Friday, November 20

• Zack Snyder's Guardians of Ga'Hoole Cast Coming Together

  

  Zack Snyder is a busy director these days, working on both the fantasy-action movie Sucker Punch and the 3-D animated Guardians of Ga'Hoole, based on the children's novel series written by Kathryn Lasky, simultaneously.

  Variety reports that Guardians is lining up an impressive cast of voices, including Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving, and David Wenham. They're leading an equally strong group of supporting voice actors, such as Helen Mirren, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Emilie de Ravin, Ryan Kwanten, Emily Barclay, Miriam Margolyes and Jay Laga'aia.

  Guardians tells the story of how an owl named Soren (Sturgess), who is entranced with his father's stories about the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, protected owlkind. Once Soren is kidnapped, he gathers together a group to escape and join the Guardians.

  
  
  Next Showing: Guardians of Ga'Hoole is scheduled to open September 24, 2010

  Posted 11/20/2009 by Ryan

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Tuesday, August 18

• Emily Browning Explains Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch

  

  Sucker Punch, the upcoming all-female action movie about a girl trying to escape lobotomy through an alternate reality, has been described by director Zack Snyder as "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns," which does little to clear up the movie's surreal plot. Emily Browning, who replaced Amanda Seyfried when she departed the movie, gave some details that explained the movie in more detail:

  The film is a dream in a way. It operates on three levels. A reality, then a sub-reality where the psych ward worldshifts into this strange high-roller's brothel. Then there's this dream world where it goes into these crazy action sequences that are totally removed from time and space.

  A movie with three realities? One that's removed from time and space? Now it makes sense. Browning also mentioned that co-star Abbie Cornish "becomes a crazy killing machine and she's decked out in a really cool outfit." Couple that with High School Musical's Vanessa Hudgens kicking and punching her way through the movie and Sucker Punch is starting to shape up pretty well.

  
  
  Next Showing: Sucker Punch is scheduled to open March 25, 2011

  Posted 08/18/2009 by Ryan

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Wednesday, April 22

• Sucker Punch Cast Changes

  When the original cast of ZackSnyder's Watchmen follow-up Sucker Punch was announced it looked like a powerhouse cast of young starlets, from indie darlings Evan Rachel Wood and Abbie Cornish, to teenage movie stars Emma Stone and Vanessa Hudgens, all surrounding lead Amanda Seyfried, who was fresh from the box office success of Mamma Mia. Then things changed. First Seyfried departed and was replaced by The Uninvited's Emily Browning, and now Stone and Wood have left due to "scheduling conflicts" and have been replaced by Dragonball Evolution's Jamie Chung and Jena Malone (Pride & Prejudice). Still a talented cast, just not quite the same box office cache.

  Malone will play Cornish's younger sister, while Chung will play a big-hearted country girl. Both characters will still be inmates in a mental institution in the 1950's in what is described as a "all-female action fantasy."

  Sucker Punch opens October 8, 2010.

  
  

  Posted 04/22/2009 by Ryan

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Wednesday, April 1

• Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch Finds a New Babyface

  A week ago, Amanda Seyfried was forced to drop out of Suckerpunch, Zack Snyder's follow-up to Watchmen, due to her commitment to HBO's Big Love. Emily Browning (The Uninvited) has taken over the role of Babyface, the focal point of the surreal and violent prison movie.

  Browning will join a cast of young Hollywood starlets that includes Vanessa Hudgens, Emma Stone, Evan Rachel Wood, and fellow Aussie Abbie Cornish when filming commences in September.

  
  

  Posted 04/01/2009 by Ryan

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