Upcoming Movies In General

[SonjaMarie]

Oh man!

Columbia Scaring Up Ghostbusters Revival
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b27375_columbia_scaring_up_ghostbusters_revival.ht ml?sid=rss_topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories

WHY! Wasn't the first two good enough! I loved the first one the best, I saw it in the theatre in 1984, and still remember a tiny bit about that day.

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[Alaric]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_film

That's about as comprehensive as it gets, I think that's every cinematic release in the US, UK, Australia and Canada for the rest of 2008.

[SonjaMarie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_film

That's about as comprehensive as it gets, I think that's every cinematic release in the US, UK, Australia and Canada for the rest of 2008.

True, but this thread is to talk about those we hear about way in the future not just the rest of this year or movies we'd like to see or think others would be interested in before they come out. :D

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[Alaric]

Way into the future? It goes into the next decade, just follow the links. :p

[SonjaMarie]

Don Cheadle is replacing Terrence Howard as General Rhodes in the next Iron Man movie.

They are also stories around that they are remaking "Fame" and "Footloose".

SM

[Hoopking]

The one I am anticipating is the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. The original was a great classic but the second one stars Keanu Reeves and looks pretty good.

[diamondlil]

I am really looking forward to seeing Australia with Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. I think it opens here soon, and I hope to make it to the movies to see it instead of waiting for it to come out on cable like I normally do.

[Madeleine]

Does anyone know when the film of The Time Traveller's Wife comes out in the UK? My bookgroup is desperate to see it, as it's probably the only book that all of us all liked!

[xiaotien]

DUH DUH ... DUH DUH ...!!

that's the james bond theme in case
you missed it.

OMG QUANTUM OF SOLACE
yes please!!!!

and i'm also looking foward to TWILIGHT.
i hope bella and edward actors can sell it to
me. i was leery of their casting at first.

[Madeleine]

Off to see James Bond tomorrow, not a bad way of spending a rainy Sunday afternoon!

[xiaotien]

what, it's not out yet, is it??

i don't have a sitter till two weeks from
now.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

*jealous*

[SonjaMarie]

what, it's not out yet, is it??

i don't have a sitter till two weeks from
now.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

*jealous*

It's already out in the UK. It's not out in the US until the 14th. Harm and I are going to see it, hopefully, the day after Thanksgiving. We were going to go see Harry Potter but that got moved to July next year :P

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[xiaotien]

noooooooo!!!!

so jealous!!!!!!!!!

*breathes*

haha!

i have been LOVING the trailers!

[Madeleine]

It makes a change for the UK to have a film before you guys over there!

Shame HP has been put back though, I was looking forward to that.

[SonjaMarie]

Groan, now it looks like they're remaking "The Karate Kid" with Will Smith's son Jaden:
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0602936/

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[Divia]

I hope its not true. That website is iffy sometimes on how true it is. I disliked him in that one movie with Will Smith.

[LCW]

I can't wait for Australia with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman! I really like both of them and the movie is bound to be amazing with the gorgeous Australian scenery. One of my favorite movies of my childhood was Man From Snowy River. Sigh! I've got to make it over there one of these days!

[Divia]

Hugh Jackman is all hot n stuff with his big beefy body!

I think I'll watch it on DVD instead of in the movies. I really dislike going to the movies now.

[SonjaMarie]

Since I'm hoping to take Harm to see "Solace" day after T-Day, I hope "Australia" will still be around when she has Christmas Break, or plays on the island at a matinee time or it'll be DVD for us as well.

SM

[SonjaMarie]

Oh good grief, Ridley Scott is supposed to make a movie based on the game "Monopoly":

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081112/en_nm/us_monopoly_1

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[EC2]

Looking forward to Twilight and Australia. Also Ridley Scott's Nottingham - later next year I think.
I think a film about Monopoly would be good to fall asleep to!

[Madeleine]

I'm looking forward to Australia too, we had a mini-trailer the other day. I love going to the cinema, some films just have to be seen on the big screen at least once - I think it's the audiences who can be a pain! Although the other day, apart from some paper rustling, they were quite good. Some cinemas in the UK are going to start doing over-18only screenings of popular movies, like Bond and Australia, which I think is a good idea, although sometimes adults can be noisier than kids!

[MrsMorland]

I am looking forward to The Pacific, the companion to Band of Brothers. Technically a mini-series, I know...
I can't wait!

[SonjaMarie]

http://www.awardsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/nine-21.jpg

I love this picture, sounds like it'll be a good movie: A star-studded ensemble in film Nine, starring, left to right, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Stacy ‘Fergie’ Ferguson, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson and Daniel Day-Lewis.

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[diamondlil]

What movie is it?

[Divia]

Yeah! I was wondering the samething. And my my Miss Kidman! That is some um dress! :eek:

[SonjaMarie]

Well if you had read the caption :D it said "Nine", it's based on the musical of the same name which was inspired by Federico Fellini's autobiographical film 8½.

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[SonjaMarie]

LOVE CLIVE OWEN! This movie, "Duplicity", with Julia Roberts, looks like it's going to be good and fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-fY2a1FxQs

Looking forward to March 20th!

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[Vanessa]

Gorgeous man!!:D

[Tinuviel]

I'm looking forward to the new HP movie, and I can't wait to see Australia. I'm also excited to see Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet working together again in Revolutionary Road, although I don't know all that much about the movie.

[anne whitfield]

I thoroughly enjoyed the new James Bond movie QOS, and I saw Australia yesterday and enjoyed that too.
Hugh Jackman is such good hero material, he is gorgeous on a horse and well at any other time too!

[Ludmilla]

Deleting this (re upcoming film based on Memoirs of Hadrian) ... just found upcoming historical movies thread which is where this belongs.

[SonjaMarie]

For crying outloud, can't they leave already good movies alone?! Now they want to remake "Romancing the Stone"!:
Hit Douglas Film Set For Remake
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0620527/

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[SonjaMarie]

Uh interesting! Why do so many non-American's end up playing American presidents?

Crowe To Play Clinton?

16 December 2008 11:21 PM, PST

Russell Crowe is reportedly lined up to portray former U.S. President Bill Clinton in a new biopic.

The forthcoming film, entitled The Special Relationship, will focus on Clinton's dealings with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Michael Sheen - who played Blair in 2006's The Queen - is reportedly set to take on the role again for the new movie.

A source tells Britain's Daily Express, "Russell is currently our favourite to play Clinton. He might not initially appear the obvious choice but it's felt he could turn out to be ideal.

"It's understood his involvement could be confirmed early next year."

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[Ash]

For crying outloud, can't they leave already good movies alone?! Now they want to remake "Romancing the Stone"!:
Hit Douglas Film Set For Remake
[SM


Thats one more remake I will not see. The only explanation is that they no longer have imagination to create new stories.

[SonjaMarie]

Kick arse trailer for "Wolverine" out May 1st, looking forward to it!:
http://movies.tvguide.com/Movie-News/Men-Origins-Wolverine-1001021.aspx

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[SonjaMarie]

They're remaking "Fame". When I was a kid and first saw the original, I loved it, but when I resaw it as an adult I was "eh" about it, though still like a few of the songs.

Debbie Allen, who was in the original as "Lydia", a dance teacher, will play a different character, the principal of the school this time around.

SM

[LoveHistory]

Actually, Russell Crowe as Clinton might be brilliant.

Anthony Hopkins made a pretty good Nixon.

[chuck]

Presidential Biopics.....I would prefer to see a accurate films about Andrew Jackson...lots of controversy.....or Teddy Roosevelt.....Both have been films but usually portrayed way over the top....They deserve better.....How about Biopics films regarding the First Ladies....many of them had a great deal of influence; with their husbands persona.....i.e. Dolly Madison, Abigail Adams, Rachel Jackson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lady Bird Johnson, Jackie Kennedy and on and on......Many were more capable than their husbands.....

[LoveHistory]

Presidential Biopics.....I would prefer to see a accurate films about Andrew Jackson...lots of controversy.....or Teddy Roosevelt.....Both have been films but usually portrayed way over the top....They deserve better.....How about Biopics films regarding the First Ladies....many of them had a great deal of influence; with their husbands persona.....i.e. Dolly Madison, Abigail Adams, Rachel Jackson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lady Bird Johnson, Jackie Kennedy and on and on......Many were more capable than their husbands.....

I like this idea! Go first ladies! Somewhere in my mother's house I have a book about the mothers of the presidents. Really interesting women.

[chuck]

I like this idea! Go first ladies! Somewhere in my mother's house I have a book about the mothers of the presidents. Really interesting women.

Excellent idea!.....Through these Women lives..... I think we can get to know all the President's so much better.....Who knows... we even might know who the real Polk, Fillmore, Monroe(other than Monroe Doctrine) were etc.....Maybe the authors/Producers could compete with this Tudor phenomena in HF/Films.....

[LoveHistory]

Lovely thought, but the Tudor dynasty is of interest to a lot more people than U.S. Presidents are. Still...I'd definitely go for this. Heck, I may even try writing one of these someday.

[SonjaMarie]

Ooh I hope this happens, "Hamlet" is my favourite play and I really like David:
Tennant's Hamlet To Be Made Into Film
David Tennant is planning to give fans another chance to see his short-lived stage performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - a film version of the acclaimed play is in the making.

Tennant was forced to axe his West End run in the Bard's classic in December after suffering a slipped disc and subsequently undergoing surgery to correct the condition.

He managed to recover in time to return to London's Novello Theatre for one week of shows - but many fans were left disappointed after failing to catch the actor in the title role.

And now Tennant is to show fans what they missed by reprising the part for a special movie.

Hamlet co-star Oliver Ford Davies, who played the role of Polonius, says, "We are intending to film it over two or three weeks in June. It won't be a full feature film as there isn't time but it will certainly be more than just the filming of the stage."

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[SonjaMarie]

Hmm interesting:
Anne Hathaway to play Judy Garland on film, stage
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090323/en_nm/us_hathaway_1

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[MrsMorland]

Hmm interesting:
Anne Hathaway to play Judy Garland on film, stage
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090323/en_nm/us_hathaway_1

SM

I can really see her as Judy.

[Leo62]

the Tudor dynasty is of interest to a lot more people than U.S. Presidents are.

That's a very worrying thought. :eek:

I guess it might depend on the president - some were more interesting than others ;)

[LoveHistory]

I can really see her as Judy.

I can't. Tammy Blanchard was phenomenal as young Judy Garland in Me and My Shadows.

Clearly the person who wrote that article never watched Ella Enchanted. Those of us who are fans of that film have known for years that Anne Hathaway can sing. Rumor has it she was even considered for Christine in Phantom of the Opera.

[SonjaMarie]

I have the song she did "Somebody To Love" (remake of the Queen song) on my Ipod.

SM

[chuck]

I liked the young Judy Garland.....never appreciated her as an adult, her films, music and her really messed up lifestyle....never understood the adoration by the music/film industry......she always looked soooo strung out.....I know she had her demons....only my opinion.......

[SonjaMarie]

Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson's mother, has apparently joined the cast of Russell Crowe's "Robin Hood":
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0721807/

And Anthony Hopkin's will supposedly play Ernest Hemingway in a movie directed by Andy Garcia:
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0721574/

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[chuck]

DVD alert....finally the 1934 Classic is available "The Count Of Monte Cristo" starring Robert Donat, as Edward Dantes....best film version.....Black and white....wish I could see again on the big screen....as lad I use to attend the Saturday matinees.....saw all the old greats....One particular Saturday they had TCOMC and the Adventures of Robin Hood.....never will I forget....Magic time....

[chuck]

Update on the new Robin Hood film .."Sheriff of Nottingham"....Cate Blanchett as Marion....Oscar Isaacs as King John and Vanessa Redgrave as Eleanor of Aquitaine....Finally Scarlett Johansson starring in Napoleon and Betsy...and rumour has it she has agreed to play(her Idea) the Gladiatrix in a new film called "Amazon"....now that is a stretch...she is not a favorite of mine....I don't see any talent their....she has regressed from her earlier roles....

[LoveHistory]

Vanessa Redgrave as Eleanor should be amazing!

[SonjaMarie]

Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes godlike in "Titans"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090409/film_nm/us_titans_1

There was a cheesy movie in the 80s by the same name ("Clash of the Titans") that gets a bad rap but I like it.

SM

[Ash]

I still love the Robin Hood that came out at the same time as Costner's, much better (and loved Men in Tights, when Robin Hood says 'at least I speak with an English accent!). This new one might be intersting, and yes, Redgrave would be a wonderful Eleanor, tho she could read the Yellow Pages and enthrall me.

[Amanda]

Vanessa Redgrave as Eleanor should be amazing!

Thats a great casting choice!

[SonjaMarie]

Long New Trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, now out July 15th (not 17th), looks great!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96QRVfto7OM

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[rex icelingas]

Will be superb if done correctly `Ironclad` the 13th Century siege of Rochester Castle

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233301/

Superb cast in the offing

[Madeleine]

Long New Trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, now out July 15th (not 17th), looks great!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96QRVfto7OM

SM

thanks for posting that, Sonja, it does look good - Malfoy has certainly grown up!

[annis]

Noooo! Please tell me that Tom Cruise isn't going to do a re-make of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"!
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/film-cinema/will-cruiser-butcher-the-sundance-kid-1712664.html

[EC2]

Noooo! Please tell me that Tom Cruise isn't going to do a re-make of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"!
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/film-cinema/will-cruiser-butcher-the-sundance-kid-1712664.html

:eek::eek::eek: (words fail me!)

[Madeleine]

I remember years ago when Mel Gibson and Kevin Costner were hugely popular, there were rumours circulating that they would be teaming up for BC and the SK, and it never happened, so hopefully this is just another one of those rumours!

[Ludmilla]

Noooo! Please tell me that Tom Cruise isn't going to do a re-make of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"!
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/film-cinema/will-cruiser-butcher-the-sundance-kid-1712664.html

What made the Redford/Newman version so good was the Goldman dialogue (and the chemistry between the two actors). It couldn't hold a candle... just who are those guys anyway?

On a different subject, does anyone know if they are still planning a remake of Tron? I thought I read a few years back that they were considering it, but it doesn't appear to be listed on IMDb, so I assume it never materialized. I think a remake of that one with modern technology could be cool.

P.S. -- nevemind, I found it: Tron 2.0 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/) (when in doubt, just consult Wik to find the right search terms)

[Telynor]

I remember years ago when Mel Gibson and Kevin Costner were hugely popular, there were rumours circulating that they would be teaming up for BC and the SK, and it never happened, so hopefully this is just another one of those rumours!

Gad, I hope so! Costner, quite bluntly, has run his course, and hasn't done anything worth watching since Dances with Wolves. And as for Mel Gibson, after his drunken rant towards an LA cop and blatant anti-Semitism, I've vowed to never spend another dime on him again.

Some classics should never be messed with. BC & TSK is one of them.

[diamondlil]

Here's the first shots of Russell Crowe in the upcoming Robin Hood movie.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c388/ozdiamondlil/robinhoodx-large.jpg

[EC2]

Wrong costume for the 1190's:eek: Short tunics like that were not the order of the day!
Is that a pine forest he's walking through?:eek::eek: Also looks from his foot position as if he's going to fall over himself!

[LoveHistory]

Please somebody tell me there is still hope for the world of film. Can't believe the news lately. Tom Cruise can't be true. And Mr. Crowe's film doesn't look promising either.

[Telynor]

Wrong costume for the 1190's:eek: Short tunics like that were not the order of the day!
Is that a pine forest he's walking through?:eek::eek: Also looks from his foot position as if he's going to fall over himself!

Yeah, those certainly looking like a pine forest. I guess what with the short tunics they want to make sure that no one mistakes that they are wearing a dress....

:p Looks like another one of those films that takes the expression 'dark ages' literally.

[Lauryn]

Is that a pine forest he's walking through?:eek::eek:

Don't know enough yet about highwaymen's fashion through the ages, but the IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0955308/locations) says that all the filming has been done in the UK. I had to check, because usually when I see a forest like that, it was filmed here in BC. (Not always, just often. :D)

[EC2]

We have plenty of pine forests in the UK (courtesy of the Forestry Commission) but Sherwood should be more deciduous woodland. Short tunics like that are generally of the fantasy costume variety. Later Medieval had more tailoring than the pic and where you might just get away with it (Viking) it's still on the somewhat short side. He should be wearing a knee-length tunic over a shirt, hose (tight fitting single-leg trousers) and braies (baggy underpants tucked into the trouser legs. The latter are attached to the waist of his braies by ties.
But as Telynor says, it might look as if he's wearing a dress to those who haven't got their eye in!

[Lauryn]

We have plenty of pine forests in the UK (courtesy of the Forestry Commission) but Sherwood should be more deciduous woodland. Short tunics like that are generally of the fantasy costume variety. Later Medieval had more tailoring than the pic and where you might just get away with it (Viking) it's still on the somewhat short side. He should be wearing a knee-length tunic over a shirt, hose (tight fitting single-leg trousers) and braies (baggy underpants tucked into the trouser legs. The latter are attached to the waist of his braies by ties.
But as Telynor says, it might look as if he's wearing a dress to those who haven't got their eye in!

Prince Valiant - not a good reference for MA costuming. Check! ;)
Just wrapping my mind around my hubby getting dressed like this in the mornings gives me a whole new appreciation for buttonholes, snaps, zippers, Velcro and elastic. Never mind my appreciation for programmable coffee makers! :D

[chuck]

Noooo! Please tell me that Tom Cruise isn't going to do a re-make of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"!
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/film-cinema/will-cruiser-butcher-the-sundance-kid-1712664.html

Surely you jest.......(Too short)Cruise and (Too fat)Travolta....Please.....I hope Redford will say something publicly.....Replaying the great dialogue between Redford and Newman can't be duplicated ever....

[chuck]

Ridley Scott, must be trying to save money and is using "Kingdom of Heaven" costumes and props....I wonder if film producers think the public doesn't care if sets, costumes and scenery is wrong....The 1939, Robin Hood Sherwood Forest (Hollywood back lot) looked like the real thing......Are we too picky?.....I think not....

[Lauryn]

I cannot remember the last Cruise movie I saw, in whatever format. It's been so long since I bothered. I do remember being briefly ostractised in high school for stating that he was nothing special in The Colour of Money (although under duress, I will admit to a certain cynical amusement at the underpants dance. :D)

[SonjaMarie]

I used to like Tom until he did was he did to Nicole.
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Angelina Jolie to play "Dr. Kay Scarpetta", sounds like it...

Jolie Takes New Suspense Thriller To The Big Screen

22 April 2009 6:25 PM, PDT

Angelina Jolie has landed a role in another suspense thriller - as a crime-solving medical examiner in a new film based on Patricia Cornwell's bestselling novels.

Jolie has signed on to play the title character from Cornwell's 16 novel series about forensic examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta - a woman with a messy love life who solves crime and loves the opera.

According to Variety, the film will not focus on a specific Cornwell title. But insiders say the deal could mean the start of a new franchise for the actress - who had her last series success with Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

The thriller is the latest in a string of crime-fighting characters for Jolie, who's starred in action films including Wanted, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Gone in Sixty Seconds.

Studio bosses have yet to line up a screenwriter or director for the new film.
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I've never read her Scarpetta books, I tried to read her NF on Jack the Ripper but her writing style totally turned me off and it was wallbanged.

SM

[chuck]

These days I pass on actors like Jolie, Gibson, Cruise, and finding it very difficult to forget Brad Pitt's film with Ms. Jolie Mr. and Mrs. Smith......Their OTT lifestyles, values, politics really get in the way of me taking them; serious as actors....sorry about the rant

[SonjaMarie]

I'm not big on Brad either, I like Jennifer Aniston! But I do want to see "Benjamin Button".

SM

[Madeleine]

Can't see Anj as Scarpetta at all - she is meant to be blonde for a start...if they were going for someone of Anj's generation of actresses, Gwyneth Paltrow would be better. Wonder who they'll cast as Marino, her balding policeman sidekick?

Haven't seen a Cruise film for years apart from War of the Worlds, hated Jerry Maguire and wanted to walk out, if I hear that line about having me at hello I want to vomit!

[sweetpotatoboy]

I can't recall seeing a Tom Cruise film since Rain Man - or possibly Mission Impossible. He doesn't tend to appeal to me.

BTW, Tom and Nicole's London home that they had for a few years was apparently just round the corner from where we lived, and they could reportedly be seen in the local pub. Reportedly. Leo was also supposed to have an apartment in the same complex.

[wealcere]

Been surfing down at Freshwest, Pembrokeshire and was walking back along the beach when I had to do a double take as there was a building amongst the sand dunes, just looked like a small hobbit kind of house. Any way, found out from the guys working on it, they're going to film Harry Potter and then afterwards some Robin Hood with RC. I can't quite remember seeing sand dunes in any forests, just hoping it's going to ba backdrop for some Crusader part of the movie.

[Madeleine]

Not a movie but read in the paper today that Pillars of the Earth will be filmed for a mini-series (4 parts I think), not sure who's making it but they said possible either BBC or ITV might show it, unlikely to be ITV though given their present problems, think it will more likely be on Hallmark.

[annis]

I'm looking forward to seeing this one, currently competing at Cannes for the Palme d'Or
"Bright Star", (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/apr/08/film.books) based on the life of John Keats, and directed by New Zealander, Jane Campion.

[SonjaMarie]

Hugh Jackman gets his movie musical wish
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090804/film_nm/us_jackman_1

He'll play PT Barnum.

SM

[SonjaMarie]

I loves me some Clive Owen! Trailer for his new movie "The Boys Are Back" (about a man who loses his wife and then has to raise their son and reconnect with a son from a previous marriage alone). It looks good and sweet:
http://www.daemonsmovies.com/2009/08/07/the-boys-are-back-movie-trailer-with-clive-owen/

SM

[SonjaMarie]

"The Men Who Stare At Goats", just saw the trailer, and it looks hilarious and very good! I love the look at on Ewan McGregor's face when George Clooney refers to himself as a Jedi warrior (Ewan was of course Obi-Wan Kenobi, a Jedi warrior).

It also stars Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges:
http://screenrant.com/the-men-who-stare-at-goats-trailer-kofi-23413/

SM

[SonjaMarie]

Simon Pegg & David Tennant To Star In 'Burke & Hare':
It was previously reported that Simon Pegg would be starring in the John Landis film, 'Burke and Hare'. Now, according to reports, David Tennant (Doctor Who) will be joining him as a fellow grave robber in the film Burke and Hare. At this time, it is not known who will play the role of Burke and who will play the role of Hare.

'Burke and Hare' is the story of William Burke and William Hare, Irish immigrants that robed graves to sell the bodies to Edinburgh Medical College for dissection in the early 1880s. Eventually the pair started to murder in order to get more bodies to sell.
http://www.fanbolt.com/headline/5343/Simon_Pegg___David_Tennant_To_Star_In_%27Burke___H are%27

I've read some about them in books about murder in England, but couldn't find a cheap book about them yet to read.

David Tennant is yummy!

SM

[chuck]

Recently saw a trailer on "Sherlock Holmes"....full of OT the Special Effects.....Downy Jr...plays a disheveled Bohemian looking Holmes and a whining and very annoying Watson played Ewan Mcgregor.....SH and fisticuffs and numerous romps in bed with Damsels in Distress....Yes I will watch SH when it comes out on DVD.....Why are they messing with my head??????

[SonjaMarie]

Ewan McGregor does not play Watson, Jude Law does.

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[chuck]

Ewan McGregor does not play Watson, Jude Law does.

SM

Not the first time I have confused the two.....Both are favorites of mine.....:o

[Madeleine]

Looks like yet another movie version of Jane Eyre is on its way - this time with Michael Fassbender as Rochester, and the actress who's playing Alice in the forthcoming Alice in Wonderland (Mia someone) as Jane.

[chuck]

Just saw a trailer of "Season of the Witch" 2010.....Starring Nicholas Cage as a 14th Century Crusader returning to his city and the Black Plague...No! it doesn't look like a redux of Bergman's "The Seventh Sin"....Looks interesting, but Nicolas Cage as a Crusading Knight?????....Not sure if he can pull it off....I'll wait...probably watch it when it's released on DVD....

[Miss Moppet]

Will be superb if done correctly `Ironclad` the 13th Century siege of Rochester Castle

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233301/

Superb cast in the offing

Just found a blog post (http://saesferd.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/ironclad/) with some links about this.

[chuck]

This new film item might have already posted....Johnny Depp since his High School days has been obsessed with the old "Dark Shadows" soap opera...and Tim Burton/Depp are resurrecting "DS" and Mr. Depp will playing Barnabas Collins....

[Madeleine]

Just found a blog post (http://saesferd.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/ironclad/) with some links about this.

Sounds interesting, I visited Rochester earlier this year although didn't have time to go into the castle, wonder if they'll film in the actual location.

I see Richard Attenborough is in the cast, he's not been well for a while after a fall so wonder if he'll take part.

[annis]

Mentioned this elsewhere,but thought I'd add it here- news that a mini-series based on Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth" is in the works, and due to screen around July next year. It's a Ridley Scott production, and filming will take place in Hungary and Austria. It has an interesting cast, including Donald Sutherland.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091207/entertainment/eu_hungary_pillars_of_the_earth

[chuck]

This might not be news.....A redux of " The Wizard of Oz"...So far Dakota Fanning as Dorthy, Eddie Murphy as the Scarecrow and Robert Downey Jr. as the Wizard.....Can't believe they would mess with the classic.....No I didn't care for the "The Wiz" either...

[SonjaMarie]

Hollywood has been running out of ideas for ages now. But yeah leave the classics alone for crying out loud! Someday we might hear that they're trying to find the NEW Scarlett for a redo of "Wind", oye!

SM

[Leo62]

Mentioned this elsewhere,but thought I'd add it here- news that a mini-series based on Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth" is in the works, and due to screen around July next year. It's a Ridley Scott production, and filming will take place in Hungary and Austria. It has an interesting cast, including Donald Sutherland.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091207/entertainment/eu_hungary_pillars_of_the_earth

Yay! Here's a teaser trailer:
http://www.bscreview.com/2010/04/the-pillars-of-the-earth-trailer-from-starz/

(you need to scroll down a bit :D)

[LoveHistory]

Sonja, I've been working on recasting GWTW for years. It never works though. Impossible to find good enough actors/actresses for each role. The way to redo that one would be to make a point of not trying to imitate the 1939 version. And add more of the book. It would really make a better miniseries than feature film.

Dakota Fanning as Dorothy might work. Not sure sure about Murphy, though I suppose he could play a number of other parts as well. RJD as the wizard??? What??? The Cowardly Lion I could understand, but not the wizard.

[chuck]

My problem with most reduxs is that they will use OTT Special Effects and it will take away from the original charm of the earlier film....and believe me they will turn TWOO into a SE circus.....

[Divia]

You can't touch the classics and people should know that. Remember when they redid psycho. That was a bomb.

I couldn't imagine them redoing GWTW.