-- No tricks here, Michael Jackson fans are getting a Halloween treat when Sony Pictures puts out a digestible version of the much-discussed final rehearsal footage. In a throwback to "Captain EO," select bits will be presented in 3-D. Speaking of "EO," wouldn't it be nifty of some of those 3-D clips turned out to be from the Disney attraction? The words "career retrospective" are mentioned after all. (MTV)
-- It still feels so strange to know with absolute certainty that a "Wall Street" sequel is happening. It is though, and the "Money Never Sleeps" cast just got bigger. Frank Langella is in, playing a seasoned broker who mentors Shia LaBeouf's young up-and-comer. The role is said to play "a major part in the film's plot." (Variety) Read more...
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FROM MTV.COM: "The Hurt Locker" is a movie about war, and it's set in Iraq, but it's not another Iraq War Movie. Director Kathryn Bigelow and the screenwriter, combat journalist Mark Boal, are too smart and tough-minded to inflate the story with windy political pieties. It's a film about war as an every-damn-day environment, and about the men who have to live in it — and to accept the fact that they may die in it, too, very suddenly.
The picture is set in Baghdad in 2004, one year after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. We're on patrol with a three-man bomb squad charged with disarming the deadly Improvised Explosive Devices, or IEDs, with which terrorists have littered the city and its environs. The team consists of Sergeant J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie), Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty) and Staff Sergeant Matt Thompson (Guy Pearce), the team leader.
Continue reading 'The Hurt Locker': World Of Warfare, By Kurt Loder
"Twilight" is becoming a power to be reckoned with. According to Empire, the success of the film has killed Platinum Dunes' plans to remake the Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 vampire classic, "Near Dark."
“Near Dark is probably not going to happen,” says producer Brad Fuller. “I think that 'Twilight' was the same type of thing we were going for although 'Near Dark' was a much darker, sexier, rated R version of that. But I’m concerned that, conceptually, that 'Near Dark' and 'Twilight' are too similar in terms of a vampire movie. For now, that movie is on hold ... The concept of ‘one person’s a vampire, the other person isn’t and they’re in love,’ with the success of that film, we would not measure up. It’s not the right time to make that.” Read more...
