The members of the heavy metal band Metallica are planning to self-finance a 3D feature film. The band has hired producer Charlotte Huggins (Journey to the Center of the Earth and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) to work on a project. No director is hired at this point. This would be the first major film made by the band members, but Metallica has already made a strong impression on the medium. Their decision to lend their music to Paradise Lost, the 1996 documentary on the West Memphis 3 that was directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, helped give that film weight and helped create international outrage over how three teens could be convicted of mass murder without a shred of physical evidence but an abundance of innuendo. Prosecutors cited the defendants’ passion for Metallica music as a strike against them, and it took 17 years for the trio to finally be freed. The band then starred for Berlinger and Sinofsky in Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, a chronicle of the band’s attempt to mend discord through intensive therapy. Read more news and watch trailers at Maumau Web TV'sblog posts or free movies on its 11 great channels.