‘Deathly Hallows’ News, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Set Pics and Clooney as Ranger
Knightley done with 'Pirates' and sequels and remakes out the ass
A LOT of new sequels and remakes were announced this week, here’s a list of a few of them with links to the source article or the film itself on RopeofSilicon:
- The Lone Ranger
- Pirates of the Caribbean 4
- National Treasure 3
- Hairspray 2
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- I Am Legend Prequel
- Lethal Weapon 5
- Let the Right One In
On top of all that we learn Rachel McAdams will play the lead female in Sherlock Holmes, Pixar’s Cars 2 has been bumped to 2011 and Newt moves to 2012, Spike Lee said Anthony Hemingway may be directing George Lucas’s Redtails about the Tuskegee Airmen and while Johnny Depp may be down for a Pirates of the Caribbean 4 it sounds like Keira Knightley is done with it.
Some rumors have George Clooney as a potential star for The Lone Ranger starring opposite Depp who will play Tonto.
George A. Romero is making yet another zombie movie.
Yahoo has some Iron Man concept art and the first look at the cover art for The Dark Knight Blu-ray and Batpod Blu-ray are online.
Roger Ebert responds to an idiot with the following response in his Answer Man column:
Question: Yo dude, u missed out on “Disaster Movie,” a hardcore laugh-ur-@zz-off movie! Y U not review this movie!? It was funny as #ell! Prolly the funniest movie of the summer! U never review these, wat up wit dat?
Ebert’s Response: Hey, bro, I wuz buzier than $#i+, @d they never shoed it b4 hand. I peeped in the IMDb and saw it zoomed to #1 as the low$ie$t flic of all time, wit @ lame-@zz UZer Rating of 1.3. U liked it? Wat up wit dat?
Set pics of Mia Wasikowska as Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland are online.
There’s also a crushed cab from the set of Kick-Ass over here and even more here along with comic comparison.
A bomb threat at MGM? Did the Weinstein’s have anything to do with it?
Speaking of Weinstein, there are some 11-year-old Harvey Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino taped phone calls up at Defamer that don’t paint Robert De Niro in a flattering light at least not from the opinion of those in the conversation. At one point Tarantino says, “Tell Bob not to call me yelling and screaming . . . I don’t know if I’m going to be nice [if] the guy calls up yelling and screaming at me like a maniac, calling me a [bleep]er!”
IESB is detailing some footage they recently saw of The Surrogates and Prince of Persia.
Finally, the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows script is half-done and word is Half-Blood Prince will be getting some edits due to mixed reviews from early test screenings.
Thanks to SlashFilm, FilmDrunk, SuperheroHype, CHUD, Ain’t It Cool News, HPANA, IESB, Defamer, Variety, Yahoo and Bloody-Disgusting for contribution to this report.







