The trailer for DreamWorks' The Soloist, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr., is now online. Opening November 21st, the film is based on the true story of musical prodigy Nathaniel Ayers (Foxx), who developed schizophrenia in his second year at Juilliard and ended up homeless on the streets of downtown
Release Date: November 21, 2008
“Incredible Hulk” star Edward Norton says Marvel Studios isn’t giving him any indication they want him to reprise his role as the publisher’s green goliath, whether in a solo sequel or team-up project.
“The minds of Marvel are sometimes opaque,” Norton told MTV News. “I won’t say [they're] obtuse, but I don’t have any idea what they want to do.”
Norton said he’s also been kept in the dark regarding any plans for him, in his role as Hulk’s alter-ego Bruce Banner, to appear in Marvel’s big team-up project, “The Avengers.” The film, which is expected to feature The Hulk, Iron Man, Captain
“They’ve got this notion of collecting the Marvel characters,” said Norton, who appeared a bit skeptical of Marvel’s ambitious plans for the project. “Who knows where they’ll go?”
With buzz climbing for his performance in the October comedy,
About 17, a chubby Caucasian high school student who loves comic books. He is Dave’s funny best friend. Together with Dave and Todd, he loves to go to comic book stores, and checks out the latest issues, while talking about school, girls, the futility of teenaged life, and the exciting adventures of Myspace insta-celebrity Kickass. He never suspects that Kickass is in fact Dave Lizewski — and neither would you if you knew Dave.
Perfect. For our recent casting report on Vaughn’s $70 million indie film. Duke had a bit part in Superbad, so this will be his second film co-starring Christopher Mintz-Plasse aka McLovin, who plays the teen antagonist Red Mist. The comics’ creator, Mark Millar, has gone on the record as saying something like “I bet you all my balls that Kick-Ass will be the best movie of 2009.” And even though Millar talks more shit than Reggie Miller and even though Nic Cage bums us out, this movie should definitely live up to its title. And yeah, expect more headlines like the one above. Clark Duke, invest.
"Homicide" collaborators David Simon and Tom Fontana are looking to reunite for an HBO miniseries about the 12-day search for John Wilkes Booth, reports Variety.
The project is an adaptation of James L. Swanson's book "Manhunt," which follows the search for Abraham Lincoln's assassin. The project is in early development, with HBO optioning the novel and Simon and
Simon and
The story will focus on the perspectives of lesser-known historical figures that were connected to the assassination of
Fox has given the green light to an animated pilot presentation from comedian Jeff Foxworthy about a dysfunctional family set in the world of NASCAR. Twentieth Century Fox TV is onboard to produce, says Variety.
Foxworthy already hosts hit game show "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?" for Fox.
The untitled animated comedy comes from Foxworthy and "10 Items or Less" executive producers Nancy Hower and John Lehr. Foxworthy, Hower and Lehr will write and executive produce, while Parallel Entertainment's J.P. Williams will also executive produce.
Foxworthy will also lend his voice to the presentation, with other voice actors to be determined later.
We’ve known for a while that D.J. Caruso’s first film in a planned Y: The Last Man trilogy was aiming for 2010, and he’s given a new update to UGO. The director of Disturbia and Eagle Eye confirms that the script by Carl Ellsworth (Disturbia, Red Eye) was turned in last week to Warner Bros., a studio that’s said to be heavily enthusiastic and committed to the big budget endeavor. Moreover, he added that while Shia LaBeouf remains attached to the main character—a young Brooklynite named Yorick Brown who becomes the last man on an Earth populated with combative, horny women—the previously rumored Alicia Keys is not a lock to play Yorick’s government-hired protector codenamed 355…
“She’s definitely someone to consider. I thought she did a really cool job in [Smokin’ Aces]… So really, the one thing, I think I’ve mentioned this to you, I’m going for, and it’s not quite there yet on the page. I’d love to have sort of a (Robert) DeNiro/(Charles) Grodin relationship between 355 and (Yorick). Kind of a Midnight Run relationship…I think Alicia’s a great girl and everything but I have to make sure that she can handle the acting part of it.”
Midnight Run, eh? We’re big fans of the comic series at Slashfilm, so here’s hoping Caruso goes with another actress, possibly an unknown, and not the musician/aspiring Bond Girl. One name I’ve heard tossed around a bit with fans is Vivica Fox, based, I’m guessing, on her surprisingly good, albeit brief, performance and action skills in Kill Bill. She’s a little old for the part though, even if she did deliver laughs and sex appeal on Curb Your Enthusiasm. All requisites for 355. Any casting suggestions in the comments? And Caruso informs that fans have already mentioned Kill Bill’s Lucy Liu for the part of Dr. Mann—a brilliant hands-on Chinese/Japanese geneticist who happens to be a lesbian—but he hasn’t given any actresses much consideration. Mann would play a larger part in a proposed second film.
Caruso let it be known that Yorick’s monkey Ampersand—a seminal character in the comics—will in fact be a real monkey in the film(s). Great news. It worked in Matthew Broderick’s Project X, and it can work here (no monkey pilots).
Brian K. Vaughn’s Y: The Last Man is going to be really tough to develop. There’s the sheer size—Caruso has implied that all or part of the subplot with Yorick’s girlfriend in Australia may be kiboshed—but also enough philosophical implications and discussions therein, not to mention pop-culture references, to stretch out a semester in college. And while the comic books are “R-rated” (violence, sexuality), this will most likely be a PG-13 summer popcorn film(s). Caruso seems to have a good communication going with Vaughn, so we’re optimistic, but he’ll need to channel some early Spielbergian wonder and some of that director’s dark period tone and visuals to see it through. We’ll avoid referencing a certain scene in Indy IV.
Columbia Pictures is in discussions with producer Joe Roth for XXX: The Return of Xander Cage, which would bring back Vin Diesel as star and Rob Cohen as director, reports Variety.
The duo teamed on the 2002 original, which starred Diesel as Xander Cage, an extreme sports enthusiast who gets drafted by the government for a dangerous mission.
Roth controls the property because the original film was made by his Revolution Studios, which was also behind XXX: State of the
While there is no script, both Diesel and Cohen have agreed to return.
Michael Phelps' winning streak continues. Though the Olympic gold-medalist host more or less treaded water while Tina Fey's return and a cameo by William Shatner generated the biggest and best buzz, Saturday Night Live this weekend delivered its best premiere ratings in seven years, netting a 7.4 household rating/18 share in the 55 metered markets. It also marked SNL's most-watched installment since Dec. 17, 2002 (when former vice president Al Gore hosted).
The sketch show's 34th season opener — whose ratings do not include
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.
After the worst weekend at the box office in years, five new movies opened in wide release, four of them taking the top four spots at the box office with three of them grossing more than $15 million over the weekend.
Joel and Ethan Coen had their biggest opening movie ever and their first weekend #1 with Burn After Reading (Focus Features), a dark ensemble comedy featuring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, which grossed an estimated $19.4 million in 2,641 theatres, averaging over $7 thousand per site. Opening wider than any previous Focus Features release, the duo's comedy follow-up to the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men was helped by solid reviews giving the studio its biggest opening, its highest grossing weekend for a movie, as well as their first #1 movie for a weekend. The Coens' latest shouldn't have a problem making back its production budget of $37 million in its theatrical release.
Coming in second place, Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (Lionsgate), the latest drama from the
Screen legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino teamed for the crime thriller Righteous Kill (Overture) which took third place with an estimated $16.5 million in 3,152 theaters, the weekend's widest release. It grossed almost as much its first weekend as 88 Minutes, Pacino's last teaming with director Jon Avnet, grossed in total, as Pacino's fifth-biggest opening movie and De Niro's sixth-biggest live action opening. It's also Overture Films' biggest opening film to date, having paid $10 million to distribute it in the United States, but it still has a long way to go if it wants to make back its reported $60 million budget.
Diane English's modern update of George Cuckor's The Women (Picturehouse), starring Meg Ryan, Annete Bening and an all-female all-star cast, opened with just over $10 million in nearly 3,000 theaters, continuing the weekend trend by being the biggest opening movie for Picturehouse as well. (It's also the final official release from the distributor created three years ago in a union between New Line and HBO.)
The Anna Faris comedy vehicle The House Bunny (Sony) held up well despite the release of four new movies, dropping just 22% in its third weekend to take fifth place with $4.3 million with a total gross of $42.1 million.
It surpassed Ben Stiller's war comedy Tropic Thunder (DreamWorks) and the record-setting Warner Bros. superhero flick The Dark Knight, which took sixth and seventh place with just over $4 million each. Tropic Thunder becomes the 17th movie to cross the $100 million mark this year, while The Dark Knight is sitting pretty with an astounding $518 million after 9 weekends in the Top 10.
The Nicolas Cage action-thriller Bangkok Dangerous (Lionsgate) experienced one of the biggest position drops in some time, dropping from its #1 spot last weekend to #8 this weekend with a weekend gross of $2.4 million and a total of $12.5 million
The top 10 was rounded out by the political thriller Traitor (Overture) starring Don Cheadle, and Universal's remake of Death Race both with just over $2 million. The Top 10 grossed $83 million up nearly 39% from the same weekend last year.
The last wide release, the documentary Proud American (Slowhand Releasing), grossed $135 thousand in 750 theaters, setting a new record for the worst per-theater average for a wide release ever by averaging just $180 per site.
In limited release, Alan Ball's coming of age film Towelhead (Warner Bros.) grossed $53 thousand in just four theaters in
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