Time for
your weekly notable news update! Below you'll find a
slew of sentences meant to provide a brief glimpse of what's
been going on over the past week in movieland. If
something leaves you desperate for more info then my advice
is to do a little extra research on one or all of the
following fantastic sites:
Latino Review,
Dark Horizons,
Ain't It Cool News,
CHUD and/or
JoBlo. Now, read on!
Movie News
Rundown
Hayden
Christensen says there is currently some talk about doing a
sequel to Jumper.
Rumor has it that Noomi Rapace (Girl With The Dragon
Tattoo) is being courted for roles in Sherlock Holmes
2 and Mission Impossible 4.
Are you ready for the story of Valerie Plame? I am now
that I've seen the first
trailer for Fair Game.
January Jones (Mad Men) has been cast as Emma Frost
in X-Men: First Class. The part originally went
to Alice Eve (She's Out Of My League), but apparently
she had issues with some script changes and asked to be
released from her contract.
Monsters has a new
trailer. I think the movie could be
a lot of fun.
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy will star in Hysteria.
The film is said to be centered around the invention of the
vibrator.
There's a
trailer for Vanishing On 7th Street.
Looks very direct to DVD.
Idris Elba (The Losers) has signed on to star in
Cross, which is about a detective searching for a man
who may have killed his pregnant wife. Morgan Freeman
played the role of Alex Cross in Kiss The Girl and
Along Came A Spider.
Seth Rogen will lend his voice to Boo U. The
animated feature will follow a ghost who can't properly
scare any of the living, so he gets sent back to school.
Yikes. Little Fockers looks worse that I
imagined it would. International trailer is
here.
Guillermo Del Toro has said he's currently not interested in
doing a Hellboy 3 because of the ending he has
planned for it. Apparently, he's just not ready to see
it played out on screen.
Hugh Jackman has dropped out of Avon Man in favor of
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2.
The first
trailer for Black Swan can only be
described as incredible.
Jim Carrey will star in Mr. Popper's Penguins and
Under Cover. The former is about a man who
inherits six penguins and the latter involves a man who
joins a cover band in order to raise enough money to gain
custody of his children.
Bruce Willis, Danny Trejo and Carey Mulligan will star in
Violet And Daisy. The exact plot is not currently
known.
Work has supposedly started on a movie that will tell the
story of how Google was created.
John Woo is hoping to add Liam Neeson to the cast of his
Flying Tigers movie. The story is said to follow
the American squadron who trained Chinese fighter pilots to
take on Japan in WWII.
Imogen Poots, Ophelia Lovibond, Lily Collins, Teresa Palmer
and Emma Roberts are said to be in contention to play Peter
Parker's love interest in the upcoming Spider-Man
reboot.
I'm Still Here, which is the documentary that
features Joaquin Phoenix as a hip hop artist, now has a
trailer. Doesn't really show a lot,
but it's well done.
Josh Hartnett and director Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number
Slevin, Wicker Park) are set to team up again
with a movie called Tomorrow. It's said to
follow a guy who travels back and forth in time trying to
prevent the murder of his family.
Just in case you don't feel indie enough today, check out
the new
trailer for Nice Guy Johnny.
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