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Archive: October 2011 (21-30 of 192)

Oct 28 2011 01:42 PM ET

Sylvester Stallone to enter 'The Tomb'

by Aly Semigran

Categories: Casting, Film, middle-aged action stars, Movie Biz

Image Credit: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

While his Expendables co-stars Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger reportedly passed on the project, Sylvester Stallone will now take over and step into the long-in-the-works movie, The Tomb. According to the reps of the film’s producers Randall Emmett and George Furla (Emmett/Furla Films, who will work alongside Summit on the movie), Stallone will play Ray Breslin, the world’s leading authority on the structural security of prisons. Knowledge that will come in handy when he needs to escape one of the high security prisons himself and find out exactly who put him there. Stallone is currently filming The Expendables 2.

Oct 28 2011 10:31 AM ET

'Iron Man 3' heads to North Carolina

by Associated Press

Categories: Comic Book Adaptations, comic-book movies, Iron Man, Movie Biz, Robert Downey Jr.

Image Credit: Industrial Light & Magic/Marvel

The next installment in the Iron Man superhero film franchise will shoot in North Carolina. Marvel Studios will film Iron Man 3 starring Robert Downey Jr. in Wilmington, with pre-production starting soon and work in the state lasting about 10 months. State film office head Aaron Syrett said Thursday it will be the largest production to shoot in North Carolina. The production is expected to create 550 jobs for tradesmen, technicians and other crew members and more than 1,000 spots for actors and other talent.

Oct 28 2011 09:30 AM ET

'Robot Chicken' star Seth Green shares his five favorite movie comedies

by Christian Blauvelt

Categories: Animation, Comedy, EW Exclusive, Fanboys

Image Credit: Seth Green: Gary Gershoff/WireImage

Seth Green has an unimpeachable comedy résumé. From his clueless aspiring rapper in 1998’s Can’t Hardly Wait to the hilariously myopic characters he voices on Robot Chicken and Family Guy, Green mines belly laughs from Millennial solipsism better than anyone else. Not to mention that he kicked off his career with one of the all-time great performances by a kid actor: as a 12-year-old avatar for Woody Allen in 1987’s Radio Days.

This past Sunday, Robot Chicken, which Green created with Matthew Senreich, came ~~roaring~~ squawking back after a seven month hiatus, with skits that imagined Footloose’s Ren McCormack (voiced by Kevin Bacon himself) teaching the Peanuts kids how to dance, and what would happen if Green Lantern were deprived of hands and forced to wear his ring on another appendage (guess which one!). “Our goal is not to hurt people’s feelings,” Green says. “Our goal is to have fun with how silly we all are. I’m just delighted by human folly.”

That deft balance between outrageous surrealism and laugh-with-you humanism can be tough to pull off, so what does Green turn to for inspiration when he’s stuck? In honor of EW’s 2011 Comedy Issue, he’s ready to share. Here are his five all-time favorite movie comedies: READ FULL STORY »

Oct 28 2011 09:14 AM ET

Stuntman killed in 'Expendables 2' explosion

by Jeff Labrecque

Categories: The Expendables

Image Credit: Karen Ballard

A stuntman was killed and another was seriously injured in an explosion on the Bulgarian set of The Expendables 2 yesterday afternoon. The movie’s second unit stunt team was filming on a reservoir called Lake Ognyanovo in the southwestern part of the country when the accident occurred, while the movie’s main unit was shooting about 2.5 hours away, according to the film’s unit publicist. The names of the stuntmen are not yet being released, but Nu Image/Millennium Films issued a statement: “It is with great regret that we confirm this unfortunate accident. Our hearts go out to the families and those on the production affected by this tragedy. The filmmakers are working closely with the authorities in responding to and investigating this accident.”

Oct 27 2011 11:59 PM ET

'Paranormal Activity 3': I scream, you scream, we all scream, and wow does it feel good

by Owen Gleiberman

Categories: Paranormal Activity 3, Saw, Scream, The Blair Witch Project, the return of big-screen fear

Image Credit: Film Images

I said in my review of Paranormal Activity 3 that I don’t scare easily at horror films, and that’s why I end up panning most of them. For me, it’s an occupational hazard: I see so many of these damn things that I know all the tricks. It gets harder and harder to find a horror film that can bypass that armor of genre awareness. The more I think about it, though, the more I realize that I may have been speaking for a great many people who aren’t critics. Since I almost never see a horror film at a screening (most of them, these days, aren’t shown to reviewers in advance), I regularly breathe in the air of audience reaction, and I can tell you: Whether it’s a suburban Jekyll-and-Hyde clunker like Dream House or a torture-porn sequel like Saw 3D, my experience is that most audiences sit through these movies the same way I do, in a slumped-in-the-seat state of desultory, half-baked absorption. You may get jolted a few times, but the vast majority of today’s horror movies don’t get under your skin. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 27 2011 09:15 PM ET

Actors guilds blast IMDb for age discrimination

by Shaunna Murphy

Categories: Movie Biz

The Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA issued a press release Thursday, denouncing IMDb and its owner Amazon.com for IMDb’s practice of revealing the ages of performers without their consent. The organizations claim the practice has led to shrinking work options and age-discrimination for actors. According to the release, SAG, AFTRA, and other entertainment unions had been negotiating with IMDb to reach a solution, but IMDb has since rejected their efforts.

“Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists strongly believe that businesses like IMDb have a moral and legal obligation not to facilitate age discrimination in employment,” said the guilds. “Entertainment industry employers who would never directly ask a potential employee’s age routinely access that information through IMDb and its professional subscription site IMDbPro. IMDb has the power to remove the temptation for employers to engage in age discrimination by accessing this information.” READ FULL STORY »

Oct 27 2011 09:09 PM ET

'Thunder Run': Producer talks all-CG, 3-D Iraq war thriller with Gerard Butler, Matthew McConaughey, and Sam Worthington

by Shaunna Murphy

Categories: 3-D, Gerard Butler, Movie Biz, Movies

Image Credit: Anita Bugge/WireImage.com

“In my day, we watched war movies in 2-D. We didn’t even have rocket-propelled grenades flying over our heads!”

This is what you’ll be telling the kids in the near future, once Thunder Run has taken the traditional war movie and turned it on its head. EW has confirmed that Gerard Butler, Matthew McConaughey, and Sam Worthington have all signed on to star in an entirely CG, 3-D adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner David Zucchino’s novel Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. Robert Port and Black Hawk Down scribe Ken Nolan co-wrote the script, with Simon West attached to direct.

“The idea is that we’re trying to create an event movie,” producer Brian Presley of Freedom Films tells EW. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 27 2011 08:41 PM ET

'Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol' trailer: This time more plot...AND more action!

by Adam B. Vary

Categories: Movie Trailers, Tom Cruise

The first trailer for Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol gave us the rough outlines of the plot — the Kremlin’s been bombed, Tom Cruise’s IMF team has been (wrongly) blamed, and they’ve now got to clear their names. The new trailer for the film, release today, fills in a few more of the blanks. Turns out Cruise’s team was at the Kremlin when things went kablooey, and they’re now the only four members of the IMF left. And Tom Wilkinson, playing a member of the U.S. cabinet (I’m guessing Secretary of Defense), gets killed just as he’s spelling out the stakes for Cruise’s Ethan Hunt. Oh, and at one point, a rather sizable missile appears to be headed straight for San Francisco. Yikes!

Plus, even more secret spy daring do has been packed into the two-and-a-half minute clip, including one very fancy looking car windshield. Check out the trailer below: READ FULL STORY »

Oct 27 2011 07:06 PM ET

Farrelly Brothers developing 'Dumb & Dumber' sequel with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels

by Josh Rottenberg

Categories: Comedy, Deals, Jim Carrey

Image Credit: Everett Collection

Just when you thought those folks in Hollywood couldn’t get any dumber, they go and do something like this … and totally redeem themselves! Yes, dumb-comedy fans, EW has confirmed that Peter and Bobby Farrelly are planning to direct a sequel to their classic, brilliantly stupid 1994 comedy Dumb & Dumber. (Deadline first reported the news.) Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels would reprise their roles as Harry and Lloyd, a couple of friends with a couple of dozen brain cells between them. (Really, how dumb would it be to try to cast anyone else?)

Sean Anders and John Morris, who wrote Carrey’s recent family film Mr. Popper’s Penguins and last year’s Hot Tub Time Machine, are writing the script, and the Farrellys are planning to start work on the film after they finish their current feature, The Three Stooges. A Dumb & Dumber prequel, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, was released in 2003, but neither the Farrellys nor Carrey and Daniels had any involvement in it.