Thursday, June 23, 2011
Marvel Studios NOT Coming to Hall H at 2011 Comic Con
Rep Confirms Sean Kingston Is Out of Hospital
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Lindsay Lohan Ordered To Court After Testing Positive For Alcohol
Lindsay Lohan has been ordered to appear before a Los Angeles court judge on Thursday after testing positive for alcohol while under house arrest, according to a report. The actress, who has been ...
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Alex Tse Rewriting 'The Crow'
Courts recently decided that Relativity Media has the Crow remake production rights that the company had claimed, much to the consternation of The Weinstein Company, which was trying to claim ownership of worldwide ownership of The Crow.
So the remake that has Bradley Cooper attached to star and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) set to direct is now moving forward. Once upon a time, when Stephen Norrington was going to direct, the script in play was by Nick Cave — a seriously tantalizing prospect. Now Alex Tse, who co-wrote Watchmen for Zack Snyder, will write a new version.
Variety says this is expected to be "a gritty reboot" of the story based on James O'Barr's comics, in which Eric Draven, originally played by the late Brandon Lee, is murdered alongside his girlfriend, but finds himself mysteriously walking the earth once more, in search of vengeance against the killers. Relativity also uses the word 'reinvention' very prominently in conjunction with the project.
I rewatched The Crow over the weekend when I noticed it was streaming on Netflix; I don't think I'd seen it since it originally opened in 1994. I was surprised to recall that, while the subject matter and main character are often earnestly emo enough that I wanted to cringe back behind the couch, The Crow is also a good-looking film that is often shot well and uses style in a manner that is very appropriate for the story, but not quite overbearing. And Brandon Lee's charisma can't be argued. He made some of the script play better than it might have otherwise.
The idea of Nick Cave writing the script is still something I'd love to see followed-up on, as he seems like the ideal guy to manage that earnest, emo tone in a better way while pushing the action and atmosphere that worked in the original. With this rewrite I don't know what to expect, frankly.
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Evan Rachel Wood Debuts Pixie Cut
Hot weather usually means shorter hair, and Evan Rachel Wood is one of the frontrunners for our favorite pixie cut this season! She rocked the cropped 'do at the True Blood season 4 premiere (you c...
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Celebrity Birthdays - June 22, 2011
Happy Birthday to: "Julie & Julia" star Meryl Streep (1949) "Scrubs" actor Donald Faison (1974) MTV/talk show host Carson Daly (1973) Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page (1970) Mighty Mig...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Megan Fox Joins 'The Dictator'
Kirstie Alley To Launch All-Organic Weight Loss Program
Actress Kirstie Alley has created an all-organic weight loss program. The former Cheers star has shed a total of 90 pounds in a dramatic health overhaul and she's vowing to help others get thei...
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Ian McShane Will Play the Lead Dwarf in 'Snow White and the Huntsman'
One of the things that sets Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman slightly apart from some of the other new takes on Snow White is the way it incorporates the dwarfs. In this version there are eight dwarfs, each of which is named after a Roman ruler.
Now the first of those characters has been cast: Caesar, the oldest of the eight, and an enemy to the Queen and old friend to Eric, the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth). We've known that actors would be made to look small via on-set tricks and post-production effects. The first guy you can start imagining reduced to a few feet tall is Ian McShane.
In the script, the dwarfs are:
- Caesar: the eldest, with the longest beard.
- Nero: the angry one.
- Tiberius: the biggest and burliest.
- Hadrian and Trajan: the twins.
- Constantine: solemn and blind.
- Claudius: the timid one.
- Gus: young, unbearded, seemingly smitten with Snow White.
Rupert Sanders will direct Snow White and the Huntsman from a script by Evan Daugherty. Chris Hemsworth plays Eric, the Huntsman charged by the evil queen (Charlize Theron) with killing Snow White (Kristen Stewart) but who mentors her instead in the ways of survival and combat. Sam Claflin (Ian McShane's co-star in the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film) will play the Prince.
We don't know the other dwarf casting, but this is certainly a good start. But with seven big roles left to cast and quite a few competing films shooting this summer, Universal might have to get creative with choices. Shooting is set to start in August, and the film will be released on June 1, 2012. [THR]
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Katie Holmes & Daughter Suri Cruise Brave The Paparazzi At Miami Beach
Katie Holmes and her daughter Suri Cruise got to spend some quality mother-daughter time together on Miami Beach while dad Tom Cruise was off hard at work filming Rock Of Ages, but they weren't alo...
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