March 2008 News Archive (Page 4)

Ice Cube has sold his script for Janky Promoters to Dimension Films, the first script he's written since the last installment of the Friday series.

Ice Cube will star in the film as well as produce alongside partner Matt Alvarez.

Janky Promoters is the story of two music producers who get the chance to book a star hip-hop artist into a California venue. The pair prove inept and everything goes wrong. Could be funny.

You can read more about Janky Promoters at Variety.

We finally are getting the first glimpses of the bad guy, Iron Monger, from the new Iron Man movie starring Robert Downey Jr.

Iron Monger, whose alter ego is Obadiah Stane, is also a billionaire and builds his own suit to fight Iron Man.

Check out these Iron Man movie stills and tell us you're not excited for May 2!

Thanks to Yahoo Movies for the stills!

We got The Fifth Element on our brain. Maybe it was the news that Milla Jovovich was cast in a new movie.

Well no matter what it is, we added this 1997 sci-fi action flick to Reel. The Fifth Element stars Bruce Willis as the hero and Gary Oldman as the bad guy.

In typical Bruce Willis action flick, he's the sole man fighting an army of evil henchmen. Take a look at the following photos from this movie that reeked of style.

We added the cast info and even gave Luke Perry credit for his cameo. We love Dillon.

We also added 26 quotes from The Fifth Element.

John Krasinski of NBC's The Office fame recently told MTV Movies Blog about his latest project, a yet unnamed film.

The film will be directed by American Beauty's Sam Mendes and will be written by Dave Eggers and wife Vendela Vida.

The plot revolves around Krasinski's character and girlfriend played by Maya Rudolph.  Krasinski knocks up Rudolph's character and the two travel and visits friends while they look for a place to settle down.

The movie may not be heavy on plot, but it's supposed to be heavy on characters.  With these kinds of stars, we're sure it will still be good.

Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz have a new romantic comedy, What Happens in Vegas coming out May 9th.

In What Happens in Vegas, the duo get married after a crazy night in Vegas and win a slot jackpot. After a judge freezes their money, the two are forced to try and make their marriage work if they ever want to see it.

Check out the second What Happens in Vegas trailer courtesy of moviefone.

College Road Trip has been in theaters for a few weeks now, but we'd like to bring you some reviews in case you were thinking about wasting your money on it.

What did the critics think of Martin Lawrence's latest movie?

College Road Trip is better than most Martin Lawrence movies -- much as strep throat is better than malaria. -- New York Post

Eyes popping and mouths agape, Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symoné mug their way through College Road Trip as if it were a silent movie -- which, come to think of it, would have been a lot less irritating. -- New York Times

I don't know if there are more than three or four laughs here, not even for devoted pre-teen fans of Raven's cable show. -- Philadelphia Daily News

It's a dark day indeed when a movie's funniest moments involve Donny Osmond. -- Boston Globe

Julie Benz, of Dexter and Rambo fame, will star in the latest addition to the Saw Franchise, Saw V.

According to Variety, Saw V is set for release on October 24, 2008. That's less than a year since Saw IV. You have to give Lionsgate credit for pumping these things out.

Saw V will be directed by David Hackl and written by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. Production began on March 17h.

Elizbeth Banks is now in negotiations for the part of Laura Bush in Oliver Stone's W. Banks just recently finished filming Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, W will be the biography of President George W. Bush. Josh Brolin is signed up to play Bush himself.

Shooting for W will begin in April in Shreveport, Louisiana.

So far we know that Guillermo del Toro has signed up as the director for The Hobbit prequels.  We also know that Peter Jackson will server as producer this time around.

However, thanks to some questions and answers by Sir Ian McKellen on his blog, we can pretty much guarantee he'll be returning as Gandalf.  McKellen has previously expressed interest in the part, but now it nice to hear the powers that be agree!

Q: Have you been approached yet by Peter Jackson or anyone else about  reprising your wonderful role as Gandalf for the two upcoming  "Hobbit" movies. I read that principal photography begins in 2009,  and I can't imagine those movies without you!

A: Encouragingly, Peter and Fran Walsh have told me they couldn't imagine The Hobbit without their original Gandalf.  Their confidence hasn't yet been confirmed by the director Guillermo del Toro but I am keeping my diary free for 2009!

Q: So has it come to pass, good Sir McKellen? Shall  the dreaming masses with their musty books and  their blackened pipes at long last hear those  immortal words issue from under that famous nose?  "Yes, yes, my dear sir-and I know your name, Mr.  Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though  you don't remember that I belong to it. I am  Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! To think I should  have lived to be good-morninged by Belladonna  Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!"  Looking about, I find I share the same hopes as  millions of others, so I ask, a single query in a  chorus... Will you again be our Gandalf in "The  Hobbit" now that the deal is settled?

A: Yes I will, if Peter Jackson and I have anything to do with it, he being the producer and me being, on the whole, a very lucky actor.  I've just read your quote out loud - fabulous speech.

You can read the rest of McKellen's Lord of the Rings Posts at his E-Post.

Warner Bros just won the rights to create a movie out of Daily Show writer Josh Lieb's book, I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the incredibly long titled movie is about an overweight 13 year old boy who everyone assumes is the stupidest kid in the seventh grade. However, in reality this boy is an evil genius and the third richest person on the planet.

The kid apparently runs a secret compound underneath his parents home in suburbia and has to play it cool cause he can't claim his empire until he turns 18. He is running for class president to impress his father. Unfortunately, the techniques he used to stage coups in South America do not translate perfectly to running in a middle-school campaign.

Yes, we can't wait to read it.

Penguin Books bought the proposal for the book. Warner Bros will be making the movie with McG directing.