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"The Green Hornet"

The news - The trailer for the film has finally arrived online. While the over-the-top action looks pretty cool, I feel the humor is out of place. You thoughts on this upcoming 3D flick?

"Dr. Strange"

The news - Rumblings of secondary heroes in the Marvel Universe hitting the big screen have been around for some time. But now Marvel has hired writers Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer (who wrote the "Conan" remake) to write "Dr. Strange." Will the Sorceror Supreme be the first third tier character to get a feature film treatment ( as well as the first Marvel production as part of Disney)? We'll have to wait and see...

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"Predators"

The news - Another trailer for the film, but this time there's some gory bits. I'm surprised it doesn't ask for your age before plying it. Oh well, easier to for the kids to watch I guess (though they could just put in a fake birth date). You know you wanna watch it...



"Rise of the Apes"

The news - We learned that offers had been made to both Don Cheadle and Freida Pinto to star in "Rise of the Apes" - and although we’re still not sure if Cheadle has accepted that offer, we do know that Pinto will be joining the cast along with John Lithgow.

Pinto will play the female lead in the prequel, a primatologist who presumably works alongside James Franco’s character (a modern-day scientist who conducts genetic experiments on a chimp he names Caesar in the hopes of developing a cure for Alzheimers). Lithgow will play Franco’s Alzheimers-stricken father, whom I imagine the scientist is trying to cure.

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"Red"

The news - The trailer for the film has finally arrived! Directed by Robert Schwentke ("The Time Traveler's Wife"), "Red" is based on the comic book mini series by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner. The film focuses on a group of retired ex-CIA agents who get thrown back into the game when assassins try to take them out. Those part of the gun-shooting cast include Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Karl Urban and Richard Dreyfuss.

"Little Fockers"

The news - A fair amount of trailers have hit the Internet this past week. Some decent, some just okay. Rank this trailer wherever you see fit. But maybe this will be the final film in this decaying franchise (unless it makes mega-money this December). It has a good cast though - but I guess Dustin Hoffman decided to sit this one out.

Update on Little Fockers

IGN recently caught up with writer/director John Hamburg, and he spilled the beans about forthcoming comedy sequel "Little Fockers."

"I'm currently writing 'Little Fockers,' which is the third in the 'Meet the Parents' franchise" he explained. "We're coming up with the story as we speak. Larry Stuckey wrote the original script, and I'm doing my version of it.

"We're catching up with these characters five years later and Pam and Greg have twins so they are dealing with that. And people are dealing with where there at in their lives, and themes of death and divorce and all these real things that as we get older, we start to think about, but in a really comic way."

Hamburg added that Owen Wilson will have a much bigger role in the threequel, which is great news as his too-good-to-be-true character Kevin Rawley was a comedic highlight from the first two movies.
(IGN)

Are you looking forward to this film or do you think the franchise is done?
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American Pie Meets Fockers

According to Variety, "Paul Weitz is in talks to direct 'Little Fockers,' the third installment of the Universal Pictures and Tribeca Prods. franchise.

Jane Rosenthal and Jay Roach are producing, and the studio will begin production in July. John Hamburg is rewriting a script originated by Larry Stuckey.

Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are so far set to reprise.

Studio has been looking hard for the right director to replace Roach, who helmed 'Meet the Parents' and 'Meet the Fockers,' films that turned in a combined worldwide gross just north of $820 million."

According to one of my earlier posts, Pete Segal looked like he was going to get the director's chair for "Little Fockers." I guess things fell through on that deal.
Weitz, director of the classic teen comedy "American Pie," can add a fresh new perspective to this franchise that it definitely needs after lying dead for several years.

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Director for Little Fockers

According to First Showing, "It looks like director Pete Segal will not be jumping onto 'Get Smart 2' this year as was originally expected. Due to Steve Carell's choice to shoot the comedy 'Date Night' for Fox instead of 'Get Smart 2,' Segal was able to hop onto 'Little Fockers,' the third film in Universal's comedy franchise comprise of 'Meet the Parents' (2000) and 'Meet the Fockers' (2004). Those two films were the work of director Jay Roach, who is being replaced by Segal this time around."

This film will center around a baby being born into the Fockers and the Byrnes families. Of course, then chaos will ensue, there will be a big misunderstanding when people get mad and then every one will make up and be happy. The end.

The franchise was well down back when it was made, but having four years separate the first two films and now a seven year space between the second and third films causes just a gap in how well this film can be done. Has it been too long that a sequel won't be as effective as the originals?

Maybe having a new director on board can liven things up.
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Little Fockers

It feels wrong writing out that title, but the third film in the "Meet the Parents" franchise seems to finally be moving along and "Little Fockers" is getting written.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "John Hamburg has been brought on to write the screenplay after Larry Stuckey penned an earlier draft.

The Endeavor-repped Hamburg is a Ben Stiller collaborator who did drafts on 'Meet the Parents' and 'Meet the Fockers' and worked with the star on 'Along Came Polly.' He also wrote and directed the comedy 'I Love You, Man,' set for release next month via Paramount.

Meanwhile, Jay Roach, who of course directed the first two films and had been loosely attached to direct this one, will not helm the picture. The hyphenate is concentrating on the comic romp 'Dinner for Schmucks' for DreamWorks and Parkes/Bowles and only will produce 'Fockers.'

On the casting side, Stiller, Robert De Niro and Owen Wilson — the last of whom had unrelated small parts in the first two pics as an ex-fiance and a minister, respectively, but could have an expanded role here — are in negotiations to star in 'Fockers.'

The 'Fockers' franchise of course stars Stiller as a liberal, do-no-right husband and De Niro as his conservative, unforgiving father-in-law. 'Little Fockers' is expected to revolve around the children of Stiller and Teri Polo, who plays his wife.

The property has provided a reliable cash infusion for Universal, with the first two pics earning more than $800 million worldwide."

Fans of this franchise are probably happy to hear that the Fockers and Byrnes will be coming back and the story will continue. It will make a nice complete trilogy.
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