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Adam Brody Turns Flamboyant Flight Attendant For Baggage Claim

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It’s almost like a coming of age for actors nowadays to play gay, and the latest to sign up to do just that is Adam Brody, who’s joined the comedy Baggage Claim as what Variety describes as ‘a flamboyant flight attendant’.

OC stars Brody joins Paula Patton and Octavia Spencer, with Patton as Montana Moore, a flight attendant who is the oldest, unmarried woman in her family. She goes on a cross-country trek to find a husband in 30 days, before her younger sister gets hitched. Spencer and Brody are fellow flight attendants who come up with a plan to help Patton’s character, organising for her to bump into various exes as she goes on her travels.

The movie is already shooting, with Taye Diggs, Derek Luke, Djimon Hounsou, Lauren London and Jill Scott also set to star.

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Drew Pearce Rewriting Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla Remake

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With a May 16th, 2014 release date set for Legendary Pictures’ remake of Godzilla, it’s full steam ahead on the movie, but it appears work still needs to be done on the script, as Variety reports that Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3) has been brought in to rework the screenplay.

He’ll apparently do four weeks of work on the film, with his main job reportedly being to “age up” the characters. Warner Bros. and Legendary apparently still like the core of the script, originally written by David Callahan, David Goyer and Max Borenstein, but feels the main characters ought to be older. It may be a response to the failure of the likes of Battleship, which have been led by relatively little known 20-somethings, while older leads could allow a bigger name to take on the roles.

Gareth Edwards is still attached to direct, with the movie shooting next year.

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Hasbro Plan Hungry Hungry Hippos & Action Man Movie

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Hasbro has sure decided it likes the movies. While Battleship didn’t turn out too well, the likes of Tranformers have been huge for the company, not just in terms of box office receipts, but also the sheer amount of toys they helped shift. As a result the company has signed a deal with Emmett/Furla Films to produce adaptations of the board games Monopoly, Hungry Hungry Hippos and the toy Action Man.

The first movie to go into production will be Monopoly, which they hope to start shooting next year. You may have heard of plans for a Monopoly movie before, as it was previously in development at Universal Pictures, with Ridley Scott attached to direct. The filmmaker is still involved as a producer, although he will no longer helm the movie.

In many ways Hungry Hungry Hippos seems an even stranger prospect for a film version. The game debuted in 1978, with players hitting a lever on the hippos to try and gobble up as many white marbles as they can. The adaptation will be an animated feature aimed at children. No details are known about the Action Man project, although it is based on the 1960s British toy line.

Emmett/Furla and Hasbro are aiming to spend less than $100 million on each project, a steep downgrade from the $200 million budget of Hasbro’s Battleship. (Source: LA Times)

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First Look At James Franco’s 40 Minutes, The Star’s ‘Homo-Sex-Art-Film’

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A few weeks ago we reported that James Franco has shot a gay art film called James Franco’s 40 Minutes. Now the first look at the film has emerged, although unfortunately you’ll have to head over to Papermag to take a look.

The idea behind the movie is that William Friedkin’s controversial 1980 movie Cruising supposedly had 40 minutes chopped out of it which were too much for the censors, and dealt explicitly with the gay S&M subculture and Al Pacino’s character’s descent into it. Cruising sparked controversy even before it was shot, and protesters attempted to disrupt filming on what they saw as a movie that would paint gay people as S&M obsessed perverts one step away from being psychopathic serial murderers.

Franco had originally wanted to update Cruising, but rights issues meant he couldn’t, and so instead he and director Travis Mathews have created a film that’s both a fictitious look at those lost 40 minutes of Cruising and an exploration of the making of the James Franco’s 40 Minutes, which Mathews has described as a ‘Homo-Sex-Art-Film’.

Head over to Papermag to see the first clip from the film, as well as an interview with Travis Mathews.

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The Guilt Trip Trailer – Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen are mother and son

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Barbra Streisand hasn’t taken a starring role in a movie since The Mirror Has Two Faces in 1996 (although there were of course her Fockers appearances), but she’s coming back for The Guilt Trip, starring alongside Seth Rogen. Here’s the synopsis: ‘Andy Brewster (Rogen) is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, and who better to accompany him than his overbearing mother Joyce (Streisand). After deciding to start his adventure with a quick visit at mom’s, Andy is guilted into bringing her along for the ride. Across 3,000 miles of ever-changing landscape, he is constantly aggravated by her antics, but over time he comes to realize that their lives have more in common than he originally thought. His mother’s advice might end up being exactly what he needs. The movie, from Proposal helmer Anne Fletcher, is due out in the UK on February 22nd, 2013.

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Parker Trailer – Jason Statham gets angry and action-packed once more

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Jason Statham may play pretty much the same character in every film, but his movies are usually fun, even if they aren’t exactly high art. Now he’s got a new one incoming, Parker, which sees Statham as a professional thief who lives by a personal code of ethics: Don’t steal from people who can’t afford it and don’t hurt people who don’t deserve it. But on his latest heist, his crew double crosses him, steals his stash, and leaves him for dead. Determined to make sure they regret it, Parker tracks them to PalmBeach, playground of the rich and famous, where the crew is planning their biggest heist ever. Donning the disguise of a rich Texan, Parker takes on an unlikely partner, Leslie (Jennifer Lopez), a savvy insider, who’s short on cash, but big on looks, smarts and ambition. Together, they devise a plan to hijack the score, take everyone down and get away clean. The film hits cinemas on January 25th 2013.

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The Croods Teaser Trailer – First look at Dreamworks Animation’s caveman tale

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I’m not normally a big fan of Dreamworks Animation’s offering, but The Croods looks like it could be a charmer. The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world’s first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Travelling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures — and their outlook is changed forever. Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke and Cloris Leachman lead the voice cast, with a March 22nd, 2013 UK release set.

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Movie 43 Red Band Trailer – A host of stars get a bit rude

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A couple of days ago we posted the first images from Movie 43, an ensemble comedy/anthology that sees a host of well-known faces trying to bring the funny and the rude to the big screen. Brought to the screen by producer Peter Farrelly, it features an amazing cast including Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Leslie Bibb, Kate Bosworth, Gerard Butler, Bobby Cannavale, Kieran Culkin, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, John Hodgman, Terrence Howard, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Justin Long, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, Chris Pratt, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Naomi Watts, and Kate Winslet. Now a red band trailer has arrived to give us a better feel for the series on interlinked comedy sketches. It’s currently due for UK release on February 1st 2013.

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Paramount Takes On Clark Baker’s Vessel

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Earlier this year, Clark Baker got much praise for his sci-fi short Vessel, so much so that Paramount has now put in motion plans for a feature-length version, according to Variety. Stephen Susco (The Possession) will write the screenplay, with Clark Barker set to make his feature directorial debut with the film.

The film is about a group of airplane passengers who must fight for their lives when a deadly, supernatural force is discovered on board. The Kickstarter funded short employed a blend of practical creature effects with CGI. Vessel has been compared to such thrillers as Alien, The Thing, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Clark Baker is primarily known as a TV producer, working on comedy shows such as Funny or Die Presents and The Eric Andre Show. It isn’t known when the movie might shoot.

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New Posters For Broken City, Flight & Great Expectations Debut

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A few new posters have shown up online in the past few hours, including the rather pretty one above (via Empire) for Mike Newell’s new take on Dickens’ Great Expectations, which hits cinemas on November 30th and stars Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes.

Take a look below for the first poster for Broken City, plus two for Robert Zemeckis’ Flight.

Broken City follow Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg), a former cop who is hired to tail the cheating wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) of the city’s corrupt mayor (Russell Crowe). Taggart successfully finds the man that the woman is sleeping with, but it’s not until after the man has been murdered.The movie is currently set for UK release on January 25th, 2013. (Image via IMDB)

In the action-packed mystery thriller Flight, Denzel Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault, and what really happened on that plane? It’s due out in the UK January 25th, 2013. Two posters have arrives, a UK one above via Empire and the US one below via Hitfix.

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