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
Paul Greengrass
has confirmed that he will for certain not be returning to
the Bourne franchise.
Taylor Lautner has given up the role of Max Steel in
order to make the Stretch Armstong movie.
Robert Rodriguez says he has plans to return to his sci-fi
script for Nerverackers once he is done working on
Predators.
Paramount is rumored to be putting together a remake of
Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion. The original
followed a woman who suspects her loving husband may be a
killer.
The
trailer for The Karate Kid remake
is out. Surprisingly, it doesn't look terrible.
Angelina Jolie has dropped out of Wanted 2, so now
the movie has been canned. She apparently replaced it
with Gravity, a sci-fi flick that's to be directed by
Alfonso Cuaron.
Pixar is rumored to have lined up a sequel to Monsters
Inc.
Brian De Palma is being considered as the director for
Paranormal Activity 2.
Roland Emmerich has begun work on Anonymous, which
deals with the theory that Shakespeare was actually Edward
De Vere, the 17th Earl Of Oxford.
Justin Theroux is going to write and direct Zoolander 2.
Ben Stiller will return. No word yet on Owen Wilson.
Also, Jonah Hill is rumored to be the villain.
The A Nightmare On Elm Street remake has a new
trailer. Could be an interesting
flick.
Bradley Cooper has dropped out of McG's This Means War
because of scheduling conflicts with The Hangover 2.
Rumor has it that John Krasinki is in the lead to play
Captain America.
Nicole Kidman will join Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in
Go With It. No word yet on what her role is, but
the movie is about a guy who hires a family in order to
impress the woman of his dreams.
Kevin Smith's next movie is called Hit Somebody.
It will star Sean William Scott has a hockey player who is
trying to score just one goal.
David Goyer has been hired to write the Superman
reboot, The Man Of Steel.
Matt Damon is said to be the preferred choice to play the
lead role in the planned adaptation of the Robert F Kennedy
biopic His Life.
Jonah Hill has signed on to star in The Sitter.
The movie will be directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple
Express) and is said to be similar in tone to the 80's
Adventures In Babysitting.
George Lopez will star in a live action/CG hybrid version of
Speedy Gonzalez. Sad.
Bruce Willis has said that he's up for another Die Hard
entry.
Stephen Chow will direct Tai Chi, which is said to be
an homage to Bruce Lee's Return Of The Dragon.
Oddly enough, Jack Black and Anne Hathaway are attached to
appear in the film.
Ian McShane has signed to play the role of Blackbeard in
Pirates Of The Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides.
Jamie Foxx and Ashton Kutcher are teaming up for a buddy
comedy called Streets On Fire.
Christina Applegate, Alyssa Milano and Vanessa Angel have
signed on to join Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis in Hall
Pass. Directed by the Farrelly Brothers, the movie
is said to be about two guys who get a pass from their wives
to have a week of extramarital sex.
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