PHOEBE GALLAGHER
1. Clint checks out Stephen Frear’s new film “Lay the Favorite” here, and says “With the recognised route of Verhoeven’s cult classic firmly fixed into the flick’s navigation system, and Rebecca Hall playing a ditzy singer cum Vegas wannabe (evoking memories of a pool splashing, pole cavorting Elizabeth Berkley), it’ll be hard for “Laying the Favorite” – despite the fact it’s based on a bio- to escape the “Showgirls” comparisons. But with its more credible performances and sturdier script, it’s unarguable that Frear’s film definitely embodies a higher IQ than its dancing-girly-in-Vegas predecessor. But not much. In fact, I longed for a crazy pool-hump scene…”
2. “Weeds” star Jennifer Jason Leigh has joined Kristen Wiig’s “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage”.
3. “American Reunion” directors Hayden Schlossberg and Jon Hurwitz will direct the comedy “Cherries”, for Good Universe. “The raunchy spec centers on three dads who come together to stop their daughters from fulfilling their sex pact to lose their virginities on prom night.”
4. The trailer for the re-issued 3D version of “Jurassic Park” is online.
5. The first look at Tom Cruise in “All You Need is Kill” is online.
6. The official synopsis for the “Paddington” movie has been released.
From the producer of HARRY POTTER, a modern take on the iconic and beloved adventures of Paddington bear, translated into 40 languages worldwide.
Adapted from Michael Bond’s beloved books, PADDINGTON tells the story of a polite young bear from Peru with an endearing talent for comic chaos, who arrives in London in search of a home.
Paddington has grown up deep in the Peruvian jungle with his Aunt Lucy who, inspired by a chance encounter with an English explorer, has raised her nephew to cook marmalade, listen to the BBC World Service, and dream of an exciting life in London. When an earthquake destroys their home, Aunt Lucy decides the time has come to smuggle her young nephew on board a boat bound for England, in search of a better life. Trusting of the kindness of strangers, she ties a label round his neck which simply reads ‘Please look after this bear. Thank you.’
Lost and alone at Paddington Station, Paddington soon finds that London is not the welcoming, well-mannered land of his dreams, but a rather busy, bustling metropolis where nobody even notices him. Luckily, he meets the Brown family who feel unable to abandon this homeless young bear to his fate. They name him after the station where they found him and offer him a place to stay while he searches for the only person he knows in London: the explorer who impressed Aunt Lucy years before.
But little do the Browns realize just how much comic mayhem one young bear will bring to their family life, and when this rarest of bears catches the eye of a sinister, seductive taxidermist, it isn’t long before his home – and very existence – is under threat…
Following in the footsteps of E.T., Paddington tells the universal tale of an outsider trying to find his place in the world – and gives it an exuberant comic twist. Like Mr. Bean, Paddington promises to delight and enchant the whole family.
7. NBC has given a full-season order to fire-fighting drama “Chicago Fire”.
8. The cover-art for the “Death Race : Inferno” Blu-ray has been released.
9. Ashley Greene is set to star in “The Satanic”, a ‘Rosemary’s Baby’-type movie. “With the rest of the campus home for the Thanksgiving holiday, Justine and a few of her friends spend the weekend in their college dormitory: studying, relaxing and blissfully unaware of the terror that is about to unfold outside in the cold. Suddenly, confronted by a gang of violent outcasts, Justine’s quiet long weekend becomes one long lesson in survival as her and her classmates are terrorized in increasingly bizarre and brutal ways, leaving it up to her to figure out who her attackers are…and if they can be stopped.”
10. Casting details have emerged for the “Boy Meets World” sequel series.
