A few weeks ago there was talk of Inception being released on DVD and Blu-ray around the beginning of December, although no official release date details have been confirmed yet. Play.com (via ScreenRant) however has posted the specification of the Inception Limited Edition Blu-ray (UK) which comes complete with its own aluminium briefcase and totem!
With Guillermo del Toro and Universal moving forward with At The Mountains Of Madness one of their first priorities will be to get a cast together. There are 5 characters in total, all male, and with del Toro aiming for an R-rated “epically scaled horror film” some well known faces may be appearing to help bring in the crowds.
Well Collider is reporting that “Universal wants James McAvoy to play the lead in the film, but del Toro wants Tom Cruise to star. Chris Pine’s name was also being tossed around, but his busy schedule may be too packed.” Usually you would expect the studio wanting a movie star involved, however del Toro was apparently talking to Cruise about that Van Helsing movie we heard about, so he may still be inching to work with him.
The Hangover directer Todd Philips, Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis have teamed up for a buddy-comedy movie, Due Date. In the film Downey Jr. plays an expectant father who comes across Galifianakis, a wannabe actor. Together they dash cross-country in the hope of arriving in time for the birth of Downey’s child.
A new international trailer has been released by Warner Bros. which contains a few new scenes, although I prefer the first trailer we got in July. They have removed some of the funnier gags, which may or may not be an improvement depending on your stance on whether studios show too many jokes in trailers.
Pop Sugar managed to get our first look at Ian McShane as Blackbeard on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. In the image above we see Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz filming a scene with McShane, all in costume.
Earlier this year Angelina Jolie turned down an offer to play the lead in Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, an ambitious movie set in space which would be 60% CG feature animation. Much of the film is devoted to a woman’s struggle to get back to Earth (and her daughter) after her team at a remote space station are decimated by debris from an exploded satellite
Robert Downey Jr. signed up to star as the team leader, but it was never the intention for him to carry the film. Following the performance of Salt at the box office Jolie is the only proven actress who can carry a big budget movie. Because of this Warner Bros. has gone back to Jolie with another off, but she has turned it down once again.
Not only did Takers win the weekend and blew sky high even the most optimistic expectations, but it was also in one of the closest races for the lead we’ve had and it wasn’t decided until the final numbers came out on Monday. Ultimately Takers, with $20.5 million managed to beat The Last Exorcism, another movie that flew past expectations with $20.3 million.
So overall it wasn’t a bad weekend and I was dead wrong about both Takers and The Last Exorcism. So I’m eating my words a lot sooner then I was expecting. continue reading »
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