June 2009 News Archive (Page 4)

Craig Robinson, Heather Graham, Johnny Knoxville, and Camilla Belle have all joined the cast of Kevin Spacey's upcoming ensemble comedy, Father of Invention.

The flick, which is being indepdently produced by Spacey, follows an inventor / billionaire (Spacey) who spends eight years in prison after one of his inventions goes wrong.  When he's released, the inventor seeks to rebuild his reputation and fortune, but finds that's harder than fixing his relationship with his family.

Robinson will play the new husband of the former billionaire's ex-wife.  Robinson is now living is his home and driving his car, yet helps the man get back on his feet.

Belle will play his daughter, a social worker that's hesitant to get close to her father again, while Graham will play her lesbian roommate.

Knoxvile will play a store manager that first hires the ex-convict.

Production begins this week in New Orleans.

The upcoming movie about Facebook's creation, entitled The Social Network, may have just landed a high profile director in David Finch.  According to Variety, Columbia is in advanced talks with Fincher, who last directed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

The script, which is penned by Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The West Wing), is about the evolution of Facebook from its 2004 creation by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg to the 200 million member jugernaut the site has become.

So will a high profile director and a talented writer make this ridiculous premise for a movie watchable?

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opens in theaters today, but it already has been setting records with its midnight showings early this morning.

The sequel to the original blockbuster earned an estimate $16 million, making it the second highest gross midnight run after The Dark Knight's $18.5 million.

So why is this a record?  The Dark Knight had the advantage of opening on a Friday.  Transformers 2 is the highest grossing midnight run for any Wednesday midnight showing.

Don't be so angry.  Second place is still pretty impressive!

Nobody puts out movies as fast as Tyler Perry.  His latest cash cow, I Can Do All By Myself is set to hit theaters this fall on September 11th.

In his latest movie, Madea (Perry) finds a sixteen-year-old and her two little brothers robbing her house.  She sends the kids to live with their only known relative, Aunt April.

April is a bit of a drinker and a nightclub singer.  April, of course doesn't originally want the kids, but as she falls in love with some Mexican immigrant, Sandino, she changes her ways.

Anyways, due to its auto-playing of audio, the motion poster is after the jump.

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It turns out Katherine Heigl is not leaving Grey's Anatomy after all.

But this isn't stopping the actress from expanding her big screen resume.

According to Variety, Heigl will star in Life as We Know It, a movie about two single people that must come together to raise an orphaned child. And fall in love, it's safe to assume.

The film will directed by Greg Berlanti; while the actress herself is coproducing it along with her mother, Nancy.

The New Moon publicity machine is just getting started.

A few months before the Twilight sequel hits theaters, Little, Brown Book Group will release a cover of the book that ties in to the movie. In what way?

By featuring a pair of the film's stars: Taylor Lautner (as Jacob) and Kristen Stewart (as Bella).

Edward, of course, is never out of sight or out of mind in the story. Robert Pattinson is lurking in the background of the new cover below...

After nearly a decade, Cher returns to the big screen in a star role.  No, we're not counting her cameo in the 2003 disastrous Stuck on You.

Cher will be joining alongside Christina Aguilera in the contemporary musical, Burlesque.

Aguilera will play an ambitious small-town Iowa girl who comes to work in a modern burlesque home on Sunset Boulevard that's run by Tess (Cher), a former dancer struggling to keep the club open.

Cher will sing on screen in the musical.  Production begins in November.

The ucoming live action comedy, The Zookeeper, which stars Kevin James and Rosario Dawson, has settled on its cast to voice the roles of the animals in the movie.

According to Variety, the voice actors will include Adam Sandler, Cher, Jon Favreau, Sylvester Stallone, and Judd Apatow in addition to the already casted Jim Breuer, Fiazon Love, and Bas Rutten.

Sandler, who is also a producer, will voice a capuchin monkey.  Cher, Favereau, Stallone, and Apatow will voice a giraffe, bear, lion and elephant respectively.

The film centers on zoo animals trying to teacher their keeper (Kevin James) their methods of dating and mating to help him win the woman of his dreams (Rosario Dawson).

The Zookeeper is set to start filming in later summer for an October 8, 2010 release.

According to Superhero Hype, Michael Papajohn (the actor, not the mediocre pizza chain) appeared at a panel at Wizard World Philadelphia and told fans that he would reprise his role as Dennis Carradine in Spider-Man 4.

Carradine was the carjacker that allegedly killed Uncle Ben in the original Spider-Man, only for them to tell us it was his partner Flint Marko / Sandman to commit the crime in Spider-Man 3.

We're hoping this means Carradine might become a villain and we're not doing yet another flashback to a scene that's been beaten worse than any horse we've seen.

M. Night Shyamalan's live action big screen adaptation of the popular anime show, Avatar: The Last Airbender, isn't due out in theaters until July 2nd, of 2010, but that didn't stop the studio from releasing a teaser trailer.

This trailer reveals the title character of the movie, Aang, training inside before he comes outside to face hundreds of ships firing at him.  Watch the trailer below for The Last Airbender.