It’s time for movie news!
Movies Opening this week (October 12th)
Argo
Here Comes the Boom
Sinister
Gambit
Seven Psychopaths
Smashed
New Trailers
This week there was
some exciting news about:
Ok,
it’s not all about Meryl Streep this time. But we’re really excited to
hear that the legendary actress is currently in some serious talks to join Rob
Marshall‘s upcoming adaptation of Into
The Woods. And as we said, she’s not the only one, because Anna
Kendrick, Patrick Wilson, James
Corden and Nina
Arianda are also
potential candidates for the feature film.
As
we previously reported, Into The Woods will include some of the most beloved
fairytales like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk andRapunzel, and all together will
give us an original story.
That new story will
center on a Baker and his wife who try to reverse a curse on their family in
order to have a child, exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and
quests and their desire for happily ever
after.
And now, something
about the possible cast. BroadwayWorld has confirmed that Meryl Streep is in talks to join the film as the Witch, but was unable to make the
reading.
On the other hand, the rest confirmed cast of the screenplay
reading, which took place yesterday, included:
Nina Arianda as The Baker’s Wife; Christine Baranski as the Stepmother;Tammy Blanchard as Florinda; Victoria
Clark as Cinderella’s Mother/Giant;James Corden as the Baker; David
Garrison as the Narrator; Ivan
Hernandez as the Wolf; Megan
Hilty as Lucinda; Cheyenne
Jackson as Rapunzel’s
Prince; Allison Janney as Jack’s
Mother; Anna Kendrick as Cinderella; Michael
McGrath as the Steward/Baker’s
Father; Laura Osnesas Rapunzel; Taylor
Trensch as Jack; Casey
Whyland as Little Red Riding Hood; and Patrick
Wilson as Cinderella’s Prince.
They also add that
the writer of Into
The Woods, James Lapine, is currently
reworking the script for the screenplay, while Stephen
Sondheim is
expected to contribute some new songs.
Just for a record,
this team earned 10 nominations at the 1988 Tony Awards,
winning three including best score and best book of a musical.
This definitely looks huge, so make sure you stay tuned for more!
Conjuring
the Next Harry Potter
Erin Morgenstern, an
elfin painter with ink-black hair and a fondness for bowler hats, Tarot cards
and antique clocks, has never published so much as a short story before. Now,
with her first novel coming out in September, she's at the center of the most high-stakes
competition in the entertainment industry: the race to discover the next Harry
Potter.
The
Night Circus' Ms. Morgenstern's novel, set at the turn of the 19th century,
tells the story of two young, love-struck magicians who compete in a magical
circus. Doubleday won the novel with a high-six-figure advance. Rights have
sold to 30 foreign publishers; some countries paid six figures, a sum typically
reserved for established blockbuster authors. Read the rest of the story here.
Not A Joke: The 'Hungry Hungry Hippos' Movie Is Really Happening
This
is one of those days where you just have to shake your head in despair at
Hollywood's decision-making abilities. But one company's trash is another's
treasure, as The LA Times reports Emmett/Furla Films has agreed
to finance and produce three board game movies for Hasbro after Universal
decided to drop a lot of those properties. The three in question are Monopoly (which has been gestating for awhile), Action Man, and yes, even Hungry Hungry Hippos. No word yet on the
approach for that film, whether they'll try to make it live action, a CGI
hybrid, or fully animated, but there's news on the other projects below. Click here to read more.
Drew Pearce
Giving a Rewrite to Legendary's New Take On 'Godzilla
We just found
out that Marvel's Iron
Man 3 is getting a
trailer on October 23rd (hopefully with some of the Comic-Con
footage we saw included),
and now word comes from Variety that IM3 co-writer Drew Pearce has been hired to take a pass at the
script for Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment's giant monster movie Godzilla for Monsters director Gareth Edwards. The
Expendables co-writer
David Callaham, Batman Begins co-writer David S. Goyer, and The
Seventh Son scribe
Max Borenstein have all tried their hand so far, but thankfully that doesn't
mean there's any trouble brewing behind the scenes. Read more here.
Michael Bay
Producing Time Travel Found Footage Film 'Almanac'
Found
footage horror is starting to get a bit boring, but last year's superhero
infused take on the subgenre with Chronicle was a breath of fresh air. Now it
sounds like Michael Bay and
his Platinum Dunes production banner (usually responsible for more boring
horror in the form of remakes of Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street) is
looking to mix things up with a time travel found footage project called Almanac that is said to be in the same vein as
Josh Trank's surprise hit earlier this year. However, those are the only plot
details known about the project at this time, so we'll have to let out
imaginations run wild. Click here to read more.
Rumor: Emily
Blunt in the Running to Play Ms. Marvel in 'Avengers 2'
Marvel
and the lovely British actress Emily Blunt must
really want to work together. Back in January of 2009, Blunt was rumored to take the role
of Black Widow in Iron
Man 2, but as we all know, the part eventually
went to Scarlett Johansson. Then in 2010, Blunt was on the shortlist
to play Peggy Carter in Captain America: The First Avenger,
but the role ended up
going to Hayley Atwell. Now rumors of Blunt's involvement in big
screen comic book adaptations have come back around as The Daily
Mailseems to think that she is currently being "hotly
tipped" to play Ms. Marvel in The Avengers 2,
hitting theaters in 2015. Read more here.
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