Slumdog Millioniare (TRAILER JUST CLICK!!!!!!!)

Interview with CHOKE’s Chuck Palahniuk!! *JUST CLICK*

CHOKE OUT TOMORROW!!!!

“If you are going to read this, don’t bother. After a couple of pages, you won’t want to be here. So forget it. Go away. Get out while you’re still in one piece. Save yourself.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

From maverick author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) and breakout new writer-director Clark Gregg comes the subversively comedic tale of Victor Mancini, con artist, sex addict, Colonial village re-enactor, angst-filled son, serial restaurant choker . . . and unsuspecting romantic antihero for our unsettling times.

 

Victor (Sam Rockwell), in an effort to pay for his demented mother’s (Academy Award® winner Anjelica Huston) private healthcare, engages in a brazen scam. While dining in upscale restaurants, he deliberately chokes on his food, allowing himself to be “saved” by wealthy good Samaritans who grow so close to him in the wake of their heroic Heimlich Maneuvers, they lavish him with cheques. His day job at a historical theme park is no more conventional; and when he isn’t busy being a put upon Pilgrim, gagging violently or visiting the mother who doesn’t recognize him, Victor is cruising sexaholic recovery meetings for action.

 

It’s no wonder Victor feels adrift. But when his declining mother hints at the identity of his long lost father, Victor hopes it can finally provide the answers he has been searching for. With the help of his fellow sex addict Denny (Brad William Henke), Victor befriends his mother’s alluring young physician (Golden Globe® nominee Kelly Macdonald), who leads him to believe his origins may be far more shockingly divine than he ever could have imagined. So is Victor Mancini still the no-good loser he always thought he would be, or could he possibly be some crazy kind of saviour?

 

CHOKE, which ran away with the Special July Prize for Best Work by an Ensemble Cast at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is not only a cathartic and romantic satire about uncontrolled lust, lost faith, childhood trauma, mad addictions, bizarre fantasies and blockages both emotionally and literally, but also about second chances, redemptive moments and true love – that is, it’s about modern life.

World War Z gets a general!

Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster has just signed on to direct the book to film adaption World War Z.

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski has been bashing out a script that can draw the best strands of pseduo-future fiction history book. The film rights were bought by Brad Pitt’s company Plan B, and it is still unknown what role the actor will play, wheather just a producer credit or possibly a starring role.

The Day The Earth Stood Still (TRAILER JUST CLICK)

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL stars Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly and Kathy Bates and is released in cinemas 12^th December.

 

In THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, a contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic, renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis.

 

When forces beyond Helen’s control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world’s leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu’s claim that he is “a friend to the Earth.”

 

Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving – but it may be too late.

THE DADDY IS BACK

The king of action films, the sultan of adrenalin, the daddy of… You get the picture. SHANE BLACK IS BACK! No… Not Jack Black… No…. Not Frank Black…… SHANE BLACK
Yep the guy who wrote Leathal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout and the amazingly brilliant KISS KISS BANG BANG, is finally going to come back and reclaim the silver screen.
He will be directing Cold Warrior, but unfortunately not off his own script. The story revolved around a retired spy who has to deal with a terrorist threat from Russia. Quite apt considering the political climate.
Black was recently seen handing in a proposed script for Lethal Weapon 5…

Bilson gets romantic

Our favorite OC member, Rachel Bilson, is to star in James Keach’s indie romantic drama, Waiting For Forever.
It focuses on a slacker loser who decides to give up his life to spend mroe time with his TV star girlfriend (Bilson).
Not groundbreaking stuff or anything, but we like Rachel so we are happy.
Filming starts next month.

88 Minutes (TRAILER JUST CLICK)

MORE RAMBO!

Lionsgate has let slip that development on the new Rambo is on track. In a press release announcing Alli Shearmur and Mike Paseornek as production co-presidents.

QUANTUM OF SOLACE (NEW TRAILER JUST CLICK)

Arne is back… Sorta

The first man of California, Arne himself, has been spotted talking to Christian Bale on the set of the new Terminator film Salvation. Whilst no one has denied he will cameo, this latest appearance will do nothing to dampen down the fanboy wankery.
Roland Kickinger is cast to play the T-800 but rumour is that whilst he does all the body work, director McG wants to use special effects to digitally graft Arne’s face onto the stand-in.