Hey everybody! I’m in the middle of working on a video project and have lagged behind on entertainment news. I know, shame on me. Anyways, here’s the rundown ‘til I can catch up next week:
– A live-action movie is being made based on the comic book and video game property, “Turok.”
– A new “Three Musketeers” movie. Yay.
– Now on the “TV-to-Movie” block: “I Dream of Jeannie.”
– Billy Bob Thornton to play a manure salesman in a comedy set in the 1960’s.
– Now on the “Anime-to-Hollywood-Movie” block: “Robotech.”
– Werner Herzog has caught the “remake” fever as well, deciding to remake “Bad Lieutenant,” with Eva Mendes and Nicolas Cage.
– Warner Bros. is still trying to produce a “Justice League” movie.
– Another “Video Game-to-Movie”: “Gears of War”
– Timur Bekmambetov, director of “Night Watch,” “Day Watch,” and the current “Wanted,” says he has no plans on making “Dusk Watch” (the third in the series). WTF? Dude, I LOVED “Night Watch.”
– Sam Raimi will be doing a movie adaptation of “The Given Day,” a novel by author Dennis Lahane (“Gone Baby Gone,” “Mystic River”)
– Speaking of Bekmambetov and “Wanted,” yes, a sequel is already in the works…
– JJ Abrams was bought the rights to make a movie about an apartment that has secrets and codes to find, discover, and decrypt.
– Quentin Tarantino has been shopping his “Inglorious Bastards” script around Hollywood. He hopes to direct it and have a premiere at Cannes Film Festival.
– A “Donnie Darko” sequel is in the works, this time focusing on Donnie’s sister.
– “Hostel III” in the works, but without Eli Roth.
– “Bourne 4” will begin filming next summer.
– And a “Kung Fu Panda” sequel…
– And a “Cloverfield” sequel…
– And a “300” prequel…
– “King Lear” has signed Naomi Watts and Anthony Hopkins.
– Eddie Murphy is probably retiring after he does “Beverly Hills Cop 4.”
– The TV show “Friends” is set to come to a theatre near you.
– A Tale of Two Sherlocks: Sacha Baron Cohen will play Sherlock Holmes in a comedy by Judd Apatow, and Robert Downey Jr. will play Holmes in a movie directed by Guy Ritchie.
More to come! Check out the posters!
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