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Provided by: comingsoon.net12010-09-06 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: While in Grand Rapids, Michigan on the set of Ruben ( Zombieland ) Fleischer's new comedy 30 Minutes of Less , ShockTillYouDrop.com learned from actor Jesse Eisenberg that a first draft of the script for the sequel Zombieland 2 has been completed by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and turned into Sony although he hasn't read it yet. Fleischer himself confirmed to us that he has read the script as well and you can read what he said about it and his other possible projects over on ShockTillYouDrop.com .

Provided by: comingsoon.net22010-09-06 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: Principal photography began for Summit Entertainment and Intrepid Pictures' action-thriller The Cold Light of Day on September 6th and will continue through November 13th. The film stars Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver. The Cold Light of Day , set and filmed entirely in Spain, will be shot over ten weeks in the Community of Valencia and Madrid as well as several weeks on the stages at Ciudad de la Luz studios in Alicante. Mabrouk El-Mechri directs the project from an original screenplay by Scott Wiper & John Petro, with revisions by Richard Price. Intrepid principals Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans will produce the project along with Jesus Martinez, principal of Galavis Film which will co-produce the project. Steven Zaillian from Film Rites, Kevin Mann and...

Provided by: comingsoon.net32010-09-06 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: ComingSoon.net is absolutely thrilled to let everyone know that for the fourth year in a row, we will be covering the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), running from September 9 through the 19th. This year's festival looks even more exciting than past years with literally hundreds of new movies from some of the world's greatest filmmakers and most of the film's stars should be in attendance. Along with the Telluride and Venice Film Festivals, TIFF is the official start of awards season and invariably you'll see many of the movies mentioned below come up when the season kicks into high gear in November and December. While TIFF showcases many movies that already have distribution and release plans, and we will often focus on those, TIFF is also one of the biggest movie...

Provided by: comingsoon.net42010-09-06 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: Greetings and welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly guide to the weekend's new movies. Tune in every Tuesday for the latest look at the upcoming weekend, and then check back on Thursday night for final projections based on actual theatre counts. If you aren't doing so already, you can follow The Weekend Warrior on Twitter where he talks about box office, movies, music, comic books and all sorts of random things. Predictions and Comparisons - 1. Resident Evil: Afterlife (Sony/Screen Gems) - $28.4 million N/A 2. The American (Focus Features) - $6.5 million -51% 3. Takers (Screen Gems) - $5.7 million -48% 4. Machete (20th Century Fox) - $5.1 million -55% 5. Going the Distance (New Line/WB) - $3.7 million -47% 6. The Expendables...

Provided by: comingsoon.net52010-09-06 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: A little over a week ago, it was reported that Angelina Jolie had passed on the lead female role in Alfonso Cuaron's planned 3D space survival thriller Gravity , which already had attached Robert Downey Jr. cast in a supporting role. Despite recent rumors of Rachel Weisz being offered the part after other potential candidates like Blake Lively and Scarlett Johansson were nixed, word now comes from The Hollywood Reporter that Natalie Portman has been offered the part, having earned buzz out of Venice and Telluride for her performance in Darren Aronofsky's thriller Black Swan . With a reported budget of $80 million, the film focuses on a female astronaut sent out to fix the Hubble telescope who is the sole survivor left stranded after space junk hits her transport, so she must...

Provided by: comingsoon.net62010-09-05 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: NBC will air new half-hour "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda" specials. The network is partnering with DreamWorks Animation for the specials "Scared Shrekless" and "Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special." NBC will air the Halloween-themed "Shrekless" on Oct. 28, partnering it with a re-airing of "Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space." "Panda" will air Nov. 24, paired with an encore of "Merry Madagascar." "NBC is proud to team with DreamWorks Animation to broadcast such quality holiday programming that includes some of their many popular film characters," said Angela Bromstad, president of primetime entertainment at NBC and Universal Media Studios. "These animated specials will provide...

Provided by: comingsoon.net72010-08-31 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: Neil Gaiman's Sandman is being planned as a television series reports Heat Vision . Warner Bros. is allegedly seeking a creative entity to become the program's showrunner, but the article notes that "Supernatural" creator Eric Kripke may be at the top of the studio's list. Sandman , which launched DC Comic's Vertigo imprint, ran for 75 issues beginning in 1989. Gaiman's worlds-within-worlds weaved an episodic anthology, focusing on the allegorical character of Dream and his brothers and sisters, known as the Endless (Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny). An adaptation of the series has been rumored since its inception two decades ago, most recently as a spinoff film for Dream's sister, Death, which Gaiman had plans to write and direct...

Provided by: comingsoon.net82010-09-05 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Click here for the full box office estimates of the top 12 films and then check back on Monday for the final figures based on actual box office. It was another slow Labor Day weekend at the movies as the fears of hurricanes hitting the East Coast ended up petering away to nothing by Friday night. Still, it was not one of the best weekends for movies with only one movie grossing $15 million over the four-day weekend. That movie was the suspense thriller The American (Focus Features), which opened in Wednesday in roughly 2,700 theaters, bringing in $3.1 million over its first two days then roughly another $16.4 million over the four-day weekend to take top placement at the box office....

Provided by: comingsoon.net92010-09-05 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: In an interview with the British paper The Sunday Times (via Digital Spy) for her upcoming Stephen Frears film Tamara Drewe , actress Gemma Arterton told them she will be meeting with Ridley Scott about possibly starring in his planned prequels to his breakout 1979 sci-fi thriller Alien . Apparently, Scott was so impressed by Arterton's performance in J. Blakeson's The Disappearance of Alice Creed that he wanted to meet with her for the main female role. Some will remember that Scott's casting of Sigourney Weaver as Ridley in the original Alien pretty much kicked off her career. Who knows when this meeting may happen and if anything will come out of it, but we can't think of a better way for Arterton to show off her bad-ass side then to fight aliens. According to the...

Provided by: comingsoon.net102010-09-05 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: Two months ago, when it was announced that British actor Andrew Garfield had scored the coveted role of Peter Parker in the upcoming still-untitled Spider-Man reboot by Marc Webb, there weren't that many American moviegoers familiar with his work, but with two new movies coming out in the next month, Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go and David Fincher's The Social Network , one can expect Garfield will be everywhere talking about the movies and invariable, he'll be asked questions about the high-profile superhero reboot. The first to get to him was The Hollywood Reporter who asked him for a few thoughts on getting the part: "I have been waiting for this phone call for 24 years, for someone to call me up and say,...

Provided by: comingsoon.net112010-09-05 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: Sony's Screen Gems has provided ComingSoon.net with the full photo gallery for Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Afterlife that you can check out here or by clicking on Milla Jovovich below. Opening in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on Friday, September 10, the fourth installment of the franchise also stars Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe, Wentworth Miller and Sienna Guillory. In the film, Alice (Jovovich) continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by...

Provided by: comingsoon.net122010-09-04 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: Variety says that Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has experienced more than the "hiccup" reported in August. "The financing collapsed about a month and a half ago," Gilliam said Saturday at the Deauville American Film Festival. "I shouldn't be here. The plan was to be shooting 'Quixote' right now." He added that he wants to still make the movie. "Robert Duval is Quixote, Ewan McGregor is also there, and we are looking for new financing right now," he said.

Provided by: comingsoon.net132010-09-04 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: Avatar director James Cameron told Folha de S.Paulo (via AFP ) on Sunday that he will return to Brazil this year to make a 3D film on indigenous people of the Amazon who oppose construction of a dam for fear it could flood tribal lands. "I want to return to meet some of the leaders of the Xikrin-Kayapo tribe who invited me," Cameron said. "I want to take a 3D camera to film how they live, their culture." The filmmaker has already come to the Amazon twice in a show of support for the indigenous tribe and to film a short piece on their resistance to the damming project on the Xingu River, which will be included on the upcoming Avatar Blu-ray and DVD. Cameron added that when he was asked to help "the Brazilian Indians, who were desperate, I could...

Provided by: comingsoon.net142010-09-04 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: IM Global has posted more info on the new Judge Dredd film to be titled Dredd : DREDD takes us to the wild streets of Mega City One, the lone oasis of quasi-civilization on Cursed Earth. Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is the most feared of elite Street Judges, with the power to enforce the law, sentence offenders and executive them on the spot - if necessary. The endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Peter Travis bring DREDD to life as a futuristic neo-noir action film that returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's revered comic strip. It was announced on Friday that Olivia Thirlby will play Judge Cassandra Anderson, a psychically powered rookie Judge who teams with Judge...

Provided by: comingsoon.net152010-09-03 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: UPDATE: RooneyMara.net has now posted a lot more photos which you can check out here . RooneyMara.net has posted two (albeit small) photos of Rooney Mara in character on the Los Angeles set of David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . Also starring Daniel Craig, Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Wright and Max von Sydow, the adaptation of Stieg Larsson's book is scheduled for a December 21, 2011 release. The first book in the crime thriller trilogy "The Millennium Series" describes the mystery surrounding the long-unsolved disappearance of an heiress. A journalist recently dinged by a libel case and a young female hacker try to resolve it, stirring up bundles of personal and industrial corruption along the way.

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