42 tells the true story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s colour barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The movie stars Harrison Ford as the innovative Dodger’s general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show, and Chadwick Boseman (The Express) as Robinson, the heroic African American who was the first man to break the colour line in the big leagues. The film is due out next spring.
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Sheen Beds Lohan In First Scary Movie 5 Pic
Whether you wanted Scary Movie 5 or not, we’re getting it, and now the first image from the movie has shown up online, which featured two of Hollywood’s wild one – Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan – getting in bed together. The duo are apparently being spooked by some ‘Paranoid Activity’ (please feel free to groan).
This isn’t the only movie the two actors are set to appear in together, as they’re also both starring in Machete Kills! Scary Movie 5 should hit cinemas next April.
Baywatch Movie Gets Director Robert Ben Garant
It’s been over a year since we last heard about Paramount’s plans for a movie version of Baywatch, but now things are moving forward, with Vulture reporting that Reno 911!’s Robert Ben Garant has signed on to direct the movie, according to Vulture.
Rescue Me creator Peter Tolan has been working on the script, who has said his version “is not based on the show in any way, though there are a couple of winks at the show.” No story details have been confirmed at this time or indeed if Garant is planning a new version of the script.
Paramount has been developing this project since 2009, when Jeremy Garelick (The Break-Up) was attached to write and direct. Alessandro Tanaka and Brian Gatewood (The Sitter), were later brought on to rework the script before Peter Tolan came aboard. Ivan Reitman is still on board to produce.
John Travolta Mulls The Killer Remake As Well As A Football Biopic
It seems that following the endless claims in the last few months that John Travolta likes male masseurs a little too much, he’s thinking about reaffirming his man’s man status by starring in a remake of the classic John Woo movie, The Killer, as well taking the lead in a biopic of American football coach Vince Lombardi.
Travolta mentioned both films while chatting at the Zurich Film Festival, suggesting he may reteam with Woo (having previously worked together on Face/Off and Broken Arrow) for The Killer, which the director has been trying to get off the ground for quite a while now. Travolta would presumably take on the Chow Yun Fat role as an assassin taking on one last job in the hope of earning enough cash to restore the site of someone he accidentally blinded. John H Lee is attached to direct the 3D remake from a script by Josh Campbell.
Travolta also noted, “I’m also considering doing a US film about the football coach Vince Lombardi, who coached my dad [Salvatore Travolta] before he went professional. I would play Vince Lombardi.”
Lombardi is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s when he led them to three straight league championships and the first two Super Bowls. The Super Bowl trophy is named in his honour. (Source: Screen Daily)
Jorma Taccone To Helm Action Comedy Spy Guys
Jorma Taccone didn’t have much success with his first directorial effort, as MacGruber bombed horribly when it was released in 2009. Now he’s ready to step back up to the plate, with THR reporting he’s set to direct the action comedy Spy Guys.
The film is desribed as being a cross between Ocean’s Eleven, True Lies and Mission: Impossible and follows a CIA agent who is framed for a crime and must go on the run while attending a friend’s wedding in Europe. Out of options, he decides to tell his friends what he actually does for a living and enlists their help both protecting him and clearing his name.
John Rickard will produce the project along with Taccone and his Lonely Island fellows, Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer.
Parker Posey & Milo Ventimiglia Up For Grace of Monaco
The cast for Grace Of Monaco already includes Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, Frank Langella and Paz Vega, and now Variety reports its grown with the addition of Parker Posey, while Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia is also in talks to appear in the movie.
The film concentrates on the time when Monaco was in a conflict with France, and Grace Kelly (Kidman), who by then had given up acting and was the small country’s princess, worked to prevent a coup after French president Charles de Gaulle handed Grace’s husband Crown Prince Rainier (Roth) a six-month deadline to reform Monaco’s financial laws and status as an extreme tax haven.
Posey is set to play Madge Tivey-Faucon, who was Kelly’s lady-in-waiting. Tivey-Faucon was apparently a ruthless social climber who couldn’t wait to sell unflattering tell-alls to the French press once she left Kelly’s employ. Ventimiglia is likely to play Kelly’s publicist, Rupert Allan.
The movie is set to start shooting soon, with Olivier Dahan directing.
Vanessa Hudgens & Ashley Tisdale Reunite For The Great Migration
High School Musical actresses Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens are set to reunite as part of the voice cast for the upcoming animated movie The Great Migration. They will be join Ashley Benson of Pretty Little Liars, along with Big Time Rush band members Kendall Schmidt and Logan Henderson in the movie. Big Time Rush has also commited to providing original songs for the soundtrack.
Kevin G. Schmidt, who wrote the story, will also be featured in the cast. Here is what he had to say about this environmentally pointed tale, “The idea for The Great Migration arrived in my email inbox via a weekly newsletter from an alternative physician I follow in Chicago. The film centres on a group of characters that encounter a mutated predator threatening to destroy the balance of their environment.”
The movie will be created using pre-visualization technicques, which will provide a high quality animation below current market price. The Great Migration is expected to begin production this November.
First Poster Of Anthony Hopkins In Hitchcock Arrives
Fox Searchlight Pictures seems to have hopes the movie Hitchcock will get a few Oscar nominations, giving it an awards season release in the US on November 23rd. Now the first poster for the movie has emerged online, with Anthony Hopkins looking eerily like the master filmmaker.
Hitchcock is desribed a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock, and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock’s seminal movie Psycho.
Roman Polanski To Direct Venus in Furs
Roman Polanski has revealed that he intends to direct a film version of David Ives’s play Venus in Fur, a Broadway and off-Broadway success that received a Tony nomination for Best Play and won one for Nina Arianda as Best Actress.
Roman Polanski will work on the erotic black comedy while awaiting completion of the screenplay for D., based on the historic Dreyfus scandal, which Roman Polanski will direct as well. While Polanski has usually worked in English, Venus in Fur will be filmed in French and will star Emmanuelle Seigner and Louis Garrel.
“I’ve been looking for a chance to make a film in French with Emmanuelle Seigner for a long time,” says Roman Polanski, who previously directed Emmanuelle Seigner in Frantic and Bitter Moon. “Reading Venus in Fur I realised the moment had arrived. I got so fired up to put this brilliant black comedy on film that I decided to fit it in before D., whose screenplay and pre-production will demand a few more months. Louis Garrel and Emmanuelle Seigner will make for a stunning duo.”
The movie will be independently financed and will begin filming in Paris this November. (Source: EW)
Les Miserables Extended Behind-The-Scenes Peek
After years trying to get it off the ground, the musical version of Les Miserables is finally heading for the big screen and it’ll be here this Christmas. However it’s slightly unusual, as while musicals normally having all the singing completed in a studio before the actors head to the set, director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) decided to get everyone to sing live. It was a brave decision, and now a new featurette has popped up online focussing on this aspect of the production. It certainly sounds like it could really make a difference to the film, but we’ll have to wait until December to truly find out. Take a look at the featurette above.
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