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Glee's Chris Colfer Developing 'Struck by Lightning' Indie Project

Earlier today, we saw Glee star Dianna Agron making a giant leap to the big screen in the latest trailer for I Am Number Four. Fellow Glee star Lea Michele has yet to land a major role besides in New Year's Eve, but their openly gay co-star Chris Colfer has setup an interesting project. Variety reports that Colfer wrote the script for and is set to star in a new project called Struck by Lightning, which producer David Permut is developing; he's currently looking for a director and a cast before getting financing. Struck by Lightning is a coming-of-age comedy that Permut says, "captures the spirit of movies penned by the late John Hughes."

⥤ Posted December 7 in Indies, Movie News, Opinions | 5 Comments

Rodrigo Garcia Adapting Short Doc 'La Corona' as Feature Film

By Ethan Anderton

Though the documentary short La Corona (or The Crown) received plenty of praise as an Oscar nominated film in the Short Subject Documentary category, the 2008 Spanish film will now serve as the inspiration for a narrative feature-length film. Deadline says Fox Searchlight is taking that praised short and having writer Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) script an adaptation for Rodrigo Garcia (Passengers, Mother and Child) to direct. The documentary focuses on a prison pageant with contestants who are hardened criminals, guerrillas and drug dealers vying for the distinction of being called "queen of a prison." More details below!

⥤ Posted December 7 in Movie News, Opinions | No Comments Yet

Crowe Wants Fans' Support for a 'Master and Commander' Sequel

By Alex Billington

Though its been a while since we've heard anything about a sequel to Peter Weir's 2003 adventure-drama Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, that's not stopping Russell Crowe from crying out for support. The actor recently tweeted: "If you want a Master and Commander sequel I suggest you e-mail Tom Rothman at Fox and let him know your thoughts." This is the same Rothman that supposedly had a hand in ruining Wolverine and is now holding back on Master and Commander. Some may remember that Crowe did say a script had been written based off of another novel, but it was still in the very early stages.

⥤ Posted December 7 in Hype, Movie News, Opinions | 53 Comments

'The Hobbit' Cast Grows: Blanchett, McCoy, Stott and Persbrand

By Alex Billington

As expected, more casting news has been announced for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, which has been given the greenlight and is gearing up to shoot next year. Announced via press release, New Line/Warner Bros has confirmed that Cate Blanchett, Ken Stott, Sylvester McCoy and Mikael Persbrand have all been cast along with Ryan Gage, Jed Brophy, William Kircher. Blanchett will reprise her role from Lord of the Rings as Galadriel, Lady of Lothlorien. Stott will play the Dwarf Lord Balin, McCoy will play the wizard Radagast the Brown (as we reported back in August) and Swedish actor Persbrandt will play the shape-shifter Beorn.

⥤ Posted December 7 in Casting, Hobbit News, Movie News, Opinions | 13 Comments

Adam Sandler & Kevin James Together Again as the 'Valet Guys'

By Ethan Anderton

If having them pretend to be gay firefighters in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry wasn't enough funny for you, then you may be happy to know Adam Sandler and Kevin James are reuniting for another buddy comedy. Deadline reports the duo is likely to team-up for Valet Guys, a comedy which was just picked up by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Nick Bakay, a frequent James collaborator and the voice of Salem the cat on "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" is behind the pitch for the story which follows veteran valet parking guys at a South Beach hotel who witness a murder and find themselves running for their lives.

⥤ Posted December 7 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions | 5 Comments

Must Watch: Epic New Full-Length Trailer for 'I Am Number Four'

By Alex Billington

Whoa. I'm not sure if most of you skipped right passed the very first teaser trailer for D.J. Caruso's I Am Number Four or just forgot about it soon after watching it, but this is the trailer that finally makes this movie look awesome. Yahoo has debuted a brand new, full-length theatrical trailer for I Am Number Four, the DreamWorks sci-fi adaptation of a very new novel starring Alex Pettyfer, Dianna Agron, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer and Kevin Durand. We finally get a real taste of the action and style beyond the high school-set storyline, and I'm very impressed. This new trailer is definitely worth watching - enjoy!

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⥤ Posted December 7 in Hype, To Watch, Trailers | 58 Comments

First Promo Poster for 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' Surfaces

By Ethan Anderton

The first trailer for next summer's blockbuster sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon is supposed to hit sometime tomorrow, but a new promo poster, maybe even an official teaser poster, has surfaced already. JoBlo got ahold of the image, and it's actually just a better quality version of a poster at the 2010 Licensing International Expo earlier this year. It's a simple, and not entirely unexpected image of Optimus Prime standing triumphantly with lots of orange embers flying about, likely from one of Michael Bay's trademark explosions. It's not too amazing, but this will surely have people getting excited and complaining all at once.

⥤ Posted December 7 in Hype, Opinions, Posters | 40 Comments

Why on Earth is Lee Daniels Remaking Fellini's 'Nights of Cabiria'?

By Ethan Anderton

While a recent article at Deadline has confirmed that The Butler, starring Denzel Washington as real-life White House butler Eugene Allen, will be the next film from Precious director Lee Daniels, some much more disturbing news of his future slate is mentioned ever so briefly. Daniels just recently switched his talent agency from Creative Artists Agency to William Morris Endeavor, but before he left, the lovely folks at WME had closed a deal for the filmmaker to remake Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria, the 1957 film which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Do you hear that? That's the sound of Lee Daniels losing every ounce of my respect.

⥤ Posted December 7 in Movie News, Opinions | 30 Comments

Phil Lord and Chris Miller Co-Directing Disney's 'Bob the Musical'

By Ethan Anderton

They've moved from the adaptation of the favorite children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to big screen adaptation of the TV series 21 Jump Street with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. Now it looks like the writing/directing duo of Phil Lord and Chris Miller are lining up a musical comedy at Disney. Risky Biz reports the two filmmakers are in talks to develop and direct Bob the Musical, the story of a regular guy who, after a blow to the head, suddenly can hear the inner songs of everyone’s hearts. With this newfound attribute, his life is instantly turned into a real-life musical and he's not too happy about it at all. More below!

⥤ Posted December 6 in Movie News, Opinions | 2 Comments

Casting Tidbits: Chris Tucker, Aaron Johnson and Ryan Phillippe

By Ethan Anderton

We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about Casting Tidbits and get sad and stuff. In a short and sweet story, Deadline has heard that Warner Bros. has purchased a spec script called The Rabbit with Chris Tucker (Rush Hour, The Fifth Element) attached to star. No details on the story have been given, but the source of the story compares it to the action comedy Midnight Run starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. If Tucker actually stays attached to this project through development this will be his first feature film since Rush Hour 3 in 2007. Obviously no one wants that to be their last film, but I can't imagine him getting much better.

⥤ Posted December 6 in Casting Tidbits, Movie News | 2 Comments

Watch: Brad Anderson's 'Vanishing on 7th Street' Official Trailer

By Alex Billington

Stay in the light. When we noticed there was a nifty new poster for Brad Anderson's creepy post-apocalyptic thriller Vanishing on 7th Street, I knew there would more to come, and here it is. Yahoo has debuted the first trailer for the film, starring Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, John Leguizamo and Jacob Latimore as a group of survivors of a mysterious mass disappearance. There's some creepy weird darkness that has spread across the city and after a power outage, causes most of the population to disappear. I first saw this in Toronto (review here) and enjoyed it but didn't totally love it. Check out the official trailer below.

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⥤ Posted December 6 in Hype, To Watch, Trailers | 24 Comments

Iron Man 3 is a Sequel to The Avengers, Thor & Captain America?

By Ethan Anderton

While Marvel's ambitious cinematic universe will get a huge growth spurt next summer with the release of Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, it will be the ensemble superhero film The Avengers that will determine the future of several comic book franchises. As a matter of fact, director Jon Favreau seems to already be looking into the future beyond ensemble tentpole and has some thoughts on Iron Man 3. Without mentioning any details, Favreau told MTV, "In theory, Iron Man 3 is going to be a sequel or continuation of Thor, Hulk, Captain America and Avengers." That would explain why so much of Iron Man 2 was used to set-up The Avengers.

⥤ Posted December 6 in Hype, Movie News, Opinions | 40 Comments

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