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
Arnold
Schwarzenegger will star in an indie thriller titled
Captive. He will reportedly play a businessman who gets
kidnapped and then buried alive in a truck.
Melancholia still looks like it'll be great.
See the latest
trailer.
Speaking of Schwarzenegger, he and Bruce Willis have
officially joined the cast of The Expendables 2.
Denzel Washington will star in, and Robert Zemeckis will
direct, Flight. The movie is said to be about a pilot
who saves a bunch of people, but then has to undergo
questions about his activities the night before the event.
The Big Year doesn't exactly look good. See the
trailer.
Mel Gibson is reportedly looking at a directing a movie
based on the Jewish hero Judah Maccabee.
Joe Wright (Pride And Prejudice) will adapt Leo
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Keira Knightley, Jude
Law, and Aaron Johnson will star.
Marion Cottilard will star in Rust And Bone.
Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) will direct. No
word yet on a exact plot.
There's a rumor that Adele may record the next Bond theme
song.
The Raid looks crazy. See the rather awesome
trailer
here.
Dreamworks and Fox will reportedly be teaming up to finance
Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Robopocalypse.
Russell Crowe will officially star alongside Hugh Jackman in
Tom Hooper's Les Miserables.
Seth Rogen recently said he does not have a part in This
Is Forty, which is the sequel to Knocked Up.
Check out the
trailer for Janie Jones.
Might be an OK flick.
Danny DeVito will direct an adaptation of The True
Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle. The children's
book follows a little girl as she sails the high seas with a
ruthless captain in the 1830s. Pierce Brosnan, Morgan
Freeman and Saoirse Ronan may star.
Chris Tucker has prepped a comeback. He's in talks to
join David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook
and Akiva Schaffer's Neighborhood Watch.
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (1408) have
been hired to pen a script for an adaptation of Monopoly.
Margaret looks so very dramatic. Check out the
trailer.
Eddie Murphy has been hired to host the 84th Academy Awards.
A hybrid sequel/reboot of Beetlejuice is in the
works.
Colin Firth has joined the cast of The Railway Man.
The movie will be based on the true story of Eric Lomax, who
was tortured by the Japanese for building the "death
railway" in World War II.
The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence now has a
teaser. Looks as you'd expect.
Image Of The Week:
The poster for The Rum Diary.
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