Jon Favreau to Re-Team with Vince Vaughn

Good News: Jon Favreau has signed on to re-team with Vince Vaughn on the big screen.

Bad News: The movie is New Line’s romantic comedy disaster Four Christmases.

The film was recently (or maybe even currently) shooting in my home city - San Francisco, and the local newspapers have been reporting that co-star Reese Witherspoon is on the outs with her co-star Vaughn. Apparently Witherspoon likes to do rehearsals, while Vaughn likes to improvise and go off the cuff. This kind of clash probably won’t translate well to the big screen.

It’s also rather curious that Jon Favreau is being announced this late in the game - two weeks after principal photography has begun. Not to say that this doesn’t happen, but it just seems strange. Maybe Favreau is replacing someone else who was committed, or possibly they had not cast anyone in the role, and Vince called Jon as a last minute favor. Just speculation. Sure, the film is being directed by King of Kong director Seth Gordon, so there is a slight chance the film might be good.

Vaughn will play one of Favreau’s brothers, along with country star Tim McGraw (meh!). The film follows a couple’s struggle to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day. Four Christmases will hit theaters in December 2008.

Whiteout : new thriller in 2008

After two years stationed at Antarctica’s South Pole research base, lone U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) is as anxious as anyone to be going home. She’s turned in her resignation and is counting the hours and minutes to the last plane out.

But three days before departure, a body turns up on the ice and Carrie is immediately thrust into Antarctica’s first murder investigation.

As the death toll mounts, the mystery deepens with shifting loyalties, deadly whiteouts, and a relentless killer who will stop at nothing to protect a secret buried for over sixty years. Now with everyone around her packing up and getting out, Carrie must solve the crime before Antarctica is plunged into six months of darkness and she is stranded with the killer on a land where nothing comes in and no one gets out.

Bond 22 Girl Found And First pre-production Pic!

The folk over Empire Online alerted us that St Trinian’s actress Gemma Arterton will be the next Bond girl for “Bond 22″
The site is not absolutely certain whether Arterton will be the main Bond girl, like Eva Green in Casino Royale, or one of the peripheral lovelies like Caterina Murino and that other one.
Also MI6 has posted the first images from UK pre-production of the 22nd James Bond film.

Gemma Arterton

Hancock Trailer

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After kicking ass at the box office this weekend with his latest film I Am Legend, it looks like Will Smith will kick ass again this coming summer.

Smith plays a down-and-out superhero who has a bad image with the public because he causes a lot of collateral damage while he solves crime, and he’s an alcoholic. Bateman plays a corporate public relations consultant, who after being rescued by Smith tries to repay him by revamping his image. But while Bateman is trying to repair Smith’s reputation the superhero is secretly romancing Bateman’s alluring wife played by Theron.

Basically a superhero with issues.

Stars want ‘X-Files’ love scene dropped

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have asked the producers of the upcoming X-Files movie to remove a love scene between their characters.

The duo reportedly want bosses to drop a romantic sub-plot from the film, in which they reprise the roles of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the hit TV show.

A source told the Daily Express: “There was one draft of the script where Mulder and Scully have a bedroom scene but it looks like that has been put on hold.

“David and Gillian are concerned about having the characters involved in some kind of love story, as they feel that was the beginning of the end of the original show.”

The source added that negotiations over the scene were “on-going”.

AFI Names the Top Ten Films of 2007

The crime tale “No Country for Old Men,” the oil saga “There Will Be Blood” and the legal drama “Michael Clayton” were among critical favorites that landed on the American Film Institute’s list of the year’s 10 best movies.

No Country for Old Men

Also on the AFI’s list, released Sunday, were the jewel-heist story “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” the stroke-victim tale “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” the road drama “Into the Wild,” the pregnancy comedies “Juno” and “Knocked Up,” the animated rodent comedy “Ratatouille,” and the sibling comic drama “The Savages.”

Unlike other film honors, the institute does not rank films or pick one as the year’s best. The filmmakers behind the top-10 choices will be honored at a luncheon Jan. 11.

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Travolta dropped from ‘Dallas’ movie

John Travolta has been dropped from the big-screen adaptation of Dallas, according to reports.
The actor, who was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in Hairspray, had been lined up to play villain JR Ewing in the remake of the 80s soap for the last two years.

But a source told PageSix that he had been “let go about two weeks ago” and replaced by Ben Stiller, although the comedian has denied being offered the role.

The insider added: “John was given a nice seven-figure ‘gift’ to go away quietly. He also got five family members roles in the movie, and they aren’t going to be in it now either.”

A friend of Travolta confirmed that the star had left the project, saying: “He is not doing the movie. They’ve gone in a different direction than was originally intended. I don’t know about any ‘gift’, and I don’t think the family member thing is correct.”

Shirley MacLaine, who was to play Miss Ellie, Luke Wilson (Bobby Ewing) and Jennifer Lopez (Sue Ellen) were all let go in a major shake-up last year, after which it was rumoured that Meg Ryan and Matthew McConaughey would be joining the cast.
Original director Robert Luketic was also replaced by Bend It Like Beckham’s Gurinder Chadha, while the film is rumoured to be taking a “comedic, behind-the-scenes” direction rather than a straightforward drama.

Both Travolta and 20th Century Fox declined to comment on the reports.