This week:
The box office is Furious; Jack Bauer leaves 24 for Joel Schumacher’s Twelve; Paul Weitz looks at Little Fockers; Rosemarie DeWitt and Chris Cooper are Company Men; Aaron Eckhart and Nicole Kidman stare into the Rabbit Hole; we make a date for Sex and The City 2 and Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg are Prisoners.
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Box office
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker raced into the number one position with Fast and Furious. The action sequel banked a massive $72 million over the weekend – showing that there is plenty of gas left in the Fast and Furious franchise. Maybe Vin Diesel will get those Riddick movies made after all.
Monster vs. Aliens dropped to second place but it still managed to gross $33 million giving the animated film a gross of over $100 million.
The Haunting in Connecticut took another $9.6 million bringing the total gross to a pretty decent $37 million.
Nicolas Cage’s hair banked another $8 million, giving Knowing a total gross of $58 million.
I Love You, Man brought its total up to $49 million while fellow comedy film Adventureland had a disappointing opening of $6 million.
Julia Roberts and Clive Owen saw Duplicity bank an additional $4 million giving the star driven thriller a $32 million total.
Movie News
1. Joel Schumacher will direct an adaptation of Nick McDonell’S novel Twelve. According to Variety:
“Story follows a high school dropout-turned-drug dealer. His lucrative life sours when the dealer’s cousin is brutally murdered on an East Harlem playground and his best friend is arrested for the crime.”
The cast of the film includes Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Curtis Jackson (or 50 Cent), Ellen Barkin and Kiefer Sutherland.
Sutherland and Schumacher have made numerous films together over the years – A Time To Kill, Lost Boys, Phone Booth and Flatliners. Schumacher also directed Emma Roberts’ aunt Julia in Flatliners and Dying Young.
Did I mention that Schumacher also directed a little film called Batman and Robin?
Source: Variety
2. Paul Weitz is in talks to direct Universal Pictures Little Fockers, the second sequel to Meet The Parents.
The director has previously helmed the first American Pie film, About A Boy and In Good Company.
The Focker flick is expected to start shooting in July.
Source: Variety
3. Rosemarie DeWitt has joined the cast of Company Men and Chris Cooper is in negotiations to sign on to the film. The corporate downsizing drama will star Kevin Costner, Ben Affleck and Tommy Lee Jones.
How many Oscar winners can you fit into one film?
Rosemarie DeWitt will play Affleck’s wife while Cooper would play a white collar worker losing his job.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
4. Aaron Eckhart will join Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole.
“[The film is a] story of a happily married couple whose lives are disrupted after their 4-year-old son is killed in a traffic accident and the redemptive journey they must undertake to regain happiness.”
Sounds like a bundle of laughs. It’ll be interesting to see if Kidman can emote.
Source: Variety
5. Warner Bros. have set a date for Sex and the City 2. Be prepared to be carried away (again) on May 28, 2010.
The first film made a mind boggling $412.6 million worldwide.
That’s an awful lot of shoes for Sarah Jessica Parker.
Source: Variety
6. Batman and Terminator Salvation star Christian Bale may join Mark Wahlberg in Prisoners.
The plot is as follows:
“After his 6-year-old daughter and her friend are kidnapped, a small-town carpenter butts heads with a young, brash detective in charge of the investigation. The father is a Bible-reading, deer-hunting survivalist. The cop, meanwhile, can’t wait to get to the city. Feeling failed by the law, the father captures the man he believes responsible and begins to torture him in a desperate attempt to find out what he did with the girls, whom he’s convinced are still alive.”
Bryan Singer is pondering directing the film.
Nothing is set in stone yet but if Bale, Wahlberg and Singer io sign then expect a studio to snap the project up.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
That’s it for now. See you at the movies.
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13 Comments
Wow. Rabbit Hole and Prisoners sound like snoozefests.
I can’t believe that Duplicity only has taken in $32 mil. I guess Julia Roberts doesn’t have the star power she once had. Wonder how long until the Playboy layout? LOL.
Oh great, another mild comedy with Ben Stiller in. Yeesh.
And more Sex and the City! Argh!
Niall, you should also mention that Schumacher also directed one of the GREATEST Michael Douglas films ever…Falling Down!
Falling Down = AWESOME!
@Andy
I’ll see your “Rabbit Hole and Prisoners sound like snoozefests” and raise you one “Rabbit Hole and Prisoners sound like torture laiden, vomit inducing, craporamas” with Sex in the City 2 sent into to lick it up.
Saw Fast and Furious and I have to admit it was pretty good, IMHO. Rodriguez was in it only briefly; she is hot! Fast cars and faster women; WOOOHOOOO!!!
i’m going to see fast and furious this weekend. The only one of these movies i might be interested in seeing is twelve.Keifer sutherland is one of my favorite actors.
@INK–
You got me, man. I couldn’t have said it any better myself. LOL.
@SK47—
Falling Down was awesome. Great movie.
Makes you wonder exactly how much of Batman and Robin was Schumacher and how much was WB meddling.
Every director has their missteps. Apparently, Uwe Boll is always a misstep but the thing is that Batman & Robin was Schumacher’s misstep.
The nipples on the batsuit and the cod piece, maybe he saw the fetishism in these costumes similar to how Allan Moore saw Silk Spectre’s in Watchmen. Who knows, point is, a misstep.
Sutherland is great, but if I have to watch him charge into a scene and yell “Stop! ™” I’m gonna burst out laughing in the theater.
Singer, Bale and Wahlberg? Excellent combination.
Bale seems interested in facing off with tons of actors. Russell Crowe in 3:10 to Yuma, Hugh Jackman in The Prestige, Johnny Depp in Public Enemies and now Mark Wahlberg in Prisoners.
Come on Niall, Kiefer leaves 24 for Schumacker’s “Twelve”,,,
That’s just a tad misleading.
gravatar what about heath ledger in batman dark knight and liam nelson in batman begins
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