Entertainment Round-Up

contributors: rest_easy, Stayillogical, and Thomas Balkcom
Industry News and Rumors:

Movies

01) Here’s the logo for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie.

02) Transformers 3 will return for a couple more weeks in theaters.

03) Here’s a slightly new poster for A Dangerous Method.

04) Sean Penn recently made some interesting comments concerning his character in The Tree of Life.

05) Here are three pictures from the upcoming film Contagion.

06) Check out two red band clips from 50/50. I’m very excited for this film.

07) Here is a plot synopsis for Pixar’s Brave.

08) Here are three new images from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

09) Kevin Smith’s Hit Somebody gets an update.

10) Here’s the first official poster for My Week With Marilyn.

11) Chaz Palminteri has joined Ben Foster, John Travolta, Al Pacino, and Kelly Preston in the biopic Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father.

12) Cloud Atlas is set to start shooting in mid-September.
- Jim Sturgess is the latest actor to join the project.

13) Check out this set picture of Megan Fox, Chris O’Dowd, and Jason Segal on the set of This is Forty, an Apatow spin-off of Knocked Up.

14) Here is a Shepard Fairey designed poster for Luc Besson’s The Lady.

15) Roger Ebert’s memoir will be released on September 13, 2011.

16) Dan Aykroyd gives some details on Ghostbusters 3, which it seems will move forward with or without Bill Murray.

17) Djimon Hounsou joins Bradley Cooper on the cast of Paradise Lost as an angel of death.

18) A sequel for The Last Exorcism is in the works.

19) Here is a first look at Monsters University.

Television

01) Here’s a trailer for the passed-up Locke and Key.

02) NBC has purchased the rights to Jerry Bruckheimer produced wrestling drama set in the 1980s.

03) Source Code writer Ben Ripley has signed on to develop a contemporary remake of Flatliners.

04) USA renews White Collar for another season.

05) A spokesperson for the Hollywood Walk of Fame says that reality stars are banned for consideration. Let’s hope that sticks.

06) R.I.P. Treme actor Michael Showers.

07) Tonight’s MTV Video Music Awards will have no host.

Trailers

01) Melancholia - http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/watch_kirsten_dunst_braces_for_the_ end_of_the_world_in_u.k._melancholi a_tra/
02) In Time - http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/watch_immortality_is_a_bummer_in_ne w_international_trailer_for_in_time /
03) George Harrison: Living in the Material World - http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/watch_trailer_for_martin_scorseses_ doc_george_harrison_living_in_the_m ateri/
04) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (International) - http://www.slashfilm.com/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-international-trailer-posters/
05) Drive (International) - http://www.slashfilm.com/international-nsfw-drive-trailer-footage/
06) Tyrannosaur - http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/watch_harrowing_first_trailer_unvei led_for_paddy_considines_tyrannosau r/
07) The Rum Diary - http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/watch_johnny_depp_once_again_goes_i nto_the_mind_of_hunter_s._thompson_ in_th/
08) The Artist - http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-artist,61005/
09) Our Day Will Come - http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/worth-watching-our-day-will-come-trailer-starring-vincent-cassel/
10) Fireflies in the Garden - http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/watch-theatrical-trailer-for-fireflies-in-the-garden-ensemble-drama/
11) The Lady - http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/enthralling-teaser-trailer-for-luc-bessons-the-lady-unveiled-online/
12) The Way - http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/watch-official-trailer-for-emilio-estevezs-the-way-with-martin-sheen/

Movies Out Next Week (9/2)

Apollo 18
Shark Night

Absolutepunk Entertainment Links

Super 8
X-Men: First Class
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
The Dark Knight Rises
Captain America
Beginners
X-Men: First Class

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Ghostbusters 3 really needs to be made... Bill Murray needs to get his shit together. Hopefully it's a good script though...

A Knocked Up spinoff?

“Tree of Life? Tree of sanctimonious mopey male egotism disguised as a search for meaning, more like.”

That made me laugh.

I'm excited for the Knocked Up spinoff. I'm more excited for Monsters' University.

Cannot wait for Fincher's version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo!

Originally Posted by rawspinner

“Tree of Life? Tree of sanctimonious mopey male egotism disguised as a search for meaning, more like.”

That made me laugh.

Haha, me too.

Drive is definitely my most anticipated movie of the year

Originally Posted by blimpcityhero11

Ghostbusters 3 really needs to be made... Bill Murray needs to get his shit together. Hopefully it's a good script though...

agreed. hardcore GB nerds like myself deserve a 3rd film no matter how stupid other people may think it'll be

Unrelated to all of the above, but I can't wait for The Hunger Games sneak peek that's being released at the VMA's tonight.

Originally Posted by invincibleXL

agreed. hardcore GB nerds like myself deserve a 3rd film no matter how stupid other people may think it'll be

Serious... From all the info and rumors, it seems like a "new blood" team of Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, and Matthew Gray Gubler could be feasible. The girl on the team would depend on how the character is written, but I'd love to see someone like Aubrey Plaza or Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Originally Posted by stayillogical

Unrelated to all of the above, but I can't wait for The Hunger Games sneak peek that's being released at the VMA's tonight.

this!

Very stoked on the wrestling show. Not sure how I feel about a Knocked Up spin off considering Megan Fox is almost always unwatchable. Here's to hoping Segel makes up for it.

Originally Posted by blimpcityhero11

Serious... From all the info and rumors, it seems like a "new blood" team of Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, and Matthew Gray Gubler could be feasible. The girl on the team would depend on how the character is written, but I'd love to see someone like Aubrey Plaza or Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Yeah people like Aziz and Aubrey could work depending on the script, I just don't want the movie to turn too "Judd Apatow-ish" if that makes any sense. I think the original worked so well because it was a comedy but it had a lot of creepy elements blended into it. Hopefully this one doesn't stray too far from that sort of tone