***New Gag Reel for BAD TEACHER ***Jason Reitman to Play Doctor to BURT WONDERSTONE Script Starring Steve Carell ***Darren Aronofsky to Direct HOBGOBLIN Pilot For HBO ***New Teaser Trailer for DEXTER Season Six ***New Posters for COWBOYS & ALIENS and WARRIOR

New Gag Reel for BAD TEACHER

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: June 16th, 2011

I don’t know what to expect from Bad Teacher, but I have high hopes.  From the promotional material, Cameron Diaz appears to pull no punches in her performance as a foul-mouthed, amoral teacher.  That’s commendable, but Diaz is no sure thing as a comedic performer.  I’m in it for the supporting cast.  I don’t know that you can find a more affable duo than Jason Segel and Justin Timberlake.  I can’t claim familiarity with Lucy Punch’s work, but I like her weird energy as an eager fellow teacher in the brief clips we’ve seen.  And in the new international gag reel, it’s John Michael Higgins and Paul Bates that get the biggest laugh.
Directed by Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard), Bad Teacher opens on June 24.  Watch the gag reel after the break.  (Beware of NSFW language.)
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Jason Reitman to Play Doctor to BURT WONDERSTONE Script Starring Steve Carell

by Bill Graham    Posted: June 16th, 2011

If you are going to have someone touch up your script, Oscar-nominated writer/director Jason Reitman (Up In The Air) isn’t a bad choice. While he is busy working on his next film, New Line has tapped Reitman to tweak the script for Burt Wonderstone starring Steve Carell. THR notes that Reitman has been hired for “several weeks’ worth of work,” though it’s unknown if it is just a touch up or complete overhaul. I guess it really comes down to what you think “several” means in this case, and how much time Reitman gives to the film. The film follows Carell, a traditional magician in Las Vegas that loses his partner and has to compete with a younger, hipper magician. For more on Burt Wonderstone and what Reitman currently has on his plate, hit the jump. http://collider.com/jason-reitman-burt-wonderstone/96975/

Darren Aronofsky to Direct HOBGOBLIN Pilot For HBO

by Bill Graham    Posted: June 16th, 2011

While Darren Aronofsky may have backed out of The Wolverine in March and crushed many hearts and dreams, he might win some back with his first adventure into television. HBO’s Hobgoblin has been steadily picking up steam since the period drama written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay) and his wife, Ayelet Waldman, first broke onto the scene. Why? Because it pits con men and magicians against Hitler and the Germans in World War II. Now Heat Vision says that the television series has picked up Aronofsky to direct the pilot. Hit the jump for some more background on the project and those involved. http://collider.com/darren-aronofsky-hobgoblin/96967/

New Teaser Trailer for DEXTER Season Six

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: June 16th, 2011

Michael C. Hall is likely on the verge of his fourth Emmy nomination for Dexter when the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announces the 2011 noms on July 14.  He’s earned every one — and deserves a win one of these days — as a truly and consistently captivating presence on an uneven series.  The first promo for season six leaned heavily on footage from previous seasons.  The new teaser trailer offers just Hall in closeup, that intense gaze, and a droll voiceover (“I’m feeling like my old self again”).  And that’s all we need. 
Dexter returns this fall on Showtime with Edward James Olmos and Mos Def joining the cast.  Watch the trailer after the jump. http://collider.com/dexter-season-6-trailer/96961/

New Posters for COWBOYS & ALIENS and WARRIOR

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: June 16th, 2011

Two new posters tonight for Warrior and Cowboys & Aliens, tailored to men as much as movie posters can be “for men.”   Four of cinema’s most masculine specimens, staring straight ahead next to or above no-nonsense titles — no smiles allowed, obviously.
Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford look cooler than I ever will as the poster boys for Cowboys & Aliens.  Other men in the Jon Favreau-directed film include Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Keith Carradine, and Walton Goggins.  There’s a woman billed in the top five (Olivia Wilde), but it’s okay because she’s superhot.  Cowboys & Aliens opens on July 29.
Meanwhile, Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton are busy looking ripped on the poster for Warrior.  Jennifer Morrison, Nick Nolte, and Noah Emmerich also star in the mixed martial arts drama.  Warrior opens on September 9.  Hit the jump for the posters and official synopses. http://collider.com/cowboys-and-aliens-poster-warrior-poster/96948/

***Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser and Craig Robinson Set for FREAKY DEAKY ***Don Scardino to Direct BURT WONDERSTONE Starring Steve Carell ***RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Theatrical Trailer ***Craig Brewer to Adapt TARZAN for a Potential Trilogy

Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser and Craig Robinson Set for FREAKY DEAKY

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: June 2nd, 2011

A trio of actors have signed on for Charles Matthau’s (The Grass Harp) adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel Freaky Deaky. Variety reports that Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser and Craig Robinson will star in the Hollywood-centered crime flick. Dillon will star as an LAPD bomb squad officer who happens upon a plot hatched by two hippies who plan to scam a movie mogul using their bomb-making skills. Fraser plays a former activist who now puts his bomb-knowledge to work as a Hollywood pyrotechnics and demolition expert, and Robinson is poised to play a former Black Panther who now serves as the assistant to Fraser’s character.
In pitch-perfect casting, William H. Macy is already set to star as the alcoholic Hollywood mogul that the two hippie characters attempt to scam. The other day we heard that Sienna Miller may be starring in the film, but she wasn’t mentioned in Variety’s report today. Matthau will direct, and adapted Leonard’s novel himself. The film version will take place in 1974 instead of Leonard’s late 80’s setting of the book. While Fraser is used to starring in what can mildly be described as horseshit as of late, the other actors involved sound promising. It’ll be interesting to see who Matthau gets to fill out the rest of his cast. Production is set to start this summer in Michigan. Hit the jump to read a synopsis of Leonard’s book. http://collider.com/matt-dillon-brendan-fraser-craig-robinson-freaky-deaky/94390/

Don Scardino to Direct BURT WONDERSTONE Starring Steve Carell

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: June 2nd, 2011

In magician-comedy movie news, New Line has tapped Don Scardino to make his feature directorial debut on Burt Wonderstone. Starring Steve Carell, the film revolves around a magician in Las Vegas who, after losing his partner, must compete with a new, hipper magician who appears on the strip and starts making waves. Back in February, we reported that TV director Charles McDougall had been set to direct the film, but now Deadline reports that he’s been replaced by Scardino.
A fellow television director, Scardino currently serves as one of the principal directors on NBC’s 30 Rock. He’ll be working from a script by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses), who wrote the most recent draft after Chad Kultgen’s first pass at the screenplay. Production is set to begin this October in Los Angeles. http://collider.com/don-scardino-burt-wonderstone/94384/

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Theatrical Trailer

by Jason Barr    Posted: June 2nd, 2011

The theatrical trailer for director Rupert Wyatt’s (The Escapist) Rise of the Planet of the Apes is now available online. While I continue to be impressed with the digital effects work done by Peter Jackson’s WETA Digital, I’m unsure what to make of dialogue such as “That chimp’s company property!” Moreover, even though I’m a fan of Frank Schaffner’s 1968 original (co-written by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling), I’m still not convinced that this is a property I need to learn more backstory about (which, I assume, is Rise‘s sole purpose in the franchise). Starring James Franco, Andy Serkis, Tom Felton, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, and Freida Pinto, Rise of the Planet of the Apes hits theaters on August 5th.

Hit the jump to check out the new trailer and click here to find all of our previous Apes coverage. http://collider.com/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-trailer/94371/

Craig Brewer to Adapt TARZAN for a Potential Trilogy

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 2nd, 2011

Filmmaker Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow) will direct a new Tarzan film as part of a potential trilogy for Warner Bros.  At the beginning of the year, we told you that Warner Bros. was rebooting or remaking some of its high-profile properties and Tarzan was on that list.  And they have a solid director in Brewer although I’d much rather see him make Mother Trucker (which is about a man who escapes from prison, hijacks an 18-wheeler, and races across the South to see his dying mother) as his follow up to the upcoming remake of Footloose.
Warner Bros. also has screenwriter Adam Cozad (Archangel) working on a separate script for Tarzan, but it remains to be seen which film they’ll move into production.  Deadline reports that this is a passion project for Brewer, and I’ll be interested to see how he plans to interpret a character who has been adapted into countless formats since he was first introduced in Edgar Rice Burrough’s 1914 novel Tarzan of hte Apes.
 http://collider.com/craig-brewer-tarzan-trilogy/94324/

Craig Brewer Wants To Reboot Tarzan As A Trilogy At Warner Bros.

published: 2011-06-02 13:50:44 Author: Sean O'Connell
Tarzan has been on Hollywood’s backburner for years now. The fictional hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ timeless novels has starred in roughly 90 movies since 1918, and was most famously portrayed by Johnny Weissmuller in the 1930s and ’40s. But a new version of the ape-man may swing into theaters as part of an updated adventure that would stretch over three films.

The pitch comes from writer-director Craig Brewer, who according to Deadline is working with Warner Bros. on a rejuvenated Tarzan story that the studio plans to turn into a trilogy. Screenwriter Adam Cozad has been hired to pen the script. His other credits include the planned Jack Ryan reboot and Archangel, which has attracted Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski. No details on how Tarzan would be differently, exactly. There’s only so much you can do with the basic premise of an orphan raised by apes, so I’m intrigued to see how massive this story is that Brewer thinks he can expand it over three films.

On a related note, what happened to Brewer? The guy previously directed the passionate Hustle & Flow and the provocative Black Snake Moan. Since then, he has moved on to a Footloose remake and now a Tarzan reboot. Maybe it was Brewer’s intention all along to go mainstream, but the filmmaking voice and attitude I heard in those first two films didn’t suggest a guy content to coast on safer projects such as these. http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Craig-Brewer-Wants-To-Reboot-Tarzan-As-A-Trilogy-At-Warner-Bros-25027.html

New "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" Trailer is Here!

Posted: June 3rd, 2011 by WorstPreviews.com Staff


20th Century Fox has unveiled a brand new trailer for "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," starring James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, and Andy Serkis. Check it out below.

Set in present day San Francisco, the origin story deals with the aftermath of man's experiments with genetic engineering that lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. A chimp named Caesar (Andy Serkis) leads the uprising among the apes after having been raised by Lithgow and Franco's father-and-son scientist characters.

"Rise of the Apes" is directed by Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist) and is set to hit theaters on August 5th.



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Paul Greengrass to Direct Tom Hanks in Somali Pirate Hostage Film

Posted: June 3rd, 2011 by WorstPreviews.com Staff


Paul Greengrass (Bourne Ultimatum) has been developing a Martin Luther King Jr film called "Memphis" until Universal Pictures shut it down over rights issues. Now the director has a new project, "A Captain's Duty."

The new movie is a big screen adaptation of Richard Phillips' "A Captain's Duty," about the merchant-vessel captain who was taken hostage by Somali pirates and ultimately freed in a daring rescue by US Navy SEALs. Tom Hanks is on board to play the lead role.

The new film is written by Billy Ray (State of Play, Flightplan) and will likely go into production this fall, once Hanks wraps "Cloud Atlas" for the Wachowskis.

Source: NY Mag

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**Teaser Trailer for THE HANGOVER PART II **First Image from RISE OF THE APES **Charles McDougall to Direct BURT WONDERSTONE Starring Steve Carell **Ewan McGregor Joins Bryan Singer’s JACK THE GIANT KILLER

Teaser Trailer for THE HANGOVER PART II

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 24th, 2011

Warner Bros. has released the teaser trailer for The Hangover Part II.  Rather than highlight a joke or two, the teaser makes the odd decision to highlight all of the critical acclaim for The Hangover.  It’s not necessarily a bad decision, but I would have liked to see at least one joke beyond “Hey, look!  A monkey wearing clothes!”  It’s probably just best to think of this as an announcement trailer and wait until the serious trailer hits in probably about six weeks or so.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer.  Directed by Todd Phillips, The Hangover Part II stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Jeffrey Tambor, Mike Tyson, Justin Bartha, and Ken Jeong.  The film opens May 26th.

Click over to Apple to see the trailer in HD.

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Charles McDougall to Direct BURT WONDERSTONE Starring Steve Carell

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 24th, 2011

Charles McDougall has signed on to direct the comedy Burt Wonderstone. The film stars Steve Carell as a Las Vegas magician who must rediscover his mojo in order to compete with a younger rival. Chad Kultgen penned the original script, and John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses) wrote the current draft. THR reports that the film is set to shoot this fall. Before conjuring up Wonderstone, Carell will shoot Great Hope Springs with Meryl Streep.
McDougall has had a successful career in directing TV, including episodes of The Office (the US version), Parks and Recreation, and won an Emmy for directing the pilot of Desperate Housewives.
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First Image from RISE OF THE APES

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 24th, 2011

Fox’s Planet of the Apes prequel, Rise of the Apes, was scheduled to come out this summer, but was pushed back to the holiday season so that there was more time to work on the special effects.  The new Apes flick centers on a young scientist (James Franco) whose attempts to cure Alzheimer’s leads to the creation of a super-intelligent ape (played by Andy Serkis using motion-capture).  The first official image from the film has been released, and while there are no apes rising, we do get to see Franco working hard at the science.
Hit the jump to check out the image.  Rise of the Apes also stars Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Tom Felton, Tyler Labine, and Brian Cox.  The film opens November 23rd.
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Ewan McGregor Joins Bryan Singer’s JACK THE GIANT KILLER

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: February 24th, 2011

The cast of director Bryan Singer’s fantasy-adventure film Jack the Giant Killer is rounding itself out nicely. Ewan McGregor is in negotiations to join the cast of the fairy-tale update that now includes Stanley Tucci as the villain, Bill Nighy and John Kassir as the two-headed leader of the giants, and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: First Class) as the titular hero Jack.
The story sees Jack on a mission to rescue a princess from the kingdom of the giants. Heat Vision reports that McGregor will play the leader of the king’s elite guard, and fighter of giants of course. The role of the princess for the New Line tentpole has yet to be filled, but the report singles out Adelaide Kane (Power Rangers: RPM) and Eleanor Tomlinson (Alice in Wonderland) as actresses testing for the role, in addition to the previously reported Lily Collins (The Blind Side) and Juno Temple (Greenberg). Filming is set to get underway in late March.
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