The animals are back! After going from New York to Madagascar and then Africa, Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are heading north in Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, as they continue their fight to get home to their beloved Big Apple. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling circus, which they reinvent – Madagascar style. The film’s due out October 19th.
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Legendary Picks Up Dragon Slayer Script
Legendary Pictures, producers of the likes of The Dark Knight, 300 and Watchmen, has purchased the fantasy spec screenplay Slayer from Martin Helgeland, the son of Oscar-winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential), according to Variety.
The story is set in modern day and centres on a doctor whose father recently passed away. He discovers that his estranged dad was actually a slayer of dragons and other evil creatures, and comes to learn that he must also become a slayer.
He;geland is starting out in the business early as he currently attends Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and Slayer is his first screenplay. Selling to Legendary is certainly a bit of a coup, although having a famous dad probably helped.
Brian Helgeland will executive produce, with Alex Garcia and Alex Hedlund overseeing the project for Legendary Pictures. No production schedule was released for Slayer.
Anthony Stewart Head Joins Percy Jackson 2
It seems Pierce Brosnan doesn’t like being a centaur, as he’s not coming back to play Chiron in Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters. THR reports that Brosnan is out and Buffy actor Anthony Stewart Head has signed on to take over the role in this upcoming sequel.
This is the second character from Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief who has been recast in the past week, as Nathan Fillion recently took over from Dylan Neal as Hermes. Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson, and Jake Abel are returning for the sequel, which sees Percy heading under the sea looking for the Golden Fleece. Chiron is in charge of Camp Half-Blood, where demigods such as Percy receive their training.
Thor Freudenthal is directing Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters from a script by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, which is adapted from Rick Riordan’s novel series. Production is expected to start in a couple of months time.
Jessica Biel Joins Alfred Hitchcock & The Making of Psycho
It’s the closest Jessica Biel is likely to get to being in a film as good as Psycho, but the actress has joined Sacha Gervasi’s Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, according to Deadline, about the creation of the classic 60s chiller. Biel is playing the role of actress Vera Miles, who played Lila Crane in Psycho.
Earlier this month Scarlett Johansson signed on to play Janet Leigh, joining Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. The film will follow every aspect of the creation of director Alfred Hitchcock’s famous thriller Psycho, based on Stephen Rebello’s book that goes behind-the-scenes on everything from the story’s original inspiration to the controversy surrounding the creation of the famous shower scene. It’s an interesting story, as most thought Hitchcock had gone nuts making a low budget, black and white movie in the much derided (at the time) horror genre, and he had to fight to get it made.
The movie will shoot later this year.
Rob Corddry & Leslie Bibb Fighting Off A Hell Baby
Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant are extremely in demands as actors, writers and producer, thanks to the likes of Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Taxi, Reno 911!: Miami, Balls of Fury, and The Pacifier. Now they want to add another string to their bow by directing Hell Baby, which they also wrote.
Rob Corddry and Leslie Bibb have signed on to star in the horror comedy, which is about a young expectant couple who move into New Orleans’ most haunted fixer-upper and calls upon The Vatican’s elite exorcism team to save them from a demonic baby. Lennon and Garant will portray that team.
The film is set to start production on location in New Orleans in April. (Source: Variety)
Nine Great New Dark Shadows Character Posters
It’s not too long now until Dark Shadows hits cinemas on May 11th. A trailer and a poster arrived a couple of days ago, and now nine rather cool character posters have debuted, which are incredibly brightly coloured to give it the late-60s/early-70s vibe the film is going for (which is the era the supernatural soap it’s based on aired on US TV).
In the film, Johnny Depp plays Barnabas Collins, who was turned into a vampire by a witch (Eva Green) in the 18th Century and then buried alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to old home, Collinwood Manor, to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Jonny Lee Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Chloe Moretz and Gulliver McGrath also star.
Omar Sharif’s Grandson Comes Out Amid Fears For Return To Egypt
Omar Sharif Jr & Sr
The grandson of actor Omar Sharif has come out, partly as a political act to highlight his fear for the future of Egypt after the Arab spring. With the Muslim Brotherhood’s power increasing in the country, his fears are particularly personal as he’s a half-jewish, gay man – neither of which are very popular with the Brotherhood.
Sharif Jr. came out in an article he wrote for The Advocate entitled ‘We’re Not in Cairo Anymore’, says he’s writing “in fear. Fear for my country, fear for my family, and fear for myself.
“My parents will be shocked to read it, surely preferring I stay in the shadows and keep silent, at least for the time being. But I can’t.”
Sharif Jr., who like his grandfather is also an actor, left Egypt before the revolution and is now afraid to return. “The vision for a freer, more equal Egypt — a vision that many young patriots gave their lives to see realized in Tahrir Square — has been hijacked. The full spectrum of equal and human rights are now wedge issues used by both the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Islamist parties, when they should be regarded as universal truths.”
He adds, “I hesitantly confess: I am Egyptian, I am half Jewish, and I am gay… While to many in Europe and North America mine might seem like trivial admissions, I am afraid this is not so in Egypt. I anticipate that I will be chastised, scorned, and most certainly threatened. From the vaunted class of Egyptian actor and personality, I might just become an Egyptian public enemy.”
He then asks the political powers to speak out in favour of equal rights for Egyptians regardless of gender or sexual orientation, saying “I want to know that we are not sliding downward on a slippery slope from secular(ish) society toward Islamic fundamentalist state […] After all of this, if we pursue a national agenda that does not respect basic human rights, we are no better than the architects of tyranny, contempt, and oppression toppled throughout the Arab Spring.”
Omar Sharif senior became one of the most famous actors of his era starring in movies like Lawrence Of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, and is one of only a handful of African born actors to make it to the top in Hollywood. It isn’t known what he thinks of his grandson coming out.
First Look At Daniel Radcliffe As Gay Poet Allen Ginsberg
Dan Radcliffe is busy playing gay at the moment, as Allen Ginsberg in the movie Kill your Darlings. Now the first set pics of him in costume has shown up over at Huffpo. You can see one of them above, then click below to enlarge some more, alongside a pic of the real Ginsberg.
Kill Your Darlings speculates around real-life events involving beat generation legends Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs. They were all brought together by Columbia University student Lucien Carr, who was implicated in (and served time for) the murder of David Kammerer, who was found dead in Hudson River in 1944. Carr claimed the death was an accident after Kammerer made an unwanted sexual advance, although they had known each other for several years (and it has been claimed they were lovers). The events surrounding the death are said to have had a massive impact on the beat circle, and tempered the idealism they had felt beforehand.
The film also stars Elizabeth Olsen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Cross, and Kyra Sedgwick and should be in cinemas later this year.
Dan Aykroyd & Chevy Chase Writing New Comedy Script
Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase started out as writers and actors on Saturday Night Live in the 1970s, and teamed up in comedies such as Spies Like Us and Nothing But Trouble, which Dan Aykroyd directed. However it’s been a long time since they worked together.
That’s about to change though, as Ayroyd announced on his Facebook page that, “Chevy (Chase) and I are about to start work on a script concept for a comedy movie. Cannot say too much about the concept, but the joy of working with him again is one that I am extremely excited about. Chevy is one of my favourite people, and one of the great anarchistic and physically committed comedians in the business.”
Of course, the fact they’re writing a script is a long way from it actually getting made, but it’s still an enticing prospect.
Chernobyl Diaries Trailer
It’s odd that after the huge success of Paranormal Activity, we haven’t had another movie directed by Oren Peli. However he has been busy producing movies and he came up with the original story for Chernobyl Diaries, although Shane Van Dyke (grandson of Dick) wrote the script and Bradley Parker directs. The film follows a group of six young tourists who, looking to go off the beaten path, hire an “extreme tour” guide. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years ago. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, however, the group soon finds themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone. No UK date is set, but it’s released in the US on May 25th.
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