DAN’S MOVIE DIGEST 184

Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada, right) is set to star in this supernaturalthriller from ‘Mandate Pictures’. Rodrigo Garcia is directing the movie,which focuses on a grief counsellor (Hathaway), who helps six plane crashsurvivors, then finds them mysteriously disappearing. Suspecting aconspiracy, she investigates…

Production is set to begin early next year, from a script by RonnieChristensen.

THE FLASHDirector David Goyer (Blade Trinity) was announced to be helming the newFlash movie, although actor Ryan Reynolds doesn’t know what’s taking solong!

Reynolds: “It’s a hundred and eight billion dollar movie if they do it. Idon’t know how that stuff works and I don’t really get involved with it. Ithink if they do it, they’re going to see it through the eyes of Wally Westand its inanimate world. I can hear people falling asleep while I’m talkingabout this. I honestly don’t know. It’s just such a huge undertaking. I’dlove to wear a red unitard sometime, but I can do that on my own.”

SIN CITY 2Last year it was reported that director Robert Rodriguez and Sin Citycreator Frank Miller wanted Angelina Jolie (right) to star in the movie’s sequel.However, Jolie was pregnant at the time and casting her would push backproduction.

Jolie: “We talked about it and I read the comic. I don’t think the film isbeing made at this moment. When it’s actually going to be made I’m surewe’ll talk about it.

“It was a funny thing, because the idea came to me when I was pregnant. Soit was this idea… I’ve been Clover [in The Good Shepherd], depressed andquiet, and then I was feeling very maternal, pregnant. It was this idea ofthis sexy, violent and loud [character]… I thought maybe after I’mpregnant it would be nice to do.”

It sounds like Rodriguez and Miller have their Ava if everything works out,as a start date for Sin City 2 has not been announced.

In the graphic novel, Ava Lord is the dame to kill for. She is an ex-loverof Dwight McCarthy (Clive Owen) who manipulates men through her good looksand her supposed innocence.

TARZAN’Warner Brothers’ and producer Jerry Weintraub are developing a new versionof the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs novel Tarzan. Guillermo del Toro (Pan’sLabyrinth) is being courted to direct, with screenwriter John Collee (HappyFeet) hammering out the script.

Del Toro: “I’d love to create a new version that is still a family movie,but as edgy as I can make it. There are strong themes of survival of adefenceless child left behind in the most hostile environment.”

“John will be writing it alone, as I’ll be in production on Hellboy 2 andpursuing writing projects of my own. He’s got a great sense of adventure andthe wilderness.”

The actor most famous for playing The Monster in Mel Brooks’ classic comedyYoung Frankenstein, has passed away. Boyle, who was 71, also starred in USsitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, had a memorable role in The X-Files episodeClyde Bruckman’s Final Repose, and starred in many movies.

He died after suffering from multiple myeloma and heart disease and issurvived by his wife Loraine Alterman.

All figures are weekend box-office gross, including Sunday estimates(at the time of posting):

• 1. The Pursuit of Happyness ($26.5m)
• 2. Eragon ($23.2m)
• 3. Charlotte’s Web ($11.5m)
• 4. Happy Feet ($8.36m) (total to date: $149m)
• 5. The Holiday ($8.01m)
• 6. Apocalypto ($8.01m)
• 7. Blood Diamond ($6.52m)
• 8. Casino Royale (2006) ($5.63m) (total to date: $138m)
• 9. The Nativity Story ($4.66m)
• 10. Grounded: Unaccompanied Minors ($3.55m)

UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

• 1. Happy Feet (£2.03m)
• 2. The Holiday (£1.59m)
• 3. Casino Royale (2006) (£1.44m)
• 4. Eragon (£1.31m)
• 5. Deja Vu (£1.09m)
• 6. Flushed Away (£0.78m)
• 7. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (£0.55m)
• 8. Black Christmas (£0.36m)
• 9. Grounded: Unaccompanied Minors (£0.24m)
• 10. Deck the Halls (£0.17m)

All the following are U.K. release dates, and are subject to change.

• 22nd December 2006: Zoom, Flags of Our Fathers
• 26th December 2006: Night at the Museum, It’s a Boy Girl Thing, Perfume: Story of a Murderer
• 05th January 2007: Miss Potter, Employee of the Month, Apocalypto, White Noise 2: The Light
• 12th January 2007: The Pursuit of Happyness, Smokin Aces, The Last King of Scotland, Ghosts
• 19th January 2007: Babel, Infamous, Black Book, Running with Scissors, Rocky Balboa, The Return, Play, Iraq in Fragments
• 26th January 2007: The Upside of Anger, Blood and Chocolate, Blood Diamond, Bobby, Suburban Mayhem, Venus, The Fountain

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