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What Happens In Vegas Trailer #2

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.

 

Reel Movie Reviews: College Road Trip

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

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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 to Play Lead in Saw V

Julie Benz 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 Cast as Laura Bush in W

Elizabeth Banks Photo 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.

Ian McKellen to Play Gandalf in The Hobbit?

Ian McKellan Picture 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 bought I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

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.

Rob Cohen Updates on Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor director, Rob Cohen, gives us some updates on the latest installment of the Mummy franchise on his blog.

Here's a small excerpt:

There's more good news on "The Mummy" front: I have shown the film to the exec's at Universal and they are through-the-roof ecstatic. We screened a few weeks ago for all the relevant department heads (home video, distribution, foreign, p.r., marketing, etc.) and the reaction was unanimous. It's running around 1 hr. 53 minutes and, daily as we hone, it's taking its final shape. The studio has been very collaborative and supportive. You know they love it when they ask you if you need any more money to enhance the visual effects budget!!! Are there more shots that I want to do but didn't have the money to do?!!! Of course, the answer is yes; there is never enough to entertain the audience in any film. That kind of support from Chairmen Marc Shmuger and David Linde, President Donna Langley, and V.P.'s Jeff Kirschenbaum and Erik Baiers is rare in Hollywood so I am very pleased all the way around.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Movie Still

Cohen goes on to to talk a lot about what's keeping the movie in post production so long. You can read the full blog entry.

Hugh Jackman and Guggenheim Create Nowhere Man

Hugh Jackman in a t-shirt X-Men star, Hugh Jackman teams up with Eli Stone co-creator, Marc Guggenheim to create a new comicbook series, Nowhere Man.

According to Variety, Nowhere Man features a protagonist reminscient of Will Smith's character in I Am Legend.

Guggenheim has experience with comicbooks as he's written issues of "Amazing Spider-Man" and "Wolverine" for Marvel Comics.

Jackman, of course, has experience with comicbooks as he's played Wolverine in the past three X-Men movies and is working on X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The comicbook will be published under Virgin Voices line. The creators are already planning trying videogames and movies with their Nowhere Man comic.

Reel Movie Reviews: Meet the Browns

reel-reviews-logo44.jpgTyler Perry's Meet the Browns based on Tyler Perry's play of the same name, has been in theaters for almost a week now. What did critics think of this producer, writer, director, and actor's lastest work?

To appreciate Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, there's really only one requirement: Loosen up. -- Washington Post

An adaptation of one of his stage plays, Meet the Browns gives off the distinct feeling that Perry is treading water or at the very least is content to satisfy his audience with the minimum. -- Los Angeles Times

Feel-good themes of resilience, faith and family aren't sufficient to redeem this scattershot single-parent dramedy from the Diary of a Mad Black Woman auteur. -- E! Online

Leroy Brown

Meet the Browns is lots of fun -- light on the Jesus-ifying and heavy on showcasing some very talented African-American performers whom audiences don't get to see often enough. You'll be glad to have been introduced. -- MSNBC

Reel Movie Reviews: The Hammer

reel-reviews-logo44.jpgThe Hammer is the brain child of Adam Carolla.  He fought hard to get this movie made, so what did the critics think?

The script depends heavily on familiar stand-up comedy bits, but it's full of sharp wisecracks and slacker charm. --  The New York Post

Carolla's gangling charm and improv rhythms nicely loosen up helmer Charles Herman-Wurmfeld's studied setups without ever deviating from the story's solid underlying structure.  -- Variety

So many movies these days are overworked or overblown: The Hammer feels genuinely tossed-off. It isn't a great movie, or even a consistently good one. Yet it gets to elusive feelings about failure and success, hope and mortality. -- The Wall Street Journal

Jerry Wins!

If you liked Rocky Balboa you should be in good shape, since it's exactly the same movie, just aimed at a teeny-tiny-bit younger demographic and with an affectless leading man who avoids hambone acting by not acting at all. -- Salon.com

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