Movie News Weekly Round-Up: November 22, 2010
Movie News
- Antoine Fuqua, Gerard Butler in talks to direct/star in sci-comic book adaptation Afterburn (Deadline)
- Scott Cooper to direct remake of Pablo Trapero’s Carancho (Deadline)
- First teaser poster for Paul, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Empire)
- Larry Charles to direct Sasha Baron Cohen in The Dictator (24 Frames)
- First look at Zoe Saldana in action movie Columbiana (Latino Review)
The film centers on Cataleya Restrepo who at age 10 sees the brutal murder of her parents by a Colombian drug lord Don Luis. Cataleya manages to escape the bullets of the assassin and reach Chicago, where her uncle lives Emilio, also a gangster.Emilio is doing its best to remove Cataleya from the criminal life, but she is determined to become a professional killer. At 25, Cataleya has become a real killer operating on behalf of his uncle, Emilio. But her sole desire is to find Don Luis to avenge the death of her parents.
Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg to rewrite 20th Century Fox’s Neighborhood Watch (THR)- Ash Bolland to direct remake of horror classic The Swarm (The Wrap)
- Warner Bros developing a remake of 1939′s classic The Wizard of Oz (Deadline)
- Steven Soderbergh in early talks to direct The Man From U.N.C.L.E., George Clooney might star (Heat Vision)
- Park Chan Wook to direct Carey Mulligan, Jodie Foster in Stoker (24 Frames)
- Paranormal Activities 3 to hit theaters in October 2011 (Bloody Disgusting)
- Set of wonderful character banners for True Grit (IMDb)
- Disney developing techno action thriller Hovercar 3D (24 Frames)
- Howard Shore to score The Hobbit (The Province)
- Michael Hoffman to direct comedy remake Gambit (Deadline)
- Fox Searchlight adapting graphic novel Wilson; Alexander Payne interested in directing (Deadline)
- Fox signs Darren Aronofsky to two-year production deal (/Film)
- The Dark Knight Rises to begin shooting in May according to Michael Caine (Empire)
- First look at Karl Urban as Judge Dredd (Coming Soon)
- Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick to direct comedy Doc and Howie (Risky Biz)
- Billy Bob Thornton talks about Bad Santa sequel (Collider)
- Ben Hibon to direct supernatural thriller Pan (Variety)
- First look at Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut (The Playlist)
- New pictures and clips for The Fighter (The Playlist)
Casting News
- Carey Mulligan to star in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby (Deadline)
- Emily Blunt may reunite with Jason Segel in romantic comedy Five Year Engagement (Vulture)
- Michael Caine, Jason Isaacs, Emily Mortimer, others to lend voice to Cars 2 (Empire)
- Denis Leary cast in Marc Webb’s Spider-Man as Capt. George Stacy (Heat Vision)
- Robert Downey Jr. leaves Gravity, may star in How to Talk to Girls (Heat Vision)
- Leonardo DiCaprio cast in JFK assassination movie Legacy of Secrecy (Variety)
“DiCaprio is expected to play FBI informant Jack Van Laningham. The book — whose full title is “Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination” — asserts that Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello confessed to Van Laningham to having ordered JFK’s assassination. As part of a dangerous and long-secret undercover operation, the FBI positioned Van Laningham to become confidant to Marcello, who ruled organized crime in Louisiana and most of Texas for decades.”
- Daniel Day Lewis cast as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s biopic (First Showing)
Spielberg said: “Daniel Day-Lewis would have always been counted as one of the greatest of actors, were he from the silent era, the golden age of film or even some time in cinema’s distant future. I am grateful and inspired that our paths will finally cross with Lincoln.”
- Malin Akerman replaces Lindsay Lohan in Linda Lovelace biopic (The Wrap)
Trailers
- Biopic Winnie starring Jennifer Hudson (Black Voices)
- Simon West’s The Mechanic with Jason Statham (MSN)
- Teaser for Pixar’s Cars 2 (Disney)
- 13 with Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke (Shadow and Act)
- Red Riding Hood with Amanda Seyfried (Apple)
- Comedy Your Highness with James Franco, Danny McBride, Natalie Portman (IGN)
- Duncan Jones’ Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan (Apple)
- The Lincoln Lawyer with Matthew McConaughey (Yahoo)
- Mike Leigh’s Another Year (Yahoo)
37 Comments
Seeing Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln with Spielberg I believe could cause a rift in the space-time continuum. No world can handle an Oscar Bait film of that magnitude!
By the way, the Karl Urban photo from Judge Dredd defines why that movie is pointless. I love Urban but if you’re just going to camp it up again, nobody can camp better than Stallone, that’s asking for trouble.
Ha..ha.. that’s so true about DDL, Univarn. And man, even in that photo he’s already got that Lincoln look. As my friend Sam from Banana Oil Movies said, might as well just ship him his Oscar now.
As for Dredd… I’m kinda um, dreading that when Urban took on that role. I love Urban so I’m gonna reserve my full judgment (man, pardon all the puns!) until I see the trailer.
“Malin Åkerman replaces Lindsay Lohan in Linda Lovelace biopic”
This is great role for Malin. She needs to break out of the cute picture perfect rom com roles and this sounds like the project to do that!
Akerman needs to break out period. She must be the most unremarkable young actress in Hollywood these days. Guess that will change quickly with this role lol
Akerman… only seen her in Watchmen, which was an average role in a film that’s more remarkable for its art direction and oh those luscious shots xD
Not like I was any interested in the Linda Lovelace biopic, but I thought it was time for Lohan to get the boot from the project. It’s almost a bad producer decision to have stuck with her for so long.
Wouw whats with the Malin hate. You know she is half Swedish right??? =)
I agree that she hasn’t really shown that much so far. I think this role can change it.
She made an interesting note in a swedish interview how different it is after breaking big in commercial films, all of a sudden there is a flood of offers coming her way compared to the hard years she had at the beginning.
It seem like a snowball effect and I think it works this way to much, at least its a problem with domestic swedish films where we have a few leads doing a majority of the leading roles.
Oh, I didn’t know that. I figured since people said she’s Canadian, that her family was from Sweden not that she was born there.
Still, I haven’t seen her in anything else other than Watchmen. I’m thinking is tougher to be blond in Hollywood. At least it seems Hollywood is having a big of a thing for fairy-like girls with actresses like Carey and Mia.
She was born in Sweden to swedish parents but then relocated to Canada and grew up there. Her parents split up and the dad moved back to sweden.
She would have a hard time doing a Swedish film (the exception would be playing Victoria Silvstedt in a biopic maybe)due to her strong english accent. Its really cute hearing her speak swedish and she did a great “sommar radio program” (a monolouge kind of talksow where famous people tell stories from their life etc. on radio) about her struggle as an actress before breaking through.
I think the blonde has become the typical sidekick part in films nowadays. Malin has been cast that way especially in Romcoms but not as a villain which is also very common for blondes.
Mia’s blonde. In fact, most fairy-girls are blonde. It’s really just the haircut. ANd the tininess.
I would’ve preferred Lohan…I mean, Malin Akerman is so bland.
They probably couldn’t handle the stress level in being depending on Lohan to stay clean that long.
plus, she’s soooo soooo expensive for production insurance. Lohan’s become a pre-production liability.
I am not even sure anyone offers valid production insurance for her?
That Red Riding Hood looks very twilightish. I am normally a big fan of Amanda Seyfried but I might skip this one.
I know, Joel. That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw it… what with the pretty young boys fighting for her and stuff. Meh, looks like that one’ll be popular for mostly Twi-hards.
It looks to me like some sardonic-nymphomaniac looked at the Red Riding Hood and thought – “This isn’t nearly depressing enough it needs teen angst, extreme sexuality, more violence!”
did you miss the credit?
They’re marketing Hardwicke as “the director of Twilight” isntead of “the director of Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown”. Hot Topic is going to be flooded with Red Riding merchandise. ;D
Amanda Seyfried is making me regret I ever added her in my Top10 Young Actresses list. LOL
Ahah
I’m already regretting putting her in my top 25.
we’re sinking on the Young Actresses boat, Castor~
But hey…at least no sparkling.
No matter how shitty your life is at the moment, just remember, your boyfriend doesn’t sparkle.
She is not bad, just so… unremarkable so far.
Actually I still have my hopes for her she is a great actress and is normally not afraid to do out of the box parts.
Sometimes I read her interviews, and slap myself in the face, asking that she please PLEASE shut her mouth. xD
Howard Shore to score The Hobbit, is that even news?? Surely Jackson wouldn’t have gone with Daft Punk.
Really curious about that ‘Pan’ project with Ben Hibbon. His animated sequence of the Deathly Hallows origin on HP7 was really spectacular.
Yes but totally out of context in that movie.
Yeah, it did take me away from the movie a bit. But for ‘Pan’ it won’t be an issue and I’m curious what his ‘reimagining’ concept would look like.
I still would have problem sitting through an entire feature with this kind of animation. A short story is a whole other thing.
Okay… am I the only one with a saturation of Carey Mulligan? Girl must be careful, we must not get sick of her.
Also… do we need to remake Carancho???? Not like it was awesome or bad – it’s just so blah.
I don’t think she is overexposed in Europe.
I always read (from a Canadian blogger… cough*Lainey*cough) that Canadians don’t love their stars until they are accepted in the US… very unlike France, where they like their stars, once they hit it big in America – cough*Marion*cough – they don’t like them anymore. xD
by the way Castor, did u watch Karate Kid?
I did! I haven’t written the review yet but I thought it started slow but nicely built up into the ending. Nothing memorable but it’s effectively entertaining. And damn, I never thought I would ever see Jackie Chan crying!
ok! I’ll wait for your review to ask about the cultural things xD
as always, great post
Looking forward to watch Paul, i just finished rewatching Shaun of the Dead, I love this dynamic duo
Me, too Nov. The poster just makes me laugh. I do hope the actual flick lives up to the very promising concept.
Dicaprio as FBI,,sounds intersting. Also expecting more from Spielberg upcoming projects…Wow there is a lot of treat for Movie lovers on upcoming years. Great to watch. Cheers
So Zoe Saldana’s gonna go all Charlie Bronson, eh? What does it say about me that I’m kind of excited to see that?
COLOMBIANA: This has me really interested. I hope Luc Besson delivers on the script; and it should be alright. I’d prefer a dirty/gritty approach instead of a mindless action flick.
JUDGE DREDD: Oh, go, I’m excited! I loved the Sly Stallone’s version, the way I love cheesy action flicks. But, just like with Colombiana, I hope they take a less cheesy and more gritty approach to it.
13 & THE MECHANIC: Jason Statham… the man is an action god! May he live long and prosper and blow many more things up.
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