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Tron Legacy Trailer Launches
3/9/2010 5:50:00 AM
Tron Legacy Trailer Launches
Bridges! Boxleitner! Bikes! Bring it on!
Source: Disney
For all who have been eagerly anticipating the official online launch of the first Tron Legacy trailer, your wait is over. Yes, after the viral cinema event, the screenings attached to Alice and the various bootlegs, the promo has arrived online in glorious high definition.
While some questioned Disney's choice to leave the new footage offline until today, the studio looks like it's made a smart move to get out of the way of Iron Man 2, even if the delay meant the blurry pirated copies and descriptions from those who had seen it began to hit the servers.
And now, following yet another flurry of viral activity, we can enjoy it in full. The new trailer is a solid blast that shows off how the film connects to the original Tron (Kevin Flynn's son Sam played by Garrett Hedlund, goes in search of his vanished dad) and doles out some amazing visuals set within the world that Flynn has fashioned in the years since he first threw a light disc.
It's a geeky thrill to see Bruce Boxleitner back as Alan Bradley, while there's a brief glimpse of Jeff Bridges as both his aged Flynn self and a Benjamin Button-style young version of himself as Clu. Also: light cycles! Yay!
Clearly what we're seeing is the very tip of the iceberg. This thing is going to take a lot of work to finish between now and December, but we're already itching to see Future trailers and Comic Con footage screenings can't happen quickly enough.
Take a look at the trailer and submit your thoughts as data. End of line.
Source: EmpireOnline
Jonah Hill Buying Into Pitt's Moneyball
3/9/2010 5:49:00 AM
Jonah Hill Buying Into Pitt's Moneyball
He'll co-star. If it ever gets made…
Source: The Playlist
Baseball film Moneyball has become one of those projects that just can't seem to escape development limbo, floating between directors and writers with only Brad Pitt and Sony's interest keeping it from disappearing altogether. But now there's a new wrinkle – Jonah Hill is jumping aboard.
Hill is replacing Taking Woodstock's Demetri Martin, who has been attached since the movie's early days, but isn't, we must assume the sort of marquee name that has the studio excited to keep funding it. You know they're desperate when Brad Pitt hanging around isn't enough to get the thing into production.
Based on Michael Lewis' book about a baseball manager who used statistics to build a trophy-scooping team on a limited budget, it was originally under the care of Marley & Me's David Frankel. The script then passed to Steven Soderbergh, who brought on Pitt and took it in a documentary-style direction. But neither the studio nor the sport's ruling body liked that vision and Soderbergh bailed.
Currently, Capote's Bennett Miller is in the director's chair, with Aaron Sorkin delivering several new drafts of the script, none of which have gotten Pitt's seal of approval (We wonder if he's being overly picky, given Sorkin's screenplay pedigree and the fact that he just worked with Pitt pal David Fincher).
Whether it eventually scores a green light is anyone's guess, but it's certainly not headed for our screens anytime soon.
Source: EmpireOnline
Liam Hemsworth Joins Arabian Nights
3/9/2010 5:49:00 AM
Liam Hemsworth Joins Arabian Nights
He'll star for Chuck Russell
Source: Heat Vision Blog
| It seems as though the Hemsworth family has done well breeding actors who can take on heroic roles. First Chris Hemsworth goes from Trek to Thor, and now his younger brother Liam is jumping aboard Arabian Nights. Chuck Russell, who has been away from the director's chair since The Scorpion King, has co-written and will helm the film, which follows a young commander dealing with the loss of his king in a bloody coup. He doesn't sit around and mope: he teams up with Sinbad, Ali Baba and the genie of the lamp to rescue queen Scheherazade. It'll be shot in 3D (but of course!) towards the end of this summer for a likely 2011 release. In case you think this is the limit for the Hemsworth acting lineage, there's also Luke, older than either Liam or Chris, who has appeared in Neighbours and So… not quite as heroic, but they're still looking for someone to play Captain America, right? |
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Source: EmpireOnline
Anna Faris Asks What's Your Number?
3/9/2010 5:48:00 AM
Anna Faris Asks What's Your Number?
Chris Evans will help her find her man
Source: Variety
Anna Faris and Chris Evans: perfect comedy team? Whether you think that could be true, we'll find out soon enough as the pair has signed on to New Regency's rom-com What's Your Number?
It'll be an R-Rated story of a young woman who, in partnership with her womanising next door neighbour (we guess Evans), decides to pay a call on all of her ex-boyfriends to see if she missed out on landing her perfect man.
It's all based on Karyn Bosnak's book 20 Times A Lady, which she's adapted – though her script has since been re-written by Gabrielle Allan and Jennifer Crittenden.
Ali G Indahouse director Mark Mylod will be the man who brings it to the screen, and Faris will no doubt be hoping to repeat the box office heights she scaled with The House Bunny. But seriously folks, this could work: this pair both have serious comedy chops and bags of charm. If the script is actually, y'know, clever, we could be on to something.
And look! We wrote a whole news story about Chris Evans without making a Radio 2 joke!
Source: EmpireOnline
Original Cast Back for Paranormal 2?
3/9/2010 5:47:00 AM
Original Cast Back for Paranormal 2?
Micah Sloat drops some hints
Source: MTV
[Tread carefully; here be possible spoilers]. There are one or two reasons why we're surprised to be reporting that Micah Sloat may be returning for Paranormal Activity 2. And yet here he is, talking to MTV. "We have money now, but we're staying true to the heart of the movie, to the spirit of it, to the vision." What's all this "we"?
That definitely indicates involvement, although of course, he isn't necessarily the star. There are any number of possibilities for Sloat appearing: we could be talking a prequel, but we're thinking it's more likely that he'll appear in flashbacks, or in scenes of new characters watching his recorded footage, perhaps of the so-far-unseen variety. No mention yet of Katie Featherston.
Details of the project are still very firmly under wraps and Sloat mischievously grins that he "knows a lot" but can't say anything. He does insist however that "it's really cool, it's gonna be really interesting and it's not gonna suck, which most horror sequels do. This is gonna be good." Obviously he's not going to stand on a red carpet and call it useless, especially if he's involved, but that enthusiasm and the recently revealed shortlist of directors suggest that maybe, just maybe, this isn't a project to be cynical about after all.
Source: EmpireOnline