Saturday, July 10, 2010

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

Kevin Bacon has joined X-Men: First Class as a currently unknown villain.  Aaron Johnson (Kick Ass) will play the role of Cyclops.

It's so very quirky and indie it hurts my brain, but Jack Goes Boating still looks good.  See the trailer.

Harold And Kumar will be going on a third adventure.  This time it's said to be based around Christmas.

Denzel Washington may star in Safe House, which is about a CIA agent trying to save a prisoner from being assassinated.

There's now a trailer for Welcome To The Riley's.  Looks very dramatic.

There was a rumor floating around that the director's chair for the Superman reboot had been offered to Christopher Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire), but it has been proven to not be true.

I had my doubts that they'd pull of anything interesting, but Green Hornet doesn't look half bad.  Check out the trailer here.

Not exactly movie news, but Mike Judge is said to be working on thirty new episodes of Beavis And Butthead.

For some reason, Saw VII will now be called Saw 3D: The Trap Comes Alive.  On a similar lame note, the next Final Destination may be called 5nal Destination.

No.  That's all I have to say about the Let Me In trailer.

Sam Raimi let it slip that he isn't completely signed and good to go on Oz: The Great And Powerful.  He's also apparently still trying very hard to make a World Of Warcraft movie.

Rumor has it that Sherlock Holmes 2 could start shooting as early as this fall.

The new Machete trailer looks pretty badass.

Robert Rodriguez has now mentioned Spy Kids 4: Armageddon as his next project.  Who knows if Sin City 2, Red Sonja or any of his other zillion announced projects will ever get made.

Because of money woes, MGM has canned the next Bond movie.  Fortunately, Sam Mendes and Daniel Craig have both said they will return to the project once it's green lit again.

There's a new trailer for Paranormal Activity 2.  Are you scared?  Or something.

Supposedly, Marvel has decided to not bring Edward Norton back as Bruce Banner/Hulk in The Avengers.  They would apparently like to go with an unknown.

Andy Serkis will join James Franco, Frieda Pinto and John Lithgow in Rise Of The Apes.

The Social Network has gotten a really cool teaser.  This could be a good one.

Christian Bale will star in The Last Photograph.  The movie is said to be about a photograph that causes two people to make a journey through a war-torn Afghanistan.

It would appear that George Miller is ready to do back to back Mad Max films.  One will be called Thunder Road, the other Furiosa.  Both will be shot in 3D and will feature FX work by Weta.

Gore Verbinski recently noted that he is still trying to get a Bioshock movie made.

Nothing about this Eat Pray Love trailer looks interesting.  Sorry, Julia Roberts.

Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus) has been cast as Peter Parker/Spider-Man.

Eric Bana will play special agent Nick Stone in the big screen adaptation of the character that has appeared in double digit books by Andy McNab.  The movie will be called Echelon.  No word yet on a release date.

Javier Bardem, Christopher Walken and Johnny Hallyday have signed on to appear in Tony Scott's Potzdamer Platz.  The movie is said to be about a crime family that tries to expand internationally.

Not familiar with Animal Kingdom, but the trailer looks OK.

Joe Wright (Atonement) is reportedly looking at trying to do a live action Little Mermaid film.

Jet Li is all set to star in a remake of Dragon Inn.

Colin Farrell is rumored to have been cast as Ozzy Osbourne in the biopic that's currently being written about the rocker.

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