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Kline Joins Frank or Francis

Actor Kevin Kline has signed on to star in Frank or Francis, in not one but two roles.

Kline will be staring alongside Nicholas Cage, Jack Black and Steve Carell in Charlie Kaufman’s musical satire of Hollywood.

The film itself will see Black star as a blogger who continually undermines Frank, played by Carell, a film making cheat. Hmmm does Black sound a little like a certain well-known Internet blogger?

Kline will be playing the character Richard Weller, who is a screenwriter and the brother to Jonathan Waller, who is yet to cast, but has been described as the most successful filmmaker of all time. However for his second character he will be playing Richard’s head, a disembodied animatronic head that helps Jonathan make films. Sounds a little bizarre if you ask me.

Nicholas Cage will be playing the role of Emcee, described as a famous actor.

Shooting for the film will begin in January.

Foundation Gets a New Writer

Roland Emmerich’s adaptation of Issac Asimov’s Foundation has got itself a new writer, in the shape of Dante Harper.

Harper will be taking over from Robert Rodat, who recently passed up the opportunity to write the film.

The books that the film will based on focuses on mathematician Hari Seldon as he works out the future through the use of some extremely complex mathematical formulas, and finds that the outcome doesn’t look too great. Basically he predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire and begins to set up a plan for prevention.

The sci-fi series itself is made up of seven volumes, and contains quite a few themes so Harper definitely has his work cut out for him. Harper is already quite well known after writing Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and All You Need is Kill.

So we just have to sit back and wait and hope that he turns this into something special.

Dolphin Tale Dethrones Lion King

True life story Dolphin Tale has topped the US box office, knocking Disney’s The Lion King off the top spot.

The film that stars Harry Connick Jr and Morgan Freeman and Winter the Dolphin, in a tale about a Dolphin who is rescued and looses her tail, soared into the number one spot taking $14.2 million over the weekend, after coming in third place last weekend.

Moneyball, staring Brad Pitt, stayed in the number two spot this week, it seems Mr Pitt just can’t catch a break against adorable animals, real and animated. The film took $12.5 million.

Last week’s number one The Lion King fell into third place with $11 million, still not bad for a film that was originally released 17 years ago.

Coming in fourth place was new cancer comedy 50/50 which took $8.9 million this weekend and rolling in at fifth place was the Christian drama Courageous taking $8.9 million. Quite a poor showing from the new release this week it seems.

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Catwoman Makes Her First Appearance

This weekend saw the first pictures of Anne Hathaway in her full on Catwoman outfit for the new Batman film.

With the only information released from the film’s production company that Hathaway will be playing Selina Kyle, we can now officially see that she will definitely doubling up as the ever so seductive Catwoman.

A few months back the images of a bike riding, goggle lad almost Catwoman leaked online and left many fans including myself pondering over what the finished product would look like, and to be fair a few were left in fear that it wouldn’t live up to the 1992 Tim Burton version played by the sultry Michelle Pfeiffer.

Luckily this new photograph shows what we assume is the final version of the new Catwoman, and it does live up to what we were hoping, and this time we can see she comes complete with ears.

Now we are getting excited about the new film and the new portrayal.

The Dark Knight Rises which co-stars Tom Hardy, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Gordon Levitt and obviously Batman himself Christian Bale will be hitting cinemas in July next year.

Lion King Still On Top

The Lion King 3D once again reigned supreme at the American box office.

The 3D re-release of the film took in an estimated $22 million over the weekend showing just how loved Simba and his little friends are. The film that originally only had a two-week cinema release may see this extended due to the huge success of the re-release.

The re-release has seen the film take its all time American gross up to $390 million since it was first released, which is sending it on target to enter the all-time top ten. With this new extension the film will undoubtedly top the $400 million mark and may end up with its spot in the top ten, depending on how long the film is kept in cinemas.

Coming in second at the box office this week was Moneyball starring Brad Pitt, which took in $20.6 million, even Brad couldn’t keep the house of mouse from the top spot. In at third was Dolphin’s Tale about an amputee animal, which too $20.3 million.

It a bit of a disappointing box office performance was Taylor Lautner’s latest outing in Abduction, which took $11.2 million. Rounding off the top five was Jason Statham’s latest picture Killer Elite taking an estimated $9.5 million.

Superman's New Mum

News has surfaced that actress Ayelet Zurer has signed on to star in Superman: Man of Steel.

The actress who has starred in Munich and Angels & Demons will be standing next to Russell Crowe in the latest Superman flick as the super hero’s mother.

Zurer will be replacing Julie Ormond in the role as his mum, or Lara Lorvan as fans of the franchise know her. Susannah York originally played the role in the 1978 film; she later reprised the role in Superman II and Superman IV: The Quest For Peace.

It looks like she has some big shoes to fill as the woman who sends her son to earth as her planet faces imminent destruction, especially if she wants to appeal to the huge fan base out there.

The new film Man Of Steel will star Henry Cavil as Clark Kent/Superman, Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as his Earth parents, Amy Adams as Lois Lane and finally Michael Shannon as General Zod.

Christopher Nolan will be producing and Zack Snyder will be directing and is due for release in June 2013.

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James Franco For Child of God

News is circulating that James Franco will be adapting the novel Child of God.

The star will be making the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel after his attempts to adapt McCarthy’s other novel Blood Meridian have seemingly hit a wall.

Child of God is a novel/film about a backwoodsman called Ballard who decides to live outside of society in a cave situated in the East Tennessee hills after being released from prison. He also decides to experiment with a little bit of necrophilia whilst he’s there. Nothing too strange then.

It isn’t clear at the moment what happened with Blood Meridian, as the film already had a producer in the form of Scott Rudin and twenty minutes of footage with Scott Glenn and Luke Perry. All that is known is that Franco has said it’s ‘on hold for now’ so it may never come to fruition in other words.

There are no further details regarding Child of God at the moment, so you will have to stay tuned for that one. But I’m guessing it may go the same way as Blood Meridian.

Lion King 3D  Tops Box Office

The house of mouse has shown its huge power once again, as The Lion King 3D soars to the top of the American box office.

The film took an incredible $29.3 million at the box office over the weekend, showing that there are still a lot of people out there with a soft spot for samba and his animated friends.

The film pushed last week’s number one Contagion down to the number two position, as it took a still impressive $14.4 million over the weekend. Coming in third was Ryan Gosling’s latest effort Drive, which took $11 million this weekend. A slightly disappointing return considering it was given quite a lot of praise from the critics, but cinemagoers had other ideas this weekend.

Coming in fourth, and slowly slipping away from the top of the box office after several weeks there was The Help, which took in $6.4 million. And coming in fifth was the reboot of Straw Dogs, which only managed to pull in $5 million.

Possibly one of the biggest disappointments was Sarah Jessica Parker’s latest effort I Don’t Know How She Does It, which only managed $4.5 million. SJP seriously needs a new Sex and the City film if she wants to up her box office cred again.

Silk To Be Remade

Taiwanese Film Silk is to be made remade for western audiences.

With remakes being big at the moment, and with Hollywood apparently having no originality about them it looks as though they have turned to foreign cinema once again to help them get a big hit.

Gold Circle Films have hired hired Marco King, Mary King and Jonathan Watters to remake the chilling tale of a dead child and seemingly barmy scientist.

The original movie, that was made in 2006 and was directed by Chao-Bin Su, and found a crippled scientist using his latest invention to capture the essence of a ghost child, who may also be a little bit vengeful. After discovering that the child was killed by his mother and buried at a nuclear power plant things start to go seriously wrong for everyone involved.

So far no details have been released as everyone is staying tight lipped about this movie, but to be honest it does sound quite exciting. Lets just hope they do it justice in the remake.