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Posts with tag: film | Return to WatchersWatch.com Homepage Barbie Heads to the Big Screen Barbie is ready for her close up. The 50 year old iconic doll will soon have her own feature film. This won't be another cartoon or direct to DVD deal. This will be a real live action movie with a decent budget. "Barbie is the most famous doll in history, a unique cultural icon in the world of brands," said Universal Pictures chairman Marc Shmuger. "So many representations of Barbie frequent pop culture, but never before has she been brought to life in a motion picture. We're grateful to Mattel for entrusting us with this extraordinary opportunity."Universal wants a piece of the family-friendly pie and has decided that Barbie is the way to get it. It could work. But it will be tricky to get it right. For one thing, there is no actress alive today that has Barbie's measurements. If Barbie were a human, she would be 7' 2" tall, weigh 101 pounds, wear a size four dress and a size five shoe. She would have a 39" bust (FF cup), 19" waist, and 33" hips. Posted on September 23, 2009 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Jennifer Garner is returning to ABC, but unfortunately for Alias fans she's not reprising her role as super spy Sydney Bristow. Instead, Jennifer has inked a production deal. Michael Ausiello reports: Ex-Alias superstar Jennifer Garner has inked a fresh development deal with her old network, sources confirm to me exclusively. What are the specifics of the pact? And does it involve the words "Alias" and "movie"? Keep reading for all the deets...We don't understand this at all. We want to see Jennifer in front of the camera chasing bad guys. Still, kudos to her for landing the production deal. Posted on July 15, 2009 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Dimension Films to Remake American Werewolf in London  Variety reports that Dimension Films plans to remake the film, An American Werewolf in London. Sean and Bryan Furst will produce.
The original 1981 pic was written and directed by John Landis and starred David Naughton, Griffin Dunne and Jenny Agutter. Pic, which won an Oscar for makeup, centers on a college student going on a rampage after surviving an attack by a werewolf on a Yorkshire moor.The Furst brothers are also behind the Daybreakers film which offers a different take on vampire films. You can see a Daybreakers trailer here. Posted on June 29, 2009 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Quentin Tarantino and his World War II film Inglourious Basterds will compete the Cannes Film Festival this year. The Brad Pitt starrer, set in Nazi-occupied France, has been invited to play in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Insiders said Tarantino, a longtime favorite of the French, has accepted the offer and has told the film's backers -- the Weinstein Co. and Universal Pictures -- that the pic will be ready for its world premiere during the May fest.The 2008 festival runs May 13-24, 2009. Can Tarantino pull off another win? It's hard to say. Buzz about the unspellable film has been mixed. Posted on April 1, 2009 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Kevin Smith Makes a Comedy Film About Making a Porno Kevin Smith has a new film coming out called Zack and Miri Make a Porno that hits U.S. theaters in October. The film is R-rated as you might imagine. The film stars Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Traci Lords and Katie Morgan. AP asked some of the cast just how pornographic is Smith's new film? Porn Star Katie Morgan says it's "really just a love story with lots of dirty sex." Okay... The film will be in theatres in October. The official website is here and the IMDB listing is here. Slashfilm has a teaser trailer for Kevin Smith's film. Posted on August 30, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Prince of Persia Release Delayed to 2010  The bigscreen and big budget version of the Ubisoft videogame Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is being pushed back to 2010 to allow more time to work on the cgi. Or to keep from competing with Transformers 2, depending on who you believe.
[T]he move takes "Prince of Persia" out of the path of "Transformers 2," which DreamWorks and Paramount open on June 26, 2009. Filmmaker Mike Newell began lensing the pic last week in Morocco and will remain there until the production moves to London.Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina are starring in the film which will now open one week after Shrek Goes Fourth. Posted on July 31, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Venice Film Festival Announces Slate The Venice Film Festival has announced its slate of films. Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married, Kathryn Bigelow's Hurt Locker, and Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading will all have their world premieres at the festival. Similar to Cannes this year, the Lido's upcoming edition, which unspools Aug. 27-Sept. 6, is lighter on Yank pics, largely due to a dearth caused by the writers' strike. "One of the effects of the strike is that so many releases of movies that would have been right for Venice have been pushed by the studios to December, or even later," Marco Mueller said at a packed presser in Rome’s Excelsior Hotel on the Via Veneto.You can see the full list of films that are screening here. Posted on July 29, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Here's the new trailer for Oliver Stone's film about George Bush, called W. Is this a joke? It looks like some kind of Saturday Night Live skit, only it's not funny. Surely he could have done better than this? Posted on July 28, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Hercules Returns to the Silver Screen Hercules is coming back to the big screen, but the title role won't be filled by Kevin Sorbo the star of the popular television series. "Hancock" director Peter Berg is spearheading a fresh take on Hercules for Universal. Berg will produce and will develop to direct "Hercules: The Thracian Wars," a co-production of Spyglass Entertainment, Berg's Film 44 and Radical Pictures. Spyglass and Universal will co-finance the film.Who will be the new Hercules? You can find information about some of the many actors who played Hercules in previous films here. Posted on July 23, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Jumper Lands on DVD  Based on the bestselling novel by Stephen Gould, Jumper stars The film stars Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson. Christensen plays David Rice, a young man who discovers he has the power to teleport anywhere in the world just by thinking about it. At first his new power seems incredible -- he uses it to rob banks and vacation in exotic places -- but he eventually learns there is a price for his power.
David runs afoul of the Paladins, an ancient group that hunts Jumpers who they believe to be unnatural and an abomination. Now David has Roland Cox (Samuel L. Jackson), a senior Paladin, on his trail. As David races to find out more about his abilities and to evade Cox, he realizes that he will never live a normal life. His girlfriend, played by Rachel Bilson, is along for the ride. Diane Lane as Jack's mom is really underused -- we would have loved to have seen more of her backstory. Jumper underperformed at the box office, but it's a perfect SF action film for summer. It's great fun and the action never stops. Yes, it's a bit disjointed, but the scenery is terrific -- and so is the CGI. The two disc special edition has all kinds of cool features, including deleted scenes, behind the scenes commentary and a digital version of the film. It's available everywhere DVDs are sold, and online at a nice discount from Amazon.com. Posted on June 26, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Guy Ritchie to Direct New Sherlock Holmes Movie Guy Ritchie is slated to direct the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie for Warner Brothers. Ritchie's also working on a rewrite/polish of Tony Peckham's script, based on Wigram's upcoming comicbook "Sherlock Holmes." Studio's eying a 2010 release. The logline remains under wraps, but execs at Warners are aiming to reinvent Holmes and sidekick Dr. John H. Watson. Wigram's noted that the new Holmes would be more adventuresome and take advantage of his skills as a boxer and swordsmanA new, swashbuckling Sherlock Holmes? That could work. But they'll need a great lead to pull it off. Posted on June 4, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Get Ready for sn Avalanche of Sequels Den of Geek rounds up the thirty (!) sequels that are being planned by Hollywood. We knew that there seemed to be a lot of sequels around, but his list really puts it into perspective. It's like original moviemaking stopped when the 80s ended or something. The Brazilian Job: the follow up to Paramount's US remake of The Italian Job is still on the cards, and it's got a 2009 release date marked. Jason Statham, Mos Def, Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron are attached, as is director F Gary Gray.See the entire list here. One sequel we're ready for right now is Indiana Jones 5; George Lucas was so happy with the reception of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that he's hinting at more films. But if it takes him and Spielberg another ten years to do it, it's just not going to work. Posted on June 2, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Audiences Staying Away From Topical Films Variety reports that audiences are growing quite tired of topical films, such as those that cover hot-button political issues and the Iraq War. Filmmakers, mindful that it took more than a decade for Hollywood to effectively tackle the Vietnam War onscreen, were eager to embrace the topicality of Iraq while it was still hot. And both indies and studio speciality divisions jumped in headfirst. In retrospect, it's easy to see why they failed, and why the next round -- yes, there are more on the way -- faces an uphill battle.We enjoyed The Kingdom, although the last scene needed a bigtime edit. But hey, it was Jennifer Garner and Jamie Foxx in an action thriller so that's always good. We think it's too soon to start doing movies about the Iraq War. It's still going on: if we want to read stories about it all we have to do is pick up a newspaper or watch television. It's just too early for all that. We think it's still to early for 9/11 movies: we saw it happen live on TV, after all. Posted on April 19, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench to Star in Nine Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench are reportedly starring in Nine, the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. The Oscar-winning pair are in talks to join Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and Sophia Loren in Rob Marshall's adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical. The 1982 show, itself an adaptation of Federico Fellini's autobiographical opus "8 1/2," revolves around a film director (Bardem) juggling the demands of several women in his life.The film will begin shooting after Nicole gives birth this summer and has a bit of maternity leave. And as for Judi Dench -- we had no idea that she was the original Sally Bowles. What fun that would have been to see! Posted on April 4, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | Jennifer Aniston Forms New Production Company Jennifer Aniston has formed her own production company called Echo Films. She's partnering with her producing parter Kristin Hahn. The studio has just acquired screen rights to Jane Fallon's British bestseller "Getting Rid of Matthew," and Aniston and Hahn will produce with Lynda Obst and Marc Rosen. Fallon, a veteran U.K. TV producer who is married to Ricky Gervais, will adapt her novel about a hard-charging publicist whose lusty affair with a married man is ruined by his decision to leave his wife and two children for her. She invents a new persona, befriends the spurned wife and attempts to patch up the marriage up so she can be rid of him. In the process, she develops a thing for his oldest son.It's a good move for Aniston. She's worked with Hahn since she was a partner with then-husband Brad Pitt and Brad Grey in Plan B Productions. The company sounds like it has some interesting projects lined up, most of which are tailor-made for Jennifer to star in. Posted on April 1, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) | |
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