Like Lord of the Rings, it had to come to an end one day; the final Harry Potter instalment is now set to be released in the summer of 2011, according to BBC online.

The geeky looking boy wizard will be waving his wand and donning the broomstick for the last time in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, due to be released on July 15th.

JK Rowling’s seventh book in the Harry Potter series was split into two movies by Warner Brothers after deciding it was too difficult to fit all 608 pages in one film.

Harry Porter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 will be released on the 19th November 2010.

And don’t forget about Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince; the movie date was pushed back by eight months to “guarantee the studio a major summer blockbuster”, according to Warner Bros president Alan Horn.  It will be released in July this year.

Source: BBC

I agree with the above.

Once again, the British have dominated the Oscars with Slumdog Millionaire walking away with eight Academy Awards including Best Director for Danny Boyle – his first Oscar, and the award of the evening, Best Film, and after years of being nominated, Kate Winslet was finally given an Oscar for her starring role in The Reader.

The only surprise to come out of the predictable Oscar voting was Sean Penn walking away with the Best Actor gong for his role in Milk.  But well deserved nevertheless.

Heath Ledger was given a posthumous award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight.  Touching yes, but again, quite predictable.

Here is the full list of winners:

Best Film
Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated:  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader

Director
Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle
Also nominated:  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher
Frost/Nixon - Ron Howard
Milk - Gus Van Sant
The Reader - Stephen Daldry


Actor In A Leading Role
Milk - Sean Penn
Also nominated:  The Visitor - Richard Jenkins
Frost/Nixon - Frank Langella
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Brad Pitt
The Wrestler - Mickey Rourke

Actor In A Supporting Role
The Dark Knight - Heath Ledger
Also nominated: Milk - Josh Brolin
Tropic Thunder - Robert Downey Jr.
Doubt - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Revolutionary Road - Michael Shannon

Actress In A Leading Role
The Reader - Kate Winslet
Also nominated:  Rachel Getting Married - Anne Hathaway
Changeling - Angelina Jolie
Frozen River - Melissa Leo
Doubt - Meryl Streep

Actress In A Supporting Role
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Penélope Cruz
Also nominated:  Doubt - Amy Adams
Doubt - Viola Davis
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Taraji P. Henson
The Wrestler - Marisa Tomei

Adapted Screenplay
Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy
Also nominated:  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth, Robin Swicord
Doubt - John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan
The Reader - David Hare

Original Screenplay
Milk - Dustin Lance Black
Also nominated:  Frozen River - Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter

Animated Feature
WALL-E
Also nominated:  Bolt
Kung Fu Panda

Art Direction
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Also nominated:  Changeling
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Cinematography
Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated:  Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader

Costume Design
The Duchess
Also nominated:  Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Milk
Revolutionary Road

Documentary Feature
Man on Wire
Also nominated: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Trouble the Water

Documentary Short
Smile Pinki
Also nominated:  The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

Editing
Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated:  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk

Best Foreign Language Film
Departures
Also nominated:  The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Class
Revanche
Waltz with Bashir

Makeup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Also nominated:  The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Original Score
Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman
Also nominated:  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Alexandre Desplat
Defiance - James Newton Howard
Milk - Danny Elfman
WALL-E - Thomas Newman
Original Song
Slumdog Millionaire - "Jai Ho"
Also nominated:  WALL-E - "Down to Earth"
Slumdog Millionaire - "O Saya"

Sound Editing
The Dark Knight
Also nominated:  Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

Sound Mixing
Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
WALL-E
Wanted

Visual Effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Also nominated: The Dark Knight
Iron Man

Animated Short
La Maison de Petits Cubes
Also nominated: Lavatory - Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

Live Action Short
Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Also nominated:  Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig

The awards season is soon to come to a climax with the arrival of the Academy Awards.  It is the ultimate ceremony to make a spectacle of oneself by crying rivers of pride and blurt out ill thought through things, or, in some cases, do ‘what the hell??' things whilst holding the Oscar in your trembling hands like the following people in our list:

10. Jack Palance – Best Supporting Actor, City Slickers



Jack Palance was so happy to win an Oscar that he ran out of gratuitous words, and decided to fill in the time he had left on the stage…by doing one armed push ups.

Why?

Click here to see the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g426J4Uh2m4

9. Angelina Jolie – Best Supporting Actress, Girl Interrupted

A gothic looking Jolie waltzed onto the stage to collect her Oscar, and decided this would be the best time to announce that she is in love with her brother.  Yup, she actually said that.  Yes, it sounded incestuous.  No, they were not in such a relationship.  But it still sounded WRONG.



8. James Cameron – Best Director – Titanic.



Mr. Cameron obviously wanted to be Leonardo DiCaprio for the evening, so he allowed the words ‘I’m King of the world!’ to come out pouring out of his mouth.  How shameful. 

Click here to watch the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJp7Wd6Af2A

7. Tom Hanks – Best Actor, Philadelphia



Tom hanks was so grateful to his drama teacher for his influence and guidance that lead to his Oscar trophy, that Hanks decided to tell the whole nation his teacher was ‘the greatest gay American he had ever met’.  Even though his drama teacher had not told ANYONE he was gay….
Whoops.

Click here to watch the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBuDMEpUc8k

6. Roberto Benigni – Best Director, Life is Beautiful.



Life was certainly beautiful for this Italian Director when his name was called, that it lead to a suprising moment of madness.  Instead of walking along the floor towards the stage like a normal person, Benigni thought it would be a good idea to walk across the backs of people’s chairs.  How this man managed to do this all the way to the stage and not fall off any of them is beyond us.

Click here to watch the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cTR6fk8frs

5. Julia Roberts – Best Actress, Erin Brockovich.



If you ever need lessons on how to appear eccentric, arrogent and just plain annoying in one go, study Julia Roberts’ performance when she collected her Best Actress Oscar.  Not only does she laugh consistently like a hyena being tickled by a feather duster, but she addresses the show’s conductor as ‘Stick Man’ and tells him to put his stick down.

Click here to see the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV0YbYECU7A

4. Cuba Gooding Jr – Best Supporting Actor, Jerry Maguire



Gooding Jr made his character in Jerry Maguire so lovable, we were over the moon when guy won for Best Supporting Actor.  But when he proceeded to jump up and down the stage proclaiming his love for every person he has ever met, our ‘aww, so glad he got it!’ changed to ‘Oh sweet Lord, get off the stage.’

Click here to see the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnCMqr1QRQw

3. Sally Field – Best Actress, Places of the Heart

Many had said that Sally Field’s gush-a-rama whilst collecting her Best Actress award set the bar for over the top self appreciation speeches.  She was so happy to be liked at that point in time.  But do we still like her now?



2. Halle Berry – Best Actress, Monster’s Ball



The reason Halle Berry is not at the number one spot with this blubber fest is because her genuine shock at being the first African American woman to win an Oscar swept her along a wave of emotion, so it is expected that her millions of thank yous would be mixed with tears, snot and body convulsions.  She is only human after all.  But it was still shameful to watch.

Click here to see video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llgL7mGYVTI

1. Gwyneth Paltrow – Best Actress, Shakesphere in Love



There are no words to describe the pain of watching Gwyneth Paltrow accept her Best Actress award.  So find the full transcript of her speech below.  If you do not throw up whilst reading this then your strong stomach is truly worthy.

"I would like to thank the Academy from the bottom of my heart! I would like to thank Emily Watson and Fernanda Montenegro, and my friend Cate Blancett and the greatest one who ever was, Meryl Streep. I don't feel very deserving of this in your presence, but I would like to thank Harvey Weinstein and everybody at Miramax Films for their undying support.
 
“I wouldn't be in this auditorium, let alone up here, if it wasn't for two incredibly talented men; our director John Madden, thank you so much for all that you gave me, you are so inspiring, and to my soulful partner, Joseph Fiennes who I share this with. (starts crying).

”I would like to thank the rest of our miraculous cast and crew. Our producers Donna Gigliotti and David Parfitt...I didn't forget you this time! (starts to laugh and sob). Especially, Jim McGill and Sophie Shant and my friend Ben Affleck. I would like to thank my wonderful agent Rick Kurtzman, who is a beautiful man and a wonderful agent. And in his case that is not an oxymoron! (why???) I would like to thank Harold Brown, Stuart Gelwarg and Steven Huvane.
 
“I would not have been able to play this role had I not understood love with a tremendous magnitude, and for that I thank my family; (jesus, more tears) my mother Blythe Danner, who I love more than anything, and my brother Jake Paltrow who is just the dearest person in the whole world.

”My earthly guardian angel Mary Wigmore. (crying loudly now) and especially to my father Bruce Paltrow (yup, more tears) who has surmounted any surmountable obstacles this year. I love you more than anything in the world. And to my grandpa Buster (oh my word, aren’t you dry yet???), who almost made it here tonight, but couldn't quite get here (huh??). Grandpa, I want you to know that you have created a beautiful family who loves you and loves each other more than anything (bored now) and we thank you for that. I would like to dedicate this to two young men who lost their lives very early; Harrison Kravis and my cousin Keith Paltrow. We miss you very much and I thank you. Thank you so much everybody!" (FINALLY leaves the stage with a river of tears flowing behind her)

Urgh!

Sources:

MSN Entertainment
BBC Online
The Daily Beast
The Independent Online
Sky New Showbiz
YouTube - Oscars
MSBC Online

Movie Moron are compiling a top ten best low budget movies list.  Are are some good examples of movies that cost little to make, but made big money at the box office:

Eraserhead

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Blair Witch Project

Deep Throat

Clerks

Napoleon Dynamite

Pi

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Withnail and I

El Mariachi 

Bad Taste

Dead Man’s Shoes

Halloween

The Evil Dead

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Do you agree with the above suggestions? Please add your suggestions and a list will be created based on results.

Go nuts!

Oscar heavyweights, Benicio del Toro and Daniel Day-Lewis are to star in Martin Scorsese’s new flick, Silence, according to Variety.

The period drama, which is based on the novel by Shusako Endo, will focus on two Jesuit priests travelling to Japan in the 17th Century on a mission to find their mentor and spread the word of the Lord, but face many obstacles when they arrive.

Gael Garcia Bernal is also rumoured to be involved in the project, but so far, it has not been confirmed which roles have been given to which actor.  This will be Day-Lewis’ third Scorsese movie having previously starred in The Age of Innocence, and Gangs of New York.

Filming is set to begin later in the year and will most likely take place in New Zealand.  No distributor for the movie has been confirmed at this time, but that we expect that to change pretty soon.

Producer Graham King, who produced two Scorsese pictures – Gangs of New York and The Departed – is said to be self financing Silence.  In the light of the current economic crisis, he is a brave man. 

Watch this space for more updates!

Source: Empire online.

I agree.

The awards season continues to look favourably upon Danny Boyle’s heart-warming movie, Slumdog Millionaire as the film has picked up eleven nominations including Best Director, and Best Film.

Also leading the pack with eleven nominations is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt, who has picked up a Bafta nomination for Best Actor.  The Dark Knight has been granted nine nominations mainly in the technical categories, but the late Heath Leger has received a posthumous nod for Best Supporting Actor as The Joker.

Double Globe winner, Kate Winslet has been nominated for two Best Actress awards for The Reader and Revolutionary Road.

The awards will be held and the Royal Opera House on the 8 February, and will be presented by soon to be un-exiled BBC presenter, Jonathan Ross.

Full nomination shortlist below.  Who are you hoping will win what?

Best film
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best British film
Hunger
In Bruges
Mamma Mia!
Man On Wire
Slumdog Millionaire

Leading actor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixonn
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Leading actress
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Kristen Scott Thomas - I've Loved You So Long
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road
Kate Winslet - The Reader
Supporting actor
Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder
Brendan Gleeson - In Bruges
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Brad Pitt - Burn After Reading
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt

Supporting actress
Amy Adams – Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Freida Pinto - Slumdog Millionaire
Tilda Swinton - Burn After Reading
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

Director
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Milllionaire
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
Clint Eastwood - Changeling
David Fincher - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon

Original screenplay
Burn After Reading - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
I've Loved You So Long - Philippe Claudel
Milk - Dustin Lance Black
Changeling - J Michael Straczynski

Adapted screenplay
The Curious case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth
Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan
The Reader - David Hare
Revolutionary Road - Justin Haythe
Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy

Film not in the English language
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Gomorrah
I've Loved You So Long
Persepolis
Waltz With Bashir
Animated film
Persepolis
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir

The Carl Foreman award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer for their first feature film
Simon Chinn (Producer) Man On Wire
Judy Craymer (Producer) - Mamma Mia!
Garth Jennings (Writer) - Son of Rambow
Steve McQueen (Director/Writer) - Hunger
Solon Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter (Producers) - Of Time And The City

Music
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Alexandre Desplat
The Dark Knight - Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard
Mamma Mia! - Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus
Slumdog Millionaire - AR Rahman
Wall-E - Thomas Newman

Cinematography
Changeling - Tom Stern
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight - Wally Pfister
The Reader - Chris Menges, Roger Deakins
Slumdog Millionaire - Anthony Dod Mantle

Editing
Changeling - Joel Cox, Gary D Roach
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
The Dark Knight - Lee Smith
Frost/Nixon - Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
In Bruges - Jon Gregory
Slumdog Millionaire - Chris Dickens

Production design
Changeling - James J Murakami, Gary Fettis
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Donald Graham Burt, Victor J Zolfo
The Dark Knight - Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
Revolutionary Road - Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt
Slumdog Millionaire - Mark Digby, Michelle Day
Costume design
Changeling - Deborah Hopper
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Jacqueline West
The Dark Knight - Lindy Hemming
The Duchess - Michael O'Connor
Revolutionary Road - Albert Wolsky

Sound
Changeling - Walt Martin, Alan Robert Murray, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff
The Dark Knight - Lora Hirschberg, Richard King, Ed Novick, Gary Rizzo
Quantum Of Solace - Eddy Joseph, Chris Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith, Mark Taylor
Slumdog Millionaire - Glenn Freemantle, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp
Wall E - Ben Burtt, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Matthew Wood

Special visual effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Nathan McGuinness, Edson Williams
The Dark Knight - Chris Corbould, Nick Davis, Paul Franklin, Tim Webber
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Pablo Helman
Iron Man - Shane Patrick Mahan, John Nelson, Ben Snow
Quantum Of Solace - Chris Corbould, Kevin Tod Haug

Make-up and hair
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Jean Black, Colleen Callaghan
The Dark Knight - Peter Robb-King
The Duchess - Daniel Phillips, Jan Archibald
Frost/Nixon - Edouard Henriques, Kim Santantonio
Milk - Steven E Anderson, Michael White

Short animation
Codswallop - Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod
Varmints - Sue Goffe, Marc Craste
Wallace And Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death - Steve Pegram, Nick Park, Bob Baker

Short film
Kingsland #1 The Dreamer - Kate Ogborn, Tony Grisoni
Love You more - Adrian Sturges, Sam Taylor-Wood, Patrick Marber
Ralph - Olivier Kaempfer, Alex Winckler
September - Stewart le Marechal, Esther May Campbell
Voyages D'Affaires (The Business Trip) - Celine Quideau, Sean Ellis

The Orange Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
Noel Clarke
Michael Cera
Michael Fassbender
Rebecca Hall
Toby Kebbell

Source: BBC

If you’re not already excited about the impending Terminator instalment, then news of Danny Elfman scoring the soundtrack is sure to get you marking off the days to the film’s release date.

Elfman revealed to MTV that he has signed up to compose the Terminator Salvation score, and has already started working on the music.

However, it is not yet known if he plans to use Brad Fiedel’s original theme.

"I think if it comes up and it seems appropriate, we will (use it),” Elman told MTV from the Critics Choice Awards. “And if it doesn’t, we (won't).  I never really know what to expect when I begin other than just kind of get into it and have fun. Especially a movie like “T4” – just have fun. So that’s what I intend to do."

The Academy Award nominated composer who scored the Spider-Man movies, Good Will Hunting and Tim Burton’s Batman movies also revealed that he had seen a cut of the film, and described it as ‘exciting.’

Read the full story here: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/01/09/exclusive-danny-elfman-to-score-terminator-salvation/

Terminator Salvation is directed by Charlie’s Angels’ director McG, and will be released on 22 May 2009.

Source: MTV online

I agree.  Tim Burton always choses his actors wisely.  He clearly knows what works for his movies.

The rehash trend in the movie-verse is showing no sign of stopping as the promo poster for the new Street Fighter is revealed.

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li stars Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog the boxer, Black Eyed Pea rapper Taboo as Spaniard Vega, Kristen ‘Smallville’ Kreuk as heroine Chung-Li, Neal ‘Desperate Housewives’ McDonough as the evil M, and Chris Klein as Nash.  Interesting line up, huh?

The movie focuses on the quest of Street Fighter character Chung-Li (Kreuk), and follows her personal journey for justice.

The Legend of Chung-Li is the second live action movie based on the popular Street Fighter video games.  The first was written and directed by Steven E. de Souza (Judge Dread), and was released in 1994 staring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, and Kylie Minogue

The new Street Fighter is directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, the man behind Romeo Must Die, and is set to be released this March.

Will Prince Caspian be setting off on another adventure?   If he does, it will not be with Walt Disney Studios as the company have announced that they will not be co-producing or co-financing the third chapter of the Narnia films, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

This means that Walden Media, the company behind the films will have to find another partner to help produce and finance the movie in time for the 2010 release date.

According to Empire online, Disney have cited “budgetary and logistical” reasons behind their decision to pull out.  And as the last movie Prince Caspian, which cost about $200 million to make made just under $420 million at the worldwide box office - compared to the $745 million its predecessor The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe made - so Disney are probably a bit nervous about taking another risk in the Narnia franchise. 

But all that could change, so watch this space for further developments!

Source: Empire Online.

It looks like director Baz Luhrmann’s new film could be his final collaboration with Aussie movie starlet, Nicole Kidman. 

The director revealed to the Telegraph online that he would not be working with Kidman again mainly due to the many emotional struggles they both encountered in their personal lives during filming.

"On Moulin Rouge! [Nicole] was breaking up with Tom Cruise, and my father died on the first day of filming.” Luhrmann told the Telegraph.

"The six weeks before we finished filming Australia, we were doing a scene where her character has to say she can't have children and she goes, 'Bazzy, Bazzy I've got see you,' and we sit down under a tree and she tells me she's pregnant and she burst into tears and I did too, because I knew that was what she wanted more than anything else.

"We both said we can't make another movie together because there are only so many life-transforming events we can go through."

Read the full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3795312/Nicole-Kidman-Making-more-films-just-doesnt-interest-me.html

Luhrmann and Kidman are currently promoting new film epic, Australia, which also stars Hugh Jackman.

The movie focuses on Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman); an English aristocrat who when her cattle station is under threat reluctantly joins forces with her husband’s Drover (Jackman) to drive the cattle across miles of Australia’s harsh lands.

The film will be released in the UK on 26 December.

Source: The Telegraph Online.

Watch the pencil scene in The Dark Knight, and you'll understand why that film deserves to be at the number one spot!

Us movie fans are certainly being spoiled rotten.  After being treated to the new trailer for Terminator Salvation yesterday, a new picture of John Connor, played by Batman star Christian Bale, walking into a Terminator factory.

The movie will focus on Connor’s heading of the human resistance against the war of the machine in the year 2018.   With the human race facing extinction, it looks set to be a very interesting battle.

Terminator Salvation is due for release on June 5, 2009.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Mine would be:
10. Sex and the City
9. Iron Man
8. Kung Fu Panda
7. Pineapple Express
6. Wall-E
5. Quantum of Solace
4. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
3. Be Kind Rewind
2. Man on a Wire
1. The Dark Knight

That is heartbreaking.

Just when you thought the movie world could not surprise you with yet another rehash/remake/sequel/adaptation, it pulls the possibility of a Police Academy 8 out of the hat.

Yes, that’s right; rumors of an eighth installment of the zany police comedy were confirmed by Police Academy star, Steve Guttenberg, who will be reprising his role of lovable rogue, Carey Mahoney according to Empire.
“We are doing a new movie and it is going to be great fun," Guttenberg said. "A script is being written and so far it is really great, everyone from the original movies who is still around will return.”
"I know Kim (Cattrall, who starred in the original movie) and Sharon (Stone, who starred in Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol) have been asked but they haven't said yes yet.

"It would be really great to have them on board."

But would they want to come on board???

The last Police Academy to grace our screens was back in 1994 with Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow.

Guttenberg also revealed last week that plans for a third Three Men… movie with Ted Danson and Tom Selleck was also on the cards…

What else could he possibly bring back?

Source: Empire online.

Robert Downey ‘Fuck DC Comics’ Jr’s relationship with Marvel is a love affair that keeps on growing.  The Iron Man star even took time out to talk to MTV about Marvel’s plans for the upcoming Avengers movie due for release in 2011.  The film is set bring together Thor, Nick Fury, Captain America, the Hulk, and, surprise surprise, Iron Man. 

“The danger you run with colliding all these worlds is (director) Jon (Favreau) was very certain that Iron Man should be set in a very realistic world,” said Downey Jr.  He then adds “Nothing that happened in Iron Man is really outside the realm of possibility. Once you start talking about Valhalla and supersized super soldiers and jolly green giants it warrants much further discussion.”

The actor, who is set to reprise his Iron Man role in the Avengers flick is just as concerned as the rest of the comic reading community with how the movie is going to turn out, and what it could mean for Marvel.

“If we don’t get it right it’s really, really going to suck,” said Downey Jr. “It has to be the crowning blow of Marvel’s best and brightest because it’s the hardest thing to get right. It’s tough to spin all the plates for one of these characters.”

We are all equally as nervous.  But excited!

Click on the link to read the full article: http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/11/25/robert-downey-jr-on-avengers-movie-if-we-dont-get-it-right-its-really-going-to-suck/

Source: MTV

Could this the first picture of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter?

This picture has been spreading across the Internet like wild fire, but as it is not an officially released picture, many are questioning its authenticity.  Is it the real deal?  Or could it be two pictures of Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands and Sweeny Todd photoshoped together?  You decide.

The Pirates of the Caribbean actor, currently starring in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, joins an all star cast including Burton’s other half, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Anne Hathaway, and Matt Lucas.  Australian actress Mia Wasikowska has been cast as Alice. 

The movie is being filmed  in England, and is set to be released in 2010.