Here’s your first look at the new movie from the “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” actor.
Pegg plays a kiddie-lit author making the jump to serial killer fiction. And it’s not an understatement to say that the transition is messing with his head.
The film is written and co-directed by Crispian Mills — yes, the guy who used to be in BritPop chancres Kula Shaker.
From Brit film mag, Empire, here’s your first look at director Oliver Stone’s newie “The Savages,” starring Aaron Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Salma Hayek and Blake Lively, adapted from the book of the same name by novelist Don Winslow.
The movie focuses on the adventures of two California pot-growers (Kitsch, Johnson) who have a mutual love in Lively. Hayek stars as the leader of a Mexican drug cartel.
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You know you’ve been waiting this one.
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Via ComingSoon, here’s a new TV spot for the Joss Whedon-directed superteam flick. Pay attention about three-quarters of the way through as Chris Evans (Captain America) issues the famed admonition.
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The movie opens May 4 — as if you didn’t know that already.
Avoiding a conflict for star Jennifer Lawrence, whose life has been apparently taken over by the “The Hunger Games” juggernaut, the sequel to Marvel’s 2010 mutant prequel will start shooting in January 2013, ComingSoon reports.
Here’s the nut graf:
“The trade says that Fox was originally planning on filming the Matthew Vaughn-directed “X-Men” follow-up this fall, which would have conflicted with Lawrence’s Catching Fire, a movie Lionsgate is targeting for an August-September start date. If that had happened, however, Fox would have won out considering the studio would have been able to exercise the sequel option on her contract, which she signed before her “Hunger Games” deal.”
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Via Brit film site HeyUGuys, here’s your first look at action star Jason Statham in “Safe.” The movie, written and directed by Boaz Yakin, opens in UK cinemas on May 4.
Here’s a closer look at director Walter Sales’ adaptation of Beat author Jack Kerouac’s classic “On the Road,” starring Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortenson, Kirsten Dunst and others. The images include the first look at Dunst in the movie.
Here’s the images:
And here’s a synopsis:
“After the death of his father, Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, meets Dean Moriarty, a wild and infectiously charismatic ex-con. They hit it off immediately. Determined to avoid the pitfalls of a narrow, prescribed life, Sal hits the road, joining Dean on what evolves into a life-changing physical and emotional odyssey. Thirsting for freedom, they discover the world, the ecstasy of experience, the connectedness of humanity and ultimately themselves.”
(h/t HeyUGuys)
The folks at ComingSoon have a dozen ways to decorate your desktop from the upcoming Joss Whedon-directed superhero flick. I’ve posted a couple of favorites.
Here’s another look at director Marc Webb’s re-imagining of the ageless Marvel superhero. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans star.
Director Kevin Smith
Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up. CNN has the story:
“Smith’s convenience-store drones and derelicts introduced Smith’s Jersey brand of profane wit in 1994′s “Clerks,” and a successful 2006 sequel proved that audiences hadn’t had enough. Smith’s retirement threatened to kill any chances of completing the Quik Stop trilogy — a challenge you’d think might tempt the “Star Wars”-obsessed Smith. Well, there is a new hope.
Last week, during a book signing in New York, he revealed that his beloved characters might be heading to Broadway. After seeing the hit play, “Seminar,” which reminded Smith of the fundamental stagecraft he used to film “Clerks,” he suddenly envisioned breathing new life into the franchise with a stage production of “Clerks III” in 2014 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the original.It’s still only in early talks, but Smith tells EW that he’s already broached the subject with several members of the cast, including the hard-to-wrangle Jeff Anderson, who played irreverent slacker, Randal.”
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The abandoned North Carolina milltown that served as the real-life stand in for the fictional District 12 in “The Hunger Games” has been put up for sale by its owner, The Guardian reports. It can be yours for a mere $1.4 million.
Here’s the nut graf:
“Henry River Mill Village, which covers 72 acres, was used by producers to shoot scenes in District 12, where the film’s heroine Katniss Everdeen lives in Gary Ross’s dystopian science-fiction film. The mill itself, which produced fine yarn, closed some time in the 1960s and the last resident moved out in 1987. The building burned down in 1977, but more than 20 others remain including the company store which doubled for the family bakery where Everdeen encounters Peeta Mellark in a flashback scene.
“I’m getting too many visitors,” the ghost town’s owner, Wade Shepherd, 83, of Transylvania County told the Associated Press. “Day and night, they’re driving through, taking pictures, getting out and walking. I’m just bombarded with people.”
The Hunger Games was shot entirely in North Carolina, with the state’s largest city Charlotte even doubling as the opulent Capitol, which in the young adult novels by Suzanne Collins is said to be somewhere in the Rocky mountains. Film-makers spent more than $60m in the state and employed 5,000 people. It’s likely that studio Lionsgate will return for production of the sequel Catching Fire, which features several scenes set in District 12, so Shepherd may be hoping to cash in by selling Henry River Mill Village to a film industry buyer.”
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