The Imposter has sparked huge amounts of debate at festival screening at the likes of Sundance and EIFF, and we’ll be able to find out for ourselves when it hits UK cinemas on August 24th. It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. Disoriented and quivering with fear, he divulges his shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not what it seems. Sure, he has the same tattoos, but he looks decidedly different, and he now speaks with a strange accent. Why doesn’t the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It’s only when an investigator starts asking questions that this astounding true story takes an even stranger turn.
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Batcherlorette Trailer – Kirsten Dunst & co. get wedding fever
On the night before an old friend’s wedding, three frisky bridesmaids go searching for a little fun but find much more than they bargained for. With lovely Becky (Rebel Wilson) set to marry her handsome sweetheart, Dale (Hayes MacArthur), the remaining members of her high school clique reunite for one last bachelorette bacchanal in the Big Apple. Regan (Kirsten Dunst) is an overachieving, ueber-Maid of Honor who’s secretly smarting over the fact that she’s not the first to marry, while Gena (Lizzy Caplan) is a whip-smart sarcastic who’s actually a closet romantic, and Katie (Isla Fisher) is a ditzy beauty who loves the good life. But when Becky insists on keeping the bachelorette party tame, the women proceed with an after-hours celebration of their own. It should be out later this year.
Robert Duvall & Jeremy Irvine Spending A Night In Old Mexico
Old and young are set to team up for A Night In Old Mexico, with 81-year-old Robert Duvall and 21-year-old War Horse actor Jeremy Irvine signing up to star in Emilio Aragon’s road movie, according to Variety.
There’s not too much info about Bill Witliff’s (The Perfect Storm) script, other than that it follows the growing relationship between an old man and his grandson (presumably Duvall and Irvine), combining action, tragedy and romance. Angie Cepeda, Luis Tosar and Javier Guttierez will also star.
Filming starts tomorrow in Texas, running through to August.
Neal McDonough In Talks For Red 2
Plans are moving forward for a sequel to Red, with Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich all set to return, and Catherine Zeta Jones and Anthony Hopkins added to the cast. Now Variety reports that Neal McDonagh is in talks to join the movie as well.
It’s not clear who McDonagh will be playing, but this time around the gang of retired agents are looking for a missing weapon of mass destruction. However, before they can find the weapon itself, they must first break the man who created it out of an insane asylum.
Red writers Jon and Erich Hoeber are handling script duties again, with Dean Parisot taking over the director’s chair from Robert Schwentke.
Kevin Costner Signs Up For Running Drama McFarland
I think it’s fair to say that Kevin Costner likes sports. After all, there can’t be many other reasons he’s spent half his career making the likes of Bull Durham, Field Of Dreams, Tin Cup, For The Love Of The Game and Play It To The Bone. Now he’s heading back for the running drama McFarland, for Whale Rider director Niki Caro.
The film is based on a true story about a high school sport coach (Costner) who settles into McFarland, California, a poor, Latino community, and turns the cross-country running team into a championship-winning dynasty. Variety describes the movie as ‘a cross between Remember the Titans and Coach Carter.’
Costner hasn’t made that many film appearances in the past few years, but he’ll be hoping his role as Jonathan Kent in Man Of Steel will give him a bit of a career boost, and that McFarland can help with that too.
Ben Stiller & Jonah Hill Say Aloha
Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill are about to appear together in the alien invasion comedy The Watch, and it seems they had a good time working together, as THR reports that producer Shawn Levy is in talks with Stiller and Hill to headline Fox’s upcoming comedy Aloha.
Plot details for the film are being kept under wraps, but the title hints that it will most likely be set in Hawaii. The script for the comedy is being provided by Nick Stoller, who worked with Jonah Hill on Get Him to the Greek and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. This project’s fate will be determined by the scheduling and what kind of script the writer brings to the table.
The original idea for this new story was was conceived by Jonah Hill, and developed by Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller and Shawn Levy on the set of The Watch.
Taylor Kitsch Offered Need for Speed Movie?
Few actors have had the chance to hit the A-list at lightning speed like Taylor Kitsch. This year John Carter, Battleship and Savages have given him the chance to be a huge star, but sadly none of the movie has really caught on at the box office.
Hollywood isn’t giving up on him though, as according to Zap2It, DreamWorks has offered him the lead in a movie based on the videogame Need For Speed.
It should be noted that the studio denied an offer has been made, although insiders claim he is the only contender for the part. Scott Waugh has signed on to direct the movie from a screenplay written by brothers George Gatins and John Gatins. The project is adapted from the long-running Electronic Arts videogame racing franchise, although no story details are given. DreamWorks is seeking to launch a franchise similar to the Fast & Furious series.
Last month a 2014 release date was set, although it isn’t known when production will begin.
Emile Hirsch In Talks For Lone Survivor
Emile Hirsch is one of those actors who’s attempted to straddle the line between indie and mainstream, so that he has enough Hollywood clout to allow him to pick and choose more interesting small projects. However his mass-market movies, such as Speed Racer and The Darkest Hour, haven’t turned out too well, so he could do with a bit of a career bump.
Now he’s in early talks to star in another proper Hollywood movie, as director Peter Berg wants him for Lone Survivor, according to Variety. He’d join a cast that already includes Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, and Taylor Kitsch.
The project is based on the memoir of Navy SEAL Marcus Littrell, which tells his journey of survival when he and his SEAL team members were ambushed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The soldiers were pinned down in the Hindu Kush mountains while on a mission to eliminate a terrorist. Mark Wahlberg is playing Littrell, with Ben Foster, Taylor Kitsch, and Emile Hirsch playing other SEAL team members.
Peter Ber is directing from his own adapted screenplay. It isn’t certain when the movie may shoot.
RoboCop Gets Jackie Earle Haley & Possibly Jaye Baruchel
Jackie Earle Haley has joined the growing cast of RoboCop for MGM and director José Padilha. Jay Baruchel is also reportedly circling one of the final lead roles in the remake of the 80s sci-fi, according to Deadline.
Haley will play Maddox, who gives the crime-fighting cyborg (Joel Kinnaman) military training before RoboCop goes out to clean up the mean streets of Detroit. It isn’t known which role Baruchel may play The cast also includes Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, and Hugh Laurie.
Here’s the official synopsis, as released at Comic-Con last week: ‘In RoboCop, the year is 2029 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Their drones are winning American wars around the globe and now they want to bring this technology to the home front. Alex Murphy is a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit. After he is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp utilizes their remarkable science of robotics to save Alex’s life. He returns to the streets of his beloved city with amazing new abilities, but with issues a regular man has never had to face before.
‘Director José Padilha (Elite Squad) reimagines the tale of part man, part machine, all cop starring Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) as the title character, Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises) as the scientist who creates RoboCop, and Samuel L. Jackson (The Avengers) as media mogul Pat Novak. RoboCop is being produced by Strike Entertainment’s Marc Abraham and Eric Newman, with Eric Carraro as Executive Producer. The film is currently in pre-production and slated for a summer 2013 release.’
New Skyfall Video Blog – Take a look at the return of the Aston DB5
I’m not sure if normal people care about James Bond’s cars as much as car marketers do, but there’s little doubt 007’s automobiles have a long history and have got a lot of publicity. Now it’s time to unveil Skyfall’s main auto, the Aston DB5, which made it debut on Top Gear. Skyfall opens at cinemas across the UK on 26th October 2012, and sees Bond’s loyalty to M tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
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