April 28, 2024

Wes Ball To Direct Fox’s “Maze Runner”

Wes Ball is set as director of the adaptation of the James Dashner's young adult dystopian novel "The Maze Runner" at 20th Century Fox and Gotham Group says Deadline. A young man named Thomas awakens with no memory and deposited into a community of boys trapped inside an enormous maze. He soon learns they are part of a mysterious test, and finds … [Read more...]

Wes Ball Set To Adapt His “Ruin”

Fox is in negotiations to pre-emptively pick up the movie rights to Wes Ball's 8-minute animated short "Ruin" with plans to turn it into a live-action movie says Heat Vision. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic North American city overgrown with foliage. Ball has done graphic work for HBO and Blu-ray and DVD featurettes. Ball is attached to … [Read more...]

10/01/2011 – Faeries’ Ball

Join us for a night of ribald fun where faeries and goblins, imps and trolls, dwarfs and pixies party it up like it’s going out of style! So put on those fairy wings, throw on that troll’s mask, scatter some pixie dust and enter a magical land of Faerieworld.   It'll be a night full of incredible live performances and fantastical creatures, good … [Read more...]

RCMP ball in B.C.’s court, justice minister

British Columbia has to make a decision on the same 20-year RCMP contract that is being offered to other provinces, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said yesterday. Speaking in the House of Commons, Toews confirmed the Conservatives are in no mood to negotiate after imposing a November deadline on the new police service contract with B.C. “After … [Read more...]

Ball in premier’s court now HST game is over

VANCOUVER - British Columbians have swept the harmonized sales tax out the door, but political observers say it won't be so easy for Premier Christy Clark to wash her hands of the whole mess.The political mop-up will be just as crucial for the B.C. Liberals and its leader as will be gracefully untangling the year-old system and setting the dual tax … [Read more...]