Here’s a glimpse at Brandon Routh as Todd Ingram in “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.” Ingram is the third boyfriend of Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) who has special vegan psychic powers and also plays bass in Clash at Demonhead who is fronted by Brie Larson‘s character Envy Adams. [EdgarWrightIsHere]
Megan Fox keeps lobbing hilarious digs at Michael Bay and “Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen.” You gotta love her spunk. “I’m in the movie, and I read the script, and I watched the movie, and I still didn’t know what was happening. So I think if you haven’t read the script and you go and you see it and you understand it, I think you might be a genius.” [Movieline]
Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand may make the unlikeliest of duos in an upcoming road trip comedy, “Mother’s Curse.” Nothing is in concrete though as the project is described by Rogen himself as “one of the many projects I may or may not do in the next fifteen years.” Ridiculously awesome or just ridiculous? Either way, it sounds pie-in-the-sky-ish and nothing to bank on quite yet. [HitFix]
Bill Nighy is reportedly set to join the cast of “Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows” as the Minister Of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour. The actor had apparently previously complained about being “the only British actor who hasn’t been in Harry Potter.” [Leaky Cauldron]
IFC has revealed its upcoming slate which includes nine pictures coming out between July and October. No exact dates are given in this frustrating article, but it appears that John Krasinski’s directorial debut, “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men”will arrive in September, while Doug Pray’s “Art & Copy” advertising documentary will hit in August, as will Ondi Timoner’s “We Live in Public” web doc. [Variety]
A new poster for Lee Daniels’ “Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire” has been unveiled. This one is quite excellent and far better than the first one, but they can’t sell this to a mainstream crowd unfortunately. [HitFix]
Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska are all set to star in Lisa Cholodenko’s “The Kids Are All Right.” The film begins shooting today and centers on a brother and sister who set out to find their same-sex parents’ sperm donor, who totally upsets their family dynamic once he enters their lives. Wasikowska is of course Tim Burton’s title character in “Alice In Wonderland.” Cholodenko you’ll remember directed the decent indie flicks, “Laurel Canyon” and “High Art.” [Variety]
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has invited 134 members artists to its ranks among those including Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Michael Cera, Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon, Casey Affleck, Amy Ryan, Michelle Williams, James McEvoy, Danny Boyle and Dustin Lance Black. [Variety]
Matt Reeves (“Cloverfield”) says his inspiration to remake the Swedish vampire film, “Let The Right One In” was a individualistic one. “I was so taken with the story and I had a very personal reaction. It reminded me a lot of my childhood, with the metaphor that the hard times of your pre-adolescent, early adolescent moment, that painful experience is a horror.” How about spending your time and money on therapy instead of compensating by butchering this? [L.A. Times]
Charlie Day (“It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”) and Christina Applegate have joined Drew Barrymore and Justin Long in the Nanette Burstein (“American Teen”) helmed “Going The Distance.” The film will follows the story of a couple who are trying to maintain a long-distance relationship. Like the majority of rom-coms weren’t mundane enough. [THR]