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New Edge Of Darkness UK Quad
1 hour ago
Remakes, eh? Dreadful things: someone takes a great British TV series and puts in a huge star and, er, the same director and...and...wait a minute. This one sounds good! Yes, Edge of Darkness is the upcoming thriller from director Martin Campbell and star Mel Gibson, based on Campbell's acclaimed 1985 TV show, and it emphatically does not sound like another Charlie's Angels.In his first lead role since 2002's Signs, Gibson stars as Thomas Craven, a homicide detective whose daughter is killed in an apparent attack on his life. As he investigates her death, he discovers more to the murder than was initially apparent, and a lot of sinister goings-on that we wouldn't want to spoil.Edge of Darkness is out on January 29, 2010 in the UK and Us. Looks like Gibson is back, back, back.
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Sex And The City 2 Poster Revealed
3 hours ago
So, here we are then, Sex And The City 2. And firstly – wow. We haven’t seen this much airbrushing since, well, we just haven’t seen this much airbrushing. And aren’t there four women in this film? Are Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda hiding somewhere in those ginormous shades?With Dubai having said no to SATC2’s filming request this summer, a quick look at the pyramids reflected in Carrie’s Giant sunglasses (we know there’s an 80s flashback but seriously…) suggest a trip to Egypt could be on the cards instead, but once we stop being blinded by multiple light sources there’s what would seem to be the show and films' real star, New York, lurking slightly embarrassed behind that vast sequinned 2.Product placement is all present and correct (check out the way Chanel is spelled out on her clutch) and that dress is a mite
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Lovely Bones International Poster
8 hours ago
Its release date is rapidly approaching, but there's still time for one more poster for The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's book. And yes, that sunset looks remarkably like Saoirse Ronan. And no, we're not sure if that means shepherd's delight or shepherd's warning in the field of meteorological-fortune-telling-based-on-sky-colouring.As you no doubt already know, this is the story of a 14 year-old girl called Susie Salmon (Ronan), murdered and left to watch over her family from heaven as they struggle to deal with her loss. Perhaps surprisingly given that plot summary, it's not a total downer.The film has, of course, already premiered in London, and gets a limited Us release from December 11 (can you say "Oscar qualification?") but isn't released until January 15 in the Us and January 29 here in the UK.
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Skipping To Hit The Big Screen
8 hours ago
With Dance Flick and the Fame remake effectively hammering the last nails in the dance movie's coffin (we’re watching you, Footloose remake – don’t be rubbish), producers are heading back to youth sports. With Drew Barrymore’s roller derby flick Whip It getting great reviews across the pond, and everything from American football to, erm, synchronised swimming chalking up the silver-screen treatment this decade, it's now the turn of skipping in Jump Around.Not just any old skipping mind you – double-dutch jump-roping (we think it’s a slightly more refined version of "Bumper Car Bumper Car"), which officially became an officially-recognised school sport in New York this year. Duane Adler, who co-wrote hit dance flicks Step Up and Save The Last Dance is on the books to rewrite and direct Jump Around, a screenplay based on that sport, with What Women Want producer Matt Williams on board too.
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Square Up For Wife Vs. Ninja
10 hours ago
It's not the most obvious of face-offs, perhaps - hardly up there with Alien vs. Predator or Superman Vs. Batman - but Wife Vs. Ninja is set for the screen with DreamWorks, and it actually sounds kinda fun.This is the story of a Long Island housewife whose scientist husband leaves her for a beautiful young intern. Our heroine discovers that said intern is in fact a ninja assassin out to steal her husband's work, and has to find a way to get rid of the bitch before the latter can accomplish her goal and (presumably) leave the cheating, lying husband dead in a ditch somewhere. Why the wife cares about his fate we're not sure, but it's still a great premise.Producer Michael Besman (Seven Years in Tibet, Georgia Rule) came up with the story, is producing and will write the script with debutant screenwriters Michael Zam and Jaffe Cohen.
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Jonah Hex Headed For Reshoots
11 hours ago
According to the lads over at Bloody Disgusting, it looks like Warners' adaptation of Jonah Hex is headed back to the studio for additional shooting.Hearing that a movie is headed for additional camera time months after it originally wrapped is usually cause for concern - though not always, as some directors simply need extra time once the first couple of cuts are complete to fill in gaps or squeeze in new ideas.But when that news comes linked to word that original Hex director Jimmy Hayward will have I Am Legend's Francis Lawrence "consulting" on the new footage, that's when the alarm bells start to ring.Hayward, of course, is making his live-action debut with the movie after directing Blue Sky's Horton Hears A Who! He's also got plenty of experience under his belt - he spent time at Pixar before moving on to direct Robots and Horton.
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Cameron Diaz Grabs Bad Teacher
12 hours ago
Cameron Diaz has signed on the dotted line to star in Sony's new comedy Bad Teacher.She'll swear up a storm and sex things up as an arrogant, gold-digging educator who gets dumped by her boyfriend and then locks horns with a colleague over a sexy, yet perfect and sweet male teacher they're both aiming to land.Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupinsky, who write for the Us version of The Office, are responsible for the script. Let's hope it's better than the awful Year One, their last produced screenplay. We've got more faith in director Jake Kasdan, who most recently made the underrated Walk Hard.
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Donna Murphy Joins Rapunzel
12 hours ago
Donna Murphy - who some of you may remember from her role as Doc Ock's wife in Spider-Man 2 - has joined the cast of Disney's CG animated Rapunzel. Murphy will be channelling her evil side for the role of Mother Gothel, the nasty witch who keeps the long-haired Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) locked away in a tower without doors or stairs until the girl escapes with the help of a bandit (Zachary Levi). Bolt's Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, who took over the project when it stalled under Glen Keane, are busy working to get it ready for a release late next year.
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Eclipse Will Play In Imax
12 hours ago
You knew it was coming. After New Moon took in trillions, it was only a matter of time before the bods at Imax came calling.So it goes: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which Hard Candy's David Slade is even now labouring to shove through post-production, will be digitally remastered for the biggest screens.It might not be the traditional fare that usually gets the Imax treatment - The Dark Knight, or CG family 'toons, say - but it's got that massive, ticket-happy audience and a lot more action than the last two films (vampires vs werewolves: fight! fight! fight!), if Summit have been as faithful as in the past.So when Eclipse arrives next June, according to executives from both companies, you'll be able to enjoy a more immersive experience and really feel like you're in the movie. That's a proposition to either send your squee-o-meter off the charts, or
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Disney Books Up Fallen
12 hours ago
Picture the scene: an alienated girl finds herself drawn to - and torn between - two charismatic young men. Sound like something you've read/watched before? If you screamed "Twilight" with all the gusto of a toddler at a birthday party, then take a prize! But it's actually the plot of Fallen, Lauren Kate's young-adult novel, and Disney's latest literary acquisition.Spotting a chance to tap into some of that sweet Twi-dough, the Mouse House has bought the rights to Kate's four-tome series, which feature the twist that the two male beaus aren't vampires or werewolves, but fallen angels (hence the title).It's too early for a director, writer or any cast to be attached yet, but you just know Disney has already kicked off the search for a pair of unknown hunks to play the angelic suitors....
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Dougray Scott Finds The Veil Of Maya
12 hours ago
Still trying to forget that he had a role in Hitman, Dougray Scott has signed on to star in Dana Lustig's indie romantic fantasy The Veil Of Maya.Alex Kustanovich and Vadim Moldovan wrote the script, which, according to Variety, is a "Kafkaesque story of a woman who travels back in time to undo a relationship in order to avoid its tragic finale." So, Back To The Future meets The Time Traveller's Wife? Or, er, something.Lustig will start cranking the cameras next month in London, so if locals see Scott wandering around looking like he's being stalked by a woman from the future, now you know why.
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What Is James Cameron Working On?
15 hours ago
Now that his latest labour of love (and shouting at people to do better) is finally over and Avatar is days away from our cinemas, you might think James Cameron would take it easy for a while. But that's not really his style: he's apparently developing another sci-fi script.Okay, so he's probably not jumping straight back into production on another film, but it looks like Cameron will be keeping a few cinematic irons hot while he ponders his next move. Case in point? Production Weekly's report of him overseeing a screenplay from Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem/Shaft/Armageddon writer Shane Salerno. It's described as an "action script of Fox, an 'event' film set in the future." Naturally, speculation will fly, but it doesn't necessarily sound like Battle Angel Alita, which Cameron has been slowly designing alongside Avatar, nor does it point to any of his other announced projects.
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On Yer Bike: New Tron Pictures
23 hours ago
With the year-to-go countdown clock ticking away until Tron: Legacy is released, it’s time for the teasers to start in earnest and the good news is that these two images are just as impressive as July’s teaser trailer: one a poster focusing on leading man Garrett Hedlund in the iconic bike race – nice T formation with the bikes there, well done that designer – and the other a screenshot of Hedlund’s Sam Flynn and Olivia Wilde’s as-yet unnamed ‘Companion’.The teaser got us very excited indeed, and if you haven’t seen it yet, what are you waiting for – get watching!Stay tuned for more on Tron: Legacy coming up in February’s issue of Empire. To see the full thing you'll need to wait until December 26 2010.
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Sorcerer's Apprentice Trailer Online
9 December 2009 9:05 AM, PST
To this point, the new take on The Sorcerer's Apprentice has mostly been known for the stunts that went wrong and Nic Cage's shaggy 'do. But now the the first proper trailer has arrived, and we can get a look at the action-stuffed take on a story that Disney last tackled with Mickey Mouse in Fantasia. Our hero is Balthazar Blake (Cage) a magician with serious power, who is trying defend New York (and the rest of the world) from the evil Horvath (Alfred Molina).To help, he recruits young Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel of Knocked Up and Tropic Thunder), who he believes has the capacity to become just as adept in the ways of sorcery. Cue hefty set-pieces, CG creatures of all sorts of sizes and Baruchel looking wide-eyed at it all while Cage ladles on the twinkly madcap charm he brings to the films he makes with Jon Turteltaub
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New Poster For A Prophet
9 December 2009 6:08 AM, PST
It won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and has garnered near universal acclaim to date, and now Jacques Audiard's A Prophet is finally nearing its UK release - so here's a spiffy new poster from the film to whet your appetite.It's all the story of Malik (Tahar Rahim), a young French-Arab sentenced to six years in prison. Small, brittle and illiterate, it initially seems unlikely that he'll even survive his incarceration, but after falling in with a Corsican gang inside (France's answer to Sicily, we're saying), Malik's natural wit sees him rise to a position of power.A Prophet is out in the UK on January 22.
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Josh Brolin For Mib 3?
8 December 2009 10:12 PM, PST
File this one strictly in the "rumour' category for now, but The LA Times is reporting that Josh Brolin is being considered for a role in Men In Black 3. It's still early days, and the film itself is still very much at the development stage (no actual greenlight yet), but it has Tropic Thunder's Etan Cohen writing a script and Sony is hoping to grab Barry Sonnenfeld to direct again.For now though, there's fun to be had speculating on who Brolin could play: he's a possible replacement for K should Tommy Lee Jones decide he's too old/grumpy/busy for all that alien hunting nonsense and would make a suitably different partner for Will Smith's J (again, assuming Smith agrees to return).And as the Times points out, J spent some of Mib II with other partners (including the awesome Patrick Warburton) before Jones' character came out of retirement.
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Adam Sandler Has A Pretend Wife
8 December 2009 9:56 PM, PST
The Adam Sandler comedy machine just keeps clanking on, with the actor/producer currently developing Pretend Wife.If he has his way, Sandler will be getting mock-hitched to Jennifer Aniston (what, Kevin James wasn't enough for him?) in a new romantic comedy. Aniston hasn't signed on yet, but few have ever refused the awesome power of the Sandler - and lived.The concept - wrapped in secrecy for now - is being dragged kicking and screaming from the guts of a script written by Allan Loeb and Tim Dowling, which was once known as Holiday In Hawaii. Now however, with its shiny new title, Sony is trying to lock in regular Sandler collaborator Dennis Dugan in to direct and if the deals can be hammered out, the studio wants to shoot early next year and pump that sucker out just before Valentine's Day 2011.
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Rashida Jones Up For The Social Network
8 December 2009 9:48 PM, PST
Rashida Jones is the latest thesp to sign on to David Fincher's chronicle of the founders of Facebook, The Social Network.There's no word yet on exactly who she's playing, but she'll appear alongside the likes of Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield in the film, written by Aaron Sorkin.Fincher is busy shooting in Los Angeles - images have already appeared of Timberlake in character - and the film is currently planned for a late 2010 release.Jones, meanwhile, who recently sold her script Frenemy Of The State to Universal, can currently be found on the Us TV comedy Parks & Recreation. Which, by the way, is much better in its second season...
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Kevin Smith's Latest Has A New Title
8 December 2009 9:36 PM, PST
We've been wondering for a while now just what Kevin Smith's cop comedy A Couple Of Dicks might end up getting called, as A) Warner Brothers can't stick with that due to wussy Us TV networks refusing to advertise it and B) A Couple Of Cops is not a decent substitute.And now, thanks to the keen eyes of the Slash Film team and Kevin's own predilection for tweeting, we know that there is indeed a new title. He just won't say what it is yet. Curses!"The Movie Formerly Known as A Couple Of Dicks has finally settled on a (network-policy-dictated) replacement title!" announced his Smithness yesterday. "While we'll always have Dicks in our hearts, the title we just now locked makes me smile on a bunch of different levels - including this 1: we can now advertise our movie properly (& ironically). And said marketing begins... on every print of Sherlock Holmes,
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Lonely Hearts Club Set For Screen
8 December 2009 9:27 PM, PST
Another day, another still-unpublished book has been picked up for adaptation to the big screen, with the news that teen novel The Lonely Hearts Club has been picked up by Manderlay for a film outing. Despite that Abbey Road-invoking cover, our sources say that Sgt. Pepper is not involved.No, in fact Elizabeth Eulberg's book tells the story of a high-school girl who decides that her male contemporaries are total jerks and swears off dating until graduation. When lots of her female classmates join her, it throws the school into turmoil.It's an interesting set-up, and Eulberg knows the teen market as she's been working in publicity for publisher Little Brown for years, notably on the Twilight series with Stephenie Meyers. The cynic in us might assume that this is another book promoting the value of abstinence to teenage girls (does anyone ever put the same effort into promoting it for boys?
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