A character poster for Rachel McAdams’ Irene Adler character in Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” was unveiled at Comic-Con. [IGN]
Pixar’s John Lassater has noted that “Toy Story 3” will explore the idea that the toys must come to grips with a grown-up Andy. “It’s a different emotional core from the other movies,” added Lassater. “We needed to have more than just have the toys go on another adventure.” Michael Keaton will also be joining the cast as Ken of Barbie fame. [Variety]
Charlize Theron and Samuel L. Jackson will have voice cameos in the upcoming animated film, “Astro Boy,” which already features the voices of Freddie Highmore and Kristen Bell as well as Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland and Nathan Lane. [ComingSoon]
Producer Galen Walker on the upcoming live-action “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”: “Our point of view is this: go back and look at the original Turtles comics. They are very dark. The audience is much more sophisticated than they were in 1990. This is 2009. Take the new Harry Potter for example. It is rated PG and it’s still a very dark film. We are headed that direction.” Seriously? We’re gonna get the “The Dark Knight”/”Watchmen,” of ‘Ninja Turtle’ movies. Hilarious. [Firstshowing]
Horror/comedy “Zombieland” predominantly features n amusement park so we knew this was bound to happen right? A clown zombie. We wondered what significance this particular zombie earned to get his own picture released. Bill Murray and Matthew McConaughey were reported to have cameos. Any resemblance? [BloodyDisgusting]
Darren Lynn Bousman on his next project. “‘Abattoir’ means slaughterhouse – this book (and soon to be movie) is extremely dark… It revolves around a unique house – you come to find out very quickly why ‘slaughterhouse’ is an appropriate name.” [BloodyDisgusting]
Paul Giamatti and Clancy Brown will feature vocally in the David Fincher produced animated comic book adaptation of “The Goon.” [/Film]
