Variety reports that Lakeshore Entertainment has found its leading lady and villain for sequel Crank 2: High Voltage, starring Jason Statham as hit man Chev Chelios.
Amy Smart will reprise her role as Chelios' girlfriend and Clifton Collins Jr. will play his nemesis.
Bai Ling also is joining the cast, along with Dwight Yoakam and Efren Ramirez, who are both returning from the original.
In "Crank 2," Chelios faces a mobster who has stolen his nearly… Continue
Earlier today at New York Comic-Con, ComingSoon.net talked with Mark Johnson, the producer of Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and he told us that director Michael Apted is currently scouting locations in New Zealand for the upcoming 3-quel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader with plans to start shooting in October.
They won't necessarily be returning to Andrew Adamson's home country for the third movie though as Johnson told us that they'd be… Continue
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A character will die in the upcoming "Sex and the City" movie says star Cynthia Nixon says Digital Spy.
Nixon reprises her role as Miranda on the big screen and indicates that a major point of the plot is that Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) is left grief-stricken by a tragic event early on.
She tells Creation Nation comedy show: "There's a loss that happens that's pretty tough. Something significant happens to Carrie, and it really forces her to ask questions that you have… Continue
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The Incredible Hulk panel at the New York Comic Con seemed to set the stage in quite possibly reversing the taste left in fandom’s mouth by Ang Lee’s 2003 artsy interpretation of the comic icon.
Director Louis Leterrier was joined on stage by the film’s producer Gale Anne Hurd and Kevin Feige, president of production for Marvel Studios.
Leterrier, known best State-side for his work on The Transporter Euro-action flicks told the crowd he had just got into town from Seattle… Continue
well, i saw some cool new footage from Hellboy II at Comic Con today, and, guess what? WE FINALLY GET TO SEE JOHANN KRAUSS TALK!!!! And he's being voiced by none other than...SETH MCFARLANE, CREATOR OF FAMILY GUY!!!! That's all i can say for now. I'll post more soon!
Yahoo! Movies has premiered the New York Comic Con poster featuring Eva Mendes as Sand Saref in Lionsgate's The Spirit, written and directed by Frank Miller. She'll be signing the poster at the Con on Saturday. The movie opens January 16,… Continue
Werner Herzog will write and direct "The Piano Tuner," a lush Victorian-era drama about a Brit's journey to war-torn Burma, for Focus Features. Mandalay Independent Pictures' Cathy Schulman is a producer on the project.
Based on Daniel Mason's 2002 debut novel, the story centers on Edgar Drake, a man sent to a remote village in the late 1800s to repair an eccentric military man's piano. Drake… Continue
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Indictments are about to be handed down. If you don't want your name on one, we'll need your full cooperation in an upcoming operation.
In case you haven't heard, we are struggling with a bit of corruption in the department. I'm not about to let the Gotham PD collapse in on itself, so we're taking action. We've identified a group of offenders that need to be apprehended. Problem is, most of these cops are… Continue
In anticipation of one of the hottest new releases of 2008, Marvel is presenting a movie variant for Invincible Iron Man #1 featuring Robert Downey Jr., the man who will bring Tony Stark to the big screen this summer.
So a while back I worked on the short film of my friend and roommate Ben, playing multiple supporting roles and directing some of the photography. I think it turned out extremely good, although I think the rotoscoping doesn't look very good in color. Judge for yourself:
Anyway, the other day, he tells me that he won first place at the Passaic County Film & Video Festival for his film… Continue
The Screen Actors Guild has cut a deal that would let its members work for an independent film company regardless of a future strike against the major studios.
SAG announced a deal late Wednesday with The Film Department that guarantees completion of nine movies that haven't started filming.
One of them, a romantic comedy called "The Rebound" starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, is scheduled to begin production next week in New York City.
Went to see that Rec movie last night. I think there are a few people on here who are really going to really disagree with my Rec movie review! After all the great things I'd read about it on Spill I was really excited about seeing it.
The film starts off pretty promising, building suspense in all the ways it should and the first scene to happen in the stairwell was pretty… Continue
Universal has hired Shane Abbess to direct Source Code, a sci-fi thriller that Mark Gordon's production company is producing for the studio, reports Variety.
The Australian helmer made Gabriel, his first movie, for less than $200,000. Screen Gems picked up the gothic sci-fi thriller, which made $1.2 million in his native country.
Source Code, a time continuum story, was written by Ben Ripley and once had Topher Grace to star
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"High School Musical" star Ashley Tisdale has set up a first-look deal with "American Idol" producers FremantleMedia North America and is also in talks with United Artists to star in a remake of the 1989 movie Teen Witch.
Under the one-year deal with FremantleMedia, which is close to being signed, the production company will look to develop TV projects revolving around Tisdale.
As for Teen Witch, Tisdale would play Louise Miller, the unpopular girl who discovers that she's… Continue
Danielle Panabaker has been cast as the female lead in the new Friday the 13th film, which Marcus Nispel is directing for Platinum Dunes, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Also joining the cast are Jonathan Sadowski, Travis van Winkle and Aaron Yoo. The project already features Jared Padalecki in the cast.
Panabaker is playing the adventurous, athletic girlfriend of van Winkle, who plays a rich alpha male type that gathers… Continue
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Variety has just announced that Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies have set a July 2, 2010 release date for The Last Airbender. The studios have dropped "Avatar" from the title to avoid confusion with James Cameron's Avatar, opening on December 18, 2009
by Eric D. Snider
No list of great baseball movies would be complete without The Natural, starring Robert Redford. His best performance ever? Maybe not -- but it's certainly a lot of people's favorite. Because of that classic film, Redford is forever connected to our national pastime, and so it's a little exciting to see that he's about to produce another baseball movie: a biopic of Jackie Robinson.
It was Robinson who broke through Major League Baseball's race… Continue