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
The very
popular Raven
short has reportedly been setup at
Universal. Mark Whalberg will star in and produce the
big screen version.
Brian Cox and Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter)
have signed on to appear in Rise Of The Apes.
Ben Affleck's The Town has a
trailer. I like the look of it.
The next Fast And Furious movie has made a few
casting moves. Dwayne Johnson, Ludacris, Matt Schulze
(from the series' first entry), Joaquim de Almeida (Desperado)
and Elsa Pataky will all have roles.
The producers for Arrested Development have once
again sworn that a movie is still in the works. They
just need a few important things ... like a script and an
actual production date.
Freida Pinto is back! Check out the Miral
trailer.
Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) will direct and pen
the adaptation of The Politician, which follows the
scandal that enveloped John Edwards in his 1998 political
campaign.
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) has signed on to
play Mystique in X-Men: First Class.
There's a rumor floating around that Mark Ruffalo may play
Bruce Banner/Hulk in the Avengers.
Oh man. The
trailer for The Social Network
makes it look seriously good.
Magnolia Pictures has picked up the rights to I'm Still
Here. If you remember, that's the Casey
Affleck-directed documentary about Joaquin Phoenix going
from actor to hip hop musician.
And the most indie
trailer of the year award goes to ...
Howl.
Haley Joel Osment is making his return to the big screen
with Sex Ed. The movie is said to follow a
teacher (who is also a virgin) that is forced to teach
sexual education. Hilarity ensues. Probably.
Amanda Seyfried has signed on to star in Im.mortal.
Terrible title, yes, but the plot sounds OK. It's set
in a futuristic world where time is the currency, so rich
people are immortal and everyone else is just trying to say
alive.
Word has it that Amy Adams (Sunshine Cleaning) is
rumored to be playing Janis Joplin in Fernando Meirelles' (City
Of God) biopic on the famous singer.
Biutiful looks rather bizarre. See the trailer
here.
Nicolas Cage will star in Ghost Rider 2. The
script was written by David Goyer (The Dark Knight).
Brett Rather is said to be trying to put together a movie
based on Hercules.
Supposedly, JJ Abrams, James Mangold, Ryan Murphy and Rob
Marshall have all expressed interest in adapting Wicked
into a movie.
Zach Galifianakis is in everything now. See the
trailer for Due Date
here and the one for It's Kind Of A
Funny Story
here.
Matt Walsh will direct High Road, which follows a
weed dealer and a teenager on the run after a deal goes bad.
Roman Polanski will direct Gods Of Carnage. The
movie revolves around two sets of parents that are brought
together by a fight between their children.
Marvel has confirmed that Captain America and Thor
will both be converted to 3D. This is awful news.
I Melt With You will reportedly star Thomas Jane and
Jeremy Piven. The movie follows the interconnecting
lives of four men.
Tom Cruise has reportedly been confirmed for Mission
Impossible 4. Some speculated that the somewhat
lukewarm reception of Knight And Day would make
Paramount go in a different direction.
The M.Night-produced Devil now has a
trailer. Who knows what to think
anymore about anything that guy is involved with.
A remake of Oh! God has been pitched to Warner Bros.
This version is said to feature Betty White as God and Paul
Rudd as the main mortal.
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