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'Knights of Badassdom' Director Next Helming Action Thriller 'Everly'

Starting off with a film like Wrong Turn 2, doesn't sound like the best way to kick-off a filmmaking career, but since then, director Joe Lynch has crafted Knights of Badassdom, a film about a crew of LARPers (including "Community" star Danny Pudi) who find themselves facing more than their imagination when a real-life demon with a taste for blood and souls shows up. We're still not sure when we'll see that film, described as a "heavy metal adventure," Variety says Lynch has his next film in Everly, which sounds like a refreshing action thriller. The story focuses on a woman stuck in her apartment, but that's not the problem.

⥤ Posted May 18 in Development, Movie News | No Comments Yet

TGB Episode 61: Johnny Depp Forever (Guest: Dave 'Da7e' Gonzales)

By Tim Buel

On this week's episode of The Golden Briefcase, Tim and Jeremy are joined by Dave "Da7e" Gonzales from Latino Review and MTV's "16 and Pregnant" (as the Animations Producer) to go through their latest Picks of the Week, the newest in DVD & Blu-Ray releases, talk through the new trailers for Craig Gillespie's Fright Night remake and Seth Gordon's Horrible Bosses summer comedy, respond to a listener voicemail and much more! The main topic of the night was the life and times of Johnny Depp. The guys talk through the best and worst of Depp's career and get nitty gritty about his relationship with Tim Burton. Listen in!

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⥤ Posted May 18 in Golden Briefcase, Podcasts | 5 Comments

Ian McKellen and Judi Dench Joining 'Curse of The Buxom Strumpet’

By Ethan Anderton

Right now Hollywood is inundated with tons of zombie centric films like the adaptation of World War Z, the zombie romance Warm Bodies, an epic battle of Zombies vs Robots and a popular spec script called Maggie which Timur Bekmambetov picked up. There are even more than those projects in development with zombie fueled stories, so I'm getting a little tired of the undead. But when Screen Daily reports Ian McKellen and Judi Dench are going to star in an 18th century zombie comedy called The Curse of Buxom Strumpet, I'm inclined to listen. Gillian Anderson and Mark Williams are also set to star in the film.

⥤ Posted May 18 in Casting, Development, Movie News | 2 Comments

Mel Gibson Now Joining International Heist Comedy 'Sleight of Hand'

By Ethan Anderton

Last week we heard about the international heist comedy Sleight of Hand which was being shopped around the Cannes Film Festival (keep following Alex's coverage right here). The film had a strange array of talent including Kiefer Sutherland, Gerard Depardieu, Thomas Jane, Jon Lovitz and Til Schweiger, but now another big name is also joining the cast. Variety reports Mel Gibson, who attended Cannes for a non-competition screening of The Beaver (read my review here) , is in talks to join the film about a crew of small time crooks in Paris, who end up possessing a rare gold coin belonging to a notorious French gangster.

⥤ Posted May 18 in Casting, Development, Movie News | 3 Comments

Cannes 2011 Review: Lars von Trier's Apocalypse Film 'Melancholia'

By Alex Billington

The apocalypse is coming and Lars von Trier just seems depressed. The controversial Danish director is back in Cannes again, following Antichrist from a few years ago (I was there for that infamous screening) to premiere his latest movie, Melancholia. As one might expect with von Trier, the film has some truly breathtaking visuals, especially the opening sequence and the closing few minutes, but in-between that, there's not much to it. He starts with a big idea, then just lets it slowly trickle out for 130 minutes, ending at the moment everyone is expecting, but without having said much throughout. Sadly, it was underwhelming.

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⥤ Posted May 18 in Cannes Film Festival 11, Opinions, Reviews | 10 Comments

Peter Berg Will Direct Middle East Navy SEAL Thriller 'Lone Survivor'

By Ethan Anderton

With the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of Seal Team Six being a story of interest around the world, films about the dangerous missions of Navy SEALs are all the rage in Hollywood right now. Of course, Kathryn Bigelow will tell the story of the hunting and killing of the infamous Al Qaeda mastermind, but now another project about a team of Navy SEALs hunting another high profile terrorist leader is coming together after years of development. Deadline reports director Peter Berg (Hancock, The Kingdom) will be at the helm of Lone Survivor, an adaptation of Marcus Luttrell's book of the same name. More details below.

⥤ Posted May 18 in Casting, Development, Movie News | 4 Comments

Joel Edgerton is Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's 'The Great Gatsby'

By Ethan Anderton

Back in early April we heard that Ben Affleck was in talks to play Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1923 seminal classic novel The Great Gatsby. But then word came later that month that the actor would instead step behind the camera again for Argo, the true story of how the CIA used a fake sci-fi film to rescue Americans during the Tehran hostage crisis. Now it appears Luhrmann has finally found someone to replace Affleck with Deadline reporting Joel Edgerton, an actor who's star has been rising since his turn in Animal Kingdom, has landed the pivotal role in the upcoming adaptation.

⥤ Posted May 17 in Casting, Development, Movie News | 8 Comments

Armie Hammer Confirmed to Join Johnny Depp in 'The Lone Ranger'

By Ethan Anderton

Last month we heard that The Social Network star Armie Hammer was in early talks to join Johnny Depp in Disney's new take on The Lone Ranger, the classic western hero. Landing the role of the masked hero is fortuitous mostly because he was set to play Batman in the early development of a Justice League movie years ago, and now Variety confirms that Hammer will indeed play the titular crime-fighting Texas Ranger with Depp as his sidekick Tonto. Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski will be at the helm of the feature which is slated to start shooting sometime this fall after Depp finishes Tim Burton's Dark Shadows.

⥤ Posted May 17 in Casting, Development, Movie News | 7 Comments

Michelle Williams to Star in Sam Raimi's 'Oz: The Great and Powerful'

By Alex Billington

Talk about a hell of a cast for a Sam Raimi / Disney magical Wizard of Oz re-imagining. Variety is reporting that Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain, Synecdoche New York, Blue Valentine) has been cast as Glinda, the good witch, in Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful, in the works at Walt Disney Pictures. As the good witch, she will face off against her evil sisters, played by Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis, in a power struggle for control of the magical land of Oz. In addition, James Franco is set to play the snake oil salesman who becomes the great Wizard of Oz. Shooting on the massive fantasy film will begin in July in Michigan.

⥤ Posted May 17 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions | 7 Comments

Will Ferrell & Mark Wahlberg Are Reteaming for a Huge 'Turkey Bowl'

By Ethan Anderton

They teamed up for last year's action comedy The Other Guys (I don't care what anyone says, I enjoyed the hell out of it), and now Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are looking to team up again for another comedy. Deadline reports Warner Bros. has picked up a project called Turkey Bowl that will have Ferrell and Wahlberg playing guys from football-obsessed towns who lead rival teams in an annual tackle football game for bragging and trash-talking rights. The project was sold as a pitch, but "30 Rock" writers Robert Carlock and Scott Silveri will be behind the actual script with Ferrell and director Adam McKay producing.

⥤ Posted May 17 in Casting, Development, Movie News | 13 Comments

Abin Sur Wields Power on Another 'Green Lantern' Character Poster

By Ethan Anderton

The last character poster for the anticipated forthcoming release highlighted the mischievous villain Dr. Hector Hammond, and now we have yet another poster for one of our heroes from the Green Lantern Corps. The official Facebook page for Green Lantern (via ComingSoon) has just released another character poster with Abin Sur wielding the power of his ring. Once the Green Lantern of Sector 2814 (which contains the planet Earth), Abin Sur passes his ring along to Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) upon his death, enabling the pilot to take up the emerald mantle. Unless Blake Lively gets her own poster, this'll be the last.

⥤ Posted May 17 in Featured, Hype, Posters | 15 Comments

Fox Adopts 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' for a Movie

By Ethan Anderton

Even though the novel hasn't even been published yet, studios were in a fierce battle for the rights to Ransom Riggs' book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Variety says Fox ended up walking away with a deal to adapt the film last night. Though no director or writer is attached to the project just yet, apparently the book has already generated considerable buzz around Hollywood (hence the bidding war), so plenty of big names will end up circling this. The story follows a 16-year-old boy named Jacob, who stumbles upon a home for children with strange powers on a remote island off the coast of Wales.

⥤ Posted May 17 in Development, Movie News | 5 Comments

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