'Road' Reviews, Spielberg and Jackson on 'Tintin' Set, 'Sex and the City 2' Pics and More
'The Cove' worked, Megan Fox says stuff and even more...
The Road is finally making its way to theaters in October and on its way it is hitting the Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals and the first reviews out of Venice. Here are the links:
Speaking of film festivals, The Auteurs has a nice round-up of what's on tap at Telluride. I am beginning to think Telluride is going to serve as my Comic Con replacement next year. Either that or Toronto.
Several new photos and even video have arrived online from the set of Sex and the City 2. The images above come from Entertainment Weekly while the video to the right comes from Access Hollywood who also have even more pics from the set right here including looks at Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Noth.
Filming is underway on The Green Hornet and David Harbour and Tom Wilkinson have joined the cast with Nicolas Cage in negotiations to appear in the film.
Megan Fox compared Michael Bay to a historical figure in an interview with Wonderland Magazine:
God, I really wish I could go loose on this one. He's like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he's a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he's not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he's so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all. And it's endearing to watch him. He's vulnerable and fragile in real life and then on set he's a tyrant. Shia and I almost die when we make a Transformers movie. He has you do some really insane things that insurance would never let you do.
Transformers 3 should be quite the production. [Movieline]
The pic you see above comes from Estrenosdecine featuring Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg working on the set of The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn.
Next is the new international trailer you see to the right for [REC] 2 courtesy of Plus.es. On top of that Screen Daily has up a review of the film from Venice saying the film "literally takes off the moment its predecessor ends, [and] keeps the adrenalin pumping while ramping up the good-versus-evil element with an Exorcist-style subplot about demonic possession… As [REC] 3 promises to take the virus out of the building and into the world at large, Balaguero and Plaza have many opportunities to plunder other horror favourites in the future."
Ben Ketai has signed on to direct the sequel 30 Days of Night: Dark Days. I expect this will be a direct-to-video sequel since the character originally played by Melissa George remains the lead, but has been recast. [Bloody Disgusting]
On September 13 Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner will appear at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York City to debut a new trailer for The Twilight Saga: New Moon and at the same time MTV.com will debut the first single off the soundtrack, Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me on the Equinox." [MTV]
Photo: Lionsgate
The first picture from Saw VI has debuted. You can get a slightly larger look at the image above right here.
20th Century Fox is following the money and has announced Randi Mayem will write Big Momma's House 3. [Variety]
Guy Ritchie will direct Lobo, a live action adaptation of the DC Comics drama about an alien interstellar bounty hunter. [Variety]
Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are set to star in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech. Here's the synopsis:
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who would become King George VI, the father of the current Queen, Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George 'Bertie' VI (Colin Firth) reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded nervous stammer and considered unfit to be King, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.
The Weinstein Co. is distributing with what would seem like obvious expectations for an awards run in 2010.
I saw The Cove but never did a formal review just because I didn't think there was anything more I had to add other than the fact what was going on in Taiji, Japan was wrong. As it turns out, Take Part has learned the annual slaughter of thousands of dolphins in Taiji, which was the focus of The Cove, has not seen a repeat performance:
No dolphins and no dolphin killers… it is a good day for the dolphins. The Cove movie led to the strong action by the city of Broome, Australia, in suspending the sister-city relationship with Taiji. So now, the Japanese media are sitting up and listening, for the first time.
Get the full report right here and for more information on the movie, here is an earlier article I wrote back in March with the trailer and synopsis.
Finally, Slash Film points us to ScriptShadow's Carson Reeves' Facebook page where he reveals some possible casting for David Fincher's The Social Network saying Jesse Eisenberg has signed to play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield will play Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and Justin Timberlake will play Napster co-founder Sean Parker.
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