It all looks a bit Glee, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but the first trailer for Pitch Perfect has arrived. The film is rebellious student (Kendrick), who is unhappy to be at a university at which her father is a professor. However she discovers her voice and becomes the secret weapon for the school’s female a cappella group. Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Adam Devine and Christopher Mintz-Plasse also star.
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Full Synopsis For Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium Released
It’s taken Neill Blomkamp quite a while to get his follow-up to District 9 sorted out, but he’s now filmed Elysium, with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster starring. However the movie has been shrouded in mystery, with the main info we’ve had being that it’s a sci-fi tale laced with socio-political concerns.
However now a much better synopsis has been released via Collider, which says: ‘In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max (Matt Damon) is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that if successful will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.’
The first test screenings are about to take place, with a release planned for March 2013. It’s a potentially interesting plot, but will very much depend on the execution, something Blomkamp can hopefully pull off.
Benicio Del Toro Set To Be Jimmy Picard
It appears there are no decent Native American actors in the whole of the US (or far more likely, none whose name is well known enough to sell a movie, and none anyone fancies giving a big break to), as Mexican actor Benicio Del Toro has signed on to play a Plains Indian in Jimmy Picard, according to Deadline.
The movie is based on Georges Devereux’s non-fiction book, Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian. The book is about a Plains Indian member who uses the alias Jimmy Picard. He returns from his tour in World War II and starts suffering from various mysterious medical symptoms that cannot be explained physiologically. The soldier travels to the famous Winter Hospital in Topeka, Kansas to consult with French psychoanalyst Georges Devereux (Mathieu Amalric), who is known for his understanding of Native Americans. They end up becoming friends through their many therapy sessions.
Arnaud Desplechin is directing, with production slated to begin in Michigan within the next few days.
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Going Big Screen At Paramount
Ubisoft is in talks with Paramount to develop a big screen adaptation of the best selling video game series, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. Paramount isn’t the first studio to eye the games for the big screen, as Warner Bros. briefly eyed the project, but lost interest.
The stealth action games follow covert operative Sam Fisher, who is part of a top-secret branch of the National Security Agency, called the Third Echelon. The series currently has six installments, with a seventh title in the works, called Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist. It’s expected to debut in mid 2013.
Paramount is currently the front runner for the movie rights, according to Deadline, but a binding deal isn’t likely to be signed soon, due to the inherent complications that are involved with a project like this. Video game adaptations have not done very well in the past, and Ubisoft wants to keep a tight grip on how the film gets translated.
Novelist Clancy certainly has a bit of history at Paramount. The studio produced the Jack Ryan movies starring Alec Bladwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck, and are currently hoping to reboot the franchise with Chris Pine starring. They’re also working on adapting a Clancy novel called Without Remorse, which follows a mercenary named John Clark.
Jean Dujardin Up For Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street
While he may have been silent in The Artist – and won a Best Actor Oscar for it – Jean Dujardin is set to prove that he can talk, as Variety reports that he’s in talks to star in The Wolf of Wall Street for director Martin Scorsese.
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play Jordan Belfort (the film is based on Belfort’s memoirs), who made millions as a fraudulent stockbroker. The story follows his meteoric rise and hard-partying lifestyle, before he was eventually caught and sentenced to 20 months in jail for securities fraud. Jean Dujardin will be a Swiss banker who laundered money for Belfort. Jonah Hill is also onboard as Belfort’s best friend, which Kyle Chandler is portraying the FBI agent who busts him.
Martin Scorsese is directing from a screenplay by Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire), adapted from Belfort’s autobiography. Filming will begin this August in New York City.
Portia Doubleday Joins Carrie, With Judy Greer Confirmed For The Film
Young actress Portia Doubleday, who’s appeared in the likes of Youth In Revolt and Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son has signed on to star in the MGM Studios’ remake of Stephen King’s Carrie for director Kimberly Peirce, according to Deadline.
The actress will play bad girl Chris Hargensen, who torments the title character, played by Chloe Moretz. Carrie’s telekinetic abilities are harnessed after Hargensen pulls a cruel prom night prank. Hargensen was played by Nancy Allen in the original Carrie.
Last month Judy Greer entered talks to play gym teacher, Miss Desjardin, and the casting has now been confirmed. Julianne Moore, Ivana Baquero, Gabriella Wilde, and Alex Russell also star. Kimberly Peirce is directing from a screenplay by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Shooting is epected to start soon, with a US release already set for March 15th, 2013.
Joe Cornish Directing Snow Crash
Attack The Block may not have made a huge amount of money in the States, but it certainly got Hollywood interested in director Joe Cornish (the fact he co-wrote Tintin didn’t hurt either). Now Deadline reports that the former comedian has signed on to write and direct Snow Crash for Paramount Pictures.
The project is an adaptation of Neal Stephenson’s critically acclaimed 1992 novel, which was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 greatest English-language novels of all time. The story is set in a future US that is now controlled by corporations and the mafia. The plot revolves around a computer virus dubbed Snow Crash, which has the ability to transfer from the computer screen directly into the users, destroying their brains. The protagonist, named Hiro Protagonist, a computer hacker and pizza delivery guy, steps in to try and stop the utter downfall of human civilisation.
Paramount first held the rights to this seminal novel back when it was first published in 1992, before the project moved to Disney and producer Kathleen Kennedy. Now the rights are back at Paramount, after Kathleen Kennedy introduced the property to Joe Cornish. This is one of a few project Cornish is involved with, so there’s no guarantee it’ll be his next movie.
First Life Of Pi Footage Debuts, Along With Beautiful Banners
Life Of Pi promises to be a very unusual film, shot in 3D but largely just featuring a boy and some animals on a boat. Now the first tiger-filled footage from the movie has debuted via the movie’s official website, which you can see above and below. The story is about Pi Patel (played by newcomer Suraj Sharma) who, after a shipwreck, shares a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, a hyena, an injured zebra, and an orangutan. The potential Oscar-bait movis is currently due out December 21st.
Sinister Trailer – Ethan Hawke has supernatural problems with old films
Summit Entertainment has unveiled the first trailer for Scott Derrickson’s upcoming supernatural thriller Sinister. From the producer of the Paranormal Activity films and the writer/director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Ethan Hawke plays a true crime novelist who discovers a box of mysterious, disturbing home movies that plunge his family into a nightmarish experience of supernatural horror. It all looks a bit Insidious meets The Ring. The film should be out just before Halloween.
Rise Of The Guardians Character Posters Debut
One of the more intriguing CG projects coming up is Dreamworks Animation’s Rise Of The Guardians, which essentially turns the likes of the Tooth Fairy and Jack Forst into superheroes! When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians – Jack Frost (Chris Pine), North (Alec Baldwin), Tooth (Isla Fisher), E. Aster Bunnymund (Hugh Jackman) and The Sandman – must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world. The film certainly gives the classic characters a bit of a makeover, so take a look at the character posters above and below.
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