Monday, May 02, 2011

Tasty Movie Bits

A few Industy Bits...Amid The Bin Laden Wall To Wall That I Meant To Deliver Sooner...

-Full details on the Blu-ray sets for the "Star Wars" films are scheduled to be released at on May 4th.

-Canadian comic Harland Williams is developing "Ting & Juma: The Movie" says The Hollywood Reporter.The CG animated feature film is based on a series of animated shorts produced by Rainmaker Entertainment that follow an energetic alien and a caveman-ish human

-Jodie Foster is set to play "the head of state on an alien planet" in Neill Blomkamp's "Elysium" says The LA Times.

-It has now been confirmed by The Playlist that Guy Pearce HAS JOINED Ridley Scott's Alien Prequel-esque "Prometheus",still no word on which role he is playing  though .



-Jason Momoa told MTV that the upcoming "Conan the Barbarian" reboot an origin revenge story - “It’s rebuilding and rebooting the franchise…It starts with his birth, what happened to his family, what happened to his father—obviously his father is killed—and him going into the pirating and the thieving and wandering and being the degenerate that he is and then usurping a throne and finding out who killed his father. It’s a revenge story, with a little bit a love in there"

-Thor Freudenthal ("Diary of a Wimpy Kid") will  direct the family adventure pic "Geek Dad" says Variety It's based on the book by Ken Denmead, which Gotham Group and Gaeta/Rosenzweig Films will produce

-Jack Osbourne is reportedly set to make his directorial debut on the horror film "Black Sabbath" reports The Press Association. Despite the title, the film is not a biopic of his father Ozzy Osbourne's heavy metal band of the same name. Co-producer Marc Weingarten however confirms that "the music of Black Sabbath is in the movie".


-Mindy Kaling ("The Office," "The 40 Year Old Virgin") will play a graduate student in the new comedy "Five Year Engagement" says Variety,  Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star in the Judd Apatow-produced comedy about an engaged couple's relationship.



-Damon Lindelof told CBR,that he and fellow writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are in the midst of  working on that Star Trek sequel script--Get to it guys!

Helen Hunt is set to star in the inspirational true story indie drama "The Surrogate" reports Variety



-Tony Jaa's action film "Tom Yum Goong", aka "The Protector" in its international release in late 2006, is about to get a sequel in digital 3D says Screen Daily 

-Yes!! Gregory Peck Stamp Ceremony Draws Chris Dodd, Sharon Stone Others!!!

That's all for now....

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