Movie News Mash 8

"Lost Boys 3"

Bloody-Disgusting is reporting that "Lost Boys 3" is getting made.

Corey Feldman has come on to executive produce and will also return once again as Edgar Frog. On top of that Moviehole reports Jamison Newlander has also been cast and will return as Alan Frog. Newlander had been cast in "Lost Boys: The Tribe," but his scenes were apparently cut which means this will mark the official Frog brothers reunion.

Evan Charnov (”Fearless”) has been hired to write the new film for the Warner Premiere direct-to-DVD feature.

Bloody-Disgusting adds Corey Haim’s return as Sam Emerson “is highly, highly unlikely at this point in time” and the new film will focus on Feldman’s character.

I have only seen the first film and thought it was an okay vampire film though it is extremely dated but gives a nostalgic feeling of the eighties. I haven't seen "The Tribe," but I have heard bad things. I will wind up seeing it someday anyway. This third one will be going straight to DVD for all the Frog brother fans.



"The Expendables"

This film has a stellar cast that includes Sylvester Stallone (who’s also writing and directing the film), we have Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Randy Couture, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Arnold Schwarzenegger (if only in a cameo appearance) Eric Roberts, Danny Trejo, Forest Whitaker and Charisma Carpenter.

The film has been given a release date of April 23, 2010.

But news has come up that the film may be pushed back a month because Whitaker is not going to be in the movie because of a scheduling conflict. Instead, the news from AICN is that 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) will be replacing the Oscar-winning actor.

My opinion, bad choice.



"Blacklight"

This is the beginning of a new way to envision the term multi-media. "Blacklight" is being developed by Fox Atomic, Union Entertainment and game-developer Zombie Studios. The central story involves a special-ops squad sent to a war-torn region in the near future where, of course, things hit the fan.

The interesting part of all this is that from the get-go this project is being made into a movie, comic and video game. Usually a movie is made and then other products later, but this is a whole new way to have everything set up from the beginning.

According to Screen Rant, "'Blacklight' is looking to do away with the old trend by bringing all parties to the table at the onset, working in unision to conceive and develop the project. So far the word is that Fox Atomic is moving ahead with the 'Blacklight' feature film, hiring screenwriter Jason Dean Hall to both handle the script, as well as the over-arching “world concept” of the 'Blacklight' continuim.

Zombie studios, which is responsible for the 'Blacklight' video game, is currently trying to leverage the movie deal with Fox Atomic into a publishing deal for the game. Union Entertainment, which specializes in developing and producing movie/comic/video game projects, is keeping all parties coordinated while also handling some of the production duties on the movie and game aspects of the project.

No word yet on how far along (or not) the 'Blacklight' comic book is into development, who will publish it, or what it will entail. I’m sure we’ll get those details as soon as the developers think them up."

I do think that "The Matrix" kind of had this deal with "Matrix Reloaded" and the game "Enter the Matrix," since they were made together. So I don't really see this as the 'first' time being done.