As you probably noticed by now, The Movie Blog has finally revealed our new look, new logo, and with it, a couple of new features.

A regular feature you will notice is on the right, there is a panel where Movie Boxoffice Results will be updated every Monday, and a Boxoffice Report Post will be up to kick off your week to let you know what films saw the most cash on the weekend that just expired.

Tuesdays will feature a release report around what BluRay and DVD films are coming out so you can rush off to the nearest supplier of your cinematic crack to pick up the latest - or rush to the video store to hit up that film you meant to watch that you were waiting for on disc.

Fridays will bring the return of the popular Forgotten Friday Review and as always you can email me your suggestions and I will try to track them down and review them. If I use your suggestion, I will credit you for the reminder in the review.

Also, at the bottom of each expanded post is now an AddThis toolbar, that will help you share articles you find amusing or just want to let someone know about. Everyone reads a bit of news that makes them think of someone and this will give you an easy to use tool to quickly share with your friends with a couple clicks using your favourite social networking programs.

And you will notice that there are a number of orange underlined words in the posts, particularly around celebrity names and titles, and you can hover on those to get a little more information and media about them including other articles on this site that pertain to that highlighted word.

Is there anything else you would like to see on the site? I am always open to suggestions and while I may not use them all, I will certainly take them under consideration!

And there is other developments in the works too. But thems be all secret and stuff for now!

Seems that Dean Parisot will be returning to the directors chair for the first time in five years to direct the Ed Helms lead cast in Central Intelligence.

Ed Helms is probably most recognized recently for his role in the Hangover as the Dentist buddy who is missing a tooth.

Collider says:

Dean Parisot, best known for directing the brilliant Galaxy Quest, has signed on to direct the comedy Central Intelligence starring Ed Helms for Universal. According to Variety the film is about an accountant who “reconnects with an old friend via Facebook and his life is engulfed by the world of international espionage.”

I loved Galaxy Quest, and if this guy had only one credit to his name and that was it, I would be his biggest supporter in anything he ever did. Just brilliant stuff there. Well he did also do Fun with Dick and Jane which was was less than impressed with.

So I will be keeping an eye out for Central Intelligence to see how it works out for Helms as a lead as well.

A new featurette is online showing some of the behing the scenes stuff on the set of the upcoming Iron Man 2, and some sites are already suggesting that there is more to the featurette than just recycling some trailer footage and some confident words from the cast.

So aside from that staggering shot of Scarlett in that busty black top, rumour has it that there is a quick peek cameo of THOR in there. Apparently in the supermax prison for supers, we see a bearded guy getting his picture taken in a cell, and speculation suggests that might actually be the God of Thunder.

Now I don’t know that was Thor, there doesn’t seem to be any reason to think it was. He isn’t blond, doesnt look much like Hemsworth, but this is as clear a shot as we have of him.

Maybe just a desperate hope of someone saying “Look I saw it first!” and if that’s the case, I want to say I think it is more likely that it would be Hawkeye (who in the comics was first thought to be a theif that Widow hires to steal tech from Stark Enterprises and later joins the Avengers)

But Widow… wow.

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The adaptation of the A-Team is looking better and better, until I saw the flying airdrop tank fight… but I can forgive that for the awesomeness of the rest of it.

An intrepid fan snapped a shot of a poster and tossed it up on the intarwebz for us to see:

Looks pretty straightforward, and is exactly what I would have hoped to see from an A-Team poster. Just the guys.

And they all look great capturing each of the characters from the original TV Show.

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Looks like Greg Berlanti is leading the contenders and is suspected to be hired on to write and direct DC’s big screen adaptation of The Flash!

Obsessed with Film offers:

They say former Dawson’s Creek and current Eli Stone writer Greg Berlanti is the leading contender to write and direct the long in-gestation adaptation of DC’s fastest superhero.

This shouldn’t be all-together that surprising as we know Warner Bros are keen on Berlanti having previously hired him to write and direct The Flash’s Justice League buddy Green Lantern.

Despite the WB canning him on the Green Lantern gig, they were impressed with his writing and want to give him another try with Flash.

Maybe this time he will be a better fit for this snarky speedster and bring an entertaining and faithful adaptation to the screen.

Time will tell.

I have been looking forward to the Farrelly Brothers’ Hall Pass for a while now, and as if it couldn’t sound more fun, Christina Applegate and Alyssa Milano have joined the cast.

Hollywood Reporter shares:

The new cast members join Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer, Amanda Bynes, Stephen Merchant, J.B. Smoove, Nicky Whelan and Derek Waters in the comedy, which began shooting Tuesday in Atlanta. The film centers on what happens when two husbands are given permission to go outside their marriages for guilt-free romantic liaisons for one week.

I am sure that Applegate and Milano rank pretty high on my “free pass” list too. Oh, they have to consent? Ok, I am putting down the chlorophorm.

The Farrelly Brothers have put out some pretty bold comedy, and I suspect this will be no different. With the film already started shooting, it seems a little late in the game to add these two bombshells to the mix. I wonder how big of an involvement they will have in the film?

Looks like all that speculation over Wanted 2 and Jolie being involved are now pointless as she has walked on the project. Not because she thinks it will suck or anything, but because Universal woudln’t greenlight another project she is involved in.

JoBlo says:

Angelina Jolie has dealt Universal a double whopper this week: she’s officially backed out of the in-development WANTED sequel and she’s leaving and taking her sci-fi thriller with her. Jolie had been in talks with the studio to star in GRAVITY, a thriller that was written and would be directed by Oscar-nominee Alfonso Cuaron But the studio felt the project was too expensive for something so creatively challenging that they let the project go. Cuaron took the project to Warner Bros. where they’ll produce it alongside Legendary Pictures.

Well I am leaving and I am taking my Scattegories with me!!

Harsh blow to Universal. Jolie must have really wanted this Gravity to happen so badly that she walked out on Wanted 2. I suspected that Wanted 2 was going to be a prequel in order to include Jolie as the ending of Wanted suggests she wouldnt be involved in a continuing storyline.

Wanted was a fine movie that I enjoyed more than I thought I would, but it stands alone just fine. I wonder if Universal will do Wanted 2 without her?

I am curious to see what she does with Gravity. But I hope they give her a sammich or two before filming. That sexy vixen is looking less attractive with that whole “let me show you my bones” look.

Ok, Kevin Smith is the wordsmaster, and while his Tweets are often insightful and interesting, they can also be crude. Ok, its mostly crude. Oh, and he will not be confined by the restraints of the 140 character limit…

But today he dropped this series of gems in his Twitter and I couldn’t help but share. He had just received a phone call from Arnold Schwarzenegger, wishing him luck with this weekend’s release of Cop Out

I wanna go back in time & tell the 12-yr-old-me watching CONAN that one day, Conan’s gonna wish you good luck on your Bruce Willis movie.

Past-me would look at future me & be like “How the fuck did we get so fat?” Future-Me’d say “Don’t worry: we’re still not too fat to fuck.”

Then, past-me would be like “Fuck ME? Ew - you’re gonna rape me! Future-Me wants to bust my hiney’s hymen! Then, BOOM! Door bursts open.

Arnold, extending his hand to Past-Me, saying “Come with me if you want to live.” Future-me escapes with rocket pack. Skynet goes online.

Past-Me & Arnold have to get to Jersey, to stop 2 angels from ending existence (TRUE ‘Judgment Day’). Arnold pulls Freeze gun, says “Chill.”

Okay, none of that happened; ‘cept the actual Arnold call. And the rocket pack.

Holy shit I would go see that pile of nonsense just to see if it is possible for me to laugh myself fertile.

Kevn Smith should write a sequel to Last Action Hero, where the movie stars all actually come out of their films, but him being the popculture expert Kevin Smith is he would know what to do with each of them… run! It would be comedy genius.

Andrew Koenig, best known for his role as dimwitted underachiever extraordinaire Richard “Boner” Stabone on the 80s sitcom Growing Pains was reported missing in Vancouver on Valentine’s Day. Concerned that Andrew suffered from depression, the search began for the former TV star, resulting in finding him dead today in Stanley Park as the result of suicide.

Globe and Mail reports:

Mr. Koenig’s father, also an actor, told a news conference at Stanley Park that his 41-year-old son had committed suicide,and that his body has been discovered in the park.

Walter Koenig, famous for playing Russian crew member Pavel Chekov on the original Star Trek series, urged anyone with suicidal thoughts to seek help.

Granted the son of Chekov never amounted to much of significance after his career peaked with Growing Pains, but he did make an appearance in a very popular fan made video portraying a very convincing Joker in a showdown between Batman vs Aliens vs Predators.

The short film was called Batman:Dead End. So in tribute to Andrew, here it is.

Zoolander might just be my favourite Ben Stiller comedy. That film was just filled with such deliciously silly scenarios and dialogue that has me smiling just thinking of it. Even thinking of the very tragic freak gasoline fight accident has me laughing.

Cinematical shares:

Paramount and Stiller are teaming up for a PG-13 Zoolander 2. And as much as I’ve expressed my trepidation in 2006 and 2008, they’ve gone and grabbed the one man who will make me see it. The Evil DJ — otherwise known as Justin Theroux — will write and direct the sequel.

Stiller’s wife and oft co-star Christine Taylor is easy on the eyes, and likely the movie will pick up with Zoolander getting the itch to model again and putting aside his duties at the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can’t Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too, perhaps reteaming up with Hansel (He’s so hot right now), but Owen Wilson hasn’t signed on to the deal… yet. Come on, you know he will!

And while I couldn’t think ANYTHING could rain and that really really rediculously good looking parade of comedy gold, they announce that Jonah Hill is in negotiations to play the badguy replacing the dethroned Mugatu as the leader of the fashion world.

Hill is just negotiating, so lets hope his plate gets full and he has to pass on this one. But then maybe he will do it and surprise the crap out of me with some over the top character like Zoolander delivers… aww who am I kidding. He will be the same Attention Deficit dork he is in everything else.

The days are getting short and Marvel films has a very small window to announce their Captain America if they are to keep their promise to reveal their pick by the end of this month.

The Hollywood Reporter offered up the shortlist of contenders who were called in for screen tests and speculation says that they may choose from this list.

I like aspects of many of the shortlist guys, but none really scream the whole package for me. Maybe Ackles, but he isn’t going to give up Supernatural and his other projects for this role, though I can hope.

So if they had to choose from this list, who would it be for you? Of course if none of them strike a chord with the casting directors, then they might not make their deadline to announce the big screen Cap.

Yesterday we posted a bootlegged TV Spot, but now today we get a full trailer for the remake of the classic 80s horror franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Remakes might automatically get a bad rap, and its hard to over come that but this is actually looking really good to me.

I like that we get to hear Jackie Earl Haley’s voice as Freddy. He sure looks the part, but they could make me look like Freddie with the makeup magic in Hollywood. The voice is different, but still a bit snarky and a lot haunting.

“Why are you screaming? I haven’t even cut you yet”

I am glad they are holding on to the sarcastic side of Freddie while he torments and murders teenagers. And the claws in the bathtub scene is a classy nod to the original.

Danny Glover might just be too old for this shit, and when I heard “Moby Dick with Dragons” I thought maybe he was a little crazy.

But when I saw this first look in the novel adaptation and saw Glover’s Ahab, it looks like they are staying pretty loyal to the book’s themes, and just transplanting it into a fantasy setting.

One of the things I always cling to when considering an adaptation of a book to film is the spirit and message of the story. The word adaptation MEANS change for a different environment, and while not every adaptation does a good job of it, this one looks like it would be a fitting step to adapt the film into a different genre.

For instance, DiCaprio and Danes in Romeo and Juliet did a beautiful retelling without changing any of the original dialogue and prose of the master bard. They updated it to modern times and it worked rediculously well. Love that movie.

As for this, I am surprised it got this far into production and I didn’t hear about it. I will be keeping an eye out for this.

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While Latino Review announced an exclusive that David Goyer was going to be writing the next Superman reboot, and even included details (No Routh, No Singer, No Origin - Two badguys=Lex and Braniac) they might have jumped the gun a little.

AICN decided to actually confirm this.

Harry here… So just a while ago I just got off the phone with Thomas Tull at Legendary Pictures who told me that the story that appeared over on LATINO REVIEW just frankly isn’t true. Tull has not unilaterally hired Goyer to come in and write the new SUPERMAN. He loves Goyer, but frankly - the project isn’t at the Script stage yet. Seems Nolan is still hatching some ideas. But he just wanted me to pass on that they have the highest enthusiasm for this project, but the story on Latino just isn’t accurate. I’ll see what more I can find out, but as of right now, there really isn’t anything else to tell.

So it seems the break wasn’t so big a story after all.

Its not the first time a website got the jump on some juicy news and it turned out to be entirely fabricated by someone. It won’t be the last time either.

The internet is all a flutter about this news already today, not one indicating the confirmation. Maybe it will spark discussions everywhere about that proposed angle for the film and those in charge can take note of what everyone is carrying on about.

I would personally NOT want to see Lex Luthor in it. That villain was so beat to death. Also, as much as I loved Routh for the role, if they are rebooting it clean, I would sooner he wasn’t in it. It would confuse people into tying the new film to the Singer sequel/retcon of Reeve’s Superman 2.

Braniac would work, or Metallo. I would hold off on something as epic as Doomsday or Darksied just yet.

Sometimes there are things in marketing that you REALLY could never predict happening.

For instance, the 35 Years, 35 Films Clint Eastwood Movie Collection available gives you 35 Clint Eastwood films over the last three and a half decades for $130! That’s a steal.

But thats not what you subliminally will see when you catch a glimpse of this baby in the cost effective cardboard mass displays found in retail centers like Costco.

Tell me you read that like I did the first time you saw it? Yeah. That really dirty word that even my potty mouth hesitates to use is the first thing that sprung to mind.

35 Years of leatherfaced, badassed rough and tumble cunt. A real bargain at $130.

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This Friday I will be recording the UnCut Podcast, and after discussing a few topics, I will open it up to a Mailbag and answer some questions and hopefully post it before I run out to see Cop Out.

Feel free to Email Me With your Mailbag questions, and I will try to get to as many of them as possible.

If I get enough questions, the podcast may even be a video edition!

Despite making this Kung-Fu instead of Karate, the title is still the Karate Kid.

And this new trailer makes it look like this might not suck.

Ok, sure, it seems almost like a scene for scene remake, but it looks alright. Chan always delivers a heartwarming character, and while Junior Smith has yet to prove himself, he has the moves.

And I gotta dig the “Your the Best” playing on the radio in the scene where Chan is trying to catch a fly with chopsticks. A perfect nod there. (That song is on my Zune)

Shock Till You Drop has a bootleg of the first TV Spot for A Nightmare on Elm Street, and while it doesn’t show much, it still looks pretty faithful.

Seems that Sean Hood is being called up for some last minute re-writes to the Conan script.

And surprisingly enough, Hood has also written a Hercules script being shopped about by the same guys producing this.

With only three weeks to go before shooting begins, screenwriter Sean Hood (who wrote a horror movie specifically for Nispel called Subterranean that got delayed when Conan moved forward) has been brought in to retool Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer’s original script.

In related news, it looks like Conan producers Joe Gatta and Boaz Davidson are angling to finally move forward on their Hercules film. Details are lite on that front, but the Millennium Films duo are currently shopping the Hercules script, also written by Hood, out to directors in the hope that it’ll all come together when Conan wraps.

Rewrites always make me nervous but I cling to the hope that something better will come of it and that we might have dodged a bullet here.

I haven’t formed an opinion on Hood yet, but I hope that whatever he does with this is better than what was originally in the works.

You know there is going to be a slew of puns based on the recent news that Warner Brothers is going to fast track the Speedy Gonzalez Live action/CG feature film.

I mean, he is The Fastest Mouse in all of Mexico, so is there any other way to make this movie?

Cinematical says:

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Brothers is making a live-action/CGI family comedy based around the classic Looney Tunes character Speedy Gonzales, with George Lopez providing the voice of the super-sonic Mexi-mouse.

While I am groovy with the idea of Lopez providing the iconic “¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!”. There is already a fair amount of political correctness that frowns upon characters like Speedy for the Mexican depiction. While Speedy is a rapidly moving energetic mouse, all the other mice were often depicted as slow and lazy, many even drunk. Speedy often spent his days saving these slow mice from trouble.

But Speedy is a good role model, and if anyone can toe that line of racial policitcal correctedness, its going to be Lopez, who has made a career riding those stereotypes with comic results.

I grew up with the Looney Toons character, and while I don’t see him (or his amigos) as stereotype racisim, being French I was never offended by Pepe LePew either.

That guy was a hopeless romantic, and just never got a break. I felt his pain.

Thanks for checking out our Shutter Island review.

Genre: Suspense Drama
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Staring:Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley, Ted Levine
Released: February 19, 2010

THE GENERAL IDEA

Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island. Once there its revealed that Teddy has his own agenda, tracking down a criminal he has a personal agenda against.

THE GOOD

The cast is perfect. Of course I have yet to be disappointed by DiCaprio (The Beach doesn’t exist to me - shuddap) and the rest of the cast fits in perfectly as well. DiCaprio’s Boston dialect is dead on, and surprisingly Mark Ruffalo steps up from his normal light fare to deliver a wonderful supporting role as Teddy’s assistant. And Kingsley is just delicious as the resident psychiatrist.

This is a real thinking movie. It will have you on your toes the whole time trying to “figure it out” and you wont. Like a lot of Scorsese films, each detail is important and is a brick being laid down in constructing the film. When something seems random, 15 minutes later something happens that tells you it wasn’t. And by the time you get all the details straight you realize that there is a solid beautifully built wall in front of you.

Don’t go pee. Don’t order the big pop. Get comfy. With 2 hours of actual film, this requires you to watch every detail of the film. Everything is important. Nothing is fluff. It all matters.

The film keeps you in the dark, which just makes you feel the US Marshall’s frustration even more. And the last 5 minutes of the film makes it ALL worth it. The most brilliant part of the plot is in the conclusion when it all makes sense and the crime is solved.

THE BAD

The film is confusing - on purpose. You have to be patient as it is all explained, and is so worth it. I have heard a number of people say they were too confused about the film and it left them lost. Be patient and pay attention and it all works. Its an unorthodox delivery which some may find disorienting, but it all comes together.

Aside from keeping you in the dark, which is part of the point, I don’t have much bad to say about this movie.

OVERALL

A very deep and thought provoking film. The closing statement from Teddy will have you blown away and thinking long after the credits have rolled. I don’t know if there is a greater compliment to give a movie than to say it rolls on in the mind long after it ends.

I give Shutter Island an 8 out of 10

A new poster for A Nightmare on Elm Street has surfaced and I have to say I am really liking it.

If you look carefully at the jawline, it looks like they didn’t just give him a burned face, but that they deformed him significantly too. I think this Freddie for a new generation could even be more terrifying even if it does look like he is about to enter a thoughtful monologue about how he wants James Bond to die.

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Since they made Annakin such a whiny pussy, some people feel that the portrayal of Darth Vader was tainted by the emo softy behind the mask.

I think it could have been worse if they included this deleted scene from A New Hope that has surfaced that introduced a potential love interest for the Dark Lord of the Sith

Just remember, no matter how bad it got, it could always have been worse! Count your blessings!

Johnny Depp was caught by reporters chatting up about the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides sharing a little bit about his role in the film.

Cinematical shares:

Johnny Depp told reporters that he would be among the very few cast members returning for the next Pirates of the Caribbean films, but insisted that the sequels wouldn’t be a one-man show. “There’s no Keira or Orlando in there,” he explained Saturday at a press conference in Hollywood, Calif. “[But] I don’t know. I don’t think we’d ever throw too much Jack Sparrow in there. There will be a little bit of everybody.”

Depp was easily the best part of the Pirates films, and his character was pivitol to the goings on, but was just one ingredient in the stew that made the film great.

I say film (singular) because I enjoyed the crap out of the first movie and am completely indifferent of the complicated mess that was the following two. Not terrible, but not as good as they could have been.

Anyways, in spite of all that I am still eager to see more Pirates films, and encouraged to hear that this will not be a Sparrow-centric film. I am sure he will be essential to the plot, but that we would be introduced to a bevvy of new cast mates is intriguing indeed.

Its long been known that Keira and Orlando were being left alone as their story is irrevocably done. But he does say that Sparrow will be of the few to return. I would suspect Barbosa, as well as crewmates Pintel and Ragetti will be present. And I think there will be a missed opportunity to not catch up with Anamaria (played by the now super popular Zoe Saldana), perhaps captaining her own ship.

Depp also continues in the interview to say that he is not disillusioned with the franchise over the firing of his friend and Disney honcho Dick Cook (who got him the Pirates gig to begin with) saying that Cook and him chatted about it (presumably after his quoted reaction) and he is happy with the angle they are approaching the new film.

Looks like Marlon Wayans will be gluing on the velcro ’stache to portray a comic legend in the dramatic biopic of his turbulent career. Filming is set to begin this fall.

There are other more talented dramatic actors, right? What makes him perfect for this? Let’s let Marlon make his case.

“Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money,” Wayans recently said with a smirk. “But that’s not all I want to do. And I think I’ve proven to some people — the ones paying attention — that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.”

I figure that Marlon Wayans is the most likely to be able to break out of his own stereotype, so this statement has a fresh feeling of honest truth to it.

He isn’t waving his arms saying “I can do this” hoping we believe him. He is just laying it out there. Especially opening with a statement saying he enjoys making stupid movies too.

Frankly if I could coast through Hollywood banking paycheque after paycheque playing an idiot, I would do it. But honestly, if he wants to break out, he will have to prove it. And that he got this gig suggests that at least SOMEONE in charge thinks he has what it takes.

Eddie Murphy was supposed to get this gig, but for one reason or another he was decidedly not right for the job. He does a great Pryor imitation, but someone decided that Wayans was a better fit.

I didn’t think Will Smith could do drama after the silliness of the Fresh Prince, but he hits that nail hard too.

I look forward to seeing how this turns out.

While I am not a Twihard, I will say I enjoyed the second film more than the first, which I suspect had something to do with the plot, but more to do with direction.

And it is that first Twilight Director, who was not picked up to direct any of the planned sequels, that is returning to the supernatural soupkitchen to direct another angsty teen romance with Werewolves in The Girl with the Red Riding Hood.

The adaptation takes a unique look at the traditional Red Riding Hood story but the big bad wolf will be lycanthropic, who instead of trying to eat Red, will be attempting to romance her.

io9.com says:

Catherine Hardwicke will try and redirect teens’ fascination with sex and supernatural beings onto a Little Red Riding Hood picture. With Amanda Seyfried in the lead, the story will put a modern twist on the classic fairy tale, retitling the project The Girl With The Red Riding Hood.

While Seyfried is at the top of her want list, its not finalized just yet.

This just sounds like Hardwicke being bitter about being turfed for the Twilight gig and is hoping to bandwagon onto a similiar supernatural teen romance that will bank more on the popularity of that trend than the director’s ability.

Also… have you seen Hardwicke in interviews? Its just uncomfortable to listen to her talk. She is so creepy and awkward. I have a hard time watching her in interviews, let alone imagining the cast having to listen to her direction every day.

She also appears to be attached to Maximum Ride, another popular teen novel series anticipated to be adapted to film.

Lets play a game I call “Troll fan forums for casting news and pretend it matters!” And this is precisely what happened in a whirlwind of wild speculation on the internet.

A gathering of comic book minds at Comic Book Movie spins the tale that One Tree Hill star Robert Buckley would be cast as Captain America. And within hours of that “fact” being spread apparently from some inside sources, the article has been pulled and the vague rumour returns from whence it came.

While there is some other buzz reporting that Marvel may have made the decision, the original post at CBM has been pulled and at the time, they said it was a rumor themselves. We’ve seen far too many untrue rumors develop like this in the past so it is difficult to believe at the moment until we hear more.

While not a terrible choice, it woudln’t be my first. Buckley plays a fitting role as Nathan’s agent on the ongoing WB drama One Tree Hill, and he doesn’t suck. But I still haven’t seen enough of him to really be able to form an opinion on his ability and if he could hold a candle to Bale or RDJ.

Interestingly enough, other CW actors are being tossed around the rumour mill - most recently Chad Michael Murray who’s character was more or less replaced by Robert Buckley on One Tree Hill.

Still, he would be a far better casting than any tv wrestler. I still like the idea of Chris Pine, but the more I think about it, the less I think it will happen even though it still works in my head.

With about a week before the announced deadline for casting, I would imagine they already have at least a couple contenders on the desk, but making us sweat it out.

I am rooting for Pine, or Captain Awesome (Ryan McPartlin) from TVs Chuck.

Seems that a Twihard fangirl named Kayla Patterson sent fan mail to Universal regarding their take on The Wolfman asking how they could produce such a crappy imitation clearly ripped off from the pages of Twilight.

Even worse that they would be so ignorant as to write a plot line suggesting a silver bullet could kill a werewolf… and what’s up with those halfbreed monster werewolves huh? Jacob Black was so much better.

Enjoy a selection of this “fan mail” as Get the Big Picture quotes:

To whom this may concern:

This movie was a complete waste and I feel that it offends ALL Twilight Fans around the world, that including myself. For one, it was a COMPLETE remaking of the Wolf Pack from the Twilight Saga: New Moon. It gives the werewolves a bad name and makes them look like some deformed mutation of a rabid dog. I actually started to like werewolves after seeing Jacob Black and all his awesomeness on the big screen at the movies. That was until I saw your crappy remake of what you call to be a “were wolf”. I don’t see how you live with yourself for making it the way you did. If I made this movie, I would be ashamed to even admit that I owned it.

How can a werewolf be killed with a silver bullet? Better yet, have you saw the transformation of the man that is “supposed” to be the wolf? He sits in some chair and his entire body turns in to some mutated freak. If you would watch the transformation of Jacob Black, (Taylor Lautner) he doesn’t come close to looking as fake, cheap and or mutated as the wolf man.

You tell me, who looks to be the better werewolf. Your stupid Wolf Movie didn’t even make the top Movie for the charts; Valentines Day WITH TAYLOR Lautner! Get that this is MY opinion and I felt I wanted to express it because I saw that your email was on your site. I wanted to let you know this is what i thought of the wolf man that sucks.

Wow. I love stupid Teenagers.

I don’t defend the quality of Twilight, but I don’t think it is as embarassingly bad as some want to think it is. I don’t insist you have to be a fan, but I still see some redeeming qualities even as I recognize how wont appeal to everyone. It connects with a REAL version of an irrationally emotional teenage girl, and a fresh look at the traditional archetypes of mythical creatures.

But this is a prime example of the irrational ignorance that breeds Twilight such a rabid following. Its downright comical reading the fan hatemail claiming that Twilight was the origin of Werewolf stories, and how The Wolfman was clearly ripping it off.

Kind of like how True Blood and Vamprie Diaries ripped off Twilight as well. (They did ride the vampire fame, but they both predate Twilight)

I love the irony that Twilight often is criticized for “getting vampires and werewolves wrong” while this fan holds Twilight as the standard by which other werewolves will be judged.

Kevin Smith is moving forward to write a script based on the classic hockey tune Hit Somebody, and after working with him on Cop Out, Smith is certain that when this movie gets made, the lead Buddy will be played by Seann William Scott.

NHL.com breaks

Smith revealed exclusively to NHL.com that Seann William Scott, who worked with Smith on “Cop Out,” will play Buddy, the title character in “Hit Somebody.” The script, based on a Warren Zevon song with lyrics by acclaimed writer Mitch Albom, is a story of a hockey enforcer who strives to score just one goal in a hockey game.

“Seann, for me, was the key into the character,” Smith told NHL.com. “I had all the elements in place, and the one thing I was missing was the personality. Generally I like to write to a voice, but I didn’t know who that voice was or what that voice could be. And then after spending all the time with Seann on this movie, he’s pitch perfect. He is that guy.

I could totally see Stiffler playing the eager goon throwing his weight around on the ice, with that soft heart just wishing for once he could see his own name up on the scoreboard crediting a goal.

I was eager to see someone like Smith making a movie like this considering his deep resepct for the sport. He himself is a historian and connesieur of the sport.

I wonder if he will keep the plot set to a minor league team in Saskatchewan as the Hit Somebody lyrics suggest?

While clearly there are a few of these that were photoshopped, it is alarming how they could match this many Christian Bale pictures to Kermit the Frog by similarity.

I don’t believe there is any direct connection to the two, or any message to be shared, but it was random and whimsical. I just had to share. I hope we don’t overload the Photobucket accounts hosting these or it may be short lived.

What do Christian Bale and Kermit the Frog have in common? More than you might realize… (and yes, clearly I have far too much time on my hands.)

Source: Various Google image searches (+ a whole lot of free time)

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Yup… don’t watch this trailer at your desk where your boss can hear you. Lots of fuckwords in this one.

This movie looks outright amazing. I hope they dont release too many trailers so we end up seeing the whole film, but I cant wait to see it.

And to add icing to the cake I have a strong feeling that the Cage Pendulum has swung over to “hell ya” in this one.

Bring it!

I think I preferred the previous trailer for Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. This trailer spells out a little bit too much of the plot for my liking, but it does tell us more about what the movie is about.

Maybe too much. You were warned.

Looks really good, and I am eager to seeing if Shia can keep up with Douglas.

I rank WWE films as the studio that will hire you because no one else will. They make movies to showcase how badly Wrestlers can act. Randy Orton gets his turn in Big Red but they just hired Ed Harris and his wife Amy Madigan to star.

And they are making a FAMILY DRAMA?

CinemaBlend says:

The “production company” recently hired Ed Harris, who might just be their biggest name to date, to topline Big Red, along with his wife Amy Madigan on board to support him. No word on if the real-life couple will play significant others in the film.

Big Red is a middle-school drama set in the mid-60’s which follows a teacher (Harris) whose life is changed by a fearless outcast named Stanley. The resident WWE meathead who most definitely will knock the film’s credibility down a few pegs will be Randy Orton, playing the father of the school bully who attempts to get Harris fired.

I misread that and I was wondering exactly how they are going to get Randy Orton to play the school bully? Its a middle school? How many times did Orton get left back? Maybe if he was the janitor, or the father of a school bully. That might make sense.

Oh.. there is is.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are pairing up again, and just after getting a First Look deal with WB, they already have their plan on the table.

They are going to trade wives. No, Bennifer isn’t breaking up. The two will portray Yankee Ball players in the early 70s who fell in love with each other’s wives.

JoBlo says:

THE TRADE, the true story of two Yankees player who swapped wives in the 1970s. Uh, what?

“Teammates Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich stunned the country when they disclosed in spring training 1973 that they were trading wives. Peterson had fallen in love with Susanne Kekich and his teammate fell in love with Marilyn Peterson. Fritz and Susanne remain a couple till this day, while Mike and Marilyn drifted apart.”

These two have a great chemistry on screen do so much together you might even wonder if a wife swap themselves. You know, just for kicks. They share everything else!

But this is based on a true story, and it wasn’t a sexy swingin 70s key party.. this was an actual wife trade. They were not happy in their marriages, and fell in love with the other guy’s gal.

How do you like them apples?

Looks like Wes Craven has dropped the word, and will be headed to filming Scream 4 in May.

The Film Stage says:

Craven recently finished “My Soul to Take,” which is scheduled for release sometime this year. And in May, he starts on “Scream 4.”

Kevin Williamson who has written the rest of the films in the franchise, as well as I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Vampire Diaries has written the script for the fourth entry. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette are returning for what is intended to be a new trilogy.

Its been hinted that the new ensemble cast film will be heavy with popculture references to horror films, and be set 10 years after the last one (its been 10 years since that film anyways), which could make more sense for the ultra paranoid Sidney Prescott, who’s life was crippled with fear over her 3 previous encounters with serial killers. At this point you would expect her to be locked up in a saferoom somewhere not even answering her door for Jehova Witnesses. At least with a decade of peace she might have thought it was safe to go back into the water.

But that was my theory for a new Scream film. That Sidney would be the killer. Have her finally snap and flip the moral coin the other way. Becoming the killer because she somehow figures there must always BE a Ghostface, and lose her grip on reality. All that paranoia and fear has to mess you up.

I just caught wind of this Sundance Grand Jury Nominee film called Toe to Toe, and after seeing the trailer, I am really interested to see this.

It seems to tease on those typical archetypes, but is crossing the line into something far more raw and overall this trailer has me wanting to see this.

This is opening in New York next Friday, February 26th and the film will expand to additional theaters March 12, 2010