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Liebesman had been in contention to nab the directing gig since early June, with negotiations stretching through the summer. Money was a factor, as was the hurdle of overcoming the negative perception of this year's initial installment. The movie, a remake of the 1981 original, became a ...
Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper are signing up for take-your-dads-to-work day. The busy actors are attached to star in an untitled original action-comedy written by Sheldon Turner (“Up in the Air”), who snagged north of seven figures for the gig. The story follows two friends, who are also ...
RRRIIIIINNNGGGG! You know what that means? School is back, and all the children of the world become depressed.....what a tragedy :( ha-ha. Anyways school is back in session and what does that make you think of? School related movies....right? I could be wrong, but thats just what i like to think of. ...
This past week, there has been tons of news coming out about the upcoming Fantastic Four movie reboot, tentatively titled Fantastic Four: Reborn. All of the cast from the original two Fantastic Four movies will replaced in the new movie, and unlike the first film, it will not be an origin story. ...
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"Vamps" is one of those upcoming films that we just keep getting more and more excited for(lol no), the more we hear about it. The Amy Heckerling comedy is currently filming in Detroit, but that isn't stopping them from adding a whole slew of new, exciting actors. To ...
Brad Pitt is planning to make a movie version of video game hit Red Dead Redemption. Sources say the Hollywood heartthrob is the hot favorite to play renegade outlaw John Marston in an epic cowboy shoot-em-up based on the PlayStation game. “This is an exciting project with a great character at the ...
Since Will Forte announced his departure from "Saturday Night Live" yesterday, rumors have been flying about who will replace him. The Comic's Comic has the scoop on who the most likely candidates are. Right now it looks like they will making up to three new additions ...
John Cusack will star as Edgar Allen Poe in "The Raven" for Intrepid Pictures and FilmNation. Cusack disclosed his attachment via a Twitter post Friday. Shooting is scheduled for late fall in Serbia with James McTeigue ("V for Vendetta") directing. Intrepid Principals Trevor Macy and Marc ...
Coming up necks for Twilight bloodsucker Jackson Rathbone: A potentially recurring role on ABC’s No Ordinary Family. The 25-year-old actor—whose two summer films, Eclipse and The Last Airbender, collectively grossed nearly $1 billion worldwide—will play Trent Stafford, a high school classmate of Kay Panabaker telepathic Daphne. Trent ...
Once production on the seventh season of NBC's series "The Office" concludes, Steve Carell is going to be one busy man. Recently he was announced for a role in The Abstinence Teacher with Sandra Bullock and the DreamWorks comedy Raised by Wolfs and now he has ...
Three new character posters for Never Let Me Go Three new character posters have been posted on the official homepage for Mark Romanek’s new feature, the adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s celebrated book, Never Let Me go. Here’s the synopsis: As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a ...
"Mission: Impossible 4" Casting Vampire star Kevin Zegers, Letters to Juliet’s Christopher Egan and Hurt Locker actor Anthony Mackie are all testing to star opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 4! The young actors will test with Tom on Thursday and Friday at Paramount, according to Deadline. Tom and J.J. Abrams are producing ...
Charisma Carpenter and Sean Patrick Flanery in The Human Factor The lovely Charisma Carpenter, currently in need of saving in Sylvester Stallone’s “The Expendables”, and “Boondock Saints” vigilante badass Sean Patrick Flanery (sans Norman Reedus) have join the cast of “The Human Factor”, a thriller that will ...
Joe Francis to sue 'Piranha 3D' Filmmaker Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja has told EW he is not worried about the possibility of legal action by Girls Gone Wild chief Joe Francis. In the film, which was released on Friday, Jerry O’Connell plays a character named Derrick Jones who runs a ...
Record-breaking Movie Fan Dies A movie enthusiast who held a Guinness World Record for the number of films he had watched has died at the age of 65. Gwilym Hughes, of Dolgellau in Gwynedd, used to watch up to 14 films a week and kept a record of each one he had ...
ANNA PAQUIN and KRISTEN BELL! USA Today is reporting that both Paquin ("X-Men," "True Blood") and Bell ("Veronica Mars," "Forgetting Sarah Marshall") will appear in the upcoming slasher four-quel. The article doesn't say what roles either actress will be playing, only that they will appear in a ...
Carey Mulligan (An Education) is in negotiations to join Ryan Gosling and Bryan Cranston in Universal's action-thriller Drive, reports Risky Business. To be directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Valhalla Rising, Bronson), the film is based on the James Sallis novel about a Hollywood stunt driver (Gosling) who ...
Liebesman had been in contention to nab the directing gig since early June, with negotiations stretching through the summer. Money was a factor, as was the hurdle of overcoming the negative perception of this year’s initial installment.
The movie, a remake of the 1981 original, became a worldwide hit for Warners, grossing more than $491 million, although it garnered many negative reviews.
The studio is hoping to right the wrongs, shooting it in 3D (as opposed to have it added during postproduction, as with the first movie) and tapping some of its top scribes to work on it.
Greg Berlanti, one of the writers of “Green Lantern,” Dan Mazeau, who worked for Warners on “The Flash” and “Jonny Quest,” and David Leslie Johnson, writer of “Red Riding Hood,” the studio’s horror thriller starring Amanda Seyfried, worked together on the treatment, with Mazeau and Johnson now writing the script.
Stars Sam Worthington and Gemma Arterton are among the actors expected to return for the second installment.
Liebesman, repped by CAA and Principato-Young, nabbed the gig from the strong footage execs saw of “Battle: Los Angeles,” the director’s upcoming “Black Hawk Down”-style alien invasion movie from Columbia, which showed he could handle large-scale action and intense visual effects. The footage also impressed at Comic-Con, where is stood out from forthcoming wave of alien invasion flicks.
Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper are signing up for take-your-dads-to-work day.
The busy actors are attached to star in an untitled original action-comedy written by Sheldon Turner (“Up in the Air”), who snagged north of seven figures for the gig. The story follows two friends, who are also San Francisco cops, whose fathers were once partners on the police force. The older generation is forced out of retirement to help their sons crack a case, with typically antagonistic results.
The actioner is meant to have an updated “Lethal Weapon” flavor that plays into edgier R-rated territory.
Neal Moritz (“The Bounty Hunter”), Andrew Panay (“Wedding Crashers”) and Reynolds’ Dark Trick Films partner Jonathon Komack Martin (“Van Wilder”) are producing along with J.C. Spink and Chris Bender of Benderspink (“A History of Violence”).
Panay and Turner first developed the pitch, then called “Blowback,” five years ago with Dwayne Johnson, then known as The Rock, attached to one of the roles. The current iteration is not yet set up at a studio, but Moritz’s Original Film banner is housed at Sony, where he is also producing “The Green Hornet.”
RRRIIIIINNNGGGG! You know what that means? School is back, and all the children of the world become depressed…..what a tragedy 
ha-ha. Anyways school is back in session and what does that make you think of? School related movies….right? I could be wrong, but thats just what i like to think of. I’m actually back in school. I was attending one college for awhile until i decided to switch schools during christmas break.
So i have not been in school at all this year until now. So, to get into the spirit of back to school, i thought i’d list 5 of my favorite school related movies for you all to check out……when your done with your homework of course. i don’t want to get you in trouble. anyways lets start the list from #5 all the way to #1 then leave this post a comment saying your favorite school movies 
FYI these movies are not in order from least to best. Just the ones i liked the most.
5) Ferris Buller’s Day off:
Who can forget this awesome School related movie? you know what the best part is about it? School is barely even in it! haha. Nah i really love this movie. Though i could never do what Ferris did. I don’t have the bravery, or the backbone, to perform such a devious act! haha. However, i will admit i have played hooky in college, but don’t tell my Mom. haha If you have time go watch this classic movie from the master of teen movies John Hughes!
4) Fast Times at Ridgemont High:
You know what still surprises me about this movie? the Fact that it had Sean Penn playing the surfer guy, and he pulls it off so well. ha-ha No this movie is a classic. so many famous scenes you can think of. Especially the one involving Phoebe Kates, a swimming pool, and Slow motion…..oh yea lol. Anyways nah i can watch this movie anytime of the day. If you have time to kill, then i suggest a visit to Ridgemont High.
3) Kick-Ass:
Yea yea i know this isn’t a school movie, but you can’t deny that it has elements of a good school movie. The only difference between this movie, and other school movies is that this one has the main teenager as a superhero. So i guess i’m cheating by adding this, but hey…..who hasn’t cheated……Hello?
2) The Breakfast Club:
It would be a crime not to add a classic like this to this list. I mean the magic of this movie is no matter how old it gets its message never dies. This is just an amazing movie that no one should miss. Especially if your in high school. now let me say this….i will never forget you breakfast club!
1) Harry Potter Film series:
I love Harry Potter! You know i never would have thought of this for a list like this. Usually its all about some old movie from the 80’s. But come on Harry potter is all about School. just the difference is Harry is learning to be a wizard instead of learning Math or something boring like that. anyone seeing Part 1 of Deathly Hallows? i know i am
Anyways guys this is my list of my favorite school related movies. What are yours?
This past week, there has been tons of news coming out about the upcoming Fantastic Four movie reboot, tentatively titled Fantastic Four: Reborn. All of the cast from the original two Fantastic Four movies will replaced in the new movie, and unlike the first film, it will not be an origin story. Instead it will incorporate the team’s origin into the film’s opening credits, similiar to 2008’s The Incredible Hulk. In the running for the role of Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic are actors Adrien Brody and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, with Brody supposedly being the frontrunner. Actress Alice Eve and actor Kevin Pennington, both of whom have been rumored to star in many Marvel movies over the past few months, are top contenders for the roles of Susan Storm/The Invisible Woman and Johnny Storm/The Human Torch respectively. The fourth member of the Fantastic Four, Ben Grimm, also known as The Thing, will be completely CGI in the reboot, but there is no word on who will be voicing him. Dr. Doom is expected to be the main villain again, with True Blood actor Stephen Moyer being the frontrunner for the role. Another character supposed to appear in the film is the Silver Surfer, although it is unkown how big his role will be. There are three names being tossed around for who will direct the upcoming reboot. They are Joe Carnahan (The A-Team, Smokin’ Aces), David Yates (Harry Potter 5, 6, and 7), and James McTeigue (Ninja Assassin, V for Vendetta). The film is slated to start filming next spring in 3D for an expected Summer 2012 release.
In other, non-movie related news, the Fantastic Four is about lose one of their own. In Jonathan Hickman’s current run on the Fantastic Four comic book series, one of the four isn’t going to survive the next issue. The upcoming storyline, simply titled Fantastic Four: Three, will kick off with the death of one of the four teammates, according to Hickman himself. Granted, death in the Marvel Universe doesn’t mean much (See: Steve Rogers), but Hickman isn’t planning on making this death a temporary thing. When asked if the series will even still be called Fantastic Four this time next year, Hickman blunty stated: “No”.
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“Vamps” is one of those upcoming films that we just keep getting more and more excited for(lol no), the more we hear about it. The Amy Heckerling comedy is currently filming in Detroit, but that isn’t stopping them from adding a whole slew of new, exciting actors.
To refresh, the film already boasts Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as two beautiful female vampires living the “good nightlife” in NYC, which is interrupted when love comes into the picture. Sigourney Weaver plays the vampire queen who turned them, and a whole bunch of pretty men like Dan Stevens and Justin Kirk will be there for the ogling. What could make this cast any better, you ask?
Malcolm freakin’ McDowell, that’s who. The man who terrified us in “A Clockwork Orange,” “Heroes,” “In Good Company…” heck, we’re sure he’ll probably even give us the spooks in “Easy A,” has joined the cast as none other than Vlad the Impaler, also known in this universe as Vlad Tepish. Did we mention his character loves wearing velvet jogging suits and knitting? Count us in.
In addition to Malcolm, two other cast members have recently joined the fold. Marilu Henner will play a vamp named Angela who was recently awakened to her former hot self. And there’s Zak Orth (he’s been in lots of things even if he wasn’t a notable actor in them), who will play a nerdy friend of the girls who thinks he’s much more hardcore than he actually is. And if we can guess how these things will go, he’ll probably end up being a romantic interest for either Alicia or Krysten’s character.
Did we mention Malcolm McDowell will be in this?!
Brad Pitt is planning to make a movie version of video game hit Red Dead Redemption.
Sources say the Hollywood heartthrob is the hot favorite to play renegade outlaw John Marston in an epic cowboy shoot-em-up based on the PlayStation game.
“This is an exciting project with a great character at the center of it,” a source said.
“The idea is to make this in the style of an epic Western movie but with a few modern touches.
“Brad is perfect for the role and he is being given first refusal.”
Since Will Forte announced his departure from “Saturday Night Live” yesterday, rumors have been flying about who will replace him. The Comic’s Comic has the scoop on who the most likely candidates are. Right now it looks like they will making up to three new additions to the cast: Chicago-based improviser and sketch comedian Paul Brittain, Vanessa Bayer – another Chicago-based improviser and stand-up comic – and Taran Killam, a member of The Groundlings in L.A.
According to Sean L. McCarthy at The Comic’s Comic, Killam (photo: far right) has the most credentials under his comedy belt, with appearances on both “Mad TV” and Nick Cannon’s “Wild ‘N Out,” as well as a recurring character named Blauman on “How I Met Your Mother.”
As for Bayer and Brittain (photo: center and far left, respectively) “SNL” is no stranger to Chicago talent. Both comedians are veterans of improv, sketch, and stand-up comedy at notable Chicago venue iO Chicago, and Bayer runs with Second City’s Touring Company. Brittain has also made several appearances on NBC’s improv/mockumentary show “Sports Action Team,” currently in its second season.
It seems like “SNL” has some pretty talented people in mind, albeit not very diverse ones. “SNL” has always skewed young and white, and these comics reflect that trend.
John Cusack will star as Edgar Allen Poe in “The Raven” for Intrepid Pictures and FilmNation. Cusack disclosed his attachment via a Twitter post Friday. Shooting is scheduled for late fall in Serbia with James McTeigue (“V for Vendetta”) directing.
Intrepid Principals Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans will produce with FilmNation’s Aaron Ryder, who brought the script to Intrepid.
Project’s been in development for several years at FilmNation and Endgame, which is no longer involved. “The Raven” is based on a Hannah Shakespeare/Ben Livingston script set in the last five days of Poe’s life, when a serial killer is running around Baltimore using Poe’s stories as the backdrops to his killings. Poe and a young detective have a ticking clock to outsmart the killer before he kills again.
FilmNation will sell international rights, and Intrepid is in conversations with domestic distributors. Poe’s best known work is the poem “The Raven,” published in 1845. He died four years later at the age of 40 in Baltimore.
Cusack was seen most recently in MGM’s “Hot Tub Time Machine.”
Intrepid co-produced “The Strangers” and is co-producing and co-financing “The Cold Light of Day” with Summit, commencing principal photography Sept. 6 in Spain.
Two-year-old FilmNation is a foreign-sales and production banner and is in production on “The House at the End of the Street” with Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot and Elisabeth Shue.
Coming up necks for Twilight bloodsucker Jackson Rathbone: A potentially recurring role on ABC’s No Ordinary Family.
The 25-year-old actor—whose two summer films, Eclipse and The Last Airbender, collectively grossed nearly $1 billion worldwide—will play Trent Stafford, a high school classmate of Kay Panabaker telepathic Daphne. Trent was recently the victim of a home invasion robbery, and I’m guessing Daphne will join forces with her superhero parents to help catch the perp.
Rathbone last appeared on the small screen in 2009, when he guest-starred as a serial killer with multiple personalities on Criminal Minds.
N.O.F. premieres on Tuesday, Sept. 28.
Once production on the seventh season of NBC’s series “The Office” concludes, Steve Carell is going to be one busy man. Recently he was announced for a role in The Abstinence Teacher with Sandra Bullock and the DreamWorks comedy Raised by Wolfs and now he has another project on his slate. Variety reports Warner Bros. is developing A Boyfriend for My Wife, a remake of a 2008 romantic comedy from Argentina, and Carell is lined-up to lead the film. The story follows a timid husband who believes the only way of escaping marriage is to get his wife to fall in love with another man, so he enlists the help of a legendary Cassanova.
Three new character posters for Never Let Me Go
Three new character posters have been posted on the official homepage for Mark Romanek’s new feature, the adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s celebrated book, Never Let Me go.
Here’s the synopsis:
As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them.
Judging by the trailer, these beautifully composed close-ups of the three lead (Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan) perfectly reflect the style of the film. Romanek is a master visualist (the photos he frequently posts on Twitter are clearly the work of a hugely talented individual).
The film of opens this year’s London Film Festival and it’s released nationwide on 14 January 2011.
“Mission: Impossible 4″ Casting
Vampire star Kevin Zegers, Letters to Juliet’s Christopher Egan and Hurt Locker actor Anthony Mackie are all testing to star opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 4!
The young actors will test with Tom on Thursday and Friday at Paramount, according to Deadline.
Tom and J.J. Abrams are producing the latest installment in Ethan Hunt’s adventures.
WHO DO YOU THINK should star opposite Tom Cruise in MI:4?
Charisma Carpenter and Sean Patrick Flanery in The Human Factor
The lovely Charisma Carpenter, currently in need of saving in Sylvester Stallone’s “The Expendables”, and “Boondock Saints” vigilante badass Sean Patrick Flanery (sans Norman Reedus) have join the cast of “The Human Factor”, a thriller that will also mark tough guy Michael Madsen’s directorial debut.
In “The Human Factor”, Carpenter will play Lori Stoltz, a character described as a “determined and strong-willed newspaper reporter”, while Flanery will play Eric O’Neill, a renegade police detectives (are there any other kind) determined to get to the truth. The film’s plot has the duo joining forces to uncover the disappearance of homeless people in New York City.
Joining Carpenter and Flanery on the film will be Carpenter’s fellow “Expendables” co-stars Eric Roberts and Gary Daniels, along with Danny Trejo, Luke Goss, Doug Jones, Tom Sizemore, Shalim Ortiz, and Michael Madsen.
Production on “The Human Factor” is scheduled for sometime next year.
Joe Francis to sue ‘Piranha 3D’ Filmmaker
Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja has told EW he is not worried about the possibility of legal action by Girls Gone Wild chief Joe Francis. In the film, which was released on Friday, Jerry O’Connell plays a character named Derrick Jones who runs a Girls Gone Wild-type operation called Wild Wild Girls. Jones is shown snorting cocaine and encouraging two underage characters to drink liquor. Last week, according to The Hollywood Reporter, a lawyer representing Francis sent a letter to Piranha 3D distributors The Weinstein Company cautioning “all those associated” with the film to refrain from maligning Francis. The letter stated that “any defamatory or disparaging statements; or depictions in the media or in the film itself, or other statements that portray Francis in a false light, will be met with swift litigation to recover substantial damages.”
“I believe Mr. O’Connell may lose more than his penis if he and the Weinstein Co. choose to release this film and continue to falsely associate me with its questionable content,” Francis told The Hollywood Reporter, referring to a sequence in the movie during which Derrick Jones’ penis is indeed bitten off by piranha.
But according to Aja, the character in the spring break-set movie was actually inspired by a number of different people. “When I was writing and developing that character, which was in the original script, I never thought about Joe Francis,” said the French director. “I am not [concerned]. There are so many person like that. Spring break is about thousands and thousands of kids getting drunk and partying. Around them you have very bizarre people. On the one hand, you have the very religious ultra-Christian people trying to convince them to read the bible and not show their boobs. And on the other hand, you have people from the adult industry coming to provoke and tease college kids and have them doing crazy stuff on camera. This character of Jerry O’Connell’s was, for me, a human piranha. But not based on anyone specifically. Writing that script and creating the Wild Wild Girls, you cannot help yourself but think about Girls Gone Wild and about Joe Francis. But it’s a very very, very, very, very, different character. People might recognize a little bit of him, but it’s based on so many other people.”
Record-breaking Movie Fan Dies
A movie enthusiast who held a Guinness World Record for the number of films he had watched has died at the age of 65.
Gwilym Hughes, of Dolgellau in Gwynedd, used to watch up to 14 films a week and kept a record of each one he had seen.
He held the Guinness World Record from 2008 having sat through more than 28,000 movies. He saw his first film, King Solomon’s Mines, in 1953 but his favourite film remained Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean.
Mr Hughes died on Monday at Wrexham Maelor Hospital. He leaves a widow, Eirlys.
A spokesperson for Guinness said: “We would like to offer our condolences to his family and friends.”
Mr Hughes, a retired painter and decorator, became interested in films as a child after an illness left him in hospital for two-and-a-half years.
For a time, he was strapped to an iron frame. In an interview in 2008, he said he clearly remembered watching King Solomon’s Mines.
He said: “You can imagine what it was like. I could only waddle my feet and move my hands and head.
“I was in an iron frame, and you saw these moving things in front of you. You just couldn’t wait for the next time.
“They were so wonderful. It just clicked my imagination.”
He started touring the cinemas in Dolgellau, Barmouth and Porthmadog and kept detailed records of what he had seen. He included a cast list and often a photograph or newspaper cutting about the film.
The development of video and DVD meant he could watch films at home but said it did not rule his life.
He said: “People think that I’m glued to the television set 24 hours a day but I’m not because I’m a member of about 10 organisations.
“I watch films from about 9pm until about 12. Sometimes I could set up one on the televisions in the study. It works out about 10 to 14 films a week.”
His favourite films were Lawrence of Arabia, Hedd Wyn, Zulu, The Dambusters and The Sundowners.
ANNA PAQUIN and KRISTEN BELL!
USA Today is reporting that both Paquin (“X-Men,” “True Blood”) and Bell (“Veronica Mars,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”) will appear in the upcoming slasher four-quel. The article doesn’t say what roles either actress will be playing, only that they will appear in a cameo capacity. Could one (or both) of them be playing the film’s opening victim, a la Drew Barrymore’s role in the original “Scream?” We’ll find out when “Scream 4″ opens nationwide on April 15, 2011.
Carey Mulligan (An Education) is in negotiations to join Ryan Gosling and Bryan Cranston in Universal’s action-thriller Drive, reports Risky Business.
To be directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Valhalla Rising, Bronson), the film is based on the James Sallis novel about a Hollywood stunt driver (Gosling) who moonlights as a getaway car driver in heists. In the book, the stuntman’s already-exciting existence gets jolted when he discovers that a contract has been put out on his life.
Mulligan will play an ex-con’s girlfriend who is taken along for the ride.
The project starts shooting around Los Angeles next month. Hossein Amini (Killshot) wrote the adapted screenplay.
