Three Musketeers Promo Poster
Friday September 3, 2010
First teaser for Paul W.S. Anderson's 3D film
After rushing into production to ensure they beat off competition from a rival 3D Three Musketeer pics Warner was considering mounting, Paul W.S. Anderson's movie is now shooting in Europe, and Summit Entertainment over in the US has released a teaser poster for the film to celebrate that fact.
It shows us little other than the logo and the stars (it's really more marketing to cinemas etc. than for the general public), but it's worth a look anyway. The Three Musketeers will be in cinemas in 2011.
Cruise Or McAvoy For Mountains Of Madness?
Friday September 3, 2010
Casting speculation begins on the Del Toro film
After he left The Hobbit, it didn't seem possible that Guillermo Del Toro would manage to find a film that could excite as much fevered anticipation, but while recently announced At The Mountains Of Madness may not have quite as wide a following as Middle Earth, it's already one of the biggest things around for film fans.
Not only is it going to be directed by Del Toro, but it's based on an HP Lovecraft story that fans have been clamouring for a film version of for decades. And if that weren't enough, James Cameron is going to produce the 3D pic, making this a bit of a dream team. Now of course it's time to speculate about the cast. Collider say they've got a source who's given them the skinny on the current thinking.
Apparently while Del Toro is considering numerous options, currently at the top of his list is Tom Cruise. However Universal have other ideas, and would prefer (the presumably much cheaper) James McAvoy for the lead role. Chris Pine's name is also being thrown around (as it is for pretty much every movie now), but he'd be unlikely to have the time for the film, as the Star Trek sequel is expected to start gearing up for production around the same time as Mountain Of Madness, next May.
At the moment it's way to early to say who'll get the role, and it's not even clear whether Del Toro or Universal have even spoken to Cruise and McAvoy. However I think we can assume this is just the beginning of a lot of stories for what is fast become one of the most anticipated movies around.
In case you don't know, Mountains of Madness is the tale of a scientific expedition to the South Pole, which uncovers hints that the true origin of mankind may have been gods from another planet. However bad things start to happen when those gods are reawakened. And just to make you a bit more excited, Jame Cameron recently described the film to Wired as, "an epically scaled horror film and we haven’t seen anything like that in a really long time - I guess since Aliens."
Liam Neeson On For The Grey
Friday September 3, 2010
He'll replace Bradley Cooper in the wilderness drama
From one A-Team cast member to another. A few months ago, director Joe Carnahan was busy sorting through the numerous projects he had in development, which were being readied for after he finished the A-Team movie, and settled on The Grey, which at the time had Bradley Cooper attached to the lead role.
However with Cooper's dance card full to bursting, it looks like he's stepped aside and Carnahan has gone from Faceman to Hannibal, lining up Liam Neeson for the main role in the movie instead. According to THR, 'the story begins after a plane goes down in Alaska, with a man (Neeson) and his oil drilling team... struggling to survive in the wild. The men come under attack by large, vicious, aggressive wolves who see the humans as intruders who must be killed.'
Carnahan has previously said that 'It's very much a man vs. nature adventure, existentialist kind of drama that I want to do.' And if Carnahan can go back to the tension of the likes of Narc rather than the runaway camera of A-Team, it could be quite a film.
Bell & Mackie To Star In Man On A Ledge
Friday September 3, 2010
Jamie and Anthony join Sam Worthington
The cast for Man On A Ledge is growing, with Anthony Mackie and Jamie Bell both signing up to star alongside the previously cast Sam Worthington. Variety has the news, saying both actors are now in final negotiations for the movie.
The Asgar Leth directed drama, sees Worthington as a former NYPD officer, who threatens to jump from a ledge and kill himself, while a female psychologist attempt to stop him.
However, while both Bell and Mackie have roles in the film, at the moment it's unclear who Mackie will play, although Deadline says Bell will portray the brother of Worthington's character, 'who happens to be planning a heist of a jewelry store across the street while the cop threatens suicide'. However it's difficult to imagine the proximity of the crime is just a coincidence.
Shooting begins in New York in November, by which time they'll have hopefully found a female lead. Amay Adams is rumoured for the role, but as yet there's no deal in place.
Shyamalan Using Unbreakable 2 Story For Night Chronicles
Friday September 3, 2010
It's all over for the sequel
Ever since Unbreakable, there have been many people hoping and praying for a sequel. Over the years the idea has been kept burning with hints from the likes of Shyamalan and Bruce Willis that the story is there for more film and that everyone hoped to make it at some point.
However now is the official time to give up hope, as Shyamalan has said he's pretty much cannibalised the story for Unbreakable 2, for the third in his series of Night Chornicles movies. The Chronicles are low budget genre films Shyamalan has written the stories for, but which have been scripted by others, starting with Devil (which opens on Sept 17th), followed by next year's Twelve Strangers. And it seems the third one, will pretty much replace Unbreakable 2.
Now Shyamalan has told MTV, "I cannibalized the idea for the sequel to Unbreakable for one of the 'Night Chronicles'. It was such a cool idea for a villain, and it was actually originally in the script for Unbreakable, and it was too much. There were too many villains, so I pulled this villain out and was like, 'I'll make this the second flick.' I fleshed it out more and more, and thought, 'This could be a standalone movie!' I'll just say it: the third 'Night Chronicles' movie is what would have been the sequel to Unbreakable."
Although you could move the words arounf a bit and say there still might be room for an Unbreakable sequel if the new film is only about one of the villains, I think we might as well say it's officially dead.
First Official Sucker Punch Still Emerges
Thursday September 2, 2010
Dragon versus plane!
While we've had character banners, a trailer and a magazine photo scan, but it's only now that the first proper still from Zach Snyder's Sucker Punch has emerged, and while it doesn't show any of the character, it's kind of cool, with a plane taking on a dragon! Cruel and Unusual Films, who've been working on the movie, debuted the rather nifty pic, which you can see above, or head over there for a large version.
Described as 'Alice In Wonderland' with guns, Sucker Punch sees Emily Browning's Baby Doll confined to a mental institution, and from there retreating into an alternate fantasy universe, where all those around her become part of her delusion, with Babydoll looking for a handful of objects that will allow her to escape. It'll hit cinemas early next year.
Poster Arrives For The Next Three Days
Thursday September 2, 2010
Starring Russell Crowe
Crash director Paul Haggis has been busy at work on the thriller The Next Three Days, starring Russell Crowe, and now the first poster for the film has emerged. Crowe plays a husband and father whose life is turned upside-down when his wife is arrested and imprisoned for murder. Convinced she's innocent and losing hope she'll ever be released, he launches a daring mission to break her out of jail. The film, which also star Elizabeth Banks and Liam Neeson, is currently due out in the UK on January 7th, 2011, but take a look at the poster below.
First Fright Night Images Emerges
Thursday September 2, 2010
With David Tennant as a gothic Peter Vincent
The remake of Fright Night is now shooting, and the first pics have emerged of David Tennant in costume as Peter Vincent, courtesy of a giant billlboard poster somebody has snapped a couple of shots of. While in the 1980s horror-comedy, Vincent was an old horror movie star, in the remake he's a stage magician who pretends he has real connections to vampires and the supernatural.
He gets hooked into a case of genuine bloodsuckers when a teen fan (Anton Yelchin), becomes convince that his next door neighbour (Colin Farrell) is a genuine vampire. Take a look above and below for the pics. (Images via /Film)
Angeline Jolie Still Defies Gravity
Thursday September 2, 2010
Despite improved offer, she refuses to star in the Cuaron flick
It must be nice being Angelina Jolie, who's in a position where studios are utterly desperate to woo her, but no matter what they offer her, she doesn't really need the cash, so can accept or decline whatever she likes. And with Gravity, she certainly seems determined to say no.
You may recall that a while back she was attached to the Alfonso Cuaron movie, but eventually declined to star (around the same time she also backed out of Wanted 2). After that the director and studio met with virtually every actress of the right age in the hope of finding a replacement, with reports a couple of weeks ago that it had come down to Blake Lively and Scarlet Johansson (they also saw or considered Sandra Bullock, Natalie Portman, Marion Cotillard, Naomi Watts, Carey Mulligan, Sienna Miller, Abbie Cornish, Rebecca Hall, Olivia Wilde, and several more).
However, Deadline is now reporting that despite that, they really, really want Jolie, and went back to her with a much improved offer. However she's said no again! What isn't known though it whether it's just because she doesn't like the script, or if her schedule is already too full (she's developed a close relationship with GK Films, who are financing her directorial debut, and putting together other movies for her). Cuaron does have a bit of time to sort things out as the movie isn't due to start shooting until early next year. That's as long as Jolie declining again doesn't give Warner cold feet and cause them to back out - after all, they wouldn't be the first studio to do so, as Gravity started life at Universal.
Cuaron co-wrote the Castaway-meets-Apollo-13 film with his brother Jonas, about a team of astonauts repairing the Hubble telescope who get hit by debris from an exploded satellite, killing nearly everyone. The film then revolves around the surviving female astronaut's battle to fight her way back to Earth and reunite with her daughter. Robert Downey-Jr is attached to the male lead, but as its the female role that holds the movie together, Warner is keen to get the right person.
Paula Patton Joins The Next Mission: Impossible
Thursday September 2, 2010
Although it won't be called M:I IV
Last week the hunt for someone to star alongside Tom Cruise in the fourth Mission: Impossible film seemed to come to an end, with Jeremy Renner cast as an operative who will potentially take over the franchise from the Cruiser after this flick, and now they've also landed themselves a female lead.
While Lauren German and Kristen Kreuk were also in the mix, in the end Deadline says they've gone with Paula Patton, who will play a female agent who works alongside Cruise's Ethan Hunt.
There's still no more news on the plot, although one thing we do now know for definite is that it won't be called Mission: Impossible IV. Before Cruise signed on, Paramount was already thinking about rebooting the franchise, and while initially Tom's involvement meant they were happy for it to just be a continuation, worries over his box office clout have caused them to want something more transitional, with Cruise bowing out after this one, but everything set up for more M:I movies. As yet though, there no word on what it will be called.