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Neal H. Moritz Plans Sleeping Beauty Comedy

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Hollywood can’t get enough of fairy tales at the moment, partly because everyone knows them and they’re out of copyright so nobody has to pay for the rights. Now producer Neal H. Moritz is planning on giving Disney’s Maleficent some competition, by readying a new, modern-day take on Sleeping Beauty.

Rather like this year’s two Snow Whites, while Maleficent is big on fantasy, Moritz is planning a movie that will be more of a comedy. Malificent is told from the point of view of the villainous title character (Angelina Jolie), but Mortiz’s movie will portray Sleeping Beauty as a needy stalker. The story centres on a man who accidentally awakens Sleeping Beauty, only to discover that she keeps following him around, thinking he is her one true love.

Mike Gagerman and Andrew Waller are on screenplay duties. There’s no news on when the film might shoot. (Source: THR)

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Johnny Depp Books Into Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel

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After the box office success of Moonrise Kingdom, which has earned $44 million worldwide from a $16 million budget, director Wes Anderson is going right back to work on his new project. The filmmaker has secured Johnny Depp to star in his new ensemble drama entitled The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is likely to Wes’ next movie, according to Deadline.

No story details have been released, although Twitch has rumours on that indicates more actors the director is going after. Moonrise Kingdom stars Edward Norton and Bill Murray are on the list of both Anderson regulars and newbies, along with Owen Wilson, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, and Angela Lansbury.

No shooting schedule is known, although it is believed to be Johnny Depp’s next movie, after production wraps on The Lone Ranger.

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Emma Roberts Joins We’re The Millers

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The pot smuggling comedy We’re The Millers has a new cast member, as Emma Roberts has signed to star opposite the already cast Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston and Will Poulter, according to Deadline.

n the film Jason Sudeikis will play a pot dealer who hires a fake wife (Jennifer Aniston) and two kids so that he can smuggle 1000 pounds of weed cross country in his RV. Just to add a tad more interest, Aniston’s fake wife is actually a hooker, while the two kids are juvenile delinquents. Roberts will play one of these kids, Julia, who’s a 20-year-old runaway with a bad attitude.

The likes of like Ed Helms and Kathryn Hahn have also signed on for small roles. Dodgeball helmer Rawson Marshall Thurber is set to direct, with production set to start later this month.

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Ice Age Heats Up The US Box Office

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Ice Age: Continental Drift has topped the US box office, nabbing $46 million on its opening weekend. That’s not as good as the third Ice Age movie, but about on par with the first two, suggesting it should continue to draw in the punters over the coming weeks.

However its not in the US that Ice Age plays big, as the franchise has always been far more popular internationally than in America. That pattern is continuing, as outside the US, the film has already taken $339 million, so Fox already has another hit on their hands.

Ice Age 4 was the only new film in the top 10, which was good news for The Amazing Spider-man, as it only dropped a relatively mild 45% from its opening weekend and passed the $200 million mark. It’ll have more competition next weekend when Dark Knight Rises hits cinemas, but the Spidey reboot is undoubtedly a hit.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend July 13th-15th.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 Ice Age: Continental Drift $46.0 $46.0
2 The Amazing Spider-man $35.0 $200.9
3 Ted $22.1 $158.9
4 Brave $10.6 $195.5
5 Magic Mike $9.0 $91.8
6 Savages $8.7 $31.4
7 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection $5.6 $55.6
8 Katy Perry: Part Of Me $3.7 $18.5
9 Moonrise Kingdom $3.6 $26.8
10 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted $3.5 $207.3
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Item 47 – Marvel One Shot Clip Released

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In the run up to The Avengers, Marvel released a couple of ‘One-Shot’ short films, which helped bring the superhero threads together in preparation for the big mash-up. Now they’ve made another slightly longer short, which follows on from The Avengers and seems like it could be part of a plan to build towards a S.H.I.E.L.D. movie.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘S.H.I.E.L.D. recovered all but one… a Chitauri weapon, aka “ITEM 47.” After a young couple, Benny (Jesse Bradford) and Claire (Lizzy Caplan), stumble into finding the elusive weapon, they embark on a bank robbing spree. With S.H.I.E.L.D. agents (LOST’s Titus Welliver and AVENGERS’s Maximiliano Hernandez) hot on their trail, it’s only a matter of time before the couple have to pay for their crimes.’

Item 47 is available on Marvel Avengers Assemble Blu-ray, out 17th September in the UK. Watch a clip from the film below the poster.

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Man Of Steel Gets Broody In Comic-Con Poster

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It’s certainly been all go at Comic-Con, with all sorts of big superhero movie news emerging. Attendees at the San Diego event got to see the first proper footage from Zack Snyder’s new take on Superman, called Man Of Steel, with THR reporting that the scenes of Henry Cavill as the superhero were received so well they even moved one fan to tears.

Hopefully the footage will be released online soon, but for now we just have reports that suggest this Superman is grittier and more in line with the way Chris Nolan (who’s producing Man Of Steel) has presented his Batman trilogy.

During the film’s panel, Snyder suggested this really is a complete overhaul, saying, “We had to act as if no [previous] film has been made. When we approached it, we had to say ‘this is Superman for the first time’.”

He failed to confirm is General Zod was the villain, merely stating the filmmakers “have great respect for the canon and the mythology of Superman…it’s a mashing of stories.”

He also hedged on whether Man Of Steel would tie into a planned Justice League movie, saying “Let’s say this: We know that Superman is the jewel in the DC crown. We wanted to get this house in order. And then…who knows what’s possible?”

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Ant-Man Movie Is Confirmed & The Test Footage Gets Screened

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The long-gestating Ant-Man movie seemed to have been confirmed a few weeks ago when it was revealed director Edgar Wright had completed some test footage for the film. Now that teaser has screened at Comic-Con to a largely positive reaction, and Marvel has revealed the title treatment for the movie. There’s no news on when it might be released, although with Iron Man 2, Thor 2, Captain America 2 and Guardians Of The Galaxy already dated, Ant Man isn’t likely to arrive until the end of 2014 at the earliest (and Wright is making The World’s End first).

The footage isn’t online yet (and as it’s a rough proof of concept deal, it may not show up at all), but here’s a description for /Film: ‘The footage begins in a long, Matrix style hallway with two Matrix style agents. The camera moves down the hall, through a grate, and we see a tiny man standing behind the grate: Ant-Man. He jumps through and starts running at them. Of course, they don’t see him. He then pops up into real size, they start shooting, he gets small again, jumps, runs down the shaft of the gun, jumps up and punches the guy in the face, shaking the face in slow motion. With that guy done, Ant-Man gets big again, flips the other agent over….okay, honestly by this point I was kind of freaking out and it gets fuzzy. I do know that Ant-Man takes care of business, is about to jump through another grate when the elevator pings, and he gets on it.’

The tone is said to be different to other Marvel films, with the accent more on humour. That’s not surprising considering Wright co-wrote the script with Joe Cornish. It certainly sounds interesting and the character could certainly make for a fun, if slightly silly, film.

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Marvel Confirms Guardians Of The Galaxy For 2014

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Quite a while ago now, Marvel staked out an August 14th, 2014 release date for a mystery movie. Recently the speculation has been that this would be a Guardians Of The Galaxy film, although it’s only now at Comic-Con that Marvel has confirmed this, as well as the fact it’s going animated.

Like The Avengers, Guardians Of The Galaxy is a superhero team, largely made up of lesser known characters. In the movie they’ll journey to Earth to protect the planet from an upcoming attack by their enemies, another alien race known as the Bardoon. The superhero line-up will include Gamora, the adopted daughter of Thanos (the evil-doer glimpsed at the end of Avengers); Drax The Destroyer, an incredibly powerful alien whose sole purpose in life is to destroy Thanos; Groot, a super-smart living plant who can regenerate himself; Rocket Raccoon, the leader of the Guardians, who is a talking, bipedal space raccoon who is also an expert marksman; and Star-Lord, a former Earth astronaut called Peter Quill who becomes a super-powered galactic cop.

What’s not clear is if, despite being animated, Guardians will fit into the mythology built up in The Avengers etc., or if this will be completely separate. The fact Thanos is involved would suggest it is tied in, but quite how that will work is yet to be seen. The concept art above was released by Marvel to coincide with the Comic-Con announcement.

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Captain America & Thor Sequel Titles & Logos Revealed

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Marvel always goes big at Comic-Con and this year they certainly delivered, including revealing the titles for the sequels to Captain America and Thor, which will hit cinemas under the name Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Thor: The Dark World. Neither is exactly the most brilliant title we’ve ever heard, but they are suitably comic book-y.

The studio also released the title treatments for the films, which you can see above and below, as well as one for Iron Man 3. With that latter movie, Marvel also confirmed that Ben Kingsley will play the villainous Mandarin in the movie.

Thor: The Dark World hits cinemas November 8th, 2013, while Captain America: The Winter Soldier comes to theatres April 4th, 2014. Oh, and Iron Man 3 will be before both of those, on May 3rd, 2013.

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