Rapper/actor Common has signed on to co-star in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.
Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin and Moon Bloodgood star in this follow-up to the wildly successful franchise. It’s set for release on May 22, 2009.
To introduce Common to the non-rap fan, here’s a video of the star in action:
Ellen Page is set to play one of English literature’s most famous characters, the heroine of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre.”
According to Variety, Alison Owen of Ruby Films, who most recently produced The Other Boleyn Girl, is working with BBC Films to develop the new adaptation of Bronte’s classic 19th century romance. The story focuses on a mousy governess that softens the heart of her surly employer Mr. Rochester… only to discover that he’s hiding a terrible secret.
This book is one of the most adapted novels in English literature. The last big screen adaptation, in 1996, was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starred Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Page most recently starred in Smart People.
With an Iron Man sequel guaranteed at this point, Entertainment Weekly caught up with Robert Downey Jr. and asked him about possible story lines for the follow-up, already set for theaters on April 30, 2010.
When you were brainstorming with Jon Favreau, what were the elements that you wanted to bring to the next Iron Man movie?
There’s this idea of Terrence Howard putting on a suit and coming back as War Machine, who is pretty iconic in the Iron Man and Marvel universe. Just seeing where it can all go, but grounding it in a very modern mythology. I see it as greatest dysfunctional family story ever told….
In The New York Post a couple days ago, [there was a cartoon] of Iron Man suited up, and he’s telling the governor even his super-powers can’t get him out of the budget problem. That was what Jon was hoping for and excited to see the most, the idea that Tony Stark and Iron Man can become part of the cultural fabric.
When we heard posters were being defaced to promote political or social ideas, he just got such a hoot out of that.
Lost among hype for this summer’s blockbusters - such as The Dark Knight and Sex and the City: The Movie - is a small, crude comedy called The Foot Fist Way.
Here’s the trailer for it:
A trio of comedies come out on DVD this week. Two are of the romantic variety, while one is of the stupid variety. Here’s a closer look at all three:
P.S. I Love You
Stars: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler
Why you should rent it: How often can you find a pleasant movie about a husband dying young?
Over Her Dead Body
Stars: Eva Longoria, Jason Biggs
Why you should rent it: Because the first movie listed here might not satisfy your need for deceased lovers that haunt their loved ones.
First Sunday
Stars: Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan
Why you should rent it: Because you you refuse to let 30 Rock convince you that Morgan is actually entertaining.
Rumors of Anchorman 2 were teased by Judd Apatow a few months ago.
But now Adam McKay - the writer behind the original movie and the co-creator of Funnyordie.com - has pretty much confirmed plans he and Will Ferrell have for an Anchorman sequel.
“Will and I are like let’s do Anchorman 2… we’re going to do it, for sure,” McKay said to Collider. “We’re dying to do it. Unless we can’t get the cast together, which is always kind of a tricky thing. But, I think, with that cast we’re all friends, so yeah, we want to do it.”
Yay! Anchorman 2 is on the way!
Nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards were announced this morning. The ceremony will be hosted by Mike Myers and will air on June 1.
Best Movie:
Best Female Performance:
Best Villain:
With Iron Man having left its impressive mark on the movie world this past weekend, the next big film on the horizon is Speed Racer. It opens on Friday.
Below, star Emile Hirsch talks with ComingSoon.net about filming such a special effects-oriented adventure…
CS: Were you loving the green screen experience? John Goodman said it was like working in low-budget theater.
Hirsch: That’s funny. That’s pretty funny. He’s right. There are no sets or props. It’s like your doing “Waiting for Godot” or something.
CS: What are your memories of it?
Hirsch: Just kind of this green wall, talking to it, thinking about it. What was really weird was doing the car scenes because we did it on a hydraulic pump called a gimbal. All of my anger in the film is so authentic because they were just slamming me around in the simulator for hours. It was green and hot and there are lights on you and you can’t move because you’re strapped in.
You get literally frustrated to the point where you want to rip the thing apart with a bat, and arrrggh. I think I have a drawing of me breaking it. I’m serious. All the scenes where I’m like arrrggh, it’s just me. Imagine if it was comfortable and I was happy, I’d be like, “Hey, guys, get out of my way” (smiling).
Read the full interview with Hirsch now.
On the heels of an almost $200 million weekend (!), Iron Man doesn’t appear just likely to come out with a sequel; Marvel Entertainment has confirmed a follow-up to this blockbuster.
The studio has released its feature film slate, starting in 2010. The already-rumored Iron Man 2 is set for April 30, 2010, followed by three more movies for the summers of 2010 and 2011:
In a conference call, Marvel Studios’ David Maisel said that Iron Man 2 will be used to introduce Thor.
Also, Regarding more Incredible Hulk movies, Maisel said they “definitely plan on continuing,” while adding that development continues on Spider-Man 4.
“I can’t give any other updates other than to say it’s in development and everybody’s excited about Spider-Man 4,” he said.
Rumors floating around the release of the Sex and the City movie - sparked by comments Cynthia Nixon made - state that a major character will die in the anticipated summer release.
Specifically, talk has turned to the possible death of Mr. Big (Chris Noth) because, come on, none of the fab four will be perishing. That would truly be insane.
But director Michael Patrick King says the idea of killing off Big would be equally idiotic for the franchise.
“Kill Mr. Big? I would have been chased around the planet by women with torches,” he joked to the Associated Press.
However, King did confide that he was looking to infuse some layers of melodrama into this film adaptation of the show; perhaps not as much as a darker drama would call for, though.
“My ultimate target,” King said, “was to make our ‘girlfriends’ — in other words, our audience — happy. And I don’t think Mr. Big dying would make them happy.”
When pressed on the possibility of potential other deaths, the director seemed to hint at something: “It’s a summer movie,” he said. “Why would I want to kill anyone?”
Considering summer is the season for action-packed thrilled that involve many heart beats coming to an end, sounds like sarcasm to us - and another reason to go see Sex and the City: The Movie!
