Oldman and Van Damme joins Kung Fu Panda 2
Dark Horizons reports that Gary Oldman, Michelle Yeoh, Jean Claude Van Damme and Victor Garber have joined the cast of DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom” according to an official press release today. Oldman voices the character of Lord Shen (a peacock), the film’s formidable new villain while Yeoh brings to life [...]
No more Rambo
I was just over at Empire and apparently they’ve got the latest on the ever circulating rumours about yet another Rambo movie. We’re now at number 4 and if another one goes in to production it would most certainly be referred to as “Rambo V” (for those of you not keeping count…) So, when Empire [...]
Bad Boys 3 is just around the corner
I was just over at MTV Movie News and read that fifteen years after the first “Bad Boys” film, the “Boys” are back in town — and that talk of a third installment is very real. “It’s real realistic,” Martin Lawrence revealed recently, addressing rumors that he’ll re-team with Bay and the former Fresh Prince [...]
The Avengers gets a director
I was just over at Dark Horizons and apparently director Joss Whedon is reportedly in final negotiations to direct the superhero team-up movie “The Avengers” for Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures. Also, two characters from the upcoming movie may be making earlier appearances… According to a trusted source, a scene about Captain America and Thor [...]
Johnny English set sail again
Dark Horizons reports that Universal Pictures and Working Title are assembling a sequel to the spy comedy “Johnny English.” The 2003 James Bond satire had Rowan Atkinson starring as an inept British Intelligence worker called into service after every secret agent in the country is wiped out in an explosion at a funeral. He soon [...]
Independence Day 2
Just got this fresh from IESB.net. There have been endless discussions and rumors over the years. Well, more or less since “Independence Day” (1996) first came out. But now it seems as if it’s finally going to happen. “Independence Day 2.” Or “ID4 2.” Sexy name… Anyway, Fox have made no qualms about wanting an [...]
Easter Promises – the sequel
The people over at Dark Horizons reports that actor Viggo Mortensen and director David Cronenberg could be re-teaming for a fourth time, though in a way many didn’t expect. The pair first teamed on 2005′s acclaimed and multi-award winning “A History of Violence” which pulled in $60 million worldwide. The relationship proved so effective that [...]
Rupert Wyatt to direct Planet of the Apes reboot
Dark Horizons reports that Rupert Wyatt has become the front runner to direct 20th Century Fox’s “Planet of the Apes” reboot – aka “Caesar” (or “Planet of the Apes: Genesis”). Apparently the writers put in not only many little nods to the original “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes” from which much of the [...]