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Yeah, for some reason I always get those two confused. Though it makes more sense that the short troll-looking guy would be replacing David Krumholtz instead of the skinny kid with the huge teeth.
 
While Chris Nolan is still on break and hasn't begun considering a third "Batman" flick, Warner Bros. Pictures execs may have already got the next film's villains and who they want to play them in mind it would seem.

Talking with MTV News, Michael Caine revealed that he not only heard the rumors of the various villain casting choices for the next film floating throughout the media, but that he brought up the topic with a Warner executive who seems to have confirmed that some of them were right.

Caine says "When Christopher [Nolan] said we were going to do ‘The Dark Knight’ next, I didn’t what that meant in Batman terms. I said, ‘What’s the story?’ and he said The Joker. I said, ‘Oh, s–t! How are you going to top Jack [Nicholson]?’ He said, ‘Well, I’ve cast Heath Ledger. And I went ‘Ha! I couldn’t top Jack, but if anyone could, maybe Heath could.’ And he did."

He then added "I was with [a Warner Bros.] executive and I said, ‘Are we going to make another one?’ They said yeah. I said, ‘How the hell are we going to top Heath? And he says ‘I’ll tell you how you top Heath — Johnny Depp as The Riddler and Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Penguin.’ I said, ‘S–t, they’ve done it again!."

Hoffman's name as a British or Russian arms dealer version of 'The Penguin' first floated around in 2006, right after "Batman Begins" but before the villains of "The Dark Knight" were set. Depp's link to 'The Riddler' is more recent but the most talked about of the rumors and Depp himself recently said he'd be open to considering the opportunity.

Of course all of this remains up in the air and depends upon the whim of Christopher Nolan who'll decide whether he wants to do the project and which villains and actors will be involved.
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Kevin Smith recently told Sci-Fi Wire about his next two projects post-"Zack and Miri Make a Porno":

"First, I'm going to do a 180 turn and do a horror movie called Red State,. It's going to be a total horror-political-psychological movie without a funny line in it. Then I'm going to do the science fiction superhero movie. It's going to be an original superhero that I've created."

Could this be the "Ranger Danger" project he'd previously talked about? In any case how far along is it? "It's stewing right now. I want to do it, though, and, God willing, it will star Seth Rogen" says Smith.

Rogen still remains attached to Sony's "The Green Hornet" movie which means the comedian could very well appear in lycra twice in the same year.
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Production began on Monday on location in Minnesota on "A Serious Man", for Focus Features and Working Title Films. Joel and Ethan Coen, Academy Award winners for "No Country for Old Men" and "Fargo", are writing, producing, and directing the film.

Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are executive-producing the film with Robert Graf, who has worked on the Coens' last six features in various producing capacities. The director of photography on "A Serious Man" is seven-time Academy Award nominee Roger Deakins, who is marking his tenth feature collaboration with the Coens. Mary Zophres is the film's costume designer, marking her ninth feature collaboration with the Coens. Jess Gonchor is the production designer, marking his third feature collaboration with the Coens.

"A Serious Man" is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry.

Larry's unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry's chances for tenure at the university.

Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person - a mensch - a serious man?

Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg (whose films include "The Grey Zone") stars as Larry; Fred Melamed ("Suspect") plays Sy; Richard Kind ("The Visitor") portrays Arthur; and Minnesota actors Aaron Wolf, Sari Wagner, and Jessica McManus are cast as Danny, Judith, and Sarah, respectively.

The Coens' comedy thriller "Burn After Reading", also from Focus Features and Working Title Films, world-premiered last month as the opening-night film of the 2008 Venice International Film Festival; made its North American premiere last week at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival; and will be released by Focus nationwide on Friday, September 12th. The film stars George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, and Brad Pitt.
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French actress Mélanie Laurent ("Days of Glory," "Don't Worry, I'm Fine") has apparently joined Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards" reports Monsieur Cinema.

A source close to Laurent indicates the actress has already flown to Los Angeles to work with Tarantino.

Which role isn't specified, though considering her appearance it's believed to be that of the female lead chatacter Shoshanna Dreyfus, a French Jewish girl who flees the Nazis as a teenager and later inherits a Parisian movie theater.
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Susan Sarandon and Richard Dreyfuss have signed onto the comedic thriller "Leaves of Grass" for Nu Image/Millennium Film says The Hollywood Reporter.

Edward Norton plays twin brothers, one an Ivy League philosophy professor, the other a small-time and brilliant marijuana grower. The professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown for a doomed scheme against a local drug lord (Dreyfuss) that unravels his life.

Sarandon plays the brothers' eccentric mother, while Keri Russell is also in negotiations to come on board as a love interest. Lucy DeVito and Steve Earle are also in the cast.

Actor-turned-filmmaker Tim Blake Nelson penned and will direct the $10-14 milllion project in which he plays the best friend to one of the brothers.

Shooting is scheduled to begin September 22nd in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Producer Don Carmody is in negotiations with Sam Raimi to adapt stage play "Evil Dead: the Musical" into a 3D movie reports Screen Daily.

Conceived by George Reinblatt, Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris, the camp stage interpretation of Raimi's cult classic horror trilogy was originally mounted in Toronto and Montreal and has since gone off-Broadway.

Bond and choreographer Hinton Battle will co-direct the 3D film version which they hope to shoot in Toronto next Spring with some of the original cast.

At the moment however serious rights issues still need to be resolved.
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Pander Bear said:
Fringe is the worst new show I've seen in years. its like everything wrong with LOST, plus all the bad writing and acting in NCIS
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I spent most of the time waiting/hoping for mister jackson to bust out his patented triple deke

i was quite disappointed, and as such, i will probably never watch it again
 
OMG! There was a DVD sale in my favorite mall. I went nuts.
I purchased The Neverending Story, Buffalo66, etc etc etc

*squeel*
*plops in front of tv*
 
^Haha. I was gonna buy The Neverending Story the other day too. But it was full price (i.e overpriced) so I put it back.

I love Buffalo 66 too. I haven't seen it in a while either. And Christina Ricci looked amazing in it with that little blue dress.

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<3

Also, I think there's a strange sexiness about Vincent Gallo. He definitely has that ugly/beauty thing going on.
 
alasdairm said:
did anybody catch tina fey as sarah palin on snl? she nailed the impression - accent, mannerisms, everything.

alasdair
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i just did, and wow, it was perfect.

i got the season one of 30 rock and have been rewatching it, and i think thats one of the best shows on tv.
 
Paramount has stepped in to takeover full financing on Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's "Tintin" trilogy after Universal Pictures recoiled at the cost reports Deadline Hollywood Daily.

With the economy hitting rough times, studios are cutting costs wherever possible. Thus when the directors submitted a $130 million budget to produce the trio films based on the Belgian comic last week, Universal balked at the idea.

Now comes word that after a brief scramble, Viacom has just stepped in and offered the bigtime directors full financing on the project which was supposed to start production next month. No word as yet if any of this issue will cause a delay.

It's a gamble in these times. With 30% of the film's gross going to the film's directors, the property will have to make on the order of over $400 million before a studio would see a dime - meaning the property needs to do well both in domestic and global markets.

Jackson's WETA digital workshop has already spent $30 million developing performance-capture technology to make the boy detective, his dog and the rest of his motley crew come alive.

Internationally the two dozen or so graphic novels have been widely known, acclaimed and popular for many decades. In the US however they remain barely known works which could put a serious question about the film's domestic possibilities.

Yet with the dream duo of Spielberg and Jackson, acclaimed scribe Steven Moffat adapting the script, and Herge's work as the basis - the film already has more going for it than 98% of comic adaptations and pretty much all the 'mo-cap' films to have come out of Hollywood so far.

Still the timing is awkward as the DreamWorks-Reliance deal has finally come through, allowing Spielberg's Dreamworks company to sever ties with Paramount and become is own entity with a likely distribution deal through Universal.
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Johnny Depp himself was on hand at the Walt Disney Showcase in Hollywood and revealed not one but two new roles for himself.

First up he confirmed the rumors that he had signed on to play the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's upcoming adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland".

Mia Wasikowska and Matt Lucas also star in the re-telling of the Lewis Carroll classic which will combinelive-action and motion-capture footage.

Shooting is slated to begin in November for a March 5th 2010 release.
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I watched an episode of St. Elsewhere last night. It was actually the first time I'd seen it, and I was quite impressed. I kinda wrote it off before it even got passed the opening credits.

A quick look on imdb told me that the creators also did Northern Exposure. That explains a lot. :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083483/
 
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