Category: Movies

Oh, Baby! It Is A Big Movie Weekend
If you are looking for something new in the multiplexes this weekend, you are in luck! There’s a submarine flick, a Little mouse movie and a totally freaky spider film!
Enjoy the popcorn and I’ll see you at the movies!

Bad Boys 2 Is A Union Job
Gabrielle Union has signed on to play Sydney Burnett, Marcus Burnett’s (Martin Lawrence) half sister, in BAD BOYS 2. Burnett is also the love interest of Will Smith’s character Mike Lowrey. Lowrey’s attempts to woo Sydney causes friction between he and Marcus. Although Sydney pretends to have a desk job, she is really an undercover cop that is pretending to launder dirty money.

Batman Vs. Superman News
Will Christian Bale be the next Batman?

Sharon Stone Warms to ‘Cold’
Sharon Stone is in negotiations to play the female lead opposite Dennis Quaid in the Walt Disney thriller “Cold Creek Manor,” her first major studio movie since the 1998 flop “Sphere.”
“Manor,” to be directed by English filmmaker Mike Figgis (“Timecode”), is about a city family that moves to the country, only to find the dream turn into a nightmare when the previous owner returns from prison to demand his house back.
Stone, will start work on “Manor” in early August and also is readying two indie projects. She is negotiating to join Rupert Everett in “A Different Loyalty,” and then star in “Liar’s Club.”
Actress, who received an Oscar nomination in 1996 for her performance in Martin Scorsese’s “Casino,” pulled out of a deal to star in the sequel to her 1992 starmaking vehicle “Basic Instinct” last year after the troubled project went through several directors and male leads.
She recently appeared in Rosanna Arquette’s documentary “Searching for Debra Winger,” which unspooled at Cannes this year where she was a member of the competition jury.

S Club 7 Hits the Silver Screen
British pop sensation S CLUB has signed to star in SEEING DOUBLE for Sony Pictures, who also distributed SPICE WORLD. Simon Fuller (AMERICAN IDOL) will produce with Alan Barnette (SLIDERS). Music video director Nigel Dick will work from a script by Kim Fuller (SPICE WORLD), rewritten by Sally Robinson. The film will focus on the adventures of six twentysomething adults.
S CLUB, Simon Fuller’s manufactured group, is comprised of Hannah Spearritt, Jon Lee, Tina Barrett, Rachel Stevens, Bradley Mcintosh and Jo O’Meara.
Mmmmmmm…., Rachel!

Jack Black Goes to the SCHOOL OF ROCK
Jack Black has signed to topline THE SCHOOL OF ROCK for Paramount Pictures. In the script, written by Mike White (ORANCE COUNTY), Black will play a musician that becomes a subsitute teacher at a private school and “influences the young students with his antics and music.” Black is currently filming ENVY will Ben Stiller for director Barry Levinson. Paramount has set a November start date and expects the film to be released November 2003.

Carrey, Shandling Toon Into ‘Hedge’
Jim Carrey and Garry Shandling will make their feature animation debuts in “Over the Hedge,” a DreamWorks project targeted for 2005.
Carrey will voice R.J., a mischievous raccoon and con artist, while Shandling will voice Verne, a sensitive turtle.
The pair deal with encroaching suburban development and become friends as they figure out how to co-exist with their human neighbors and exploit their proximity.
“Over the Hedge” is based on a popular comic strip of the same name by Michael Fry and T Lewis. The screenplay is being adapted by veteran screenwriter Len Blum (“Stripes,” “Meatballs”) in his first animation effort. The film will be directed by Tim Johnson, co-director of DreamWorks’ “Antz.”

Artisan Looks for a SCANNERS Remake
Artisan has committed to remaking 1981’s sci fi thriller, SCANNERS. Rights holders Pierre David and Rene Malo, as well as Clark Peterson will produce.
The film will closely follow the original, which followed a scientist that tries to infiltrate the Scanners, a group of people with telepathic abilities who are trying to take over the world. The famous sequence in the film was the last shot with an exploding head. “We were approached by Artisan just as we were about to hire a showrunner to do a TV series based on ‘Scanners,”‘ said David. “But they persuaded us the film could reach new audiences unfamiliar with the original.”

Warner Brothers denies any stoppage on TERMINATOR 3.
As production hit the two month mark, The National Enquirer published a report last week indicating the T3 set had apparently been shut down in a desperate attempt to stop the budget from flying out of control and past the US$200 million mark.
A car chase that was supposed to happen in central Los Angeles which would’ve involved hundreds of extras and expensive location shooting was apparently scrapped in favour of something more economical.
Well now a Warners spokesperson has responded and denied the allegations: “The production is currently underway, on schedule and on budget. The footage that has been filmed looks excellent. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the rest of the cast and crew are currently working and there was no cessation of work on the set at any time. That [National Enqurier story] was filled with erroneous statements.”

Writer Frank Darabont talks INDIANA JONES IV
Frank Darabont, the writer/director who is penning the screenplay for the upcoming fourth Indiana Jones movie, is tight-lipped about the much-anticipated sequel’s storyline, but revealed to SCI FI Wire that it will be set in the 1950s. That’s in part to accommodate star Harrison Ford’s age (the actor just turned 60), Darabont said in an interview.
Not surprisingly, Indy won’t be facing down Nazis this time around, Darabont said. “We’re going to give you some good villains, let me just put it that way,” he said.
Darabont added that producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg are allowing Darabont (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) to bring his own ideas to the script. “It winds up being a pretty good collaboration, a good exchange of ideas,” he said. But, he added, “at the end of the day, I’ll be writing what they ask me to. I’ll be giving them the story that they want, so in that sense, I’m an employee. But a very excited and engaged employee. And what a fun project to work on.”
When probed for specific details-such as the rumors that Indy will have a son-Darabont said, “If I told you, they’d kill me. I wouldn’t leave here alive. I’m sworn to secrecy.” Indy IV will begin production in 2004 for a release in 2005.