Iron Man 2

Jon Favreau, in a recent interview to promote the DVD release of Iron Man, gave some titbits about the likely direction the forthcoming sequel will take.

War Machine is likely to make an appearance, giving Terrence Howard's Col. Rhodes a chance to wear the suit. Whilst comic book ubervillian Mandarin is likely to have a presence as the overarching, behind-the-scenes villain, liberties will have to be taken in order to fit him in to the more realistic universe depicted in the film. Finally, the famous Demon in a Bottle storyline, featuring Tony Stark's battle with alcoholism, is on it's way (possibly in the third film?)

Source: Chud.com

Terminator Salvation

Teaser trailer, courtesy of Variety

Zack and Miri

In our second Zack and Miri post of today, here's a 16 minute Variety interview with Kevin Smith talking about the film:-




Source: www.newsaskew.com

Zack and Miri

Here's the new american poster for Zack and Miri released following the banning of the original poster.

Whilst the poster is clever and quite stylish, I'm not convinced it does the job of selling the picture to the multiplex crowd. The filmmakers are attempting to go for a more mainstream audience with this film, and the poster doesnt convey this.

Source: Newsaskew.com

Star Trek

In an interview with AMCTV, Star Trek director JJ Abrams apparently confirms that William Shatner will not be appearing in the new film, although it appears discussions were held. Abrams is quoted as saying:-

“We actually had written a scene with him in it that was a flashback kind of thing, but the truth is, it didn’t quite feel right. The bigger thing was that he was very vocal that he didn’t want to do a cameo. We tried desperately to put him in the movie, but he was making it very clear that he wanted the movie to focus on him significantly, which, frankly, he deserves. The truth is, the story that we were telling required a certain adherence to the Trek canon and consistency of storytelling. It’s funny — a lot of the people who were proclaiming that he must be in this movie were the same people saying it must adhere to canon. Well, his character died on screen. Maybe a smarter group of filmmakers could have figured out how to resolve that.”

Of course, how can we not have an appearance from the man reponsible for this:-



Source: Slashfilm

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Cashing in on the success of 'Sex and the City' comes another romantic comedy in which all problems are solved by designer labels. Audiences for this will be pretty divided. Namely, women will swoon over shoes whilst men slowly lose the will to live.

Starring Isla 'Mrs Borat' Fisher, Confessions of a Shopaholic is due for a valentines release.

Source: Cinematical

Quantum of Solace

Yahoo movies has a new trailer for the next Bond film, which gets it world premiere tonight as part of the London Film Festival. Follow this link for some acton packed Bond goodness

Terminator Salvation

More than likely this story comes from a fan with an overactive imagination, but it's also a rumour that's just crazy enough to be true.

Director McG has hinted for some time that Schwarzenneger will have some sort of presence in the fourth terminator film, and his former stunt double is working on the film. The latest suggestion is that CGI will be used to place a digital recreation of Arnie's face over the stunt double, with Schwarzennegger also recording lines of dialogue in post production.

The technology is certainly there and has been used to enhance stunt work for well over a decade now but this still sounds like wishful thinking to me.

Source: Aint It Cool News

Ghostbusters 3

Harold Ramis provided furt;-her detail's of the current status of Ghostbusters 3 in this e-mail to the Chicago Tribune

"yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we'll take it from there."

Source: Cinematical

Watchmen

Video journal 6, courtesy of IGN.com

Spiderman

Various sources are reporting that Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire have both signed to to the next Spider Man movie, currently due for a 2011 release. Kirsten Dunst has yet to put pen to paper, although the character of Mary Jane Watson will appear.

Sony have also tentatively indicated that they wish to shoot parts 4 and 5 back to back in order to save money and take advantage of the director's and casts' availablity.

Whilst the first two Spider Man films are responsible for reinvigorating the genre, Spider Man 3 was showing some signs of creative fatigue that left fans hoping for a change of direction (and possibly personnel) for the next film.

The Wrestler

Clips and behind the scenes footage from Darren Aronofsky's new film the Wrestler, which has just won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and is picking up some Oscar buzz for Mickey Rourke's performance.

Source: Chud.com

Childs Play

Original writer and director of Seed of Chucky, Don Mancini, has provided more details of the forthcoming 'Child's Play' remake. Apparently the idea for a reboot as opposed to a further sequel is to return the series to it's horror roots as opposed to the comedic tone of the last two films). More importantly Mancini has confirmed that Brad Dourif will return as the voice of Chucky and will also have a larger on screen role as Charles Lee Ray prior to his transformation into the doll.

Whilst we don't have a great deal of time for most of the horror remakes doing the rounds at the moment, the fact that the original creative team is behind this film and , at the moment at least, seem to be saying all the right things, make this one to watch. Just as long as there is no CGI Chucky...

Source: Creature Corner

Ghostbusters 3

Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Esisnberg, two of the writers of the American version of The Office, have been hired to pen a third Ghostbusters team. Whilst the film is set to feature some younger acting talent, the hope is that the original team would appear. Previous Ghostbusters sequels have stalled due to Bill Murray's reluctance to sign on to a third movie, but he does provide his voice in the upcoming video game and sources suggest that he may be willing to at least make a cameo appearance.

Source: Aint It Cool News

Slacker Uprising

Michael Moore's new film, Slacker uprising, tells of his 2004 tour to encourage young people to register to vote in the last US election. In an interesting move the film will be available to download free from the website www.slackeruprising.com from 23 September, with a conventional DVD release to follow.

The trailer is available here

Zack and Miri

This is the poster for Zack and Miri, at least for thouse of you outside the United States, where the MPAA has banned the poster.

Source: www.newsaskew.com