The marketing campaign for the Duplass brothers’ upcoming comedy “Cyrus” has been kick started with an amusing t-shirt emblazoned with a phrase that pretty much sums up the film’s theme: “Seriously, Don’t F**k My Mom.” You can pick up the shirt over at Fox Searchlight’s online shop. As for the film, we caught it at SXSW, calling it a funny/sad, dark, endearing picture that can’t be missed. Check it out when it opens on June 18th.
Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3D “The Three Musketeers” has been given an April 15, 2011 release date by Summit opposite Wes Craven’s “Scream 4.” The picture boasts a pretty interesting cast, including Matthew Macfadyen as Athos, Luke Evans as Aramis, Ray Stevenson as Porthos and Logan Lerman as D’Artagnan, with Christoph Waltz to portray Cardinal Richelieu, Mads Mikkelsen as Rochefort, Milla Jovovich as Milady de Winter and Orlando Bloom as the Duke of Buckingham. This now puts pressure on Warner Bros. and director Doug Liman who have their own gestating “Three Musketeers” film that is also considering the 3D treatment. Anderson’s film will start shooting this summer.
Speaking of release dates, the Nicolas Cage fantasy film “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” has moved ahead two days to July 14th, probably to get out of the fucking way of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” which is the only other studio film opening on July 16th. Sidenote: we had no idea Alfred Molina, who pretty much stole every scene in “Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time,” and Monica Bellucci were in ‘Apprentice.” Huh. We guess we now have two reasons to watch it. Sidenote 2: whatever happened to “Season Of The Witch”?
Jess Walters’ National Book Award nominated novel and post 9/11 satire “The Zero” has been picked up by indie producers LLeju Productions. Snagged from Warner Bros. who put the project in turnaround, the film would follow “a policeman named Brian Remy who, suffering from head trauma in the wake of 9/11, leads tours of ground zero while also beginning a Kafkaesque search for a mysterious character named March Selios.” Brandon Boyce (“Apt Pupil,” “Wicker Man”) will be writing the script and if approved, production will start later this year.
Finally, the second installment of “Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows” features lesbians?
