August 2008 News Archive (Page 22)

At Comic-Con last week, Mark Wahlberg was asked if the role of Max Payne - for the movie Max Payne, based on the video game Mark Wahlberg - was a difficult character to get into.

He laughed off the notion.

“After doing The Lovely Bones, where you know also dealing with loss and a horrific act of violence, but then being able to do something about it was so nice. I remember The Happening had just came out and I walked into the editing room with it, the looping stage with John and he showed me some shit and I was just fuc---ing screaming with excitement.

I was so happy that my career was saved. My life, my credibility, my ability to walk down the street was in a hood again. I was just like yeah. I really was. I was fuc---ing screaming at the top of my lungs for like five fuc---ing minutes. But this is the kind of thing that I want to go and see.

I don't want to be told what I can and can't do, I want to try something different, I want to be able to play a lawyer, play a doctor but I feel most comfortable when I'm in a world like this.”

Look for Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne on October 17.

Here's our latest photo from the anticipated vampire flick, Twilight.

The popular book franchise has earned comparisons to Harry Potter, but is focused on an older demographic.

In this scene, main character Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) have an intimate chat:

For the record, it's unclear if a third Hellboy movie will ever be made.

But if it is, director Guillermo del Toro has said, it "would be facing your destiny, if such a thing exists, and making the ultimate decision."

Sounds like a third movie would be the end of Hellboy, doesn't it? One important individual has a prolem with this, however: Hellboy creator, comic book writer Mike Mignola.

“The problem is, what del Toro’s talked about to me is that ‘Hellboy III’ would be the end of Hellboy,” Mignola said. “And here’s where we have the big conflict. My version of Hellboy in the comics is a finite story, but it’s going to take me 15 years to get to the ending. If [del Toro] makes ‘Hellboy III’ and it’s the death of Hellboy, I’m left doing the comic going, ‘But I’m not done yet.’

Mignola added:

"My Hellboy is going to die, but I want to be the one who does that. And if del Toro does my ending, there won’t be a lot of surprise when I get to the end of the comic."

For now, the issue is moot. But we'll let you know if and when a third Hellboy movie is planned.

Despite the luke warm reviews for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, director George Lucas doesn't sound afraid to make another installment of this beloved franchise.

He does wanna clear up rumors that the next film would center on Shia LaBeouf's character of Mutt Williams, though.

"Indiana Jones is Indiana Jones," Lucas told MTV. "Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones. If it was Mutt Williams it would be Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis or something."

As for plot of another Indiana Jones movie, Lucas said finding a subject was crucual to getting the project off the ground.

"We are looking for something for him to go after. They are very hard to find. It's like archaeology. It takes a huge amount of research to come up with something like that."

Look for Eli Roth to appear in Inglorious Bastards.

The director of Hostel will portray a baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter in Quentin Tarantino's next movie, which starts production this fall in Europe.

Brad Pitt is all but confirmed to play Aldo Raine, leader of a rogue band of Jewish-American soldiers who wreak havoc on the bad guys in Nazi-occupied France. Roth's character's name is Sgt. Donnie Donowitz.

Danny McBride is a rising star in the world of comedy.

He wrote the critically acclaimed indie feature The Foot Fist Way and has a role in two summer comedies: Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder.

The actor recently spoke to ComingSoon.net about the unusual experience of having a pair of major films come out at once:

It's nuts. There's two big action comedies this summer and they come out a week apart from each other, which is crazy, but I guess the audience is the lucky ones. I've seen both these films and they're both so f*cking awesome and I really do feel like they're groundbreaking as far as summer comedies go.

It's like you haven't seen it like this, it's good. Three cheers for the R-rated comedy. I think it's a good thing as long as those movies are making money it makes things more interesting.

Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder come out tomorrow and August 13, respectively.

Fans piling into IMAX theaters for The Dark Knight will soon be privy to a trailer for Eagle Eye. The to suspense thrilled will receive a simultaneous IMAX DMR release along with its 35mm opening on September 26.

In the movie, Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan are two strangers who become the pawns of a mysterious woman. She somehow knows their every move.

The characters realize they're being used to further her diabolical plot and must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed.

That collective sigh of relief you can probably hear from all sides of the country?

It's coming from Kevin Smith, now that his next movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, has avoided an NC-17 rating.

The director has won an appeal to the Motion Picture Association of Americalower that figure to an R-rating. Spokeswoman Elizabeth Kaltman said Tuesday the rating was revised after the group's appeals board viewed the movie.

"We didn't set out to make an NC-17 film. That's just commercial suicide," Smith said.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno is due out October 31. It, stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as best friends who try to make a homemade porn flick to dig themselves out of debt.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona has a couple things going for it:

1. It's written and directed by Woody Allen;
2. It stars Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson; i.e. something for men and women!

In case you need to know more about the movie that opens on August 15, here's its trailer:

Below, read through a handful of quotes from the upcoming Seth Rogen comedy, Pineapple Express.

We'll update our complete collection of Pineapple Express quotes after it opens this weekend, but you can still follow that link and vote on your favorite quotes now. Enjoy!

Saul: I just got a shipment of Pineapple Express, the dopest dope I've ever smoked. Smellll it. It's like... God's vagina.

Dale Denton: How could he find us?
Saul: Umm, heat-seeking missiles, bloodhounds, foxes, barracudas.
Dale Denton: It's just... I'm kinda flabbergasted when you say things like that. It's weird.
Saul: Thank you.
Dale Denton: Not a compliment.

[Dale and Saul are running and Dale sees Saul jump into a dumpster]
Dale Denton: Whoa, whoa! I gotta get to a phone man. Come on!
Saul: No, no! I think we should stay.
Dale Denton: Why?
Saul: [pause] Cause I'm in the dumpster already.

Saul: I just got a shipment of Pineapple Express, the dopest dope I've ever smoked. Smellll it. It's like... God's vagina.

Dale Denton: How could he find us?
Saul: Umm, heat-seeking missiles, bloodhounds, foxes, barracudas.
Dale Denton: It's just... I'm kinda flabbergasted when you say things like that. It's weird.
Saul: Thank you.
Dale Denton: Not a compliment.