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Jason David Frank is an American actor, martial artist and professional mixed martial artist notable for his portrayal of Tommy Oliver in Power Rangers.

Just as we speculated, Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo will be reprising their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold in New Line's Vacation sequel/reboot.  Thought it'll mos likely be small cameo appearances, it's still very welcomed!
Chase and D’Angelo are in early talks to join Ed Helms and Christina Applegate in the comedy with “Horrible Bosses” scribes John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein on board to helm from a script they penned. Source: Variety

The trailer for The Wolverine has arrived -- and we're only 2 days late posting it, yay!  For those who don't know, The Wolverine is a sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine and yet another prequel to X-Men.

We talk about the films Stoker and the Croods, Neil Gaiman's Marvel Surprise, and Age of Ultron

In an interview with AMFM Magazine at the SXSW film festival, director Wes Craven spoke to the mag about YEAH, a new platform that basically expands a director's commentary into a visual feature.  But was was even more interesting is what came out of Craven's mouth when asked what his next project was going to be.

Of course he touched on the comic he is involved with, but the legendary director also stated that it could possibly be Scream 5.  Wait, what?!  Could the Weinsteins finally be moving forward with the fifth entry?  Not so fast.  Craven has been adament via Twitter that a fifth Scream is nothing but a fan's wish at the moment -- but his recent comment does bring some interesting theories to the surface...like, is Dimension kickstarting this damn thing already?

Let's hope so.

The international trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek: Into Darkness has been released.

At least it is being filmed in New York, right?  Albeit, New York City would be ideal -- but a ski resort in Tupper Lake, NY?  Apparently, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action reboot, from Michael Bay, will be partly filmed at a ski resort -- really?

This sounds ludicrous, if you ask me.  Not saying it's a false rumor...just isn't "right".
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports that the filmmakers producing next year's "Ninja Turtles" movie will find out when they film some scenes at the closed Big Tupper Ski Area in Tupper Lake.

Paramount Pictures is remaking the popular 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It is tentatively scheduled for release in 2014.

Village Mayor Paul Maroun says the movie company needed a closed ski resort and Big Tupper fit the bill. The ski mountain in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains has been closed because of financial problems.

Up to 80 people are expected to work on the shoot, which begins next week. Source: …

The official teaser trailer for Riddick, the third entry in the Pitch Black series, has been released.

Filming of Trailer Park Boys 3 is officially underway -- and the guys are starting to post some behind the scenes photos on their Facebook page!  Ricky, Julian, Bubbles, Lahey and Randy are returning...can't wait!
Source: Facebook

We got an Early look at the new film Olympus Has Fallen and we Talk about OZ the great and the powerful!

Toretto took full advantage of his head start and secluded himself far from the prying minds and hands of the government. Well…that’s what he thought.
What…not up to speed with The Fast and the Furious franchise? Not sure who Toretto is? Don’t know which is faster or more furious, The Rock or Vin Diesel?
Sit back and let’s take a walk through vehicle heaven…
The Original It all started back in 2001 with "The Fast and the Furious." Undercover cop, Billy (Paul Walker) investigates a rash of high-end electronic equipment robberies in Los Angeles. Solid cop work leads Billy to Dominic Toretto’s (Vin Diesel) street racing gang. Criminal and vehicular hijacks ensue. In the end, Billy gets the girl— Toretto’s sister—and Toretto flees the area in his 1970 Dodge charger.
Yes…this movie series is just as heavy on the cars as it is on the action. These less-than-legal hot rods aren't the reliable kind you'd desire to find at a Phoenix used car dealership. They are risky racing…

The plot for Transformers 4 has finally been revealed.  The film will be shooting soon in Michigan.
As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet. However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control – all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his crosshairs. The epic adventure and battle between good and evil, freedom and enslavement ensues. Source: Ain't It Cool News

Christina Applegate has been cast as Mrs. Rusty Griswold in the Vacation sequel/reboot coming from New Line.  Applegate joins Ed Helms who is taking on the role of Rusty, the son of Clark and Ellen Griswold (Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo).  It is unclear on whether or not Chase and D'Angelo will make cameo appearances, but I think it's safe to say they will.
Christina Applegate is in final negotiations to star opposite Ed Helms in Vacation, New Line’s update of the classic comedy movie series.Vacation is being written and directed by the duo of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

To possibly give the film an international feel, the new Godzilla film has added Ken Watanabe to the cast.  No word on what role he will play.

The film also stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Juliette Binoche, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen and David Strathairn.

Gareth Edwards will be directing the film from a Frank Darabont, Dave Callaham and Max Borenstein screenplay.

Here is the press release announcing the news:

WARNER BROS. PICTURES AND LEGENDARY PICTURES ANNOUNCE CAST AND START OF PRODUCTION FOR “GODZILLA” BURBANK, CA, March 18, 2013 – Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced today the final principal cast for the upcoming tent pole “Godzilla.”  Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, and Juliette Binoche are starring in the film, with David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston.
The companies also announced that principal photography began today on location in Vancouver.
Gareth Edwards is directing the film from a screenplay by Max Borenstein, Frank Darabont an…

The new teaser trailer for Adam Green's Hatchet III slashed its way online today.  The full trailer is still about a month away, but this should be enough to keep you gore hounds hungry for more!

Iconic director James Cameron is currently hidden away on a ranch in New Zealand pounding out the screenplays for Avatar 2 and Avatar 3.  Here's the latest from Cameron regarding the sequels:
Q: Can you give us some scoop about your upcoming little film called "Avatar 2"?

Cameron: "Oh believe me, it's not that little! It's not exactly a little, intimate drama. I'm working on 'Avatar 2' and 'Avatar 3.' I was talking the other day with Peter Jackson and said, 'You had it easy dude. You had the books when you did the second and third 'Lord of the Rings.' I have to create my own books in my head and extract a script from it. I'm deep into it and I'm living in Pandora right now. There is that start up torque where you feel it's coming to you. Then you build up momentum. That's when it gets fun. The characters talk and it's writing itself. I'm almost there right now. It's building fast." Source: Lif…

A few character posters for Kick-Ass 2 have been released.  The posters feature the film's main heroes and baddies: Kick-Ass, Hit-Girl, The Mother Fucker, Black Death, Mother Russia and Night-Bitch.  The only major character that seems to be absent is Jim Carrey's Colonel Stars, which is expected to be a surprise I guess.  Kick-Ass 2 hits theaters August 2013.

And the director of Jurassic Park 4 is Colin Trevorrow -- who directed the wonderful Safety Not Guaranteed.  Recently, there was some speculation that Steven Spielberg may hop into the director's chair once more, but obviously that has been debunked now.  Spielberg, who directed the first two Jurassic Park films will be an executive producer on the fourth.  Joe Johnston directed Jurassic Park III.
Colin Trevorrow, who made his feature directorial debut on the no-budget Sundance pic Safety Not Guaranteed, is about to make a Tyrannosaurus rex-sized leap in scale for his next film. He has been set by Universal Pictures to helm Jurassic Park 4, the third sequel to the dinosaur franchise hatched from Michael Crichton’s novel. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes scribes Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver have written the script. Frank Marshall is producing with Patrick Crowley, and Steven Spielberg is executive producer. It will be shot in 3D and get released June 13, 2014. This is Spielberg’s ba…

The red band trailer for the highly anticipated Kick-Ass 2 has been released.  This looks just as good as the first, in my opinion.

The poster for Scary Movie 5 has been released as well as a new trailer for the film.

This gives hope to just about all film projects.  If a fan truly wants to see a movie made, then, well, fund it!  The Veronica Mars Kickstarter went live about 2 days ago with a 30-day run.  The goal was $2M -- and they're just now a little under $3M.  Wow.

We Talk to the Chief Historian of the International Spy Museum about James Bond’s villains, uncover their evil schemes, and explore their exotic lairs and weapons in this special exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Bond films!

The deals are done.  Bateman, Day and Sudeikis are returning for Horrible Bosses 2.  Jamie Foxx is also expecting to return as the murder mentor Motherf***er Jones.
After more than half a year of negotiations, New Line has closed deals to reunite Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis for a sequel to Horrible Bosses, the surprise hit comedy released in 2011.

Jamie Foxx is also likely to return and is negotiations to reprise his role as murder consultant Motherf---er Jones for the pic, which will see Seth Gordon back in the director's chair. Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The Tokyo Game Show's official streaming channel will have this year's event available in English.

Tokyo Game Show, like the name implies, is a Japanese gaming convention that is the Japan equivalent of America's E3. 

Some companies expecting to make announcements are Square Enix, CAPCOM, Sony, Sega and Konami among others.

Tokyo Game Show 2013 will be held in Chiba's Makuhari Messe event hall from September 19 to September 22.

Source: ANN

We look at Sony's Playstation 4 press conference

This week we watched Seven Psychopaths out now on DVD and Blu-ray

Original Transformers trilogy alumn Josh Duhamel has been contacted about making an appearance in the upcoming Transformers 4.  I believe to be mainly to connect the new films to the old, while also spinning into a new series.
“[Michael] said he wants to put me in it someplace”, the Safe Haven actor tells THR. “I don’t know if he was just saying that because he had me on the phone and he felt obligated or what, but, you know what? I got to do three of those. It changed my career, it changed my life getting to be a part of something that big, so I’m grateful for even doing the first three of them.”

Sam Mendes directed the latest James Bond film "Skyfall" to critical acclaim and fanfare (and it also became the highest grossing Bond film earning more than $1.1 billion) and it was only natural to believe he would be back to direct the next one but unfortunately, his schedule is just too hectic as he has other commitments to focus on. 

He says in an interview with Empire:

 "It has been a very difficult decision not to accept Michael and Barbara's very generous offer to direct the next Bond movie... Directing "Skyfall" was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory" and "King Lear", that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond... I feel very honored to have been part of the Bond family, and very much hope I have a chance to work with them again sometime in the future..."
The door is left open for him to …

Look!  Nice and shiny poster!  Oh, sorry anyway...

Warner Bros. has revealed the trailer for the final installment of Todd Phillips' The Hangover trilogy.  Todd Phillips' promised the final film would be much different from the first two but would still provide the laughs that have made the trilogy so popular.

Check out the trailer below!


Along with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis, the film also stars Ken Jeong, Jamie Chung Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor, John Goodman, Justin Bartha, Sasha Barrese and Gillian Vigma.

What did you think of the trailer?

Peter Laird, the co-creator of TMNT is not a fan of Megan Fox being cast as April O'Neil in Michael Bay's reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

From Laird's personal blog he says:

"My only exposure to Megan Fox as an actress is through her role in two Transformers movies and the wretched (but happily forgettable) Jennifer's Body. It may not be fair to judge her range of acting skills just from those three movies, but I think it is safe to say that there are probably hundreds of better choices for the role of April O'Neil. Of course, her name has promotional value, and maybe that's what they want. Who knows? I can't get myself too worked up about it."
Megan Fox's name definitely has value and her acting skills are also in question but regardless of how we feel about this reboot, it's going to happen whether we like it or not.  If this reboot doesn't fare well with audiences (and knowing how much hate this reboot has already gott…

The beginning of the calendar always feels a little sluggish to me - at least as far as entertainment is concerned. Sure, January is the official month of self-promotion and falsely gracious concession speeches (also known as awards show season) but there's rarely any good, fresh movies hitting theaters this time of year. Right now, it seems like all everyone is talking about is "Catching Fire," the second film in the wildly popular "Hunger Games" franchise. The movie, however, won't hit theaters until November 22, so as of press time, all fans have is the book (which all of the serious fans have already read) and some still photos from the set.
So, we must content ourselves to re-watch older films, catch up on television, download games and otherwise bide our time until summer blockbusters give us something to cheer about again. In the meantime, there are some books I'd love to read, if only they existed:
A Panem Prequel Who else wants to know more ab…

Harrison Ford has joined the ever-growing ensemble of Anchorman: The Legend Continues.  This cast just keeps growing and growing -- and that's not a bad thing!
Ford will play a legendary newscaster a la Tom Brokaw in the Adam McKay-helmed comedy, which begins shooting this month in Atlanta. Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Finally, some solid news for Justice League has arrived.  The film will most likely be directed by Man of Steel's Zack Snyder from a story by Dark Knight trilogy's Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer!  This also pretty much guarantees that Christian Bale would be back as Batman as well as having Henry Cavill donning the red cape of Superman again.



Source: Latino Review

Though Stanley Kubrick wrote a screenplay for Napoleon back in 1961, it may finally see the light of day in a Steven Spielberg-produced TV mini-series.
It was a screenplay first written by Stanley Kubrick back in 1961 and now Steven Spielberg says he’s working with the late filmmaker’s estate on the project. “I’ve been developing Stanley Kubrick’s screenplay, for a miniseries not for a motion picture, about the life of Napoleon,” Spielberg recently told the French TV network Canal+. Kubrick left behind extensive research archives - location photos, notes and boxes of other details which provided a book on the subject. But studios balked at the expensive project. (Kubrick eventually made Barry Lyndon which takes place 15 years before the Napoleonic wars.) Spielberg’s 2001 A.I. began as a Kubrick project. The Napoleon news comes after Spielberg delayed Robopocalypse. Recently named jury president for the Cannes Film Festival in May, he’s producing Jurassic Park IV in 3D for June 2014, …

This is how you know it's a slow news day -- when we're posting about President Obama mistaking Star Trek and Star Wars.

Still funny if you're a Trekkie or a Warsie...
Fanboys may want to pull President Obama’s film geek credentials. He appeared Friday in the White House briefing room talking about budget cuts and said he wouldn’t do a “Jedi mind-meld” with the top two Congressional Republicans. Of course, the correct term is “Vulcan mind-meld”. Tweeted a Jedi fanboy group: “We forgive President Obama for the #JediMindMeld mistake. After all, with JJ Abrams now with a foot in both camps, being a geek is tough.” Source: Deadline

Blumhouse Productions has given Sinister 2 the go-ahead.  This is great news, as the first film was a major success and in my opinion capitalized on the "found footage/evil presence" theme the best (of the new-age horror flicks).  The cast and story of Sinister 2 is being kept under tight wraps.  I would imagine the budget could be slightly bigger than the first ($3M) -- but will we get a better product?  I don't know, Sinister was a pretty good flick, having grossed more than $87M.

We'll keep you updated on everything Sinister 2 as production on the sequel evolves.
Jason Blum‘s Blumhouse Productions is moving forward on its third micro-budget franchise with Sinister 2, the sequel to last year’s horror pic that grossed more than $87M worldwide off of a $3M budget. The move to build the Sinister franchise follows in the footsteps of Blumhouse’s successes with the Paranormal Activity and Insidious series of ultra-low-budget genre hits. Source: Deadline

Meagan Good has joined the cast of Anchorman: The Legend Continues, where she'll play Ron Burgundy's boss.
With filming set to begin soon in Atlanta, Paramount’s Anchorman: The Legend Continues is still quietly adding thesps to its growing roster. Deception‘s Meagan Good is the latest to join Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Christina Applegate, David Koechner, and new cast members Kristen Wiig and James Marsden in the comedy sequel. We hear the NBC primetime star is set to play Ron Burgundy’s boss in the pic, which hits theaters December 20. Good graced the big screen last year in the box office hit Think Like A Man and is repped by Gersh and Untitled. Source: Deadline

Sam Raimi is in London -- and at a recent Meet the Filmmakers event for Oz: The Great and Powerful he was asked the inevitable Evil Dead questions.  Most interestingly, Raimi did confirm that he does want to make an Evil Dead 4, despite the remake coming this April.
I would love to make Evil Dead 4. My brother and I plan to work on the script this summer. "I would love to make Evil Dead 4. My brother and I plan to work on the script this summer" Sam Raimi. What a scoop!
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Source: Bleeding Cool