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
Cop Out has a
red band
trailer now. Let's just say the
movie no longer looks like a huge train wreck.
Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga) will star in
Stretch Armstrong 3D.
Gunsmoke is heading to the big screen. No word
yet on a director or anything, but Brad Pitt and Ryan
Reynolds are rumored to be the top choices for the role of
Marshall Dillon.
Logan Lerman, the kid from that awful looking Percy
Jackson flick, is rumored to be on the preferred list to
possibly play Peter Parker in the upcoming Spider-Man
reboot.
You can see the Robin Hood Super Bowl TV
spot now. Not sure what I think
about the movie just yet.
Columbia Pictures is in the process of adapting Dan Brown's
The Lost Symbol into a movie.
I don't know if M. Night Shyamalan will pull off The Last
Airbender, but the latest TV
spot does look pretty neat.
Looks like Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and director Justin Lin
will be back for what's currently being called Fast Five.
Shutter Island has a new TV
spot. Does anyone else feel like
this movie shouldn't be coming out in the doldrums of
February?
Clash Of The Titans has been pushed back a week so
that it can be converted to 3D.
Lee Zlotoff, the creator of MacGuyver, is currently
working to get the parody movie MacGruber shut down.
Olivia Wilde is in talks to join the cast of Cowboys And
Aliens, which also stars Daniel Craig.
Fox is looking to reboot Daredevil.
L.A.P.I. wil be Jody Hill and Danny McBride's next
film. No word yet on the plot.
Russell Crowe and Beyonce may star in a remake of A Star
Is Born. The film would follow a musician who
falls in love with the young female artist that he's
mentoring.
Eric Bana will star in Hanna, which is about a young
girl who is trained by her father to be an assassin.
Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams and Olga
Kurylenk have signed on to appear in Terrance Malick's
currently untitled romantic drama.
Matt Damon has said that the studio may pursue a Bourne
prequel with a younger actor.
Ong Bak 3 now has a
teaser. Watch it if you like seeing
people get elbowed repeatedly.
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