Movie News Weekly Round-Up: August 21, 2010
Movie News
- The Avengers will be shot in 3D (Showbiz 411)
- Some new pictures of the latest Harry Potter movie (First Showing)
- JJ Abrams working on a “spooky 7-Minute in Heaven” project (Heat Vision)
- New poster for Ben Affleck’s The Town coming out September 24
- First look at the Coen’s True Grit starring Jeff Bridges (/Film)
- Seith Mann takes over as director of graphic novel adaptation Miss: Better Living Through Crime (Heat Vision)
- First look at indie comedy Everything Must Go starring Will Ferrell (IONCinema.com): I’m looking forward to this due to a very funny script
After 16 years devising motivational speeches that promise certain success, Nick Porter (Will Ferrell) is abruptly fired. He returns home to discover his wife has left him, changed the locks on their home and dumped all his possessions on the front yard. Nick puts it all on the line – or, more properly, on the lawn – with an absurdly escalating garage sale that becomes a unique strategy for survival. Nick comes face-to-face with a life turned inside out and discovers in total exposure an unexpected path to renewal.
- Jumper sequel in early development, say Hayden Christensen (MTV)
- Alexandre Aja (Piranha 3D) to adapt Japanese manga Cobra The Space Pirate into live-action franchise (Deadline)
- Jeremy Garelick (who?) to direct romantic comedy An Ex to Grind (with Diaz/Del Toro) and Hassle Man (Deadline)
- Darren Bousman (Saw IV) to direct thriller 11 11 11 (Heat Vision)
- A Google movie is in the works (Deadline)
- Iron Man writers Art Marcum, Matt Holloway to write script for new live-action TMNT movie (Deadline)
- Robert Schwentke (The Time Traveler’s Wife), David Slade (Twilight: Eclipse) in contention to direct Wolverine sequel (Vulture): umm… That’s all they can get?
- Mark Waters (Mean Girls) to direct Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Deadline)
- Bryan Singer gives a big update on X-Men: First Class (AICN)
“First off – the film takes place in the 1960′s. John F Kennedy is the President of the United States. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are on TV doing marches. There is a spirit of a hopeful future that was prevalent in that time. We will see how Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr met – and how they dreamt of a future with Mutant & Human kind. They’re going to be in their late twenties. Xavier – as played by James McAvoy will not be in his wheelchair to begin the film – but we will see how he wound up in a wheelchair.”
Casting News
Jason Flemyng cast in X-Men: First Class as Azazel (Empire)- Rose Byrne in talks to join X-Men: First Class as Moira McTaggert (THR)
- Oliver Platt joins X-Men: First Class as “The Man in Black” (Deadline): This is getting ridiculous, how many characters do they need in that movie?
- Rooney Mara takes the lead role of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Columbia Pictures)
- Robert DeNiro cast in Italian romantic comedy Manual of Love 3 (Variety)
- Brooklyn Decker cast in board game adaptation Battleship (Latino Review)
- Max Von Sydow in talks to join cast of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Variety)
- Hugh Jackman drops out of comedy Avon Man (Deadline)
- January Jones officially confirmed as Emma Frost in upcoming X-Men movie (Deadline)
Ryan Reynolds in talks to star across Denzel Washington in action thriller Safe House (Deadline)
“The actor is now negotiating to play the young CIA agent who must transport a dangerous criminal (Washington) to safety after both are attacked at a safe house.”
- Seth Rogen to lead voice in DreamWorks Boo U (Heat Vision)
- Carla Gugino cast in MILF (24 Frames)
- Bruce Willis and Danny Trejo in talks to join Violet & Daisy (24 Frames)
- Summit wants Jim Carrey for comedy Under Cover (Pajiba)
Trailers
- Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary I’m Still Here (Yahoo)
- Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (Vlicious)
- Alien Sci-fi Monsters (Apple)
- Romantic comedy Love and Other Drugs with Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway (Awards Daily)
- Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (Apple)
- Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take (Yahoo)
- Psychological thriller Vanishing on 7th Street (STYD)
- Doug Lisman’s Fair Game with Naomi Watts (Yahoo)
- Supernatural movie Case 39 with Renee Zellweger, Bradley Cooper (Apple)
- French zombie film The Horde (YouTube)
Links
- Univarn offers 7 blogging tips (A Life in Equinox)
- Ruth chimes in about the chameleon actor vs. the perpetually typecast actors (Flix Chatter)
- Tune in to the MILFcast if you haven’t already! (The List)
- What Collapsing Empire Looks Like (Salon)
- Francisco lists the Cool Movie Weapons you wish you could get your hands on (The Film Connoisseur)
- Scriptshadow takes a look back at 10 scripts and how they performed critically and at the box office (ScriptShadow)
9 Comments
Thanks for the link, Buddy!
I wonder if I have a lawsuit with that MILF movie coming out??? haha
Also, when that Google movie comes out, if you Google it will your computer explode?
I’m sorry, man, but if I had to choose between you and Carla Gugino…
Well, it would be tough. That’s all I’m saying.
Oh, Black Swan looks so ridiculously good.
Not sure what to make of the trailer, it doesn’t look appealing to me but I guess that’s because I’m a guy. There is potential for a good to great performance from Natalie Portman but I won’t hold my breath waiting to see that movie lol
Hey thanks for the linkage, dear friend. Wow, those are some cool weapons on Francisco’s list!
He..he.. that pic from Everything Must Go does look funny, and the plot sounds promising indeed. Sometimes one must hit rock bottom to see a way back up.
Oh, that’s too bad Jackman dropped out of Avon Man, I thought the idea sounds funny and he’d be perfect for the role.
Sorry for the much belated thanks of the linkage! I have a feeling X-Men: First Class is going to suffer from “We spent the money to hire them, we have to put them in” syndrome, by which they constantly introduce unnecessary characters just because they spent the money to hire them. Not to mention they have about 5000 writers (well really, 5 + Singer for story), there’s no way it’ll come out right.
I secretly wonder if Vaughn and company are trying to make the movie impossible to create, almost as a big joke. How can they possibly get all those actors’ schedules to line up. Unless they intend to go the Magnolia/Bobby route by which you shoot randomly over a series of months whenever actors have open slots. But that would be tedious. Oh well.
I don’t think they will have that big of a problem scheduling all those people lol. Most of them probably won’t have more than 3 minutes of screen time
The True Grit picture looks amazing, definitely going to check this out when it comes out in December.
I was kind of rooting for Emma Watson to get the role of Lisbeth, but Rooney Mara is a great overall choice
…and yes I’m still alive lol.
Glad to see you are still around DB
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