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!
“Hot Fuzz” star Rafe Spall has joined the cast of Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel “Prometheus“. No word on who funnyman Spall – who also appeared in “Shaun of the Dead” – is playing, only that it’s supposedly a “big role”.
Simon Pegg compares the upcoming “Mission : Impossible – Ghost Protocol” to the “Spider-Man” reboot saying, “It’s a rebirth for the series. In the same way with what they’ve done with Spider-Man. I feel like it’s a reinvigoration of this particular story. It was a series when it was on TV, so it’s a story that can have so many iterations. There are so many adventures to get into with this team of impossible mission fighters.”
There’s some new stills and a new poster for the long-delayed “Dylan Dog : Dead of Night” online.
Newly anointed “Iron Man 3” writer/director Shane Black says to expect a film more along the lines of a Tom Clancy thriller. The film won’t feature cameos from any of Marvel’s other film properties.
It was reported last week that musician Trent Reznor would be not only scoring “Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter” but co-starring in it – as the chap that puts the bite on Abe’s mamma. Reznor confirmed the casting today, but stresses it’s far from a starring role. “I am friends with Timur Bekmambetov. He’s an interesting and very talented director that caught my attention with his film Night Watch (check it out if you haven’t). He asked me if I was interested in scoring his new film he’s doing with Tim Burton entitled “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter“. I was familiar with the book, read the script and it felt like an interesting challenge as a composer – very different from the Fincher films. While discussing the film with Timur he started gently pressing me to play a small role in the film. The idea was a cameo-esque role that would be kept under wraps and be a surprise around opening night. I was considering this when I awoke a few days ago to the news I am now STARRING in ALVH (which is obviously not true). Fuck. We both apparently forgot the internet existed AND THERE ARE NO SURPRISES anymore. So… do me a favor and act surprised, OK?”
Guillermo Del Toro was set to begin filming “At the Mountains of Madness” in June but apparently another project the filmmaker is interested in, “Pacific Rim“, may have hindered those plans.
A motion poster and a batch of new stills from the “Conan the Barbarian” remake are online
Sony is said to have offered near a million bucks to acquire “Pan“, which has Channing Tatum attached to play the boy who never grew up. Speaking of script pick-ups, “Terminator” producer Gale Ann Hurd has acquired “The Nameless”, penned by Chris Bullett, which is set at a top-secret facility operated by the Federal Witness Protection Program.
The international poster for “Scream 4” features the core cast members doing the same line-up-and-stare dance they did in the original trilogy’s posters.
Details have emerged of the upcoming “Lord of the Rings : Extended Edition” trilogy Blu-ray release. In addition, covers for the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray release of “The Green Hornet” are online.
Robert De Niro says the film he and Martin Scorsese plan to reunite for, gangster yarn “The Irishman“, is still very much on the cards. “I’m hoping it happens. We’re really working towards making it happen… Yeah, I mean I’d never say it if I never fully [meant it, if we weren’t] committed and stuff”, De Niro said at a press conference for “Limitless”. The actor also confirmed Al Pacino and Joe Pesci’s involvement in the film. “..its a movie based on a book called, ‘I Heard You Paint Houses,’ its about a guy who says, and I believe [the author of] the book—he’s passed away now—but he confessed that he killed [Jimmy] Hoffa and also Joe Gallo. And so I’m gonna play that character. Joe Pesci is gonna be in it, Al Pacino is gonna be in it and Marty’s going to direct it.”
Hank Azaria (“The Simpsons”) is set to star in NBC’s new comedy pilot “Free Agents“. The show, based on the UK series of the same name, ”explores the attraction between two quirky PR executives working together – Alex (Azaria) and Helen – who both are on the rebound, Alex from a divorce and Helen from the loss of a fiance”.
Former “Stargate Universe” star Robert Carlyle will play Rumpelstiltskin in ABC’s “Once Upon a Time“, about ”a woman drawn into a town where the magic and mystery of fairy tales may be real and hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her troubled past”. Rumpelstiltskin teams up with Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming to take on the Evil Queen.
“Tropic Thunder” co-star Brandon T.Jackson will star opposite Minnie Driver in the new CBS series “Hail Mary“. The Jeff ‘Cry Wolf’ Wadlow project ”centers on Mary Beth Baker (Driver), a suburban single mom in Atlanta who, after her teen son gets killed, teams up with her son’s best friend KZ (Jackson), a fast-talking con artist from the streets, to solve her son’s murder and other crimes.”
There’s a multitude of new pics from “Battle : Los Angeles” online – and stay tuned over the coming days for our exclusive interviews with the cast of the blockbuster.
Fans attending on Friday, April 1st, the first day of WonderCon, will be treated to a special “Green Lantern” talent signing and panel featuring stars of the upcoming Warner Bros. Pictures feature film: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and Peter Sarsgaard. The signing begins at 4 p.m., followed by the panel discussion at 5.
Ronan Keating and Laura Michelle Kelley will star in Mark Lamprell’s “Goddess“. When young mum Elspeth Dickens (Laura Michelle Kelly) mother of naughty twin boys, installs a webcam in her kitchen,
her funny sink‐songs make her a cyber‐sensation. While her husband James (Ronan Keating) is off saving the world’s whales, Elspeth is offered the chance of a lifetime. But when forced to choose between fame and family, the newly anointed internet goddess almost loses it all.
Finally, Focus features has debuted a new featurette from “Jane Eyre” online. The featurette inlcudes behind the scenes footage from filming and interviews with Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench and director Cary Fukunaga :
