“New York, I Love You” Promo Trailer
Take a look at the promo trailer for “New York, I Love You” from the producer of “Paris, je t’aime” that opened the 2006 ‘Un Certain Regard’ section of the Cannes Film Festival.
“New York, I Love You” is a collection of 12 short films that will be a cinematic love letter to the Big Apple.
Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson are making their directorial debuts and helming their own segments. Portman also plays a Jewish bride.
Shia LeBeouf with Julie Christie and John Hurt is in a segment scripted by the late Anthony Minghella, which he was also set to direct until his death. He is replaced by Shekhar Kapur.
Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Chris Cooper, Anton Yelchin, Ethan Hawke and Kevin Bacon will take acting roles, whilst X-Men 3 helmer Brett Ratner will direct a segment. Read the rest of this entry
Kristen Bell in “Astro Boy”
Astro Boy | Kristen Bell
Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Heroes, Veronica Mars) will lend her voice to the animated movie “Astro Boy“, according to Variety.
Bell joins Nicolas Cage, Scarlett Johansson, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy and Freddie Highmore.
To be directed by David Bowers using a script from Timothy Harris, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist to replace the son he has lost. Unable to fulfill the grieving father’s expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the man who had rejected him.
The film is currently scheduled to be released next year.
Conan Getting a Rewrite for Lionsgate
Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain have been hired to redraft the script for Lionsgate’s barbarian epic Conan, the updated remake of sorts of 1982’s Conan The Barbarian.
The movie is a potential resurrection of the classic warrior created by Robert E. Howard, who has appeared in dozens of pulp stories published in the 1930s. In 1982, Oliver Stone and John Milius wrote a bloody adaptation, which Milius also directed, that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.
After finishing a script titled Amazon about female warriors with Scarlett Johansson attached, the two were brought on to work on a Conan script separate from the original two writers Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer. Now Lionsgate is anxious to get this into production right away and are trying to launch a franchise by making it a $100 million R-rated origin film. “We all want this movie to go into production as soon as possible. It’s a fast-tracked movie.”
Fredrik Malmberg, Boaz Davidson, Joe Gatta and Avi Lerner will produce the film.
Malmberg told The Hollywood Reporter:
“We all want this movie to go into production as soon as possible. It’s a fast-tracked movie. Lionsgate felt the process was enhanced by having a second team come in and do a script.”
“Fans expect (these types of movies) to be more true to the source material. There’s no reason there couldn’t be a Conan movie every two years. He’s almost like Batman: He’s a dark hero. He’s a hard hero. He has to be badass, but we also have to like him.”
The film is being fast-tracked, but no production date has been set.
“He’s Just Not That Into You” - Photos
Take a look at the photos from the romantic comedy “He’s Just Not That Into You“.
"He’s Just Not That Into You"
The Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior.
From director Ken Kwapis, the movie has great cast - Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson and Justin Long.
“He’s Just Not That Into You” will hit theaters on October 24, 2008
You can watch the trailer HERE
First Art School Poster for “The Spirit”
On behalf of Lionsgate, we are pleased to present the first poster in a series from “The Spirit” Art School Program. Lionsgate has partnered with nine prestigious arts schools nationwide and presented nine student-designed advertising campaigns for the film which will be unveiled throughout the summer in the individual cities that are home to the nine schools.
“The Spirit” Art School Program launched this past weekend at the annual Comic-Con convention in San Diego, where The Art Institute of California-San Diego introduced its campaign. San Diegans will learn that they are now being protected by the masked crusader as Spirit Neighborhood Watch signs are posted in strategic locations around the city. Read the rest of this entry
Brand New “The Spirit” Photos
New photos for upcoming highly anticipated classic action-adventure-romance film “The Spirit,” directed by Frank Miller (creator of 300 and Sin City), have appeared online.
The movie stars Gabriel Macht as a former rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. Samuel L. Jackson stars as the Octopush, his arch-enemy on a mission to wipe out Spirit’s beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality. And EvaMendes is just one of several lovelies in the cast. Sarah Paulson, Scarlett Johansson, Paz Vega, Jamie King, and Stana Katic all star as ladies that either want to seduce, love or kill the masked crusader.
“The Spirit” is scheduled to hit theaters on Christmas (December 25th) 2008.
“Vicky Cristina Barcelona” Soundtrack
The song “Barcelona” by the band Giulia y los Tellarini, like Woody Allen’s film, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” explores chance meetings and subsequent love affairs, including one with the Spanish city itself.
“I equate Barcelona with love,” says Giulia Tellarini, singer for Spanish indie band, whose song is featured in the film, which Woody Allen at the Cannes Film Festival called “perfect.” “Barcelona” can be heard in the trailer for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”
Giulia y los Tellarini’s first album, “Eusebio,” was released on iTunes in late May. Its music came to Allen’s attention last year during filming, when the girlfriend of one of the band members left a CD with some of the group’s songs on it at the director’s Barcelona hotel, the fashionable Hotel D’Arts.
“I didn’t even know about it,” recalls Tellarini, who was dubious when she checked the band’s MySpace mail one day and found a message from someone in Allen’s camp who was urgently trying to reach them. “I thought it was a joke. I didn’t think that something like this could happen.”
“Our music is difficult to classify. It’s got loads of influences,” says Tellarini, noting her preference for traditional forms of popular song such as the French chanson, as well as tango, jazz and Latin boleros. “I think one of the main things about us is that we sing in different languages. We try and get inspired by the atmospheres of different countries.”
“Barcelona,” sung in Spanish, is a seductively bouncy tune with punchy brass and dark edges intoned by Tellarini’s whispery vocals. The song reflects Guilia’s on-and-off relationship with the city, written at a time when she was deciding whether to stay in Barcelona with Mazzoni or return to Paris.
In addition to “Barcelona,” the soundtrack includes Giulia y Los Tellarinis’ song “La Ley del Retiro.”
You can check their blog with songs HERE
“We hope that people will appreciate the music, not just the buzz it’s getting because it’s part of the film,” Tellerani says.
“Vicky Cristina Barcelona” will be released September 5 and stars Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, Rebecca Hall and Javier Bardem.
