If you ask me, it looks like a rather OTT episode of Criminal Minds, but Amanda Seyfried is having a lot of trouble with a serial killer in Gone. She plays Jill Parrish (Seyfried), who returns home from the night shift to find her sister’s bed empty, and is convinced that the serial killer who kidnapped her two years before has come back to finish the job. However the police do not believe her and Jill knows time is running out. With no one to turn to, Jill sets off to find her sister and face her abductor once and for all. The film is due out early next year.
Fincher Re-Teaming With Se7en Writer For 20,000 Leagues
It’s taking them a long time to develop it, but David Fincher is still keen to direct Disney’s new take on the classic 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, seeing it as his chance to make a massive tentpole family movie.
Getting the screenplay right is proving tough though. Numerous writers have had a crack at the script, including Scott Z. Burns, Michael Chabon, Justin Marks, Bill Marsilii and Randall Wallace, but now Deadline reports that Fincher is going to a name from his past to see what he can come up with – Andrew Kevin Walker.
Walker and Fincher both made their names with Se7en, but haven’t worked together properly since. Jules Verne’s book is about the adventures of Captain Nemo and his crew aboard the submarine, Nautilus. However it’s believed the film will bear little resemblance to the book, other than the three characters, Captain Nemo, French marine biologist Professor Pierre Aronnax, and master harpoonist Ned Land.
It still isn’t knownn when 20,000 Leagues will go into production, although it may be a while, as it’s known that Disney is already worried about how many massive budget movies it’s got in production, so will likely want to clear its decks a little before making this one.
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Luke Wilson and Kevin Connolly Join Elvis & Nixon
Last week it was announced that Eric Bana had signed on to play Elvis Presley and Danny Huston would be Richard Nixon in Elvis & Nixon, which marks the directorial debut of actor Cary Elwes. It’s an unusual mix of talent and subject matter, and not a couple more actors have joined the throng, with Kevin Connolly and Luke Wilson both in talks for the movie.
The movie centres on a real-life 1970 meeting between the President and the King at the White House, which took place after Elvis Presley wrote a six-page letter requesting permission to visit. Luke Wilson will play Sonny, a member of Elvis Presley’s “Memphis Mafia,” who accompanies the rock icon on his Washington visit. Kevin Connolly will play a limo driver named Ronnie.
Cary Elwes will direct Elvis & Nixon from a screenplay he co-wrote with Joe Sagal and Hanala Sagal. Production will begin this coming January in Louisiana.
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Hugo’s Asa Butterfield Up For Ender’s Game
With Hugo due out next month, young Asa Butterfield is likely to become a lot more in demand, and so it seems Summit Entertainment wants to get in there first as they’ve offered him the lead in Ender’s Game, according to Deadline. It isn’t known if he plans to accept the offer yet.
Ender’s Game is based on the award-winning sci-fi novel by Orson Scott Card, which revolves around a government program where gifted children are trained to prevent an imminent alien attack. They square off in a game described as a mix Quiddich and Star Wars’ light saber duels. Butterfield has been offered the title role of Ender, who emerges as a brilliant strategist and may be Earth’s best hope to defeat the alien scourge.
Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is set to direct Ender’s Game from his own adapted screenplay. It isn’t known when production may begin on Ender’s Game, although Summit Entertainment has already issued a March, 2013 release date.
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Angelina Jolie Set To Play Gertrude Bell
We haven’t seen Angelina Jolie on screen since The Tourist, as she’s been busy with her directorial debut, In The Land Of Blood And Honey. She does have a few things, such as Cleopatra, in development, but nothing that looks like it’ll be happening anytime soon. Now she’s signed up for a new movie, as THR reports that she’s attached to star in Gertrude Bell.
Ridley Scott is set to direct the biopic of Bell, who was a seminal Middle East figure in the early 1900s, after leaving her upper-class English roots behind. She established the boundaries and framework for what would become the countries Jordan and Iraq. During World War I, she became a spy for British Intelligence, and her work helped put an end to the Ottoman Empire.
Jeffrey Caine (The Constant Gardener) is writing the movie, with the screenplays currently being reworked to suit Angelina Jolie. However it isn’t certain when the film might get made, as despite the presence of Scott and Jolie, it’s not set up at a studio as yet. The film is one of three projects that Ridley Scott may direct after he finishes work on Prometheus. Gucci is another movie the director is considering as well as the murder mystery Child 44, but it isn’t known which he will choose (or when).
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Tarsem To Direct Killing on Carnival Row
Tarsem Singh is certain speeding up his rating of making movies. It’s taken him 11 years to get three movies into cinemas (The Cell, The Fall, Immortals), but his fourth movie, Mirror Mirror, is coming up fast next March and now he’s already planning what he’ll do next.
Deadline reports that Tarsem has signed on to direct Killing on Carnival Row, a movie which has been in development since November 2005. Travis Beacham wrote the script, which is set in a mystical city dubbed Burgue, where both humans and bizarre creatures co-exist. However a serial killer is roaming the streets, and that needs to be sorted out. Killing on Carnival Row was the first script Beacham sold, and paved the way for his work on Clash of the Titans, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Pacific Rim.
Producers Arnold Kopelson and Anne Kopelson are currently in talks with a studio to finance the film, although nothing is finalised yet. They’re also hoping to shoot next June.
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New Avengers Banners Emerge
Just in case you’d forgotten in the five minutes since the last time Marvel reminded us, The Avengers is coming to cinema screens next May, and now two new banner images have emerged (via Yahoo! and Moviefone) to try and get us excited. The first features the A-Team of Chris Evans as Captain America, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and Chris Hemsworth as Thor. The second features Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye and Scarlett Johannson as Black Widow. Click on the pics for large versions and revel in the coolness. The film is out May 4th.
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Gratuitous Shirtlessness: The Men Of Immortals
The reviews for Immortals may not exactly have been kind (it currently stands at a rather measly 36% on Rotten Tomatoes), but there’s little doubt that there’s plenty of very pretty man-flesh on display. As in 300, the film shows us that ancient Greek time, men had an aversion to wearing clothes, and were all ridiculously buff! It may not be historically accurate, but it’s sure pretty. Immortals, starring future Superman Henry Cavill, alongside Kellan Lutz, Luke Evans, Mickey Rourke, and Stephen Dorff, is in cinemas now – but if you just fancy ogling the pecs, take a look below (click on the images to enlarge). [Read more…]
Is Bradley Cooper Really The World’s Sexiest Man? – A Retrospective
Every year People magazine announces who they think if the Sexiest Man Aive, and the recipient of that accolade for 2011 has just been revealed as Bradley Cooper, who follows in the footsteps of the likes of George Clooney, Johnny Depp and last year’s winner, Ryan Reynolds. It’s been a slightly controversial choice, as some disagree that he’s the hottest guy around – many feel Ryan Gosling was robbed – and so we decided to put together this Bradley Cooper photo retrospective so we can decide for ourselves just how hot he is!
He’s an odd one really, as sometimes he looks cutely nerdy and geeky, and then when the camera catches him from certain angle, he’s truly classically beautiful. It doesn’t hurt either that he looks good with his top off (as he has to prove in pretty much every movie he’s in).
But without further ado, click the images below to enlarge them and enjoy the career of Bradley Cooper, from Wet Hot American Summer (where he played gay) to Limitless, via Alias, Midnight Meat Train and, of course, The Hangover. [Read more…]
That’s So Gay? – Gay is the Word Short Film
This short, from the University Of Liverpool, deals with the different meanings of the word gay, and how young people tend to use it to mean anything rubbish or naff. The short, directed by Andy Neath, sees a nervous gay lad trying to come out to his straight mates… but they just don’t understand what he’s trying to say. It may not be a masterpiece but it’s worth a watch.
New The Pirates Trailer
Aardman’s latest stop-motion treat is due in cinema in the spring, but now a new trailer for it has arrives. Titled here The Pirates: Band Of Misfit, but known in the UK as The Pirates: In An Adventure With Scientists, the film features Hugh Grant in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they do battle with the pirate-hating Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a young Charles Darwin (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!
Ice Cube Planning Another Friday
It’s a decade since Ice Cube made a Friday movie, but it appears neither he nor New Line have given up on the franchise, as Deadline reports that they’re cooking up another one. This new film may also feature Chris Tucker, who got his acting break with the first Friday movie, but who wasn’t in the two sequels.
Tommy Lister, who played Deebo in Friday, had this to say about the planned sequel, “There’s a lot of conversation, that’s hopefully going down next week with Ice Cube and Chris Tucker about doing one more Friday. This is going to be the big one. We talked on the phone a couple of weeks ago, and I’m going on Chris’ private jet to do something in St. Louis, where I chase Chris on the stage.”
Ice Cube wrote the original Friday, along with DJ Pooh, but it isn’t known who is writing this untitled sequel. The franchise was very popular, and as Cube’s Hollywood career has somewhat stalled, it’s not that surprising he wants to return to it.
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