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UPDATE 9-8-2008
Philip Seymore Hoffman has said,
“Some friend of mine told me he read that. First I heard of it.”
Source: Get the Big Picture
9-7-2008
“I was with [a Warner Bros.] executive and I said, ‘Are we going to make [a sequel to The Dark Knight]?’ They said yeah. I said, ‘How the hell are we going [...]

UPDATE 9-8-2008
AICN quickly debunked this report. Marvel claims that they never entertained Smith as a choice, never mind had a conversation or approached Smith for the role.
9-7-2008
One of the more unlikely casting rumors for The First Avenger: Captain America has now surfaced, with the idea that Will Smith will be taking on the role of [...]

So according to Screen Daily News, Don Carmody and his business partners are in negotiations with director Sam Raimi to bring to the screen the musical version of the former horror meister’s Evil Dead films, Evil Dead: The Musical.
The articles says the musical was conceived by
George Reinblatt, Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris, the [...]

So I first saw this on Geeks of Doom last night and now other sites are reporting it. Actor and Screenwriter Harold Ramis spoke with the Chicago Tribune via email and here is what he said regarding the last week confirmation of Ghostbusters 3.
“yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one [...]

In the first major buy of the Toronto International Film Festival, Fox Searchlight won an intense all-night bidding war for Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler,” which days before had won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Fest. Searchlight acquired U.S. rights for about $4 million.
Variety reports that,
After the packed screening of “The Wrestler” at Toronto’s [...]

An article over at Variety looks at the budget for James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar. The movie started filming last April and won’t be released until December 2009, but it was originally set to be released next summer.
Variety say that the budget is between $250-$300 million, which is more then what Sony gave for [...]

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed a sequel to Spike Lee’s Inside Man is moving forward at Universal, with Terry George in negotiations to write the screenplay and Lee coming back to direct the Brian Grazer-produced pic.
Inside Man 2 will pick up on the characters and dynamic but not the storyline of the original. The first [...]

I know its Monday but Friday isn’t that far away and since we forgot to post this last Friday and we reviewed it on the last podcast we thought we should post it today. So Happy Friday! early!
Soylent Green
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Conners, Joseph Cotten and Brock Peters
Genre: [...]

Stand Up To Cancer auctioned off an appearance in Spider-Man 4, a few weeks ago, just before the film was announced as going forward with both Sam Raimi and Tobey McGuire attached. Now, the same organization is auctioning off a role in Jon Favreau and Marvel Studio’s upcoming sequel Iron Man 2.
As with the Spider-Man [...]

Arguably one of the best movies of 2007, No Country For Old Men is making headlines again with one of its stars, Tommy Lee Jones, suing Paramount over No Country for Old Men for $10 million that is owed to him. The actor states that the studio failed to pay him according to his stated [...]