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Promoting their latest movie, “Slammin’ Salmon,” comedy troupe Broken Lizard said that a follow-up to their well known hit movie “Super Troopers,” is going quite well. “We have the financing, so we’re going to try to make a deal with Fox,” says Jay Chandrasekhar, who directs much of the group’s work. Steve Lemme said that …
The latest attempt to make Massachusetts the “Hollywood of the East,” is in limbo, at least for now. Yesterday, the owners of the studios said that their construction funding had collapsed and that they were persuing other funding options. “The lender was required to meet a milestone on November 6 and has failed to do …
Everyone knows that movies are costing more and more to make. A New York Times article about the cost of James Cameron’s latest movie is simply another confirmation of this fact. While Fox is claiming that the movie cost only $230 million to make, the Times says that when you consider money put in by …
Director Joe Johnston spoke with Aint it Cool News about the status of “Jurassic Park 4.” He said that an “great” idea is in place and that he is interested in being part of the project. “It’s nothing like the first three.,” says Johnston. “It sort of takes the franchise off in a completely different …
James Marsh, the director of the Oscar-winning documentary “Man on Wire,” is going supernatural for his next project. “The Vatican Tapes” is a supernatural thriller written by Chris Borrelli and Chris Morgan. “Vatican,” is about what happens when tapes of an exorcism going wrong are leaked from The Vatican. The movie is being produced by …
A source has confirmed with website Latino Review.com that the upcoming Battleship filmed based on the Hasbro board game will be about a five-ship fleet engaged in battle with….Aliens. Aliens? So not only are we watching a movie based on [a totally awesome] board game, but the bad guys are going to be aliens? I …
Johnny Depp is in talks to replace actor Sam Worthington (Avatar, Terminator) in the upcoming film ‘The Tourist.’ ‘The Tourist’ is a remake of a french spy thriller ‘Anthony Zimmer,’ with the lead playing a tourist drawn into the investigation of a female Interpol agent (Angelina Jolie). Quite frankly, I’m sort of tired of these …
Hugh Jackman was good last year, but, judging by this afternoon’s announcement, this year will be better. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the 82nd Academy Awards in February. Martin, who hosted the Oscars by himself twice said in a press release, “I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy, Alec Baldwin.” …
Robert Zemeckis has announced that writers are hard at work at a follow-up to his hit movie “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” The script is being written by Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price. These are the same guys who wrote the first movie. Zemeckis said that motion capture, (his prefered method of filmmaking as of late,) …
For whatever reason, Sony Pictures has decided to rush a third Men in Black film to begin shooting in 2010. The script is being written by Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder), no word whether Barry Sonnenfeld will return to the directors chair, or if Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones will return as the title characters.