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Take a Dip in the ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ [Red Band Trailer]

Paul Young — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:41:16 +0000

Do you like hot tubs? Have you ever sat in your room wishing you could go back in time and make up for all of your short-comings as a teenager? Well, someone had the absolutely brilliant idea to combine both items and give us the awesomest movie idea to ever come out of Hollywood (well besides Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus) -- Hot Tub Time Machine.

Director Steve Pink (Accepted) teams up with writers Josh Heald and Andrew Mogel to try and bring some laughs and originality to the Hot Tub Time Machine. This is Heald’s first credited writing attempt and the second for Mogel who wrote the screenplay for Jim Carrey’s Yes Man. These three guys may not have a lot of background in directing and writing but that hasn’t stopped the 34^th Street Films movie from picking up some pretty big names to star.

Look at some of the people in the Hot Tub Time Machine: John Cusack, Crispin Glover and Chevy Chase. The story follows four high school buddies, (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Clarke Duke) who reunite at a ski lodge after years of being apart and realize that their hot tub is actually capable of transporting them back in time from 2010 to 1986. That’s pretty much the premise, but honestly do you need more than that? Watch the red band trailer below. Be warned, it contains NSFW language!

John Cusack (Adam) has been one of my favorite actors ever since I was in junior high and watched Better Off Dead for the first time (”Gee Ricky…I’m really sorry your mom blew up.”). I like his delivery and approach to characters but I don’t think I’ve ever heard him cuss quite this much. And did I detect a slight Boston accent in the trailer? The rest of the guys look to be quite humorous as well, and I like the fact they mention Terminator Salvation in the trailer as almost a slight against the T4 story.

Clark Duke (Jacob) gets a decent role in the Hot Tub Time Machine as the Sci-fi (or is it SyFy now? I’m confused) geek who writes Stargate fan fiction. Duke also has a another good movie coming out you may have heard about and that Screen Rant has been following: Kick-Ass.

Hopefully, Craig Robinson (Nick) lives up more to his performance in the Office, rather than his rather poor performance in Dragon Wars. I think he’s funny and it looks like he’s used properly here. Rounding out the group is Rob Corddry (Lou) who is pretty standard raunchy fun in whatever he does, the exception being Unaccompanied Minors.

Josh Heald had this to say about his movie in an interview with Cinematical which you can read here.

“Hot Tub Time Machine is probably the greatest gift anyone’s ever given the world. Time will show that it ranks up there with the Statue of Liberty and free Internet porn.”

I think Mr. Heald is on the right track but he left out my personal favorite -- The Spork (for when you need to stab your soup and slurp it too)! This could be the next Hangover if the movie is as funny as the trailer. I’m hoping it is, because smartly written, truly funny R-rated comedies are hard to come by.

Are you ready to strip down and slip in the Hot Tub Time Machine or does it look like something you’d rather skip?

Hot Tub Time Machine splashes onto screens February 26, 2010.

Source: Cinematical

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: May 31, 2009

Niall Browne — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:34:07 +0000

In the Wrap Up this Week:

The box office is UP; Robert Downey Jr might still saddle up for Cowboys and Aliens; Lucy beats Nicole Kidman to the Punch; Natalie Portman, Danny McBride and James Franco salute Your Highness; Seann William Scott and Adam Brody are A Couple of Dicks and Chevy Chase dips his toes in the Hot Tub Time Machine and he may return as Fletch.

BOX OFFICE:
The summer season is now well and truly here. Pixar’s Up shows that family films and the Pixar brand are hugely profitable. The animated film banked a huge $68 million over the weekend. For a film that sells most of it’s tickets in half price matinees that’s a lot of attendance.

Last week’s champion Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian had to settle for the runner up spot with a weekend take of $25 million. With a total now over $100 million it looks like we might be in for a third installment.

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man stop-gap, Drag Me To Hell, opened to a disappointing $16 million. It probably cost about $20 million to produce, so it’ll be profitable, but I’m sure Raimi wanted more.

Speaking of more – will we ever get to see any more Terminator films? With a weekend take of just $16 million for Terminator Salvation it looks like McG might not get to finish his proposed trilogy. Maybe international grosses will help. It looks like the franchise needed Schwarzenegger’s charisma and not just a grumpy looking Christian Bale.

Star Trek flew past the $200 million mark with a weekend gross of $12 million. Angels & Demons has crossed the $100 million milestone, but will the film be profitable to warrant a sequel? Doubtful.

Dance Flick made another $4 million giving the spoof a total gross of almost $20 million. Who pays money to see that?

X-Men Origins: Wolverine made just under $4 million this weekend bringing the Hugh Jackman starrer’s total to $170.

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past hit $50 million and Beyonce Knowle’s Obsessed is closing in on $70 million.

MOVIE NEWS

1. Everyone wants Robert Downey Jr in their movie these days. It’s funny how times have changed. Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have spoken about how they still hope to snag the Iron Man for their upcoming adaptation of Cowboys and Aliens.

Speaking to Sci-Fi Wire the duo said that they‘ve been speaking to Downey Jr about the film but that scheduling is the issue:

“We’ve been talking to him about that. He’s one of the busiest men on the face of the Earth. If the schedule can line up, we’d absolutely love it.”

The pair also said that they’re finishing up scripting duties on the film:

“We are just about to finish our draft of Cowboys and Aliens, which we are writing with Lost’s Damon Lindelof. For Cowboys and Aliens, we got an amazing first draft from Mark Fergus, who wrote Iron Man, and now we are continuing on with Damon. We are in the middle of the second draft.”

*Please note that Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman do speak separately.
They’re also incredibly in demand with Transformers 2 and Star Trek out this summer alone!

Source: Sci Fi Wire

2. Nicole Kidman has dropped out of Woody Allen’s forthcoming film. The Aussie star will be replaced by British actress Lucy Punch.

The plot and title for the film are unknown but sources believe:
“Punch will play a high-priced call girl similar to Ashley Dupre, who was at the center of the scandal that brought down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.”

The cast for the film is pretty darn good – even for a Woody Allen film. Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas, Naomi Watts and Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto have roles in it.

Source: Variety

3. Natalie Portman will join Danny McBride and James Franco in Your Highness for Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green.

According to Variety:

“McBride, who wrote the script with Ben Best, plays an arrogant lazy prince who with his brother (Franco) must complete a quest to save the kingdom and his brother’s fiance. Portman will play a warrior princess that the lazy prince falls in love with.”

The Princess Bride with pot anyone?

Source: Variety

4. Seann William Scott and Adam Brody know A Couple of Dicks. The pair will join Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan in Kevin Smith’s forthcoming detective comedy.

“Scott plays a thief known as the Sh**t Bandit for the souvenirs he leaves at his robberies. Brody is an abrasive detective not happy to be working with Willis and Morgan.”

A Couple of Dicks starts shooting this Monday in New York.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

5. Chevy Chase seems to be on the comeback trail. Not only has the 80’s icon scored a role in John Cusack’s Hot Tub Time Machine but the Weinstein Company have apparently approached him with a script for a third Fletch movie.

With regards to Hot Tub Time Machine:

“Chase plays a mysterious repairman who dispenses pearls of wisdom and may or may not be behind the metaphysical road trip.”

Now, a Fletch film has been in the works for almost a decade. Kevin Smith originally wanted to make a Fletch film with Jason Lee, and then Scrub’s Zach Braff was attached to the project for a while, but nothing ever came of it. This new script is passing of the baton-type film where Chase’s Fletch advises his journalist nephew on his career.

With a bit of luck this will mean that we get to see more of the criminally underused Chase on the big screen.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

That’s it for now. See you at the movies.

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Movie News Wrap Up: May 25, 2009

Niall Browne — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:34:42 +0000

This week:
Ben Stiller has no time for Salvation at the box office; George Clooney is a Private Gentleman; Lyndsy Fonseca gets into the Hot Tub Time Machine; Milla Jovovich throws a Stone; Ridley Scott looks for a younger Robin Hood and Kevin Costner makes a western – I’m not kidding.

Box Office

It looks like Ben Stiller is going to stay bankable in family films. Night at the Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian should bank an impressive $70 million over the four day weekend. Does that mean that they’ll inflict a third movie on us? Probably.

Terminator: Salvation will shoot up about $62 million over the long weekend. Not exactly the box office superstar they were hoping it would be.

Angels and Demons and Star Trek should both manage about $28 million over the weekend. Star Trek has blown past Wolverine in U.S. ticket sales despite having opened one week later – $191MM vs. $165MM. Worldwide Wolverine is still ahead of Star Trek.

Dance flick spoof.. Er… Dance Flick should pocket about $12 million.

Movie News

1. He was Dr Doug Ross; he was Batman and now he’s A Very Private Gentleman. George Clooney will star in an adaptation of the Martin Booth novel to be directed by Anton Corbjin.

According to Variety:
“Clooney will play an assassin who hides out in an idyllic Italian town before carrying out a final assignment. He resists his usual aversion to human interaction, and his friendships and romantic entanglements complicate his mission.”

Sounds like it could be a classy movie.

Source: Variety

2. Lyndsy Fonseca will be taking a dip in the Hot Tub Time Machine.
Fonseca will play John Cusack’s girlfriend in the film that has a hot tub which is a time machine.

The title says it all really.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

3. Milla Jovovich will star opposite Robert DeNiro and Edward Norton in Stone.

“Jovovich will play the wife of a convicted arsonist (Norton). Desperately looking to be paroled, Norton has Jovovich engage in a dangerous affair with his parole officer (De Niro), entrapping him in a series of deadly psychological games.”

DeNiro has been relatively quiet of late, remember a few years ago when he had a new film out every other week?

Source: Variety

4. Casting is underway in England for a young Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. The filmmakers are looking for an 11 year old boy to play a younger version of the infamous folk hero. It looks like the film will be detailing all of Robin’s life and not just his tight wearing days in Sherwood Forest.

5. Former Robin Hood Kevin Costner is developing a western mini-series for A&E. Costner will produce the series and he may also direct and star – depending on the script.

Over the years Costner’s name has become synonymous with the western genre with the star having roles in Silverado, Dances With Wolves, Wyatt Earp and Open Range.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

That’s it for now. See you at the movies.

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: May 3, 2009

Niall Browne — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:43:10 +0000

This week:

Wolverine is Number 1! Keanu Reeves goes to Cartagena; Marcus Nispell captains The Last Voyage of Demeter; we learn about The Pale Horsemen; Jim Carrey likes The Beaver; Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rainn Wilson know Hesher and three more people jump into the Hot Tub Time Machine; And last but not least, The Road finally gets a new release date.

Box Office

Hugh Jackman proved that he’s still a draw as Wolverine as his X-Men franchise spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine clawed up somewhere in the region of $85-90 million over the weekend. The weekend take was pretty much in line with expectations, but the road ahead might be tricky as reviews weren’t particularly great so there might be a huge drop-off next weekend which is usual for this type of movie.

It looks like Jackman will be able to take Wolverine to Japan in the next installment of Wolverine and we might be seeing a Magneto prequel after all. I’m happy for Hugh Jackman as he really sold the hell out of the film and he needs a hit to stay in the Hollywood game.

Women got even more eye candy this week, in the form of Matthew McConaughey in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, which came in number 2 at the box office. The counter programming romantic comedy should gross about $16 million over the weekend, which is about $6 million less than the usual opening for a “Bongos” McConaughey Rom-Com. Come on Matt get back into the action game with a sequel to Sahara 2!

The Beyonce Knowles/Ali Larter face off Obsessed was third with a gross of $12,5 million. With a reported budget of $20 million the film is happily in the black. The film has banked $47 million so far.

Zac Efron’s 17 Again was next with another $6 million in the bank bringing the body swap comedy’s total to $48 million.

Monsters vs. Aliens and The Soloist both made a around $6 million each with the Robert Downey Jr-Jamie Foxx team-up dipping 39% to give it a $19 million total.

Fighting and Earth both banked about $4 million a piece while State of Play’s total currently stands at just over $30 million – a real shame considering how good the film is.

Hannah Montana The Movie has conned movie goers out of a towering $70 million so far making somebody at Disney very happy indeed.

Movie News

1. Keanu Reeves is the new Clive Owen. The Matrix star will replace Owen in Cartagena.

The plot of the film details an undercover agent in Columbia who gets caught in a battle between drug dealers and international agents.

I guess that Owen had enough traveling with The International.

Source: Dark Horizons

2. Marcus Nispell is in talks to direct The Last Voyage of Demeter.

According to Variety:

“(The film) is based on a chapter in Bram Stoker’s Dracula describing the arrival of the vampire count in England on a cargo ship that has crashed into the rocks at Whitby with no crew and the dead captain lashed to the steering wheel. Stoker tells the story via the captain’s log of the voyage, which begins in Bulgaria and becomes increasingly disjointed as members of the crew disappear.”

Not that sounds pretty damn cool!

Source: Variety

3. One of the gentleman behind the Underworld films, Kevin Grevioux, will direct The Pale Horsemen. The film will be an adaptation of his own graphic novel.

“The Pale Horsemen is described as a supernatural thriller that revolves around a gang of hit men who are forced to work together to uncover who killed their mentor.”

Isn’t that just like Young Guns?

Source: Variety

4. Jim Carrey is circling The Beaver, a script that is seen as one of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood.

“Beaver centers on the relationship between a man and a beaver puppet he wears on his arm, which he talks to and treats as a companion.”

Steve Carell was originally interested in the film when it was going to be directed by Jay Roach.

No director is attached yet but Jodie Foster is interested in directing the film. Cue multiple dirty minded headlines.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

5. Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Office star Rainn Wilson and will star in Hesher.

According to Empire:

“Gordon-Levitt play Hesher, a 20-something slacker who invades the life of an awkward 13 year-old. Said teen lives with his pill-popping father (Wilson), who’s trying to keep the family together after his wife’s death, and his grandmother. Portman plays the supermarket check-out girl the teen falls in love with after she saves him from bullies, while Hesher himself proves a mixed influence on the boy’s life.”

Portman will produce the film which I predict will not make Star Wars money.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt will next be seen in GI Joe: Rise of Cobra. That wont make as much money as Star Wars either, but it’ll still be a truckload.

Source: Empire

6. Crispin Glover, Sebastian Stan and Lizzy Caplin will star alongside John Cusack in the brilliantly titled Hot Tub Time Machine.

The film follows a group of middle-age men who go back to the ski lodge where they spent an eventful teenage summer. They are then transported back to 1987.

Cusack produces the Steve Pink directed film that started shooting last Monday.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

7. The Road, which has been delayed after originally being scheduled to release at the end of last year in Oscar season, finally has a revised release date.

The film which stars Viggo Mortensen and is based on Cormac McCarthy’s critically acclaimed novel will be hitting theaters October 16, 2009.

That’s it for now. See you at the movies

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