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
Christopher
Nolan has said that Batman 3 will officially be
called The Dark Knight Rises, it will not be shot in
3D, and the villain is not The Riddler.
Betty White and Nicole Scherzinger have signed on for minor
roles in Men In Black 3.
Roland Emmerich will direct The Zone, which is about
aliens coming to destroy Earth. Same old story with
him, sure, but his budget will only be $5 million this time
around.
Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp are being rumored for roles
in Snow White And The Huntsman. The movie is
said to follow Snow White as she learns how to defend
herself against her evil stepmother.
Check out the new
trailer for Blue Valentine. I
missed this at AFF, but I heard good things about it.
Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
will hit theaters on June 22, 2012.
Chris Pine is being rumored as the preferred choice to star
in The Flash.
Mission Impossible IV has finally gotten it's
official title. It will now be called Mission
Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
Speaking of Tom Cruise, writer Chris McQuarrie let it slip
that Maverick is indeed the lead character in Top Gun 2.
Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance recently had its
budget cut from 135 million to 75 million.
Check out the
trailer for The Debt. Looks
OK, I suppose.
John Slattery (Mad Men) and Sam Elliot are said to be
possible choices to play the role of Jonah Jameson in the
Spider-Man reboot.
James Cameron has officially announced that he will shoot
back-to-back Avatar sequels. They'll hit
theaters in 2014 and 2015.
Matthew Broderick has joined the already large cast for
Brett Ratner's Tower Heist.
Check out the
trailer for Sanctum. Didn't
realize this was produced by James Cameron.
Darren Aronofsky has signed on to direct Machine Man,
which is about an engineer who decides to upgrade a few
parts of his body. I'm assuming this will come after
the Wolverine sequel.
Francis Ford Coppola will direct Twixt Now And Sunrise.
No plot has been revealed, but Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning and
Bruce Dem have joined the cast.
Antonio Banderas will direct and star in Solo.
The movie is said to follow a Spanish colonel suffering from
post-war trauma.
Check out the
trailer for Rare Exports: A Christmas
Tale. Looks fairly terrible.
Robert Downey Jr. may have to drop out of Alfonso Cuaron's
Gravity because of scheduling issues.
George Clooney will direct and star in The Ides Of March.
Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel
Wood will also appear in the movie, which follows a press
secretary for a presidential candiate who has his career
derailed after he sleeps with a teen volunteer.
Now that the various union issues have been worked out, the
Hobbit films will be shot in New Zealand.
Willem Dafoe, Sam Neil and Frances O'Connor have signed on
for The Hunter. The film is said to follow a
mercenary who is in search of a thought-to-be extinct tiger.
Michael Mann is said to be considering a movie based on the
Battle of Agincourt as his next feature.
Mark Wahlberg is said to be in talks to star in Seth
MacFarlane's Ted, which is about a man who has to fix
his relationship after his childhood toy comes to life and
causes problems.
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