By Josh Winning – TotalFilm.com

Men In Black III has been a long time coming, but we can finally expect it to crash land on our screens on 25 May, 2012.

Now, JoBlo have gathered together a time capsule of information about the alien threequel, which reveals plot details, potential celebrity alien cameos, and the nature of the new villain. Stop reading now if you don’t want to be spoiled.

According to JoBlo’s sources, the plot find the villainous Yaz travelling back in time to kill Kay (Tommy Lee Jones), “which sets off a chain of events that ends in the destruction of the world…

“The film has Agent Jay (Will Smith) sent back in time to 1969 where he teams up with a young Kay to stop Yaz from destroying the world in the future.”

Which pretty much confirms what we’d already assumed, considering Josh Brolin’s casting as a young version of Tommy Lee Jones. But it’s good to know, anyway.

Meanwhile, Yaz is described as “a nightmare biker who looks like Dennis Hopper and Satan”, and isn’t a comedy villain by any means. Which makes it strange that they’ve cast comedian Jemaine Clement in the role.

As for those celebrity cameos, they will of course all be ‘60s A-listers, with Yoko Ono, Jimi Hendrix, Fidel Castro, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Andy Warhol featured. The latter in a particular benefits from “an extended scene”.

Source: [JoBlo]

Olivia Wilde

by Ryan – ReelzChannel.com

News for director Joseph Kosinski’s long awaited sequel Tron: Legacy was in a lull until recent interviews with actors Olivia Wilde and Michael Sheen. The sequel to 1982′s Tron sees Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner return to an updated version of the Tron mythology, with Garrett Hedlund playing Sam Flynn, the son of Bridges’ character, who also gets launched onto the game grid. The character Wilde is playing is a bit of a mystery, but she described the role as best she could to ComingSoon.

“I play Quorra. I’m a close confidant of Jeff Bridges’ character Flynn. Close, personal confidant. I don’t think it will give anything away to say that Joan of Arc was a major inspiration for my character. As far as other films I think there’s something to be said for Natalie Portman’s character in The Professional. So I don’t know if you can imagine a mixture between that little girl and Joan of Arc…”

So, look forward to seeing her fight people and then set herself on fire. Wilde has previously revealed that the fighting she does in Legacy took a physical toll, particularly the costume she wears, which integrates radio-controlled lights into skintight, molded black plastic. Wilde admitted that Bridges helped her gain perspective during uncomfortable moments.

“I won’t complain ’cause we’re really lucky to get to wear them, but they’re not easy. So whenever we’re sitting there straining or, you know, figuring out how to move in them, Jeff says, “Well, you know, in the first film, we wore basically white, you know, white leotards.” Not easy for any man or woman.”

Michael Sheen

Sheen, who plays nightclub owner Castor, was less positive about the wardrobe experience.

“I like the way it looks… There is not one bit of it that is comfortable, but it looks fantastic… all the work on the wardrobe department on this film has just been incredible. You know, they’ve worked so hard and I’ve had about six costume fittings over a series of, you know, a whole slew of months. Each time it gets tighter, each time I think I have to lose a little bit more weight.”

Read the rest of Ryan’s great article HERE

by Ethan Anderton – FirstShowing.net    Source: MTV

If for some reason you’re looking to have your film gain cult classic status, it’s not a bad idea to work Bruce Campbell into the mix somehow. Director Don Coscarelli certainly scored one with his alternative take on musical icon Elvis Presley (Campbell) in the dark comedy Bubba Ho-Tep. Luckily Ron Perlman was eager to fill Campbell’s shoes when the actor decided not to return for the sequel Bubba Nosferatu, but it sounds like the project still has an uphill battle to get off the ground due to a lack of financing. Fortunately, co-star Paul Giamatti told MTV, “I’m going to f***ing break my spine in half if I have to to get that thing done.”

Paul Giamatti

Giamatti, who will be playing Elvis Presley’s manager “Colonel” Tom Parker in this sequel, is absolutely dedicated to making Bubba Nosferatu happen (Ron Perlman has also voiced his support in mentioning the project on a couple occasions), but apparently it’s been quite a challenge. Here’s what Giamatti had to say:

“We’ve been trying so hard and we’ve had so many near-misses,” he continued. “It’s almost come together like 15 freaking times and then it falls apart. At some point we’re going to get that done because it’s a great script. We’ll get it done at some point. I think it’s just the atmosphere of movies right now, smaller movies. Nobody has the balls to make a movie for under — it’s got to be a $40 million comedy or a $200 million ‘Avatar,’ and that’s it. Those are the only things anybody wants to make right now. Nobody wants to do anything else. Everybody’s terrified of doing anything else except that kind of thing. So that movie is deemed way too bizarre and outside the box right now. Which is stupid, because there’s an audience for that movie, totally.”

Read the rest of  Ethan Anderson’s great article HERE

Marley Shelton

Borys Kit – Hollywoodreporter.com

Adam Brody, Marley Shelton and Erik Knudsen have joined the cast of “Scream 4,” which reunites Wes Craven with Kevin Williamson, who kicked off a horror movie revival with his “Scream” script in 1996.

The film will bring back original cast members Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox, though the plan is to pass the baton to a new generation of slasher victims, namely Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin and Nico Tortorella.

Brody will play a cop recently graduated from college who was raised on the “CSI” TV series.

 Shelton will play a deputy who knew Campbell’s character in high school. Lake Bell had been in negotiations for the role.

Hayden Panettiere

Knudsen will have a role similar to the one  played by Jamie Kennedy in the first two installments, a character who is familiar with horror movie conventions and a provider of comic relief.

To preserve the identity of the killer, Craven and Williamson are operating under several layers of secrecy, including not sending the script to agencies. At a table read last week, the actors were told to stop reading at page 75 to prevent even those already cast in the film from knowing the climax. Shooting began this week in Michigan.

The UTA-repped Brody recently wrapped ensemble indie drama “The Oranges,” which also stars Hugh Laurie and Leighton Meester. He stars in “The Romantics,” an ensemble romantic comedy that also stars Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin and Elijah Wood which is slated to open this fall.

Shelton, repped by UTA and Untitled, starred in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced CBS series “Eleventh Hour” and was most recently seen in director Sebastian Gutierrez’s ensemble comedy “Women in Trouble,” which premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival. Other credits include “Planet Terror” and “Sin City.” 

Emma Roberts

Toronto-born Knudsen appears in August release “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” Edgar Wright’s adaptation of the Bryan Lee O’Malley graphic novel series, as well as “Beastly,” a CBS Films fantasy romance. The actor, repped by Gersh, Joannie Burstein and Fountain Head Talent, was seen in “Youth in Revolt” and was a regular on CBS’ “Jericho.”

By Melissa Molina – LatinoReview.com

Sylvester Stallone’s “The Expendables” is starting to dish out the heavy marketing, mainly because the release date is a lot closer now that it’s July. This is where the new 60 second spot comes in, once again showing off all this film’s cameo cards right away. If they’re going to spoil what is supposed to be a surprising few minutes in the movie like that right away, you immediately wonder if Lionsgate has faith in it.

Any who, “The Expendables” centers on a group of mercenaries who jump out of their supposed retirement to take down a dictator. The super explosion-filled action film stars Jason Statham, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Dolph Lundgren, Giselle Itié, Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Stallone just to name a few. The testosterone-filled production bursts into theaters this August 13th.

Giselle Itié

producer/director Scott Spiegel

Owen Williams – EmpireOnline

Gorehound Eli Roth won’t be directing, but he will act as producer on the now-confirmed Hostel III. ”There’s no negativity about it: I’m just not involved in any way,” he said last year. Balderdash, sir. 

Scott Spiegel (exec producer on the first two, friend of Tarantino and Raimi) will be behind the camera, shooting from a script by Michael Weiss (Journey to the Centre of the Earth). The focus this time is on a bachelor party gone Horribly Wrong, but if the thrust is the same, the setting is at least different: foregoing the, shall we say “controversial” portrayals of Eastern Europe in the first films, part 3 will carve up its cast in Las Vegas.

Paul Bettany stars in 'Priest'

By Robert Falconer – CinemaSpy.com

Paul Bettany and director Scott Stewart (Legion) have teamed up once again to bring the TokyoPop comic book Priest to the big screen, and the first official photo from the film has been released, which you can check above.

The film is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampire and follows a warrior priest (Bettany) who turns against the church to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.

So how does this all play out? “In our world, priests are like Jedi Knights with special powers and training,” Stewart told EW. “Our vampires are more feral and disturbing than, say, the teen-angst vampires of ‘Twilight’ or the sexy vampires of ‘True Blood.’ Those vampires are metaphors. Ours aren’t.”

Official Plot of “Priest”:

Priest is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. Paul Bettany is Priest, a legendary warrior priest during the last Vampire War, who now lives in obscurity among the other human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities controlled by the Church. But when his 18-year-old niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires in the desolate wastelands outside, Priest breaks his sacred vows and ventures out to find her and seek vengeance upon those responsible, especially their brutal leader (Karl Urban). Priest is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend, Hicks (Cam Gigandet), a local outpost sheriff, and Priestess (Maggie Q), a member of his former legion of vampire-killers who has otherworldly fighting skills.

Maggie Q

Priest is slated to arrive in theaters on May 13, 2011

Katie Holmes

Mike Fleming– Deadline.com

Disney has just set a January 21, 2011 release date for the Miramax thriller Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. The Troy Nixey-directed film, written by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins, stars Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce.

The film is a remake of the 1973 ABC telepic. A young girl, sent to live with her father and his girlfriend, and she is stalked by a swarm of tiny, nasty monsters.

The filmmakers expected that the picture would be lost in a custody battle to whatever company won the Miramax library. Despite the fact that the film will be R-rated, there is enthusiasm that it is staying with Disney. I’m told the studio quite likes the film, and while they don’t do R-rated stuff, they can make an exception on the Miramax label.

Guy Pearce

Here is the Plot from the 1973 TV Movie version of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark:

A neurotic housewife named Sally and her business exec husband move into Sally’s family house, a spooky two story Victorian mansion. When Sally starts the redecorating along with her pompous decorator she comes across a locked room in the house. After arguing with the handyman who insists she should leave the room locked, she finally gets the key. But once she opens her father’s old study and has the bricks from the fireplace removed, strange things begin to happen. Sally begins to see small creatures everywhere, but no one will believe her. Her husband dismisses her as neurotic and her friend thinks Sally may be loosing her mind. But things take a deadly serious turn when the decorator trips at the top of the stairs and falls to his death. Sally sees a rope lying across the place where he tripped, but when she picks it up to take it, a horrifying little creature pulls it from her grasp. Is she crazy? Or has Sally released demons in the house, demons her father summoned?

David Cronenberg

From ReelLoop.com

Accliamed director David Cronenberg is attached to helm an adaptation of the Jonathan Lethem novel As She Climbed Across the Table.

According to our pals at Pajiba (visit ‘em), the movie will mark Cronenberg’s first sci-fi picture since 1999’seXistenZ.

In the story, narrator Phillip Engstrand is a university professor who has made a career out of studying academic environments. Engstrand is in love with Alice Coombs, a particle physicist engaged in a bold attempt to replicate the origins of the universe. The result of the experiment is Lack, a very selective black hole that sucks some things into its void–a cat, a pair of socks, a strawberry–and rejects others, namely, a love-struck Alice.

As Alice’s unrequited obsession with Lack grows, Phillip becomes so desperate to save his beloved from this empty rival that he risks a journey down the metaphysical rabbit hole.

The film will be in the vein of Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Freida Pinto

By NIX – BeyondHollywood.com

Looks like it’s bananas for “Slumdog Millionaire’s” Freida Pinto. The actress, along with John Lithgow (last seen making good guy serial killer Dexter’s life miserable), has officially joined the cast of Fox’s “Planet of the Apes” prequel, “Rise of the Apes”. Previous reports had Pinto and Don Cheadle in the running to join the sci-fi film, with Cheadle’s addition still up in the air.

Lithgow has been cast as James Franco’s father, while Pinto, as expected will be playing Franco’s love interest, a no doubt incredibly cute primatologist,.

In the prequel, Lithgow’s character is suffering from Alzheimer’s, which plays a huge part in the film’s plot. The movie has Franco playing a scientist trying to find a cure for Alzheimer’s, and using apes as his test subjects. When one of the apes, named Caesar starts displaying intelligence, Franco takes him home to protect him. That, as it turns out, was a bad idea. Soon ol Caesar’s leading an ape rebellion and overthrowing the human population. Oops?

Rupert Wyatt is directing the 20th Century Fox film, set for a 2011 release.

James Franco