January 2009 News Archive (Page 11)

Iron Man might have found his new arch rivals.

Rumors are swirling that Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell will be cast in the sequel, which is scheduled for a May 2010 release.

Rourke, who is currently garnering Oscar buzz for his role in The Wrestler, would play a tattooed Russian named Ivan. He eventually becomes Whiplash, a man with deadly, technologically enhanced coils.

Rockwell would portray Justin Hammer, a billionaire businessman that often feuds Tony Stark. You can currently see the actor in Frost/Nixon, playing David Frost's researcher, writer James Reston, Jr.

What do you think of these Iron Man 2 rumors?

The People's Choice Awards aired last night. Here's a look at the major winners from the world of movies:

• Movie: The Dark Knight
• Family Movie: WALL-E
• Action Movie: The Dark Knight
• Movie, Comedy: 27 Dresses
• Movie, Drama: The Secret Life of Bees
• Cast: The Dark Knight (Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Maggie Gyllenhaal)
• Male Movie Star: Will Smith
• Leading Man: Brad Pitt
• Male Action Star: Will Smith
• Female Movie Star: Reese Witherspoon

Attention, Twilight fans: the highest-grossing vampire love story of 2008 comes to DVD on March 21.

Moreover, director Catherine Hardwicke told MTV recently that the DVD would include at least 12 deleted scenes, including one from “Midnight Sun”, the book that tells the story from Edward’s perspective (author Stephenie Meyer abandoned when it was prematurely leaked online).

Here's the cover for the upcoming Twilight DVD:

Olivia Wilde is speaking out about the upcoming sequel to Tron.

In an interview with Sci Fi Wire, the House star opened up - as most as she could - about the buzzed about follow-up:

The film will be just as impressive for our time as it was in 1982 for the original. The technological advances have, of course, been enormous, and the effects that we have access to have been so revolutionary. ... We saw an incredible advancement in technology with the use of the face replacement in Benjamin Button, and I think that is marking some of what's to come, and certainly .... in the direction of Tron.

Just as far as people being incredibly innovative and taking huge steps forward as far as using technology to create alternative realities. And I think that it's really going to please people that it's going to be just as kind of huge and shocking and just as much of a new movie-watching experience as the first one was.

The Unborn opens January 16.

The thriller stars a pair of rising actors Odette Yusman and Cam Gigandet. 

Click on the following images from the movie for a closer look...

Kate Hudson was recently asked by ComingSoon.net about her new comedy, Bride Wars.

Can the actress relate to her and/or Anne Hathaway's character in the movie? This was Hudson's reply:

I feel like creatively I'm constantly watching other people and I have so many friends that are all so different and all things are different to other people. So I can relate to a lot whether it's me that's like that or my best girlfriend. I'm so not like Liv in terms of how my girlfriend is and who I sort of based the whole hair thing after.

She's in the hair salon like two times a week. She won't dip her foot in water because her hair might get frizzy. That to me is Liv. I can't relate to that, but I can because I know someone who's like that and it cracks me up. But in terms of weddings and stuff I can relate to it because I like to dress up. I like to dress up and I like to have a party. I like to throw parties. I like to bring people together. So I can relate to that. Look, everyone has their own opinion about the sanctity of marriage or what it is that they believe.

I come from two parents that aren't married. Well, I come from one parent who ended up not marrying my other parent. It's sort of a complicated household. So it's a little unconventional how I see it, but I can relate to it. And I got married and it was great and it was a blast. Everyone should do it.

McG has chosen the first film he'll helm after Terminator Salvation.

Variety reports the director will stand behind the camera for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo, a family movie that's being fast tracked by Walt Disney Pictures.

The flick will be an origin story of Nemo, as he creates his warship, the Nautilus.

The 1954 original 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was the first live-action film made by Walt Disney; it won three Oscars.

Garrett Hedlund has been tapped to star in the Tron sequel, the follow-up to the 1982 cult classic.

Hedlund has previously appeared in Troy, Friday Night Lights, Four Brothers, Eragon and Georgia Rule.

Garrett Hedlund is an actor on the rise.

Hedlund will take on the lead role in the next Tron, someone that finds himself yanked into the world of a computer, retracing the steps of a character from the original movie named Kevin Flynn.

In the next few days, Summit Entertainment is expected to announce its cast for New Moon, the next film based on Stephenie Meyer's successful follow-up to Twilight.

Kristen Stewart will return as Bella Swan; while Robert Pattinson has a lock on his role of Edward Cullen.

But rumors have been swirling about Taylor Lautner's status in the sequel. His character of Jacob is greatly expanded in New Moon... literally!

''Jacob is a totally different character in New Moon,'' said Melissa Rosenberg, screenwriter of both Twilight films. ''He's a foot taller and huge — and he's supposed to look 25. It's really a question of whether or not the same actor can play the role.''

Lautner says he's already packed 19 pounds onto his frame, however, and Entertainment Weekly reports that he's now likely to reprise the role of Jacob.

"Everyone would love to keep him. We all think he's the loveliest person ever," Rosenberg said.

The Producers Guild has announced its five nominations for Best Picture, a list that ought to put the Oscar race into clear focus.

Over the last five years, the Guild has matched four of the five eventual Best Picture nominees.

Its nominees are:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• Slumdog Millionaire

Due to its unique take on a fascinating subject, we'd like to see Slumdog Millionaire take the Best Picture prize.