Movie News Weekly Round-Up: July 03, 2010
Movie News
- Radar Pictures rumored to adapt Mafia Wars Facebook game into a movie?! (Pajiba)
- Spike Lee in talks to direct thriller Nagasaki Deadline (Deadline)
- Phil Lord, Chris Miller attached to write and direct Lego movie (First Showing)
- Final Destination 5 is now 5NAL Destination, how clever (Bloody Disgusting)
- Gore Verbinski takes over The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Risky Biz)
- Edgar Wright talks about Marvel’s Ant Man (Box Office Magazine)
- John Moore to direct Ice Road Truckers movie (Deadline)
- First look at the musical comedy Burlesque with Christina Aguilera, Cher, Kristen Bell (USA Today)
- Universal in talks with Timur Bekmanbetov to direct Russian sci-fi action remake Black Lightning (Variety)
- Judd Apatow developing Pee-Wee Herman film (Variety)
- Hostel 3 gearing up to start production in August, will be set in Las Vegas (Bloody-Disgusting)
- The New York Times profiles Christopher Nolan (NY Times)
“It’s really, at its core, a big action heist movie, and it’s a movie that doesn’t try to bamboozle the audience continuously,” he said. Given the complexity of its universe, “it’s a lot harder to just put out a two-and-a-half-minute trailer, and everyone goes, ‘Oh, yeah, I know what that is.’ ”
- George Miller working on two Mad Max movies which will be shot back-to-back (Twitch)
- Nimrod Antal working on dystopian thriller Paraffin (The Playlist)
- Scream 4 script problems? (Zap2it)
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse makes back entire production budget in one day with 68.5 million on opening night
Casting News
- Kevin Spacey joins the cast of comedy Horrible Bosses (THR)
- Alice Eve cast as Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class (Heat Vision)
- Colin Farrell, Eric Bana in talks to star in indie drama By Virtue Fall (Deadline)
- Andy Serkis to star in Rise of the Apes as Caesar (Twitter)
- Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Frances de la Tour and Richard Griffiths cast in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret (Collider)
- Teresa Palmer pulls out of Mad Max: Fury Road (Coming Soon)
- Ashley Greene cast in LOL alongside Miley Cyrus (Deadline)
- Peter Sarsgaard attached to a biopic of bluegrass musician Bill Monroe (The Wrap)
- Caleb Landry Jones is the favorite to play Sean Cassidy/Banshee in X-Men: First Class (Latino Review)
- Adam Brody, Marley Shelton, Erik Knudsen join Scream 4, Lauren Graham out (Heat Vision)
- Meryl Streep to play Margaret Thatcher in BBC biopic (THR)
- Sean Penn to star in biopic of surfer Dorian Paskowitz (Variety)
- Thomas Jane joins Miley Cyrus, Ashley Greene in LOL (THR)
- Heather Graham to star in Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (Variety)
- Kali Hawk cast in wedding comedy Bridesmaids (THR)
- Stephen Bishop will MLB player David Justice in Moneyball (THR)
- Angela Bassett joins the cast of wedding comedy Jumping the Broom (THR)
- Kevin James attached to Six Pack remake (Pajiba)
- Abigail Spencer cast in Cowboys & Aliens (Variety)
- Mark Ruffalo attached to The Normal Heart adaptation (MTV)
“It’s basically a story of when the AIDS outbreak happened in New York,” he explained of the film’s premise. “It wasn’t really taken seriously, I think specifically because it was ‘the gay cancer,’ they called it. I think it’s a really interesting time in America. I think to see someone who really does change the world by his commitment and he’s even totally by himself at times, there’s still a real power in that. I love that it’s a people-powered movement that actually changed the way our government looked at this epidemic. I think there’s a real powerful message to that and something that we forget. We can get really cynical about what we can do, it gets stacked against us and they’re all corrupt — and at the end of the day, everything starts with people. The reason they’re there is because of us. “
- Andrew Garfield will be Spider-Man in reboot (Sony)
Trailers
- Eat Pray Love final trailer (Facebook)
- Johnny Depp animated Rango (Apple)
- Paranormal Activity 2 teaser (Ain’t It Cool News)
- Charlie St. Cloud with Zac Effron (Yahoo)
- Let Me In starring Chloe Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee (Deadline)
- Get Low with Robert Duvall (Yahoo)
- Final trailer for Japanese anime The Borrowers (YouTube)
- Cairo Time with Patricia Clarkson (Yahoo)
Links
- Dan puts forward his top 50 movies of the decade (Top10Films)
- A fantastic article about facepainting in Hollywood (Floating World)
- Kevin wonders what went wrong with Knight & Day (The Pork Chop Express)
- Check out Marshall’s Origins project about fellow movie bloggers (Marshall and the Movies)
- Andrew started a top 50 Greatest voices (Encore’s World of Film & TV)
- Nathaniel goes through the screen hotties of 2010 (Film Experience Blog)
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Andrew Garfield could be decent as Spider-Man, and at least I could say I knew who he was before anyone else in my (general) class. My brief obsession with Red Riding can prove it.
What’s LOL about, anyway? It sounds obnoxious.
Yes, his casting actually intrigued me a bit as I’ve been kind of meh about the Spidey franchise. Have yet to see Red Riding, but the trailer looks great.
Well, I’m not familiar with any of his work, but people are saying he’s rather good. The whole take of the high school Era though process is questionable to me, but then I didn’t even love the last Spiderman series.
I only went by the buzz surrounding Red Riding regarding Garfield’s talent. I think I’m still not as psyched about this project yet, compared to say, Thor.
I can’t believe Harry Potter trailer would be highlighted. I mean really, who watches those anyways? Psssssh. Weirdos
(*secretly jumps up and down for joy with anticipation*).
So, when do we get to find out the winners of this past month’s awards once retweets have come into play?
I will post about it on Sunday Univarn
RETWEETS? WTFrack? What are those?
Well Kaiderman, retweets are the cheat by which people like me, who don’t possess an infinite amount of time to do 50000 comments an hour (yeah I’m looking at your Darren!) can attempt to earn brownie points in order to steal the heart of Castor.
Retweets and trackbacks – wave of the future, man, wave of the future.
Haha…I thought the HP trailer was pretty cool, even if they probably did show a little much. I think by now they’re thinking that whoever is watching the trailer, has a pretty good idea of what happens at the end. The final battle looks epic, even though it looks like Neville’s big hero moment might’ve been given to Ron.
I get that the trailer was for both parts, but I dislike them doing a trailer with scenes I’ll have to wait roughly 5 hours, and over a year to see
I’ve just recently ‘discovered’ HP and now we’re catching up until the latest one is out in Nov. Count me in as ‘weirdo’ I guess Univarn
No worries rtm I was trying to be ironic
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Garfield looks like a good Peter Parker but the reboot is a travesty!
The Let Me In trailer looks really similar to the original.
Not a great comment but, in all fairness, I have been drinking heavily! HAPPY 4th!
Still not sure what to think about the Let Me In trailer…it looks like it will have several of the same scenes from the original, but more of a Hollywood type horror feel to it.
It looks pretty much shot for shot, so it begs the question, why remake it in the first place?? Oh that’s right, Americans have a reading problem:P
But I love the morse code at the end of the trailer! I wonder if they’ll do that little train sequence at the end of this film…my guess is no.
Goodness, gracious MUST they give everything to Meryl Streep? I know, I know nationalities don’t matter, but seriously so many British women rearing for a good movie role (not Helen M. or Judi D. whom I love) and they give it to Streep. Sigh.
Well, considering how Streep is probably the greatest there ever has been when coming to changing accents for roles, I can’t disagree with the casting.
And I think Judi Dench and Helen Mirren are in the same “give them an Oscar nod for everything that isn’t a Bond film, an Abba musical or film starring Nicolas Cage” boat as Streep, to be honest. I just prefer Streep, to be honest.
I love her, but I’m so tired of her face. Is that awful? It’s awful, but I’ve had enough of her for awhile. Honestly.
Moreover we’ll probably be shut up because she’ll be amazing in it.
I’m kinda giddy about Streep playing Thatcher.
And… I really think the music on the Let Me In trailer is not… very fitting. I don’t want it to be fitting xD
If she can pull off Julia Child, methinks she can portray pretty much anyone. But I see Andrew’s point, there are a slew of British actresses who are just as good for the part. Oh well, that’s Hollywood for ya, get a Brit to play Spidey and an American for a British PM
I’m neither here nor there on Streep being the best (Code for, I don’t think so) but am I the only one who immediately saw Emma Thompson being a knockout for this role?
Oooh, I LOVE Emma! Yes Andrew, she would be great as Thatcher. I bet I’m not the only one who thinks how underrated she is.
Emma would have been spectacular Andrew. Well played.
Yes, Emma Thompson would be much better!
I have to say I’m getting a bit tired of seeing Meryl Streep taking on these kind of roles.
Oooh, I got tagged (merci. I really should stop reading posts so fast.
You welcome
Looking forward to the rest of the top 50!
5NAL Destination is a farce, and somebody should be fired over that idea.
I’m still shocked that the Ice Road Truckers TV show is still going. I mean, what is there possibly to tell in the next episode that you didn’t tell in the previous one?
Garfield was good in what I saw him in (Boy A). But I thought the Spider-Man reboot will give us a younger Peter Parker, an actor who’s age is closer to Parker’s. Garfield is 26? He’s as old as Tobey Maguire was when he was Spider-Man. And his age shows. So now who’s going to be Mary Jane? Or are they going to get the order right this time and introduce Gwen Stacy first.
Next, they will ask a 40-yr old actress to play MJ in high school… I have no idea who Garfield is and let’s face it, probably close to 90% of people don’t either so I don’t really get why they didn’t go with a younger actor.
Emma Stone keeps being mentioned, but with Garfield being older I think they’ll go older.
Well I’m just not interested in the series reboot at all, to say nothing about who really would be the best casting decision.
But it’s all happening so we just have to make peace with it:( I was kind of hoping for the kid from Jumper to land the Parker role personally, but Hollywood never listens to me…
Yep, Garfield looks old – I think it’s his height (which probably isn’t that impressive, but always struck me about him – maybe because he’s a bean pole). It seems odd to “go younger” and pick an actor who looks the same age (there are actors old who look younger). I don’t know, it’s hard to muster excitement, even with Marc Webb directing.
I’m liking the new Harry Potter trailer! Thanks for the link Castor, much appreciated.
Great post that deserved a link last week!
I think it’s rather sexy myself! Of course, I’m ridikulous! Ha! with excitement for this installment.
5NAL Destination, hahaha! Sadly, they’ve missed their chance with the last film to call it 4NAL Destination. Now that would be very clever, indeed.
‘LOL’ got me interested now, seeing Thomas Jane’s name attached, but I was quickly put off by the plot summary: “In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents.”
Ahahahaha… not.
‘Space Battleship Yamato’ looks sick! I haven’t seen the anime on which it was based, but goddamn! I think we have a kick-ass sci-fi epic on our hands.
Ahahah I imagine your reaction after reading the film description
Garfield’s casting has put me in the “meh” crowd. I don’t care about a “high-school Spiderman” that’s 27 years old.
Let Me In looks decent, but I still haven’t seen the original. Need to get on that.
Farrell & Bana in an indie drama, yes! Now that’s a duo I’d LOVE to see, and the subject matter sounds interesting. I’m also curious to see Bana’s next project with the lovely Cate Blanchett and Saiorse Ronan.
Yeah, I was excited for this too. Farrell has been making some excellent decisions (as far as his projects are concerned) the past few years. Putting out some impressive work.
I know, good for him as he’s a talented lad. He was good in Minority Report the first time I saw him, but he’s come a long way since then even.
The movie news sounds like The Onion or something. So ridiculous. 5NAL? Really? Mafia Wars? What’s next a Farmville franchise? My head is going to explode.
(Starts writing Farmville script to be sold for $2 million)
Probably not far from the truth unfortunately.
It’s no Battleship movie. I’m banking on Connect 4 to topple Avatar with its opening weekend.
And where’s our Minesweeper movie? (“Why are you here, soldier?” “I’m here to make this land safe.” “Why are you really here?” “I’m here because I’m bored.”)
So glad I checked your news. I love Meyrl Streep, so looking forward to that Thatcher Biopic now. Thanks for the heads up Castor.
What’s up with all this Scream 4 turmoil. I hope it turns out to be good because I think Scream could work really well as a modern horror franchise.
I’ve always loved the Scream franchise and I really hope that 4 turns out well. 3 was a decent ending but I wanted so much more. Problem is that they’ve killed off two of my favorite characters (Randy and Cotton) so I dunno.
A thatcher biopic would be good IMO…
Is it just me, or does anyone else want to see a non-CG Andy Serkis. Sure Golem and King Kong were awesome, but it’s defining his roles. Kid of like Mark Hamill and Patrick Warburton. He was funny in 13 Going on 30 and was decent doing the small live action part in King Kong…
Sorry for the rant:P
He was actually getting alot of buzz from European festivals late last year/early this year for ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’, so keep an eye out for that.
Oh cool, consider me interested:)
Oh and I have a solution for the Scream 4 script problem…stop writing it:)
Thank you. First one was brilliant, and the second one more clever than it almost had a right to be, but lets just let it die nicely. Please.
Exactly. I barely made it through the first one.
I think teenagers just don’t realize that stooopid slashers are just that. So Hollywood can put these films out (with teenage protagonists, imagine that) knowing full well they’ll have a taste void audience that will travel in packs to see said film. It’s like printing their own money:P
Jude Law in a Scorsese film? That’s the best choice he made since starring with Stephen Fry! I quite like the look of that Ice Truckers film, and hadn’t actually heard about it until now.Can’t wait to see Kevin Spacey in something new. Colin Farrell, though? I could do without seeing him in a film ever again. He’s rumoured to play Ozzy Osbourne, I read earlier this week. I guess he does have the slurred accent to suit the role
Garfield’s blossoming celebrity is likely to add further hype to the pop-culture frenzy that the Spider-Man franchise spins.
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