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GENERAL MOVIE NEWS

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser (www.moviemuser.co.uk)

Jason Statham May Join Melissa McCarthy In Susan Cooper

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Safe-statham-slideA couple of day ago we reported that Rose Byrne is in talks to reunites with her Bridemaids cohorts Melissa McCarthy and director Paul Feig for the spy comedy, Susan Cooper. Now another name is in the mix, as Jason Statham is set to enter talks for the movie, according to Deadline.

The movie is about an unlikely female secret agent, played by Melissa McCarthy. If a deal comes together, Statham will play a spy on the same side as the title character. There’s not a huge amount more info than that, although it’s previously been said that the film was inspired by the grittiness of Casino Royale, even if it gives a more comedic spin to thing.

Paul Feig is directing from his own original screenplay. Shooting it expected to start next spring, one McCarthy has completed the latest season of Mike & Molly.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Finds Blood On The Snow, Based On A Jo Nesbo Novel

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leo-dicaprioLeonardo DiCaprio likes to have a huge amount of movies in development. A few of them he ends up starring in, some he only produces, while many disappear or get made without his involvement. Now he’s got a new one, as Deadline reports that he has signed on to star in and produce an adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s novel Blood On the Snow.

The book is about a hitman who is tasked with killing his boss’ wife. However an unexpected problem arises when he begins to fall in love with his mark. The novel is set to be published next spring, with a sequel, Blood On The Snow 2: More Blood, already planned for in 2015.

To make things a little more interesting, Nesbø wrote both books under the pseudonym Tom Buchanan, who is set to become the victim in his 2016 book, The Kidnapping.

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Tim Burton In Talks for Beetlejuice 2, With Michael Keaton Likely To Return Too

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tim-burtonOver the weekend rumours emerged that Tim Burton was seriously considering directing Beetlejuice 2. Now that’s been confirmed, with TheWrap reporting that Burton is indeed in talks to helm the long-gestating movie.

Michael Keaton is also expected to reprise his role as the title character, although it’s no clear if his deal is set yet or not. It may be that Burton is happy to agree to make Beetlejuice 2, as long as he also gets to helm an adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg wrote the screenplay the Beetlejuice follow-up, although no story details have been revealed yet. It’s not clear when it might shoot, although it appear Burton will make another movie first, so don’t expect it anytime soon.

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Damian Lewis In Talks For Queen of the Desert

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damian-lewisAt one point Queen of the Desert was due to star Naomi Watts, with the likes of Robert Pattinson and Jude Law also involved. However a few months ago Watts was out and Nicole Kidman signed on. Now Homeland star Damian Lewis is in talks to co-star for writer-director Werner Herzog, according to Deadline.

Kidman is attached to star as writer, explorer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell, who is credited with being central to the formation of the modern Middle East in the early 20th Century. Lewis will be Lt. Colonel Charles Doughty-Wylie, an unhappily married British war hero who strikes up a torrid affair with Bell between 1913 and 1915. Tragically he was killed in active duty at Gallipoli.

Werner Herzog hopes to start shooting in December.

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Tarzan Trailer – Kellan Lutz gets motion-captured in the animated movie

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While David Yates is busy putting together a live-action version of Tarzan, before then we’re getting a new animated version, and now the first full trailer for the movie has been released.

Kellan Lutz, Spencer Locke, Mark Delkin, Jaimie Ray Newman and Brian Bloom are among those who did motion capture and voice work for the movie. The plot doesn’t exactly follow the original tale, instead going more Avatar, which Tarzan and his ape friends having to stop some evil people attempting to raze the jungle so they can mine precious fuel that comes from a meteorite that crashed many years ago.

Despite the motion capture, it doesn’t seem we’re talking Pixar level graphics here – indeed like some other recent animated films, the backgrounds are beautiful while the people look to shiny, plastic and as if they’ve been pasted in on top (but they may be able to sort that before the film’s release). The film’s due out early next year. [Read more…]

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Gravity Tops The US Box Office For A Third Week, While Fifth Estate Tanks Badly

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gravity-preview-pic1Gravity has continued its impressive box office run, topping the US box office for a third week with $31 million, once more dropping less than 30% from the previous weekend (most films fall around 40-60% each week). It’s made $170 million in North America so far and is expected to gross another $100 million before the end of its run.

It certainly saw off the newcomers. The remake of Carrie was the best new opener with $17 million, which means that while it should still be profitable as it didn’t cost too much to make, it’s on the low end for recent horror releases, which is slightly surprising with Halloween not far away.

Escape Plan came fifth with $9.8 million, showing once more that after his time as Californian Governor, Armie isn’t the box office name he used to be, even if he teams up with Sylvester Stallone – something that in the 80s fans would have died for.

The only other new opener in the top 10 was the Wikileaks drama, The Fifth Estate, which took a dismal $1.7 million. It was a bit of a disaster, as it’s the lowest opening in DreamWorks history, and the worst start for a movie opening at over 1,500 cinemas this year. With bad reviews and mediocre audience reaction, it’s unlikely to do much better in the coming weeks.

Outside the top 10, 12 Years A Slave did well, taking $960,000 on just 19 screens. That’s an incredibly impressive $50,000 per screen, suggesting it’ll do extremely well as it expands nationwide in the coming weeks.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 Gravity $31.0 $170.5
2 Captain Phillips $17.3 $53.3
3 Carrie $17.0 $17.0
4 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 $10.1 $93.1
5 Escape Plan $9.8 $9.8
6 Prisoners $2.0 $57.2
7 Enough Said $1.8 $10.7
8 The Fifth Estate $1.7 $1.7
9 Runner Runner $1.6 $17.5
10 Insidious Chapter 2 $1.5 $80.9
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Francois Arnaud, Billy Magnussen & Luke Bracey May Find Fifty Shades Of Grey

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billy-magnussenWith Charlie Hunnam out, Universal are scrabbling to find a replacement who’s not only hot enough but ready and willing to get S&M steamy when cameras start rolling in a few year’s time.

Alexander Skarsgard, Christian Cooke and Jamie Dornan (The Fall) have already been rumoured as replacements, and now E! adds in Billy Magnussen and Luke Bracey, while JustJared says Francois Arnaud is in the mix.

None of the new names are strangers to nudity, as Magnussen spent most of his time on stage in the play ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ in his underpants, while Luke Bracey spent a lot of time with his shirt off in the Aussie soap Home And Away.  Arnaud meanwhile has been seen getting sexy in the Borgias (and going gay in I Killed My Mother).

Take a look at pics of all three below, and see which you’d prefer as the billionaire Christian Grey, who gets into a kinky relationship with the young Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson).

Francois Arnaud
Luke Bracey
Billy Magnussen
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Homefront Red Band Trailer – Jason Statham deals with a nasty James Franco

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James Franco and Jason Statham might not seem like obvious co-stars, but then Franco never likes to do the expected. With Homefront he not only has an unexpected co-star, but he get to work from a script by Sylvester Stallone, and play the extremely nasty bad guy.

The movie is about Phil Broker (Statham), a former DEA agent who moves his family to a quiet town to escape his past. However, he discovers the town is overrun by a dangerous meth distributor named Gator (James Franco).

While Stallone wrote the script, based on Chuck Logan’s novel, he neither stars not directs the film. The film’s due out in late November in the US and December 6th in the UK. Take a look at the new, dramatic red-band trailer above. [Read more…]

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Reese Witherspoon Shares The First Pic From Wild

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Reese Witherspoon is currently in Orgeon shooting Wild, and while there she decided to share the first image from the movie, which you can see above.

The film is based on Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling novel, with a script from top author Nick Hornby (About A Boy, High Fidelity). It’s about how Strayed ‘hiked 1,000 miles alone on the Pacific Crest Trail following years of destructive behavior in the wake of the dissolution of her marriage and her mother’s death.’

Jean-Marc Vallée (Young Victoria, Dallas Buyers Club is directing, with Fox Searchlight backing the movie.

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Haley Joel Osment Joins Kevin Smith’s Tusk

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haley-joel-osmentWhile he’s waiting for the money for Clerks III to come together, Kevin Smith has decided to helm a strange, Hammer Horror style monster movie called Tusk. The film is due to start shooting soon, but the cast is still coming together, with Deadline reporting that the latest to sign up being Haley Joel Osment.

He joins the likes of Justin Long, Genesis Rodriguez and Michael Parks.

Smith has previously said of the film, “It’s about a guy who turns another guy into a f**ing human walrus. As weird as it is in my head when I talk about it, they finally sent me the costume designs by Robert Kurtzman, and I was like, ‘Holy s**t, it’s a monster movie, I had no idea.’ I thought I was making a kind of sister thriller to Red State. As soon as I saw the designs, I go, ‘Of course this is a monster movie and he’s Dr. Frankenstein.”

Long will be the human walrus, with Osment as his long lost friend Teddy, who teams up with his girlfriend (Genesis Rodriguez) to try to find him.

The film starts shooting next month on a $2 million budget.

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