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!
Will Farrell
has landed a small role in The Internship, which will
follow Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as older businessmen who
get internships at a tech company.
Warner Bros. is rumored to be looking at putting a new
Batman movie in theaters as early as 2016. For now
anyways, the film is not going to tell an origin story.
Dan Aykroyd recently re-confirmed that Bill Murray will not
be appearing in Ghostbusters 3.
The X-Men First Class sequel has been given the title
of X-Men: Days Of Future Past.
Hugh Jackman may star in Orders To Kill for director
Lee Daniels (Precious). The movie is said to be
about an attorney named Will Pepper, who thought the
government had ordered the assassination of Martin Luther
King.
John Leguizamo has landed roles in Ridley Scott's The
Counselor and Kick Ass 2.
Jon M. Chu (GI Joe: Retaliation) may direct a
Masters Of The Universe movie.
Rush Hour 4 is said to be in the early stages of
development.
Peter Jackson's The Hobbit is now officially set to
be a trilogy.
There's a chance that Edgar Wright's Ant-Man
adaptation for Marvel could hit theaters in 2014. No
word yet on whether or not this will conflict with At
World's End.
There's a chance that Russell Crowe may replace Javier
Bardem in the planned Dark Tower adaptation.
A sequel to Prometheus is said to officially be in
the works.
Keira Knightley, Felicity Jones, and Evangeline Lilly are
said to be up for a role in the next Jack Ryan movie.
James Franco and Jason Statham will star in Homefront,
which was written by Sylvester Stallone. It involves a
retired DEA agent who moves home and finds that it is now a
meth-haven.
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