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GENERAL MOVIE NEWS

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

Bilbo Finds Treasure In First The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Image

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Yesterday the first pic from the final Hobbit Movie, There & Back Again, arrived, showing us the return of Legolas, as well as Luke Evan’s human warrior character, Bard the Bowman. Now EW, has debuted our first look at the second film, The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, which you can see above.

The image sees Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), sitting atop of massive pile of gold coins, which as fans of Tolkien’s book will know, is the treasure of the terrifying dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch).

Writer/producer Philippa Boyens commentes, “The dragon is a huge, wonderful, amazing part of the story, but it doesn’t end there. Everyone can suspect there’s a rather large battle in film three.”

That fight is the Battle of Five Armies, which it would appear is going to be what most of the final film concetrates on, while the second focusses on the attempts to destroy Smaug. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opens December 13, 2013, with There & Back Again coming the following summer.

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Kevin Smith To Make Clerks III His Last Movie, With Hit Somebody Going To TV

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Ever since Red State, Kevin Smith has said he’s only going to direct one more movie – the hockey film Hit Somebody. However it seems all that’s changed as Hit Somebody is now going to TV, and so Smith is now planning something else as his big screen swan song.

Hit Somebody had at one point become two films, but Smith said a few months that doing a two-parter was going to be difficult to pull off and so he was trying to get the massive screenplay down to a sensible length for a single film. That proved far more difficult than expected and so now he’s tweeted, ‘HIT SOMEBODY now a mini-series? Get the scoop on GET OLD: smodcast.com/episodes/i-mel…‘

He then added, ‘Since HIT SOMEBODY is now gonna be a mini-series, yes – that leaves room for a new final flick before I retire from directing feature films.’

But what will that movie be? Well, fans of the director had better prepare to be excited, as Kevin has said, ‘So with the HIT SOMEBODY shift, the minute Jeff Anderson signs on, my last cinematic effort as a writer/director will be CLERKS III.#TaDa’

No story details have been given for Clerks III, but it seems logical as Smith debuted as a director with 1994’s Clerks, which showed Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson) in their 20s. 2006’s Clerks II caught up with the characters in their 30s. Now Smith wants to round out his big screen directing careers looking at the men in their 40s.

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Mark Wahlberg & Dwayne Johnson Get Patriotic In Pain & Gain Poster

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Michael Bay is leaving behind giant special effects and explosions for Pain & Gain, his new thriller starring Dwayne Johnson & Mark Wahlberg. However it appears the director still wants a bit of a ‘go USA’ backdrop, literally, as this new poster sees his stars (but not stripes) in front of an American flag.

The film is based based on a true story, and sees Wahlberg & Johnson as a pair of Florida bodybuilders who get caught in the middle of an extortion and kidnapping scheme. They plan to take a rich man hostage, but things don’t exactly go to plan. Ed Harris, Rebel Wilson, Anthony Mackie, Ken Jeong and Tony Shalhoub also star.

It’s due out in the UK May 2013.

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Nicolas Winding Refn To Helm The Equalizer

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A film version of the 80s TV series The Equalizer has been in the works for years, with various people coming and going from the movie, but it’s never actually made it to a film set. Now a bit more momentum has built up behind it with the news, via Variety, that Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn is in talks to helm for Sony Pictures.

Denzel Washington is still attached to star in the film, based on The Equalizer TV series that debuted back in 1985. It starred Edward Woodward as a former spy who decides to help those in need, free of charge. The feature version will alter the premise slightly, with Washington as a lone recluse, determined to stop helpless people from being victimised.

Back in 2010, Oscar winner Paul Haggis was writing the screenplay, but it seems he is no longer involved. Instead Refn will be working from a draft by Richard Wenk (The Expendables 2). Shooting should begin in the spring of 2013.

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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Plans A Comedy Called Birdman

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Alejandro Gonazalez Inarritu has made a name for himself with impressively melancholy/depressing movies such as Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel and Biutiful. It seems he wants to cheer up a bit, as THR reports that he’s busy lining up his first comedy project, Birdman.

The movie is about a once-famous actor who’s almost completely identified with playing an iconic superhero. He’s now keen for people to see him in a different light by lining up a comeback in a Broadway play. The plot takes place entirely at one location over the span of three days, as he tries to juggle his comeback attempt with his family life, which takes a toll on his sanity.

Inarritu will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Biutiful writers Nicolás Giacobone, Armando Bo, and Alexander Dinelaris. He hopes to start shooting next March.

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Disney Plans Alice in Wonderland Sequel

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When a film becomes a major hit, the usual thing in Hollywood is to get a sequel moving as fast as possible. However despite Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland making a billion at the box office, we haven’t heard anything about a follow-up – until now, that is.

Variety reports that Walt Disney Pictures is now moving ahead on a sequel to Alice in Wonderland, with original screenwriter Linda Woolverton returning to write the follow-up. There’s no news on whether Tim Burton intends to direct.

It’s likely it’s taken a while to get this going as no deals are in place guaranteeing the likes of Johnny Depp (Mad Hatter), Mia Wasikowska (Alice), Helena Bonham Carter (Red Queen), and Anne Hathaway (White Queen) will returns – and so getting them back may be difficult and incredibly costly. However it’s possible Woolverton has come up with a pitch that gets around this.

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Tom Cruise Eyes A Ruined New York In First Oblivion Poster

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Joseph Kosinski’s Tron: Legacy may not have been as big a hit as he might have hoped, but Oblivion is intriguing and may benefit from arriving with less hype than his previous effort. Now the marketing has begun, with the first poster for the film (which you can see above) and the promise a trailer will arrive on Sunday.

Adapted from Kosinski’s own graphic novel, Tom Cruise stars as Jack Harper, one of the last men left on a ruined Earth, who repairs the drones tasked with retrieving vital resources from the planet. His whole world is turned upside down when he encounters a female pilot who crash lands on the planet, and they go on a journey of discovery that forces him to question everything he thinks he knows.

I’m not sure how you get a waterfall halfway up a skyscraper, but I’m sure the movie will explain it when it arrives next April.

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The Muppets 2 Gets Ty Burrell, Replacing Christoph Waltz

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A couple of months ago, it was revealed that Christoph Waltz was in talk to star in The Muppets 2. However a deal couldn’t be reached with the Oscar winner due to scheduling conflicts and so he’s been replaced by Modern Family star Ty Burrell, according the THR.

Burrell is set to play an Interpol inspector, one of the key, non-puppet roles, in a film that’s said to bring Kermit and co. to Europe. Other parts that are still being cast are a Russian femme fatale and a mysterious male lead. There are also expected to be a slew of cameos.

Muppets director James Bobin is returning helm the film, working from a screenplay he co-wrote with Nick Stoller. Jason Segel, who co-wrote and starred in The Muppets is not coming back for the sequel. Shooting is slated to begin this winter in London (which means Burrell is going to have to slot in his role amongst his Modern Family commitments).

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Great Hobbit 13-Minute Featurette Arrives

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It’s less than a week until The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits cinemas. There’s a huge amount of anticipation and for those who can’t get enough on the film, there’s a great new 13-minute featurette, which includes plenty of new footage from the movie, as well as some interesting behind-the-scenes info on the making of the movie.

The movie has been getting slightly mixed notices – no one’s said it’s bad, but that perhaps it doesn’t quite hit the ridiculously high bar set by Lord Of The Ring, although it will be difficult to fully judge it until we’ve seen all three movies. We’ll all get to see what we think on December 13th.

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New Pics Of Saoirse Ronan & Jake Abel In The Host Debut

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I’d imagine there are many people out there already feeling Twilight withdrawal symptoms now that the final film in the series has hit cinemas. However they might find some solace from the fact another Stephenie Meyer adaptation, the sci-fi flick The Host, hits cinemas on March 29th, 2013.

Now a slew of new images from the film have arrived via Hollywood.com, showing the likes of Saoirse Ronan, Jake Abel, Max Irons and William Hurt. In The Host, our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact. Most of humanity has succumbed, including Soarise Ronan’s main character, Melanie Stryder. However while normally the human is completely subdued by their host, in Melanie’s case, her personality flashes through, intriguing her Host, known as Wanda, and setting them off on a quest to find the last free humans.

Click on the pics below for larger versions.

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