Compiled by the staff at Moviehole, Quick News is an assortment of news bites and other miscellaneous items, linkage and plugs that we just couldn’t find either time or space (or both) to place as individual news items. If you’d like something included in this section email us or tweet us!
“Scream 4” is about to skulk cinemas; here’s Brian’s review, Clint’s review and Michael’s review.
Sounds like Charlie Sheen’s going to be returning to “Two-and-a-half Men“. Surprised? me neither. (More…)
Michael Mann looks to produce and direct an adventure story by Paul Haggis called “Gold“. The film, “a contemporary Treasure of the Sierra Madre-type treasure hunt about prospectors and speculators involved in the chase for gold”, could begin production later this year. (More…)
“Pirates of the Caribbean : On Stranger Tides” will premiere at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
Speaking of his upcoming “Child’s Play” remake, ‘Chucky’ creator Don Mancini says, “We are going to reinvent the franchise : Chucky will be scary again. If you look at the first film you don’t see a lot of the doll and it will be the same here : Chucky will be kept in the shadows for a lot of the movie. This is going to be a very straightforward horror film which follows the conception of Chucky’s conception and how he ends up with a small family as a birthday present. It’s about the perversion of childhood fantasies : Chucky is the monster in the closet in this movie…” (More…)
“Beastly“, starring Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens, will be going direct-to-DVD in Australia. The film was originally supposed to open theatrically in March.
David Hayter (“Street Kings”) is adapting the sci-fi series “Dragonriders of Pern” for the big screen. The first in a series of 22 (!) novels,”Pern” “focuses on an elite group of warriors who take to the skies on the backs of giant, fire-breathing dragons with telepathic powers, as they to save the exotic planet of Pern from a terrifying airborne menace” (More…)
“Battlestar Galactica” alum Mark Verheiden has been tapped to co-write with Akiva Goldsman the NBC TV series “The Dark Tower“. The series is said to bridge the events between the first “Dark Tower” movie (starring Javier Bardem) and the second. (More…)
Paramount has optioned Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Martin Chronicles“, and is now on the hunt for a writer to pen a big-screen take. (More…)
Sean Penn and Christian Bale are circling the Zack and Deborah Snyder flick “The Last Photograph“. The film, which is about to move from Warner Bros to Dark Castle, would star Bale as a “war correspondent who witnesses and is the only survivor of an attack on a group of Americans. Penn is circling the role of a retired ex-special ops soldier who comes to the scene determined to free a family member who has been kidnapped. The journalist agrees to help identify the kidnappers and travel the rough terrain to find them, in exchange for the story. The road brings them in confrontation with tribal regions of Afghanistan, and none of the diplomats will help.” (More…)
It’s official, Tom Hanks is set to star in the Tom Twyker-written Wachowski Brothers-directed “Cloud Atlas“.(More…)
A clip from “Homeland“, the new HBO thriller series starring Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin, has surfaced
James McAvoy is in talks to star in “Welcome to the Punch“, a London-set thriller said to be in the vein of Mike Figgis’ “Internal Affairs” (More…)
Kevin Durand (“Lost”) has joined the cast of David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis“, joining Robert Pattinson, Samantha Morton, Paul Gimatti and Juliette Binoche (More…)
Blake Lively is the frontrunner to nab the female lead in Oliver Stone’s “Savages“. The “Gossip Girl” actress will lose the role of Glinda the Good Witch in “Oz : The Great and Powerful” if she does decide to joint he cast of Stone’s pot-grower thriller.(More…)
Alec Baldwin joins Woody Allen‘s next flick, a project shooting in Rome in September (More…)
A remake of the ’80s horror/thriller “The Seventh Sign“, which starred Demi Moore as a woman whose unborn child is being sought out by the devil, is said to be in the works (More…)
There will be a sequel to “X-Men : First Class“, says director Matthew Vaughn. “First Class is similar to Batman Begins, where you have the fun of introducing the characters and getting to know them, but that takes time,” says Vaughn. “But with the second one you can just get on with it and have a rollicking good time”. (More…)
Walter Hill (“48 Hours”, “Red Heat”) will direct Sylvester Stallone’s “Headshot“. The film’s leading man tells Aint it Cool News, “It’s official. We’ve got Walter Hill on board so would love for you to let the world know.
We’ve been on the same track since The Driver, then 48 Hrs didn’t happen so here we are almost 35 years later, I’m finally driving with Walter Hill.”
