielberg's The War of the Worlds. "He says he was doing an emotional scene with Justin Chatwin, an estranged father in the middle of a Martian invasion of Earth," according to the site. Cruise explains, "As I was looking at a photograph I found of my son in the scene, Steven told me to think of the good times I had with my own son, and to get into the mood that way. Things like that really help."

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 26th Oct 2004

The Star-Ledger says it's been confirmed that director Steven Spielberg will film parts of Tom Cruise-starrer The War of the Worlds in New Jersey.

What is known so far: Both Ferry Street in Newark and Kennedy Boulevard in Bayonne will see filming take place there, likely in November.

'In Newark, they've been in the Ironbound section, at the area called Five Corners on Ferry Street," Friedman says. 'They've been in there talking to all the store keepers, and they've got quite a lot of money in their budget to compensate them for shutting down during filming. They've even opened up a temporary production office in the Ironbound."

And in Bayonne, the production has secured permission to build a gasoline station on a Little League ball field off Kennedy Boulevard -- and then blow it up. There is also a private home in Howell that the production has selected as a film location.

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 8th Oct 2004

CRUISE VS THE MARTIANS

Tom Cruise makes his way along Ferry St. in Newark during filming of War Of The Worlds.  Click on the above image for the full picture.

FROM : Latinoreview
DATE : 8th Nov 2004

NEW JEFF WAYNE WEBSITE

There will be a new Jeff Wanye website coming soon.  Click on the below image to go to the site and you can also register.

JUSTIN CHATWIN ABOARD
WAR OF THE WORLDS

Newcomer Justin Chatwin is in talks for a coveted role opposite Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's The War of the Worlds, an adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel for Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks. The Hollywood Reporter says Chatwin beat out several young actors for the part, which casts him as the son of Tom Cruise's character. Their strained relationship is reportedly a significant plot point in the film. Tim Robbins will play astronomer Ogilvy, while Miranda Otto will play the wife of the main character played by Cruise. Dakota Fanning will portray their daughter. Chatwin starred in Spielberg's mini-series Taken in 2002.

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 6th Oct 2004

WOTW EXHIBIT OPENS AT SFM

On Saturday, October 30, the Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame unveiled its first new exhibit to be installed since the museum's grand opening in June: The War of the Worlds. In the exhibit you'll see a number of items that have become cultural icons in of themselves. The highlight is a collection of original illustrations for a rare 1906 Belgian edition of the novel by Brazilian artist Henrique Alvim Corrêa. These drawings have never been available for viewing in the United States before now. Corrêa's Martians are whimsical, spiderish creatures with gigantic eyes who wield enormous ray gun pistols. Click here for the full story.

FROM : SFHomeworld

ROBBINS AND OTTO
Prepare For War

Tim Robbins (Mystic River) and Miranda Otto ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy) are in talks to join Tom Cruise in director Steven Spielberg's The War of the Worlds for Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures, reports Variety.

Robbins will play astronomer Ogilvy, while Otto will play the wife of the main character played by Cruise. Dakota Fanning will portray their daughter. Production is being fast-tracked to start shooting in November for a June 29 release.

FROM : Comingsoon.net
DATE : 4th Oct 2004

NEW JERSEY BENEFITS FROM ‘WAR’ CHEST

The “War of the Worlds” production, through Paramount Pictures, is about to put a nice bit of change into the pockets of the city of Bayonne, New Jersey (where the production will be on location shooting in the next month or so—see our September 17 news).

Nj.com reported that Paramount will be paying Bayonne nearly $285,000 to rent facilities in a decommissioned military base between September 13-January 12, 2005. The Military Ocean Terminal facilities will be used “primarily as storage for equipment” while the production shoots around Bayonne in various homes and residential areas.

Buildings on the 679 acre Military Ocean Terminal will also be utilized for sound-stage usage during the productions time in New Jersey, according to nj.com. The base was closed down in 2001 due to chemical contamination which has since obviously been contained.

FROM : SpielbergFilms And NJ.com
DATE : 4th Oct 2004

JEFF WAYNE MUSICAL
RE-LAUNCH

A new multi-project contract with Sony Entertainment UK includes a 5.1 Surround Sound remix and will spearhead a 2005 international re-launch of the recording, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. Since its first release in 1978, it has enjoyed worldwide sales in excess of 12 million records. The re-launch project will take effect both domestically and internationally, including the United States, and will be backed by the full weight of Sony's marketing and PR expertise in every key territory.

FROM : Filmstew
DATE : 18th August 2004

JEFF WAYNE CGI

Acclaimed musician Jeff Wayne is working on putting together an animated version of his bestselling and award-winning Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds. The $48 million feature-length animated project is in pre-production and will use state-of-the-art CGI and Motion Capture technology. His team already has a completed script and storyboard, including an original prequel explaining why the Martians leave their planet to invade Earth during the time of Victorian England.

FROM : Filmstew
DATE : 18th August 2004