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Trainsaw
04/21/06, 03:12 PM
Hello everyone, here's this week's update. Some cool news going on, plus the summer blockbuster season is getting closer which means one thing....Snakes on a Plane......

News and Rumors:

You can hear samples of the songs on the upcoming "Sounds of Superman" which is a soundtrack to go along with "Superman Returns" here (http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77599)

On May 11th Fox will air a 7 minute preview of "X3: The Last Stand" between 8:30 and 8:37 as part of the finale for That 70's Show

Robert Rodriguez's part of "Grind House" entitled "Project Terror" has officially been shut down, production might start back up again next year but as of right now it's stopped officially. Not sure what is going to happen with "Death Proof" yet but it looks like it will be awhile before "Grind House" is out.

Ian McShane, the guy who says cocksucker all the time on Deadwood, is joining up in "We Are Marshall" also starring Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Fox, the film centers around the Marshall football team's plane crash in the 70's and the towns efforts to cope with it.

Russell Crowe will star in "Tenderness" from the novel by Robert Cormier. Crowe will star as a cop who helps unravel a troubled teen's past.

Shooting for SAW 3 will start on May 1st, Jigsaw and Amanda are returning. The film is going to center around two people Lynn and Jeff. Lynn is a mother in her 30's who is kidnapped by Jigsaw and Jeff is a father who hasn't recovered from his son's death.

"Mamma Mia!" the ABBA-themed musical will premier in 2007, the film is set to feature 22 ABBA themed musical numbers throughout the movie.

Possibly joining Shia LaBeof in the film version of "The Transformers", is Jon Voight who is in talks for Keller who is the U.S. Secretary of State. Michael Clarke Duncan who might play Figueroa, and Josh Duhamel to play Lennox. Bernie Mac might play car salesman Bobby Bolivia. Rachel Taylor to play Rachel. Also possibly starring are Tyrese Gibson and Jon Turturro.

According to Britian's The Daily Express, Angelina Jolie will star in the 3rd Tomb Raider movie. She's also attached to Sin City 2 and Oceans 13. Though its likely she will never overcome her greatest role in Hackers

The whole cast of "Superman Returns" will also be featured on the video game out this summer.

Matt Perry has signed on to star in "Numb" as a man who suffers from depersonalization disorder. After he falls for a woman he puts himself through every treatment imaginable to overcome his disorder.

"Deep in the Heart of Texas" is going to star Eva Longoria, it is a fish out of water story which is about a Beverly Hills girl who is relocated to San Antonio to run a Latin division of an ad agency.

The upcoming movie "Case 39" will star Renee Zellweger who will play a social worker who helps an abused 10-year old girl only to discover that the problems with her parents are not as how they appear.

The next video game to movie seems to be "Driver", Roger Avary will write and direct the movie.

Snoop Dogg is going to star in "Hood of Horror" the best horror movie based in the hood since "Leprechaun in the Hood". The film also starring Ernie Hudson, Danny Trejo, Method Man, Jason Alexander (What?) and Billy Dee Williams, follows urban horror stories of residents in a neighborhood who's actions in their present life determine their afterlife.

Ron Howard is becoming busy and has signed on to direct "The Look of Real" which follows a group of women in the garment industry.

Alien V.S. Predator 2 has a release date of August 10, 2007.

Lindsay Lohan is going to star in Georgia Rule, a dramedy which also stars Jane Fonda and Felicity Hufman. Lohan plays a teen who fights with her parents and is sent to spend the summer with her grandmother in Georgia.

Nicholas Hooper is going to score the upcoming "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoneix" soundtrack.

Chris Kattan, Navi Rawat and James Denton are going to be in "Wanted: Undead or Alive" which follows an army deserter and a cowboy who are on the run after stealing from the local sheriff who are joined up by an Indian woman discover a curse named Geronimo which cause people to become zombies.

Steve Austin has signed on to star in "The Condemned" where he will play a man on death row in a Central American prison. When a wealthy producer purchases him and nine other men to battle to the death for his amusement.

Ed Harris has joined the cast of the Ben Affleck directed "Gone baby Gone" about two P.I.'s searching for an abducted 4-year old in Boston's underworld. Harris will play a cop.

There will be a Scary Movie 5.

The Office will have a 1 hr season finale on May 11th
-thx JoJoFace

John Turturro has joined an untitled dramedy that already has some big names on it including Jack Black, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. not much on the story but is said to be much like "The Squid and the Whale." Turturro will play Kidman's husband.

William H. Macy is joining John Travolta, Tim Allen and Martin Lawrence in "Wild Hogs" where they will play four over the hill suburbanites who buy motorcycles to recapture their youth.

Keifer Sutherland has said that the script for a 24 movie is in development and they're looking at shooting next summer.

Cassandra McGrath, from Wolf Creek, is starring in "When She Gets There", about a young woman who goes on a self discovery journey after her father dies. She meets a 40 Year old man named Michael on the way. Who then goes on to live with him at his orange grove.

Hans Zimmer will be writing the score to the upcoming Simpsons movie

J.J. Abrams is going to produce and direct the 11th Star Trek movie set to be released in 2008, he will co-write the upcoming movie and word is it might be a prequel set in the early days of the original series.

Yet another comic is getting big screen treatment. "Sgt. Rock" a DC comics WW2 series will hit the big screen. John Cox is set to write the upcoming movie but no one is attached to star yet.

It is possible that Julia Roberts will return to Oceans 13 after all, probably not having a huge part but she hasn't ruled out showing up in it. Sacha Baron Cohen might also be in Oceans 13 if Clooney gets his way

The second season of the HBO drama "Rome" has began production. Set for another 10 episode season, it will debut in 2007.

Brendan Fraser is going to star in an update of Journey to the Center of the Earth entitled "Journey 3-D" which is about a scientist who takes his nephew on a trip to Iceland to check into volcanic sensors. In which they get stuck in a cave during a storm and the only way out is through the center of the earth.

Movies out this week 4/21:

SILENT HILL
Radha Mitchell plays a mother, who searches for her sick daughter (Jodelle Ferland) in the haunted, deserted town of Silent Hill.

THE SENTINEL
Michael Douglas plays a blackmailed special agent to the White House, who endeavors to foil a conspiracy to assassinate the U.S. President.

AMERICAN DREAMZ
A satire of American politics and show business which centers on a wildly popular television singing contest called "American Dreamz".

FRIENDS WITH MONEY
Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack and Catherine Keener star as a quartet of west coast life-long friends who have achieved a level of comfort, until unsettling things started to throw their comfortable lives off balance.

all movie summaries from themoviebox.net

DVD News:

DVD's Released this Week:

Hostel
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Moonstruck DE
Breakfast on Pluto
Natural City
The Complete Mr. Arkadin
ThunderCats Season 2 Vol 1
Doogie Howser, M.D. Season 4

Announced DVD Release Dates:

Nanny McPhee: May 9th
Something New: May 16th
Smokey and the Bandit SE: May 30th
Freedomland: May 30th
The Hills Have Eyes: June 20th
Married With Children Season 5: June 20th
Eight Below: June 20th
Leroy and Stich: June 27th
Reno 911 Season 3: July 11th
Grilled: July 11th
Amazing Stories: July 18th
Queer Duck: July 18th
Dallas Season 5: Aug 1st
Hellraiser III: Aug 8th
The Little Mermaid: Oct 3rd

Trailers:

The Lost City (http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/thelostcity/)

Art School Confidential (http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/artschoolconfidential/trailers.html)

Lenoard Cohen: I'm Your Man (http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/leonardcohenimyourman/)

Open Season (http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/open_season/)

Superman Returns (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=trailer&id=1807839024&intl=us)

X3: The Last Stand (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=trailer&id=1808490830&intl=us)

Standing Still (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=trailer&id=1808744469&intl=us)

The Omen (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=trailer&id=1808706892&intl=us)

Review:

Slade saw "Thank You For Smoking" see what he thinks about it here (http://www.absolutepunk.net/journal.php?do=showjournal&j=139#e3382)



Thats it for this week, btw this was my 10,000th post, and probably the 5,000th hour i've spent on here.

sources: themoviebox.net, dvdactive.com, darkhorizons.com, joblo.com, cinemablend.com

PlusDanny
04/21/06, 03:19 PM
Thanks for the entertainment news! I look forward to it as it usually beats my Entertainment Weekly when I finally get back home to read it. Thank You for Smoking is excellent.

UrOwNdISaStR180
04/21/06, 03:24 PM
OH MY GOD! THAT'S STEVE AUSTIN'S MUSIC! STONE COLD! STONE COLD! STONE COLD!

God, I hope JR is the wealthy producer

JOJOFACE
04/21/06, 03:25 PM
You forgot to put that The Office season finale will be super-sized (1 hour long). :)

rainraindown
04/21/06, 03:26 PM
im so incredibly bummed about grindhouse :(

Low Level Owl
04/21/06, 03:35 PM
that superman soundtrack sounds really bad so far.

A picasso blue
04/21/06, 03:36 PM
Transformers is going to kick so much ass. or at least it should.

piaffeprncess98
04/21/06, 03:40 PM
You forgot to put that The Office season finale will be super-sized (1 hour long). :)
Hell yeah! But I think the March 30 date is a typo...Do you know when the finale is?

Tay.
04/21/06, 03:44 PM
7 min preview of X-men 3?!? W0ot!

I haven't been this excited for a movie in a long ass time, but it saddens me too that it's the last one. :(

kirbs84
04/21/06, 03:45 PM
man, that sucks about grind house. I knew they had shut down production for a little while; but I didn't know it was indefinitely. I had heard something about Rodriguez getting a divorce or something. I just read on IMDB about him and Rose McGowan having an affair.











damn, I've become a woman that gossips too much....:rolleyes:

manican sex
04/21/06, 03:46 PM
man all this entertainemnt sounded terrible to me. But i like Ed Harris

unwritten
04/21/06, 03:49 PM
Damn, Rome is really far off. That sucks.

Trainsaw
04/21/06, 03:50 PM
Damn, Rome is really far off. That sucks.
its worth the wait, such a great show

FOBPrettyNPunk
04/21/06, 03:52 PM
News of Scary Movie 5 just made me sad.

xearlynovemberx
04/21/06, 03:54 PM
7 min preview of X-men 3?!? W0ot!

I haven't been this excited for a movie in a long ass time, but it saddens me too that it's the last one. :(

i've read some interviews and it sounds like theres gunna be a 4th

Tay.
04/21/06, 03:56 PM
i've read some interviews and it sounds like theres gunna be a 4th
I've heard of them thinking about doing spin offs of the movie, with Wolverine.. but I didn't hear anything about another X-Men movie.

But, very cool, this is very good news to me.

Trainsaw
04/21/06, 03:57 PM
i've heard of thoughts of a 4th also, they should commit to just three

Tay.
04/21/06, 04:04 PM
I wouldn't mind another one, but I kinda have to agree on the 3 part deal, after a while it'll just seem to drag out. They should just go out with a bang, like I think this one is gonna make n' let it be.

I said the same thing about Spiderman, but from the sounds of, sounds like it's gonna be a lot more than just 3 parts.

A picasso blue
04/21/06, 04:28 PM
I've heard of them thinking about doing spin offs of the movie, with Wolverine.. but I didn't hear anything about another X-Men movie.

But, very cool, this is very good news to me.
yeah theres defintiely going to be a Wolverine movie


dunno why. they already explained his backstory (albeit briefly)

xearlynovemberx
04/21/06, 04:39 PM
I've heard of them thinking about doing spin offs of the movie, with Wolverine.. but I didn't hear anything about another X-Men movie.

But, very cool, this is very good news to me.

theres also going to be a magneto spinoff

Tay.
04/21/06, 05:08 PM
Wow, there actually gonna be an X-Men 4 n' maybe even more. And there's a chance Hugh Jackman will not be returning as Wolverine after X-Men 3.

http://www.themovieblog.com/archives/2006/01/fox_confirms_xmen_4.html

sammy142
04/21/06, 05:13 PM
is gambit gonna be in X3????? cuz i'll be pissed if he isn't.

Tay.
04/21/06, 05:16 PM
is gambit gonna be in X3????? cuz i'll be pissed if he isn't.

Nope, no Gambit. That kinda pissed me off as well, there was so much talk that he was gonna be in it, but ended up just being rumors.

sweetforever
04/21/06, 06:18 PM
is there any other trailers for Superman Returns besides the teaser trailer?

a 7 minute preview of X3 made me happy, but then I saw Scary Movie 5 and I got sad:(

FatJordan
04/21/06, 06:42 PM
Will someone please make an "AbsolueHackers" banner.

Seriously...Johnny Lee Miller is GOD.

kevin111
04/21/06, 07:19 PM
I just want to say I really like reading these. good addition to the site.

BizzyD127
04/21/06, 07:24 PM
Wait Transformers Moive as in Optimus Prime Transformers?????? This should be interesting if its wat i think

SummerxStars
04/21/06, 07:26 PM
William H. Macy is joining John Travolta, Tim Allen and Martin Lawrence in "Wild Hogs" where they will play four over the hill suburbanites who buy motorcycles to recapture their youth...

WHAT???

unwritten
04/21/06, 07:47 PM
its worth the wait, such a great show

Oh definitely, I love it.

Imallout007
04/21/06, 08:02 PM
ooo saw 3 and 24:the movie...also looking forward to what driver is gonna look like cause it is a kick ass game

Michael Ryan
04/21/06, 08:15 PM
hugh jackman is definitly going to be wolverine, its already announced, and im sure that means he signed a contract already.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/

Tay.
04/21/06, 08:46 PM
hugh jackman is definitly going to be wolverine, its already announced, and im sure that means he signed a contract already.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/

I was talking about the X-Men movies, not the Wolverine movie.

He's only contracted up to X-Men 3 n' he's not sure if he wants to come back in the next X-Men movies.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/articles/1065.asp

fire on my lips
04/21/06, 08:54 PM
Robert Rodriguez's part of "Grind House" entitled "Project Terror" has officially been shut down, production might start back up again next year but as of right now it's stopped officially. Not sure what is going to happen with "Death Proof" yet but it looks like it will be awhile before "Grind House" is out.

Is this because he's redonk over budget?

Poultrylicious
04/21/06, 09:03 PM
I saw Jigsaw's cousin on Smallville last night

Michael Ryan
04/22/06, 02:11 AM
i think the fact that there is going to be a wolverine movie is a good enough clue that there wont be another xmen movie for a long long time.

Spiffysthebest
04/22/06, 09:55 AM
Fuck the movie industry. I'll probably get alot of shit for this post, but most movies that come out are sequels or remakes (meaning either remakes of a previous movie, or of a videogame or sitcom or whatever), or the shittiest things ever. I can't even start with books into movies, cause there are some awesome movies made from books where you'd have no idea. There are a bunch of movies coming out I do want to see, and I'm glad some movies are picking up content-wise. I really do want to see V For Vendetta, and X3, and Thank You For Smoking, and Brick...but all these upcoming movies sound retarded.

Who wants to see Ocean's 13? Or Saw 3? Last year Saw 2 sold just cause it was the only horror movie out around Halloween. Alien vs Predator 2? Scary Movie 5? Are you serious? Seems like there's just no more original ideas. And yeah, I know you could say the same thing about music. I'd be weary of a band called Mxpx 2.

zizou1790
04/22/06, 10:48 AM
hmmm nothing too intresting this week

MeltawayMints
04/22/06, 01:41 PM
who are all these characters that they are talking about in transformers? are they people from the new (crappy) shows? or are they just as of yet unexplained?

12:46AM
04/22/06, 02:24 PM
"Brendan Fraser is going to star in an update of Journey to the Center of the Earth entitled "Journey 3-D" which is about a scientist who takes his nephew on a trip to Iceland to check into volcanic sensors. In which they get stuck in a cave during a storm and the only way out is through the center of the earth."

i smell an academy award!

badstar
04/22/06, 08:25 PM
THE RETURN OF CHRIS KATTAN!!! hell yeah! I hope it is as good as CORKEY ROMANO!!!! I seriously love that movie as stupid as it is haha hell yeah!