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In an interview with IESB, Jason Segel (‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ and the upcoming ‘I Love You Man’ discussed some general details regarding their recently submitted first draft of the revived Muppets movie. Not a long interview and not a ton of details, but it made me hopeful when I heard that their goal was that …
DVD news site The Digital Bits had a link up this morning to a site called Blocks & Files. The article is all about storage and media and is kinda boring. However, there’s one interesting paragraph. Here’s an exerpt: The beautifully restored Godfather trilogy will be re-released in September, prompting, no doubt, hundreds of thousands …
It was a great weekend to be a panda. The Jack Black starred ‘Kung Fu Panda’ pulled in $60m to take the top spot for the weekend, with Adam Sandler’s ‘You Don’t Mess with the Zohan’ trailing in 2nd place, with a $40m take. ‘Indiana Jones’ showed its legs, with $22.8m and ‘Sex and the …
Kevin Smith has been causing a bit of trouble with some promotions for his upcoming comedy ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno.’ In addition to blogs and video diaries, Smith has been known for his “internet-only trailers,” for many of his in-progress films. The MPAA called to tell Smith, this wasn’t possible when he posted …
Here’s a videogame movie some folks could get behind. Paramount Pictures and Leonardo DiCaprio will be producing a film called ‘Atari,’ a biopic about Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Atari, and one of the founding fathers of the videogame industry.
Despite my disappointment with Spider-Man 3, the idea of Sam Raimi still taking the reigns of a fourth still excites me. Raimi told Dark Horizons that James Vanderbilt is writing the script, and that he hopes Sony would still want him to do it. Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst are unlikely to return to the …
As ‘Prince of Persia,’ comes closer to its start date, the more news we get. Earlier this week we reported that Alfred Molina had been cast as the Sheik. Today we learn Ben Kingsley has been cast as Nizam, who plots to kill his brother King Shahrman, and blame it on Prince Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal). …
F. Gary Gray has been tapped to direct a new biopic on music icon Marvin Gaye, who was shot to death by his father in 1984. The new film is being written by C. Gaby Mitchell (‘Blood Diamond), and will be titled ‘Marvin.’
The teaser poster for Oliver Stone’s latest controversial project, ‘W,’ has been released. The poster features some of the best known quotes from George W. Bush. The film stars Josh Brolin as the President, and Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush. Thandie Newton plays Condoleezza Rice and Richard Dreyfus is playing Dick Cheney The poster really …
Sony apparently has greenlit a Green Hornet film with Seth Rogan in the title role. The Green Hornet is a masked crime fighter which originally started as a radio play in the 30s, moving on to be a comic book series, and television series. The Green Hornet is a newspaper man by day, and a …