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The X-Files 2 poster
2008-03-28 15:26:00
¿Conocen esos dos sujetos que se encuentran parados allí? Parecen conocidos, ¿no?. Pues es el primer póster de la nueva película protagonizada por Gillian Anderson y David Duchovny, The X-Files 2. Me ha gustado, simple y muy compresible sobre lo que se trata. The X-Files 2 llega en el mes de julio. Enlace: MovieWeb
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X-Files 2 Movie Poster
2008-03-28 12:13:00
A new poster for the X-Files sequel has been found floating around the interwebs, although I'm not quite sure it's real. If it is official, it looks poorly hacked together. Real or Fake, I?m sure the truth is out there, and we?ll find out soon. Discuss: What do you think, Real or Fake? Good or Bad?
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Dark Sky
2008-03-28 12:13:00
What is Dark Sky? /Film reader Dort Druben sent in the following report: ?- So working at Culver Studios a few weeks ago I noticed a very ominous sign telling me subconsciously that if I entered through that doorway ninjas would descend upon me ripping my heart out of my chest before I could cross the threshold. Maybe that?s a bit extreme. But I searched, wondering, what is, ?Dark Sky?? The said sign is the attached image from my camera phone. I posed the question to some friends and didn?t think much of it. Well I was back working at Culver Studios I noticed a truck ?Dark Sky Transportation?. Then when driving off the lot after a tiring day I started passing ?reserved? parking spaces. One caught my eye. Stephen Sommers. I hit reverse and looked again. DARK SKY: Stephen Sommers. Next to him, Lorenzo di Bonaventura. So there it is. DARK SKY is code for GI JOE. Now I don?t know if that is old news or not. But there it is. I don?t know if they?re shooting at Culver Studios or if its ju...

Transformers 2 Filming Underway?
2008-03-28 03:35:00
An intrepid motorist caught some pretty decent camera phone shots of a vehicle in Culver City carrying one of the stars and stunt double of Transformers 2. Is this to say that filming is underway? Check out FilmSchoolRejects for a couple more shots of the Saleen Mustang/Barricade. A set of photos sent over by a friend this afternoon might lead you to believe that the filming of Transformers 2 is getting close to being underway. The pictures were snapped from a camera phone in Culver City, and they are clearly Saleen Mustangs with the Decepticon logo on the side. I have always liked the idea of Barricade being a cop car. What better way for the badguy to hide than in a law enforcement vehicle. My concern is this, and I hope it gets explained a bit better. The Transformers all seem to have this adaptive power to ?scan? a vehicle and take on its look as to better blend in with the vehicles of Earth right? So what Vehicle did Barricade scan that looks like that? Obviously a Musta...
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George Lucas: Indy 4 is "Just a Movie"
2008-03-27 11:27:00
George Lucas , having learned from the high-expectations of his Star Wars prequel trilogy, has accepted a realistic, even defeatist, attitude toward the coming critical and fan reaction to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He told USAToday:When you do a movie like this, a sequel that's very, very anticipated, people anticipate ultimately that it's going to be the Second Coming. And it's not. It's just a movie. Just like the other movies. You probably have fond memories of the other movies. But if you went back and looked at them, they might not hold up the same way your memory holds up.When people approach the new (Indiana Jones), much like they did with Phantom Menace, they have a tendency to be a little harder on it. You're not going to get a lot of accolades doing a movie like this. All you can do is lose.Geez, hang in there, George Lucas. Life is still worth living. After all, box office analysts are expecting it to make well over double its $125 million bu...
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Updates on The Dark Knight's Viral Marketing - New Gotham Times Released!
2008-03-27 01:47:00
The next phase of The Dark Knight viral campaign has started rolling out. A new issue of The Gotham Times has been posted on that website - TheGothamTimes.com - and the Harvey Dent campaign website - IBelieveInHarveyDent.com - has been revamped a bit with better graphics and campaign news. In addition, a plethora of new Gotham City related websites have appeared, courtesy of the latest issue of the newspaper, and the Joker has contacted all of his "people" again via text message on the cell phones distributed earlier. We will certainly be following this next phase at it begins to ramp up. However, the one thing that is certain - they're putting together one hell of a big election. We just received an e-mail update from Harvey Dent's campaign website stating "We did it! Harvey Dent has officially announced he's running for Gotham District Attorney!" However, he's not alone. His two main competitors - Roger Garcetti and Dana Worthington - have started their campaigns, too. Garcett...
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Ian McKellen será Gandalf nuevamente
2008-03-27 00:25:00
Sir Ian McKellen, conocido como Gandalf dentro de los films de la trilogía de El Señor de los Anillos, confirmó que regresará en el papel del mago para las precuelas de El Hobbit. McKellen se convierte en el primer confirmado del reparto. FirstShowing

More Indiana Jones IV Photos
2008-03-26 23:46:00
We're still waiting for one more final trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but until then, we've got to suffice with a few new photos. Nothing new in these, nor will there be any new imagery until the film hits, but at least it's something to enjoy while we wait another 57 days until Crystal Skull arrives in theaters. I thought I'd use this opportunity to gauge the current level of interest in Indiana Jones . Back in October, it was the most highly anticipated movie of 2008. But I'm wondering whether that has changed and if something else has taken the top spot? The first photo is courtesy of Empire, and the second comes from SlashFilm. I remember last year, before we even had that teaser trailer, Indiana Jones IV was the movie that everyone was talking about. That was before that first The Dark Knight trailer and even before the Iron Man trailer, too. But now I feel like Indy has lost some of the buzz it had last year. I still think it's going to ...
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George Lucas Bumming Everyone Out on The Crystal Skull
2008-03-25 23:53:00
?Curb it, punks.? Can one of our commenters suit up as ?The Internet? and have a wrastlin? match with George Lucas already? The Star Wars poobah is back to his ?let?s be realistic? and ?most of you will probably hate it, but so what?? schtick, but this time he?s voicing his (non)concern about expectations for May?s Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . And he goes on to take a jab at all of the preceding Indiana Jones movies as well. Why not? I mean, the title to the latest sequel shouldn?t conjure any fantastical event film notions in the minds of fans at all, right? Why not call it Jones and a Kingdom, Maybe an Alien, Too? Here?s what he shrugged to USA Today? ?When you do a movie like this, a sequel that?s very, very anticipated, people anticipate ultimately that it?s going to be the Second Coming,? Lucas says. ?And it?s not. It?s just a movie. Just like the other movies. You probably have fond memories of the other movies. But if you went back and looked at them, ...

Otra escena en español de ?La noche es nuestra?: Eva Mendes y Joaquin Phoen
2008-03-25 23:37:00
Después de dejaros su tráiler en español y una escena de la película, ahora Way to Blue nos ofrece este segundo clip, doblado asimismo en español, en el que los personajes de Eva Mendes ("Ghost Rider: El motorista fantasma") y Joaquin Phoenix ("En la cuerda floja") mantienen una conversación en la discoteca del segundo. Podéis ver el fragmento en QuickTime o Windows Media como anticipo al estreno de ?La noche es nuestra? este próximo viernes, 28 de marzo. Recordad que el cartel de este thriller dramático se completa con la presencia de Mark Wahlberg ("Shooter: El tirador") y Robert Duvall ("Lucky you"). En esta ocasión, el director y guionista James Gray ha vuelto a abordar algunos de los temas que ya trató en "La otra cara del crimen", como la familia y la delincuencia, además de colaborar de nuevo con Wahlberg y Phoenix. El argumento de ?La noche es nuestra? se centra en dos hermanos cuyos intereses chocarán cuando una oleada criminal sacuda Nueva York a finales de los 80. En la ...

Malin Akerman, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson y Aasif Mandvi trabajarán
2008-03-25 23:37:00
En mayo del año pasado se anunció que Sandra Bullock sería la protagonista de ?The proposal?, una comedia romántica de Touchstone Pictures en la que la actriz se pondrá en la piel de una mujer que, para conservar su importante puesto de trabajo y no ser deportada a Canadá, opta por casarse con su joven ayudante, interpretado por Ryan Reynolds. El filme, dirigido por Anne Fletcher (?27 vestidos?), cuenta con un guión de Peter Chiarelli, siendo sus productores ejecutivos Alex Kurtzman y Roberto Orci. Pues bien, ahora leemos en The Hollywood Reporter que Malin Akerman (?Watchmen?, ?27 vestidos?, ?Matrimonio compulsivo?, ?Los hermanos Solomon?), Mary Steenburgen (?Four Christmases?, ?La extraña que hay en ti?), Craig T. Nelson (?Patinazo a la gloria?, ?La joya de la familia?) y Aasif Mandvi (la serie de televisión ?Jericho?) también se dejarán ver en la película, si bien no se sabe qué papeles interpretarán (su rodaje, por cierto, se iniciará este mismo mes). En la imagen: Malin Akerma...

Jared Padalecki The New Jason?
2008-03-25 13:57:00
This is an interesting bit of casting news. It appears that Jared Padalecki, star of the wildly underrated TV show ?Supernatural? is being looked at strongly to be the new Jason Vorhees in the upcoming Friday the 13th remake. The folks over at Eclipse Magazine give us the following: It was announced yesterday, March 21st that Platinum Dunes in association with New Line Cinema and Paramount Pictures is in final negotiations with the Supernatural star to take on the lead role in their 're-imagination' of the 1980 horror/slasher flick about teenaged camp counselors at a camp called Crystal Lake who begin to meet untimely and gruesome fates at the hands of a mysterious killer. Jared Padalecki , who is well known to TV viewers as the hunky Dean Forester on Gilmore Girls and the intrepid 'hunter' Sam Winchester in Supernatural, is no stranger to being involved in successful remakes of older films, having had roles in the remakes of 'House of Wax' and 'Flight of the Phoenix'. Whil...

Gandolfini to star in The Taking of Pelham 123
2008-03-25 13:57:00
James Gandolfini will be adding another dance to his card as he makes a deal to star in The Taking of Pelham 123 alongside Variety.com reports: Gandolfini will play the mayor of New York City in Columbia Pictures remake ?The Taking of Pelham 123,? directed by Tony Scott and starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta. Gandolfini will plays a pol under incredible pressure to end a crisis when a packed subway car is ransomed by a criminal (Travolta) and his gang. James Gandolfini will forever be recognised as Tony Soprano from HBOs hit series of the same surname. But so he seems to have dodged a bullet as far as being typecast as a gangster. The casting rumours about Gandolfini playing a gangster in Batman: The Dark Knight never came to pass either. I half qualify his role as a politician to the typecast he hoped to avoid. No, I don?t thinkg politicians are criminals. But the role of a city?s leader would have the same qualities that made his Tony Soprano so believable. He is a r...
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BluRay announces Profile 2.0 and BD-Live Discs
2008-03-25 13:57:00
In case you live under a rock, BluRay won the Civil War of High Def DVD Formats?. So now you can relax, and go out and get yourself a new toy. But you might want to wait for Profile 2.0 Players for special edition BD-Live discs. What is BD-Live?? Yahoo News tells us: The musical spoof ?Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story? and the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi thriller ?The 6th Day? will be the studio?s first two BD-Live titles. Their release coincides with the launch of a new software update for Sony?s PlayStation 3 that makes the game console the first Blu-ray player with Internet connectivity, an ability known as ?Profile 2.0.? Ultimately, all Blu-ray players will be Profile 2.0. When the format launched in June 2006, Blu-ray players were of the basic Profile 1.0 kind, meaning they could offer neither picture-in-picture nor Internet connectivity, something the doomed HD DVD rival format offered from Day 1. I am thankful that this Civil War of High Def DVD Formats? only lasted about t...
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Dead Space Video Game, Movie and Comic
2008-03-25 13:57:00
Sometimes Comic Books get made into Movie s. Sometimes Movies get made into video games. Sometimes Video Game s get made into movies. Well in the case of Dead Space , the yet to be released video game is being made at the same time as the movie, which will follow up after the comic book. Variety.com says: Starz? Film Roman unit is producing a film that serves as a prequel to the game, picking up where a comic that is being made by Image Comics leaves off. ?Dead Space? is part of a larger deal between the two companies. Starz has two other animation projects in development tied to EA franchises. Starz is in talks with broadcasters worldwide to distribute the pic on TV and will also put it out on DVD through its Anchor Bay subsid and online. Now the plot of this movie is that after hearing a distress call from an industrial space mining vessel, the main characters respond expecting to undertake repairs. What they find out instead is that the industrial complex has been over run by ...

Trailer Meet Dave
2008-03-25 12:59:00
Meet Dave es el nuevo film protagonizado por el actor Eddie Murphy, en el cual un grupo de pequeños alienígenas con forma humana, viajan en su ?nave humanoide? por el planeta Tierra. Esto me hace recordar mucho al alienígena de Men in Black (¿recuerdan?). Eddie Murphy hace una doble participación, ya que es el minialienígena y a la vez es la nave alienígena. Hace unas semanas, presenté el film como Starship Dave, pero luego cambió su nombre por Meet Dave, que no hay que confundir con Meet Bill, protagonizado por Aaron Eckhart. El film se estrena el 11 de julio en los Estados Unidos. Enlace: MovieWeb
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James Gandolfini participará en el nuevo film de Tony Scott
2008-03-25 12:59:00
El actor James Gandolfini , famoso por su papel protagonista en Los Soprano, participará en el nuevo film que prepara el hermanísimo Tony Scott . En él interpretará al alcalde de la ciudad de Nueva York, que se verá envuelto por la trama principal, de la manera que explico a continuación. Se trata del remake que está preparando Columbia Pictures, The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three. Aunque esta vez está protagonizado por dos pesos pesados actuales como Denzel Washington y John Travolta. Como he dicho, Gandolfini hace el papel de dicho personaje político, que se encuentra bajo una enorme presión insostenible. La situación estallará cuando un criminal secuestra un vagón del metro de la ciudad. Enlace: Gandolfini Boards Scott?s Pelham
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Columbia tiene nuevo proyecto, The Long Run
2008-03-25 12:59:00
La legendaria Columbia Pictures ha comprado un nuevo guión a Stephen Belber. Con ello, dan luz verde a un nuevo proyecto que producirán junto a Overbrook (la productora de Will Smith, James Lassiter y Ken Stovitz). De momento no se sabe nada más, aunque parece que en un principio, la idea no es que Smith sea el protagonista de la cinta.
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Trailer Long Weekend
2008-03-25 12:59:00
Long Weekend es el film protagonizado por Jim ?Jesús? Caviziel (hace pocos días vi el film nuevamente por las Pascuas), en el que junto con su esposa decide emprender un viaja paradisíaco a una playa de Australia. Lo que no sabe es que el daño que producirán estos dos extraños en estas tierras vírgenes donde acampan, provocarán la furia de la Madre Naturaleza (no es broma, parece que la Naturaleza es la máxima enemiga de este film) Long Weekend no tiene fecha de estreno aún, pero se espera que lo haga a mediados de año. Enlace: MovieWeb
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Worth Watching - March 25: French Water Lilies Trailer
2008-03-25 12:39:00
Oh those French ? Screw Meet Dave, watch this trailer for Water Lilies (Naissance Des Pieuvres) instead! This borders on the edge of being NSFW, but thankfully it's an MPAA approved trailer which means you can watch it. I'd love some explanation for this, but instead I think I'll just sit back and enjoy - but watch out, the girls are very young. One summer, three fifteen-year-old girls?Marie, Anne and Floriane?share secrets in the girl's locker room. Desire erupts. They will never be able to forget their first time. Those French really know how to pull off some intriguing sexual dramas, that's for sure. Interested? If you still need a reason to get interested in this, it currently has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with 15 reviews. "Well observed and painfully accurate in its depiction of the agonies of growing up, this is a small triumph." From Daily Mirror. Watch the trailer for Water Lilies: [See post to watch the video] You can also watch the Water Lilies trailer in High Definiti...
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Jaime King Cast in My Bloody Valentine Remake
2008-03-25 12:39:00
Stop with the remakes, please! I love Eli Roth's enthusiasm for cult classic horror flicks like this, but now we've gone too far. Yes, every last holiday has a horror movie made about it - even Valentine 's Day. Bombshell beauty Jaime King has been cast as the lead in Lionsgate's My Bloody Valentine 3D. The film is a remake of the 1981 film My Bloody Valentine that's about, you guessed it, a murderer who goes around killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day. Hasn't Hollywood learned its lesson about horror remakes yet? Long-time film editor and Dracula 2000 director Patrick Lussier will be taking on a script written by first-timer Zane Smith. Production will begin on May 12th for a release date of January 23rd, 2009. Jaime King , known most for playing Goldie in Sin City and Angela Patton in Slackers, will play the character Sarah Palmer, a woman who marries her teenage sweetheart's nemesis (that spells d-o-o-m for them!). "When she and her first love are reunited, it become...
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Castro at the Center of a Killer Picture
2008-03-25 12:21:00
Moxie Picture s and Killer Pictures are teaming up to adapt Anthony DePalma's nonfiction book The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro , Cuba and Herbert Matthews of the New York Times. Variety describes the subject of the feature film:Written by NYT correspondent Anthony DePalma, the book examines how Matthews' mythmaking profiles of Castro set the stage for his rise to power.Matthews, one of the top foreign correspondents of his era, was smuggled into the jungles of the Sierra Maestra Mountains to get the first detailed interview with Castro. That and other glowing articles impacted American perception before the fall of the Batista regime and Castro's takeover of the Cuban government.No screenwriter has been selected yet. This could intersect nicely with the release of Steven Soderbergh's two Che Guevara biopics. Plus, it sounds like an interesting view of how the media can help shape the outcomes of history, rather than just report on them after the fact.
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Hugh Jackman to Play Nowhere Man?
2008-03-25 12:21:00
Looking to expand his comic book material repertoire even further, Hugh Jackman is working with Marc Guggenheim (Eli Stone) and Virgin Comics to create Nowhere Man, a comic series that could eventually be turned into a film vehicle for the Australian actor. Variety indicates that "the concept is a futuristic world where mankind has traded privacy for safety." Ah, not-so-subtle political allusions. Can't beat 'em. John Palermo of Seed Productions said, "This is our first comic, and we feel the concept is transferable to other arenas, perhaps first as a videogame, and then a movie."Jackman is still in his native country working on X-Men Origins: Wolverine, reprising the role that made him a household name eight years ago. Virgin Comics has had a history of working with filmmakers and actors on their graphic novel passion projects, including works by Nicolas and Weston Cage and Guy Ritchie.
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Boondock Saints 2? Say It Ain't So!
2008-03-25 11:28:00
According to SlashFilm, the ostensibly long-awaited sequel to The Boondock Saints has been greenlit. All the main actors whose characters were alive at the end of the original are planning to return, with the notable exception of Willem Dafoe. (Apparently he's the only sane one in the bunch.) What really fascinated me about the original was how much backlash I received for having the audacity to write a negative review of the film right here on Screen Rant a few years ago. I thought the film was terrible, and that clearly didn't sit well with fans.Some of the readers respectfully disagreed with me (which is perfectly okay ? and appreciated), but many of the comments were insulting, inflammatory, threatening or a combination of the three. Things got so rowdy after a while that the webmaster ended up having to completely disable the comment feature for that review. I have been writing movie reviews for Screen Rant for about four years, and I have never seen a stronger reader r...

El director de ?Horton? habla de esta taquillera película de animación
2008-03-25 11:25:00
?Horton? ha obtenido unas estupendas recaudaciones en nuestro país durante la pasada Semana Santa, manteniendo con facilidad el primer puesto en la taquilla (lo mismo le ha sucedido en el mercado estadounidense, donde ya acumula 86 millones de dólares). Ahora, Way To Blue nos facilita una entrevista con Jimmy Hayward, uno de sus realizadores, siendo posible verla en los siguientes formatos: Quicktime, Windows Media y Real Player. Es una «película especial porque es visualmente increíble, se trata de un viaje a un mundo muy profundo y tras éste subyace otro mundo que descubrir. Así que tenemos dos mundos maravillosos con personajes increíblemente divertidos y una gran aventura épica muy cómica». Además, resalta el mensaje del filme, explicando «que cada personaje está relacionado con la idea de que ?una persona es una persona, no importa lo pequeña que sea?. Se trata de la idea de tolerancia, la idea de no juzgar a la gente por su tamaño y todo eso». Por último, también resultan int...
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Ron Perlman
2008-03-25 11:23:00
Nacido el 13 de Abril de 1950, en Washington Heights, Manhattan (Nueva York), Ronald Francis Perlman, conocido como Ron Perlman en el medio cinematografíco, fue hijo de una familia trabajadora (su madre, empleada en el ayuntamiento neoyorkino, y su padre, técnico de electrodomésticos, quien en un tiempo, como músico de Jazz, tocó la batería con Artie Shaw. Acabados sus estudios en el instituto George Washington de Nueva York, en el cual había participado en obras de teatro, y fiel a su vocación, Ron recibió clases de interpretación en el City College de Nueva York y posteriormente en la Universidad de Minnesota. Durante varios años se dedicó sólo al teatro interpretando papeles en diversas obras, hasta que en 1979 debutó como actor en la serie para televisión, Ryan's Hope. Su primer papel para la gran pantalla, y contando ya con 31 años, fue en "En busca del fuego" (1981), adaptación de la novela de J. H. Rosny que fue dirigida por Jean-Jacques Annaud, director francés que volvió ...

Regency Takse to Cutlass Island
2008-03-25 08:51:00
Author Tom Wheeler has successfully pitched his idea for Cutlass Island , a fantasy film "about two shipwrecked brothers who discover a lost world of mythological and magical creatures," to Regency Entertainment. Shawn Levy (director of Night at the Museum), Tom McNulty (producer of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo) and Alex Gartner (producer of Get Smart) will be producing, so this should fall in line with their family-fantasy-comedy library nicely (Deuce Bigalow notwithstanding).According to The Hollywood Reporter: The story deals with a secret piece of legislation signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 called the Unique Lands and Species Act. The brothers uncover the mystery of the historic document and its lost world, Cutlass Island. The fantasy adventure is in the vein of Harry Potter and Jurassic Park, with the boys swearing to protect the islands against those bent on destroying them. McNulty told them "This is a big, four-quadrant, family entertainment film, and I think it's somet...

Tripplehorn, Weaver, and Simmons Get Crazy
2008-03-25 08:51:00
Jeanne Tripplehorn, Sigourney Weaver , and J.K. Simmons have joined the cast of Tim Allen's ex-con comedy Crazy on the Outside. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Allen will play a newly released prisoner who tries to persuade his single-mom parole officer (Tripplehorn) to date him. His struggle to rebuild his life is further complicated by a loving but manipulative older sister (Weaver) and her sarcastic, taunting husband (Simmons)." Ray Liotta, Kelsey Grammer and Julie Bowen also star. THR points out the "parallels to [Allen's] own experience as an ex-con. (He served time for cocaine possession.)" Judd Pillot and John Peaslee wrote the screenplay and Allen will make his directorial debut.

Stanton, Lovett Join Bridges, Timberlake on The Open Road
2008-03-25 08:51:00
His Alien co-star Sigourney Weaver just got cast in Crazy on the Outside, and now 81-year-old Harry Dean Stanton is keeping up his well-established profile by co-starring in The Open Road , a drama starring Jeff Bridges , Justin Timberlake , Kate Mara, Mary Steenburgen, and (another new addition) Lyle Lovett. According to The Hollywood Reporter: Stanton will play the grandfather of Timberlake's character, a young man trying to reconcile with his father (Bridges) as he heads home to his ill mother's bedside. Lovett will play a Memphis bartender who lends a helpful ear to Timberlake. Writer-director Michael Meredith (Three Days of Rain) is shooting the project in Louisiana and other Southern locales. Between Lovett, Timberlake, and Stanton, this movie has quite the musical contingent. It's hard to say at this point how good or bad this movie will be, but I tend to agree with Roger Ebert when he says that "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supportin...
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Brandt to Adapt Twilight Zone Episode
2008-03-25 08:51:00
First-time director Michael Brandt will turn a classic episode of The Twilight Zone by Richard Matheson into a feature length film called Countdown for Summit Entertainment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film "revolves around a group of astronauts who land on a planet only to find a crashed spaceship and corpses that eerily resemble their own. They then must piece together where they are and whether they might in fact already be dead." The original episode was entitled Death Ship, and was written by regular TZ writer Richard Matheson, who based it on his own previously published short story. He also wrote the novel I Am Legend. BTHR also says that Brandt is rewriting the screenplay with his writing partner Derek Haas and that it is based on an earlier screenplay by Stephen Gregg and Scott Burn. Brandt and Haas have collaborated on such movies as 3:10 to Yuma and 2 Fast 2 Furious. Production could begin as early as late summer, and is expected to cost in the $30 million ...
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