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Timothy Olyphant starring in The Crazies
He’s nabbed the lead in the Romero remake
BY James White Nov 21st 2008 // 6:06AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Timothy Olyphant has scored the lead role in Breck Eisner’s remake of George Romero’s horror The Crazies.
The 1973 original saw a small Kansas town beset by madness and death after a plane crashes and releases a bioweapon into the water supply.
The Hollywood Reporter has it that Olyphant will play the town’s sheriff, who must act when his fellow locals start going, well, crazy.
New Ice Age 3 trailer online
Scrat and co are back
BY James White Nov 21st 2008 // 9:09AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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The new trailer for Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs has arrived.
What is it, Trailer Friday, or something? Studios have clearly decided that what we either want on our computers is either animated antics or Mickey Rourke’s shattered mug.
Still, the new trailer for Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, certainly features something Darren Aronofsky can’t provide – a lunatic squirrel creature hunting for that ever-precious acorn.
Mila Kunis joins The Book Of Eli
She’ll co-star in the Denzel Washington thriller
BY James White Nov 21st 2008 // 5:05AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Max Payne co-star Mila Kunis has joined the cast of Denzel Washington’s new thriller The Book Of Eli.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kunis will play a sexy woman named Solara, who is recruited by Eli (Washington)’s enemies to betray him.
But the hero, who is trying to protect a sacred book that holds the secret to saving the future of humanity in post-apocalyptic world, manages to convince her to join his quest.
The Wrestler trailer is here
Watch Mickey Rourke grapple, cry and rumble
BY James White Nov 21st 2008 // 9:09AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
The first trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke, has arrived online.
You've likely seen Sam and Chris' reactions to the film, so if you’ve been waiting to see something of the much buzzed-about performance by Rourke as a struggling former pro-wrestler, your wait is over.
Aronofsky’s return
Though there are those of us who loved The Fountain, The Wrestler really seems to point to Aronofsky getting back into fighting form.
Astro Boy teaser goes live
See the CG lad explode into space
BY James White Nov 21st 2008 // 1:01AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Imagi Studios has released the first teaser trailer for Astro Boy.
The film, from the makers of TMNT, is adapted from the classic Manga series, sees a robotic boy struggling to live up to his father’s expectations, Pinocchio-style, but ultimately ending up a hero.
The voice cast includes Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Nicholas Cage, Bill Nighy and Donald Sutherland.
Long wait
If you’ve been waiting for this one, get ready to keep holding that breath – the film doesn’t arrive until late 2009. Curse those long ‘toon development schedules!
Meanwhile, to tide you over, watch the teaser below.
First picture of Jessica Biel as a stripper
Biel gets her stockings out...
BY Sam Ashurst Nov 20th 2008 // 11:11AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
As you may remember, Jessica Biel isn't exactly shy about getting her kit off for photoshoots as these pictures prove. But she's never chucked her clothes off for a film. Yet.
Powder Blue looks set to change that, with confirmed nude scenes aplenty. Sadly, the first pic from the flick only shows her in her bra and pants. Wait, what are we talking about? The first pic from the flick shows her in her bra and pants!
Click the gallery to your right to see a big version, which also features Patrick Swayze's brother Don (we don't know why either), then maybe go and gaze at Megan Fox in her bikini. Girls are brilliant.
Crank directors ditch Jonah Hex
Neveldine and Taylor are off the comic book pic
BY James White Nov 20th 2008 // 7:07AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, better known as the directors of Crank, have left the adaptation of DC Comics’ gunslinger title Jonah Hex.
The pair, who wrote the script and had been developing the movie, departed over what’s being described as “creative differences”.
No Country For Old Men star Josh Brolin is apparently still set to play Hex, according to Variety.
50 Cent joins Dead Man Running
Gangland crime pic gathers cast
BY James White Nov 20th 2008 // 2:02AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has joined the cast of Alex de Rakoff’s London-set indie crime pic Dead Man Running.
The film, which started shooting yesterday, already features Layer Cake’s Tamer Hassan, Adulthood’s Danny Dyer, Brenda Blethyn and Monet Mazur, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Jackson will play a nasty loan shark in the film, which finds an ex-con trying to nab £100,000 to pay him off.
Megan Fox's unseen bikini shots
Megan's got her tats out...
BY Sam Ashurst Nov 19th 2008 // 12:12PM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Okay, so the Megan Fox Wonder Woman poster was a fake, but the shots in the gallery to your right certainly aren't. They're outtakes from a recent GQ shoot and they're ace.
Take a close, leery look and admire Fox's tattoos - the Marilyn Monroe one is our favourite - by going to to the gallery to your right.
Total Film would like to thank JoBlo for finding the shots, and God for creating Megan Fox.
Universal remaking The Host
Gore Verbinski’s producing the creature feature
BY James White Nov 19th 2008 // 11:11AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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Universal Pictures has signed newcomer Fredrik Bond to direct and Pirates helmer Gore Verbinski to produce a remake of 2006 Korean thriller The Host.
Fredrik, who has worked on music videos and adverts, will take the helm for the movie, which will follow roughly the same plot of a squid-alike beast terrorising a small town.
Smart People writer Mark Poirier is at work on a script that will find a dysfunctional family banding together to rescue a snatched young girl.
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