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"Die Hard 5" to be shot in Russia
John Moore ("Max Payne," "The Omen," "Flight of the Phoenix") has been offered the director's chair on the next "Die Hard project" which is "essentially his to take or leave". Moore however hasn't made a decision.
Also rumoured new details about the plot have emerged which finds John McClane and his son in Russia "drawn into a conflict with local forces".
New “Tintin” trailer
A new full-length trailer for Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" has gone online. The video quality isn't the greatest, but the trailer itself provides more story details, a few bits of humor, and there's no hiding of the faces this time as all the characters get action shots and dialogue. (Don’t mind the French text)
Naomi Harris is “Moneypenny” in “Bond 23”
As previously reported here, Harris (Pirates of the Caribbean, Miami Vice) was in talks to join the cast of “Bond 23”. Contrary to original conjecture, she will not be a “Bond Girl”; she will play the iconic character of “Miss Moneypenny”.
Javier Bardem (No country for old men” is slated to play the villain.
Paul Feig in talks to direct “Bridget Jones 3”
"Bridesmaids" director Paul Feig is "in the middle of very complex negotiations" about helming a third instalment of the "Bridget Jones" film comedy series reports The Daily Mail.
No deals with any of the stars have yet been sorted out and negotiations are tenuous because Feig and the cast (Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant) have other projects on top of the usual problems of schedules and money.
Feig, Working Title and Focus are "close to agreement on important matters relating to the film, but not close enough for anyone to sign on a dotted line."
Author Helen Fielding has written a script for that features her heroine hoping to become pregnant. Firth has previously indicated that if the script makes sense he’d been interested in reprising his role he played in both the 2001 original and the 2004 sequel.
“Transformers” 4?
Producer Don Murphy tells has revealed that despite all the speculation, a fourth "Transformers" film would NOT be a reboot but rather a sequel (or potential new trilogy launcher) featuring the same robots.
"What happens next? Certainly not a reboot. We haven't lost the Transformers. They didn't grow up or become expensive like Tobey Maguire. I don't know what happens next. I'm pretty sure there will be a second trilogy. I am pretty sure it will kick ass. And I am pretty sure some of you will hate it because it wasn't all bots."
Paramount Pictures has not announced plans for a follow-up to "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" as yet.
Eric Kripke to Write & Direct “Haunted”
Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up "Supernatural" creator Eric Kripke's spec script "Haunted". The story is described as a tale of a haunted house told from the ghost's point of view.
Possible Plot for “Sherlock" Sequel?
In an article with USA Today, the producers of the film have released some possible information about the plot for “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”, which "shares elements" with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1893 short story "The Final Problem", the only story he had that featured Moriarty as a main character (he was only referenced in other stories).
Of course that story ended on one of the most famous moments in literary history with both Holmes and Moriarty seemingly falling to their deaths at Reichenbach Falls - Doyle killing off his creation which he had gotten sick of. A few years later though he penned "The Empty House" which resurrected Holmes and acted as a kind of sequel to 'Problem' - how much of that story will be incorporated here is anyone's guess.
Schwarzenegger to make “Last Stand”
Lionsgate have released the synopsis of “Last Stand”, which sees The Governator make his big screen return. Here’s the outline of the film:
"Schwarzenegger will be starring as Sheriff Owens, a man who has resigned himself to a life of fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Summerton Junction after leaving his LAPD post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with failure and defeat after his partner was crippled.
After a spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy, the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the hemisphere is hurtling toward the border at 200 mph in a specially outfitted car with a hostage and a fierce army of gang members.
He is headed, it turns out, straight for Summerton Junction, where the whole of U.S. law enforcement will have their last opportunity to make a stand and intercept him before he slips across the border forever.
At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately accepts responsibility for one of the most daring face offs in cinema history."
“Godzilla” reboot gets a writer
"Batman Begins" and "Blade" scribe David Goyer is set to pen the screenplay for Legendary Pictures’ reboot of the "Godzilla" franchise reports Deadline.com.
According to a previous press release, Legendary "intends to approach the film and its characters in the most authentic manner possible". Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Brian Roger will produce.
Nick Frost a Dwarf?
Nick Frost ("Paul," "Shaun of the Dead") is reportedly in final negotiations to play the last remaining dwarf role in "Snow White and the Huntsman" at Universal Pictures reports Variety.com.
In this version of the classic tale, the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) acts as a mentor and teaches Snow White (Kristen Stewart) to fight and survive when he spares her life after the evil Queen (Charlize Theron) orders her death.
Frost would join the previously cast dwarf roles which include actors Ian McShane, Toby Jones, Bob Hoskins, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan and Ray Winstone.
“Underworld”, “Elysium” Changes
A couple of high-profile genre projects for 2012 have just undergone some name changes.
Screen Gems have confirmed that the fourth "Underworld" film will go by the moniker "Underworld: Awakening" rather than "Underworld: New Dawn" as it has been labelled in recent months.
Kate Beckinsale returns as Selene who escapes imprisonment to find the world has discovered the existence of Vampires and Lycans and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species.
Also, "District 9" director Neill Blomkamp’s next science fiction project "Elysium" looks like it may have changed its title as well. A Production Weekly listing now lists it as "Baja Dunes". The film begins shooting the week after next in Vancouver.
“The Amazing Spiderman” stills released
New stills released from the set of “The Amazing Spiderman”, a reboot in the “Spiderman” franchise, set to be released in 2012. (Courtesy: EW.com)
Justin Timberlake to go “Fully Automatic”
Justin Timberlake is reportedly attached to star in the Joel Silver–produced buddy cop comedy "Fully Automatic" at Warner Bros. Pictures.
The story follows two rookie cops out to make their mark and who team with a female former Delta Force operative to stop a mercenary who has stolen a cache of weapons.
The script has been reportedly hanging around the studio for years and Wayne Kramer ("Running Scared") was attached to direct back in 2009.
“Bad Santa 2” gets writers on board
Dimension films have commissioned two different writers to pen two entirely different scripts for the sequel of the 2003 black comedy. The idea being, choosing between the scripts or even using one script for "Bad Santa 2" and the other script for a third film. Thornton has expressed a desire to reprise his role.
The writers are newcomers Johnny Rosenthal and John Phillips.
First posters for “Sherlock Holmes” sequel
Here’s a look at the first posters released for “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”. Out in cinema’s December 2011!
X-Men in a "Trance"
Danny Boyle has replaced one X-Man with another. While Michael Fassbender was originally set to headline Boyle's next film "Trance", talks have fallen through and he's been replaced by Fassbender's 'First Class' co-star James McAvoy.
A remake of Joe Ahearne's 2001 British telemovie, the story follows an assistant at an auction house who masterminds an art heist with a gang of crooks. Afterwards, he suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia.
The problem is he's the only one who knows where the painting’s location is. The gang begin to get suspicious and hire a female hypnotist to get into his brain. McAvoy would play the shady leader of the gang.
The film is set for a 2013 release.
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Vampires rule in "Blood Wars"
Warner Bros. Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have acquired the script "Blood Wars", a reinvention of vampire lore.
In this story, vampires have control of the world and humans are their slaves. But humans infiltrate the vampire army and plan a rebellion.
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Julia Ormond-El?
Julia Ormond ("Legends of the Fall," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") has been offered the role of Lara El, Kal-El's birth mother, in the upcoming Superman reboot "Man of Steel" at Warner Bros. Pictures reports Deadline.
Ormond would likely appear opposite Russell Crowe who was recently offered the part of Superman's Kryptonian father Jor-El in the Zack Snyder-directed feature.
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Emma Stone takes on Zombies with Predjudice
She already took on the undead in "Zombieland", now actress Emma Stone has been offered the lead role in "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" for Lionsgate.
The Craig Gillespie-directed take on the classic Jane Austen tale follows Elizabeth Bennet's quest for love and independence against an outbreak of a deadly virus that turns the dead into zombies.
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Ron Howard to direct "Spy Vs Spy"
Warner Bros. has begun development of a live-action version of classic MAD magazine cartoon strip "Spy vs. Spy".
Antonio Prohias penned the strip over almost three decades in which the spies -- one dressed in white and the other in black -- were constantly battling each other. John Kamps has been tapped to pen the screenplay.
Ron Howard is attached to direct and produce through Imagine Entertainment.
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James Cameron talks "Avatar" sequels
James Cameron says that his upcoming two "Avatar" films will not form a trilogy he tells Fox News.
"We’re shooting two films back-to-back, so I’m writing two scripts, not one, which will complete a [three]-film story arc – not really a trilogy, but just an overall character arc so I’m pretty excited about that. We’re doing a lot of preliminary work right now on new software and new animation techniques and so on. We’re creating a new facility in Manhattan Beach so everybody that’s not already dead is coming back."
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Kevin Connolly to serve up a Slice of Kimbo
Kevin Connolly ("Entourage") is developing a biopic about Kimbo Slice, a street fighter who became a YouTube sensation and eventually ended up a UFC star.
Connolly tells The Wrap that "I'm trying to get the Kimbo Slice story made. I have his life rights, we have a script that's great. It's out and about, and the powers that be are trying to put the money together."
Connolly will direct and Kimbo is expected to play himself in the film which will follow his unlikely road to success.
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Warners developing "Arthur and Lancelot"
Warner Bros. has won a major bidding war for the rights to the screenplay "Arthur and Lancelot" from filmmaker David Dobkin ("The Change-Up," "Wedding Crashers") says Deadline.
The $90 million-budget project is described as a modern re-imagining of the King Arthur and Sir Lancelot legendary tales. Dobkin will direct from his own screenplay and produce alongside Lionel Wigram.
The project marks the third film in development at the studio based on the Arthurian legend. The other two include Bryan Singer's remake of "Excalibur" and a Guy Ritchie-directed take by comic author Warren Ellis.
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"Iron Man 3" to be affected by "The Avengers"
Talking at the Hero Complex Film Festival in Hollywood, actor Robert Downey Jr and director Jon Favreau revealed that the upcoming "Iron Man 3" faces some storytelling difficulties due to events that take place in "The Avengers".
While Shane Black takes over directing duties on the third "Iron Man", Favreau is still helping with the storyline and says "I guess in comics you can say that it's an individual storyline and you can break it off into a group. But in movies, it's hard not to take into consideration what just happened. What are you gonna say? 'They all just lost their cell phones and you can't get help?' So it's going to take a lot of ingenuity to make it make sense to a mainstream film audience as well as a comic book audience."
Downey meanwhile praised "The Avengers", saying "I just thought, 'How are you gonna put all of us clowns together? He's wearing a suit, he's all jacked up, he's so and so and poor Mark Ruffalo, he's gonna out do us'. And we're about six weeks in and I have to say Joss Whedon is nailing it," Downey Jr said. "He's so smart and so good. And it's gonna be great. I can't believe I just said it, I never could've believed this but it's gonna be great."
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"Star Wars" TV show years away
Producer Rick McCallum confirms to Bleedingcool.com that "The live-actionTV series is on hold…it has to do with [the episodes being] so ambitious… Basically, it is like The Godfather; it’s the Empire slowly building up its power base around the galaxy, what happens in Coruscant, which is the major capital, and it’s a group of underground bosses who live there and control drugs, prostitution."
He goes on to explain the show's current status. "We have 50 hours of third-draft scripts, but the problem we have is there is a lot of digital animation; we don’t have the technology yet to be able to do them at a price that is safe for television. Since we would be financing them, it would be suicide for us to do this… So we are going to wait three or four years."
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"Ben 10" live-action film on the way
Joel Silver has signed on to develop a live-action feature film based on Cartoon Network's sci-fi franchise "Ben 10" which Warner Bros. Pictures would almost certainly distribute says Variety.com. Both the cartoon series and live-action TV movies have scored strong ratings on the toon network and Silver says the aim is to make a potential franchise launcher.
The story follows Ben Tennyson, a boy who can transform into ten different alien creatures with the help of a device called the Omnitrix.
The new film would not include any of the actors from the previous live-action small screen movies as Silver and producer Steve Richards aim to create a large, big-budgeted movie.
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New Licensing Poster for "The Avengers"
The Licensing International Expo kicks off tomorrow in Las Vegas and several rough merchandising promo posters have gone up, most notably one for "The Avengers" which gives us a first look at Jeremy Renner in his Hawkeye costume, a possible look at Mark Ruffalo's Hulk, and a look at Chris Evans' updated Captain America costume.
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"Boondock Saints" on the small screen?
Troy Duffy has revealed that he's in talks to pen and produce a potential TV series follow-up his two "The Boondock Saints" films with Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery expected to reprise their roles.
Duffy says "We’ve been approached to do a possible Boondock Saints TV series. So the fans may be getting a part 3 as a television show. We might be able to pull that off…. I actually called both Sean and Norman and they both said “hell yeah, we’ll drop everything".
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Russell El?
Russell Crowe is reportedly in negotiations to take on the role of Clark Kent's Kryptonian father Jor-El in the Zack Snyder-directed "Man of Steel" for Warner Bros.
Producer Christopher Nolan had been seeking a major name for the role for some time, now he's scored him with Crowe who was the final choice for a part both Sean Penn and Clive Owen had also been considered for.
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"Expendables 2"
"Con Air" and "The Mechanic" director Simon West has come on board to helm an "Expendables" sequel for Lionsgate films says Variety.com
Lionsgate has already set an August 17th 2012 release date for the ensemble actioner following on from the $272 million earned by its predecessor. Sylvester Stallone will return, though the rest of the cast hasn't been mentioned as yet.
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"The Wolverine" Finds a Director
James Mangold ("3:10 to Yuma," "Walk the Line," "Cop Land," "Identity") has emerged as the top choice of both 20th Century Fox and Hugh Jackman to direct "The Wolverine".
Negotiations are about to get underway with Mangold to take the job which "Black Swan" director Darren Aronofsky departed from in March. Mangold ultimately beat out Gavin O'Connor ("Warrior") and Antoine Fuqua ("Brooklyn's Finest") for the gig. Shooting aims to kick off this Fall.
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"Star Wars" 3D
With audience interest in 3D on the wane, Lucasfilm producer Rick McCallum tells (TG Daily) that plans to re-release all six Star Wars films in 3D have been revised. "One a year, if they work. If they don't then there will be just one" says McCallum.
Of course the company is releasing them in chronological order, so the only guaranteed converted film right now is "Star Wars Episode I, The Phantom Menace".
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"Jurassic Park" 4?
Steven Spielberg has reportedly been meeting with screenwriter Mark Protosevich to kick around ideas for how to re-boot the "Jurassic Park" franchise
No one has been engaged to write a script and that the discussions have been purely exploratory, but Spielberg has met twice with Protosevich to talk about the project since their initial meeting a few years ago about the "Oldboy" remake Will Smith was to star in.
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"Hot Wheels" Movie
Legendary Entertainment is in early negotiations with Mattel to acquire film rights to the popular toy car line "Hot Wheels" reports Variety.com.
The reported aim isn't to appeal to kids who buy the cars, but rather to produce an edgy action racing film akin to "Fast Five".
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Ben Mendelsohn to star in "Beyond the Pines"
Mendelsohn (Animal Kingdom) is in negotiations to co-star alongside Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper in Derek Cianfrance's multi-generational crime drama "The Place Beyond the Pines".
Gosling plays a pro motorcycle rider who starts robbing banks to support his newborn son until he crosses paths with a determined young cop (Cooper).
Mendelsohn will play Robin Van Der Zee, a mechanic who takes a shine to Gosling and brings him into his bank robbing operation. Eva Mendes also stars.
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James Badge Dale joins the war!
James Badge Dale ("24," "Rubicon," "The Pacific") has joined the cast of the zombie apocalyptic thriller "World War Z" at Paramount Pictures.
Based on the novel by Max Brooks, Brad Pitt plays a U.N. Postwar Commissions researcher tasked with finding a cure for the human race ten years after the disease has infected Earth. Dale will play an American soldier who is the first to report this planet-consuming zombie epidemic to government officials.
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Renner "slingshot" into the driver's seat
Jeremy Renner will star in and produce the racecar drama "Slingshot" at Paramount Pictures.
The story follows the real-life adventures of Bill Caswell, a guy who won the World Rally Championships held in Mexico using a BMW he bought off Craig's List for $500. Don Handfield will pen the screenplay and also produce.
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New "Captain America: The First Avenger" Trailer
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New "Captain America" Poster revealed
At a film festival in Los Angeles this week, they handed out special “Captain America: The First Avenger” movie posters, that were specifically designed for the cast and crew. They are in the style of WW2 era film posters, and should soon become commercially available.
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Neil Blomkamp’s follow up to District 9
“Elysium” is the follow up feature for director Blomkamp, whose first film “District 9” was a breakout hit. The film which is scheduled for release in 2013, will star Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley.
Its plot is centred around a war between humans and aliens, which resulted when the alien race tries to take over the planet so they can live like human beings.
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Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (Possible spoiler!)
A new rumour has emerged regarding the main villain of the new Batman picture: Bane. If you do not wish to find out the details, don’t read on!
News site shockya.com reports the rumour (not yet confirmed, but from a reliable source) is that Bane, as in the comic books will in fact Break the back of the bat leaving him paralysed.
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Eminem to return to the Big Screen
Rapper Eminem (Marshal Mathers) has been slated to star in “Southpaw” a film that tells the tale of a left handed boxer plagued with personal tragedy. The film was written by “Sons of Anarchy” creator Kurt Sutter, and is rumoured to be directed by Antoine Fugua (Training Day, Shooter).
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Family guy creator to remake Flinstones
Not exactly movie news but too interesting to pass over, Seth McFarlane (Family Guy) was recently announced as the man who would bring the Flinstones into the 21st century. McFarlane is also slated to release a Flinstones film in the not to distant future. Watch this space….
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Catwoman packs a punch
Anne Hathaway has reportedly given a stuntman a a massive balck eye after accidentally shoving the butt of a gun into his eye socket.
Hathaway plays Selina Kyle, aka. Catwoman, in the film and was said to be shooting a hand-to-hand combat scene when the incident happen. An insider said "It was all in good humour but the poor guy took quite a pummelling."
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Three film franchises up for a reboot
Fox animation have started preparations on a new “King Kong” adaptation that would see the story of the great ape told through his eyes.
Meanwhile, MGM have announced they will restart the “Poltergeist” franchise. They have commissioned screenwriter David Lindsay-Labaire (Rabbit Hole) to pen the script.
Finally, there are reports that Universal Pictures have proposed a sequel to Joe Johnston’s disastrous 2009 “The Wolfman”, these have been scrapped in favour of an original film.
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Roland Emmerich to play “Asteroids”?
Emmerich (2012, Day after tomorrow) has been offered the film adaptation of the 1979 hit arcade game “Asteroids”.
The game itself involved a ship firing on asteroids that threaten to destroy it. The story of the film is set after the destruction of Earth. The remnants of human civilization are now living on far-flung colonies within an asteroid belt alongside aliens.
The survivors were led to believe that this alien civilization was benevolent, rescuing them from doom, but ultimately discover that the aliens have engineered Earth’s destruction, and soon will do the same for the rest of humankind.
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“Daredevil” remake gets “Born Again”
“Fringe” writer/producer Caleb Cane has been hired to write the script of the new “daredevil” film. David Slade is developing and attached to direct the new take on Marvel's blind superhero which they previously adapted into a film in 2003.
Kane has reportedly been asked asked to adapt Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s "Born Again" storyline from the comic, considered one of the most influential and acclaimed comic stories of all time.
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Noah’s Ark sets sail
An edgy re-telling of the Noah's Ark story is set to be the next directorial effort of "Black Swan" and "Requiem for a Dream" helmer Darren Aronofsky.
Paramount, Fox and Summit are all apparently circling the fantasy epic, described as "a gritty, down-and-dirty" take on the Biblical story of the man who saved all the animals of the world from an apocalyptic flood.
The project has a budget around $130 million.
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Tron Sequel?
The fate of this potential third "Tron" film is currently in flux, the $400 million worldwide gross sits on the uncomfortable borderline - enough to show there's an interest out there, but not enough to guarantee a sequel.
A lot will depend upon the performance of the animated show "Tron Uprising" next year, and if the studio can find ways to ensure the sequel would be considerably cheaper to shoot.
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Judd Apatow Comedy film updates
Apatow (Knocked up, Superbad) is set to release a spin off comedy of Knocked up, Chris O'Dowd, Lena Dunham, Charlyne Yi and Wyatt Russell are all in negotiations to join
Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann are set to reprise the husband-and-wife roles. O'Dowd and Dunham will play employees of Rudd's indie record company. Russell will play a hockey player. Yi will reprise her "Knocked Up" character, Jodi.
Megan Fox and Albert Brooks also star.
Apatow will also produce a new untitled project currently setup at Universal Pictures which "Bridesmaids" helmer Paul Feig will write and direct.
The film is described as an "unconventional love story" project, though no further story details have yet been released. It's not a "Bridesmaids" sequel, though there's talk that may happen at Universal as well as the first film crossed the $100 million domestic box office mark.
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WWE Film new project
Angus Macfadyen, Alexis Dziena, Laura Ramsey, Lindsey Shaw, America Olivo, Beau Knapp, Derek Magyar and WWE wrestler Brodus Clay have all joined the cast of Ryuhei Kitamura's horror thriller "No One Lives" for WWE Studios.
The story follows a group of local criminals who abduct a wealthy couple, intending to torture them. The tables are turned when the man proves to be more psychotic than any of them, with a kidnapped heiress trapped in the trunk of his car.
Welsh spunk rat Luke Evans ("The Three Musketeers," "Tamara Drewe") has already been cast as the man. Ryuhei Kitamura ("Midnight Meat Train") is directing from a script by David Cohen and shooting kicks off next week in New Orleans.
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Human Centipede 2 Banned
The imaginatively named “The Human Centipede 2” has been banned in the UK. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) made the decision stating the film contained “sexually violent and potentially obscene material”.
The first film in the franchise was released in 2010 under the R18+ rating, and featured three victims sewn together end-to-end by a deranged doctor. The original drew a lot of criticism, but was deemed to be a relatively traditional type of horror release. The sequel however focuses on a man who becomes obsessed with a DVD of the first film and imagines imitating the acts himself.
BBFC Director David Cooke goes on to say of the sequel: “the sexual arousal of the central character at both the idea and the spectacle of the total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture and murder of his naked victims".
"The explicit presentation of the central character’s obsessive sexually violent fantasies is in breach of Classification Guidelines and poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers."
- Source: BBFC
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Naomie Harris in talks for Bond 23
As released in Rupert Murdoch’s (now discontinued) News of the World, actress Naomie Harris (Pirates of the Caribbean, 28 days later) is tipped to play the next bond girl in the yet to be titled “Bond 23”, the next (long-delayed) offering in the 007 franchise.
The only other information released on the film at this time, is that Sam Mendes will direct, Daniel Craig will return as Bond for the third time and Dame Judi Dench will be back as M.
Salt 2?
The espionage thriller that stars Angelina Jolie is set to be given the go ahead for a sequel. Sony Pictures have put out the feelers and have already commissioned Kurt Wimmer to write the first draft of the sequel.
IMDb reports that Jolie is keen to return to the title role, even though director Phillip Noyce has declined to come aboard for the follow up.
G.I. Joe 2: The Rock?
Its been rumoured that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has entered into talks with the producers of G.I. Joe II: Cobra Strikes. The former WWE wrestler is pegged to play the character “Roadblock”, a tougher than nails mercenary that serves as Joe’s machine gunner/chef.
Also slated to appear in the sequel is Channing Tatum, reprising his role from the first film as “Duke”.