If Danny Trejo landing a role in "Predators" was the greatest movie news of last week, then here comes the weirdest movie news you're likely to hear this entire month -- words I'm sure to be eating within a few days -- and once again, it's all about "Predators."
Trejo is indeed on board for "Predators," and the rest of the cast is filling out to include the likes of Walt Goggins, who played the loathsome Shane Vendrell on "The Shield," as well as Alice Braga of "I Am Legend." But the real story comes in the form of the film's purported leading actors: none other than scrawny men Adrien Brody and Topher Grace. Read more...
It’s a film modeled after such instant classics as "American Graffiti" and "Dazed and Confused." It features big names like Topher Grace, Anna Faris and Michelle Trachtenberg. So, why haven’t we seen "Kids in America" yet?
If you’re looking for the answer, you might want to start inside Dan Fogler’s nose.
"That is called 'Young Americans' now," the "Balls of Fury" funnyman told me recently when I asked what had happened to the hilarious-looking film whose set I visited in early 2007. "I think that is going to open this year…there’s a lot of talk about it now, but nothing is solidified." Read more...
“Terminator Salvation” star Bryce Dallas Howard felt right at home talking about the movie amid the mania of Comic-Con this week. “I walked the floor today! Oh, it was so much fun,” enthused the actress, who toured several booths at her second Con before duty pulled her away for interviews. “I was actually really disappointed when I was here for ‘Spider-Man [3]’ that we didn’t have time in the schedule to walk the floor. I think Topher [Grace] came several hours earlier with his friends so he could do it. What’s so great about Comic-Con is it’s the fans — it’s people who have spent a significant amount of time invested in admiring the stories, admiring the heroism, the sci-fi aspects of these stories.
“These are the people I’m doing it for,” she said, looking over at the costumed crowd. “Because I’m one of them.”
