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EFX Performance, producers of performance bands worn by superstar athletes, announced the signing of a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. today with the unveiling of a custom ‘‘Green Lantern” EFX bracelet as a nod to the recently released blockbuster.The first series of these specially designed performance bands were given to attendees at the Green Lantern premiere party on June 15, with the official, public rollout to begin Friday, June 17. Future projects, as part of the licensing agreement, will also include custom-designed bands for DC Comics. The Green Lantern wristband is the first of many prospective DC designs; a retro Batman and Superman band are also on the horizon. EFX has also hinted at a special band for the forthcoming ”Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” movie.
Benedict Cumberbatch (“Sherlock Holmes”) is to voice Smaug in “The Hobbit”, while “Tamara Drewe” star Luke Evans is playing Bard the Bowman in the Peter Jackson helmed prequels.
Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin will star in director Jason Reitman’s next film “Labor Day”, a drama about a teenager whose life improves for the better when he meets the mysterious Frank (Brolin). Meanwhile Reitman is doing rewrites on Steve Carell’s “Burt Wonderstone“
The John Travolta starring “Gotti” film has been retitled “Gotti : In the Shadow of My Father“.
Zoe Saldana (“Star Trek”) and Mark Ruffalo (“The Avengers”) will star in the J.J Abrams produced drama “Infinitely Polar Bear“. Akin to “Mr.Mom”, the film will have Ruffalo’s bi-polar father forced out of work, leaving the wife to return to full-time employment and he charged with minding the kids.
Legendary is acquiring the rights to the “Hot Wheels” toy line from Mattel. The shingle plans to turn the “Hot Wheels” brand into a “Fast and Furious”-like movie series.
A new clip from the Dermot Mulroney/Hope Davis flick “The Family Tree” is online. The film opens in LA and New York in August.
Details of Relativity’s “Snow White” film, including descriptions of the sets and so on, are up at Coming Soon
Nia Vardalos will star in a new “American Girl” movie, based on the teen doll and accessories line. Jade Pettyjohn will star in the film; the movie begins filming in Winnipeg in July.
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired the US Rights to David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method” starring Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightley.
“Mr & Mrs Smith” scribe Simon Kinberg is doing a script polish on “Ouija“, a movie based on the board game of the same name.
Relativity Media has closed a deal with Oscar® and DGA-nominee Lasse Hallström to direct their upcoming film ‘‘Safe Haven”, based on the latest novel from best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, announced Relativity’s President of Worldwide Production Tucker Tooley. The film is scheduled to head into production this year.
Set Photos of Brad Pitt filming “World War Z” in Malta are online Ben Affleck will direct “Tell No One“, the story of a man whose wife is murdered.
“Green Lantern” scribe Marc Guggenheim will bring to the screen another comics’ yarn “Nowhere Man“.
Hugh Jackman and Paul Bettany are being lined up for Tom Hoopers’ “Lis Miserables” movie.
Classic Trailer of the Day
Not so classic I guess, and only because it feels like only yesterday Wes Craven’s “Shocker”, a fun but blatant attempt on Craven’s behalf to make another movie villain a straight-up horror icon (didn’t work), was doing it’s thing in the multiplex. Peter Berg was the aptly cast Jock hero of the piece, Michael Murphy his stern cop dad, and future “X-Files” star Mitch Pileggi was the aforementione3d villain, a murderous son-of-a-bitch that’s resurrected post-electric chair. Included a killer track by Megadeth.
