This car is “so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up”

Ferris Beuller gets a chubby inspecting Cameron’s dad’s prized possession in Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, and now you can have that car. The very one from the movie. Well, one of them.

MSN’s Passing Lane reports:

British auction house Bonhams has one of the surviving movie cars and is putting it on the block during its Motor Cars and Automobilia auction on April 19 at the RAF Museum in Hendon, England. It estimates that the car should fetch somewhere between £30,000-£40,000, and is ready to drive. That’s ridiculously low money for any 250 GT, but there’s a reason…

This car is actually a reproduction, built by the studio during filming to avoid having to destroy one of the 100 original 250 GT Spyder California models that Ferrari built between ’58 and ’63. It’s based on an MG platform and has a fibreglass body, hence the low-ball value. But surely $50,000 for something that looks so pretty can’t be a bad investment, can it?

Clearly this is not the specific reproduction that they tossed out the window, but this is one of the ones that were driven around in the movie.

You could sit where Ferris sat, and to me that has more value than this ultra rare 1961 Ferrari Spyder California.

If you have the means…

There is a quick little TV Spot for Iron Man 2 online, and I wasn’t going to share it, but there are some pretty cool moments in here that we haven’t seen already.

The “New Suit” line seems a little off though. It should be new suitS. Plural. Briefcase suit, MarkIV Suit, and we can count the War Machine suit, and countless US Army cloned suits.

Oh, and dont forget the fanboy plastic mask suit that will get you shot by short sighted face recognition robots.

That was cute.

This just looked like a mess right from the get go. While I have had modest levels of enjoyment out of most of this cast, I think that their comedic days are waning, so it seems almost like a desperate attempt to put them all in the same film.

Now that doesn’t look much different than the last trailer except for the Blue Pee scene.

I like Kevin James as a supporting man, and Adam Sandler still has it but doesn’t seem to be using it. David Spade was the revolving point of Just Shoot Me where he peaked, Chris Rock has no material if you tell him he can’t talk about being Black, and Rob Schnieder was never funny.

So yeah, this will go high on my list of anticipated comedies. (note sarcasm)

Geena Davis had an interview with Movie Hole and the topic of a Beetle Juice sequel came up.
DreadCentral shares:

In an interview with Movie Hole Davis dropped the following tasty tidbit on fans — “I would do that!” says Davis of a sequel. “Thing is, do ghosts age? Wouldn’t we be stuck in the age we were? Alec [Baldwin] and I would have to look as we did then - who knows, maybe we could? I better get in touch with Tim Burton.”

Vampires don’t age either, but many shows with them in it had to over look it for the sake of continuity. But of course Davis would want to be in another Beetlejuice, as she hasn’t exactly been in need of spotlight sunscreen lately huh?

I am sure if they did another Beetlejuice, they would probably not go with the same stars anyways (but still keep Michael Keaton). Get someone new dead people to struggle with “hiring” Beetlejuice and get a new dance number.

I would be up for another Beetlejuice movie, but I found the story with the Maitland couple accepting the afterlife was complete, and Beetlejuice was more likely to torment someone new.

Remember that record breaking money printing little film called Avatar that raked in $2.7billion worldwide? Well I guess they were running a little short on cash to wipe their collective bottoms with, because they have decided to return the film for an extended IMAX run, even though the film is coming out on DVD and Bluray in the next week.

Worst Previews reports:

James Cameron believes that “Avatar” was kicked-out of IMAX theaters too early, in order to make room for “Alice in Wonderland.” He has stated that the movie needs to be re-released in order to squeeze out more money out of it.

Apparently 20th Century Fox agrees, since “Avatar” has been announced to be re-released in IMAX 3D theaters this weekend (April 16th and 17th) in 61 theaters in 29 cities.

I don’t think even James Cameron is going to deny that this is just letting the cash cow eat more of the pasture. The screenings are limited in the IMAX theaters that are carrying it (once a day and often late at night) but I am sure its going to bring a little more money into their pockets to pad that record.

Frankly, I think that it was out long enough, and if you haven’t seen it already, you don’t want to.

Olivia Munn, nerdy hot co-host of Attack of the Show, was originally playing a very minor role in Iron Man 2, but her improv scenes didnt fit with the tone of the film, but instead of just cutting her out altogether they offered her the chance to come back and film a more significant named Marvel Character, that is still quite minor.

But now the rumour wheels of wild speculation are not satisfied that she isn’t talking about what role she is playing, so the guessing game is on. Which is fun.

But this speculation says she might play The Wasp? I don’t think so. /Film quotes Munn:

When Zimbo asked if she liked her role more before or after the rewrite, Munn responded:

This is a trick question, right? If I got to walk past Robert Downey Jr.’s trailer and hand him a bottled water, I would’ve been ecstatic! I’m a huge geek, and to have anything more than a passing glance in Iron Man 2 is a dream come true. I don’t need anything big, just a chance to fulfill a little part of my nerd fantasy. If you made me pick, my first role had more improv and was a lot of fun, but for my second one I got to pick a Marvel Comics character. It’s pretty dope that from here on out, I’m that Marvel character.

The top fan speculation pointed towards Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) or Madame Masque (Whitney Frost), but what about Janet Van Dyne aka Wasp? A source told Forces of Geek that Munn plays Janet Van Dyne, who has a small part in Iron Man 2, but a somewhat larger role in The Avengers and the later planned Ant-Man movie.

Now I love Olivia Munn as a personality, and her hosting Attack of the Show for TechTV is what makes that show worth watching. She is a nerd.

An actress? Aside from cameos and bit parts I really haven’t seen much from her that makes me think that she could carry a film, let alone be considered as supporting cast to the leads in The Avengers. I thnk it would be cool for her to play a Marvel character, but I think they let her pick from a list of very minor characters that might show up as cameos here and there, just for fun.

She is a very public nerd, and a hot one at that. But I just don’t see her being cast as a main hero.

Any speculation on what minor Marvel personality she might play that wouldnt dramatically impact the series or require a 3 film deal for her to headline?

A new poster for Shrek The Final Chapter is out, and I find myself growingly uninspired by the publicity.

I really liked the first Shrek movie, the second was ok, Shrek 3 was just not my thing. So with this decline, why should I get pumped about a fourth Shrek movie? I thought I would, and at first I was. But the more and more they show this, the less I care.

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The rumour that Catherine Hardwicke was being called in to “save” Twilight Eclipse are tearing up the internet this morning. Well its only part right. They did order some reshoots, but Hardwicke is not the person they asked to take on the job. With her very public falling out with Summit, I doubt she would ever be a fallback director to “save” something.

CinemaBlend has the skinny:

According to their sources Twilight: Eclipse is being reshot but neither Catherine Hardwicke nor Twilight: New Moon director Chris Weitz will have anything to do with it. They’ve spoken to Summit representatives who insist that everything’s peach keen between David Slade and Summit and that he’s going to handle the reshoots himself because Summit is so “happy” with his work on the film that they want him to redo parts of it. That doesn’t make sense and it sounds a lot like PR spin which is only slightly more reliable than the random, anonymous sources circulating in the original rumor.

Now there is a little double talk in there. If they are so happy, then why reshoot? But in the bigger picture, they might be very happy with most of the film, but have a few scenes that could use some tweaking that the cutting room cant fix, and they want them redone. And making the original Director who shot the film do those retakes does show confidence.

Reshoots are more common than we hear about online, but its typically the ones where they have to bring in another director to help that make people worry.

Michele and Kieran Mulroney were already writing Sherlock Holmes 2 before Sherlock was released, and it seems that they had a very specific actor in mind when they wrote the character of Professor Moriarty - Brad Pitt.

MovieWeb shares:

Well, of course, we’re gigantic Brad Pitt fans. I think he’s a brilliant actor and a particularly brilliant character actor. And certainly the role that you’re talking about of Professor Moriarty is a big character to bite off. I hope Brad likes it. Let’s leave it at that. To be political, we should say nothing.

I am not against Pitt playing Moriarty but to me, I always pictured Moriarty to be an older man, wise and crafty due to age and experience rather than someone around Holmes age, but Ritchie’s Sherlock is no stranger to challenging archetypes.

We will have to wait and see if this role ends up in Pitt’s hands or not. They wrote it with him in mind, but that doesn’t mean he will take it.

Tron Legacy has been running a digital campaign for its marketing that includes such things as the FlynnLives.com website (a fake site of devotees who are out to expose that Flynn is not dead - just missing) and other promotions around the net.

Well today we get a new video that shows off a re-branding of a classic Encom game called Space Paranoids, which was Flynn’s greatest arcade achievement that Encon stole from him.

Now if this was relaunced in todays market it wouldnt even rank as a budget Nintendo DS game, but still fun to see how it looks in todays standards.

I can’t wait to see the movie!

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In an interview by Snitchseeker with Matthew Lewis, who plays Neville Longbottom in the films, Lewis assures fans that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be a darker and more violent film than the first six outtings.

Filmonic shares:

The previous ones have had a formula: You go to school, bad things happen and he [Harry] sorts it out and jobs a good en’ nice ending. But in this year it’s all completely different. They’re [the trio] not in the school for a start and, literally, it’s such an epic battle. It’s like something from the Lord of the Rings. And David [Yates, director] as well and Steve Kloves [screenwriter] haven’t shied away from the more severe stuff in it that was in the book. It’s bloody and it’s gory and it’s very real. But it’s been cool and it’s not like anything I’ve had to do before. So I think you’re going to enjoy it.

“It’s something that we’ve not tried before. We’re trying to keep as much stuff as they can from the book in the film. We want to hit all the points and no one’s making it into a good film everyone enjoys – we’re going to stick to the book and we’re gonna say, ‘Look, some of it is quite harrowing, some of its quite serious. People do die and you’re just gonna have to …’ It’s not sugar-coated. It’s right there, it’s quite raw and all the performances have had to step up.”

Harry Potter did get darker and more mature as the story went on, which was a wonderful if not intentional maturing of the writer as well as the characters. Conveniently this bids well for the fanbase too.

Seven books later and the series followed Harry from his 10th birthday being introduced to the world of Wizardry, to his 17th year battling Dark Wizards and dropping out of school to save the world from Voldemort. (awesome role model that Harry)

But I am glad to hear the sentiments that they will stick closer to the books as that is the greatest criticism of the following chapters. As the books got longer, they cut more out of the movies. Had to happen. But with The last - and longest - of the books being spread over two feature films, hopefully they can fit it all in.

Zac Efron is really surprising me. Not that I didnt think he could, but that he would. Some people discredit him for his teen roles in High School Musical or teen comedy like 17 Again, but he isn’t a teen any more and he doesn’t want to play one.

Efron is set to produce and star in a remake of a Swedish Drug Drama Snubba Cash. Rope of Silicon shares:

Efron is set to co-produce a remake of Snabba cash (trailer to the right), a Swedish film directed by Daniel Espinosa, which itself is an adaptation of Jens Lapidus’s novel. Warner Bros. is set to distribute the thriller which follows three interconnected storylines involving drugs and organized crime, with the main character a young man (Efron) who hopes to strike it rich quickly by becoming a runner for a coke dealer. The title translates to “easy money”.

I like hearing Efron taking on these more serious roles. He has to in order to outrun his boyish good looks and teen charm of the High School Musical franchise, but he is doing a great job of it.

In Me and Orson Welles he stands out very different than his HSM character, and now this? This is dark and gritty and not something I would have expected from him, but certainly something I am looking forward to seeing him develop.

Check out the trailer to the original Swedish film this is based on Snabba Cash

The role turned down by Emily Blunt in Captain America will now go to darling Hayley Atwell.

Worst Previews says:

All the rumors turned out to be wrong, since Marvel Studios has just announced that Hayley Atwell (The Duchess, “The Prisoner”) has been cast as Peggy Carter. In the early comics, the character fell in love with Captain America while they fought together in the war effort.

Maybe when John Krasinski didn’t get the Cap role (thank Zod) Emily Blunt - John’s fiance - backed out on being Caps main girl. But we are hearing in the rumour mill that Emily passed on the role in favour of some mystery role that was better in something else (wild speculation says Catwoman in Batman3)

But Hayley Atwell should suit the role well as the film will take place in World War 2, and she is to play Peggy Carter, a woman who while aging tells stories of Cap’s heroics and their love affair in the war. Atwell plays period roles well, and would fit with that “proper” era and still have enough fireworks in her to be a bold supporter of the War Effort.

I wonder if they are going to follow the comics and have Peggy’s great niece Shannon in scenes where Peggy is much older. Shannon Carter eventually becomes The American Dream - a girl Captain America type hero inspired by his stories.

Astrid Bergès-Frisbey has joined the cast of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and will be getting wet - she will be playing a mermaid that figures predominately into the plot.

JoBlo says:

Bergès-Frisbey will play “the key role of Syrena, a beautiful and alluring young mermaid.” Unfortunately, the studio reveals nothing else in regards to story. All we know at this point is that the film has something to do with the Fountain of Youth.

Now I know nothing about this actress, but a quick stalking on the googles tells me that she is a very pretty girl, and I always thought of mermaids as having a french accent anyways - kind of gives them a seductive exotic flair. So this works out in my head.

This new story that finally puts to rest all that Elizabeth and Will romance will not feature the couple at all, but instead focuses around the map to the Fountain of Youth seen in the closing moments of the third film.