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Quick News – Hunger Games, MTV Movie Awards, Potter, Polly Pocket, Zoolander 2

    NEWS
  • Jason Sudeikis (“Hall Pass”) is presenting this year’s MTV Movie Awards. Here’s a promo :

  • Cinema Nova in Melbourne will be screening “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” from July 13 . This much-anticipated motion picture event will screen in incredible digital 3D as well as 2D. Tickets are now on sale, including for a special midnight screening on Wednesday July 13th. Group bookings available! (More…)
  • Sony Pictures are interested in Kathryn Bigelow’s untitled action-thriller about the Navy Seal Team 6 gang chasing Bin Laden (More…)
  • That “Star Trek 2” script that some say they’ve already read? It’s merely a 70-page treatment. (More…)
  • The trailer for the new Australian comedy “Boronia Boys”, starring ex-“Seachange” star Cameron Nugent, is online (More…)
  • Is 3D on the way out? The low returns on “Pirates of the Caribbean : On Stranger Tides” is being attributed to the cinemagoers’ waning interest in seeing a film in 3D (More…)
  • Chris Meloni is leaving “Law & Order” after 12 seasons (More…)
  • A round-up of some of those [rave] reviews “X-Men : First Class” is getting (More…)
  • Ridley and Tony Scott have joined forces with “Terminator” producer Gale Ann Hurd to do a new ‘Pirate’ series for Fox called “Port Royal” (More…)
  • Toby Jones (“Captain America”) is playing the host of “The Hunger Games” (More…)
  • Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Taraji Henson, Romany Malco, Gary Owen and Gabrielle Union will star opposite Kevin Hart in the film adaptation of the book (Act Like a Lady) “Think Like  A Man” (More…)

  • “Minority Report” scribe Scott Frank is writing a “Houdini” biopic for director Francis Lawrence (“Water for Elephants”) (More…)
  • Cinema exhibitors are failing to swap out 3D filters when showing 2D movies – out of pure laziness, apparently (More…)
  • Showtime has renewed “Nurse Jackie” and “The Borgias” but canceled, and rather surprisingly if I do say so myself, “United States of Tara”
  • Taylor Swift and Avril Lavigne are said to be the frontrunners to headline a feature film based on the toy line ‘Polly Pocket’ (More…)
  • Stephen Dorff will replace Matt Dillon in “Boot Tracks”, based on the book of the same name about an ex-con roped into killing a man as a favour to the bigwig that protected him while he was on the inside (More…)
  • Cary Fukunaga (”Jane Eyre”) will direct a civil war-centric heist film called “No Guts, No Cuts, No Glory” based on a blacklist script by Chase Palmer about a spy and 20 Union soldiers in disguise who board a train in Georgia in order to pull off a heist (More…)
  • Teresa Palmer is very interested in playing Number Six again if an “I Am Number Four” sequel is greenlit. ”It just depends on if it makes money on DVD sales and the accumulation of people’s interest. If there’s enough, then I’m sure there will be a sequel. But either way, I had such an amazing time making this movie. And if it’s just the one, I’m so blessed to be a part of it.” (More…)
  • Just like that other Will Ferrell sequel, “Zoolander 2” has stalled at Paramount (More…)
  • “Wanted” producer Jim Lemley says although there’s nothing doing with it at the moment a sequel to the 2008 hit is still very possible. “We want to try and continue that story because it’s a very interesting one for us.” Lemley says they’d like Angelina Jolie back but will still push forward if she knocks the movie back. (More…)

 

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    ClINT’S PICK OF THE DAY
    “The Philadelphia Experiment” (1984)
    Rich Cline said :
    “silly classic sci-fi”



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