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Four Christmases atop the US box office again
While the Punisher shoots blanks
BY James White Dec 8th 2008 // 5:05AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
It continued to feel a lot like Christmas for the US box office this weekend – despite a slow couple of days at the movies, Four Christmases emerged as the chart champ again, with $18.2 million earned.
Twilight, meanwhile, surged back into second place, adding $13.2 million to its current $138.5 million total. That put it ahead of Bolt, which took in $9.6 million for the weekend.
Len Wiseman to direct Atlantis Rising
Die Hard 4 man adapting apocalyptic comic book
BY James White Dec 5th 2008 // 12:12PM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Die Hard 4.0’s Len Wiseman has snapped up yet another possible new film: he’ll direct an adaptation of the graphic novel Atlantis Rising.
DreamWorks is splashing the cash for the film, which is based on Scott Mitchell Rosenberg’s miniseries
Atlantis Rising finds seismic disturbances sending military types exploring deep pockets in the ocean, where an ancient civilization lurks ready to do battle.
The Boat That Rocked trailer arrives
Watch the promo for Richard Curtis’ latest comedy
BY James White Dec 5th 2008 // 12:12PM FILED UNDER: Movie News
The trailer for Richard Curtis’ new comedy, The Boat That Rocked, has arrived – and you can see it right here.
Starring a top-notch ensemble that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost and the lovely Gemma Arterton, Boat finds a pirate radio station operating from a ship in the North Sea.
Naturally, the government wants to shut the music-spewing nuisance down, but that just increases the pirates’ popularity.
Amy Adams up for The Ten Best Days Of My Life
Shawn Levy may direct the novel adaptation
BY James White Dec 5th 2008 // 6:06AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Amy Adams is planning to star in Fox’s adaptation of Adena Halpern’s novel The 10 Best Days Of My Life.
Variety reports that the studio is developing the pic as a vehicle to play a woman who dies and heads off to heaven, only to be told she’ll have to settle for a lower level of paradise unless she proves herself by recounting her 10 best days.
Shawn Levy is potentially taking the director’s chair after working with Adams on Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian – which is also where a coincidence happened with the book.
New Friday The 13th trailer is here
Jason’s on the hunt
BY James White Dec 5th 2008 // 12:12PM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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The new trailer for the remake of Friday The 13th has arrived online.
Yahoo Movies has the footage, which features more of Jason Voorhees slicing, dicing, stabbing and… er… boating his nubile teenage victims.
You know the story this time around – a group of horny teens arrive at Camp Crystal Lake to get drunk and have a good time, only to be picked off one by the murderous Mr Voorhees.
Robert Pattinson talks Twilight at UK premiere
We chat to the star of vampire smash hit
BY Chris Hicks Dec 4th 2008 // 17:17PM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Last night saw the vampire teen-hit Twilight in the UK. We had a chat to star Robert Pattinson about his role, the frenzy surrounding the movie and how he's dealing with his newly acquired teenage fanbase. Here's what he had to say:
Are you excited by Twilight? Let us know, below.
They Live. Again.
John Carpenter’s cult classic will be remade
BY James White Dec 4th 2008 // 19:19PM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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Universal has kicked off development for a new version of John Carpenter’s 1981 sci-fi satire They Live.
Because it's clearly The Day Of The Remakes, the studio is working with lot-based company Strike Entertainment to nab the rights to the film.
They Live is fondly remembered for the whacked out plot, which found construction worker Nada (wrestler Roddy Piper) discovering special glasses that allow him to see beyond the disguises of aliens who are secretly controlling humanity.
Russell Brand as Arthur?
He’s developing a remake of the Dudley Moore comedy
BY James White Dec 4th 2008 // 7:07AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Fresh from resigning from his BBC radio show, Russell Brand is throwing himself into film work – which includes developing a remake of Dudley Moore’s Oscar-nominated 1981 comedy Arthur.
Arthur seems like a solid fit for Brand (even if the film itself really doesn’t need to be remade) – a boozy, rascally playboy who is set to inherit millions by marrying an heiress but instead falls in love with a regular woman.
Romancing The Stone getting a remake
Fox returning to the 1984 Michael Douglas adventure
BY James White Dec 4th 2008 // 7:07AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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20th Century Fox has decided that what we all really need is a remake of 1984’s adventure comedy Romancing The Stone.
It’s been a TV staple for years, but now the film – which helped launch the film careers of Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito and remodelled Kathleen Turner as a romantic lead – will be remade.
If you’ve never seen it, allow us to plot-dump: Romancing followed a repressed romance novelist looking for her missing sister in Colombia, only to get caught up with an American soldier of fortune.
Jay Baruchel will be The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Tropic Thunder thesp to co-star with Nic Cage
BY James White Dec 4th 2008 // 7:07AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Tropic Thunder’s Jay Baruchel is busy negotiating to join Disney’s new, live-action version of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
Nicolas Cage is already aboard to play the magician searching for a new recruit in a tale set in modern-day New York.
Cage’s National Treasure director John Turteltaub is behind the camera for the pic.
How To Train Your Dragon
After Tropic Thunder, Baruchel has become something of a go-to guy for DreamWorks: he’s romantic comedy She’s Out Of My League for the studio and How To Train You Dragon for its animation arm.
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