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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Plot Synopsis
Yeah, we’re all talking about this movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, upcoming 3D spectacle, currently filming in Hawaii.
So, we were all pretty much talking about the story that is “completely based on the searching of the Fountain of Youth” but looks that guys from Disney are all sick and tired of our reports, so they finally decided to release the official plot synopsis of the film!
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: captures the fun, adventure and humor that ignited the hit franchise – this time in Disney Digital 3D(TM).
Leslie Mann in Judd Apatow’s Business Trip
When you talk about Judd Apatow‘s next project, you already know that Leslie Mann is somehow involved in the story as well.
So, this report is not going to be an exception. Today, we’re here to have a little chat about Business Trip, movie scheduled to begin shooting as early as January 2011, starring Leslie Mann.
Oh, wait, and what about Judd Apatow? Well, he’s in charge for producing the whole thing!
At this moment, we only have information that the film is about “three women who go on a corporate trip but wind up doing anything but business while on company time.”
Ok, that does sound a little bit like female version of The Hangover, but we actually have no problem with Mann when it comes to comedies, do we?
Christian Slater, Gary Oldman, Dane Cook in Guns, Girls and Gambling
They already describe this project as “stylized crime thriller” with great cast. Can we blame them? Check this out: Christian Slater, Gary Oldman and Dane Cook have signed on to star in Michael Winnick’s upcoming project titled Guns, Girls and Gambling.
Ok, we do know that nobody actually expected to see Cook’s name on this list, but still, let’s give him a chance. At least he’s got himself some good company…
What we know about this movie is that “the story throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a chase for a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino.”
Michael Fassbender Joins X-Men: First Class Official
Are you guys ready for some interesting X Men: First Class casting news? Ok then, check this out: Benjamin Walker, star of the Public Theater’s “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” is going to play Beast, the character played in X Men 3 by Kelsey Grammer.
He’ll be joining the cast that already includes James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender.
We had a chance to hear that the Inglourious Basterds star was in talks to play Magneto, but now, it’s official!
And although the exact plot of X-Men: First Class is still not known, there are already rumors saying it will “concern the younger versions of the X-Men and most likely focus on recruitment of younger mutants and the first team to be assembled.
It will also have to show the development of the team and eventual rift between Xavier and Magneto which leads to them becoming arch enemies and sets up the events of later X-Men films.”
Sam Worthington in This Means War Romantic Comedy
This Means War is an upcoming Fox’s action romantic comedy, to be directed by McG. And we have no problem with that.
But, we’re kind of surprised to hear that Sam Worthington (yes, Avatar – man) is in talks to join this project, that “centers on two best friends who have been inseparable since childhood and who find themselves fighting over the same woman.” Sounds strange? Whatever!
Once again, This Means War centers on “two best friends who have been inseparable since childhood. They grow up and discover that they’ve fallen in love with the same woman, which causes their close bond to disintegrate.
They’re both veteran spies and what goes from a typical love triangle turns into a conflict of epic proportions.”
Worthington’s (if he takes on this role) best friend will be Chris Pine, while Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon will play the leading female role. That’s not so bad company after all.
Imogen Poots as Lead Female in Fright Night Remake
Imogen Poots, lovely British actress that we all remember from titles like 28 days later and Solitary Man, will play the lead female role in DreamWorks’ remake of the 1985 Fright Night that we already wrote about.
Yes, that one with great cast that includes Colin Farrell, Toni Collette and Anton Yelchin. And yes, she will play Yelchin’s girlfriend, the role that Amanda Bearse played in the original.
The story is about. “…a teenage horror film addict is shocked to discover that his new next-door neighbor is a vampire in this delightful mix of horror and comedy. The problems only grow for young Charley Brewster when he expresses his thoughts about fanged new neighbor Jerry Dandridge.
His girlfriend, Amy thinks Charley is avoiding their relationship issues, his single mom thinks Dandridge could be a potential boyfriend, and his buddy “Evil” just thinks Charley’s losing it. Worst of all, Dandridge and his nasty assistant, Billy Cole are on to Charley’s wild notions – and have plans to pay him a late-night visit to silence him.
With no one to help him, Charley turns to the one man he knows has faced the wrath of the undead and lived, the fearless vampire killer Peter Vincent. A washed-up actor who has just been fired from his job as the host of a late-night horror show, Vincent is not about to believe in the rantings of an impressionable teen.
However, lured by Amy’s cash offer, he agrees to help her convince Charley that Dandridge isn’t a vampire. There is just one problem: Dandridge is a vampire and when Amy falls under his evil spell, its up Charley and Peter to drive a stake through their potential romance.”
Ken Watanabe To Direct 442nd
Today we have information that Ken Watanabe, Oscar nominated actor, may be getting into the director’s chair to helm a World War II film titled 442nd. Sounds good?
Why not, we all know that he’s definitely a very talented actor (The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha, Letters from Iwo Jima, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, The Unbroken, Shanghai, Inception), so maybe this kind of story could be just the perfect one for his directorial debut.
Here’s the 442ND synopsis: “When the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor led to an executive order paving the way for the internment of Japanese-Americans, most Japanese Americans in Hawaii were discharged from military service. But 1300 soldiers in two National Guard battalions were retained.
Sent to the mainland, they formed with 100th Infantry Battalion. Months later, inspired by the success of that unit, 3000 volunteers were drawn from Japanese Americans interred in Hawaii and California, and at Camp Shelby in Mississippi they formed the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
Soldiers of Japanese heritage were not allowed to fight in the Pacific Theater, and the 100th was originally assigned a support role. But when sent to Europe, the 442nd began to fight in Italy before aiding the invasion of occupied Southern France, and eventually pushing into Germany.
Alex Garland To Script Logan’s Run Remake
Ok, we all know Logan’s Run remake is finally coming. And we do know that Carl Rinsch is in charge for directing the whole thing.
But today we’re here to announce that Alex Garland is in negotiations to write the remake. Yes, exactly, Garland, man responsible for 28 Days Later and Sunshine story. Not bad decision at all!
The original film, directed by Michael Anderson, was released in 1976, and revolves around a man known as Logan 5, who is trying escape a mandatory death sentence on his 30th birthday. The story centers on a future society that demands the death of everyone upon reaching a certain age. Anyone who veers from that destiny is dubbed a “runner” and is hunted by operatives known as Sandmen.
Or, if you prefer: “Sometime in the 23rd century…the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in an ecologically balanced world, mankind lives only for pleasure, freed by the servo-mechanisms which provide everything.
Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, James McAvoy, Ian McKellen in Tom Tykwer’s Cloud Atlas?
If there’s such thing as impressive cast list then this project definitely has it! If there’s such thing as impressive producing then this project has it too!
Director Tom Tykwer asked Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, James McAvoy and Sir Ian McKellen to star in his latest film, the adaptation of the award-winning novel by British author David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas.
Natalie Portman has been linked to the film before so seems likely to sign on. This project is going to be produced by the Wachowski Brothers, the pair behind the Matrix trilogy. See what we’re talking about?
Mitchell’s book “consists of six nested stories that take us from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or watched) by the main character in the next.
All stories but the last one get interrupted at some moment, and after “Sloosha’s Crossin’ an’ Ev’rythin’ After” concludes at the center of the book, the novel “goes back” in time, “closing” each story as the book progresses in terms of pages but regresses in terms of the historical period in which the action takes place. Eventually, readers end where they started, with Adam Ewing in the Pacific Ocean, circa 1850.”
