Saturday, October 17

• Amber Heard Talks Zombieland, The Stepfather, and The Rum Diary

  X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner admitted to Empire that Wolverine 2 is the "furthest along of all the X-Men projects on the boil." The sequel will be an adaptation of a Wolverine solo comic book series from the 1980s that follows Wolverine as he travels to meet an old flame in Japan.

  It's actually the story we wanted to use for the first Wolverine film, but [Fox head honcho] Tom Rothman preferred to set the character up with an origin story first. This movie will really focus on the relationship between Wolverine and Mariko, the daughter of a Japanese crime lord, and what happens to him in Japan. We're very fortunate to have a story mostly outlined for us [from the comic book arc co-written by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller].

  Shuler Donner believes the movie will also be shot in Japan and is hoping "to have the Japanese Fox executives involved in helping and counseling us" in order to maintain authenticity. She says even screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie is "in Japan in his head." But what will really impress fans is the fighting, with Wolverine taking on both the Yakuza and a ninja clan called the Hand.

  What's cool about this part of the saga is that Wolverine will be fighting in a different style to what we've seen before. Mariko's father has this stick-like weapon, so Wolverine will have to fight against that. There'll be samurai, ninja, katana blades, different forms of martial arts — mano-a-mano, extreme fighting. We're going to come up with a new style of fighting. It's going to be awesome.

  
  
  Next Showing: The Stepfather is currently in theaters

  Posted 10/17/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Aaron Eckhart | Johnny Depp | Amber Heard | Zombieland | The Rum Diary | The Stepfather

Wednesday, August 26

• New Zombieland International Trailer and Clip

  With a new release date that moves Zombieland a week closer to world domination, two new videos for the zombie comedy have been released. The first is the international trailer, which explores the movie's "47 Rules for Surviving Zombieland" that keep the odd partnership of Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson alive in the zombie apocalypse.

  The second video shows Eisenberg meeting the girl of his dreams (Amber Heard), which doesn't go down quite as well as Eisenberg would like.

  
  

  Posted 08/26/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Woody Harrelson | Jesse Eisenberg | Amber Heard | Zombieland

Thursday, February 12

• Aaron Eckhart and Richard Jenkins Join The Rum Diary

  The Rum Diary, the adaptation of a Hunter S. Thompson novel about a journalist living in 1950's Puerto Rico is adding some big names to its cast list. Johnny Depp, who is also producing and has been trying to get the movie adaptation produced since 2003, has long been announced as the lead, with Amber Heard (Pineapple Express) being cast as Depp's love interest just this week. Now both Aaron Eckhart and Richard Jenkins are joining the production.

  Jenkins, a current Oscar nominee for The Visitor, will play the man who runs the newspaper Depp works for, and Eckhart will play a wealthy landowner who becomes involved in a love triangle with Depp and Heard.

  The Rum Diary starts production in Puerto Rico March 30.

  
  

  Posted 02/12/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Aaron Eckhart | Johnny Depp | Richard Jenkins | Amber Heard | Hunter S. Thompson | The Rum Diary | The Visitor

Tuesday, July 17

• Weinsteins dump Mandy, Germans snag her on the rebound

  Did you know that All the Boys Love Mandy Lane was opening this Friday? Neither did we. That's because the studio releasing Mandy, The Weinstein Co., did almost zero promotion for the horror flick -- no trailers, no posters, no Captivity-esque faux controversy, nada. In the parlance of Hollywood, the practice is known as "dumping" a film.

  Thankfully, a Teutonic knight in shining armor arrived at the eleventh hour to spare Mandy from her humiliating fate. Variety reports that the German company Senator Entertainment has purchased the film and rescued it from its impending dumpage, pushing its release to early 2008. Looks like there'll be a happy ending for Mandy after all. God bless those wacky Germans.

  
  

  Posted 07/17/2007 by reelz

  Related: Amber Heard | All the Boys Love Mandy Lane