March 2009 News Archive (Page 5)

The director of Twilight, Catherine Hardwicke, has her sights set on a new young adult novel to turn into the next blockbuster, "Maximum Ride," according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The five-volume novel series focuses on a group of six teenagers, known as the Flock, who are genetically alterted to be part human and part bird.  When they learn to fly, they escape the lab where they were altered and are being chased by a pack of creatured, the Erasers, that are half human and half wolf.

Sounds like a perfect premise for a movie to us!  Don Payne, who recently wrote the horrible Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is writing the screen play.  Well that doesn't make us happy.

Paramount Pictures had recently won the right to make a movie adaptation out of the new Leanne Shapton book, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry.  Let's just call it Artifacts instead.

The book is told in the form of a estate auction catalog with 325 entries and photographs that describe the events and lives of a four year relationship between Hal Morris, a photographer, and Lenore Doolan, a food columnist.

According to Variety, the project will be developed as a romantic comedy and star Pitt as Morris and Natalie Portman as Doolan.

As Twilight fans surely know by now, the Special Edition DVD comes out this Friday.  Now what you may not know is that there's no need to put on pants to get your copy!

In just two short days, Twilight will simultaneously be released on Video on Demand and DVD on the same day.  TVN Entertainment will be in charge of distributing the movie for VOD in North America.  Luckily, TVN is by far the biggest VOD service, servicing over 46 million homes, so most likely it will be available in yours.

So Twilight fans, are you going DVD or VOD?

Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks initially set a July 1, 2011 release date for Transformers 3.  Turns out that was a bit ambitious.

Michael Bay recently posted the following on his site:

I said I was taking off a year from Transformers. Paramount made a mistake in dating Transformers 3 - they asked me on the phone - I said yes to July 4 - but for 2012 - whoops! Not 2011!!! That would mean I would have to start prep in September. No way. My brain needs a break from fighting robots

Can you blame the man?  Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen debuts on June 24, 2009.

The poster for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are made its debut in Nick Magazine and we got our hands onit.  The movie features Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara and Forest Whitaker and is set to released on October 16.

Click to enlarge the image of the poster.

The previously rumored Wall Street sequel has been given a name, Money Never Sleeps, and a description according to Latino Review.

According to their video, the sequel to the 1978 follows Gordon Gekko in 2002 after he's released from his 14-year prison sentence.  Gekko, whose book, "Moral Hazzard" launched him on to the financial lecture circuit, meets a young Wall Street hot shop named Jacob L. Moore.  Sorry, Bud Fox, you're old news.

Jacob's previous mentor committed suicide after rumors took down his former company, KZI.  When Moore discovers that a trader named Brenton Woods was responsible, Jacob goes to Gekko for advice in exacting revenge.

Oh, and of course, if that weren't enough, it turns out Jacob is enaged to Gekko's estranged daughter.  The movie will take place in New York, London, and Dubai.

It was previously rumor that Linda Hamilton would do voicework for the upcoming blockbuster, Terminator: Salvation.  Now CHUD has confirmed that Hamilton is definitely in.

Their source, who has seen the film, says that Hamilton's voice over is not long and is at the very beginning of the movie and is very similar in tone to her work in T2.

The acclaimed graphic novel adaptation Watchmen definitely did not maintain its box office rankings as predicted.  Watchmen dropped below Disney's family-friendly remake of Race to Witch Mountain.

Here's a chart of the final numbers from over the weekend:

1. Race to Witch Mountain: $25 million
2. Watchmen: $18.1 million
3. The Last House on the Left: $14.7 million
4. Miss March: $2.4 million

Watch out... Watchmen.  Sorry, that was cheesy even by our standards.

When caught in an elevator, Russell Brand hinted at some casting info to the Forgetting Sarah Marshall sequel, Get Him to the Greek, to MTV Movies Blog in the elevator.  Where else do you get casting news from?

According to the film's star, while only Jonah Hill will be appearing from the original, Marshall's star and writer, Jason Segel, will be writing the songs that Aldous Snow sings in the movie.

Additionally, Brand promises us a star in the film that's bigger than Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie.  Bold claims, sir.

New Line Cinema has decided to to bring the 1980s classic television show, MacGyver, to the big screen.  Verteran producer Dino De Laurentiis will be executive producer on the project and his daugther, Raffaella De Laurentiis, will be producing alongside the series creatoe Lee Zlotoff according to The Hollywood Reporter.

While no writer or star has been announced yet, New Line's Richard Brener said, "We think we're a stick of chewing gum, a paper clip and an A-list writer away from a global franchise."

Well said.