Whit Stillman got quite a following with the likes of Metropolitan and The Last Days Of Disco, but he hasn’t made a movie in 13 years, until now, that is. He’s back with Damsels In Distress, about a trio of girls set out to change the male-dominated environment of the Seven Oaks college campus, and to rescue their fellow students from depression, grunge and low standards of every kind. Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody star, so take a look at the new trailer. No UK release date is currently set.
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New G.I. Joe: Retaliation Trailer
Although I think the first G.I. Joe movie was unjustly maligned as it’s not a bad movie at all, Paramount knows that it’s got to make the follow-up look like something really special. They’re not doing a bad job so far, and now they’ve unleashed a new trailer which makes G.I. Joe: Retaliation look pretty cool. This trailer actually briefly acknowledges Channing Tatum’s in the film (he was absent from the first promo), as well as giving us a little more of the plot and suggesting that while there’d been talk of this film completely ignoring the first, it will follow-on from at least some of the plotline of that movie. G.I. Joe: Retaliation hits cinemas June 22nd.
The Amazing Spider-man International Trailer
Anticipation for The Amazing Spider-man jumped considerably when a new, rather spectacular trailer was launched a couple of weeks ago. Now a new international version of that trailer has been released, which features some new footage from the big summer movie. Billed as ‘untold stories’ from Spider-man rather than a remake of Sam Raimi’s movies, Andrew Garfield takes over the web-slinging and goes back to high school. It’ll hit cinemas July 3rd.
Zoe Kazan & Michael Stahl-David On For Whedon’s In Your Eyes
Joss Whedon is testing out both ends of the movie spectrum at the moment, going mega-budget with the ambitious The Avengers and also setting up Bellwether Pictures, a micro-studio making tiny, no-budget movies. The company’s first film is a Whedon directed adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing that’s already in the can.
Now Joss is putting together Bellwether’s next flick, In Your Eyes, with Brin Hill directing from Whedon’s script. Deadline reports that Zoe Kazan (Bored to Death, Meek’s Cutoff) and Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield) have been cast in the lead roles in the movie, which is billed as ‘a metaphysical love story about two seemingly polar opposites who are deeply connected in ways neither could have ever imagined.’
Stahl-David will be Dylan, a boyish-looking man who served time in jail for robbery when he refused to rat on his accomplices. Kazan meanwhile will play Rebecca, an attractive but skinny and slightly awkward woman, who is married to an older doctor. Though they’ve never met and he lives in New Mexico and she’s in Connecticut, they can hear and see one another across that distance.
The movie starts shooting soon in LA and Boston.
Monster Vs Aliens Helmer Rob Letterman Is After The Paranomalists
There seems to be a bit of a craze at the moment for directors who made their name in animation to take their first steps into the live-action arena. Whether its Brad Bird (The Incredibles) with Mission: Impossible IV, Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) with John Carter or Phil Lord & Chris Miller (Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs) with 21 Jump Street.
Monsters Vs. Aliens helmer Rob Letterman is also amongst the throng, having made his live-action debut with Gulliver’s Travels. That didn’t work out so well, and so now THR says he’s planning to show he has got what it takes outside cartoons with a low-budget, found footage genre flick called The Paranormalists.
Letterman will write and direct, but exact story details are being kept secret. However it is known it’s a found footage flick that involves a haunted house which is entered by a group of men and women intent on debunking the presence of spirits. It’s safe to say, things don’t turn out well for them.
It isn’t certain when it might shoot.
Jennifer Anison Gets Into Another Switch With Dennis Quaid
Jennifer Aniston in not a shitty rom-com shocker! You’d assume that if Aniston was in talks for a film called Switch, it’d be some sort of sequel to the god-awful movie she made not that long ago with Jason Bateman, but it turns out the title is just a coincidence, as she’s actually being lined up for a supporting role in an Elmore Leonard adaptation, which also happens to be called Switch. And according to Deadline, Dennis Quaid’s coming along for the ride too.
They’d join the already cast Ty Burrell, John Hawkes and Yasiin Bey in the movie, which is a semi-prequel to Jackie Brown (or at least features some of the same characters). The story is set 15 years before the events of Jackie Brown, and follows Ordell Robbie (Bey) and Louis Gara (Hawkes) as they try to kidnap Mickey Dawson (Aniston), the wife of a crooked Detroit real estate magnate (Quaid). However the kidnappers soon turn this around, deciding to team with Mickey in order to get her horrible hubby’s money.
Quaid and Aniston are yet to sign on the dotted line, but things look good.
Oprah May Return To Acting For Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Oprah Winfrey was nominated for an Oscar for her movie acting debut in The Color Purple, but she’s rarely returned to the silver screen, preferring instead to get paid ludicrous amounts of money to host a chat show and then setting up her own TV station. However it appears she’s thinking about returning to acting, as THR reports that she’s considering taking a role in Lee Daniel’s The Butler.
The movie has slowly been working its way to the big screen, but like several other films Daniels (who is, incidentally, openly gay) has tried to get made since Precious, it’s been a tough slog. His civil rights drama, Selma, fell to bits despite having an incredibly starry cast, but Daniels is hoping that a bit of star power will help The Butler, as alongside Winfrey, he’s busy lining up Hugh Jackman, John Cusack, Mila Kunis and David Oyelowo.
The movie will be about Eugene Allen, an African American who worked in the White House through eight presidencies, from 1952 to 1986, going from the lowly position of pantry man to being the highest ranked butler in the house. The film is based on a series of articles about Allen and his life, written by Will Haygood.
No deals are in place for the actors, but Daniels is hoping that if he can attach their names to the movie it’ll help The Butler actually get in front of the cameras. To be honest, it’s slightly worrying that even after the success of Precious, Daniel’s is still having such incredible difficulty getting films about African Americans made. It’s not even as if he’s asking for hundreds of millions of dollars, but it appears that as soon as the subject is black people and the issues they face, the coffers dry up (unless you’ve already got a hit book like The Help to base it on).
Vince Vaughn May Star In Tony Scott’s Lucky Strike
Vince Vaughn isn’t the first name that springs to mind for an action movie. If he was ever going to be in a Tony Scott film, you’d expect it to be as the comedy relief who helps the hero save the world, but doesn’t get into too much trouble himself.
However Scott himself obviously things differently, as Deadline reports the director is hoping to make Lucky Strike his next movie and wants Vaughn to star. The script, by Henry Bean, is ‘an action film in which a DEA agent teams with a drug runner to take down a drug cartel.’ Unfortunately there are no more details than that and it isn’t clear exactly who Vaughn would play, but knowing Scott, Vince will have to get frenetic.
The movie is eyeing a late summer/early autumn shoot on an $80 million budget. It would appear therefore we’ll have to wait for some of the other projects Scott has in the works, including a remake of The Warrior and Hell’s Angels.
Jaden Smith Looks Futuristic in After Earth Set Photo
It’s taken Jaden Smith a while to sort out a follow-up to The Karate Kid, but now he’s a couple years older and teaming up with his dad (who’s Will Smith, in case you’ve been under a rock and didn’t know) for M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth.
Now the young star is on set in Costa Rica and tweeting photos of himself looking suitably heroic and futuristic for the sci-fi tale. The film, previously known as 1,000 AE, centres on Will and Jaden, who crash land on earth years after the planet was deemed uninhabitable for humans. After the crash, it’s up to the son, who is viewed as a failed warrior, to save his father. It’ll reach cinemas June 2013.
Chris Colfer and Kevin Bacon Join Prop. 8 Play Reading
It’ll be one of the most star-studded plays in history! On March 3rd at LA’s Wilshire Ebell Theatre, a special gala reading is taking place of Dustin Lance Black’s play, 8. The cast has now been completed with Chris Colfer (Glee), Kevin Bacon, and John C. Reilly signing on to join the already starry ensemble, all supporting the fight to have Prop 8 – which banned gay marriage in California – repealed.
Colfer, Bacon and Reilly join George Clooney, Jane Lynch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Matt Bomer, Jamie Lee Curtis, George Takei, Matthew Morrison, Yeardley Smith, Campbell Brown, Rory O’Malley, and activist Cleve Jones in the production, which will be the West Coast premiere of the play. 8 is based on the transcript of the court case that overturned Proposition 8 (a decision that is currently working its ways through the appeals court), as well as interviews with the plaintiffs and their families.
Chris Colfer will play Ryan Kendall, a young man who testified about his experience being sent by his parents to so-called “reparative therapy” as a teenager. John C. Reilly will play United States District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who found Proposition 8 unconstitutional after presiding over the historic 12-day public trial. Kevin Bacon will play Charles J. Cooper, the lead attorney for the anti-marriage proponents of Proposition 8
It’ll certainly be an interesting evening, although if you want to go, you’re out of luck as tickets for the charity event have long sold out. The one-night-only event is expected to raise $2 million for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.
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