Jason Statham will reprise the role of hitman Chev Chelios in Crank 2: High Voltage for Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment.
In the Crank sequel, Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
Here’s an inside look at the upcoming Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy movie, Wanted.
According to IMDB, it’s about a young man (McAvoy) that finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father’s old organization and trained by a man named Sloan (Morgan Freeman) to follow in his dad’s footsteps.
Here are a couple images from the film:
A live-action adaptation of The Green Lantern finally looks to be coming to fruition. Warner Brother has hired Greg Berlanti to co-write and direct the film, according The Hollywood Reporter.
The Green Lantern is one of DC Comics’ most enduring and popular characters. Created in 1940, the story revolves around test pilot Hal Jordan, as he’s charged with defending a section of the universe after he finds a powerful ring that gives him infinite powers, including flight and invisibility.
Berlanti’s previous directing credit was the 2000 movie The Broken Hearts Club; since then, he’s worked regularly in TV, writing and executive-producing shows such as Dawson’s Creek, Everwood and Brothers and Sisters.
“To me this is the last great comic book movie that hasn’t been made,” Berlanti said. “It was a comic book with a real mythology that you would see in a lot of the space operas and sci-fi books. The best part about it, anybody can become one of the Green Lanterns because anyone can end up with that ring.”
With controversy swirling around his exiting of The Lovely Bones (after one day of shooting), Ryan Gosling has finally spoken out about the supposed rift between himself and Peter Jackson.
“I think, people are making it a far more interesting story than it actually is,” Gosling said. “The age of the character versus my real age was always a concern of mine. Peter and I tried to make it work and ultimately it just didn’t. I think the film is much better off with Mark Walhberg in that role.
Peter Jackson is an incredible filmmaker and I’m here to tell you that he has things up his sleeve that are going to blow peoples’ minds. I’m going to be the first person in line to buy tickets.”
A week before Valentine’s Day, the ultimate romantic stars in a new movie: yes, folks, Paris Hilton has a lead role in The Hottie and the Nottie.
And her co-stars didn’t exactly know what to expect from the socialite.
“I didn’t know what to expect going in quite frankly,” Christine Lakin told MTV. “But I can’t say enough about how much [Hilton] went out of her way to embrace both myself and my co-star [Joel Moore]; she was so lovely.”
In the comedy, Hilton refuses to marry her on-screen boyfriend (Moore) until he finds a suitable suitor for her fugly best friend, played by Lakin.
“I truly look like a cavewoman in this film,” laughed Lakin, who underwent two hours of makeup and prosthetics each day before shooting. “I had moles, acne and a unibrow! I was balding!”
The film will mark the first leading role for Paris, but Lakin swears that off screen, Hilton is anything but snotty. In fact, the twosome even spent girlie time bonding at the heiress’s house.
“Her house was very nice, beautifully decorated and modest,” Lakin said. “But her closet is to die for - absolutely gorgeous!
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle has become a cult classic on DVD, along the lines of Old School and Anchorman.
So it was probably a no-brainer for writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg to pen a follow-up, tentatively called Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, but also known for now simply as Harold & Kumar 2.
During the Austin Film Festival, Schlossberg said the sequel is “going to be just like Eurotrip, but it’s not going to suck.” He went on to explain that the original script for the sequel was a lot like Eurotrip… but then that movie came out, the plot had to be changed.
“I think we ended up with a much better story as a result,” Schlossberg said. “We were thinking - if they go on a plane, what kind of stereotypes are they going to deal with there. It’s very balls-out crass, offensive, shocking, gross - there’s that type of comedy in the movie, but another layer with it that we hope connects the same way the first one did.”
Hurwitz added: “The movie isn’t overly political… but it’s about taking these guys and examining another thing that’s been going on in our society for the past few years. We put them in this mistaken identity situation, they’re mistaken as terrorists, thrown into Guantanamo Bay.
The second act of this movie is that Harold and Kumar have escaped and they’re on the run like The Fugitive. So it’s exploring America in a different kind of way and hopefully provides the laughs the first one did.”
It may be the most respected film of 2008.
Here’s the movie trailer for Iron Man, starring Robert Downey, Jr.
Forgive Marc Forster if he doesn’t have too many answers regarding Bond 22 right now.
The director behind the next James Bond movie has been hard at work on another publicized project: the adaption of the best-selling book, The Kite Runner.
He recently told Comingsoon.net what made him sign up for such varying types of movies back-to-back:
“After doing The Kite Runner and being in this world and being in tents in Western China in the hardest conditions where obviously, you don’t have any stars, so you’re limited with your budget and what you can do,” Forster said.
“Ultimately, the studio has to watch out for the commercial possibilities of the films, so doing a Bond film next is just a new challenge, something different. I always like - if you look at my films - I always like to do the opposite of what I just did.”
Makes sense to us.
But what about the casting of Bond 22? Any news, aside from Daniel Craig as Bond, of course?
“No, I still have to do it all. I’ve been really focusing on The Kite Runner as well, so there has been no casting news, nothing.”
Click here to read the full interview.
Guillermo del Toro, the award-winning director behind Pan’s Labyrinth, will be behind the camera for the follow-up to Hellboy.
Here’s a plot synopsis of this movie, which should be a summer blockbuster in 2008:
After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures.
Now, it’s up to the planet’s toughest, roughest superhero to battle the merciless dictator and his marauders. He may be red. He may be horned. He may be misunderstood. But when you need the job done right, it’s time to call in Hellboy!
Along with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development - pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Doug Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann - the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one, where creatures of fantasy become corporeal. A
nd Hellboy, a creature of two worlds who’s accepted by neither, must choose between the life he knows and an unknown destiny that beckons him.
Denzel Washington is currently starring alongside Russell Crowe in American Gangster.
So John Travolta has his work cut out for him.
Nevertheless, the actor has joined The Taking of Pelham 123, negotiating to join Washington in the Tony Scott-directed remake.
Travolta will play the leader of a quartet that hijacks a Gotham subway train and threatens to kill the passengers unless a ransom is paid. The role was originated in the 1974 film by Robert Shaw. Washington portrays the chief detective of security for the subway, a role originated by Walter Matthau in the original film.
Reportedly, Scott heavily courted Travolta to make Pelham his first action role in years. Travolta is coming off a drag turn as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray and is currently re-teaming with Wild Hogs helmer Walt Becker in Old Dogs.
We have no idea why.