The Movie Thread

[PSI Wind]

TF2 looks more action packed and still looks MUCH better than the 1st(I liked the 1st one as well).

[AdventChild]

Karate Kid Reboot to be Penned by Steven Conrad

The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Biz Blog says that screenwriter, Steven Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness), writing The Kung Fu Kid for Columbia Pictures.

Starring Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson and Jaden Smith, and directed by Harald Zwart, the remake is scheduled for a June 11, 2010 release.

Bad idea is a bad idea. I bet $400 Lucas would reboot the Star Wars franchise in a couple of years.

Portman to Star in Aronofsky's Black Swan

The Hollywood Reporter says that Natalie Portman is attached to play the lead in Darren Aronofsky's supernatural thriller, Black Swan.

Black Swan centers on a veteran ballerina (Portman) who finds herself locked in a competitive situation with a rival dancer, with the stakes and twists increasing as the dancers approach a big performance. But it's unclear whether the rival is a supernatural apparition or if the protagonist is simply having delusions.

Mark Heyman, a development executive at Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures, has done a rewrite of John McLaughlin's original script for the film.

Bold = LOL. Sounds like someone's skating on the frosty powder if you know what I mean .

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She's on drugs!

DiCaprio to Star in Online Casino Movie for Paramount

Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in an untitled pitch that Paramount Pictures has picked up from Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Rounders, Ocean's Thirteen) says The Hollywood Reporter.

The film will take place in the world of Costa Rica-based online casinos.

Rodriguez's Machete is Coming!

The Playlist reports that a full-length feature of Machete, the faux trailer seen in Grindhouse, will begin shooting in five weeks.

The film's star Danny Trejo and co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, who has served as Rodriguez's long-time editor, start filming in Austin, Texas in July.

So far, there have been a few names big names being batted around/in talks about appearing in Machete, but executives are keeping them under wraps for now.

World War Z Still in Development

Fangoria reports that the film adaptation of Max Brooks' best-selling zombie epic World War Z has hit a snag.

In an interview with the Swiss site Migros-Magazin, director Marc Forster says that the screenplay by J. Michael Straczynski is in-development and "still far from realization."

LaBeouf Talks Wall Street 2, Indiana Jones

BBC News recently sat down with Shia LaBeouf to talk about the upcoming film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, where he dished out some information on other upcoming films.

Not only is an Indiana Jones sequel on its way, but LaBeouf also says the official title for Wall Street 2 is now Money Never Sleeps.

Click here to watch the entire interview.

Another Indie? Oh crap!!!!!!!!

New Pics from Robin Hood.

http://api.ning.com/files/wvDsjC1rYeJosCS3..._Hood_Set_8.jpg

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LOL, Our Kingdom for a Starbucks!

Edited June 16, 2009 by AdventChild

[Gabz Girl]

Friday the 13th on ice. Right, that'll look great.

NOT.

Agreed, that's a stupid idea. D= Maybe even stupider than Jason in space (Jason X, looking at you)!

[PSI Wind]

Yay, a new Indiana Jones movie. My favorite is, of course, The 3rd one but I found the 4th movie good(I own all 4).

[Patticus]

Shia LaBeouf is such a horrible actor, somebody get rid of him.

[AdventChild]

Peck and Palicki Join Red Dawn Remake

The Hollywood Reporter says that Josh Peck (Drillbit Taylor) and Adrianne Palicki have been cast in the remake of Red Dawn.

They join the already cast Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek) in the story of a group of teenagers who form an insurgency when their town is invaded by Chinese and Russian soldiers.

Peck will play Matt Eckert -- the role originated by Charlie Sheen -- the hotheaded younger brother of Hemsworth's Jed Eckert and star quarterback of their Spokane high school football team. Palicki will play Toni, the role first inhabited by Jennifer Grey. She's a tough fighter the brothers encounter who develops romantic feelings for Jed, a Marine home on leave and the group's unofficial leader.

Directed by Dan Bradley, a stunt coordinator and second-unit director on The Bourne Ultimatum and Quantum of Solace, the original 1984 Cold War-era film was co-written and directed by John Milius.

The film is scheduled for a September 24, 2010 release.

Red Dawn remake. Crap. Don't know how to feel about Josh Peck, but I didn't like the shows he was in (Amanda show and Drake and Josh).

Bride of Frankenstein Remake in the Works at Universal

The Risky Biz Blog reports that Universal and Imagine are developing a Bride of Frankenstein remake, to be co-written and directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist)

Burger would pen the script with writing partner Dirk Wittenborn.

The original Bride of Frankenstein (1935), starred Boris Karloff as the monster and Elsa Lanchester as the bride.

The Bride was a 1985 re-imagining of the original film starring Sting and Jennifer Beals.

Why couldn't they let Del Toro do this when he is doing a Frankenstein movie as well? This will suck.

Sean Penn Pulls Out of Stooges

The Hollywood Repoter says that Oscar winner Sean Penn (Milk), citing personal reasons, has dropped out of MGM's The Three Stooges and Universal/Imagine's Cartel. He reportedly won't work for a year.

Peter and Bobby Farrelly have spent the better part of a decade trying to get "Stooges" off the ground, and in March they pulled off a major casting coup: Penn as Larry, with Jim Carrey as Curly and Benicio Del Toro as Moe.

MGM and the Farrellys will now need to decide whether they will wait for Penn or seek a new actor. The film was slated for a 2010 release.

Universal and Imagine plan to move ahead on Cartel without Penn and will recast the part.

Good, but hopefully, The Three Stooges movie would fall through and gets canceled.

New Extended GI Joe Trailer

Still those Robocop like suits look pretty lame.

[Mick]

Public Enemies

Ya know what movie looks really good and it should be one of the best movies of the summer? Yep, Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. It's about famous U.S. bank robber John Dillinger (played by Depp) and the FBI going after Dillinger. Bale is one of the FBI agents assigned to get Dillinger. This is a true story. I really like non-fictional movies. This movie will be theatrically released July 1st here in the states, not sure about the theatrical release dates in other countries.

I was watching some TV with my mom the other night and I saw this trailer. It was totally awesome and it's going to be a really great action movie. I'm hoping to see this in the theatre. It looks really really good. You can view the trailer. I provided a link below.

The trailer in HD

[AdventChild]

New International Poster for Inglourious Basterds

http://api.ning.com/files/Db8vxZm4*DzZY71N...a.jpg?width=419

More TF2 TV Spots Plus Fun Facts

In the 2nd vid, it sounded like the robot said oh sh*t, lol.

American Akira Movie Canceled?

Ruairi Robinson has apparently left as director of the proposed Akira live-action film based on the manga series and anime movie by Katsuhiro Otomo. The film that was supposed to be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and Warner Bros. Pictures. Robinson claims that the project is "dead as a doornail", although no official statement has been said by either production company regarding this. The film was to take the original cyberpunk story from Japan to America in "New Manhattan", and would see a 2011 release.

*Folds hands in prayer while whispering 'Thank You'.

Edited June 18, 2009 by AdventChild

[AdventChild]

2010 Walk of Fame Inductees

The Hollywood Reporter says that next year's list of Walk of Fame inductees include some of the biggest names from television and film.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced Wednesday that the film honorees will be Russell Crowe, Adam Sandler, James Cameron, John Cusack, Colin Firth, Gale Anne Hurd, Alan Menken, Randy Newman, Emma Thompson and Mark Wahlberg.

TV honorees are Bill Maher, Chris Berman, Jon Cryer, Peter Graves, Jimmy Kimmel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Sam Waterston.

Another Haunting Movie Coming

According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Haunting in Connecticut is getting another sequel, this time moving down the coast to Georgia.

The original supernatural thriller centered on a family that moves to a new state and begins to experience spooky events at their home. The new pic is expected to follow a somewhat similar path but with a new family in a new state.

Ti West has signed on to direct The Haunting in Georgia with David Coggeshall writing the screenplay.

Meh.

Clip from Public Enemies

Pretty cool.

Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Discusses Iron Man 2 and Thor

In his Cup O' Joe Blog, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada discussed Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 and Kenneth Branagh’s Thor with Comic Book Resource’s Jonah Weiland and Kiel Phegley. You can read the full article here. Below are some of the highlights.

THOR

On his weekend retreat with Kenneth Branagh to discuss Thor

And it was one of the highlights of my time here at Marvel because not only did Branagh sit there and give you the story beat for beat, he and [Marvel Studios head] Kevin Feige formed a great team. It was performance art. Kevin would give us the establishment of the shot and the situation: "Here we are. We're in (take your pick of location). And here's Odin and he’s coming up to (pick a character)." And then Kenneth would come in and give you the color commentary. "Odin has an air of majesty to him" and he'd act out the Odin part or the Thor part. So we sat there and literally got a three-hour one-man show from Kenneth Branagh. It was fantastic. People pay a lot of money for that kind of performance by one of the world’s greatest living actors.

And of course, he's got that great, charming British accent, so it makes it all go down easy too. [laughs] He could have said anything, and we would have said, "Yeah. Make that." He has such a passion for the material, and he's sitting there describing things from the Kirby run and things from the Simonson run, citing places where the mythology conflicted in Marvel history and how we're going to streamline it. It was just fascinating to watch.

On whether or not "Thor" will be a tougher sell than any other Marvel Studios movie to date

I think it's going to be on the surface. We had the same conversation in internally about "Iron Man." We knew Iron Man wasn't as recognizable to most people not into comics. He's not Spider-Man. He's certainly becoming that, but we worked very hard here at Marvel and started doing things like the Iron Man digital animation shorts, I worked on those with Blur Studios and Craig Kyle over at Marvel West. Those did really, really well for us online. They were basically designed to introduce Iron Man to kids by showing him in the Marvel Universe interacting with our characters, and I think we have the same work ahead of us with Thor. We'll be getting out there. We've got plans already to get Thor's name out within a younger group of kids.

IRON MAN

On Jon Favreau and Iron Man

Favreau is really, really intense and very cerebral. I remember having a dinner at Comic-Con, I want to say three years ago, where he just grabbed me. It was a dinner for CAA, the talent agency. He introduced himself to me, put his hand on my shoulder, sat me down at a table, and we just sat there and talked. ...And we just sat there and talked Iron Man, and he wanted to know who he is and why Tony Stark does what he does. That was really key to Favreau: why put on the suit and try to do good things? It was a much tougher question once he defeats the Iron Monger, gets his tech and his company back...why continue doing this? What does Tony Stark stand for?

In essence, the thing I never revealed about that conversation in the past is that Jon was looking for these answers because he was already thinking ahead, he was thinking about “Iron Man 2.”

See, it doesn't quite work on film that he goes and stops a little lady from getting mugged. While that may be an ancillary part of it, when you have that suit of armor, the world’s greatest weapon, the story has to be bigger, and your reason for being has to be bigger. But at the same time, it has to be small and streamlined enough that an audience can grab hold of it. Favreau is all about that.

[Mick]

Oh hell yeah, I wanna see Inglorious Bastards so badly. I like any film that has Tarantino's name on it. If he's involved in it, it's gold. He hasn't done anything wrong, in my opinion. He's a brilliant director, writer, actor, etc.

[Patticus]

2012 Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s30-50di_vA

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/06/18/mus...emmerichs-2012/

@ Roland Emmerich: Mankind's earliest civilisation was not the fucking Aztecs/Mayans you motherfucking moron.

[Gabz Girl]

Urgh, I can't stand Emmerich's movies! >< Independence Day was alright but gaaawd, it focused way too much on the US and made it look like THEY were the ones who saved Earth from the giant saucer. Yeah right!

The Day After Tomorrow was crapperoonies too.

[Patticus]

It is totally spectacular though, it could be a great mindless summer popcorn blockbuster, like Transformers 2 or Fast And Furious (the latter of which is totally chavvy, but whatever).

Moon trailer

Warning, it is a bit spoilery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_w9a5yv8rg

[AdventChild]

Yeah, 2012 is going to be a huge disaster. A blockbuster disaster that is. It is like Emmerich's other crappy movies, but with more bigger effects.

Hell's Angels Hitting the Big Screen

First Showing reports that in an interview with director Tony Scott, he said that he and Stephen Gaghan are set to adapt Hunter S. Thompson's novel Hell's Angels.

Gaghan, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Traffic, is currently adapting the nonfiction novel about the author's first-person account of the infamous biker gang from inside its ranks. In order to conduct his research in the 1960's, Thompson became a member of the gang itself.

There is no word if Scott will be directing the film, but he is set to produce.

M:I4 Coming in 2011

According to The Hollywood Reporter, J.J. Abrams and Tom Cruise have agreed to co-produce a fourth Mission: Impossible movie for Paramount with a potential 2011 release date.

It is unknown if executives will star Cruise as Ethan Hunt once again or if they are reconfiguring Cruise as Ethan Hunt in a less front-and-center role, as some kind of mentor to the new crew.

No writers have been hired to work on the fourth installment of the franchise, as Cruise and Abrams are committed to other projects.

Tony Gilroy to Write Red Dawn

Yesterday we told you that Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki had been cast in the remake of Red Dawn. Today, Latino Review is reporting that Tony Gilroy , the Oscar-nominated writer/director of Michael Clayton and writer of the "Bourne" movies, has come on board to rewrite the film.

Director of the new Red Dawn, Dan Bradley, was the 2nd unit director of the Bourne films.

MGM has set a September 24, 2010 release.

[AdventChild]

Official Trailer for Zombieland

It's like the American version of Shaun of the Dead. Pretty wicked.

[AdventChild]

DreamWorks to Create Boo U

According to The Hollywood Reporter, DreamWorks is pushing forward with a 3-D untitled ghost project that is competing for a fourth-quarter 2012 release slot.

The project, referred to internally as Boo U., recently picked up writer Jon Vitti, who will pen the screenplay, and Tony Leondis, who will direct.

The story line centers on a ghost who is bad at his job and must return to ghost school.

The ghost picture would hit theaters November 12th, unless the caveman comedy The Croods or the Terry Pratchett adaptation Truckers makes the cut instead.

Sounds like a Casper movie. Hopefully, it'll be good as Kung Fu Panda and not bad as Shrek the 3rd.

Brody, Whitaker, and Wood Sign on for The Experiment

Variety reports that Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood and Cam Gigandet will star in The Experiment, a remake of the German psychological thriller Das Experiment.

Das Experiment, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, centered on a group of ordinary men recruited to take on the roles of guards and prisoners as part of a research study and examined how the effects of assigned roles, power and control affected the participants.

Brody will portray the leader of the prisoners while Whitaker will play a guard who's corrupted by the power he's given.

"Prison Break" creator Paul Scheuring has written the screenplay and is set to direct.

Filming for The Experiment begins in Iowa next month.

Crap, a foreign film remake in America. So many things could go wrong.

Is Roland Kickinger the New Conan?

According to The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Biz Blog, Lionsgate and Nu Image/Millennium may have found their new Conan -- Rolan Kickinger.

As you may recall, Kickinger was chosen to play the T-800 in Terminator Salvation. It was his body that Arnold Schwarzenegger's face was superimposed on.

The companies are in talks with the 41-year-old Austrian to play the title role that Arnold Schwarzenegger made famous in the 1982 classic Conan the Barbarian.

However, Latino Review claims that this rumor is "IS COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT!" saying "Trust me guys, I have a super solid source at both Lionsgate and Millenium and they laughed their asses off"

We reported last week that Conan would be directed by Marcus Nispel.

So what do you think? If true, would this be a good pick?

41? Wow.

New Character Posters for 'Sherlock Holmes'

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Final Poster for Halloween

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Nice, but not scary.

[Kevin]

Pixar helps grant a dying girl's wish to see Up.

I've got to say that was very noble of them to do that for her. Well done, Pixar!

Edited June 25, 2009 by Kevin

[Sean]

I found that rather poignant, actually.

[AdventChild]

Red Sonja Delayed Until 2010

First Showing reports that Red Sonja producer Joe Gatta says that its been delayed until at least 2010.

Gatta also confirms that it will be an origin story that ignores the previous movie and will be based on the Marvel heroine created by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith in 1973.

Doug Aarniokoski, a long-time friend/co-worker of Robert Rodriguez, will be directing while Rodriguez will only be producing.

Gatta says about the film's delay, "You have to be really careful so it's not campy. You want to make it real. Make her convincingly tough. And I think we have a script that's cracked it."

The original movie was terrible, so this could be good, but doubt it.

Red Band Trailer for World's Greatest Dad

Pretty cool and Robin fits the role well.

New 'Astro Boy' Images

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[Gabz Girl]

Pixar help's grant a dying girl's wish to see Up.

I've got to say that was very noble of them to do that for her. Well done, Pixar!

*sniffle* Indeed. And yet what a sad end to the girl's life. My condolences to her parents.. ;_;

[Patticus]

First Look: Tim Burton's Trippy New Alice in Wonderland

We've seen glimpse of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland previously, but USA Today now has our official first look. And it's definitely not what we were expecting to see, that's for sure! Not only do they have three new gorgeous new concept art photos, but they reveal our first looks at Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as The White Queen. "It has been Burton-ized" is how producer Richard Zanuck describes the director's vision of the Lewis Carroll classic. After shooting for only 40 days, they're working on adding CG animation and motion-capture creatures.

Concept Art

A scene where Alice, played by Mia Wasikowska, greets talking rose blossoms at the entrance to what seems to be a forest of giant mushrooms. "But as in the book, her size shrinks and grows throughout her journey."

"The rabbit is convinced he has the right Alice," Zanuck says about the scene. "He has been looking for her for years." Michael Sheen plays the White Rabbit

HQ pics of concept art...

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2...onderland_N.htm

Inglorious Basterds - Trailer #2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_xqreWSctQ

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/06/22/mus...rious-basterds/

Brody, Whitaker, and Wood Sign on for The Experiment

Das Experiment is a very good film, quite an intense and horrific watch. I don't think any remake could do it justice. The way American filmmakers tone down and make tame remakes of foreign productions, it'll bugger this one up - all the guards but one were corrupted by their power, for a start, and I'm not sure they'll include the scene where they make one of the prisoners clean a dirty toilet with his prisoner issue tunic and his fingernail. No doubt the climax will be filled with rock music and shit like that.

[AdventChild]

Soderbergh's Moneyball Pulled

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Columbia has taken Steven Soderbergh's baseball drama Moneyball starring Brad Pitt off the field.

Pulling the plug this close to production is extremely rare for studios but sources said Columbia's co-chairman Amy Pascal wasn't comfortable with the script, which had changed considerably since the movie was greenlit.

The decision, which was made Friday, mystified many since the pic was crewed up and scheduled to start shooting this week, with some wondering how issues with the script could give a studio cold feet so late in the game.

Soderbergh wrote the screenplay -- the most recent version, drawing from Steven Zaillian's previous drafts, is barely a week old -- adapting Michael Lewis' nonfiction book about the Oakland Athletics and their GM Billy Beane, who assembled a contending ballclub despite a payroll much lower than most other teams.

Pitt and comedian Demetri Martin were the major actors cast, with other roles to be played by actual baseball players. Soderbergh also shot interviews with real baseball figures, which were going to be interspersed between the narrative.

Gibson to Direct The Goblin

Variety reports that Charles Gibson will make his big-screen directing debut with the Geoff Rodkey-scripted family comedy The Goblin.

Story revolves around a suburban family that moves into its new home only to find a curmudgeonly goblin who doesn't want them there.

Matt Berenson will produce with Wind Dancer Film principal Matt Williams and production head Judd Payne. Wind Dancer principal David McFadzean and president Dete Meserve exec produce.

Williams says, "It's about creating a goblin that will appeal to audiences of all ages."

Hopefully, it isn't a Shrek clone, but it sounds like it.

LaBeouf Says Y: The Last Man Still Could Happen

Collider recently sat down with actor Shia LaBeouf, who is currently on press tour for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, who said that he's still interested in the Y: The Last Man adaptation.

When asked if after a few years of doing other projects that he'd consider starring in Y: The Yes Man, LaBeouf said:

Absolutely, man! In fact, that’s what’s going on right now. Vaughn and Ellsworth [the creators of the comic series] and D.J. [Caruso] are writing the script now. The script is not ready to be shot. D.J. is making a different movie right now. He’s making Jack and the Beanstalk. There’s just other things going on with D.J. and I wouldn’t want to make the movie with anybody else because he loves it like I do. But I don’t think Vaughn is trying to give it to anybody else. I think that it is something that’s very realistic, it’s just not in the pipe for the next year.

Click here to read the entire interview.

Also, the Alice in Wonderland pics are amazing as well as the movie.

Edited June 22, 2009 by AdventChild

[Patticus]

One of the reviews of the Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince screenings from last year. Here's the end bit:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38251

I had the most problems with the film's final third. Harry and Dumbledore's trip to the caves seemed to come out of nowhere, as did Dumbledore's declaration that he had to drink the water from the podium in which the locket they were after was held. I don't remember if tha's how it happened in the book, but I remember arriving at that location & conclusion in a way that at least felt more natural.

After that, they make their way to the tower and instead of using a charm to immobilize Harry and cover him with the invisibility cloak like in the book, Dumbledore just sends Harry away, and Harry goes downstairs, stops & watches the following scene through cracks in the floor above him. Malfoy tries to kill Dumbledore but realizes he can't. Snape arrives on the floor below & signals Harry to be quiet, which he uncharacteristically does. Snape then goes upstairs & sends Dumbledore to his death. The modifications made to this scene from book to film are terrible, and they partially blow what may be the biggest surprise of the entire franchise.

Afterwards, there is no enormous battle. The Death Eaters stroll out silently. I remember the fight in the book being fantastic, and I personally would rather have had a short scene in the beginning with two guys talking about the horrible things the Death Eaters are doing than eliminate the battle at the end. Harry runs after them and confronts Snape, who quietly tells him he's the Half-Blood Prince. Again, due to lack of attention paid to this plotline, I didn't really care. In the book, he screams his response. The book has Snape screaming and the film has him using his indoor voice. What a disappointment.

And as if this weren't enough, there is no funeral for Dumbledore. It's been cut.

Most of that matches what you can make out in trailers.

Awful. Awful. Awful. Stupid movie execs.

[AdventChild]

^ So a Harry Potter film that disappoints? Makes me sad , the HP movies were great, and the one of the best adaptations to a book series. Though I guess it was a matter of time before Hollywood hell took affect.

Michael Bay Slams Paramounts TFs Marketing

The Hollywood Reporter says the Michael Bay has slammed Paramount in a leaked memo. Bay's issue is with the studio's handling of the marketing for his film, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, claiming there's no buzz.

"Right now we are not an event. We are just a sequel, which is very different. There is no anticipation. Remember back to 'Spider-Man 2' -- it was everywhere," he wrote.

Bay added that advance word on the $200 million robot extravaganza in publications like Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times had been an "abject failure," and he described as "lame" a plan for him to preview a small clip at the MTV Movie Awards this month.

"I cannot figure if this is a cash issue with your company? Is there some clever idea why we are not spending? I'm not sure," he said. "I'm sure though the movie will do fine, but not to your internal expectations because right now we are fooling ourselves by being cocky."

But in a second e-mail, sent June 6, Bay compared Paramount to a family and thanked the executives for "busting your butts and bringing your 'A game' for the release of Transformers."

A Paramount spokeswoman declined to comment other than to point out that the latter e-mail "clearly speaks to a differing stance than the former." It should also be noted that two of the top production executives on Bay's e-mail were coincidentally ousted on Friday amid a failure to speed up production of in-house movies.

Transformers opened debuted in Britain at Number one this weekend and opens in the US this wed, June 24th.

Bay, STFU.

Michael Bay Rant or You Gotta be F**king Kidding Me

Meh, just putting this in for more Bay f*ckery, but typical and somewhat insulting stereotypes isn't uncommon. Though seeing how this Bay we're talking about, it might become more idiotic and taken to possibly higher level. In the end, Bay will cure such blatant stereotypes with the only thing he knows how: EXPLOSIONS!

New Full Halloween 2 Trailer

Meh. Not yet rated? This is definitely gonna be R, unless they tone down the blood and gore for a PG-13, but still it is going to be R from the looks of it.

[AdventChild]

The Last Airbender Teaser Trailer

It looks okay, but with M. Night, Mr. Twist, at the wheel, it is doubtful.

Antal Could Direct Predators

Latino Review has announced that 20th Century Fox and Robert Rodriguez are eyeing Vacancy and Armored helmer Nimrod Antal to direct Predators.

No plot details have been announced yet, but Predators is expected to open on July 7th, 2010.

LOL, the guy's name is nimrod, wow.

Ed McMahon Dies at 86

CNN reports that Ed McMahon, the longtime pitchman and Johnny Carson sidekick whose "Heeeeeeerre's Johnny!" became a part of the vernacular, has died.

McMahon passed away peacefully shortly after midnight at the Ronald Reagan/UCLA Medical Center, his publicist, Howard Bragman, said Tuesday

McMahon, 86, was hospitalized in February with pneumonia and other medical problems.

He had suffered a number of health problems in recent years, including a neck injury caused by a 2007 fall. In 2002, he sued various insurance companies and contractors over mold in his house and later collected a $7 million settlement.

Though he later hosted a variety of shows -- including "Star Search" and "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes," McMahon's biggest fame came alongside Carson on "The Tonight Show," which Carson hosted from 1962 to 1992.

"Johnny didn't look as if he was dying to see me," McMahon, who was hosting a show on a Philadelphia TV station, told People magazine in 1980 about the pair's first meeting. "He was standing with his back to the door, staring at a couple of workmen putting letters on a theater marquee. I walked over and stood beside him. Finally the two guys finished, and Johnny asked, 'What have you been doing?' I told him. He said, 'Good to meet you, Ed,' shook my hand, and I was out of the office. The whole meeting was about as exciting as watching a traffic light change."

Though McMahon was surprised to be offered the job as Carson's sidekick, the two soon proved to have a strong chemistry. Carson was, by nature, introverted and dry-witted; McMahon was the boisterous and outgoing second banana, content to give Carson straight lines or laugh uproariously at his jokes (a characteristic much-parodied by comedians).

Carson made cracks about McMahon's weight, his drinking and the men's trouble with divorce. McMahon was married three times; Carson, who died in 2005, had four wives.

McMahon was also the show's designated pitchman, a talent he honed to perfection during "Tonight's" 30-year run with Carson, even if sometimes the in-show commercial spots fell flat.

For one of the show's regular sponsors, Alpo dog food, McMahon usually extolled the virtues of the product while a dog eagerly gobbled down a bowl. But one day the show's regular dog wasn't available, and the substitute pooch wasn't very hungry.

McMahon recalled the incident in his 1998 memoir, For Laughing Out Loud.

"Then I saw Johnny come into my little commercial area. He got down on his hands and knees and came over to me. ... I started to pet Johnny. Nice boss, I was thinking as I pet him on the head, nice boss. By this point the audience was hysterical. ... I just kept going. I was going to get my commercial done.

'The next time you're looking at the canned dog food ...' -- he rubbed his cheek against my leg -- ... reach for the can that contains real beef.' Johnny got up on his knees and started begging for more. I started petting him again ... and then he licked my hand."

McMahon also promoted Budweiser, American Family Insurance and -- during the most recent Super Bowl -- Cash4Gold.com. Entertainment Weekly named him No. 1 on its list of TV's greatest sidekicks.

Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, on March 6, 1923. His father was a promoter, and McMahon remembered moving a lot during his childhood.

"I changed towns more often than a pickpocket," McMahon told People.

He later joined the Marines and served in World War II and Korea.

Though McMahon was well-rewarded by NBC -- the 1980 People article listed his salary between $600,000 and $1 million -- his divorces and some poor investments took their toll. In June 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported that McMahon was $644,000 in arrears on a $4.8 million loan for a home in Beverly Hills, California, and his lender had filed a notice of default.

McMahon and his wife, Pamela, told CNN's Larry King that McMahon had gotten caught in a spate of financial problems.

"If you spend more money than you make, you know what happens. And it can happen. You know, a couple of divorces thrown in, a few things like that," said McMahon, who added that he hadn't worked much since the neck injury.

McMahon later struck a deal that allowed him to stay in the house.

He is survived by his wife, Pamela, and five children. A sixth child, McMahon's son Michael, died in 1995.

RIP.

Doug Jones Talks About Del Toro's The Hobbit and Frankenstein

Actor Doug Jones has been an integral part of Guillermo Del Toro's world, playing Abe Sapien in the Hell Boy series (along with several other creatures in Hellboy II) and both the Faun and the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth.

In the next few years, he'll also be appearing in Del Toro's The Hobbit series and the remake Frankenstein. Jones sat down with Geektyrant to talk about his upcoming roles in the Del Toro movies. Below are a few excerpts but you can read the full article here.

On The Hobbit

“We have not had any conversations about what he wants [for The Hobbit], but he’s ‘wink-wink, nudge-nudged’ me a couple times with that ‘Yeah, yeah, The Hobbit, yeah, we’ll see you. I don’t know what I’m doing or how many characters it will be, because he tends to like to use me the whole time depending.”

On Frankenstein

“...We are going to do some tests just to see, because he has five years to play with this. He’s taking that luxury of time to make this absolutely perfect. This is his dream. He was inspired by Frankenstein when he was a kid. It was the monster that made him want to make monsters.

“It will not be a big, lumbering Boris Karloff type, but more of a skinny, skeletal, stringy-muscled version made from spare parts of some other guy.

“I go weak in the knees, and I lose blood in my brain. It would be a dream come true. Boris Karloff as Frankenstein and the Mummy are two films that haunted my childhood.”

Cool.