Imagine living in a city where the police serve as your judge, jury and executioner. What’s that? You’ve been to Los Angeles?
Well, then you’ll feel right at home watching director Pete Travis’ (Vantage Point) ode to Mega City One and its notorious law enforcer Judge Dredd, the U.K.’s most brutal comic strip character.
Adapted by screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later), Judge Dreddfollows “Judge” Joe Dredd as he brings down the hammer on lawbreakers found in the dystopian metropolis known as Mega City One.
Unlike the 1995 Sylvester Stallone vehicle, the new Judge Dredd film aims to be true-to-the-source-material.
Says Garland, via press release:
I grew up reading Judge Dredd. The incredible writers and artists of 2000 AD were formative influences on me.
Andrew [Macdonald], Allon [Reich] and I have developed this adaptation of Judge Dredd with an emphasis on adrenaline and realism, but with all the scale and spectacle of Mega-City One.
We think Pete’s propulsive, edgy style is a perfect match for the project.
I just hope there still a part for comedy genius Rob Schneider in the remake. I think he’s at least earned himself a cameo.
Judge Dredd is budgeted at $45 million and will be released in 3-D through Reliance Big Pictures.
This is Megan Fox as hatchet-wielding prostitute Leila in Warner Bros. upcoming sci-fi western mash-up Jonah Hex.
Jonah Hex is directed by Jimmy Hayward and costars John Malkovich (Transformers 3), Will Arnett (Monsters Vs. Aliens), Michael Shannon (Bug), David Jensen (The Mist), Brandi Coleman (Battle: Los Angeles), Aidan Quinn (The Eclipse), and Josh Brolin (Planet Terror) as Hex.
To see Fox get sweaty, see the film’s trailer here.
Timothy Olyphant (The Crazies) has replaced Sharlto Copley (District 9) in DreamWorks soon-to-start-shooting sci-fi actioner I Am Number Four. “Scheduling conflicts” were cited as the reason for Copley’s departure (A-Team promotional obligations to be exact).
This is terrible news because I now have to go back and rewrite all my I Am Number Four posts where I mention Copley as starring in the film. There are at least three posts! This is going to really cut into my daily afternoon vodka-induced nap time.
Other than that, I don’t really care what actors they cast just as long as slutty-looking Teresa Palmer stays in place.
I Am Number Four is an adaptation of the upcoming HarperCollins young-adult novel written by James Frey (”A Million Little Pieces”) and Jobie Hughes. The story revolves around John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), an alien living incognito as a human high school student in Paradise, Ohio up until he’s discovered by the extraterrestrial enemies that destroyed his home planet.
D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) directs. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg produce.
Is “LOST” star Evangeline Lilly really living parallel lives? The 30-year-old stunner announced earlier this year that she planned to quit acting when her show came to an end, but now has signed on to star in DreamWork’s upcoming sci-fi actioner Real Steel.
Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as a former boxer-turned-fight-promoter who reunites with his estranged 11-year-old son to build a robot to compete in a robot-boxing tournament. The film is set in the future where human boxing matches are no longer legal and have been replaced by combating machines.
Lilly has been cast as Jackman’s friend with boobs (it beats doing phone sex ads)
Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) is attached as director. The film swings into theaters on Nov. 18, 2011.
Action heroes Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren are set to star in Foresight Unlimited’s Universal Soldier IV, their third film together in the unstoppable cyborg-action series first introduced by Roland Emmerich in 1992.
The film will once again pit Van Damme’s reanimated war hero Pvt. Luc DeVeraux against Lundgren’s bio-mechanical heavy Sgt. Andrew Scott. The duo last faced-off in the 2010 straight-to-DVD hit Universal Soldier: Regeneration.
Production on Universal Soldier 4 will begin on May 9 with Regeneration director John Hyams at the helm. The straight-to-DVD sequel will be presented in 3-D.
Paramount Pictures has officially released the trailer for Super 8, the new sci-fi collaboration between “LOST” creator J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg, arriving in theaters on June 10. The film stars Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Zach Mills, Noah Emmerich, Ron Eldard, and Amanda Michalka, sexy sister to hottie Aly Michalka.
The film’s synopsis reads:
Set in Ohio in 1979, a troupe of six youngsters using a Super 8 camera to make their own zombie movie. One fateful night, their project takes them to a lonely stretch of rural railroad tracks and, as the camera rolls, calamity strikes — a truck collides with an oncoming locomotive and a hellacious derailment fills the night with screaming metal and raining fire. Then something emerges from the wreckage, something decidedly inhuman.
Summit Entertainment plans to adapt “Breaking Dawn,” the fourth book in the “Twilight Saga,” as two separate movies has hit a snag. Secondary players, including Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz, are demanding bigger truckloads of cash for their participation.
Greene and Lutz are said to be asking for ten times the amount they earned on the first Twilight film. While the Summit has not officially commented on the issue, insiders speculate that the studio may replace the actors (HA! HA!).
Twilight Saga mainstays Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner have all locked down new stupidly lucrative deals to star in the two films, making it harder for Greene, Lutz, et all to get a bigger stake in the franchise.
Greene stars in Dark Castle’s upcoming Paranormal Activity ripoff inspired ghost story The Apparition. Lutz can be seen in Platinum Dunes’ recently released A Nightmare On Elm Street remake.
The Breaking Dawn films are scheduled to shoot in the fall with release dates set for November 2011 and Summer 2012 respectively.
Colin Farrell is set to star opposite milfy Toni Collette in DreamWorks’ upcoming Fright Night reboot. The 33-year-old Irish actor will play the part of Jerry Dandridge, the suave vampire who moves in next door to geeky horror fan Charley Brewster’s (Anton Yelchin) house to feed on fresh meat and fuck his mom.
Farrell can be seen in the fantasy-themed features The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Neil Jordan’s soon-to-be released Ondine, but Fright Night marks his first foray into horror.
Collette, who plays Charlie’s mom, currently headlines Showtime’s “The United States of Tara.” She also starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense.
Eli Roth and Jerry O’Connell aren’t the only boobs you’ll see in the viral marketing campaign launched by Dimension Films to promote their upcoming fish-and-chicks frightener Piranha 3-D. The studio has created a fictional website based on the film’s Wild Wild Girls spring break adventures.
Take a peek:
Connell plays Derrick Jones in the movie, a red-faced Joe Francis (Girls Gone Wild) type out to capture young topless coeds as they make the first bad decisions of their lives. Roth takes on the role of wet T-shirt contest emcee, proving that his critically acclaimed performance in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds was not a fluke.
The site is still under construction, but already features numerous photos of the many big-boobed extras hired to play vacationing coeds.
Piranha 3-D is directed by Alexandre Aja and costars Elisabeth Shue (Hollow Man), Kelly Brook (Survival Island), Ving Rhames (Day of the Dead), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Richard Dreyfus (Jaws), Adam Scott (The Return), Dina Meyer (Saw IV) and Jessica Szohr (House at the End of the Drive).
The film is remake of Joe Dante’s 1978 original. It arrives in theaters on Aug. 27.
Julie Delpy writes, directs, and stars in The Countess, a stuffy—possibly mind-numbingly dull—take on the Erzsebet Bathory story. The film is being shopped at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Countess Bathory is is one of history’s most notorious milfs/serial killers. She is believed to have murdered numerous virgin girls and used their blood as bathwater in an effort to remain youthful looking for her young suitor.
Delpy is the Oscar-nominated director of Two Days in Paris. Sadly, this movie looks exactly what an Oscar nominated director would do with the subject matter. But, it does have one thing going for it: Australian actress Radha Mitchell.
While it’s unclear what role Mitchell plays, it is the kind of high-brow movie the sexy 36-year-old may go nude in.
Mitchell impressive horror creds include this year’s The Crazies remake, creature-feature Rogue, the superb Silent Hill, and Vin Diesel’s only watchable flick Pitch Black.
