Gay director Adam Shankman is heading to cinemas next month with Rock of Ages, but he’s already planning his follow-up, as Deadline reports that he’s working on This Is Where I Leave You, and already has Jason Bateman, Zac Efron, Goldie Hawn and Leslie Mann in talks to star.
The film is an adaptation of the Jonathan Tropper comic novel about four siblings who come home to sit ‘shiva’ for their deceased father. They are trapped in the house for seven days, and all their skeletons are laid bare. Hawn, who hasn’t appeared in a movie since 2002′s The Banger Sisters, is in talks to play the clan’s mother, while Bateman, Efron (who Shankman directed in Hairspray) and Mann would play the siblings.
It’s a great cast, and while the premise doesn’t sound that much fun, there’s plenty of humour in the tale.
Carl Franklin’s made some interesting movies with the likes of Out Of Time and Devil In A Blue Dress, and now he’s planning a new thriller, City of Night, based on a script by David Chisholm (Kidnapped in Paradise, The Wizard), according to 
Dark Shadows may not have been huge financially, but it’s certainly helped people remember Michelle Pfeiffer after she’s spent a few years in the wilderness, Now 
The Avengers has finally been toppled from the top of the US box office, with Men In Black 3 taking $70 million over the Memorial Day weekend. It’s not quite the $75-$80 million that Sony was hoping for it’s not a bad start, and the studio certainly can’t be upset that worldwide the movie took just over $200 million, suggesting it’ll make back its hefty investment in the movie even if it doesn’t end up as profitable as the earlier films in the series.
While the ‘Nazis on the moon’ flick Iron Sky has met mixed reviews, it’s journey to find funding through crowdsourcing and the way it’s managed to maintain a groundswell of interest during the years between the idea and the finished film is impressive.