The Karate Kid Comeback: Wax On, F**k Off

The original Karate Kid is planning a comeback! The star of the popular 80's film Ralph Macchio attempts to become a Hollywood bad boy in this hilarious mockumentary Wax On, Fuck Off.

With Karate Kid returning to the big screen, his career fading his friends and family are forced to stage an intervention.

In order to re-establish himself in the entertainment industry he hits the streets of Los Angeles to show everyone how tough he can be.

There's also cameos from Molly Ringwald and Kevin Connolly.

Eddie Redmayne Joins Spielberg's War Horse

The Playlist is reporting Steven Spielberg has secured the lead for his latest feature Warhorse. The films is an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's acclaimed children's novel.

The film follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend. As it might sound, the book's a real tear jerker, and a stage version (which the film will also be based on) has been playing to full houses in London since 2007.

According to their sources Eddie is a lock for the role, and filming is set to start soon. War Horse is set for release on August 10, 2011.

The other bit of casting said to still be under way is who will play Joey the horse, but sources close to TMT tell us that Sarah Jessica Parker is in final negotiations for the role. According to Spielberg He couldn't picture anyone else in the role. My guess is she does this before starting production on her next turd, Sex and the City 3.

Writers working on Flash & Green Lantern 2!

Warner Bros must have serious faith in what Martin Cambell is doing with next years Green Lantern. They've hired Greg Berlanti, Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim, all of whom worked on the first Lantern screenplay, to write a treatment for the second installment. A sequel being put into development this early into the production of the first film must indicate the studios confidence in the project.

As well as the Lantern sequel they will also be doing a treatment for the Flash. Within the same deal they'll end up writing the screenplay for one of the two projects, though which one has not yet been determined. If I had to guess this probably means that Berlanti will also be directing Flash as previously reported,

The “Flash” film will take inspiration from Johns’ recent work and will feature the Barry Allen incarnation of the character. (In comics lore, several names have wielded the Flash mantle, though Allen, created in 1956, remains by far the most popular.)

Does this mean that the purposed Justice League film is that much closer or that much further away?

On the one hand the fact that they have plans for a Lantern sequel, a Flash film is finally moving forward, Superman and Batman 3 are in development would indicate they're content with solo films for the individual heroes. But on the contrary this could signal their plans to bring the heroes together are closer than we thought. It's certainly possible they'll decide to release individual films first establishing each hero, and then bring them all together for a blockbuster team up much like Marvel's been doing with The Avengers.

What do you think, is this the beginning of a Justice League film? Or has DC chosen to develop each property entirely separate in their own individual franchises?

Tony Gilroy writing The Bourne Legacy!

 

Just when I thought it was over they pull me right back in! The Bourne franchise will continue with a fourth installment set for release in 2012!

Universal Pictures announced today that Tony Gilroy is returning to write the script for The Bourne Legacy, the fourth installment in the Jason Bourne franchise. He wrote the previous three films as well.

They also added that while "The Bourne Legacy" is a book written by Eric Lustabader in Robert Ludlum's "Bourne" series, the film will not be based on it.

This is great fucking news! I personally loved the first three films. I felt like they breathed some fresh air into the spy/thriller/action genre. The only issue for me at this point is Matt Damon has gone on record saying that he wouldn't reprise the role if director Paul Greengrass is not returning. Someone at Universal better know enough to write Greengrass a fat ass cheque right about now. Because without Damon I have no interest in the sequel, and I'm sure the majority of fans can agree.

The Lizard in Spider-Man reboot?

 

As we wait to find out who will officially take on the role of Spider-Man, we continue to get other peices of casting info. Just last week Blending Cool reported  Jamie Bell being the new Spider-Man. Which I still find hard to believe.

Then just yesterday Showbiz 411 reported that Michael Fassbender was up for a Magento in the X-Men first class prequel as well as an unknown villain role for the Spider-Man reboot. At the time I said he should just take the Magneto role, but now Bleeeding Cool has revealed the villain for Marc Webb's   reboot is Dr. Curt Connors (aka the Lizard). I must now retract my previous statement regarding Magento, and put my support behind Fassbender playing The Lizard. A villain we've technically yet to see on screen.

This does come as somewhat of a huge slap to the face for Dylan Baker who played Dr. Curt Connors in two of the previous films, but never had the chance to be The Lizard as well.

Damn you Sony! I actually wanted to see Spider-Man 4. Regardless of the weird Vulture/ Vulturess plot. I like many fans hoped Connors would finally transform into the Lizard.

Box Office Predictions June 11-13

Opening this week is the big screen adaption of the popular 80's Tv show The A Team as well as the reboot/remake to the popular 80's film The karate Kid starring Jackie Chan and Will Smith's son Jaden.

Expect it to be a close battle for the top spot, but ultimately I think the A team will win over general audiences more so than a Karate Kid remake. The all star cast and from the looks of the trailers the senseless action sequences will be a huge advantage to A Team.

1. The A-Team (20th Century Fox) - $36 million

2. The Karate Kid (Sony) - $31 million

3. Shrek Forever After (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) - $15 million

4. Get Him to the Greek (Universal) - $11 million

5. Killers (LIonsgate) - $8.2 million

6. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Disney) - $7.4 million

7. Marmaduke (20th Century Fox) - $6.5 million

8. Sex and the City 2 (New Line/WB) - $6.2 million

9. Iron Man 2 (Marvel/Paramount) - $4.1 million

10. Splice (Warner Bros.) - $3.6 million

Be sure to check back this Sunday for the Box Office Estimates from Jen and again on Monday for the actual numbers.

Batman: Year One being Animated?

According to The Continuum one of the greatest batman novels ever to be released will be getting the direct to video animated treatment.

Batman: Year One the graphic novel written by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchilli, which was also in part the basis for Chris Nolan's Batman Begins will be directed by Sam Liu, who co-directed Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.

Could this be one of the two project Bruce Timm was unable to talk about back in April in our exclusive interview with him? There's a good possibility, but Warner Home Video has yet to confirm or deny the report. However they tend not to say anything until they've announced an official release date.

The story is as follows:

A young Bruce Wayne has spent his adolescence and early adulthood, traveling the world so he could hone his body and mind into the perfect fighting and investigative machine. But now as he returns to Gotham City, he must find a way to focus his passion and bring justice to his city. Retracing Batman’s first attempts to fight injustice as a costumed vigilante, we watch as he chooses a guise of a giant bat, creates an early bond with a young Lieutenant James Gordon, inadvertently plays a role in the birth of Catwoman, and helps to bring down a corrupt political system that infests Gotham.

Update on Thu, June 10, 2010 by Mitch Anderson

As I previously speculated Year One will in fact be released in 2011. The presumed and yet to be officially confirmed from Warner release date is September 27, 2011.

The Update come courtesy of batmanonfilm

What is Mortal Kombat: Rebirth?

It looks like we "might" be getting an R rated Mortal Kombat films after all. The die hard fans of the franchise have long been lobbying for an R rated adaption of the video game. But the probability seemed highly unlikely.

Until now that is. A new Mortal Kombat short filmed directed by Kevin Tancharoen has made its way onto youtube. LatinoReview has the rundown on who played who, and they're calling this a test video shot for Warner Brothers to get funding for a full blown hard 'R' MK movie.

I can't say that I was a huge fan of the original films, but I did enjoy them when they came out, and I did see them in the theatre. The problem with them is, when you watch them now not only do they not hold true to the test of time, but they're very cheesy and watered down in comparison to what they maybe could have been.

Tom Cruise doing a Les Grossman Movie

I know I'm in the minority in saying that I never jumped on the "we hate Tom Cruise band wagon", although I did however jump on the "Tom Cruise is Looney Tunes wagon". The point is, regardless of how crazy Tom Cruise is/was or is for that matter doesn't change the fact that he's an extremely talented actor.

Over the past few years he's worked hard at regaining his public image, and popularity amongst his fans. He's downplayed his crazy religious beliefs, and apologized to Brooke Shields. But one of the greatest things Tom did to win people back over was his turn as the Hollywood studio executive Len Grossman character from Tropic Thunder. 

It's been rumored for some time now that paramount was working on a film centered 100% on Grossman. After appearing on the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday in character as Grossman Cruise himself confirmed to E! Online, "Yup, we're working on it."

I know some people will hate the idea, but I personally think this will be hilarious. Cruise returns to the action/adrenaline genre in the next couple weeks in Knight and Day with Cameron Diaz, and then again in next years Mission Impossible III. So it should be a nice change of pace to see him in something else.

Be sure to check back to TMT for our official review of Knight and Day hitting theatres June 23.

Indiana jones Starts Shooting Next Year?

 

Yes you read that right, Indiana Jones is said to start filming next year. I figured one of two things would happen after Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Either Lucas and Spielberg would never touch Indie again after that CGI filled peice of shit, or they would come back one last time and leave the franchise with it's dignity intact. Turns out the latter is the case here.

I grew up watching and loving the Indian Jones films, so for me Indie 4 was absolute crap. That's not to say that I'm not up for another sequel, but they better bring their A game this time.

Stuff out of New Zealand is reporting the following rumor:

Indiana Jones 5 will begin shooting next year, and much of the plot line will be centred around the Bermuda Triangle, an area over the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft are said to have disappeared.

"George (Lucas) and Steven (Spielberg) have been working on a script and it's almost there," a source explained.

"Harrison is on stand-by for filming next year. This looks like being an emotional and exciting conclusion to the franchise, with Indy facing his biggest challenge yet."