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Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 26th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: THE AVENGERS at Comic-Con, Brad Pitt in WORLD WAR Z, Jim Carrey, Katherine Heigl, Guillermo del Toro, Tim Burton

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web. Comic-Con 2010 is underway in San Diego leading the way with most headlines across the web this week. Amongst all the preview footage, panels, exhibitions and guest appearances, only a handful of casting news has trickled out of the convention. Without a doubt the biggest casting news out of Comic-Con came when the cast of The...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 7th, 2010 | View Comments

Good one, Hollywood: I nearly believed you when you said you lost money on HARRY POTTER 5

Whenever I explain to people that big movie studios (like Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, etc.) don’t make much annual profit (relatively speaking), I’m usually met with blank stares or open incredulity. “But Tentpole: The Movie: Sequel #3 made $xxx million!” they say; “of course they make billions of dollars every year!” That’s not actually the case. Why? Because,...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 10th, 2010 | View Comments

“I don’t read the script; the script reads me:” LES GROSSMAN movie officially announced

Sure, Tom Cruise already mentioned this a few days ago, but I stopped paying attention to him some time around the couch-jumping incident several years ago. So I waited for official confirmation from on high and, lo and behold, it sprang from the ground this morning while nobody was looking: Paramount has confirmed a feature-length spin-off for Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman character, made infamous as the...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 10th, 2010 | View Comments

Studios seem suspiciously certain that INCEPTION will dominate the box office in July

Inception is due to hit US screens on the 16th of July. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was slated to appear on the same date, but it’s since been moved forward a couple of days to the 14th, to get a head-start on Christopher Nolan’s latest mind-bender. Dinner For Schmucks, originally slated for a 23 July release, has been pushed back a week because “the July 30 frame is a less competitive...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 25th, 2010 | View Comments

3D ticket prices may have dented SHREK 4′s opening weekend

Paramount must be blushing with embarrassment right now. Shrek Forever After recently debuted in the US, pulling a $70m opening weekend (by no means to be sneezed at); 61% of that gross came from 3D and Imax 3D screenings. It appears about half of the audience chose to see Shrek 4 in 2D; why fork out more cash when it’s just Shrek 4 and not a “big deal” film like Avatar? Paramount was...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Apr 28th, 2010 | View Comments

THE RING 3…D… No joke.

I wish I could have been at the meeting where the genius being Paramount concluded: (A) Films in 3D are so fucking hot right now (B) People really dug Japanese horror last decade (C) We own the rights to The Ring, and ‘part three’ would be the next installment… OMG! Wait! (D) We can call it The Ring 3D! The marketing practically takes care of itself! (E) Green lit. The trend of every...
Posted by JonBoy on Feb 8th, 2010 | View Comments

THE LAST AIRBENDER TV spot suggests a return to form for M.Night Shyamalan

It’s that time of year folks.  A time when a bunch of guys can get together, drink a shitload of beer, eat a shitload of pretzels and shout at their plasma televisions.  That’s right, we’ve just lived to see the passing of another American Super Bowl. Luckily for movie buffs — and for anyone in the world not excited about American football — the Super Bowl isn’t just about the match...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jan 20th, 2010 | View Comments

Paranormal Activity sequel aims for cheap and nasty with a budget

Part of the charm that made Paranormal Activity so affective on audiences late last year was the cheap and nasty quality of the production. Critics were quick to sight The Blair With Project as an obvious comparison, and the shoestring budget film-that-could met expectations by making a killing at the box office– thanks mostly to strong word or mouth backed by some neatly planned viral marketing...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 17th, 2009 | View Comments

IRON MAN 2 trailer is everything you expected

I don’t think that anyone can honestly say they are disappointed with the recently released Iron Man 2 trailer. Those who were keen to lavish it with glorious praise and love it to pieces are doing just that as it delivers glimpses of War Machine and Whiplash in full swing. Those who are still ragging over the first movie and were not excited about an Iron Man 2 film (let alone a trailer) are equally...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 12th, 2009 | View Comments

IRON MAN 2 just keeps on coming

While they have you waiting patiently for the trailer Marvel and paramount Pictures keep tossing enough images and posters to keep the rabid fanbase on hold juuuuust long enough. There’s only so much you can say about these kind of posters. I mean, they really are stock-standard – the teasing single number ’2′, and the big-time lead actor (in this case, Mickey Rorke) standing in-pose as...
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