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MOVIE NEWS OCEAN’S 13The second sequel to Ocean’s Eleven will begin filming on 21 July, withEllen Barkin (right) co-starring alongside the regular gang of George Clooney, BradPitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, ScottCaan, Eddie Jemison, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould.Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones will not return, but director StephenSoderbergh is again in the hot seat. Ocean’s Thirteen will debut in cinemasin the summer of 2007 release.
REMO: THE DESTROYERA guilty pleasure of mine back in the ’80s was Remo Williams: The AdventureBegins, starring Fred Ward as Remo – a policeman who is killed in actionactually revived to become part of a group known as Cure. Remo was thentaught martial arts and how to dodge bullets by Chuin. Oh, it also starredKate Mulgrew (Star Trek Voyager’s Janeway!) Never heard of it?
Well, it looks like a very belated sequel is in the pipeline called Remo TheDestroyer. The Remo character actually derives from a novel by Warren Murphyand Richard Sapir that was full of satire and hard-edge thrills. The firstmovie was somewhat watered-down by the studio, but here’s hoping the sequelrealls nails what the book set out to achieve…
THE SIMPSONS MOVIEA leaked report suggests the plot for the 2007 Simpsons movie will involveHomer’s incompetence at the nuclear power station resulting in a containmentdome being placed over Springfield.
The movie being written by Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, Al Jean, BrianScully, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, MattSelman, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti. The director is David Silverman(Monster’s, Inc.), with guest voices from Albert Brooks, Minnie Driver andErin Brockovich!
SUPERMAN RETURNSThe new Superman movie will be released in IMAX theatres. No big deal there,but there is once you’re told 30 minutes of the film will be shown in 3-D! DAN’S MOVIE DIGEST BLOG (DMDB) –Dan Owen.blogspot.com
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TRAILERS Poseidon – ShoWest Footage(click here for trailer)
The God of water.
You know your mythology.
I’m guessing this is a seafaring movie?
It’s a remake of the 1972 classic disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure.
Hmm, cool. Who’s in it?
Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, er, Stacy Ferguson.
Whoooo?
The bird from Black Eyed Peas.
Ah. Hmm. Okay. Good effects, yeah?Of course. A massive CGI tsunami capsized an ocean liner and the passengershave to–
Blah, blah, blah!
Oh, c’mon, these disaster movies are just what the summer’s all about.
Okay… just kidding. But these things are quite formulaic.
The trailer has plenty of spirit and snippers of “tough choices” for ourheroes to make. Should be fun.
US TOP 10 (CINEMA)All figures are weekend box-office gross.
- 1. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown ($68.0m)
- 2. The Inside Man ($15.4m)
- 3. ATL ($11.6m)
- 4. Failure To Launch ($6.46m)
- 5. V for Vendetta ($6.30m)
- 6. Stay Alive ($4.51m)
- 7. She’s the Man ($4.43m)
- 8. Slither ($3.88m)
- 9. The Shaggy Dog ($3.24m)
- 10. Basic Instinct 2 ($3.20m)
UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)
- 1. The Inside Man (£1.11m)
- 2. Failure To Launch (£1.08m)
- 3. The Shaggy Dog (£0.83m)
- 4. Hostel (£0.76m)
- 5. The Pink Panther (2006) (£0.59m)
- 6. Basic Instinct 2 (£0.48m)
- 7. Firewall (£0.46m)
- 8. The Ringer (£0.37m)
- 9. Yours, Mine and Ours (£0.33m)
- 10. V for Vendetta (£0.28m)
** IN THE PIPELINE **All the following are U.K. release dates, and are subject to change.
- 7th April 2006: Ice Age 2: Meltdown, Three, Take the Lead, The Squid and the Whale, Rent, Wah-Wah, An American Haunting
- 14th April 2006: Lemming, Alien Autopsy, American Dreamz, Junebug, Just My Luck, Scary Movie 4
- 21st April 2006: The Moguls, Harsh Times, Hoot, Hostel, Confetti, CRAZY, L’Enfer (2005), Mistress of Spices
- 28th April 2006: Eight Below, Lucky You, Love & Hate, Flight 93
- 5th May 2006: Love + Hate, The Magician, Confetti, The Devil and Daniel Johnson, Russian Dolls, Three, In the Mix
- 12th May 2006: When a Stranger Calls, Quo Vadis, Baby?, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Aquamarine, Prime
- 19th May 2006: Once in a Lifetime, The Da Vinci Code, Waiting…
- 26th May 2006: Thief Lord, The Wild, X-Men: The Last Stand, Down in the Valley, Hoot
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