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Carter Beats The Devil Gets Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller

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Ever since Glen David Gold’s novel Carter Beats The Devil was published in 2001 there’s been talk of turning it into a film, although it’s only in the last couple of years there’s been major movement on this front. Now 21 Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are in talks to helm the film for Warner Bros, according to THR.

The story is based on a real-life magician named Carter the Great, a popular illusionist in the 1920s. The story sees Carter performing a trick for President Warren G. Harding, but when the Commander-in-Chief is found dead, the magician must go on the run to clear his name. The story also features real-life figures such as TV inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, Harry Houdini, and The Marx Brothers.

The novel was originally set up at Paramount back in 2002, with Tom Cruise was attached to play the title character. There’s no news on when this latest attempt to mount the movie might shoot.

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Puss In Boots (DVD)

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You have to wonder whether the fact the Shrek franchise is Dreamworks Animation’s goose that laid the golden egg was going through the minds of the powers that be when they were coming up with the story for Puss In Boots. While we were promised Shrek Forever After would be the last movie about the green ogre, it’s little surprise the studio wanted to carry on with a spin-off, and Puss In Boots is certainly a good character to do it with, allowing for a film that feels familiar but is different enough not to seem as if it’s merely rehashing the Shrek movies.

Set before Puss met his ogrish pals, the film sees the well-shod feline as an outlaw who discovers the dastardly Jack & Jill have the magic beans he’s been looking for most of his life. When he tries to steal them, he’s interrupted by another cat who on the outside of the law, Kitty Softpaws, who turns out to be allied to Puss’ old pal Humpty Dumpty. However Puss and Humpty have long been estranged, as despite growing up together in an orphanage, Puss blames Humpty for making him an outlaw when he got him involved in a robbery he knew nothing about. [Read more…]

21 Jump Street Sequel Already In The Works

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Jonah Hill must be feeling pretty pleased with himself today. It was his idea to turn the 80s TV show 21 Jump Street into a modern buddy cop comedy, which has turned out to be a great success.

Even before the weekend numbers were in, Sony seemed confident they had a hit, as Variety reports they’re already working on a sequel, with Hill once more producing and working on the story, and Michael Bacall writing the screenplay. Bacall worked on the first 21 Jump Street film, as well as Project X and Scott Pilgrim.

There’s no info on what the follow-up may be about, or when we might see it, although with the box office numbers for 21 Jump Street already racking up, Sony is likely to want to get it in cinemas as soon as possible!

At the moment it’s very early days, so it’s not known whether directing duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller will return, and it isn’t thought Channing Tatum is currently signed for sequel, so they’ll need to bring him onboard too.

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Puss In Boots (Cinema)

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Shrek spin-off Puss In Boots has already had quite a lot of good reviews in the US, but it’s just the latest attempt by the liberal left in Hollywood to indoctrinate kids. Everyone knows that the natural state of cats is not to be in boots, but Dreamworks Animation and its media colleagues keep presenting this perversion of nature to us as if it’s something we should treat as normal. Not content with using the Shrek movies to warp young minds into thinking that cats in footwear are the equal of regular unshod felines, now they’re giving Puss In Boots a whole movie to himself!

It’s just plain wrong. It’s bound to cause children to start asking awkward questions about why Puss is wearing boots. It should be a parent’s decision how and when to broach such thorny subjects, not forced upon them by the all-powerful pro-shoes-for-cats agenda. Indeed it’s gotten to the point where right thinking people are afraid to stand up for what’s right and openly say Puss shouldn’t wear boots! [Read more…]

Watch Five Minutes Of Puss In Boots

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It may already be out in the US, but Puss In Boots doesn’t reach UK cinemas until December 9th. Before than an extended, five-minute clip from the film has popped up over at MSN, and you can watch it embedded here. Here’s the synopsis: ‘Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend…The Boots.’ The films had good reviews, so get a feel for it with this lengthy clip.

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Lego Movie Gets The Greenlight

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While a couple of years ago Hollywood had big plans to turn virtually every toy and game into a movie, surprisingly few have moved forward, partly due to the realisation that it’s tough to turn a plotless toy into a worthwhile movie.

However at least one has got the greenlight, as Variety reports that Warner Bros has given the greenlight to the Lego film that’s been in development. The live-action/CGI hybrid movie will be a family comedy based on the popular building blocks, and takes place in the magical land of Lego. No further plot details have been released at this time, but it’ll be interesting to discover how they’re fitting in the concept of Lego blocks into the film and whether the inhabitants of the island are the little Lego men (and if they are, how they’re going to make that not seem silly).

More details about the movie, which is likely to be 80% animated, should be released later this week, and casting is set to begin in January (although work of the CGI will begin pretty much immediately). Warner Bros. is eyeing a 2014 release date for Lego: The Movie, with Robot Chicken’s Chris McKay recently bought on board to co-direct alongside 21 Jump Street duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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21 Jump Street Red Band Trailer

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The 80s TV show 21 Jump Street shot Johnny Depp to fame, and now Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are bringing their take on the premise with a new movie version. The comedy sees Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) and join the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, where they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. However, they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier ­and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind. It’s due in UK cinemas March 16th.

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