Hugh Jackman To Star In Nowhere Man March 25, 2008
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-Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman is to star in Nowhere Man, the latest comic book to be adapted for the big screen.
While the plot is being kept under wraps the film will be set in a futuristic world where humanity’s privacy has been traded for safety.
The actor, who is best known for his role in the X-Men movies, will also co-write the script with marc Guggenheim.
 -Jon Header and Dax Shepard have signed up to appear in Disney’s When in Rome , which will star Veronica Mars’ Kristen Bell.
Production is expected to get under way in the next few weeks filming in New York and Rome. David Diamond and David Weissman have written the script and will direct the project.
The film revolves around Beth (Bell) who, despite being successful in her job as a real estate agent, she is unlucky in love.
When in Rome for her sister’s wedding she becomes inundated with suitors after picking up coins from the legendary
‘fountain of love.’
-Sopranos actor James Gandolfini has reportedly singed to star in Tony Scott’s remake of The Taking of Pelham 123.
The film will also star Academy Award winner Denzel Washinton and John Travolta.
Gandolfini is expected to play the mayor of New York who is pressurised into trying to end a crisis that has left a crowed subway carriage being held at ransom.
-British actress Jemma McKenzie-Brown has secured a role in High School Musical 3: Senior Year.
The relatively unknown actress, whose work includes The Amazing Mrs Pritchard for the BBC, beat off 1,000 other actor for the role as a sophomore ‘Wildcat’ in the movie.
Original cast members Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens return to their roles for the final and big screen instalment of the surprise hit musical franchise.
Filming is expected to get underway this month for a release later this year.
-Sideways and Shoot ‘Em Up actor Paul Giamatti has signed up to star in Tony Gilroy’s Duplicity.
The corporate thriller also stars Tom Wilinson and Julia Roberts as well as reuniting Giamatti with his Shoot ‘Em Up co-star Clive Owen.
The film centres on ex lovers Roberts and Owen who are forced to join forces while working as spies for rival firms.
Director Tony Gilroy was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at this year’s Oscars for his wok on Michael Clayton which starred George Clooney.
The Wolfman First Image March 20, 2008
Posted by movies in : Pictures , add a commentIn 2009 actor Benicio Del Toro will star as The Wolfman alongside Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt.
Here is the first image from the project.
Wall-E Pictures March 19, 2008
Posted by movies in : Pictures , add a commentPixar’s latest movie Wall-E makes it into cinemas this summer and here are two new images from the film.
 
Ice Age 3 First Images March 19, 2008
Posted by movies in : Pictures , 1 comment so farThe successful franchise Ice Age is back for a third out with Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaur and here is the first look at the new film which is expected to be released in summer 2009.
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Superman Will Return March 14, 2008
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-Usual suspects director Bryan Singer has confirmed that work has already started on a sequel to 2006’s Superman Returns.
Singer is in the developmental stages of the sequel after getting back together with writers since the writer’s strike ended last month.
Superman Returns scriptwriters Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris have both left the project and have been replaced by Star Trek and Transformers writers Alex Kurtzmann and Robert Orci.
Despite taking nearly $400 million at the global box office two years ago Superman Begins was a critical failure.
At this early stage no cast members have been officially announced there are rumours that Kevin Spacey will return as Lex Luthor.
There were also suggestions some months back that Brandon Routh would not be returning in the role of Superman.
- With the help of writers Jason Segel and Nick Stoller Disney are to bring the Muppets back to the silver screen.
The duo are all set to pen the script with Stoller also expected to be on directing duties.
This will be the seventh big screen appearance for the Muppets, beginning with The Muppets Movie sin 1979.
They were last seen in 1999 in Muppets From Space.
-Transformers and The Island director Michael Bay is in talks with Paramount Studios to remake classic horror movie Rosemary’s Baby.
The original film was released in 1968 and was directed by Roman Polanski.
It followed a young couple who discover that hey are to have a baby, with Rosemary becoming pregnant under mysterious circumstances.
It is believed that Bay would act as a producer on the re-make alongside Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.
A writer to develop the script is yet to be found.
-The 32nd movie in the Carry On franchise, Carry On London, has been given the go ahead and could be released by the end of the year.
The script, which has already been approved, centres on a limo hire service that is taking celebs to the British version of the Oscars, the Herberts.
Nobody has been officially announced in terms of cast, Shaun Williamson had been liked to the lead role but dropped out when the film was delayed in 2004.
-Ultrviolent and Equlibrium director Kurt Wimmer is being lined up to write and direct the big screen adaptation of hit computer game Metal Gear Solid.
Metal Gear Solid is just one in a recent string of successful games
, including Hitman, Doom and Resident Evil, that has been adapted for the big screen.
First Image From Wolverine March 14, 2008
Posted by movies in : Pictures , add a commentHugh Jackman goes it alone next summer with Wolverine a spin for his character from the successful X-Men franchise.
Also starring Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston and Ryan Reynolds the film is rumoured to be looking at Logan’s dark past.
 Here is the first image from the movie.
New The Dark Knight Pics March 13, 2008
Posted by movies in : Pictures , add a commentAs the release date to the highly anticipated The Dark Knight gets ever closer here is a sneak peak at the latest pictures.
Are Remakes An Excuse For Lack Of Original Scripts? March 13, 2008
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Suspiria are just two of the films that are set to get a twenty first century remake according to reports in the last week.
This adds to the already announced Escape From New York, Akira and Last House on the Left which are all expected to reach cinemas by 2009, Michael bay is also rumoured to be in talks to revamp Rosemary’s Baby.
Just what has happened to all the original scripts?
It seems that Hollywood is not only content to let the big screen become littered with seventies and eighties knock offs it doesn’t seem to mind the poor quality of these movies, that are supposed to be bringing these classic movies to a new generation, either.
2007 was just the same when the paying cinema going public were treated to The Fog, Halloween and The Omen, all of which did poorly critically and commercially selling out the original concept and ripping off the money paying movie fans.
They should spent their hard earned cash on renting the original instead!
It seems, as with the sequels issue, Hollywood studios are desperately trying to make quick and easy money and it is the public that are losing out.
Over the last couple of years it has often been remarked upon how cinema attendances have been dwindling, and when they only have the opportunity to watch a poor man’s version of a classic is it really any wonder that they save their money and stay away?
It’s surprising then that movies such as There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men have done so little business at the box office.
The Oscar’s Best Picture category, which also included Atonement, Michael Clayton and Juno, as well as non nominated picture like Eastern Promises and Into the Wild were some of the best movies of last year all of them fresh and new.
However the low gross of the Oscar nominated movies did lead to some saying that the Oscars has become distanced from what has been successful at the box office and that nominations should follow, to a certain degree, public popularity.
But do we really want to see these remakes mixing it will top quality movies that deserve to be recognised?
However not all remakes have been a complete disaster as Ocean’s Eleven was arguably better than the original and 2007’s 3.10 to Yuma, starring Christian Bale and Russell Crowe, was one of the best movies of last year.
But it appears that this trend is not going to disappear with more and more films being given the modern day movie making seal.
Len Wiseman To Direct Shell Game March 12, 2008
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-Underworld and Die Hard 4.0 director Len Wiseman is to direct new action movie Shell Game.
The sci-fi movie is set in the future and follows a detective who is dealing with a moral dilemma as he leads an investigation into the black market.
The screenplay had originally been written by Justin Bondi and Andrew Lundington but Wiseman and Chris Morgan have begun work on the most recent draft.
The director will also handle the production.
-St Trinians director Oliver Parker is planning another adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray.
Based on the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray the film centres around Gray, no mention of casting, who shows no sign of ageing as he leads a corrupt life.
But the sins of his lifestyle are shown in the portrait that he hides in his attic.
-Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is in talks to direct Harbinger, based on Valiant’s comic.
The comic was a huge hit during the early nineties and followed a group of humans with powers that can be unlocked by ‘omega’ harbingers.
The story centres around teenager Pete Stanchek who has to fight another ‘omega’ who hasn’t used his powers for good becoming an evil corporate millionaire.
-According to Variety British filmmaker Neil Marshall is to write and direct Sacrilege, a horror film that is set in the Old West.
Although the film’s plot is being kept under tight wraps it’s been hinted that the film will have themes of isolation and paranoia and was influenced bu The Thing.
-1970s cult monster movie Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is to be given the 21st Century treatment in a remake.
Creators of the web series Ask a Ninja Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine are penning a new version of the movie that was originally released in 1978.
Nichols will also make his directorial debut with this project.
Is Marion Cotillard’s Hollywood Career Over? March 11, 2008
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After just two weeks of basking in her slightly unexpected Best Actress Oscar glory French star Marion Cotillard faces a backlash over 9/11 comments.
In an interview given to a French television network the thirty two year old actress appeared to suggest that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre were stage in an attempt to avoid refurbishing them.
‘We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for twenty four hours.
‘It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there (in New York), in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.’
The comments were made on a television programme in 2006 and footage for the show has, only recently, appeared on the Internet.
9/11 was the biggest tragedy in American history killing almost 3,000 people.
The actress, who won an Oscar for her role as Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, went on to question America’s greatest historical moment questioning if they really did land on the moon.
‘Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don’t believe all they tell me, that’s for sure.’
However in an embarrassing u-turn that actress claimed that there had been a misunderstanding as she attempted to try and keep the Hollywood film industry, which is notoriously patriotic, on her side.
Her lawyer Vincent Toledano said: ‘Marion never intended to contest nor question the attacks of September 11, 2001 and regrets the way old remarks have been taken out of context.’
While she my have backtracked she hasn’t apologised for the comments that many in Hollywood, which is divided over the remarks, see as anti-American.
Tim O’Neil, a critic for The Envelope, said: ‘This crosses the line. You can say crazy things, they all do in Hollywood all the time, but she’s a foreigner who is perceived to be saying things that are anti-American.
He also suggested that if this video had been released sooner ’she probably would have lost the Oscar.’
The effect that this will have on her international, and in particular her Hollywood, career is yet to be seen as she is due to begin shooting Public Enemies with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale next week, a contract she signed prior to this outburst.
Public Enemies, which is directed by Michael Mann, will be the biggest role, in terms of being in a large money spinning movie, for the little known actress but may be her last in Hollywood.
‘Non, je ne regrette rien’ may not be the feeling in the Marion Cotillard camp as her career, that is yet really to take but looked very promising, burns down around her.