Michael Bay promises to blow up Chicago and Moscow with “big action sequences” in “Transformers 3.” The director also reveals that the next film will have “….a lot of new elements. We’re adding new characters. We’re adding a lot of twists.” We hope the twist is that it has a coherent plot.
The cast for the Farrelly Brothers comedy “Hall Pass” keeps growing. Christina Applegate and Alyssa Milano are the latest names to join the cast that now boasts Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer, Amanda Bynes, Stephen Merchant, J.B. Smoove, Nicky Whelan and Derek Waters. The film, about “two husbands given permission to go outside their marriages for guilt-free romantic liaisons for one week,” stars shooting in Atlanta on Tuesday.
Anthony Hopkins will take the lead in Mikael Hafstrom’s (“Derailed,” “1408”) supernatural thriller “The Rite.” Based on the forthcoming book by Matt Baglio, “the story centers on a disillusioned American seminary student who attends exorcism school at the Vatican and ultimately finds his faith through encounters with demonic forces. Hopkins will play a priest who is an expert in exorcisms and whose methods are not necessarily traditional.”
“Everybody Loves Whales,” “a fact-based story of the 1988 rescue of a trio of California gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle” is looking to snag Drew Barrymore for the lead role. Ken Kwampis (“License To Wed,” “He’s Just Not That Into You”) is set to direct the film which shoots this fall and whose involvement guarantees that we have no interest in this.
“Holy Rollers,” the Jesse Eisenberg led indie drama about a Hasidic Jew who slings drugs in 1990s New York has been picked up by First Independent Pictures and will hit theaters this summer.
Comedy troupe Broken Lizard, who made one sort of enjoyable film in “Super Troopers” and lots of dreck since, have somehow convinced Universal to give them money for their next effort “Rogue Scholars.” This time around, the project will be “a college comedy revolving around five unruly professors played by the members of Broken Lizard.” Lots of poop/drug/drunk jokes follow.
Finally, a new trailer has landed for the reboot of “A Nightmare On Elm Street” and you know what? We’re not going to hate on it. We like Jackie Earle Haley and it looks like it’s capturing the grim humor of the original franchise instead of just keeping the concept, tossing in some half dressed teenage girls and upping the gore. Judge for yourself below.