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The Hollywood Round-Up: December 8
Tarzan news, Zoolander, Sin City and bad chemistry on the holidays.
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Dec 08, 2008
Dec 08, 2008
Welcome to CraveOnline's weekly movie news roundup - a weekly rundown of all the breaking news in the film world, with an eye for what Tinseltown's got in store for us in the near future!
BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
1. Four Christmases - $18.1 Million ($70.8 Million)
2. Twilight - $13.1 Million ($138 Million)
3. Bolt - $9.6 Million ($79.2 Million)
4. Australia - $7 Million ($30.8 Million)
5. Quantum of Solace - $6.6 Million ($151 Million)
6. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $5.1 Million ($165.6 Million)
7. Transporter 3 - $4.5 Million ($25.3 Million)
8. Punisher: War Zone - $4 Million ($4 Million)
9. Cadillac Records - $3.5 Million ($3.5 Million)
10. Role Models - $2.6 Million ($61.6 Million)
America's slow digestion of Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon continues, as Four Christmases stayed strong last weekend, holding onto the top spot this week with $18.1 million, for a two-week total of $70.8 million.
Twilight bounced back up to #2, earning $13.1 million for the week for a running total of $138 million.With a paltry budget of $37 million, it's no wonder we'll be seeing sequels for this one till the tweens hit menopause.
Bolt fell one spot to #3 this week, earning $9.6 million, while the Australia (featuring Nicole Kidman's botoxed, unmoving forehead) moved up one spot in its second week to #4, earning $7 million.
Bond's latest, Quantum of Solace, fell one spot to #5 this week, earning $6.6 million.
Punisher: War Zone flopped just as hard as it should have on its opening, grossing just $4 million - roughly half of what Thomas Jane’s The Punisher grossed in 2004. After three miserably failed attempts to bring The Punisher to the screen, hopefully we've seen the end of Frank Castle on film.
Shia La Beouf will step into shoes previously worn by Tom Cruise, Matt Damon and Matthew McConaughey - namely, of the John Grisham variety. La Beouf will star in The Associate, a legal thriller based on an unpublished novel by Grisham. It will do very well.
According to Variety: “LaBeouf will play a student who’s about to graduate from Yale Law School when he’s manipulated into accepting a job at a prestige law firm and given privileged information about a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.”
Yep, that's Grisham.
More slo-mo gasoline fights on the way: in addition to yet another Meet The Parents movie, Ben Stiller is developing a follow-up to 2001’s cult favorite Zoolander.
Stiller recently told The Sun: “I’ve been trying to get Zoolander 2 together and we’ve had a few scripts. I feel that is the sequel I really would like to do some day because I like the original and I would make sure it was something new and worthy of it first.”
Rock necrophile Rob Zombie will helm the sequel to his unnecessary remake of John Carpenter’s Halloween.
Zombie had stated in the past that he would not return to the franchise, but movie studios like Dimension have a way with words (and checkbooks). Shooting is due to begin in March, despite no confirmation of a script being in place.
Russell Brand has signed on to play the drunken millionaire in a remake of Arthur, the 1981 Oscar winning smash comedy starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud. Moore stared a a drunken millionaire who falls in love with a woman of limited financial means - leaving his fortune hanging in the balance. Brand is currently hammering out a script for the film with various writers.
P.S. I used to wait on Dudley Moore every Sunday in a New Jersey steakhouse. Don't get old. That's all I'm saying.
Ridley Scott's Nottingham has been the source of much confusion in recent weeks, as word had gotten out that Russell Crowe was going to play both Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. MTV caught up with producer Brian Grazer recently, and besides confirming that they're hoping to start shooting in March of next year, he had this to say about Crowe playing both characters:
"The two role confusion is that what Robin Hood does is he sees Nottingham in battle very early in the movie and Nottingham dies. And Robin Hood takes over the identity of Nottingham. That's how it plays out." Grazer added that this is "an origin story" for those two characters that differs from the story we're familiar with. Can't wait to see how this plays out.
Comedian Jay Baruchel will be lead in the live-action modernized Disney adventure The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Baruchel will star alongside Nicolas Cage as the sorcerer. Jon Turteltaub is set to direct, while Jerry Bruckheimer is producing. You might remember Jay as the kid who "should've have gone in there" in the delivery room scene in Knocked up. He was last seen in Tropic Thunder and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
Stephen Sommers' new Tarzan film is probably going to be a ridiculous batch of jumpy nonsense. Here's what they're going for: a "Pirates of the Caribbean with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, parkour-style." Producers want the film to be a "1930's-set romp with a hefty helping of romance" and will focus on a mixed setting of city and jungle.
Sommers is responsible for The Mummy Returns and Van Helsing, and despite the fact that I'm actually looking forward to G.I. Joe, this sounds like dangerous ground.
Will Smith spilled the beans to JoBlo recently about a sequel to Hancock. In short, it will "definitely" be happening. When asked if he'd like to play more superheroes in the future, Smith told them that "there were a lot of unexplored characters in the Hancock universe that would be ripe for a sequel and confirmed that we'll definitely see the rumored Hancock 2 in a few years." Hancock was released on the week of July 4th earlier this summer, pulled a solid $228 million at the box office.
A Sin City sequel in theaters next year? It's looking that way!
Frank Miller told IGN just a few days ago that "Sin City 2 is written, and we could be shooting as soon as April."
Miller goes on: "It's mainly a matter of working out the details of the production. I'm hoping to do it with Robert Rodriguez again in the same circumstances that we did the first one." After Grindhouse flopped last year, actor Michael Madsen said that because Grindhouse didn't work out, they were having trouble getting the funding and studio support to make the sequel to the graphic novel hit. Looks like something's changed!
File this one under "Better Off": Jurassic Park IV isn't happening. Producers Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy told ComingSoon yesterday that there have not been any new developments, and "when [Michael] Crichton passed away, I sorta felt maybe that's it. Maybe that's a sign that we don't mess with it." You may recall that Crichton, author of the 1990 book Jurassic Park died of cancer about a month ago.
BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
1. Four Christmases - $18.1 Million ($70.8 Million)
2. Twilight - $13.1 Million ($138 Million)
3. Bolt - $9.6 Million ($79.2 Million)
4. Australia - $7 Million ($30.8 Million)
5. Quantum of Solace - $6.6 Million ($151 Million)
6. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $5.1 Million ($165.6 Million)
7. Transporter 3 - $4.5 Million ($25.3 Million)
8. Punisher: War Zone - $4 Million ($4 Million)
9. Cadillac Records - $3.5 Million ($3.5 Million)
10. Role Models - $2.6 Million ($61.6 Million)
America's slow digestion of Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon continues, as Four Christmases stayed strong last weekend, holding onto the top spot this week with $18.1 million, for a two-week total of $70.8 million.
Twilight bounced back up to #2, earning $13.1 million for the week for a running total of $138 million.With a paltry budget of $37 million, it's no wonder we'll be seeing sequels for this one till the tweens hit menopause.
Bolt fell one spot to #3 this week, earning $9.6 million, while the Australia (featuring Nicole Kidman's botoxed, unmoving forehead) moved up one spot in its second week to #4, earning $7 million.
Bond's latest, Quantum of Solace, fell one spot to #5 this week, earning $6.6 million.
Punisher: War Zone flopped just as hard as it should have on its opening, grossing just $4 million - roughly half of what Thomas Jane’s The Punisher grossed in 2004. After three miserably failed attempts to bring The Punisher to the screen, hopefully we've seen the end of Frank Castle on film.
Shia La Beouf will step into shoes previously worn by Tom Cruise, Matt Damon and Matthew McConaughey - namely, of the John Grisham variety. La Beouf will star in The Associate, a legal thriller based on an unpublished novel by Grisham. It will do very well.
According to Variety: “LaBeouf will play a student who’s about to graduate from Yale Law School when he’s manipulated into accepting a job at a prestige law firm and given privileged information about a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.”
Yep, that's Grisham.
More slo-mo gasoline fights on the way: in addition to yet another Meet The Parents movie, Ben Stiller is developing a follow-up to 2001’s cult favorite Zoolander.
Stiller recently told The Sun: “I’ve been trying to get Zoolander 2 together and we’ve had a few scripts. I feel that is the sequel I really would like to do some day because I like the original and I would make sure it was something new and worthy of it first.”
Rock necrophile Rob Zombie will helm the sequel to his unnecessary remake of John Carpenter’s Halloween.
Zombie had stated in the past that he would not return to the franchise, but movie studios like Dimension have a way with words (and checkbooks). Shooting is due to begin in March, despite no confirmation of a script being in place.
Russell Brand has signed on to play the drunken millionaire in a remake of Arthur, the 1981 Oscar winning smash comedy starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud. Moore stared a a drunken millionaire who falls in love with a woman of limited financial means - leaving his fortune hanging in the balance. Brand is currently hammering out a script for the film with various writers.
P.S. I used to wait on Dudley Moore every Sunday in a New Jersey steakhouse. Don't get old. That's all I'm saying.
Ridley Scott's Nottingham has been the source of much confusion in recent weeks, as word had gotten out that Russell Crowe was going to play both Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. MTV caught up with producer Brian Grazer recently, and besides confirming that they're hoping to start shooting in March of next year, he had this to say about Crowe playing both characters:
"The two role confusion is that what Robin Hood does is he sees Nottingham in battle very early in the movie and Nottingham dies. And Robin Hood takes over the identity of Nottingham. That's how it plays out." Grazer added that this is "an origin story" for those two characters that differs from the story we're familiar with. Can't wait to see how this plays out.
Comedian Jay Baruchel will be lead in the live-action modernized Disney adventure The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Baruchel will star alongside Nicolas Cage as the sorcerer. Jon Turteltaub is set to direct, while Jerry Bruckheimer is producing. You might remember Jay as the kid who "should've have gone in there" in the delivery room scene in Knocked up. He was last seen in Tropic Thunder and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
Stephen Sommers' new Tarzan film is probably going to be a ridiculous batch of jumpy nonsense. Here's what they're going for: a "Pirates of the Caribbean with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, parkour-style." Producers want the film to be a "1930's-set romp with a hefty helping of romance" and will focus on a mixed setting of city and jungle.
Sommers is responsible for The Mummy Returns and Van Helsing, and despite the fact that I'm actually looking forward to G.I. Joe, this sounds like dangerous ground.
Will Smith spilled the beans to JoBlo recently about a sequel to Hancock. In short, it will "definitely" be happening. When asked if he'd like to play more superheroes in the future, Smith told them that "there were a lot of unexplored characters in the Hancock universe that would be ripe for a sequel and confirmed that we'll definitely see the rumored Hancock 2 in a few years." Hancock was released on the week of July 4th earlier this summer, pulled a solid $228 million at the box office.
A Sin City sequel in theaters next year? It's looking that way!
Frank Miller told IGN just a few days ago that "Sin City 2 is written, and we could be shooting as soon as April."
Miller goes on: "It's mainly a matter of working out the details of the production. I'm hoping to do it with Robert Rodriguez again in the same circumstances that we did the first one." After Grindhouse flopped last year, actor Michael Madsen said that because Grindhouse didn't work out, they were having trouble getting the funding and studio support to make the sequel to the graphic novel hit. Looks like something's changed!
File this one under "Better Off": Jurassic Park IV isn't happening. Producers Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy told ComingSoon yesterday that there have not been any new developments, and "when [Michael] Crichton passed away, I sorta felt maybe that's it. Maybe that's a sign that we don't mess with it." You may recall that Crichton, author of the 1990 book Jurassic Park died of cancer about a month ago.
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